Two Worlds was horrible and I'm not about to pull any punches when talking about it. It's one of a handful of games that I could not bear to play for more than half an hour, I simply couldn't stand it. The framerate was a joke, the combat pathetic, the dialog not even good enough to be laughable and the overall experience somewhat akin to a molestation.
In an interview with OXM, developer Reality Pump attempted to justify its epic failure, claiming that it was their first console game and the team got overexcited:
Two Worlds was not only the first role-playing game we created as a company, but also our first console game, so we've learned a lot in the process. The main lesson we learned is to be more realistic with our goals. With the original idea, we were all so excited to be working on an RPG, that we tried to fit in every idea we had, even the ones that came late in the process.
Ultimately, this hurt the end product in that it had parts that were underdeveloped. With The Temptation, we clearly delineated the game's components at the start, and we're sticking to this target so the end result will be a more finely polished game.
If you don't know what The Temptation is, it's the sequel (formerly an expansion) to Two Worlds. Yes, Reality Pump is actually pursuing this IP, despite the laws of common sense screaming "abandon hope, all ye who enter here." The team promises such innovations as -- missions that aren't boring and voice actors that are not the developers mumbling into a microphone.
I don't know, maybe the sequel won't be horrible, but when your list of new features all run along the central theme of "we promise it won't be as f*cking awful as the first one," you have a long way to go before proving you're worth a second chance.
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6:43 AM on 04.22.2008
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Unfairly? How do you unfairly compare two games that are about open-world roleplaying?
It's understandable since Elder Scrolls was so good it basically set the standard.
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We were the next open world role-playing game to be released after it, so I think everyone expected it to be Oblivion part 2, when the reality is Two Worlds has more differences than similarities to Oblivion.
I think most people just expected it to be bug-free and enjoyable, which it wasn't. It was fairly vapid in both storyline and gameplay.
Oh, and just FYI Reality Pump, Gothic 3 came after Oblivion and before Two Worlds and it was a much better experience than Two Worlds, not as good as Oblivion, but still was fun to play. So, perhaps people might have some expectations for a game releasing a year after the first and after another game of the same type and genre did okay. You could have at least have done as well as Gothic 3, but that didn't even come close to happening.
It's scary to think I was sooo close to buying this game when it first came out.
Having fun in Two Worlds is all about duct-taping weapons together, stabbing people in the face, bringing them back to life, then making 400 potions of "permanent gain stat" and becoming a kind of walking superJesus with an enormous axe.
Two Worlds actively wants you to succeed. It wants you to become insanely, game-breakingly powerful. All the things Oblivion threw out because "it would break the immersion" or "it would be unbalanced", Two Worlds lets you do.
Can't swim in your heavy-ass armor? Walk around on the ocean floor! Enemies annoying you? Summon like sixty golemns and pound them to mush. Need more storage space? Jam 500 pounds of carry weight up this horse's butt.
Also, the main character is a hilarious dick. ("Someone's murdered the mayor!" "Is that a bad thing now?")
It's Diablo beerslammed with Gothic. It's low-budget and hilarious. It's Two Worlds, and I love it to bits.
It definitely wasn't a polished game, and I dunno if xbox had bad frame issues or what, but man it was fun to just get wicked overpowered and go on town killin' sprees.
The One & only time EDGE let me down.... I should have waited for the review....
also i remember something funny from a while back before it was released. someone on the bioshock forum was worried that since it came out on the same day it might hurt bioshock's sales...LOL
I really hope for them their next game is better...
The only way this comparison would be better is if it was followed by "and trust me, I know a thing or two about molestation"
Hooray for things you can say on Destructoid
Also Cocks.