Quick Look: EX: Dungeon Siege III

Already have Dungeon Hunter Alliance, which seems to play a lot like this. So I'll pass for now.

Nice.  This could be interesting.

Wish they'd talked about how saving works in MP. I mean, if the host saves are all the other characters saved too, or is it (I hope not) so that the rest of the players are just throw-aways and if we resume a session later on we have to recreate our characters? How did that stuff work in the earlier games?

It's a bit too zoomed in also, I wish the camera would pull back a little more. And they say the SP is even more zoomed in? Crazy.

Dave should have made this QL, he probably played the Dungeon Siege 1 and 2 and it's a lot more familiar to this genre to make some good questions

" Wish they'd talked about how saving works in MP. I mean, if the host saves are all the other characters saved too, or is it (I hope not) so that the rest of the players are just throw-aways and if we resume a session later on we have to recreate our characters? How did that stuff work in the earlier games?It's a bit too zoomed in also, I wish the camera would pull back a little more. And they say the SP is even more zoomed in? Crazy. "

Looks pretty good. My friends and I were not pleased originally to hear you'd have separate SP and MP characters in D3III, but the fact that in MP you'll be instantly leveled to the hosts level takes care of most of my reservations, providing loot is shared between your SP and MP characters. So now I just hope that achievements earned in MP will unlock for all players.

the zoom in or the camera position is indeed weird, almost wrong

looks better than DA2

" That obsidian guy is doing a really bad job explaining the game. He is constantly talking but not a single sentence makes sense. "

I'm not with the haters, they did a good job explaining what the game is about. I preordered the PC version based on this alone, hoping to get some friends to tag along. The pre-order bonuses look rather useless -- given what I saw in the video these items should be useless after a few levels, which you'll earn fast -- which I think is a good thing!

"Burning Band of Scorch - Ring of [+6] Fire and [+2] Strength - Increases the raw damage of your attacks and gives all of your weapons a chance to set your target ablaze.

Bite of the Arakun - Ring of [+12] Poison & [+2] Withering - Gives all of your weapons a chance to poison your target with lingering injury or soften their defenses - leaving them vulnerable for follow-up attacks.

Talisman of the Grand Mage - Amulet of [+8] Retribution and [+8] Armor - Reduces incoming damage on the bearer and has a chance to lash out with a mystical attack that injures close combat attackers.

Sacred Heart of the Legion - Amulet with [+2] Warding and [+2] Stamina - Increases the wearers health and adds a chance to pushback close combat assailants each time the bearer is struck."

Looking forward to giving this a go. As long as it's not a bugfest and I can get a friend to play with I think I'll be happy with some light action-RPGing.

" @Mumrik: AP was an unmatched achievement in player-driven storytelling and malleable choices and consequences. What's it like to have zero taste? "

Obsidian ......o dear.

This left me with a much better inpression than some of the trailers.

Note how the PR guy drops into "talk to the interviewer as if he don't know jack about games" whenever he gets to basic things like mana/energy bar mechanics...all while talking to a guy whos been in the business for over 10 years, and gamer since childhood.

I wonder how many bugs this game will have and how often will it delete saves.

" @owl_of_minerva: I strongly disagree with most of what you have to say, but I guess that is a matter mostly of taste and priorities. "if one puts aside the flawed engine and interface that beset NWN2." - that is quite a lot to put aside and something I might never be willing or able to do. Engine and interface matters and can ruin a game. As for AP being more RPG than ME2, I don't agree, AP was a shooter first and foremost and in my opinion an extremely bad one at that. It seemed so like ME in its gameplay ambition that I have to think they saw ME and decided they had a better idea for the genre than Bioware did. In my opinion they just really didn't, or perhaps more likely, they didn't have the technical skills to realize their ambition. The basic action that most of the game consisted of was bad N64 port quality to me. "

That is a lot of sieging. 

Busting up cyclops unions. What the hell is this, Fantasy Republican siege 3!!

Those ogre fights looked kind of tedious.

"kiting is effective against these guys."

Wait, so kiting is a legitimate design option in a modern game?

Man, these guys really sat down and thought about how to make this a compelling experience.

Looks kinda bland and it looks hard to see.

" Dungeon crawler, local co-op. I'm in. "

I, ummm, wish I could, ummm, point out something, uhhhh, off about this video but hey its a dungeon, um, crawler.

I am interested in this game and I don't have any good RPGs I'm playing right now so this game could tide me over until ME3.

" Note how the PR guy drops into "talk to the interviewer as if he don't know jack about games" whenever he gets to basic things like mana/energy bar mechanics...all while talking to a guy whos been in the business for over 10 years, and gamer since childhood. "

Nice lil graphical touches....hope the final game is a keeper...The Colonal looks like one I'd play as =P

...this isn't Dungeon Siege.

Perfect! Another game from my childhood ruined!

Certainly console-ified, but this looks fun, and I could go for some local co-op hack and slash.

" @SatelliteOfLove said:

" Note how the PR guy drops into "talk to the interviewer as if he don't know jack about games" whenever he gets to basic things like mana/energy bar mechanics...all while talking to a guy whos been in the business for over 10 years, and gamer since childhood. "

He's not explaining for Ryan's sake, its for the people watching on the site who may or may not be familiar with RPG mechanics.  "

This game seems pretty fun. I like that it has a 2 player local co-op option. I'll probably pick this up and play through it with my brother.

I just remember playing the original Dungeon Siege and putting HOURS into it, only to find out that by like lvl 50 I could still only shoot a fireball that did slightly more damange. I hope the new version quickens the pace a bit

Watching this just makes me want to go play Champions: Return to Arms again. Some parts look ok, but only 4 classes, no character customization, and only the host gaining items/exp in co-op is really killing any excitement for this.

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....no thanks..

Katarina looks like Katy Perry.

" When I heard the words "Monster-corpse driven economy" I knew I was in the right place. "

I could not for the life of me get through this quick look. At first, I was onboard. I've been wanting someone to make a top-down action RPG as fun as Gauntlet Legends or X-Men Legends for awhile now, so I was game to check this out. Plus, they added dialogue and conversation trees to the formula - upgrade!

But jeez laweez, this is just so monotonous and repetitive-looking. I got in about a half an hour and just had to stop. It takes like 4 minutes to kill a cyclops; double that time when there were 2 of them. And they're not bosses; they're just normal enemies! The whole stupid level just goes on and on and on and looks the same. After hitting the 31 minute mark, I just started scrubbing through this video seeing if anything changed visually. Nope. Not even a little. That's just depressing. Comparing this to something like Torchlight - where levels DON'T drag on for an hour - is like night and day. And Dungeon Siege III ain't the one coming out looking good...

As far as I'm concerned, Action-RPGs should've evolved by now. This monotonous grind sh** needs to stop; just cuz their "phat loots" in there doesn't justify being a repetitive bore. Shouldn't these things have basically become multiplayer God of Wars or Devil May Crys by now? Like MK: Shaolin Monks (Still the only multiplayer "character action" game out there)? If someone were to do something like that, but with all the damn loot RPG nerds care about - and do it SUCCESSFULLY (not like Too Human; though I appreciate the effort) - we'll all care about western action RPGs here in "console-land". But this? I could not be more apathetic. Ryan - you're a trooper for sticking with these boring nerds for this long. Jeez...

I think the game looks great.

I like what I see, pre-order on steam. 

Man, those clock style spells look amazing, I'll definitely pick this up.

Wow. I really want this game now. 

This doesn't look half-bad!

might pick this up if i ever find myself in need of a game just due to the fact that theres nothing els.  
it dossent look bad only really boring