Ascaron does it again

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:12 am

their PR staff really needs to be fired - I say they hire Pete Hines - he's done a heck of a job hyping the theoretical pos Fallout 3 - even though this game's international release was scheduled for a couple weeks ago - I've never heard *anything* about it - same thing with Sacred RPG, which I thought was a great game, even if it was a Diablo ripoff.

Anyway, their Hard to be a God official (english) site's "our news" section has only 1 release - on 6/28/07 - we are now open! .................... okay............?

And as a dishonorable mention - their only interview was back in March 2005 w/ gamesguru mania, (ggmania.com, whatever the f*** that is) .............about horses.

and you wonder why Sacred was like....a bomb in the States? I thought there was infinitely more potential in Sacred than in Diablo 2 - considering it wasn't *JUST* about munchkin-ing.....aw eff - you can read the interview here if you want....if you like "horses" or whatever. eff.

strike 3 - their forum doesn't have an English section anywhere.

fail the world series strike - from the few english words I see on the forums, they have an Elder Scrolls section, and a Two Worlds section. Akella, what's with shitty RPG sections, mang?

Akella's English version site (w/ no forum ffs)

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:44 pm

That's lovely, now tell a DaCer that cares.

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:26 pm

What is ascaron?

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Thu May 01, 2008 2:31 am

rabidpeanut wrote:What is ascaron?

don't worry, it's reliable

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:09 pm

Darkstar 1 was fucking awful.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Sat May 03, 2008 3:30 am

review time!

"Painful is the definite overkill of bloom, which is just an eye-sore in certain locations. You can turn bloom off wholesale, which helps, but you can't simply turn it down a notch, which would have been better. "

"Worst than any of this is the annoying camera. The camera is hung at a kind of high over-the-shoulder POV, but tilted at a downwards angle, which means your maximum field of vision will be about 30 yards. You can zoom it out, but if you do it just tilts the camera further downwards, keeping your FOV limited. I guess this was all done for reasons of avoiding rendering far-off objects, but it's still incredibly annoying."

"There are some bugs, the most dangerous of which can be getting stuck behind scenery. As the character can't jump except on horseback â€“ and the game world is full of invisible walls going criss-cross through the map floating over objects â€“ chances of getting stuck are fairly good, which is bad. Another bug occurs when you start dialogue while on horseback. The PC is supposed to dismount as the dialogue starts, but sometimes instead of that he sinks straight through his horse and into the ground to his waist."

Sounds pretty damn similar to Sacred.....shitter.