With Skyrim's release getting ever closer, I have set my eyes on a different RPG. Every time I see more vids and read more info on this game I get more impressed. So I just thought I will list what I have learned about this game so far in hopes people here will be interested as well. If I forgot any thing let me know and I will add it.

• Traveling from one end of the map to the other could possibly take 50+ hours.
• Open world with 5 distinct regions.
• The game will have a Day/Night cycle with NPCs going about their daily business according to the time of day.
• The World of Amalur already has a history going back 10,000 years.
• 4 playable races to choose from.
• Will feature an open class progression system which will allow players to shape their character as they see fit.
• There will be 3 main class trees with 22 abilities per tree and the player will be able to assign ability points as they see fit.
• According to which abilities you pick the game will unlock different "destinies" which will give you certain ability spacial to that destiny. So far there have 14 different known destinies though this number might increase once gamers get their hands on it.
• Over 280 armor sets.
• Crafting of armor and weapons is featured.
• You will be able to name your crafts.
• Guards will help you kill monsters if they are close enough.
• Quests can also be given by travelers you meet on the road and not just in town.
• Some quests will have multiple ways to finish them.
• Combat will a Hack N' Slash based with the accessional God of War style QTE. However, strategy will play a big part of the combat.
• The game features only a single player campaign story.
• The game's story will start on a personal level but will become "epic" as the game progresses.
• The game will feature the most coolest doors in a video game...EVER!
• All the dungeons are hand crafted with unique art style, encounters and loot.
• Equipment usage will not be tied according to a certain stat but instead be tied to the number of points on a certain skill tree. For example: A certain magic staff will require you to have an X-number of points in your sorcery tree for you to able to use it.

While I won't be able to sway you away from Skyrim, and rightfully so, I hope I generated enough interest for you to be interested in what is shaping up to be a really awesome game. You can check more in depth info by visiting the official web site.

I'm disappointed there's no first person view mode, that really hurts the immersion, in my opinion. It also has a terribly generic name that's very forgettable.. Not good from a marketing stand point at all

Other than that, the game looks pretty cool, I've had my eye on it for a while. Hopefully it can live up to the already huge expectations.

@WinterSnowblind: imo every game has generic name. But I will agree that the KoA could have been stricken off and have just Reckoning. That has much more...omph...to it.

The game does have huge expectations. If 38 studios can pull it off then they will cement their name with the big boys of RPG.

I'll go point by point, in step with yours: 

• So either slow travel system / bland terrain / false boast (games boasting size is given too much credit then it's really due, see JC2, Daggerfall as some nice examples)
• ok
• so like most decent RPG's these days, ok
• kind of incosequential imo, again most such game have a decent background story, what matter is how it will be conveyed and/or affect the actual game
• k
• most RPG's do
• as above, standard stuff
  
• destinies are interesting in concept but in practice seem like simple bonuses/perks that unlock depending on your overall skill choices, they could be cool with significant unique effects/abilities tho
  
• 280 armor sets. but how many unique armor set models?
• k
• that's actually a cool little thing
• again nothing really noteworthy, that's what guards tend to do these days
  
• mobile quest givers don't seem that special
• will depend on implementation, and could be cool, but i'm guessing that actual multiple finishes are nothing to deep, nice to have tho
  
• good combat is the one big thing I'm looking forward to in this game
• k
• again, this is promised in like every rpg evah
• cool doors huh? how cool?
• good to know
• so equipment usage is tied to the stat of your progression within a skill tree, not that different

@Tennmuerti: I wasn't trying to brag but I thought to have some exposure to game that's being kinda ignored due to Skyrim. Now nothing against Skyrim but frankly it doesn't interest me as much as this game. I haven't played Skyrim but to me it seems the same thing as before. I will play it at some point but as it stands now I just don't really care about it. I was kinda burnt by Oblivion so I'll just see where it goes.

I don't know if you are aware it but R. A. Salvatore created the game's lore and he also outlined the skeleton for the main story. Being a Salvatore fan I am extremely excited with the premise that rpg will finally have a good story because frankly I think most RPG's have a crappy storyline. Personally I think that there hasn't been a good story in an rpg since Planescape: Torment.

The only thing that's putting me off is the way I keep seeing the combat paired with the words "God of War". I hate God of War D:

Games looks and sound awesome so far.
Will surely buy it and Skyrim too.
What's better then 1 rpg? More then 1 rpg!

Game does look more impressive for each video i see of it. I don't recall, but is there any form of online component in this game?

I have not heard of this game, it sounds a lot like Kingdom Under Fire: Doom Circle, which was very disappoitning so I don't expect big things.

Edit: Kingdom under Fire: Circle of Doom lol not Doom Circle

@Tennmuerti: He wasn't bragging about it... lol. He was just listing the points that are known about the game that can make possibly an awesome rpg

@Mordukai said:

• Traveling from one end of the map to the other could possibly take 50+ hours.

Somehow, I very much doubt that.

From the videos I've seen, it seems the protagonist is silent?

@Happy_Gentle_Man: To me it looks more like fable, more specifically what fable ii should have been.

Games looks and sound awesome so far. Will surely buy it and Skyrim too. What's better then 1 rpg? More then 1 rpg!

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