Dark Messiah of Might & Magic Demo

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  Dark Messiah Might and Magic - First Impressions Huh, seems there aren't really any decent feedback po : mittense
  • nice writeup. i just had the chance to play through once after downloading for a few hours :\ but i think... : skankcore
  • Hmm, seems my experience was the complete opposite of yours. The environment were nice (at least for the... : doacleric6
  • Thanks for that info :) I'll definitely give the demo a try. : humbleone

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  yeah I was really hoping for Oblivion RPG style with the cool combat, can't get both into one game yet =\ : grandmasterlee
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    they said from the beginning this wasnt an RPG : eeeealmo
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      Yeah this is an action game. There was never any "hey guys its oblivion!" type shit. : SpaecKow
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        And? My comment was what I would have preferred, not that I was mislead. : grandmasterlee
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          Well then what fucking business do you have playing a game which clearly isn't designed to suit such a ta... : SpaecKow
          • Well, it wasn't revealed until only a couple months back that the game was more of a pure FPS, until then... : grandmasterlee
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  Yeah, I love the level of interactivity there is with the enviornment. The effects that your attacks have... : ripper9
  • i pilled all the dead bodies up on one of the fires and i was really pleased to watch them all catch fire... : smacknca

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• Same problem : imperator
• Unloading windowsblinds worked for me , if your running that by chance. : imperator
• Right clicking the .exe and selecting to disable visual themes worked for me. : h0rus

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• no kidding. : phokz
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  MP? : Kentor
  • ^^ Someone respond to this. What the poop is MP? : insta
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  It's kind of an NDA breach, but with the latest patch, MP is incredible. The most fun I've had in multip... : valael
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    I've had nothing but good times in the beta. As always, most games are made better or ruined by people. ... : sevogajre
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      Definitely. The games where we've had 5 or so people all grouped together, working together, were brilli... : valael
      • People see the dual knives and think they'll be damage machines. (Which they are, played right and sn... : Fayk
  • really... I haven't tried it since the patch :) mmm hmm. : phokz
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  I didn't know until today that Arkane aren't developing the multiplayer. It's Kuju, the guys that did Bat... : TitusPollo
  • It's a lot of fun, in my opinion. You can tell it was developed by two seperate groups, though. It feel... : valael
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  Yeah, I was in the beta and it was a mess. In a FPS with guns, it makes sense to let your bullets hit yo... : wytefang
  • You're clueless. You obviously didn't try very hard. Mages have things that they can guide, almost like... : valael

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  Do you pay per MB to your ISP or something? : warcrow
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    The fact there is a time limit on the demo is silly in itself. : Morphius
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      there is no time limit : Maarten Goldstein
      • Ah, read that wrong. : Morphius
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      it will be hacked, i played the gta 1 demo forever despite the 10min limit : drabid
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        it takes 10 minutes to play, there is no time limit : Maarten Goldstein
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          also read that wrong : drabid
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            ^^ I read this wrong. : Matt Burris
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              what does ^^ mean? : Pantene Pro-V
              • Hrm, for some reason the above posts are invisible to my eyes. : warcrow
              • buttershake : klearlyunseen
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  My demo is only 437.3 meg from Gamespot. What's up? : mrsnoogles
  • it shows as 1.4gb there too for me : Maarten Goldstein
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  http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/12/02 : Balboa
  • HAHAHA. I sooo remember that demo. : Stoned Gargoyle

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• That is lame that the installer won't work on the D drive... but, the game is 2,672,833,304 bytes... why ... : ResidualEffect
• ya i got the same prob, deleted the install file and everything is good now : USteppin
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  I had the same problem, but clicking moving back and forth within the installer (don't quit it, just hit ... : yuried
  • THANK YOU! I wish they would test this stuff before it goes out the door. We're not all mongoloids wi... : shredomatic

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• Swordplay IS fun but the rest of the weapon types are not, ie. bows and mage spells (which are only so-so... : wytefang

