There haven’t been many games that give you a realistic feeling of weight. The Half-life games did (especially Counterstrike), and it’s nice to hear DMoM&M gets it right. It’s disconcerting to feel like your body is gently gliding over the ground rather than walking upon it.
That said, I’ll probably skip the demo and wait for the full game. HL2 runs splendidly on my rig, so bugs aside, DM should too.
Well, this was released today (both retail and on Steam) and mine is just about to finish the download (10 GIGS!). Been looking forward to this for a while, hope it’s as fun as the gameplay videos make it look…
Great, I was going to Best Buy today anyway, now this is going to be staring at me when I get there.
This thing is pretty buggy as is. Any prospective buyers might want to wait for the inevitable patches.
Still, looks like it’s gonna be a blast.
How’s it compare to Oblivion? Is it as wide open?
Not at all. It’s basically a first-person shooter set in a fantasy world, with moderate rpg elements. Half-Life 2 on fantasy steroids.
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| Originally Posted by Jacob Singer Not at all. It’s basically a first-person shooter set in a fantasy world, with moderate rpg elements. Half-Life 2 on fantasy steroids. |
That sounds extremely appealing. I give the game props just for letting me kick goblins in the face.
I’m attempting the digital download, and the damn thing keeps saying the file won’t initialize. I’ve got all my virus and firewall protection turned off and it’s still screwy. Fucking inelegant way to distribute your product if you ask me.
Are you on Steam, Richard, or a different digital distrubutor?
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| Originally Posted by Jacob Singer Are you on Steam, Richard, or a different digital distrubutor? |
I’m using the one on UbiSoft’s site. I go to my account where it shows the games I’ve bought and click the Download button next to Dark Messiah. Then it tells me to download the setup file, which opens their Download Manager and that’s where the error occurs.
Yeah, I’ve heard the Ubi one leaves something to be desired. Not that Steam is perfect by any means…
Played DM some more, got past a buggy section and am sorta genuinely thrilled with the game again. Will play more tonight after LOST…
(Yes, I’m 45 and I’m going to watch a broadcast television show and follow it up with a fantasy video game. In November I’m going on a cruise with a busty redhead. Sue me.)
I don’t think it’s any of my settings, since I can get on World of Warcraft with no problems. Maybe they’re just getting slammed.
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| Originally Posted by Richard Dickson Maybe they’re just getting slammed. |
They are.
Going on 12 hours now, still can’t download and no reply to my trouble ticket.
Maybe you shouldn’t offer a download if you’re not prepared to handle the demand.
That’s bollocks.
I found some possible fixes on the McAfee forums, I’m gonna give those a try.
And it looks like I can’t even get a refund if I can’t download it, because I’ve seen my activation code. And it’s not their policy to send CD-ROM replacements. Plus, there’s no customer service phone number anywhere on the site – any request for support goes to their web page, which they say they use instead of phone numbers to “expedite” their service. Well, 16 hours and no response sure as hell ain’t expediting.
if all games launched as shitly as Source engine games do the console rags predictions of pc gaming death might be alright with me. Except other pc games do manage to ship out playable without having to jump through countless hoops just to get smooth glitch free gameplay out of the box (or at least one-two patches in).
This is just ridiculous, and I should have known better to invest in another Source engine game after the grief that is Half-Life Episode 1.
I thought I fixed that shit. Not so…I at least got Episode 1 running after 5 months of tweaking my system. Same shit all over again.
Way too much stuttering problems happening. I paid 50 bucks for an hdr lit slide show. Every cinematic plays twice in a row. Worse is white noise/static that occurs when npc’s should be talking. No crashes, but way too many bugs to bother with.
So, is this coming out for the 360?
The thing that really bugs me is that the people who went out and actually bought a copy are the ones who are inconvenienced and have to jump through hoops and be treated like potential criminals, while the pirates will still find ways to crack these things without a second thought. When it’s easier to hop on BitTorrent and get a game than it is to buy it and download it and install it legitimately, there’s something very wrong.
And it doesn’t help that too many games are treating their first wave of customers like free beta testers. Some of the things that get into release versions should never make it out of an alpha test, let alone a beta.
What’s maddening is that when these games get it right, they get it so spectacularly right, it makes me wonder why they don’t just take the time instead of rushing to meet a release date they know their game isn’t ready for.
Oh, finally got an e-mail response from the associate manager for digital distribution. His advice? Make sure my ports are forwarded and try using Firefox. Way to earn that check, buddy.
at least your tech response told you to check out ports and shit…the email I got from apple when I couldn’t download anything from their store was to check the forums.
With that they lost a sale of a 20" imac. Ended up building my wife a speedy core 2 duo system with dells 24 inch uber monitor instead.
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| Originally Posted by mongycore Worse is white noise/static that occurs when npc’s should be talking. |
If you have the Steam version, right-click on the game, go to Properties and select “Verify Integrity of Game Cache”. Takes a while, but it forces an update of the sound files that are causing that static problem.