Everybody is saying this game is VERY bad

[Boo Seta]

Everybody is saying this game is terribly bad, that it's like a worse remake of the first one, that there are server issues that won't let you play multiplayer properly, controls are clunky, story is over simplistic and predictable, jokes aren't fun and overall gameplay experience is terrible. You can see people complaining on reviews, on gamespot, metacritic for this game is very low, in general the reception for this game has been VERY bad. What do you guys think?

[Boo Seta]

Check this guy's review of Magicka 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM4hcddefoQ&gl=US

[Sacryn]

Interesting that he never even considered his firewall to be blocking the game. Which is the number one cause for the "Unable to communicate...." error.

[ɃƵ Crazy Cat Lady]

I put 12 hours in, at least 3 or so was just finishing the last chapter, and messing around
and now I stopped playing. I was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ a bit during those 12 hours too.
Glad they only charged 15$
I want to see a lot of changes before I start playing again. So does that answer your question?

[Rhudda]

Everybody? I'm not saying that and I've seen others on the forum who like it too. It's different from Magicka 1, sure, and I can agree that some aspects are definitely worse, but it's not a bad game at all.

[Dick-based Violence]

I couldn't enjoy the game with all the dank memes, put a couple hours in and got a refund as well as my friend. If I wanted ebin maymays I'd purchase a 4cahn gold account for ten dollars less.

[[Lemons] w!z@rD]

'Only' 37% of the reviews are negative, that's hardly "everybody". It's just that people who are angry/disappointed are more likely to come to the forums than people who enjoy the game.

[Player 1]

Originally posted by Revernus:

Everybody is saying this game is terribly bad, that it's like a worse remake of the first one, that there are server issues that won't let you play multiplayer properly, controls are clunky, story is over simplistic and predictable, jokes aren't fun and overall gameplay experience is terrible. You can see people complaining on reviews, on gamespot, metacritic for this game is very low, in general the reception for this game has been VERY bad. What do you guys think?

Its alot better than what you think I like it better than the fisr, alot more , its amazing in everyway and I inlove with it

[-skimmer-]

The story appears simple and straighforward at first with kinda obvious plot twist in the middle, but its actually pretty clever and just likes to misdirect the player a lot. You may need to unlock the secret ending cutscene to finally realize the full magnitude of the events that transpired there to fully appreciate it. Its really well written.

[Loominal]

i'll be honest, i would tend to agree with that video "non review" i played it at a friends house on his account for like 2 hours and i'm done. (although his multi player did work) Glad i didn't purchase it. "same old" game with worse controls and music then the original. The "gimick" of the game is also old and already played out on the first game with all the expansions. I can't see i'll be picking this one up unless it's <$1 as part as a humble bundle... the original is just plain better..

They should of "improved" controls, and maybe added different "NEW" spells and NEW combo's people could do.. maybe some pets that works together with other pets as a combo.. i dunno just something different.. meh.. *end rant*

[TEA || IT'S CHRISTMAS]

tl;dr

-SPELL SYSTEM EXTREMELY DUMBED DOWN, LESS SPELL COMBOS AVAILABLE
+GOOD NEW GRAPHICS, MOVE WHILE CASTING
=QUICK CAST, HIT A NUMBER AND INSTANT SPELL (like revive)

[Boo Seta]

I had a very short opportunity to play this game in the house of a friend for the first time today, so I can't say much, but my first impression was very bad too. It seemed the spell system was indeed dumbed down, so kids could be able to play this. Also, I felt as if this game wasn't designed for PC, but rather to be played using a gamepad. Well, I'll play more as soon as I have the opportunity, maybe I change my mind. I liked previous Magicka so much, I'll make an effort to like Magicka 2 too.

[FallenG0D]

Originally posted by Knight:

Originally posted by Revernus:

Everybody is saying this game is terribly bad, that it's like a worse remake of the first one, that there are server issues that won't let you play multiplayer properly, controls are clunky, story is over simplistic and predictable, jokes aren't fun and overall gameplay experience is terrible. You can see people complaining on reviews, on gamespot, metacritic for this game is very low, in general the reception for this game has been VERY bad. What do you guys think?

Its alot better than what you think I like it better than the fisr, alot more , its amazing in everyway and I inlove with it

Stop it, i can acept that you like it but don't say it's better than the first cause it has nothing to do with it exept for the name (like wizard wars).

[Rhudda]

Originally posted by -skimmer-:

The story appears simple and straighforward at first with kinda obvious plot twist in the middle, but its actually pretty clever and just likes to misdirect the player a lot. You may need to unlock the secret ending cutscene to finally realize the full magnitude of the events that transpired there to fully appreciate it. Its really well written.

Secret ending? How do you unlock that?

Originally posted by Loominal:

iThey should of "improved" controls, and maybe added different "NEW" spells and NEW combo's people could do.. maybe some pets that works together with other pets as a combo.. i dunno just something different.. meh.. *end rant*

They did improve the controls - you can now walk while casting and you've got aiming arrows for charged spells, and they did create new magicks. As for new spells, that would've been hard to do without adding extra elements, and those wouldn't have made sense from both a control perspective as well as lore-wise.

Originally posted by Revernus:

It seemed the spell system was indeed dumbed down, so kids could be able to play this.

How on earth is the exact same spell system easier to understand for kids? If a kid can understand the (really simple) way elements work together, having more possibilities doesn't affect their ability to play the game.

[Leo]

I liked Magicka. I hate any kind of Nerf. Magicka 2 nerfed everything, but graphics. I miss being able to summon elementals to offset enemy spam in Magicka, I started playing Magicka 2 with the cultist robes hoping I cold summon some horrific Cthulhu inspired minions in to help me out. Nope. nothing. Lame. Just more Nerfs. Nerf that! Magicka 2 is Nerf, Nerf this game. it's Nerf Nerf!

Even the original studio behind Magicka pretty much disavowed having anything to do with Magicka 2. https://arrowheadgamestudios.com/regarding-magicka-2/

[Doktor Mandrake]

Originally posted by FallenG0D:

Stop it, i can acept that you like it but don't say it's better than the first cause it has nothing to do with it exept for the name (like wizard wars).

LOL

If he thinks it's better then the first game, then who are you to tell him otherwise? All of this is very subjective and tbh I don't understand all the hate towards this game,

But with that said, people would of complained regardless of what they did, if they kept it exactly the same as Magicka 1 you'd be here complaining that it's just a re-skin

Face it, steam community loves to complain :P