THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: demi on November 26, 2009, 05:44:06 PM
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http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/213077/new-puzzle-quest-revealed-in-january-gamepro/
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i hope they learned from their mistake that is galactrix
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GOTY 2010
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awesome. hopefully they wont have a super cheap boss again
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hopefull i can't end match with a single spell anymore
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[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcakMdWVdak[/youtube]
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looks nice but i'm annoyed at the goblin missing the skull match like 3 times in a row >:(
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I;m not sure I love the like HARDCORE SERIOUS artwork, but who cares. Want now.
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I;m not sure I love the like HARDCORE SERIOUS artwork, but who cares. Want now.
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlmpEyEEfcU[/youtube]
i can't find a video of the cutscene,i swear they reach 3DO zelda level of bad...
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[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbhbXUJrEaM[/youtube]
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwpi6hHgU4[/youtube]
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS4KSoXwj5c[/youtube]
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http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/110/1100546p1.html
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A review... means game should be out ummmmmmmmmmm SOON
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22nd for DS
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DS is for poors.
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:(
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Useable items & Dungeons :hyper
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NICE
I didn't follow this at all, but it looks like 50 times the game PQ was, and I adored PQ.
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We got it in a shipment today so pirates should get it up soon for DS.
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why dont you dump it, be somebody
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i hope they decide to put in normal control but who i'm kidding
it's going to be touch screen only 100% sure
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^ ya I think its touch screen only again
the gems look bigger this time around at least
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Puzzle Quest 2
We have an XBLA launch date! We will be available for download on Xbox Live Arcade on June 30th for 1200 Microsoft Points. Learn about the game in our exclusive review on IGN.com. Puzzle Quest 2 is an Editors' Choice Award recipient and received a 9 out of 10! But don't forget to get your PQ2 fix with a DS copy available tomorrow ...at stores everywhere in North America!
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oh man thats next week. awesome
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hoo boy I'ma buy like 3000 points this week. I want this, EWJ, Duke Nukem Manhattan and co-opvania. I hope Castlevania is 800 points...
Okay I'll do the math:
Duke - 800
EWJ - 800
PQ2 - 1200
Castlevania - 800?
eek thats at least 3600, if Castlevania is 1200 I'll need 4000.
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Not getting Risk? :(
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I dunno, Im into stategy board games when I play them, but I never bought Settlers or Carcossonne or anything. I check out the demo I guess. Just waaay too much good stuff coming out on XBLA soon. But I like being spoiled for choice :D
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game is out :smug
impressions
well this seems more balanced than the original but also more boring,there are now 5 mana colors instead of 4,and gauntlets which you can use to trigger your equipment,there is now a defense stat which give you a chance to cut in half the damage you receive for turn,the higher your defence,the higher your chance
as for equipment you can equip weapon to trigger damage,shield which temporarly raise your defense rating and potion which can give you mana or improve how much mana you gain,there is now equipment which is class exclusive which piss me off because it means you get useless loot
so far i wasn't able to capture anything to ride,or learn any enemy spells tough everytime you open a chest you have to play a minigame which dictates how many items you get,defeated enemy drops generic loot which you can use to upgrade your equipment altough so far i haven't been able to do so
there are now 4 classes,i'm playing as a warrior which is giving me a wide variety of skills... i have three buffs,a stun spell and a drain spell,apparently the wizard focuses on damage spells,the assasins on board manipulation skills and the paladin on protection skills
the things that really makes me sad is what they have done to your equipment,none of the item i have found had any special skills attached to it (no wait,there is a dagger that poison your enemy if that counts) all of them were weapons with a damage value attached to it,or armors with a defense value attached to it (tough i found an amulet which give me more red mana at the start of the fight)
when you level up,you now pick between 5 stats,each stat is related to a mana color but also to other factor (for example strenght dictates not only dictates how much red mana you can hold and gain but also how much damage you do when matching skulls) you only get 1 point for each level up tough in some level up you automaticaly gets point in your main stats (as a warrior i got a bonus to strenght and vitality)
as i said the game seems much more balanced since stuff like the firewalker staff is now gone,none of the skills i have seen has been powerfull enough to be a game breaker (even tough one of the monster had a skill that dealt 999 damage for 65 red mana :lol) the last skill of the warrior seems to be berserk rage so i hope they at least toned it down
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got my 1200 points ready :hyper
its a shame the cheevs blow dick, but whatevs
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They look fine. Just buy it and play it and get 200. The perfect type of game.
