Deathspank

[Mat]

I'm a bit surprised not to see a topic about this wonderful little gem to be honest!
Coming from Ron Gilbert, he of Monkey Island Fame, Deathspank sees our titular hero (of the Downtrodden!) romping through a glorious cartoon version of Diablo, with plenty of humour chucked in for good measure. It's a delight to play, with always interesting weapons and bucket-loads of character, and great little conversation trees with some genuine laugh-out-loud moments.
I've had a whale of a time so far slaughtering "Stoopid Chickens", and beating the crap literally out of demons with a Poop Hammer.
It's currently available on PSN & XBLA. PSN price is a penny short of a tenner, and it's worth every one of those pennies.

[CarlBillen]

Yup, I can recommend it too

The voice acting is 100% glorious and DeathSpank himself is so over the top
He's quite a delightful little character.

And it's a very playable game.

And the tutorial is extremely silly (he narrates roughly what is displayed, but sometimes he says things like "this is another part of this tutorial".)

And how he calls the NPCs is pretty fun too ("Hello Fisherman", "Hello Sad Fisherman", "Hello Lazy Fisherman"...)

And do NOT forget the Wise Cow ("Teach me the ways of the warrior you four legged friend")

[SiN]

Yes, get this game! It's HILARIOUS! And it might end up being the first RPG I actually enjoy playing.

[ThetaReactor]

Just had one of those "I'll give it a quick spin" four-hour sessions. Really is fantastic. Best hack'n'slash since Torchlight, fer sure. I can't help but describe it as "The Tick does Diablo". Just gave an old fart a taco, had him tell me that a sword is "not as clumsy or as random as a banjo"...

[Mat]

At first I thought the voice actor was the same guy who did The Tick, but a bit of IMDBing reveals it isn't so. Still, it's very reminiscent of the lovable blue moron, which is never a bad thing

[PVB]

Yup, I'm enjoying it as well.

I think of him as a cross between Evil Dead Ash and Dr Horrible's Captain Hammer.

[CarlBillen]

"I once infiltrated of coven of vampires who were posing as vacuum cleaner salesmen.
It sucked on so many levels."

[mutopian]

And do NOT forget the Wise Cow ("Teach me the ways of the warrior you four legged friend")

The game is worth getting purely for the Wise Cow's philosophical outlook on life

[Tanatoes]

Is it just me or do you die an awful lot in this game? Maybe it's that I played for about an hour last night before I figured out how to change my weapons and armor.

Still - loving the writing!

[PVB]

Is it just me or do you die an awful lot in this game? Maybe it's that I played for about an hour last night before I figured out how to change my weapons and armor.

Still - loving the writing!

After playing a little of the trial on middle (default) difficulty and dying a lot, I then went through the How To Play bit of Options and figured out a lot. :-)

Still dying a bit too often, so might drop the difficulty down to easy if it pisses me off too much, but that's not happening yet.

[CarlBillen]

I died for the first time when I met the eyeball thingy. I did have a hard time against the demons, but then I started equipping the fire resistance gear I had, which gave me 50 or 75% fire resistance, and I had this Ice Hammer that killed the big demons in a hit or two.

However, when I went to the Mating stone at the lake to check out the Greem Queen, well, let's say she was a few levels higher than me

[PVB]

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However, when I went to the Mating stone at the lake to check out the Greem Queen, well, let's say she was a few levels higher than me

Spoilers dude!


One question: How The Fuck do I hurt/kill the ghosts?!

They're just east of the Greem Camp, on the way to the first Thongolith.

Tried Undead Bolts, but they didn't do a thing.

Also, the two locked chests in the Greem Camp. Can't find keys for them. Do they come later or am I missing something?

Spoiler any tips/answers.

[Bane]

here you go pvb hope this helps and also to others playing this great game. for i too am enjoying it and yes i do die alot but still. and at least your character is not a voiceless mute or can only say things like attack or die

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for the ghosts you need to do nature damage or use your justice attacks on them. nature damage will do the most damage to them whilst the justice attacks will do minor. for at lv 11 i was doing only 4 dam to the lv 7 ghosts. and as for the keys you get three (one each) from the ghosts don't know if its a one off or every time you kill them.

[PVB]

Aah, right, well as I'm only level 7 at the mo I might leave them for a bit.

Re: Keys for chests:

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I just found and killed a Badgephant and that dropped a gold key, so might try that later to see if it'll open one of the Greem Camp chests.

I also used the Poop Hammer just now.

[PVB]

Re: Keys for chests:

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I just found and killed a Badgephant and that dropped a gold key, so might try that later to see if it'll open one of the Greem Camp chests.

It does.

Map of where it's found:

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http://www.medwaypvb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/scans/deathspank1.jpg

Keys can also be found:

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By killing ghosts. You'll need one of the 3 they drop to open the chest they're guarding.