Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning Leaked via Microsoft Store (Coming August 11th) [Achievement List Leaked as well]

[Jawmuncher]

Via WalkingCat on Twitter: https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/1268375609886949377?s=20

Description
The hit RPG returns! From the minds of the bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion lead designer Ken Rolston, comes Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. Remastered with stunning visuals and refined gameplay Re-Reckoning delivers intense, customizable RPG combat inside a sprawling game world. ---------- Uncover the secrets of Amalur, from the vibrant city of Rathir to the vast region of Dalentarth to the grim dungeons of the Brigand Hall Caverns. Rescue a world torn apart by a vicious war and control the keys to immortality as the first warrior ever to be resurrected from the grips of death.


Features

• Build the ideal character for the most intense combat, choosing from a countless combinations of skills, abilities, weapons and pieces of armor.
• The revolutionary Destiny system allows you to continuously evolve your character class to your style of play.
• Seamlessly integrate magical and melee attacks as you take on scores of enemies in grand fight sequences and finish them off with brutal Fateshift kills.
• Extend your experience in Amalur with all DLC from the original release, from Teeth of Naros to Legend of Dead Kel and more!
• Hundreds of hours of RPG play await! Travel from the vibrant city of Rathir, to the vast region of Dalentarth, and the grim dungeons of the Brigand Hall Caverns as you uncover the secrets of Amalur!
• Explore deep levels of lore in a universe steeped in 10,000 years of fiction created by New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore.
• Rescue a world torn apart by a vicious war and control the keys to immortality as the first warrior ever to be resurrected from the grips of death.
• Explore a sprawling game world hailed as having "more content than any single-player game deserves!"
• Enjoy countless side quests rich in political intrigue, romance, sinister magic, and even whimsy - all central to the primary mission.
• Improved graphical fidelity in Re-Reckoning.

Screenshots

Click to shrink...

 

[yap]

oh WOW

 

[texhnolyze]

A remaster, huh. Not sure if I want it.

Judging from the descriptions, they only improved the graphics and nothing else. Depending on the upgrade, let's see if I can get excited for this.

 

[DannyClash]

Good call. I was thinking I should get around to playing this a while back.

Remastered helps

 

[RestEerie]

Re-Reckoning? That's a word alright..

 

[Freezasaurus]

Huh. I really enjoyed playing through that game. And the DLC was worthwhile too, from what I remember.

 

[Jamie]

Sweet, never got to play it much the first time so I'm ready!

 

[Pygrus]

I hope they add some good QoL stuff to this version. Also new weapons would be nice, but i don't they would go that far.

 

[Carlius]

i want it....now.

 

[Nilou]

I absolutely adored this game last gen, one of my all time favorites. A remaster would be absolutely amazing. Hope by some small chance we could get a sequel one day.

 

[bloodyroarx]

KoA was fire when it came out originally, totally slept on

but unless it has some serious upgrades I wont replay

 

[Pilgrimzero]

I remember thinking it played like an offline MMO

 

[A Strong Latte]

Pretty interesting combination of like, DMC and an MMO, in the form of a single player RPG. Deserved to be a series with tweaked gameplay sequels.

 

[data]

Heck yeah, time to try it out again

 

[BrickArts295]

Woah nelly, guess I'll play it again with the DLC.

 

[CreeperBlocks]

YAY it's back :) I loved this game. I wonder what other platforms this will be on

 

[RPG]

Yes. Loved this game. Would love to play through it again.

 

[matrix-cat]

Going for that 'Worst Remaster Title Pun' crown, but it's going to be hard to top those Darksiders ones.

 

[Hippopuncher12]

I really like KoA, although it was a bit bloated. Still I'll pick up a remaster for sure.

 

[Damn Silly]

Ah, the best 7/10. Re-Reckoning is a perfectly crappy THQNordic pun.

FWIW, the release date on the MS page -- 11/8/2020 (UK, so August) -- which seems specific enough to not be a placeholder. Then again, it does also say the file size is only 100MB

 

[The Buffmuffin]

Wtf! Yes I'm so hyped!!! I love this game!!

 

[Vic20]

I remember thinking it played like an offline MMO

Click to shrink...

In a good way or a bad way?

 

[Cascadero]

Oh nice I remember reading somewhere that it had been picked up again. I had a lot of fun with the original, but I would hope it will include some improvements to retain the challenge throughout the game. The end of the game was a cakewalk after all. Might give this another try.

 

[MJForum Poster]

Does Curt Schilling see a dime from this? If so, I'm staying far away

 

[CypherSignal]

Re-Reckoning? That's a word alright..

Click to shrink...

From the folks who brought you "Re-Mars-tered", "Deathfinitive", "Warmastered", "Rehydrated"...

 

[Seraphis Cain]

I wonder if they'll change anything about how absurdly easy it was to break the game. Like with minimal effort you could trivialize most of the game's challenge.

 

[Algorum]

Hopefully it looks less horrible than I remember.

