View Full Version : A Two Worlds sequel???
Trebuken
03-21-2008, 04:46 PM
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17964
I have this game, and have read so much negative about it that I never bothered to play it. Now I read that it has sold enough copies to warrant a sequel.
Can anyone tell me that this game deserves a sequel and that I should play it? I fiddled with the demo before picking it up (cheaply) hopinf it might provide a little Oblivion-like experience but every reveiew assured me I wouldn't.
Are the reviews wrong?
Daria
03-21-2008, 07:41 PM
Just remember... Hydlide had sequels too.
ARCZero
03-21-2008, 07:48 PM
I tried out Two Worlds as a rental on the 360 and gave up after 15 minutes. It was slow and the dialogue was very hokey. A few months later I picked up the PC version for $10 and gave it another shot. With a powerful enough PC (8800 GT video card) I found it a lot more playable. After a few hours I truly started to have a lot of fun with it. It's not in the same class as Oblivion but after a while you get into its charm, including horrible dialogue. I particualrly had fun leveling up my lockpicking skills and stealing everyone blind in the game. When you get powerful enough you can steal items with people seeing you, and they start to call you names and slap you around without doing much damage. Those were good times. You can still do all your quests while that goes on.
I got my money's worth for $10 and I'd rate it at 8.5 / 10. Just be patient with the first hour or two and you'll have fun.
This is even more surprising than Two Worlds being ported over to PS3, I might check it out and see what all the fuss it about.
roushimsx
03-21-2008, 09:22 PM
I almost caved and picked up Two Worlds while it on the cheap on Steam, but I just couldn't justify it when I still haven't played through Gothic 1 and 2, Morrowind, Oblivion, or The Witcher. Gotta play the games that actually get good word of mouth before I sink any time into the one that got shit on :(
swlovinist
03-21-2008, 10:01 PM
I played the game and boy does it blow. Frankly I love most hack n slash dungeon hunts. Obvioulsy this game sucks ass at a price of $60, but if you can get it for $10...buy two xbox complatible worthy games instead(three if you go to Gamecrazy and get the buy two get 1). Framerate, dialogue, bugs(I got stuck in a wall), and most of all...fun. This game to me gets the not for one of the worst games released last year.
Half Japanese
03-21-2008, 11:21 PM
I bought this one purely for the multiplayer and boy does it fucking fail on that front. A friend and I were continually fighting game-ending glitches, freezing, tearing and disappearing graphics and production values so poor they make Troma films seem as though they were directed by Stephen Spielberg. It really seems like they didn't have their shit together before deadline and decide they'd rather squeeze out a turd of a game rather than refine what could have otherwise been salvageable.
What really made me hate it is that we would purposely dodge known glitches in an attempt to make the game playable only to discover new ones. We were dropping items every five minutes so the game would auto-save so that we wouldn't lose our progress were the game to unpredictably freeze and require a reset. We put up with trees, bushes and even enemies that lost any sense of texture and turned into plain white boxes at random. It's a fucking nightmare.
In closing, I'd like to say FUCK Two Worlds and FUCK SouthPeak Interactive. I just looked at their list of published/developed games (http://games.ign.com/objects/025/025253.html) on IGN and I don't think it's hyperbole to say that if their offices were to burn to the ground that it would have no negative effect whatsoever on those who genuinely like games.
geneshifter
03-21-2008, 11:31 PM
In closing, I'd like to say FUCK Two Worlds and FUCK SouthPeak Interactive. I just looked at their list of published/developed games (http://games.ign.com/objects/025/025253.html) on IGN and I don't think it's hyperbole to say that if their offices were to burn to the ground that it would have no negative effect whatsoever on those who genuinely like games.
Wow. I just looked at that list of their games and there's not a single good game on that list! Pfft.
Wow. I just looked at that list of their games and there's not a single good game on that list! Pfft.
