I can buy Kingdoms of Amular Reckoning for €10.
Ps3 version.
Should I do it? It reminds me a bit of Fable. And I love Fable.
Everyone says it's like a better fable and because you like Fable you may like it. I don't dislike Fable, but I don't think it's great. Mostly because of how the world is structured, it doesn't feel like a hugely connected place and I never felt the choices were as great as they could be.
The thing about KOA is it does feel like a big open world, unlike Fable. It's got big MMO like zones and stuff. Which sounds cool, but then you realize how shitty being big can be. See, the zones are filled with invisible walls. Good luck just running through them in a straight line. Your bound to run into something that will stop that, heck it could be a simple change in the elevation of the land,but your fucked because you can't jump. It's a small problem, but it's there because these places are so big and you want to get to them as quickly as possible. It's annoying the 1st time when you are like "shit I just can't go around" it gets pretty frustrating later. I don't think you can jump in Fable, but the areas are pretty much designed in away that avoid this.
In terms of combat, I feel if you like Fable you'll enjoy KoA. KoA is probably better as it does attempt to have some sort of combo depth. It plays the simple game like Fable, but is probably more like a straight up action game. It won't offend you, maybe it will just bore you after a few hours. In the end it's probably one of the better action rpgs out there.
The thing though is Fable kind of has character. Honestly, it's a bit humorous. I mean look at Fable 3. You had the side quest where you are basically in someone's rpg board game. You had the gnomes. You just had some humor and that can go a long way in a game. Fable 2 and 3 attempted to entertain you with their writing and for the most part they are solid. While their stories may not be the best, they still have some nice aspects to them. They also do have some pretty ok art, they look British which is rather unique in the rpg genre. KoA has none of this. It's art and world are super generic and uninteresting. The story and characters are boring. I said MMO earlier to describe the zones, it also describes the quests. Go here and kill 5 things to collect 5 things. It's just boring shit.
I think if you like Fable you will probably be more forgiving and like the combat of the game. But if a reason you like Fable is also because of it's character and I guess moral stuff, KoA may bore you and you will be left with a game that has similar and admittedly kind of boring combat like Fable, but without all the nice surroundings that makes Fable good.
Anyway I've been playing The Old Republic. Man what can I say I've enjoyed it. I know it's just WoW, but honestly the voice cutscenes and stuff really kind of get to me. I am following the story. And man that first Flashpoint was fantastic, really made the dungeon stuff way more involving. I'm someone who likes MMO's for the adventure aspect, not the loot and well I think this game hits that for me.