Those faces... those bodies 😩

 

[dreamfall]

Whoa that's awesome! If Curt Schilling is in any way associated or profits from this, no fucking way I'm touching it.

 

[Lord Fanny]

Re-Reckoning? That's a word alright..

Click to shrink...

THQ Nordic does this with a lot of these remasters. I guess it's like branding thing at this point, it's weird.

I remember thinking it played like an offline MMO

Click to shrink...

IIRC, it was originally designed to be a MMO

 

[Tagyhag]

If there's no gameplay change then I won't bother, it's just too easy of a game, even on the hardest difficulty.

Which is a shame because I like the combat system and while the game does feel generic, I would still recommend it others if they are in need of a big RPG as long as they know the story and characters aren't that great.

 

[ez123]

Going for that 'Worst Remaster Title Pun' crown, but it's going to be hard to top those Darksiders ones.

Click to shrink...

The name was already terrible, this at least adds some novelty to it. There's plenty of Reckonings, not any Re-Reckoning.

 

[Deleted member 35509]

I wonder if they'll change anything about how absurdly easy it was to break the game. Like with minimal effort you could trivialize most of the game's challenge.

Click to shrink...

How so?

 

[Zeta Ori]

60 FPS on consoles and I'm there day 0

 

[Mr. Satan Poirot]

It was a pretty fun game. My favorite was one of the DLCs where you met a race of giant Greek statues. They were essentially civilized giantkin, but still have some of their relatives brutality. I was endlessly amused by their philosophy debates which always had to be concluded with a "might means right" battle to determine the victor.

It wasn't a perfect game, but the gameplay was fun and I thought the world was pretty charming. This is maybe one of those situations where you buy it just to support the idea of a sequel.

 

[Empyrean Cocytus]

Alright, I'll ask, Curt Schilling has nothing to do with this anymore, right? So by buying this game he doesn't earn a dime?

Cuz no way am I giving money to his Trump-supporting, racist, sexist, Yankee-hating, Nintendo-hating ass.

 

[Kromis]

I absolutely adored this game last gen, one of my all time favorites. A remaster would be absolutely amazing. Hope by some small chance we could get a sequel one day.

Click to shrink...

I'm thinking EA is testing the waters for a sequel if enough people get interested. But at least if they're willing to bring back something as "obscure" as Kingdoms of Amalur, then hopefully a Mass Effect remaster is in the cards...

EDIT: This is published by THQ Nordic, not EA. Disregard the EA remarks.

 

[Zedelima]

I loved this game!

 

[EggmaniMN]

Hopefully they've changed the way level scaling works in this game or it'll just be very busted again.

 

[Voror]

IIRC, it was originally designed to be a MMO

Click to shrink...

It was actually that they were going to release an MMO based in the same world. I can't remember if this was a separate jumping off point exactly for why they led off with this but the MMO was its own thing. I think the project name was Copernicus.

 

[BlueRose]

I hope this leads to a sequel. Honestly this was one of my favourite games despite its flaws. I'll be buying it again.

 

[Deleted member 51691]

I'm thinking EA is testing the waters for a sequel if enough people get interested. But at least if they're willing to bring back something as "obscure" as Kingdoms of Amalur, then hopefully a Mass Effect remaster is in the cards...

Click to shrink...

THQ acquired the rights

 

[Grimminski]

I started playing this again for the 8th anniversary back in February, and these shots actually look kind of worse than the PC version, especially the shadows.

 

[Rodney McKay]

I absolutely love the trend of remakes/remasters having hilarious names.
Darksiders 1 Warmastered
Darksiders 2 Death-initive
Red Faction Guerrilla: Re-Mars-tered

Regarding this remake, I never played much of it originally (just a bit of the demo I think), but I'd be willing to give it a shot, especially if it ends up on Switch as well.

 

[i hate cheaters]

if they can add like 5 more difficulty levels, this will be great

have to do some wonky cheatengine stuff to make the original game fun

 

[Algorum]

I'm thinking EA is testing the waters for a sequel if enough people get interested. But at least if they're willing to bring back something as "obscure" as Kingdoms of Amalur, then hopefully a Mass Effect remaster is in the cards...

Click to shrink...

I think this would be the last game they would even consider for a sequel.

RPG's take a lot of time an investments... I really just don't see it happening (Especially with EA at the helm).

 

[MarvelousIntent]

I'm disappointed that it's just a remaster, but damn I'm glad to see KoA again! I really hope we can get a sequel out of this.

 

[Rei no Otaku]

Does Curt Schilling see a dime from this? If so, I'm staying far away

Click to shrink...

No he doesn't. He lost the IP to the state of RI who then sold it to THQ.

As long as they fix the difficulty I'm in.

 

[Str0ngStyle]

I always thought that this game was underrated AF. I'm totally down to check it out.

 

[Kromis]

THQ acquired the rights

Click to shrink...

D'oh! Forgot about that!

 

[Rats]

What a weird thing.

I wanted to like this game a whole lot. It has all the ingredients for an amazing RPG, but I found it lacking in the execution. Made it probably about halfway through before I dropped it out of boredom.