Besides that, who cares about Olivia Munn when there are so much better looking girls like this one.

MajoShinpan

koji

Ghede

I mean come on! The guy stopped in the middle of being attacked to loot a corpse, He can't aim for crap, and he kept setting of the same traps over and over! That could mean three things. 1: The controls are not precise, 2: they didn't bother trying to find someone who is actually any GOOD at the game they made, or 3: They didn't practice before they started. My guess is 3, because he seems to get better as he goes on.

Ghede

Flehbot is kewl but this is kotaku

yashichi8bit

Apparently the combat is inspired by games like Final Fight and Street Fighter. In fact, some of the spells are cast by performing motions similar to those you would need to execute a hadouken in Street Fighter.

Personally I am sick of the stale combat mechanics of most RPGs, so this game has certainly piqued my interest.

AbdulHakim

Zombie_Moogle

OtakuboyT

[Now if only I can convince that stupid witch to sell me another book of Chain Lightning.]

r1nce

supergork

Luziphir

Also I thought that the player in this game rather sucked. Kept rolling right into the traps and getting hit despite having activated the trap before. I dunno how you aim the spells, but his accuracy rate was rather abysmal. I saw numerous opportunities for the use of that raining purple aoe spell that weren't taken, or completely fumbled...

Shadowmist

YotaruVegeta

you know what would be a good stat raising method. you can only get stronger by learning new spells but to do that you need to read lots of books, actually read the lore etc.

shaunomacx

- is it just me that thinks that spells that look that cool should be alot more powerful? He was hitting some of the mobs there with big firey explosions, purple things from the sky, rapid fire icy shard stuff that froze them and they still didn't flinch.

Spindaden

while its not the exact same context please refer to the link above for clarification on the linking rulings

"I don't want to make posting links to other sites an instant ban, but I will. :("

Its a case of if you want to bring attention to a news item send it to Tips and a member of staff who works for Kotaku will then report it.

In the way they have respect for us as readers, we need to show some respect for them and not spam up the place.

shaunomacx

...and the no external links in comments? What is this, communist Kotaku?

I'll link just for the sake of linking to their own rules...

[gawker.com]

I didn't mean to jack this post by any means but if a ban hammer has to come down on me, then so be it. Sorry for doing so...and just for the record, Avencast looks cool but my GF will probably like it more than me

mikeloxlong

in the past i did my fair amount of trolling mate so ill be blunt about this

The content of the deleted post was deleted for a reason, why mention it again. Respect the editors is what im saying.

external linking YouTube about a story which was REMOVED from Kotaku is just plain balls!

shaunomacx

It wasn't very good then, so I doubt it'll be good now.

Bacardi151

i for one am grateful i got to see that after kotaku self-censored for whatever reason. so instead of showing what a sycophant you are by reeling off rules that are plainly bollocks (no external links in comments? thats kinda contravenes the entire point of a blog), how about you just... dont?

aestheticity

Hagglegaggle

CheekMystique

ok before you all get banned Bashcraft or Crecente (cant remember which theyre both Brian) did say before that there was to be no external linkin in the comments section. Sure I dont work here but linking YouTube about a post that after the very brief discussion about why the post got deleted isnt smart. Lets let it all go and if people wanna read it they can use a search engine or sumthin.

regardless a Mage-centric RPG would be spiffingly fresh, but only if it were a Red-Mage as such a bit of a balance of mystic and physical arts.

shaunomacx

Fry

Makes sense though, a mage can't cast that weak a spell... And think of all that mana wasted. The mind reels!

CheekMystique

I don't think it's the graphics so much as the style. Your POV is one that doesn't lend itself to the cinematics you might get with a GoW(interestingly, either interpretation of that acronym is appropriate).

Just like when Warcraft3 came out it seemed a bit subpar graphically, but if you moved your camera down it looked more along the lines of what you would expect. But then the game was damn near impossible to play.

HiroProt

Gakuen Nomad

mikeloxlong

[www.youtube.com]

mikeloxlong

Fry

WhiskeyJak

But for all his spells, our hero didn't do much damage, did he? 30 attacks on any random crawlie must be sadness after a while.

And the dark (Dark I say!) dungeons, obtuse UI, somewhat problematic camera and sort of dated looks... Let's say "Room for improvement!"

Cautiously optimistic?

CheekMystique

dosboot

the trailer kinda reminded me why i don't play as a mage: because my attacks make it so i can't tell what the hell is going on... and everything that touches me kicks my ass.

dv8godd

Alalu

ohnoez

Sorry Fahey, warriors are good and all, but when it really comes down to it there's just no substitute for a good caster

alucard_0007

shaunomacx

Smokemeakipper

Alalu

The game looks... generic. Maybe so many spells can make it interesting, but it definitely falls in the "I'll watch my brother's friends playing it on his powerful PC while I do something else" category.

Alalu

yashichi8bit

what happened to the Olivia Munn entry?!?!?

mikeloxlong

w0nd3r

yashichi8bit

The graphics look dated compared to what will be coming out later this year/next.

SolDieR

Ape.of.Gods

archsage

I'm attacking the darkness.

Maldron