[Saulbadguy]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Just watched a live demo, and they showed a high dragon battle. Completely different from the first game. It looked the same at the start, but a couple minutes into the fight the high dragon flew up to a perch and then drakes began to spawn all over the place (the high dragon was still launching fireballs the whole time...). The guy playing the demo (Mike Laidlaw, the lead designer...) cleared those groups and eventually the high dragon came back down onto the battlefield. And then a couple of minutes later more drakes started to spawn along with some dragons the size of the ones in the Brecilian forest temple.

At this point he switched the game from Normal to Nightmare, just to show people watching what Nightmare looked like. And his party got wiped in about 15 seconds.

It was bah-ruh-tal.

His comment was basically "my party wasn't high enough level to do this fight on Nightmare (everybody was I think 19) and they weren't set up tactically to do it." Which makes sense, because his guys were knocking each other over all over the battlefield. He then went on to say that a couple of the testers were able to beat the fight on Nightmare, so it can be done.

This of course feeds into my belief that, as much as people are bitching on the forums about it being turned into console style button smashing (it's not...), it's going to be harder to beat this game on Nightmare than it was to beat Origins.

He also showed off the Black Emporium, which looked pretty cool, along with some of the dlc gear, including Blood Dragon armor, which I didn't even realize was back in the game.

Oh man, I hate the multi-step battles.