Depths of Peril
Posted: 21 Jun 2010, 05:41
So I was randomly searching the internet for some offline RPG games to play to kill time, now that I've gotten a bit bored of Perfect World and the fact that you'll never be DA BEST in MMORPG's. And I stumbled upon this...
Before you run off this topic scared by the graphics or uninteresting look of it, I'll note that this game is basically Diablo II (although the graphics are a tad bit better than that) with a strategic element added to it. So if you don't like Diablo II or Civilization, then *love* off. Basically what you do here is start your own barbarian faction, or covenant as it's named in the game, in a town named Jorvik. Alongside your faction there are 3 to 5 other factions all fighting to be supreme rulers of the town. The town is absolute metabolic end product so I have no idea why anyone would want to rule it, but that's not the point. To become ruler of the town you'll have to eleminate all other factions, either by dstroying their "lifestone" which is located in their house, or by becoming allies with them (you'll have to be the most powerfull to get the full reward though)
So what's so interesting about this? Well basically even though the other factions are AI controlled, the pressure put on you is IMMENSE. From the moment you start the other faction leaders will run out and do quests, you have to do the same quests and basically the first person who finishes it gets the reward. Reward being experience and money you can use to buy new equipment. You'll also gain influence for completing quests, you also get influence for just killing mobs basically. So what you do is run around different areas hacking and slashing Diablo II style (with drops similar to Diablo II aswell, rare, unique and set items are all present) while at the same time you have to be diplomatic with other factions, and beware of your own "lifestone" which can be attacked at any time, if someone hates you.
There are 4 classes you can choose from, a Warrior, a Rogue (basically an assassin), a Mage and a Priest. I can't really tell you much about them as I've only been using a Warrior, but I noticed the Rogues being alot like Diablo II's assassins. Oh, and Priest are bitches that can heal theirselfes and others. Cunts.
With influence and power (power is basically how high the lvl of your character and recruits are, and your equipment counts aswell) that you gain while completing tasks and killing mobs, you increase the ammount of "tax" you gain. Tax isn't given in copper/silver/gold (ingame currency) though, they are given in crystals. You use crystals to buy extra guards for your house to protect your lifestone, or to start rumours about other factions (lowering their influence), or you can use diplomacy to bribe other factions to do things, you can give them some of your crystals or even influence, if you have alot of that. It's funny to get a faction that has nearly no influence in trouble, by giving them some influence and tell them to attack someone (at which point I usually attack their house)
You can recruit members for your faction (up to 5) and keep one of them in your party to take out in the wilderness, the rest will stay behind and protect your house. Recruiting members is quite tough though. They all require you to do a quest aswell, which isn't always hard, but the other factions will want to recruit the people aswell, and so you're in a hurry again. Sometimes you'll run into an adventurer which you can just recruit without doing anything, it's probably your best bet.
The best thing about it is just endlessly killing mobs for drops and experience (and influence) and sometimes running into another faction. It's fun to then suddenly declare war and kill their characters while they are out hunting.
I don't know what else to say really, you can download this game via a torrent and it's only 100mb in size (before install)
This game basically shows me that size doesn't matter
The game is pretty big, although you might feel you've seen it all after lvl 10.
Oh yeah, one more thing, when you've won the game you can just start a new one (on a higher difficulty if your lvl is high enough) whilst keeping your same character and recruits, with all equipment intact. You can even set the lvl of your rival factions if you don't want to stress around so much.
tl;dr:
If you like Diablo II and you wonder if it would be cool to have a similar game with DIPLOMACY, try Depths of Peril
Before you run off this topic scared by the graphics or uninteresting look of it, I'll note that this game is basically Diablo II (although the graphics are a tad bit better than that) with a strategic element added to it. So if you don't like Diablo II or Civilization, then *love* off. Basically what you do here is start your own barbarian faction, or covenant as it's named in the game, in a town named Jorvik. Alongside your faction there are 3 to 5 other factions all fighting to be supreme rulers of the town. The town is absolute metabolic end product so I have no idea why anyone would want to rule it, but that's not the point. To become ruler of the town you'll have to eleminate all other factions, either by dstroying their "lifestone" which is located in their house, or by becoming allies with them (you'll have to be the most powerfull to get the full reward though)
So what's so interesting about this? Well basically even though the other factions are AI controlled, the pressure put on you is IMMENSE. From the moment you start the other faction leaders will run out and do quests, you have to do the same quests and basically the first person who finishes it gets the reward. Reward being experience and money you can use to buy new equipment. You'll also gain influence for completing quests, you also get influence for just killing mobs basically. So what you do is run around different areas hacking and slashing Diablo II style (with drops similar to Diablo II aswell, rare, unique and set items are all present) while at the same time you have to be diplomatic with other factions, and beware of your own "lifestone" which can be attacked at any time, if someone hates you.
There are 4 classes you can choose from, a Warrior, a Rogue (basically an assassin), a Mage and a Priest. I can't really tell you much about them as I've only been using a Warrior, but I noticed the Rogues being alot like Diablo II's assassins. Oh, and Priest are bitches that can heal theirselfes and others. Cunts.
With influence and power (power is basically how high the lvl of your character and recruits are, and your equipment counts aswell) that you gain while completing tasks and killing mobs, you increase the ammount of "tax" you gain. Tax isn't given in copper/silver/gold (ingame currency) though, they are given in crystals. You use crystals to buy extra guards for your house to protect your lifestone, or to start rumours about other factions (lowering their influence), or you can use diplomacy to bribe other factions to do things, you can give them some of your crystals or even influence, if you have alot of that. It's funny to get a faction that has nearly no influence in trouble, by giving them some influence and tell them to attack someone (at which point I usually attack their house)
You can recruit members for your faction (up to 5) and keep one of them in your party to take out in the wilderness, the rest will stay behind and protect your house. Recruiting members is quite tough though. They all require you to do a quest aswell, which isn't always hard, but the other factions will want to recruit the people aswell, and so you're in a hurry again. Sometimes you'll run into an adventurer which you can just recruit without doing anything, it's probably your best bet.
The best thing about it is just endlessly killing mobs for drops and experience (and influence) and sometimes running into another faction. It's fun to then suddenly declare war and kill their characters while they are out hunting.
I don't know what else to say really, you can download this game via a torrent and it's only 100mb in size (before install)
This game basically shows me that size doesn't matter
The game is pretty big, although you might feel you've seen it all after lvl 10.Oh yeah, one more thing, when you've won the game you can just start a new one (on a higher difficulty if your lvl is high enough) whilst keeping your same character and recruits, with all equipment intact. You can even set the lvl of your rival factions if you don't want to stress around so much.
tl;dr:
If you like Diablo II and you wonder if it would be cool to have a similar game with DIPLOMACY, try Depths of Peril
. ) and Deus Ex are games I really enjoyed too.