Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale

[SadExchange]

I'm a little surprised that RPGwatch hasn't covered this game. I believe it's being released tomorrow for the pc, xbox, and ps3 and appears to be a pretty decent co-op, multiplayer DnD game. Anyone else looking into it?

[Thrasher]

It looks like an action game, rather than an RPG.

[Alrik Fassbauer]

Look here, for example : http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13703&highlight=daggerdale

[SadExchange]

Ahh, okay, thanks for the link Alrik, appreciate it.

[Alrik Fassbauer]

At your service ;)

[porcozaur]

4,8 on derptrailers
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-pod-dungeons/714235

pass, i guess

[Ovenall]

I downloaded the demo on Xbox.

It is horrible. It's a single button masher. The action scenes are broken up over and over by bad "dialog" scenes where you look at a dwarf or something as it mumbles and displays what it is supposed to be saying in text. Once it sort of locked up at one of these close ups, and I had to run around for like 20 seconds to get out of it, and another time I was running down a hallway and it froze up on a black screen that made me force a restart. Oh, and there's lots of barrels to break. I swear, I never want to smash another barrel in a game ever. It's 2011 for f*ck's sake, come up with a better search/loot idea.

All this crap happened in around 10 lousy minutes of playing. I kid you not.

I know it's a demo, and maybe it opens up a little after the first areas. But what I saw was actually horrible. Horrible. I think I was supposed to have a "Shield Bash" move available for my character, but I could not figure out how to map it to a button or how to use it. The inventory and menus are a mess as well. The maps are extremely linear with a little side-room now and then. The loot has stupid generic WoW type names like "Helm of Durability" which causes -1 damage but -1 attack speed. Completely nonsensical treasure items that you can "convert to gold" on the fly. Yeah, I totally remember that from my table top days…

Some minor positives were the character models, and I thought the animation was OK. But it is so far from what I would consider Dungeons and Dragons that it is a joke. It's a bad, buggy Diablo clone. Had it just run smoothly and not be broken up with clunky obnoxious "dialog" scenes, it might be bearable.

[xSamhainx]

I'll just repost my impressions from the news thread, i played it thru yesterday am.
P.s. Ovenall- you hold down right trigger and your secndary palette of special abilities pops up w/ the 4 face buttons mapped accordingly


I was bored this morning, and surfing XBL so I grabbed the demo. It's not all that bad, it's an action-RPG based on 4.0. As such, you use one of 4 characters w/ pre-selected race and class, but the choice of some familiar (if you've played 4.0) starting powers and feats such as "blinding strike" and "weapon focus" for the rogue. So while you cannot pick race/class and your initial stat points are pre-allocated, you do indeed get to set up your character otherwise w/ a choice of starting power and feat, later on it looks like you can start allocating stat points. Lots of loot, a merchant to trade w/, that's all that I saw. From a presentation standpoint, I dont think the game looked visually bad, but I'm pretty forgiving in that respect so my opinion may not be worth much.

I faced no bugs while playing it, and got to the end of the relatively short demo between 10-15 mins of play. I personally liked what I saw better than Dark Alliance, a title that immediately comes to mind when playing it.

Wouldnt pay 15 bones for it, but I'll pick it up when it hits 5. May be fun to play thru on a Saturday w/ a 4 pack of Boddingtons and a bag of pretzels. Hopefully they'll patch it up by then! ='.'=

[bloodlover]

It kind of looks like crap and so far the reviews have not been good. Still I will probably give it a try at some point.

[RivianWitch]

I can get this game (PC version) almost for free, but is it worth the time? All the reviews out there look pretty crappy, so I was wondering if anyone around here has been brave enough to give the actual game a spin yet?

I suppose I could go to all the trouble of trouble of checking out the demo, but I don't want to waste time doing that if the game is really as bad as everyone seems to be saying…

[Ovenall]

RivianWatch:

I'm about as forgiving as it gets around here when it comes to games… I'm no "hardcore" RPG fan. But Daggerdale sucks.

See my review a few comments up. One major bug and a hard crash in ten or so minutes. Combined with bad button mashing, and tons o' barrel smashing. If you're extremely bored and hard-up for a game — and it's really cheap — , give it a go and see how awful it is.

If you do, please post your opinion of it here.

[RivianWitch]

Yes, I saw your post there, thanks, Ovenall, which is why I was wondering if I should even bother with the demo at all, since everyone in this thread has said that the demo sucks.
Sometimes a demo doesn't always do the game proper justice, though, plus of course patches can help a lot - so I was hoping someone decided to give the actual game a try by now.

If the actual PC game (this would originally be a console title, apparently) sucks as much as you guys say the demo does, I don't think I'll bother, even if I do get the game for free, I think.