Comments on: Determinance, A Little Cheaper

By: Will

Will — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:08:42 +0000

Yeah, this wasn’t too bad, but I agree with Fat – DBtS had definitely smoother sword swinging action.

Anyone who hasn’t tried DBtS, maybe now would be a good time – there is nothing quite so satisfying as beating a goblin to death with another goblin’s severed arm…

Shame that the much vaunted co-op in the expansion turned out to be more like a ‘co-op’-style minigame chunklet.

By: Fat

Fat — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:07:57 +0000

No way, i disagree with the above… DBTS had far better sword handling than this… it following your mouse movement a lot smoother… this can often seem like it’s sticking to rails and guiding your sword, thought sometimes just wiggles around in the middle of your sights.

Still good fun though, i just beat up Ed Burns… GG on the off chance you’re reading this. :P

By: Rotondo

Rotondo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:28:16 +0000

Had a lot of fun with this back when it was in it’s early stages. Shame I’m a cheap bastard, who’s also poor, otherwise I’d probably give this a buy.

By: EyeMessiah

EyeMessiah — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:33:02 +0000

Determination?

By: tehf0nx

tehf0nx — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:37:37 +0000

So how exactly do these controls work, anybody care to elaborate ?

By: Wedge

Wedge — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:37:18 +0000

Actually, the combat is vastly superior to DBtS. Unfortunately the game is primarily multiplayer and it physically can’t work that well when there is any significant amount of latency. That being said, I once got to play it on a LAN setup a couple years ago, and it was amazingly intense when I took on two opponents at the same time, parrying their attacks while striking when the chance arose. I might go try out the demo again now at least.

The controls were just begging for a Wii port, I wonder if Ian ever had the resources for a prototype of that…

By: Five

Five — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:18:41 +0000

Oh, if its anything like Die By The Sword then im definitely interested

By: Will

Will — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:37:39 +0000

Remind me again how this form of combat interface is new?

What about Die By the Sword? Seems like a poorly implemented clone of that overlooked gem.