I bought BRINK even though it was getting horrible reviews and I like the game it just needs tweaking and Hunted seems to be getting the same review scores but I dont want to buy another $60 game waiting for it to get patched over time, so is this game worth buying right NOW or should I wait a couple of months so by then the game will be patched? Oh and is this game fun by your self or is it a game centered around co-op?

Personally, I have no regrets buying this. I also liked Brink, btw. Co-op is definitely better but solo works just fine. The AI is pretty good at doing it's job as long as you do yours too.

I like it very much and did't play co-op, yet. I like Brink, too, but after 30h of gameplay and having finished the first level 20 character, I don't play it much anymore (waiting for the DLC). Hope Hunted's Crucible mode gives me some replay value after the campaign.
A patch would be nice here, too, but it is less urgent that with Brink (where the sound bug is still not fully adressed, lucky me I don't have problems with lag or the graphics).

EDIT: the reviews are much worse here (see http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/huntedthedemonsforge/review.html?tag=summary%3Bread-review&page=2 for example: 4.5/10). It's seems definitively not to be a game for everyone. Perhaps, as with Brink, you should check first if the game really delivers what you want. I had no problem with Brink (knowing QW:ET) and I had no problems with Hunted (after having done just a little bit of research).

I love it and I'm playing solo. Crucible is the best horde/survival type mode I've ever played in any game. It's so addictive how you unlock things for Crucible by getting gold in the campaign. I found my first fast-firing bow, and it was really awesome. My first thought was, I hope there are some fast-firing bows in Crucible. I did some research and there is only one, and its the last thing you unlock in the game! I must have it! So I'll be playing for a long, long time. This should keep me busy until Rage. I don't understand the negative reviews at all. I highly recommend it, especially if you have a creative streak.

I was also hesitant to buy this game after first a distinct lack of reviews, and then rather mediocre scores (although most of those 7ish reviews did seem to like at least certain aspects of the game).
I'm four hours into the PC version now (somewhere in chapter 2) - playing solo - and I'm very glad I decided to take my chance with this game. So far it's been one hell of an entertaining dungeon crawl (with some stints under open sky) playing as E'lara. I can't recall ever having this much fun with bow and arrows in any action game or RPG before - and making it what may be the first case of (voluntary) cover based archery was a great decision.

The game also looks pretty great. Or let me clarify that by saying I was initially sorely underwhelmed, as the outdoors area in daylight during the prologue make the graphics look very dated, but once it's night time or in dungeons, it impresses a lot more. It also runs at a rock solid 60 fps at 1920x1200 on my aging Geforce GTX 260, which is a nice change of pace from a certain other fantasy game I'm playing at the moment (it involves a W and a 2 in the title ).

Voice acting is also solid, I particularly like the frequent banter between E'lara and Caddock (although I have noticed a few repeated lines so far, hopefully there will be enough variety throughout the game so the dialogue doesn't become tiresome).

As for all the people I've seen saying that Hunted doesn't play well on mouse and keyboard - I don't agree at all, and I'm saying that as someone who's around 50/50 PS3/PC player these days, so I'm just as used to a gamepad as I am to mouse and keyboard.
While it's true that particularly magic seems like it might make use of a few redundant key presses, I think mouse and keyboard are perfectly fine for this keyboard, and no less responsive or much more button heavy than most typical first person shooters.

Co-Op adds a lot, it doesn't need patching. Not sure what they would be patching other then PC connectivity. I'm having a blast playing coop on the PC, it's not like we have a lot of these games, that alone makes it a 10. It's just a solid and entertaining game. I don't get where someone comes off hating it. Bad gfx, where? Bad Voice Acting, where? For mag reviews this should be in the high 8 low 9 range, but I can't make heads or tails on how they rate games anymore. Play it on a harder setting, explore all nooks and crannies and your at a 25+ hour game.

I had to tweak my mouse in an ini to make it perfect, game plays like butter with a k/m. Changed camera angles on some stances to my liking (love first person bow zoom), dropped mana use per spell a bit to feel a bit more like a battle mage. Setup macro to make spells one key press. Setup mousewheel-up to change main weapons, Heaven!)

I picked up two copies of this game so my gf and I could play, and I must say that we are not disappointed. One thing to keep in mind is that this is a hack-n-slash /action type game, and not really and rpg. The graphics are o.k. and the action ranges from casual to intense in some areas. I am playing the story line in co op and while the story itself is nothing to special, it is interesting and fun. Definately something you and a friend can go through and enjoy-Peace!

So far I've seen the intro and thats about it. I've spent the past 1/2 day trying to get a LAN game working with no luck so far.

I purchased 2 copies from Stardock/Impulse for me and my wife. We absolutely refuse to play single player. We didn't shell out the extra $50 for a second copy to verify how good/bad the AI is at playing the second character. We got TWO copies to play over our LAN.

Me and the wife are hopeful though. This game has Bethesda's name on it so we know it'll get polished sooner or later and these connectivity issues will get ironed out in a patch or two. We've decided to give it 30 or so days before asking Stardock for a return/in-store credit.

So is it worth buying? If I had to do it all over again knowing what I know now, I would wait for the first major patch to be released that addressed the connection issues a lot of people are having with the game.

Perhaps you could check out http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1916970&highlight=LAN from the Steam Users' Forums.

Yea, I know about Tunggle. If I wanted to play the game over VPN with some random Joe then that would be ok. But I don't. I want to play it over an actual Local Area Network (192.168.x.x) with my wife without the headache of a third party app. (And without the added lag and overhead generated by an internet connection be it VPN or otherwise)

I may come off as a "hater" in my posts but I'm not. Both me and my wife have been looking forward to this game since we first heard about it. We are also both huge fans of (Pre and post Bethesda) Fallout and the Elder Scrolls series so Bethesda is top notch as far as we are concerned. If for some reason I do have to return the two copies we have for a store credit then it will happily go towards a preorder of Skyrim. :thumbsup:

So in the end there really isn't much lost (on my end) other than having not been able to play a game which most people that are able to play coop give fairly high marks.

Since there is an entry in the FAQ of the PC Hardware section of this forum about chat and Gamespy for LAN connections, I assume that this should work. Sorry for not being able to try it myself. Could there be a security issue of your Windows installation that blocks the connection.

EDIT: this http://segmentnext.com/2011/05/31/hunted-the-demons-forge-crashes-connection-fix-co-op-online-errors-slow-loading-fixes/ seems to be useful, too.