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Offline keith.lamothe

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Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« on: November 02, 2012, 09:39:26 am »
http://store.steampowered.com/app/218410/

Normally I start these threads to ask if a game is good or interesting or whatnot, partly because I rarely have time to evaluate it myself first.

In this case, though, I've already wrung about every drop I can from the demo.

This is a good game. 

Thog say you try demo.  Now.

A few caveats:
- In its aesthetics and such it's basically a flash game (running on adobe air, I assume).  But there's way more gameplay depth than you'd expect from that heritage.
- If you don't like tower defense, you may not like this game, but you might because of all the tactical-rpg stuff it brings in to keep it company.
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Re: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2012, 09:46:22 am »
Thanks for the heads up. I wasn't sure what to make of it and was wondering, wasn't much info out there on this game either.

On a more general note, it's also a relief to see these types of weird indie games making it onto steam without going through the greenlight process.

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Re: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2012, 09:49:20 am »
You know, I've played three different versions of this artstyle-wise, but its still a pretty good game.
And hey, I got a free steam key out of buying it ages ago, so that was nifty too.

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Re: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2012, 12:50:10 pm »
I was actually wandering if it's any good.
I'll go and check out the demo (I missed the demo part myself I think).


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Re: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2012, 01:33:34 pm »
tower defense
Sorry, stopped bothering. I've tried to get into TD so many times. I even own both of the Orcs Must Die! games, but played them for like 2 hours tops then quickly get bored.
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Re: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2012, 02:20:40 pm »
tower defense
Sorry, stopped bothering.
That's why I included the caveat, I know some people just don't get into that.

I do ;)

Even OMD?  Wow; that's a more general appeal.  Foxes must have towerphobia.

Tried Dungeon Defenders?
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Re: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2012, 02:26:11 pm »
Sorry, stopped bothering. I've tried to get into TD so many times. I even own both of the Orcs Must Die! games, but played them for like 2 hours tops then quickly get bored.
And I still occasionally fire up Defence Grid or Gemcraft, for my mandatory TD fix =)

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Re: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2012, 02:31:01 pm »
Even OMD?  Wow; that's a more general appeal.  Foxes must have towerphobia.

Tried Dungeon Defenders?
Yeah, I played up until level 7 or 8 in the first OMD. It was kinda fun but ultimately didn't interest me much. Bought the second to play with a friend. Finished like three levels and then got bored with it, and he's pretty much hating it now due to their DLC policies, so there has been no gaming on that either.

Did try Dungeon Defenders first on my Android phone and then the Steam Demo (and I think a free weekend some time) but that ultimately didn't stick either. Guess I'm just not the target audience for TD games :P
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Re: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2012, 02:47:56 pm »
Guess I'm just not the target audience for TD games :P
Yep, just a character flaw, I suppose ;)
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Re: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2012, 02:26:43 am »
Tried the demo, feels good! One complaint: you can run a same map/difficulty again and again for scrap, this feel grindinsh, because once you bit a level second playthrough is no different from the first at all.

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Re: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2012, 05:37:58 am »
There are some differences between normal and advanced/expert.
In quite few cases expert is kind of... special. In others it may add more mob entrances or different mob types that make things more interesting.

I didn't run any maps more than once on same difficulty - it's not worth it. Go redo previous ones on higher difficulties - that gives you additional reward and additional xp.

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Re: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2012, 07:22:32 am »
Yea, you can grind the exact "same level same difficulty" if you want.  I haven't seen a case where you have to in order to beat the next "new level" on normal, though.  That's just from the demo, of course.
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Re: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2012, 09:32:12 am »
Damn you, Keith, I just played it 6 hours straight! I need to do stuff... I'll go to bed now.

Yes, I'm a lover of TD genre, and this is an excellent execution.

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Re: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2012, 09:43:35 am »
Damn you, Keith, I just played it 6 hours straight! I need to do stuff... I'll go to bed now.

Yes, I'm a lover of TD genre, and this is an excellent execution.
Glad I could afflict someone :)
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Re: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2012, 10:35:19 am »
@zespri: is it just me, or does Pablo's "Imminent Annihilation" track from Ancient Shadows go really well with a battle in Defender's Quest?  Specifically, starting a few seconds after 0:45 in the track.
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