Dark Messiah

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:44 pm

Is a action/sword fighting game that uses the source engine. A demo just came out a couple of days ago but its freakin huge like 1.3 gigs. It's pretty cool but the source engine is messed up because I get looping sound once in awhile and the same thing happened in HL2 episode 1 which would freeze with the looping sound. I'm not going to buy it unless I know Vavle has acknowledged or fixed the problem.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:58 pm

I'm not going to buy it unless I know Vavle has acknowledged the problem.

You mean you'd buy it if Valve just went "Yeah, we know our engine is fucked up. What can we say?".

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:21 pm

It wasn't so amazing. It didn't look much better than HL2 and yet ran quite a bit worse and I got the stutter bug, too. And in general, it wasn't much fun.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:42 pm

St. Toxic wrote:
I'm not going to buy it unless I know Vavle has acknowledged the problem.
You mean you'd buy it if Valve just went "Yeah, we know our engine is fucked up. What can we say?".

Yes, I would feel much more relieved.

Spazmo, I heard a bunch of people comparing it to a game called "Die by The Sword Yo" have you played that one?

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:02 pm

Haven't played it, but it was a first person sword swingin' game that apparently had really cool combat. The unfavourable comparisons are probably because Dark Messiah's combat is pretty dull. Anyways, I probably won't bother with the full version. I didn't even bother to finish the demo when I got hit with the stutter bug.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:30 pm

I played DBTS when it came out, and yes, it was cool. Has any other game used that same kind of control scheme?

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:36 pm

Die By The Sword is simultaneously hilarious and one of the best multiplayer games ever. The control scheme is known for being somewhat unintuitive, nonetheless a wonderful experience. Especially whilst chemically compromised.