I wouldn't say that, Scurge Hive was a pretty decent game, but I guess there had to be at least one.
Nesmaster
03-22-2008, 12:45 AM
I enjoyed Two Worlds, looking forward to the sequel.
swlovinist
03-22-2008, 07:54 AM
On a side note, I remember Two Worlds at PAX this last year. I remember playing it for the first time and wondering if it was an early beta. There were several people snikering at the game...it was not well recieved there
Sothy
03-22-2008, 04:07 PM
TWO Worlds II : "2 Shitty games"
Electric boogaloo
Trebuken
03-22-2008, 04:19 PM
Well sounds like I am going to have to play this for a bit. I do have the PC version if that is the more stable one, which seems unusual.
How long to complete the game?
Nesmaster
03-22-2008, 08:14 PM
Well sounds like I am going to have to play this for a bit. I do have the PC version if that is the more stable one, which seems unusual.
How long to complete the game?
I had 11 hours into it and was able to finish the main story and plenty of side quests. I'm not sure exactly what I had left, but it didn't feel anywhere as deep as Oblivion. I put about the same into the online portion as well, just leveling my multiplayer character (that's really the only point).
Daria
03-22-2008, 08:36 PM
How hard is it to get the achievements. I'm not into whoring (heh... of any kind) but having the game on my list might be good for a laugh.
Bojay1997
03-22-2008, 09:20 PM
I enjoyed Two Worlds, looking forward to the sequel.
How long did you play it for? Have you ever played Elder Scrolls? I can't imagine why anyone would ever buy or want a sequel to this game. I got it for 60% off on sale and I literally played it for 15 minutes and then packed it away. It was bad..
Trebuken
03-23-2008, 04:18 AM
I had 11 hours into it and was able to finish the main story and plenty of side quests. I'm not sure exactly what I had left, but it didn't feel anywhere as deep as Oblivion. I put about the same into the online portion as well, just leveling my multiplayer character (that's really the only point).
I might be able to trudge through it if it is only 11 hours. Hopefully the sequel will be much improved as they claim.
Since we will not see another Elder Scrolls for sometime I need a 'fix' of some kind.
Nesmaster
03-23-2008, 02:16 PM
How hard is it to get the achievements. I'm not into whoring (heh... of any kind) but having the game on my list might be good for a laugh.
I managed 800/1000 in that 11 hours. Level 50, Learn all skills, and visit every graveyard/underground/location were all I had left to do.
How long did you play it for? Have you ever played Elder Scrolls? I can't imagine why anyone would ever buy or want a sequel to this game. I got it for 60% off on sale and I literally played it for 15 minutes and then packed it away. It was bad..
1. See above.
2. See above. I enjoyed Oblivion a lot, and just because this wasn't as good, doesn't mean I can't enjoy it.
Sure, at first I hated the game too, but after the first hour or so I got into it and wasn't able to put it down. The game must have be doing something right for that to happen, even if the framerate dropped quite a bit, pop-in galore, and other weird little bugs. If the sequel does everything even a little bit better it'll be fine in my book.
carlcarlson
03-23-2008, 08:12 PM
Since we will not see another Elder Scrolls for sometime I need a 'fix' of some kind.
Fallout 3 might help a little in that area. You won't be getting the fantasy aspect, but if you're just looking for a really deep, long, and freaking huge rpg I would think it should do the trick.
Trebuken
03-24-2008, 03:03 PM
Fallout 3 might help a little in that area. You won't be getting the fantasy aspect, but if you're just looking for a really deep, long, and freaking huge rpg I would think it should do the trick.
Yeah it might. It looks fantastic but fantasy is really my thing...
carlcarlson
03-24-2008, 07:34 PM
Yeah it might. It looks fantastic but fantasy is really my thing...
I'm with you on that. I prefer fantasy as well. However, it's nice to have a change of pace every once in awhile, and after 140+ hours in Oblivion (still not %@$@ done), I think I'm ready.