Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna
After finishing Gothic, I already started playing Divine Divinity (GOG version), but for some reason I decided to try this game too, just to see finally what it is like. It has been quite awhile since I've played a non-GOG game, especially my older retail games.
Getting it to run on Windows 7/64bit felt like walking on empty egg shells. Installation went fine but when I ran it, I kept getting repeatedly some exception fault errors... but the game still ran. I played it for one or two hours, exited the game... and then it wouldn't run anymore (I just would get those exception faults, the game would never start).
I googled for a solution, quite many instructions mentioned just running the video card selection utility and picking one which does not say "hardware T&L". I did that, still the same problems. Then I tried again... boom, now it works again, and doesn't even give any exception faults. Exited the game, ran it again, fine.
I hope it stays this way too so that I can continue playing the game. :) So far the impressions have been pretty positive, it feels like a streamlined and linear Diablo clone. I like the user interface, it is quite intuitive, you learn as you go.
Then again, I am unsure if the gameplay has enough meat to it, already now it feels repeating itself. I keep killing those low level enemies with my bow as I go, and even if it sometimes tells me something about levelling up, it doesn't really feel like a RPG, as in that I would constantly hunt for XP in order to get better skills. I didn't even notice any change in gameplay after it declared that e.g. my bow skill has leveled up.
Maybe the closest game it reminds me of is Nox. It also felt like a quasi-RPG which sometimes tells me "hey you just levelled up, congrats!", but I don't really feel any difference to the gameplay. I still just run forward killing enemies the same as ever.
Let's see... at least I haven't found any big annoyances in the game yet, but I hope it doesn't become too boring.
Oh and I like the music, at least in the beginning of the game. I think I read the composer is Jeremy Soule, which explains it then.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I also have the Steam version, and it actually seemed to run ok out of the box for me (in the Steam message boards many others seem to have issues running it on Windows 7 and later, though). Anyway, since the Steam version is missing the Legends of Aranna expansion, I decided to go with the retail version instead.
Post edited October 31, 2017 by timppu