http://reckoning.amalur.com/en/ag

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md50y9SuZHs

Gameplay video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxKEwgCR1CY

The game looks amazing and releases on February 7th in the US, with the demo becoming available tomorrow. From my understanding it's an open world RPG similar to TES, the loot system is like Diablo, and the combat is similar to an action game where you can combo and do special moves with amazing visuals. On top of this you are not bound to a certain class role, and can seamlessly combine melee, stealth, and magic combat schools - leading to a variety of (hopefully) unique character builds.

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Yeah, I thought this looked interesting when I read a little about it. I'll try to check out the demo. The studio (Big Huge Games) has been out of action for awhile but made the very good Rise of Nations back in 2003. This thing from Wikipedia about the company's history also seems to say a bit about this game's:

Sounds like this game's been in development for like 5 years. Which can be good or bad.

I have a relative that is working on this game. He said the combat is great, skill system is pretty good, but he doesn't really like the story or dialog.

I know that Schilling is really behind this game and wants it to succeed. I've been looking forward to it for a while, but its a shame that it's coming out so soon after Skyrim. I'm not sure how it will compare.

The demo was great so far, although I had to leave for work after completing the tutorial. Combat feels similar to Fable, the loot system works very well, and there seems to a nice amount of diversity on the skill trees. Doubt I'll be turning Skyrim back on any time soon now that I've tried this - no doubt it's still a great game, but I prefer more hack and slash action type myself.

Rise of Nations was a ridiculously fun game. Boner for this one

this game actually looks really interesting, and good prep for guild wars 2 combat. Will most likely try it. Maybe do a perma death livestream

I didn't like not being able to remap the WASD keys, so I stopped playing it.

you will be able to do that in the full game obv, the option just wasnt in the demo

Yeah the PC controls seem to be lackluster. I watched my friend play on PC, and they were super awkward and the UI looks really clunky as well. I'm fairly certain if you connect a gamepad to your PC it switches to the console UI. Plus the combat feels much more fluid when using a controller imo.

Overall, the demo was really fun. The only thing I don't like is that they made stealth a non-combat skill. Doesn't seem fair that I should have to invest 10 out of my 40 non-combat skill points into it, when only finesse builds require these points to be spent. Especially if you choose to level it early on, which potentially gimps you in terms of whichever crafting skill or detect hidden (which gives you a ton of easy loot/gold).

Bump it once for release. The game is really fun so far, and the reviews are accurate. Only downside I'm seeing so far is that the game is way too easy, even on hard. I hope this ramps up as I progress (only level 5 now). Regardless, I'd recommend that anyone who is into any open world RPGs gives this a look.

So how do you think it compares to Skyrim, so far?

It's tough to compare so far since I doubt anyone has played much than a few hours but the game is great and the world seems pretty big aswell. One thing for sure is the combat system is much better than skyrim altough the game is easy so far, even on hard as feedthabeast said.

The only thing that I dislike is the archery since the game auto-aim for you and you have a very limited amount of arrow, that regenerates over time... Maybe it gets better as you level up and improve you archery skills but I don't really understand why they did it like this...

I like it a lot better. The world is more streamlined and linear (zones I guess), but to me climbing up to the top of a mountain just to find some crappy gear that's not even close to what I've crafted and the same types of mobs over and over just wasn't that exciting. You can't jump or swim and the story is a bit corny which irks some people, but it is fine with me. The other aspects of the game more than compensate for this.

The game really blows Skyrim out of the water when it comes to combat, loot, and respeccing. The combos are fun and easy to use, and are much more visually appealing than the moves in Skyrim. With regards to loot, there's just so much more variety. Not everyone is going to end up using the exact same thing end game.

I also prefer this class system. In Skyrim I could do everything very well, and the game was no longer challenging. I like KoA because you can freely switch classes at any point for a small fee. This not only keeps you from becoming super overpowered, but allows you to test out new builds repeatedly without worry of having messed up your skills and forcing you to start anew.

Overall, my only complaints are the difficulty and the clunky nature of the camera. I like every other aspect of the game thus far.

When I played the demo I enjoyed it but thought the frame rate was a little clumpy. I'm assuming this isn't an issue in the finished copy? Probably going to go grab this before too long.

I don't get what people were so impressed with here.. I played the demo, seemed pretty meh to me?

Sure tons of loot/RPG elements, but no major gameplay innovations or anything that I noticed that set it apart.

Certainly better combat then Skyrim, but if you wanted fun combat in a 3rd person single player experience why not play Batman or something?