Hunted: The Demon's Forge - Bethesda's new ARPG

I'm curious as well, but I have too much on my plate right now. It'll be a Steam sale item, I think.

Anyone picked it up yet?

It just showed up in redboxes today, if I ever get out of the house today I'll be renting two copies for my roommate and I.

Joystiq sorta liked it. Sorta.

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No one seems to really like it too much, from the few reviews out there.

I played about 45 minutes of it - through the tutorial and quit before the first real singleplayer level. I may boot it up again over the weekend and try some more, after reading the Joystiq review, on the promise there might be something I'm missing.

The first hour is... not encouraging. The characters you play as are... unlikeable. Environments look okay but are very telegraphed - in that they look extremely video-game like and don't do much to immerse you in the tone and area of the game. I would say the worst part is the voice acting and dialog, which is terrible.

First impressions count, and mine were not good.

I played through for a couple hours last night.. its very standard.. feels like a $19.99 title rather than a full priced game.

Yeah, the reviews are not good. Oh well.

TheGameguru wrote:

I played through for a couple hours last night.. its very standard.. feels like a $19.99 title rather than a full priced game.

When you say $20 game, do you mean it's like a poor $50 game or that you would pick up in the bargain bin, or that it feels like a game that was made to cost $20 but they're charging $50 for it.

There are so many games that I wish would be trimmed down at the prototype/specification stage so they can be sold in the proper market for it. Just to take the producer (or whatever title is appropriate) and say "This isn't going to be a big game, but we can make it work much better by...". I wish less developers would chase the AAA dream sometimes.

Scratched wrote:
TheGameguru wrote:

I played through for a couple hours last night.. its very standard.. feels like a $19.99 title rather than a full priced game.

When you say $20 game, do you mean it's like a poor $50 game or that you would pick up in the bargain bin, or that it feels like a game that was made to cost $20 but they're charging $50 for it.

There are so many games that I wish would be trimmed down at the prototype/specification stage so they can be sold in the proper market for it. Just to take the producer (or whatever title is appropriate) and say "This isn't going to be a big game, but we can make it work much better by...". I wish less developers would chase the AAA dream sometimes.

no its clearly a $20 game that they charged $50 for... its not bad.. just not $50.

I've got this coming on the 360 from my rent-by-mail service. It should be here by the end of next week. I was wondering if anyone wants to plow through it in co-op with me once it gets here.