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:lol
I'll get 200 of course but these cheevs stuck out as being BS:
Epic Fail 10
Lose to an opponent while on 1 Life Point during any single player game mode
Cheating AI 5
Be defeated by an opponent on their first turn during any single player game mode
cheevs for losing are never cool IMO
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On DS:
It seems to me that the game is drastically unbalanced- The Barbarian class is the sure-win, everything else will be harder than that. It's like playing Mass Effect as anything other than a brutish Soldier.
The equipment additions seem overpowered to me, but it's nice to have the option. Too bad none of it seems to matter. You pick up something called like THE EVIL SWORD OF DRACONIS and all it is like +1 damage over RUSTY DAGGER.
The new map is kind of 'meh'. I guess I like the isometric dungeon crawl-y thing, but I think I preferred the expansive overworld map. I also miss the cartoony art. The artwork here is beautiful, but it feels out of place, somehow.
The minigames are much, much better. The lock picking one is especially neat. Level advancement has been streamlined, maybe not in a good way? You pick from one of 5 stats, but it really only ever makes sense to pump one or two of them depending on your class.
Anyhow, I still played it way past bedtime. The core gameplay is still there and it's been made more interesting. The DS version seems like the runt of the litter, so I'd hold out for PC or 360 if you can.
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Wasn't the DS version broken last time too?
When is the PC version coming?
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It's not broken, it's just clearly not the first priority.
PC is 'late summer'
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On DS:
It seems to me that the game is drastically unbalanced- The Barbarian class is the sure-win, everything else will be harder than that. It's like playing Mass Effect as anything other than a brutish Soldier.
The equipment additions seem overpowered to me, but it's nice to have the option. Too bad none of it seems to matter. You pick up something called like THE EVIL SWORD OF DRACONIS and all it is like +1 damage over RUSTY DAGGER.
The new map is kind of 'meh'. I guess I like the isometric dungeon crawl-y thing, but I think I preferred the expansive overworld map. I also miss the cartoony art. The artwork here is beautiful, but it feels out of place, somehow.
The minigames are much, much better. The lock picking one is especially neat. Level advancement has been streamlined, maybe not in a good way? You pick from one of 5 stats, but it really only ever makes sense to pump one or two of them depending on your class.
Anyhow, I still played it way past bedtime. The core gameplay is still there and it's been made more interesting. The DS version seems like the runt of the litter, so I'd hold out for PC or 360 if you can.
i don't see what makes the barbarian overpowered,if anything i heard the assasin gets two skills that let him do double damage,making it quadruple damage
EDIT: i'm playing assasin and yea he gets to deal tons of damage but it requires a ludicrous amount of mana & setup where the warrior can just hit thing with his sword over and over,not so sure about the guy anymore
also anyone here is playing on hard? i tried playing on hard using assasin but i didn't notice a single difference between normal
EDIT 2: apparently if you stack all of the double damage assasin spells you can end up doing X8 damage :lol up to 120 damage
that's seriously a sick amount of hurt but as i said with all the mana required,it better hurts that much
i'm trying the templar a bit and he's the master of boring skills,apparently later on he gets a skill which gifts him action point and one that basicaly gifts him mana depending on his defense,which seems a little broken considering he probably can gets his defense high enough to have the mana spells pay for itself
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2 days to gooooo. Man I cant wait!
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Is there no PSP version?
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Who cares, would just get pirated.
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be a man, shell out 1200 spacebucks
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i stopped playing somewhere after hitting level 25,remember how everybody complained that you never got anywhere in galactrix because every quest involved traveling to some point which involved hacking tons of spacegates?
replace spacegate with "random monster encounters" and you got puzzle quest 2,the monsters don't spawn again once dead but the game just doesn't feel as rewarding and fast paced as the original
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Its almost here baybee
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downloading now, but its bedtime
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This game is badass. Much better than the dirty poor DS version. I'd hate to have to play that...
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I can't wait for the superior PC version. :drool
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I can't wait for the superior PC version. :drool
lol. Yeah those crisp puzzles will look amazing on the PC
Anyway I'll be picking this one up today.
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I can't wait for the superior PC version. :drool
lol. Yeah those crisp puzzles will look amazing on the PC
Anyway I'll be picking this one up today.
1080p gems and superior mouse controls. :drool
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Yeah this is Puzzle Quest alright. May get a points card for it today.
