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Dungeon Siege by Fussbett 05/14/2005, 8:52pm PDT
Mischief Maker wrote:

Now is this just a symptom of Normal mode (which seems a little too easy to me with the exception of the end bosses) and is there better equipment and equipment progression in hard mode?

Yes, but that's certainly a downside of playing single player game, the lack of item pooling. You're definitely crippling Diablo 2 by not playing with a friend, but alone it's still better than Dungeon Siege which I didn't even finish out of boredom (compared to the many times I went through Diablo 2 single and co-op).

Dungeon Siege isn't without merit, it's just that it can't take over the throne yet. If you wanna talk about gameplay mistakes, there are all the things said before which are true -- linearity, hands-off action and horrible cumbersome spell system that has you scrolling menus in battle. My biggest beef was that I would level up those motherfuckers in my party and get somewhat invested in their progress, only to meet some NPC along the way who was better than my best guy. Ok, join the party, and take all of my best fighter's gear. This happens until you have no original members AND it happens so much that I stopped caring about leveling up most of my dudes as I know they'd be replaced later anyway. So the map is on rails, the story on rails and even the characters that make up your party are on rails.
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Review Request: Diablo 2 vs. Dungeon Siege, Single Player only. NT by Mischief Maker 05/14/2005, 2:13pm PDT NEW
    Diablo 2 NT by Duh 05/14/2005, 3:09pm PDT NEW
        By about ten fold. NT by Fussbett 05/14/2005, 3:53pm PDT NEW
            Okay, then clarify something for me by Mischief Maker 05/14/2005, 4:19pm PDT NEW
                Re: Okay, then clarify something for me by foolio 05/14/2005, 5:02pm PDT NEW
                Re: Okay, then clarify something for me by Arbit 05/14/2005, 6:05pm PDT NEW
                Dungeon Siege by Fussbett 05/14/2005, 8:52pm PDT NEW
                that's pretty much what also killed the challenge of KoTOR 2 NT by FABIO 05/15/2005, 12:23am PDT NEW
    Re: Review Request: Diablo 2 vs. Dungeon Siege, Single Player only. by curst 05/14/2005, 9:10pm PDT NEW
    Diablo 2 by mark 05/14/2005, 11:42pm PDT NEW
        Hey I still have Diablo 2 installed. :( by Creexul :( 05/15/2005, 12:23pm PDT NEW
 
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