shay-d Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 That's it. I continually find myself skipping conversations. Doing it now as a matter of fact. But the combat is fucking fun. Thoughts ps3t boards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musashi1596 Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I'm the same. It's probably the very first RPG where I find myself just not caring about the lore or story whatsoever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dz06lt Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 id say if you don't care about the story there isn't much reason to play the game honestly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vuule Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 The story was OK. But I had to much fun with the game itself to care much about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P_Pigly_Hogswine Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 I spend the whole time hammering the square button. I just find the stories and quests so samey. A bunch of different names for things but it's Fantasy Land 101. Feel like I've heard it all before. And it's just not interesting to read about Fae or Elves or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4manaka Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 That's it. I continually find myself skipping conversations. Doing it now as a matter of fact. But the combat is fucking fun. Exactly what I did. Found it so exhaustively bland, generic and cliche that I skipped every bit of conversation I found. Maybe Im an old timer, having played too many WRPGs and MMOs for this to be memorable. Thought I would pick the DLCs before beginning this game with eyes closed, now I wouldnt pay for both of them 2€ each even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shay-d Posted June 16, 2013 Author Share Posted June 16, 2013 Thing is, I just can't quite put my finger on why. I mean, I traditionally love these types of games. And I know it isn't a great comparison, but its the closest one I've got in skyrim. Freakinig loved that game and couldn't get enough of the conversations/story/etc. But like I said earlier, still worth paying because the combat is great. Just when I put this game down, ill never think about it again. Swooped it out of the $20 bin so no biggie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musashi1596 Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Thing is, I just can't quite put my finger on why. I mean, I traditionally love these types of games. And I know it isn't a great comparison, but its the closest one I've got in skyrim. Freakinig loved that game and couldn't get enough of the conversations/story/etc. But like I said earlier, still worth paying because the combat is great. Just when I put this game down, ill never think about it again. Swooped it out of the $20 bin so no biggie.I enjoyed Skyrim but thought it was an awful RPG, and I think Amalur is in a similar vein to that. Amalur is decent enough, partially because of the atractiveness of the game world, but it's very much forgettable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P_Pigly_Hogswine Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Thing is, I just can't quite put my finger on why. I mean, I traditionally love these types of games. And I know it isn't a great comparison, but its the closest one I've got in skyrim. Freakinig loved that game and couldn't get enough of the conversations/story/etc. But like I said earlier, still worth paying because the combat is great. Just when I put this game down, ill never think about it again. Swooped it out of the $20 bin so no biggie. I was enthralled with Oblivion, but less so with Skyrim. I reckon Amalur's issue is that it's just too derivative. It's neither good nor bad. It's just exactly the same stuff we've seen before. Instead of elves they're fae. Instead of dwarves they're gnomes. But everything functions the same way. Humans, elves, and dwarves, a whole swag of lore, a whole lot of people getting lost in the woods looking for some key. That said, I'm enjoying the game but can't really play for more than a few hours at a time before I get a bit bored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pike27 Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Neither do I, at the beggining I had already found it boring, and I read about it and discovered the story was no more than OK.... since I have more games to play, I'm just "meh, f*** the story and let's beat the hell out of some trolls" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Despair Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 I have to agree with the "bored to death" story as well. Played tons of other fantasy games like Baldur's Gate, Warcraft (not the WoWs! ), Dragon's Age and so on. Nothing original made in KoAR just a basic RPG game and that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyp3r Duck Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 I've been skipping pretty much all conversations as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jooles Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Usually a sucker for lore/mythology/story, and the Dark Elf trilogy (Books from R.A. Salvatore) was smashing, but once I stopped asking about everything, and no more than glanced at the sidequest-dialogue (barely done any MainQ), I found myself being less bored and enjoying the game immensely. I feel like I'm playing Skyrim, only with a better (fun and playable) combat-system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SugarDD Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 I usually never play games if i don't enjoy even the most obvious story, but this was the only game making an exception for me, i skipped almost all the story, reading only the necessary for understading a bit of it, but still enjoyed the game for it's gameplay. I still don't think this game is a masterpiece, it's really generic but at the same time it really deserve at least some hours of play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halfaworldaway Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 When does the action begin? I've been playing this for a hour or so and it seems all I do is talk to folk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHChiBulls Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 When does the action begin? I've been playing this for a hour or so and it seems all I do is talk to folk. Speaking from personal experience it remember the game started getting really fun about 5-10 hours in. Maybe a bit more than 10 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdfan Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 The story has always a "been there, done that before" feeling to it, like pigly said, fantasy land 101. I keep the conversations to the bare minimum and stopped reading books and the like, which is a shame though, with all the effort (voice acting, background info, books, etc.) they put into that game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBeens Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Well if the gameplay is fun then there's no problem with skipping the story. Many classic games have no story whatsoever. Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros... Back in my day, we didn't need no stinking story! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paka Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 Yeah, I'm downloading it on the PS3 now as it is free and I liked it well enough, but on my 360 playthrough, I found myself skipping through many conversations. Usually I love to hear out everything NPCs have to say in games, and I liked the Celtic-inspired lore here, but the NPCs were just SO dry and wordy that was a chore to hear them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICPosse8 Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Just got this game off PS+ and I'm loving every minute except of course the story lol it is just really terrible is it not. Hurts my head just listening to them talk about there silly world which totally reminds me of Free Realms cartoony graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunlit Garden Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 I generally liked the story, but I did not like listening to the lorestones. Especially the rhyming ones... Salvatore, you're a good writer but your poetry SUCKS. o_O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lporiginalg Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Ya same. I was expecting more because I have read loads of novels by R.A. Salvatore and he's a fantastic author but the story of this game didn't grab me at all. The characters are very generic fantasy tropes and there's not much in terms of cinematics to drag you in. I felt like this game was a fail story wise but the gameplay was pretty solid, for an rpg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuri03042 Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 I spend the whole time hammering the square button. I just find the stories and quests so samey. A bunch of different names for things but it's Fantasy Land 101. Feel like I've heard it all before. And it's just not interesting to read about Fae or Elves or whatever. Seems pretty much like me too. I stop and read the story missions (not fully, but the least) and skip all conversation on the sidequests. By the way, I've allied to the Widow because of this and had to wipe out an entire village for her (what I reaaaaally regret doing!), my luck is that I didn't made the same mistake at the end of the House Of Ballads' final quest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chutche2 Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Yeah, I started out listening to everything and selecting all dialogue, but now I just skip through and don't really care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funpowder Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 I only read/listened to the dialog in most of the main- and faction quests but that's all. Actually, the factions were much more interesting than the main story when I think about it. I guess it's to be expected with ~250 quests that some of them will be a bit similar and bland though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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