Dark Messiah Underrated?

I played the demo and I didn't think the combat was too complex. But then again I only played the demo.turaaggeli

I'm quite far in the game and the combat doesn't get much more complex than the demo. Not sure what that other mang's talking about.

i found dark messiah to be an amazing game. everyone seemed to want it to be another oblivion but it was never intended to be one. the game itself was great and easy to get into just a linear game but it worked perfectly to me.

For its time, i would say no.

Dark Messiah is a pretty fun game, but it had entirely too many bugs and problems. Fortunately, its gotten rid of alot of them and is deserving of an 8.0-ish score.

I would love to play a game with Morrowind's depth/story, Oblivion's polish, and Dark Messiah's combat.

i found dark messiah to be an amazing game. everyone seemed to want it to be another oblivion but it was never intended to be one. the game itself was great and easy to get into just a linear game but it worked perfectly to me.

TheIronLotus

Yeah I agree ThelronLotus.

I actually really liked Dark Messiah, and if it was given a few more weeks to iron out some to of the initial bugs, it would have definately scored much better. I would recommend getting it through STEAM as they just had a price cut on it.

It's my fave FPS of 2005/2006 and currently even 2007 :) Amazing game IMO and i never came across one bug.

I had problems with Dark Messiah crashing or freezing almost every time I get to a load screen. The game would be much better if it didnt have stability issues.

I would love to play a game with Morrowind's depth/story, Oblivion's polish, and Dark Messiah's combat.XaosII

Yes!! This would be the beginnings of a very good RPG.

i found dark messiah to be an amazing game. everyone seemed to want it to be another oblivion but it was never intended to be one. the game itself was great and easy to get into just a linear game but it worked perfectly to me.

TheIronLotus

I agree!

How do yu get Dark Messiah to work throught Steam ? Borgilian

You have to buy it. You got a credit card?

I agree though, great game. The online is good too, but there aren't that many dedicated servers out there for the game. Plus if you find a decent one there are usualy problems with evening out the teams like 6 vs. 11 . Lame

my problems with dark messiah:

the combat system, while good, is somewhat negated by how easy it is to kill people, especially with the mid-game twist, which makes combat kinda pointless, not to mention the absurd number of walls with spikes that show up every time enemies do

stealthing is impossible or impractical for large stretches of the game, and since it's so easy to just cut people open, stealthing carries a great deal of redundency anyway - i don't like being a part time assassin who's on the verge of hanging up his daggers in favour of a sword because it's simply more effective

the game is (or was) bug ridden, i had my first and only ever bsod while playing a game in xpwith dark messiah, i also experienced other annoying bugs such as AIs returning to life after i'd killed them (if i killed them a certain way), and this time i couldn't cause them damage, and i had gotten stuck on ropes more than once

the set pieces would be great, only a few of them degenerate into tedious trial and error which fundamentally ruins the coolness and atmosphere

the game suffers from a harry potter level of lite fantasy, people who read stuff likesteven erikson, glen cook and tolkien will find it annoying to endure, plus the voice acting is inappropriately cast, and mostly badly written

quicksave and load must've been an injoke the developers left in, plus the game was pretty choppy at times, even after scaling back to medium textures (and this is on a high end rig that devours hl2 at over 100fps)

it's not a terrible game, but it has a ton of flaws... i had some fun with it, but i'd say 6.7 (if my memory is correct) was an utterly fair score - bear in mind that 6.7 isn't exactly a bad score, anything 6+ is worth buying if you're a fan of the genre, really...