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I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Having come across videos of that new Dragon Age game and its (by the look of it) cool looking combat I've gotten the urge for something similar. Action RPG of some kind, being able to rock on as a wizard and blast spells all day. Some tactical element to spell slinging and comboing would be nice.

Love me some recommendations!

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Badass wizard eh? Try Magicka! 😁

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Fair warning that when I played it with a friend (two-ish years ago), it was broken and abandoned. Couldn‘t play in co-op for more than 30 minutes without a disconnect, some DLCs didn‘t even start, singleplayer you had to downgrade to an older version or else it crashes every so often. Every loading screen had me praying the game doesn‘t poop the bed. It was probably fun at some point, but it needs engineering attention and hadn‘t gotten that in years when I last tried it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh man, that's really sad :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I‘m probably even downplaying it, my friend ragequit from the frequency of crashes lol

Maybe Magicka 2 is the better starting point, but I wouldn‘t know since after my experience with Magicka, I didn‘t wanna touch it

It was fun when it worked though!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This was going to be my recommendation. Probably not what OP wants, but definitely what they asked for!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is it good solo? I don't have a lot of time for games but this looks like it might be able to scratch my (MMO)RPG itch a bit without being too much of a time sink.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

In my opinion, no, it was too hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I enjoyed it solo, though it did become impossibly hard at one point. I don't know if you need to have friends to help or if I just needed to be better at the game!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's important is the combos. There are very powerful combos that render the game very easy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

What are your combos of choice? I remember having a few good ones committed to memory at the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I definitely completed it solo. Finding spell books definitely helps, but just crafting spells with the given elements can be more than enough to muddle through.

You can give yourself armor to assist in your normal squishy wizard self that definitely helps with the tougher bits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I loved wizard wars before it went down. RIP in peice