The Legends of Grimrock

[Lady Spank]

Looks tits, installing right now. My friend was texting me about how good it is and how it's even more unforgiving than Dark Souls so I took the leap.

I remember playing Chaos Strikes back when it came out and getting my ass handed to me. Bloodwych and Captive were much more forgiving in comparison.

Unfortunately I never played any of the Eye of the Beholder series but I love the genre from what I have played.

[depili]

The mechanics might seem simple but you just can't rush forward and try to hit everything until it dies, as doing so will just get your party killed. Also so far the puzzles and secrets have been quite nice, at dungeon level 3 currently.

[The Djego]

2h remaining on the DL(yeah my connection sucks).

Can't wait, haven't played a game like this since wizardry 8.

[Doomed Predator]

if this was 1992 id be blown away key problem is its not 1992 any more. might fly on a tablet or Smartphone but as a pc game im not impressed tbh it looks way to limited

Fuck graphics quality, way too much time is spent making a game shiny and everything else suffers for it. I'd gladly pick a game with good sound,story and gameplay with mediocre graphics over Chest High Walls 13 that has unmatched gfx quality.

I'm not sure it's really the graphics quality but more the idea that instead of expanding out in to a freely interactable world or something like that they've reduced the game to grid based movement with no free-form and limited interactability. Yeah you can look around within the square you're standing on, but how is that in any way a leap or even interesting compared to the complete(ish) freedom of movement of skyrim which has the same and better puzzle-types with none of the retarded "you can only move exactly 5 feet in every direction"... bitching about chest high walls while playing a grid-based game is just

Admittedly, I didn't look in to the depth of character manipulation and such, but at a wild swinging guess just watching the combat demo in the video against the snail, meh... the UI doesn't even seem decent for that.

I wasn't bitching about chest high walls in a grid based game. I was saying I prefer immersive games no matter the graphics to graphically superior games who's only feature is shooting thousands of bland enemies from hundreds of convenient chest high walls.

[Lady Spank]

D3D error. It seems my computer might finally be bested!

EDIT: Or not. Just needed a driver update. Game is good.

[FatFreddy]

this game looks fucking shit

tH doesn't like games which remind him of tooth brushing

[Spang]

The game doesn't hold your hand! I love it!

This is a grid based game, The main benefit of which is ease of development. It makes the game easier and quicker to implement. You don't need an insane animation system to cope with characters that can go anywhere, you don't need very complicated navigation systems to make the AI try and get to a player when he has managed to climb on top of an awkward rock. It saves so much time and effort. This is why the game is cheap.

EDIT:

No steam cloud support makes me rage however. I would like to continue my game at lunch time in work. :/

[Redclaws]

I can't seem to open the gate at the end of lvl 2. I can see the stairs down behind the portcullis but no way to open it.

[Surveyor]

I can't seem to open the gate at the end of lvl 2. I can see the stairs down behind the portcullis but no way to open it.

  Spoiler:

If i don't error there is a torch next to the gate? take it!

[Redclaws]

oh... lol

[Winged Nazgul]

EDIT:

No steam cloud support makes me rage however. I would like to continue my game at lunch time in work. :/

http://www.gamesave-manager.com/ + https://www.dropbox.com/

[Spang]

EDIT:

No steam cloud support makes me rage however. I would like to continue my game at lunch time in work. :/

http://www.gamesave-manager.com/ + https://www.dropbox.com/

No dropbox allowed at work.

Gonna have to resort to copying the save onto a memstick constantly.

[arian snow]

So how good is the game, does it actually have the same complexity in combat that the Wizardry series and Lands of Lore 1 had?

EDIT:

No steam cloud support makes me rage however. I would like to continue my game at lunch time in work. :/

http://www.gamesave-manager.com/ + https://www.dropbox.com/

No dropbox allowed at work.

Gonna have to resort to copying the save onto a memstick constantly.

So you can use Steam and playe games, but no Dropbox? Brilliant.

[Winged Nazgul]

At least they have their priorities straight.

[LoudSpeakly]

Expecting serious amounts of nostalgia hitting after eight hours when this fucking download decides to finish.

[Spang]

So how good is the game, does it actually have the same complexity in combat that the Wizardry series and Lands of Lore 1 had?

EDIT:

No steam cloud support makes me rage however. I would like to continue my game at lunch time in work. :/

http://www.gamesave-manager.com/ + https://www.dropbox.com/

No dropbox allowed at work.

Gonna have to resort to copying the save onto a memstick constantly.

So you can use Steam and playe games, but no Dropbox? Brilliant.

Well it is a games company. They want to allow us to play games during lunch but don't want us to be able to share anything. Yes I know there are a gazillion ways to do it, but when have you known management to be savy about It stuff?

[Winged Nazgul]

Expecting serious amounts of nostalgia hitting after eight hours when this fucking download decides to finish.

As someone who played the original Dungeon Master on a Commodore Amiga, I can confirm serious amounts of nostalgia.

[FatFreddy]

Expecting serious amounts of nostalgia hitting after eight hours when this fucking download decides to finish.

Eight hours for a ~500mb file?

[Blutreiter]

I so desperately want this game with a Bards Tale map/conversion pack...

[Spang]

I so desperately want this game with a Bards Tale map/conversion pack...

Modding will be possible apparently. A map editor is comming too. \o/