Demigod released on Steam on 12/14: opinions?

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Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude

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At $6 and change (and reading a few reviews) I thought it'd be up my creek.

What's your opinions on the game itself? I won't have much time to play it as we'll be travelling extensively during the holiday season . . ..
 
SunnyD

SunnyD

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Wow? $6? It's definitely a fun game, but now I'm pissed I paid way more than $6 so long ago and NOT on steam. :(

I wish Stardock would be even more awesome and give free steam keys to owners of their games.
 
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hardhat

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Demigod is basically an increadibly cheaply produced, simplified aos game like dota/hon/etc. It's maps are badly designed and increadibly restrictive. Movement is slow and prevents gankers from being competitive with farming heroes. There is no where near the hundred plus heroes that can be seen in any of the other games in the genre. The product is also badly balanced, but because it doesn't have the large following that the better games have this is less of an issue. It came out quite a while ago and required Impulse at the time. I don't know if it still does.

It might be a good "starter" game in the genre because it is very simplified and not nearly as action oriented as hon or dota.
 
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CottonRabbit

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I imagine that the community would be dead by now, which would make purchasing the multiplayer game pointless. The connectivity issues and bugs at launch pretty much killed it (like every recent Stardock game).

That said, I enjoyed it. It's a unique MOBA in both good and bad ways. I liked how most skills could be reliably interrupted, which made combat more involved than the usual dps spam.
 
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BladeVenom

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Does anyone play it anymore?

If you get it, get your friends a copy also, so you'll have someone to play against.

Although I guess being released on Steam it will get some new players.
 
Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude

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Yeeeah - it appears that Demigod requires a stardock login to play.

Guess I just wasted my $ and change. Boo.
 
Fenixgoon

Fenixgoon

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i enjoyed demigod, although there wasnt enough champion selection variety, the MP at start was broken, and i dont know if they balanced it all that well (not that i was uber competitive).

the characters they had were very well done though. <3 rook and sedna, although the vampire and unclean beast tended to pwn just about everyone from what i recall.
 
Daverino

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Demigod was a great game when the community was alive. But it had a failed launch and the developer didn't want to maintain it. So it died a pretty quick death.

When the game was working it was really really tight though. A ton of fun. Graphics were top notch too.
 
Robert Munch

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Stay away there's no multiplayer community whatsoever. Single player stinks with the shitty AI.
 
motsm

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For those saying single player isn't worth it because of the AI, there is a pretty popular AI mod on the official forum. The thread also has a bug fix mod, a balance mod, and some others that are community endorsed and pretty recent.

http://forums.demigodthegame.com/399399

Also, the retail version only requires Impulse for patches, so I see no reason why the Steam version would need it.
 
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DominionSeraph

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Multiplayer is just about dead. I still play and you can pick up a good night of games every now and again, but any sort of off-hours and there's nobody.

I've probably played the single-player tournament 30 times, and there's a mod that'll make the AI competitive in skirmishes. I'd say it's certainly worth the $6 just as a pretty consistent time-waster.
 
SunnyD

SunnyD

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Schadenfreude said:
Right, so is SecuROM and GFWL.

Not really into memorizing one more login/pw that I have to input on top of my steam acct.
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Seriously? It's a multiplayer online game (if you want to play it right). Get over it.
 
AyashiKaibutsu

AyashiKaibutsu

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I can't imagine the community is active. I liked the game better than LoL actually the style was more like two sided rival nations, which I always preferred over Dota. The networking code was still horribly broken after many many patches though. I wouldn't bother with it unless there's some positive proof that it's fixed and there's a community. It's not worth playing just to fight bots.
 
Karstein

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This was probably the first real go that an outside developer had at making a new DotA-style game. Played a lot during the beta but it was ultimately lacking direction and they probably tried to do a bit too much/stray too far from the formula at the end of the day.

You'd really be better off playing any of the newer MOBAs that have come out in recent years over this.
 
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