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i have no idea how to play this game
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Oh man I gotta battle through a whole shithouse day at work before I can get home and play this. This sucks!
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i have no idea how to play this game
Match 3
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say what
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I'm not sure if you're talking high level play or something but the game is pretty simple at least as a single player game. Match 3 or more gems to attack the enemies you face. Spells require a certain number of colored gems to trigger. Repeat a few thousand times until you finish the game.
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no im talking basic play, the first xbla game had little to no instruction, thanks!
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There is a tutorial thing in both that seems to hold your hand for the first few battles and the early stuff. Other than walking around and doing match three's and greater there isn't really a lot to it.
I mean you can upgrade your attributes but there is a little show info button where it tells you what effect that has. Actually that show info button is pretty much all over the place in the sequel so if you have any question what any item does, you just have to move it over it.
If you have a specific question I can answer that but otherwise its pretty straightforward from what I remember.
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Home and playing now. Is there anyway to zoom out this map? I mean it looks nicer zoomed in than the previous game but it also seems harder to do and find sidequests this way.
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I kinda suck a bit more than I remember...
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My match 3 skills have definitely declined. I'm having a harder time than I remember with the original (Which isn't a bad thing. Just mentioning it). Playing with the sorcerer so maybe that has something to do with it.
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Mages always suck at lower levels, yeah. Just be a barbarian and smash shit. :punch
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Assassin > scrubs
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yeah Ive been thinking about which character class Im gonna try. Im up for a challenge so might give the mage a whirl.
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I'm also sucking at the treasure chest mini-game. You have to clear out those things quick or they just get swallowed. I've sort of changed my strategy a bit on those.
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Game is so good! Playing as a Sorcerer on hard, so its nice and challenging. Got the "Epic Win" and "Epic Fail" cheevs out of the way already :D Got up to the "Cat Man" boss. Hes pretty hardcore!
My favourite addition is the weapons and items you need the gauntlet points to use. Gives a whole extra layer of strategy, and theres various different ways to win. In the first game the skulls were the main damage dealers and win condition but theres just so much more going on in the battles now.
Im friggn hooked already! I know what Im playing all weekend, thats for sure :(
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Home and playing now. Is there anyway to zoom out this map? I mean it looks nicer zoomed in than the previous game but it also seems harder to do and find sidequests this way.
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Man I suck with that sorcerer. I'm thinking about restarting with a different character class.
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I've been playing on Hard w/ Assassin, had no problems
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youre just too cool for school i guess
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The Sorcerer gets real sweet once you hit level 12, I was having trouble on Hard until I unlocked the Finger of Death spell, now Im owning. Make sure you equip a sweet spell staff too. Those things hit for like 16 damage and you can pump it with flameblade for a real king hit. I got lucky and scored a crit for 80 damage last night :D It was awesome.
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I'm near the end, my guy is like Level 40 or something.
I don't think this is as good as PQ1, but theres a lot of improvements and otherwise
+ Illegal Moves aren't used against you
+ Inclusion of hand-based weapons is good
+ Defense against attacks can save you from mega damage
+ Looting chests
+ Art is improved
+ Bigger playfields (sometimes)
+ No online achievements
- AI is dumb as shit - again (this is on Hard mode, btw)
- Every attack is always blocked. BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK, so you have to nickel and dime the enemies
- Way too many enemies littering the hallways
- No world map
- No allies to give bonuses in battle
- No mounts to give bonuses
- Spells are crappy, all the same effect aside from using a different color
- Weapons and Armor are crappy
- No challenge at all (Hard mode, btw) aside from the actually named "Challenge Fights"
- Completely missable achievement if you decide to lockpick or use an unlock spell on a door/chest instead of bashing it (have to bash everything in the game), requiring you to play the entire game over
PQ1 > PQ2 > Galactrix
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They look fine. Just buy it and play it and get 200. The perfect type of game.
- Completely missable achievement if you decide to lockpick or use an unlock spell on a door/chest instead of bashing it (have to bash everything in the game), requiring you to play the entire game over
Told you the achievements sucked
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Disagree, the lack of online outweighs the possiblility of missing one - and it's not like they're hiding it from you it's right there on the list
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True. Yeah Im being extra careful to bash every door.
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Finished, 200
Last boss was cake compared to Bane. They definitely neutered it. Oh well, good enough...
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got any tips for the Cheating AI, and OMGHAX cheevs?