Dungeon Hunter 3
Dec. 27th, 2013 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calzephyrI was all set earlier to make a post about Dungeon Hunter 3 and my progress in the game, when, horror of horrors, Muffin deleted my game. Yup, that's what you get when you leave your tablet on! He must have walked all around the start menu, licked "Characters" and then stepped on the delete button. I just could not believe it! I restarted the game, restarted the tablet...my level 60+ warrior lass was gone for good! Muffin!!!
We're all used to losing data in the digital age, but some losses are a little more devastating and personal than losing your wallet. There were all the hours spent dutifully levelling up my lady, slicing baddies in half with her flaming axe of justice. All those glops she stomped on in her sensible, mid-riff covering armour. Why couldn't Muffin have stepped on the male character I made just to get the opposite gender achievement? Of course not! I decided to start playing Dungeon Hunter 4 instead, because the prospect of starting over from scratch was just too much. I had planned to start it when I finished Dungeon Hunter 3, and I had less than a quarter to go. Unfortunately, I don't have much to say about Dungeon Hunter 4. It's very much like the first one, and while you get a helper fairy, you don't get to see her...you are just constantly replaying familiar quests and the world is not as open ended as it seems. One would think that it would be more fun than a chore based hack and slash, but the art wasn't as good and the absence of story in Dungeon Hunter 3 was more imaginative than the thin story in the new game.
So I took another look at Dungeon Hunter 3 and realized, to my relief, all the armour, fairies and skills I had acquired were still there. They had just all been reset to zero. So I made a new female character, suited her up and got back to the business of killing mercs, trolls, werewolves, bugs, gargoyles and glops. That it was not a total loss cheered me - because now I could spend my loot on levelling up skills instead of acquiring armour. After a solid month, I'm up to level 38 and am just about at the halfway mark.
I would still love a spiritual successor for Baldur's Gate or Planescape:Torment on my tablet, but as far as I know, it doesn't exist. But that's a job for The Question Club!
We're all used to losing data in the digital age, but some losses are a little more devastating and personal than losing your wallet. There were all the hours spent dutifully levelling up my lady, slicing baddies in half with her flaming axe of justice. All those glops she stomped on in her sensible, mid-riff covering armour. Why couldn't Muffin have stepped on the male character I made just to get the opposite gender achievement? Of course not! I decided to start playing Dungeon Hunter 4 instead, because the prospect of starting over from scratch was just too much. I had planned to start it when I finished Dungeon Hunter 3, and I had less than a quarter to go. Unfortunately, I don't have much to say about Dungeon Hunter 4. It's very much like the first one, and while you get a helper fairy, you don't get to see her...you are just constantly replaying familiar quests and the world is not as open ended as it seems. One would think that it would be more fun than a chore based hack and slash, but the art wasn't as good and the absence of story in Dungeon Hunter 3 was more imaginative than the thin story in the new game.
So I took another look at Dungeon Hunter 3 and realized, to my relief, all the armour, fairies and skills I had acquired were still there. They had just all been reset to zero. So I made a new female character, suited her up and got back to the business of killing mercs, trolls, werewolves, bugs, gargoyles and glops. That it was not a total loss cheered me - because now I could spend my loot on levelling up skills instead of acquiring armour. After a solid month, I'm up to level 38 and am just about at the halfway mark.
I would still love a spiritual successor for Baldur's Gate or Planescape:Torment on my tablet, but as far as I know, it doesn't exist. But that's a job for The Question Club!
