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I suck
Published on April 15, 2009 By Animesh Karna In Demigod

As I mentioned, this morning I bought Demigod from Impulse.  I started playing a skirmish match against the AI.  I followed Tom Chick's advice of making the speed adjustable, and then reducing the speed to a crawl.  I forgot to set the difficulty to easy, however.  Soon, I grew bored watching everyone moving in slow-motion, so I set the speed back to normal.  I then found that I did, indeed, suck.  I had to get to work, so I stopped the game. 

That evening, I was ready to try again.  First, I downloaded the thing onto my laptop, only to find that it won't run on my laptop (the laptop has one of those piece-of-crap Intel graphics adapters, and if I attempt to run Demigod I get a message saying that it couldn't initialize DirectX or some-such).  Oh well: I went back to my main computer.

Starting an online game was a bit slow.  First, it was trying to find a match.  Several times, it said that it couldn't find a match, but it was still trying.  Then, it said it found a match, but then it took a while to connect me.  Still, it was only a few minutes.

I was playing a 2 vs. 2 match.  I played as the guy the ice-and-fire guy, which is the same guy I tried in the morning.  Yes, he really does say things like "I'm as gold as ice, and willing to sacrifice" and "Ice ice baby".  We played a match where each team tried to get to 20 kills.  My deaths accounted for most of the other team's points.  Yes, I suck.  The match was 47 minutes of humiliation.

This is SUCH an unusual game experience.  On the one hand, it's like Diablo, but getting new spells on the skill tree come really quickly.  Just when I thought I had that figured out, I found a place where I could buy potions.  Ah hah, fast ways to recharge my health and mana!  Then, I found a place where I could upgrade my team -- increasing the strength of defenses, upgrading the minions, and so on!  I began to realize that my character, with his ice spells, was meant to work with someone else, so I tried staying with the other player.  As we were approaching our defeat, the enemies were getting closer to our base, so my guy needed to stay close to defenses. 

I had a great time, and offhand I can't think of another game like this.  I'm looking forward to trying again.  I can imagine how much more I would enjoy this game if I didn't suck.


Comments
on Apr 15, 2009

Umm k.

Was expecting a video since it was in Dev Journals section....

on Apr 16, 2009

same

on Apr 16, 2009

Phalnax811
Umm k.

Was expecting a video since it was in Dev Journals section....

Yeah, weird... I was totally exepcting something from a dev that could be akin to a tutorial, or a bit more depth into a certain part of the game (like, maybe some environmental notes or something).

 

Anyways, to the OP, I'm glad that you stuck with it! I only got Demigod yesterday (even though I've been following it for a while) and it's quite a fun game. Trying to figure out combinations between items, abilities and Demigod skills is as much fun as executing them and watching them fail (or work, either way).

on Apr 16, 2009

I don't think he's a dev guys...

on Apr 16, 2009

Moderators, please move this to general forum.

on Apr 16, 2009

Good post Animesh Karna, I can understand that if you have not played AoS or DoTA before jumping into Demigod would be quite a shock

 

Hope to see you ingame sometime soon.

on Apr 16, 2009

I've heard about DoTA: it's a Warcraft 3 mod, if I understand correctly?  But what is AoS?  Thanks!

on Apr 16, 2009

AoS is pretty much the grand-daddy of all games of this style.  It stands for Aeon of Strife.  If memory serves, it originated in Starcraft and was more focused on pushing than leveling up, which is somewhat counter to DotA.  DotA has no base upgrades that are purchaseable. 

Demigod seems to merge these very well, giving you the option to forego your own strength for the strength of the team or vice versa.  It adds a very dynamic style of gameplay...Do I want to spend 8,000 gold and buy myself a weapon that will make me very strong, or do I want to send a few more creeps with every single wave?

Try single player on easy a few times.  This way, the enemies will be more-or-less dumb, and you can try out a few things.

One thing to keep in mind on games of this nature.  Survivability > Almost all else.