Titan Quest is a good game too, though weaker in some ways than Grim Dawn.
Rock8man
3404
I would love to see a Titan-Quest type setting with the better gameplay of Grim Dawn with it’s better physics and more satisfying moment-to-moment combat and gamepad support.
But I guess if they’re really doing a city builder or something next, good luck to them. Hopefully they’ll come back to ARPGs after that.
abrandt
3405
100% this. Loved Titan Quest’s setting both for mythology not being a thing other ARPG’s have done and also for it’s willingness to have some areas that are so much brighter and more colorful. Graphically they’ve made huge strides with Grim Dawn, but that setting(and name) kind of limits things.
Welp I fell back into this. I’ve been in and out a dozen times, and in streaming it on Friday, I was convinced I’d been playing it wrong. Whereas I was focusing on the quests, and getting annoyed and quitting when the game took a very lackadaisical attitude toward helping me find quest stuff, now I realize the main goal here is to clear the map and the quests along the way, so I’m having a LOT more fun just slaying as much as possible.
I’m using the Pet Ritualist build from this page:
And having a DELIGHTFUL time with nine little friends doing most of the slaying for me. ;)
I briefly fired this up today, realized my cheapo wireless mouse is woefully I’ll suited to the task, and began researching a better mouse to pick up. I only played the base game in 2017, recently picked up all DLC, so very eager to do it right.
abrandt
3408
I’ve never been able to do anything but compulsively clear the full map each time I go through an area. And you’re right, the quests just kind of happen along the way when you do that.
FWIW, my enjoyment of Grim Dawn grew immensely when I started using Item Assistant.
Equipment is such a PITA to organize and deal with. Offloading “what to keep” into just dumping everything into the infinity stash to be searched against later frees up so much brain for murder. Highly, highly recommended.
e: and if you’re not aware of the amazing grimtools (build calculator, quest checklist, item database, etc), well, now you don’t have that excuse.
LeeAbe
3410
Surprised no one has said it yet, but a lot of people prefer it with a controller. (I never did try it though.)
Well that item assistant looks great, thank you for that!
It’s awesome. Just make sure to follow the instructions step by step to get it working.
I’m a big fan of GD on controller. It’s not perfect – targeting is some value of wack on a regular basis – but it’s really good and a LOT easier on my wrist than m+kb.
The worst part of gamepad interfaces in these games is mitigated by the fact that you can seamlessly switch between gamepad and m+kb. So for things like viewing item or skill tooltips, inventory management, etc, I just put the controller down and run mouse+kb for a minute. Works really well.
Another vote for gamepad in this game, it’s been great. Using a gamepad to slaughter countless bad guys has been so therapeutic.
Yah besides the gamepad being great in its own right, the game instantly switches between mouse/kybrd and controller. This allows you to for instance put all your static buffs on the “mouse” bar that auto pops up when you engage the mouse. It’s very easy to use the mouse for what it works best on, and the controller for the rest of the game.
Andon
3415
Agreed. Looking at you WH40k Prophecy…
YEah that’s my biggest complaint about Martyr/Prophecy, I love it so much otherwise.
Wow. That’s one way to play it I guess.
Are you interpreting his post correctly? I do that too. Basically, you load up a character, and you activate all the buffs using the mouse, and then you pick up the controller and go forth and adventure. Then you come back to town and you use the mouse again to sell loot, then you pick up the controller and re-join the fight.
Do y’all also hold the controller like this?
No? I hold it like a normal person. What are you on about?
I’m just trying to understand who’s using the mouse/controller hybrid method. See what other crazy input method ideas they have.
You’re just using the mouse to click some icons at the bottom of the screen. It takes 5 seconds. Then the rest of the time you use the controller to play. The game automatically switches control methods seamlessly.
So it’s:
5 seconds with the mouse
2 hours with the controller
1 minute with the mouse back in town selling loot
2 more hours with the controller.
