IGN - Dungeon Siege III Review

IGN - A dungeon crawler without good loot, like Dungeon Siege III, is missing something essential. If the prizes that pop out don't feel valuable, there's no slot machine appeal of opening chests, busting apart wooden barrels or slicing up monsters. Dungeon Siege III's bits of loot come with all kinds of statistical bonuses, and a multitude of special effects like elemental damage or chance to stun.

[VileAndVicious]

*sigh*..... IGN you guys

[Bereaver]

My friend bought it two days ago (China but the EU version) and we were playing it all day. I must say..... this review could be spot on. If you play by yourself it's definitely a 6.5/10 game but if you play with friends it's at least 8/10 game in my opinion.

[madjedi]

With that retarded coop what is the point really.

[Bereaver]

Playing with friends, some of the boss fights are pretty fun. If you don't dodge around and use skills when it needs to be done... then you'll get no where fast. And end up wiping over and over again.

[Michael-Jackson]

Mostly everything Square Enix publishes this Gen is turd.

Only good thing is FFXIII, PSP and DS games.

[VileAndVicious]

FFXIII? Really??

[Michael-Jackson]

Yes really, it's still a good game if you give it a chance to finish it, if you haven't already. I can understand the hate for it and it should have much better.

@Quagmire, yeah I'm looking forward to Tomb Raider and Hitman as well. Well some SEnix portable games are good, Crisis Core and Dissidia. They do suck in HD this gen I agree with. FFXIV-online that no one wanted and Last Remnant with unreal engine...

[Quagmire]

Just Cause 2 was released by Squix, Deus Ex, Hitman and Tomb Raider have yet to be published.

If anything, its Squix DEVELOPED games which suck this gen

[Tikicobra]

I didn't like the demo. Like, at all.

[Blaze929]

same here

[iNMyFiN4LH0uR]

battle system and powers were enjoyable, similar to dragon age 2 but you can tell from the demo the story was going to be generic and not very good.

[TheDivine]

I loved the demo gonna get this for sure. Love obsidian they maek great games. Not too many games like DS3 this gen. Good high quality hack n slash.

[madjedi]

Lol high quality(thats like saying is cod is a high quality game), i'll take champions of norrath's dated graphics and sound, with it's rock f$king solid gameplay, character customization/skills and loot gathering and customizations and PROGRESSIVE playthrough difficulties or sacred 2.

Than this dumbed down ass casual dungeon crawler wannabe at the highest setting humanly possible @12-15 hrs in length. And you call yourself a rpg gamer really, don't insult good hack & slash games by comparing this thing to them, plz don't.

[Morbius420]

For great hack and slash get Torchlight from XBLA, PSN or Steam. It's a mix of Diablo and Gauntlet. It's amazingly deep for a $10 RPG. The only drawback is the lack of multiplayer but Torchlight 2 comes out later this year and will have multiplayer. I just got done playing a 13 hour session of Torchlight which is something I haven't done since Fallout3. Oh did I mention that Torchlight is drop-dead gorgeous and highly addictive? Try it; especially if you're wating for Diablo 3.

[Pintheshadows]

Man, you need to calm down. It's not your place to slander his opinion.

Judging by your post you have a few anger management issues.

[TheColbertinator]

I wasn't jumping for joy at the combat system.It was very boring and I couldn't see myself playing for more than 20 minutes

[xilly]

The demo doesn't do it justice, imo. The real game is a lot more fun, especially on Hardcore difficulty.

[madjedi]

A game lacking that many features and you rated it an 8.7, are you newbie gamers really impressed that easily, or are you starving that badly that you will rate a cheap ass $1 hamburger the same as a delicious meal at 4 or 5 star restaurant.

Thats okay a deep real dungeon crawler is too intimating for some of you casual gamers, so i guess this is more your speed.

I gave up my training wheels after playing diablo 1, maybe war in the north will show you people what a real hack & slash game is like not this uber casual crap.

Give a me good, true dungeon crawler game this gen, maybe sacred 3 will be made before this gen is out.

"The real game is a lot more fun, especially on Hardcore difficulty." It would ten times better if the had progressive play through difficulties with scaling loot, rather than generic easy, normal, difficult/hardcore difficulties, but no who the hell would want that.

It's safe to say review scores are meaningless now.