Every week or so, I get a report from my brother Kenny who updates me on what games I’ve been missing out on.  Last week, he informed me about a demo for a game I should try. He didn’t have much to say about the game, other than that “you could unlock free Mass Effect 3 stuff”.  ”It’s sort of an RPG. It reminds me of Fable.”, he said.

That was almost enough to scare me away. I loved the first Fable game, but it went rapidly downhill from there. Fable 2 was still ‘Okay’. Fable 3 was of  ’Holy Boring crap I’m not finishing this game!” quality. When he added “The FIRST Fable”, I was willing to give the demo a shot.

Review

Kingdoms of Amalur is a game taking place in yet another fantasy world. And this time, a corrupted army of immortal beings wants to destroy everything that’s mortal in the lands. Which just so happens to be pretty much the entire population.  I am not going into the details – to be honest I skipped most of the story / talking because I didn’t want to spoil the story for myself.

Like in every good RPG, you’ll have to become the hero of all people and defeat the foes once and for all. Sound generic? Well, at first I did have the impression that this game just stole ideas for a bunch of other games and mixed them together. Then again – what game hasn’t done that the last century? What matters aren’t the ingredients, but how you use them. And the dish Kingdoms of Amalur serves is rather tasty.  I chose to play as an assassin, and although the game is pretty much focused on fighting I could actually ASSASSINATE people if I managed to sneak up on them. When not sneaking about, I could rapidly deal damage with my double blades. Life was good.

Of course, a 45 minute demo was a bit too short to fully understand the game.  I barely touched the potion making, the enchanting, the smithing and other activities you could take part in. In a way, this game came across as Skyrim because of these activities. Which is no surprise, because I’ve been told that the lead developer of this game used to be the lead developer of Morrowind and Oblivion as well – hopefully he didn’t decide to punish you every time you level up this time around which made me unable to enjoy Oblivion on the higher levels.

To summarize, I rather enjoyed the demo. This taster makes me want to hop online, and buy the game. If Peter Molineux doesn’t find his sanity again, we might as well bury Fable and move on, right?

But two years or so ago, it all went downhill. We lost the original forum, and tried to start over. But Social Media had happened. People started to visit the site less and less. Since I owned the domain name Brevcom.net I wanted to try and do something with the “brand” we had build up. Create a website around the community.

That didn’t work out as planned because I also ran into hosting problems and the forums vaporized. But the idea to reinstate the Brevcom name never completely left my mind. So, during the big Toralko Reboot I decided it was time to kickstart Brevcom.net again. Mind you, I tried this before. But there were always some sort of trouble that got in the way.

So this time, we’re trying to make things easier for ourself. Using WordPress.com as our platform, I can now focus on the content first instead of keeping the site floating. There will be no fees to pay. No CMS to back-up. Nothing to worry about but adding content.

If you’re still reading this post… Yes, of course I do hope to build a new community around this blog. Some day, in the future. For now, this will just be a nice place to blog about Video Games and everything related. So I suggest you stop reading this post and move on to reading what else we’ve got up our sleeves!