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Achievement unlocked: Master of the Dungeon (no spoilers)

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 10:13 am
by Hoerwolle
Hi!

Last night, my wife and me finally made it through the last corners of the dungeon! We bought the game on preorder and played it from day one completely through together! We named the characters after us and our cats :) We put 31 hours into it (whoever wrote "8-10 hours gameplay" was obviously wrong!) and got all treasures, all iron doors and most secrets (a few escaped us). We *did* however use a walkthrough now and then when we got too frustrated (a few times we noticed the language barrier, since english is not our first language). With some puzzles I had ideas and with some my wife had the right inspiration and we usually found a way and this teamplay was really great!

I just want to say: Thank you, Grimrock-Team! You provided us with lots of fun and made us think and fight monsters together - you wouldn't believe how piercing my wife can scream, when suddenly a giant spider comes around the corner! The more satisfaction it is, when it dies!

Thank you!

Bye,
Hoerwolle

Re: Achievement unlocked: Master of the Dungeon (no spoilers

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 3:30 pm
by LiamKerrington
Hi there,

congratulations. And yeah, I can imagine the scream of your wife; even I shrieked a couple of times when all of a sudden a pet showed up ...

8-10 hours may be unthinkable as the time-span to play through it. But afaik one of the devs did it in about 14hours, which is, I guess, not really that hard to achieve. When I played the game my second time - in Toorum-mode -, I did it in a little less then 20 hours - with all treasures, secrets and whatnot there are available in the game ... My first play through went next to 30 hours though ...

All the best!
Liam

Re: Achievement unlocked: Master of the Dungeon (no spoilers

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 11:47 am
by Darklord
Glad to hear you enjoyed the game so much!

Is 31 hours the time on your save? if so bare in mind that wont include the time spent dying/reloading etc, in which case you probably spent a lot longer on it! :P

Daniel.

Re: Achievement unlocked: Master of the Dungeon (no spoilers

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 5:57 pm
by Hoerwolle
Darklord wrote:Glad to hear you enjoyed the game so much!

Is 31 hours the time on your save? if so bare in mind that wont include the time spent dying/reloading etc, in which case you probably spent a lot longer on it! :P

Daniel.
Oh, right, didn't think about that! :)

Re: Achievement unlocked: Master of the Dungeon (no spoilers

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:08 pm
by Darklord
Heh well the Dungeon Editor is just around the corner, so you'll be able to make your own dungeons soon should you wish to! If not there will be plenty made by others to try. :D

Daniel.

Re: Achievement unlocked: Master of the Dungeon (no spoilers

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:15 am
by Disasterrific
Well done!

First time through, it is possible to finish the game without bothering particularly hard about secrets and goodies in under 10 hours easily. I got something like 63 secrets and 3 or 4 treasures first time through in 13 hours or so, but then I'm used to how these games work. No automap on the other hand is a completely different proposition.

Re: Achievement unlocked: Master of the Dungeon (no spoilers

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:37 am
by Wilfrey
When I read this post I had to laugh as it is almost a mirror image of me and my girlfriends play through of LoG (including the screams when a spider appeared from nowhere).

I was on keys controlling movement, map and then switching to mouse to help spend skill points. My gf was on the mouse doing the rest of the clicking :D

The game works remarkably well as a local coop game when played this way, just make sure you have a lot of patience as it can be frustrating in some situations like when you step forward into a fireball the other person has just cast.

We have played through the game twice now, once on normal and once on hard, knocking up over 40 hours of gameplay. We both love the game and look forward to the map editor and hopefully a sequel. Thank you to the developers for creating this game!

Wilfrey

Re: Achievement unlocked: Master of the Dungeon (no spoilers

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:27 pm
by Drachir
Just completed the game 8-)

No idea how long it actualy took as i have to confess to dying on more than one occasion ;)

Have to say that without reference to Walkthroughs at various points i may well have given up.
Thanks to whoever wrote http://www.gamebanshee.com/legendofgrimrock/

Makes me wonder though how i ever finished Dungeon Master all those years ago, when i don't seem to recall having the same access (if any) to on-line help. Maybe it was just an easier game.

Anyway, fantastic work Almost Human..... You release any add-ons i'll gladly buy them.

Looking forward to the Editor (and learning some Lua scripting) and what is likely to be some cool work by the community.

:D

Re: Achievement unlocked: Master of the Dungeon (no spoilers

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:34 am
by Darklord
Really great to hear so many people enjoying LoG. :D

Daniel.