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  do you have DEP (data execution prevention) enabled? It crashed on me unless I made an exception for it. : Modulus
  • i rebooted and it worked. my next stop on the amazing train was the length of the demo. What the fuck did... : mega man

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• Holy shit, I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this! : Zips

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  not here. i'm running same settings, 2xaa 4xaf, and it seems fine. x1800gto omega 6.05. what vid card and... : skankcore
  • 7800 GTX w/ 84.21. Read the other post I made below about forcing shaders. Weird stuff. : hardfl1p
• nope, crisp here : Maarten Goldstein
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  "does everyone else get a rather 'blurry' image?" After turning of HDR i still saw this blur also so i... : triton666
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    Okay, odd. I did that, game looked like ass. I removed -dxlevel 81 and went in-game, first noticing that ... : hardfl1p
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      Yea same here. I went in with dx90 and it wasnt all blurred out but it said HDR was on and it didnt look ... : triton666
      • Looking at it again, it appears to be on, from looking at the opening in the cave roof and the end part, ... : hardfl1p

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• which i just ordered last week since i never got to play it : drabid

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  7 times now ... firefox 1.5.0.6 8Mb DSL ... OMFG : onemind
  • BTW the cat is dead. : onemind

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• Thanks, but I get the 5016 error, and a reboot doesn't help either I'm afraid. Such assclowns. : GreatGooglyMoogly

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• this October : Maarten Goldstein

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• Making the regular registry permission changes doesn't work either. OK, Ubisoft, if I'm not allowed to p... : GreatGooglyMoogly

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  So what were your expectations? : beansniffles
  • play the demo and find out! : tigeN

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  it's not the movies, the Bink files only take about 84 MB - it's the engine files which take up 2.3 GB af... : yuried
  • *engine & game files : yuried

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  no ubisoft doesnt use that anymore : Maarten Goldstein
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    Thank god.. I refuse to buy or install anything that uses it. I mean, Starforcing a damn demo? I played... : Tripps
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      though starforce does suck, it makes sense to protect the demo exe as well when you do use it. : Maarten Goldstein
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        I still don't understand why they protected the free version of Trackmania, though. : pyrogen
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          because info uncovered from an unprotected trackmania exe could be used on hacking the retail editions. : Maarten Goldstein
          • Seems to me that if a copy protection scheme was flawed enough to have to put it on the demo to protect t... : theflux

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  system specs please : grandmasterlee
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    AMD 2.5ghz, 1GB ram, 7800GTX : smacknca
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      i have a system similar to yours and loading was pretty snappy : Maarten Goldstein
      • and no hitching : Maarten Goldstein
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        weird, so no 2 min loads for the main level? ive never had a problem with any other game and source game... : smacknca
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          Maybe a defrag will help ya? And what kind of harddisk do you have? When I upgraded my old IDE to a 150GB... : code-e255
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            i have a pair of the 75gig raptors in a raid-0. so usually things run really fast for me. im almost alwa : smacknca
            • oh i did recently put in an x-fi replacing my audigy2. are there any known issues with source and x-fi? ... : smacknca
      • The physics hitching has been in Every. Single. Video. Released. I shall try the demo tomorrow! Hoping i... : GreatGooglyMoogly
• Sounds like the fabled stuttering issue Source games seem to elicit to some users. I didn't get it with ... : Matt Burris

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  omg I can imagine Oblivion with combat like this game. I enjoyed the combat variety a lot, I just hope t... : tunis5000
  • Maybe we'll get lucky and Bethesda will see this game and get some bright ideas for the next game in the ... : Matt Burris

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• yes, i believe its possible but you need quotes around the download URL : Maarten Goldstein

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• Nope. Same with Vampire: Bloodlines, doesn't need Steam. : Gary the Llama

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• Sad. :P : beansniffles
• incredibly. : datim

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• I'm sure you could create a mod if you really wanted to. : Killrig

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• And to think some people think say wont buy you happiness. I guess they have never upgraded. : Lightzout