Two Worlds gets expansion

[Deleted member 7219]

http://www.rpgwatch.com/?rwsiteid=1#7310

Gamebanshee has posted a press release from Zuzzex entertainment officially announcing The Temptation, the planned expansion to Reality Pump's action RPG, Two Worlds:

The developers are focusing on a blend of the proven and the new: besides several well-known regions of Antaloor, there are also completely new territories to explore. The combat system has been further enhanced too – now you can use active blocking, for example. Many other additional developments have been added – developments which have enabled a completely new means of transport and a much enhanced reaction from NPCs – but more on these and a whole host of other surprises shortly! The release of “Two Worlds – The Temptation” for PC and consoles is planned for the first half of 2008.

You can see some screenshots at www.2-worlds.com/temptation.

Good news for those like me who thought Two Worlds wasn't great but was still an enjoyable game.

RPGWatch did a good review of it here: http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/article?ar ... ef=0&id=16

 

[Sarvis]

Interesting, though really the game has already absorbed entirely too much of my time. I hope they fix some other stuff from combat too, and get all the skills working right.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

They finally got the riding done right in the latest patch. Now riding a horse/other creature feels less like a chore and more like an advantage. Though I didn't like them massively increasing the movement speed so much... it was fine the way it was.

 

[Sarvis]

Oh yeah, horses. They really need to either speed up the dismount animation or make it so the horse can't be hit and killed while you're dismounting.

 

[RK47]

Hmm what's the combat like? I'm curious about this game.

 

[Jaime Lannister]

Active blocking might actually make it a decent Action RPG. As such I tried the demo and hated it, it was like the Gothic series but with a large dose of suck, and without the brilliant, under-appreciated control scheme.

 

[Au naturel]

Wtf does RPG watch mean by 'Gothic like but different'? Different how? Similar how?

 

[Sir_Brennus]

Active blocking might actually make it a decent Action RPG. As such I tried the demo and hated it, it was like the Gothic series but with a large dose of suck, and without the brilliant, under-appreciated control scheme.

Noooooooooooooooooooo!

Don't give me that active blocking shit. I don't want it. Noone needs it. It'll make Two Worlds feel like cloen of bloody Oblivion.

I really hope that active blocking is optional.

P.S.: The control system was illogic, unintuitive and definitly designed for a joypad with the sad fact that they removed the joypad support for the game. The control scheme is what kills G1+2 for me every time.

G3 is an improvement, though.

 

[MasPingon]

Two Worlds gets expansion

Oh god, no

 

[Jaime Lannister]

P.S.: The control system was illogic, unintuitive and definitly designed for a joypad with the sad fact that they removed the joypad support for the game. The control scheme is what kills G1+2 for me every time.

Out of curiosity, were you using mouse control? I seem to remember 1, 2 or both defaulting to keyboard-only controls.

 

[Sarvis]

Active blocking might actually make it a decent Action RPG. As such I tried the demo and hated it, it was like the Gothic series but with a large dose of suck, and without the brilliant, under-appreciated control scheme.

Noooooooooooooooooooo!

Don't give me that active blocking shit. I don't want it. Noone needs it. It'll make Two Worlds feel like cloen of bloody Oblivion.

As opposed to feeling like a "cloen" of bloody Diablo?

I really hope that active blocking is optional.

P.S.: The control system was illogic, unintuitive and definitly designed for a joypad

Except that the control scheme sucks on the 360 controller... <i>especially</i> inventory management.

 

[BigWeather]

I'll probably buy it. I'm may be in the minority here, but I prefered it over Oblivion. It has more reasonable level scaling, a much more immersive world geography (varied terrain and I don't have to spend 10 - 30s loading everytime I go into or out of a building, etc.), and I really liked the item combination, spell boosting, and (sometimes) the alchemy stuff. Sure, it has loads against it, but as a "romp around and kill crap" it's OK. Anyhoo...

 

[Deleted member 7219]

I'm still having a blast with this game. It's a lot of fun to ride around on a horse through pretty environments and hack at things. It comes as a kind of release after playing proper RPGs like The Witcher and MotB. Sometimes my brain just wants to take a bit of time off, not have to think about plotlines and dialogue but just go and hack stuff down.