|
|
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21533 |  Fisherman (114) Apr 20, 2009 - 05:53 pm » Edited on Apr 20, 2009 - 05:58 pm
| Demigod is not a good game. There are 8 heroes with sub-par to no customization, there are about 4 skills for each hero(upgraded 5 times each) and then there are lame variations for each of the skills at the end of the tree, the creep waves are automated(just like dota) except that you don't have to last hit/deny(a meta-game in itself) there are about 30 items total, none of them have any unique features and some just summon units that you can't really control, or give lame buffs like 4x critical if you attack, or give you health when you attack, the game is more of an autoattack game than a skill-based game, the RTS elements are null, it feels like an arcade gauntlet of legends(except that game was fun)I don't even understand how anyone can be better than anyone else, there is no control of anything in the game really other than combining your 2 attacks with someone's 2 attacks so you can kill a hero and that is the game in a nutshell.
Take it from someone who buys every game for the Pc/Ds as I am impartial when reviewing games and I was excited about the game just as much as anyone else, but the fact is it is a hollow shell of dota, not a rts at all, and it's more of a beat-em-up arcade style game than it is a rts/action game.
In short if you find this type of game appealing, go and buy warcraft 3 and install dota, it is much more dynamic than Demigod, and league of legends(Icefrog/Guinsoo, Dota allstars creators/maintainers) is being made for this year and should be the real successor to dota, unlike demigod the superficial-idiot clone.
-ps Forgot to mention the game has no single player, tutorial, or any introduction, the reason for this is simple, anyone can learn the game in 5 minutes, seriously there are about 2 skills that you will use for each class(out of the 5 there are) so you are pressing 2 buttons, there is no mini-game, no side objectives, you run around the map taking these flags that someone takes back in 5 seconds, unless you carry an item that prevents that from happening for 45 seconds, while you upgrade your keep or get items to improve your killing ability depending what type of hero you are, a balance of both usually wins games, but like i said it doesn't take skill and games are often stalemates once everyone maxes out the upgrades(there are options to decreases the gold rate, but nobody really tinkers with that stuff anyways).
My point is why get a game that has 1/12 of the heroes Dota has? and about 1/2000 of the originality of skills(pudge's hook, void's chronospehere, Lyana traps, etc) although dota has its fair share of rehashed skills this is mostly when it comes to stuns, the animations are similar, but it is limited by warcraft 3 engine, the creators did a fair job of customizing the skills.
Towers are static objects that have limited range and add nothing to the strategic element of the game in demigod, they don't target heroes first, they don't prevent pushes at all, they are easily killed by siege skills, but the reason why towers are useless in the game is because the creeps are unintelligent and the fact that heroes can kill a whole creep wave by themselves creates no real "pushing" battle at all, and no sense of danger when a tower falls, unlike dota
First let me talk about favor items, these are items that are persistent throughout each game that your general/assassins use, the idea of anything carrying over in a random game like demigod is just stupid, overtime people will all have the same favor items, but right now it gives people an unfair advantage that have maxed out favor points.
Most of the items there are inferior compared to their counterparts, hungarling's crown is vastly superior to other mana regen items, not to mention it offers an aura,
bulwark offers 25% damage reduction, which alone makes it the only viable tanking option, and the ashkandors giving 4x critical damage, leaves nothing to replace it, i mean this lack of progression, the exclusion of recipes level 1-2-3-4-5 as in dota makes items inferior and not worth getting at all, while in dota combining items and keeping the inferior items is a must and makes the game interesting, because you are not stuck to one route.
I posted this on another forum I frequent, so some of it may not be coherent(quotes and such) sorry! Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21493 | Fisherman (114) Apr 09, 2009 - 04:56 pm » Edited on Apr 26, 2009 - 07:03 am
| | Well i have had the HD555 sennheiser headphones for 4 years now and they are the most durable headphones i have owned, not to mention they sound great. I am not an audiophile so i don't know the difference between 5.1 and stereo, but i can't understand how it could sound any better, seems like a scam such as NIC cards, or mice from razer with 5000 dpi. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21479 | Fisherman (114) Apr 05, 2009 - 01:00 am
| | That is your opinion, achievements just add an unnecessary chore when they are required to unlock weapons, and no they aren't fun and don't add replay value at all they are just a cheap way of saying the game has more content than it does(portal 2 hour game, but has 35345 hours of achievements that nobody did) And no they didn't detect the achievement unlocker i use. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21129 | Fisherman (114) Dec 26, 2008 - 04:24 pm
| Gold prices have fallen drastically and so has value of gear due to all the raids being beaten by mediocre guilds the first week.
Maybe if you use glider and farm 24/7 it would be feasible, and even then the pay would be incomparable to an entry level job, sure the luxury of being at home is nice, but i never understood why people mix work and play, seems like two completely different worlds to me. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21088 | Fisherman (114) Dec 11, 2008 - 11:49 am
| | I think razor mice are for the same people that drive Cadillacs. i.e. an inferior product that has an arbitrarily high price, because it excels at nothing! unless you count DPI that is, it is shamelessly adorned all over the razor site that it puts Nazi's propaganda to shame. ..., wingmaster/mx510/mx518>. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20801 | Fisherman (114) Aug 29, 2008 - 08:14 am
| | I lose faith in humanity when graphics are discussed as a relevant factor, who plays games for graphics? is that not a oxymoron? Please go play crysis and titillate to 2500x1600 resolution with AA and AF maxed, you aesthetically crazed idiots. Flag this | Edit this post |
|
