Knight-Shift may be classified to be on the same line of games which Blizzard produces.
You mean the Blizzard that has a reputation for testing its games so endlessly that they are near to being bugless upon release? The same Blizzard that might not be innovative but sure as hell know what they are doing when they create a game? The same Blizzard that is capable of selling millions of copies of a PC game?
And those games are to be placed on the same line as Knight-Shift?
I think it takes a lot more than some eye-candy to create a game that is on the same level as those created by Blizzard. I think the eye-candy of <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/riftrunner.gif" alt="" /> will be better than <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" />, but I also doubt they are comparable to the eye-candy as presented in KnightShift. Nor should it be, as has been said before the most effort has been put in improving the gameplay, skills and character development.
To me those improvements might make <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/riftrunner.gif" alt="" /> taking over the number one position on my favorites list (where PS:T still firmly stands).
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Thank you Myrthos for such a lovely post.
I wanted to insert a wink right after your praise for Blizzard but I didn’t. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
When I said "on the same line" I really meant to the way the game looks and the ideas in the interface.
Firstly, Blizzard introduced the semi-opaque/ semitransparent slide-in interface windows that are very elegant and fabulous. Knight Shift imitated them but decided to make them static popups and rather exquisitely decorated as you have noticed and called it eye-candy.
Secondly, Reality Pump have decided to take Blizzard’s approach of a non-rotating 3D during game play and suffice a zoom in that varies the camera inclination, so it is a 100% Blizzard’s innovation, which Reality Pump just imitated.
As for game play, the animations are softly compromised and are not so annoying.
The feedback and response delay could be largely improved by hardware enhancements so I could not blame the game programming with certainty.
Blizzard is more specialized in Strategy and Adventurous Campaigns with a rather linear story line.
This was implemented in Knight Shift too; they also added a skirmish and an RPG interface.
I tested the RPG, and let me tell you that items are very well balanced with the character, the enemies are randomly generated and the very world is randomly populated with pre-designed zones, which reminds me of Rift Runner’s battlefields being randomly generated.
Your choices of characters is a gay archer who is really funny, a standard knight, a barbarian, a spearman, a male sorcerer, a female priestess and a female Amazon mage who by the way ARE very sexy (looks and voices){{{Morbo comes to mind}}} <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
So I am definitely going to buy that game because it has many good features from Blizzard’s style and also many of the promises made by Larian Studios. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
However, I do not recommend buying Knight Shift if you do not have a powerful PC hardware system.
I am sure that Knight Shift is using a T3D engine that can rotate and tilt the scene perfectly but it was crippled because it performed very poorly on low-end hardware systems.
The background of the very first interface is a rotating T3D world of a battlefield and I mean a battlefield.
The interface has a battle song that is a top notch too and it was a pleasure listening to the Celtic female singer.
I also tested re-play-ability and it is superb with randomly generated zones being very balanced, and to give you a hint I would say that they swap the blue mushroom fields with Celtic healing shrines, where the blue mushrooms are what you ingest to restore health and manna.
Those who cannot wait for RiftRunneR would certainly appreciate Knight Shift.
For me it is like a dream come true because I just love strategy games in which I build my farm and milk my cows. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Now add to that that the game includes an RPG style play and what do I wish for more than skirmish, which they have included too.
Come on, let us give them the credit they deserve, I am not a fan of Larian Studios for nothing but for the good time I have enjoyed with <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> and expect to enjoy with <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/riftrunner.gif" alt="" />
That is why I am a fan of Blizzard and now definitely a fan of Reality Pump.
Kindest regards. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />
