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My Dark Age EX rant (more)
Posted by: Rueben
06:56:58 05-03-2005

OK, I've been playing DA-EX for a little bit now and have just gotten past the cave following Sarry. I'm liking it a lot, but I have 'issues' ... shall we say?

Enemies - Enemy levels are nice and good, but up to six enemies can be pure torture. Especially since:

- You rarely kill ANY (not just strong ones) monster in one hit, which would immediately make life so much simpler

- Some stronger enemies (orgres in mind here) have some particularly strong attacks, BUT they use it as almost a main attack! I mean come on, if I could use Erik's Sword Techniques more than once every other turn I would ... but I can't, and so they shouldn't.

My other rant ties in quite closely with fighting. Money. The gold drop for running is incredibly harsh (I've actually edited the battle program to remove this problem) since money gained from battles is pretty scarce anyway, and sometimes due to the difficulty you just HAVE to get out!

This also affects the cost of items, which is far too much as well, making levelling-up a very tortoreus process.

With this in mind, I am actually considering (with Xorlak's permission of course) of packaging together a few 'modified' files that make the game easier. Just a little, since the game is a real corker, but in a way is limited to the medium/hardcore thanks to it's difficulty.

Put simply, you may like hard games Xorlak, but quite a lot of us don't. :-)

- Author/Creator: The Fourth Dimension
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