Dnd Dark Alliance Video Game

[Stalker0]

From review sites including angryjoe, it looks like this game is unfortunately horrendous…basically being riddled with bugs and just bad gameplay.

Looks like a dark stain on the current dnd brand

 

[Sacrosanct]

I've played it for a few hours on the PS4/5. So far, I haven't encountered any major bugs. However, the enemy AI is horrible. You can sit back with a ranged attack and if you don't mind taking forever, take out everyone, bosses included, without them even aggroing. That's...pretty bad. Also, AoE effects only impact the same vertical plan you are at. So if you're on an elevated position and attack a group down below you, the AoE stops when it comes down to your height level and doesn't hit them at all. That's pretty dumb. Don't know if they got those issues fixed yet or not.

Definitely feels like a low budget video game though.

 

[payn]

Stains are removed easily from the D&D brand as far as video games are concerned. There have been many and nobody remembers them like they wont remember this latest DA launch.

 

[Deset Gled]

Stains are removed easily from the D&D brand as far as video games are concerned. There have been many and nobody remembers them like they wont remember this latest DA launch.

I'll second that. The list is of D&D video games is surprisingly long: List of Dungeons & Dragons video games - Wikipedia The TSR years in particular had a lot of very forgettable games.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

While it is a video game, because it is D&D, the threads tend to be in that forum:

Review - Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance reviews are out

Not really surprising but the scores are quite low (59 right now on Metacritic) https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dungeons-dragons-dark-alliance I don't know if Morrus want to do a news about it but I'll post here for now.

www.enworld.org

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

So I finally got around to picking this up and playing it. Honestly, now, several patches later, it's kinda fun. No one's likely to hold it up to God of War, but it's reasonably enjoyable. We'll see how it goes the deeper I get into it (I can see the grunts getting old if they don't mix their abilities up more). So far, the only things I've seen that point to the botched release are the billowing pennants that look like they have a framerate of 2 and some of the controls (bringing up the menu, target locking) aren't as snappy as I'd expect.

It's enjoyable to hear references to Icingdeath, the Muzgardt Duergar clan, and the like, that help ground it in the D&D world.

 

[GreyLord]

So I finally got around to picking this up and playing it. Honestly, now, several patches later, it's kinda fun. No one's likely to hold it up to God of War, but it's reasonably enjoyable. We'll see how it goes the deeper I get into it (I can see the grunts getting old if they don't mix their abilities up more). So far, the only things I've seen that point to the botched release are the billowing pennants that look like they have a framerate of 2 and some of the controls (bringing up the menu, target locking) aren't as snappy as I'd expect.

It's enjoyable to hear references to Icingdeath, the Muzgardt Duergar clan, and the like, that help ground it in the D&D world.

I played it.

The thing that turned me off about it, at one point I died and it started me off at the very beginning of the level all over again. I didn't rage quit, but I decided for the sake of my sanity...it was a good time to stop.

If they patched that out to where you can start closer to an actual save location...I might decide to give it another try.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I agree, the save structure is rough. I dislike that your short rest checkpoint doesn't persist once you leave the game. So either you get through the entire level in a single playthrough, or you start over from scratch every time. Sometimes I don't have the 40-60 minutes it takes to get through a level.

I played it.

The thing that turned me off about it, at one point I died and it started me off at the very beginning of the level all over again. I didn't rage quit, but I decided for the sake of my sanity...it was a good time to stop.

If they patched that out to where you can start closer to an actual save location...I might decide to give it another try.