Jolly boots of doom

[amnesiack]

I started playing Jade Empire last night. So far, it's a great game, and I'm still in the beginning area. My only complaint thus far is that, like Fable, the variety of maneuvers you perform in each fighting style seems severely limited. That might change as the game progresses (I'm only about 1 hour 45 mins. into the game), or it's possible that the fact that there are something like 70 styles available will make up for it.

On a side note, while I haven't looked it up anywhere yet to be certain, I'm 99.99% sure that Gao the Lesser is voiced by Nathan Fillion, better known to many as Captain Malcolm Reynolds of Firefly. Rock.

Comments

[morningfables.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit further in than you are - 5 hours, maybe? - and I can say that, no, you don't get any additional moves to your style, which sort of sucks. The variety is, as you suspect, in the changing of the styles. I've got like nine already (and I'll soon have the cash to buy a tenth), and a lot of the fun (and the key to actually winning battles) is switching between them.

Gao does sound really, really familiar, as do a few other folks I've met in game, but I can't find anything online to confirm people for me.

- jason

[amnesiack.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I confirmed it last night. Gao is Fillion. Double rock.

[morningfables.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

John Cleese is apparently in it, too, though I've yet to meet the character he plays.

- jason

[amnesiack.livejournal.com]

Nice.

I've got a sweet three day weekend going on after today; there will be much Jade Empire going on, I dare say.

[aprila711.livejournal.com]

i think that game has one of the coolest commercials ever -- graphically speaking.