What on earth is this game and how do you play it???

The bitch radar is passed max on this folks, watch out! *enter rant mode*

First off instead of making a pointless post complaining and bitching about why you can't beat anything in the games just makes you look like a 12 year old snobby brat. Instead why not actually try asking for help, you posted so I know you can look into the strategy section which explains everything you just whined about in great detail. You say you have watched others play, but did you even bother to learn what they did? Did you watch what upgrades they got, what skills they selected, what items they bough, examined how they played with that demigod? Or did you just open up a game and watch demigods duck it out expecting the knowledge of what the hell was going on to be magically passed into you like you were a damn highlander?

Their is a damn difference between minions and creep wave, and seeing how you made this long rant Idoubt you understand what that difference so here is a crash course

Minions = shambler, lighting balls, yetis, spirits, nightcrawlers, and idols

creeps= things that appear magically out of the portal

minions can be controled; n= select everything, m= select minions only, o= regroup around demigod, i select general unique minions only, 7= select berserker, 8= select siege, 9= select priests.

Creaps follow a set route and cannot be controlled, and only general demigods have minions.

Before war rank 7, and catapults come out towers rape creeps, and afterwards towers become pointless.

No the game cannot be paused but it can be slowed down to a standstill making it easier to get a feel of the game, pausing the game would be a useless feature really. Either take your tell to strategy section and read the actually guides their or leave and give your copy of the game to someone who won't actually bitch when they can't understand a game.

*exit rant mode*

He just has a problem.  No reason to trash it.  There are tutorials in the forums somewhere I believe as well.

The End.

He more then a problem, he could have simply asked for help, or go into the strategy section and read all the guides in strategy section. Did he do that, no he came here with a pointless rant about how he hate the came cause he can't beat the ai on easy.

This game is incredibly simple to play. Waves of creeps go from the portals toward the enemy's static defenses. These creeps are of equal power, and your job is to turn the tide. At the beginning you're really weak, so you don't just rush to their towers and hack away. The most important thing to do is upgrade the creep waves (priests -> angels -> catapultsaurii, and finally giants)

To do this, you need to gain warscore, which you do by holding flags. So, basically the game boils down to whether you can fight your opponent on a flag and win. While it's very tempting to go for lots of damage and mana to cast your abilities, it's mathematically far better to just buy as many health increasing items as possible with 1, or 2 at the max mana helms.

So, as long as you buy health items and never fight outnumbered, you'll never die against an easy AI. For your favor item, you click the circle in the bottom right hand corner of your screen and select Blood of the Fallen. 9 times out of 10 you want blood of the fallen, especially if you're a newer player.

Most every Demigod has two good ability lines and a good level 5 skill. Look at some of the builds in the strategy forum for your favorite demigod, they'll get you started. Playing against the computer will be incredibly easy if you play for three or four days; you'll get to the point where you need to play against other humans just to have a competetive game.

If you stick with this game, it's very fun despite its flaws.

There are a lot of people on here willing to help you.  Instead of spewing piss & vinegar you should

Go here to check strategies:

http://forums.demigodthegame.com/forum/524

Jump on

http://www.gamereplays.org/demigod/

to view other people playing the game.  There's also a couple of walk throughs on there and youtube as well.

http://www.demigoddb.com/

This has all of the items and skills for your viewing pleasure.

Read the strategies, write out your build on a piece of paper so you can quickly reference it in game.

Here are a few tips:

1.  Playing the single player game will not help you should you move to playing other people.  If you wish to play other people (and this is where the game really becomes awesome) then join or host new player lobbies

2.  Stacking Hitpoints (HP) is better than stacking armor

3.  The first favor item you should probably save up for is Blood of the Fallen.  Another viable inexpensive favor item is swift anklet.  Ignore all of the others until you get those two.  Other viable items include Blade of the Serpent, cloak of night, poisoned dagger and a couple others...

4.  Pick a demi that interests and learn to play that one well before you learn a new one.  I recommend one of the following:

Unclean Beast, Erebus, Oak or Occulus.   Erebus, Oak and Occulus are generals which means that they do less burst damage than the assassins but they get the ability to have their own personal minions.  These minions can be purchased at the shop.  If you play one of those 3 buy the monk minion scroll as your first item (always) and then spawn the monks when you are at the shop so you mana regenerates because you are close to the crystal.  The monks will heal you every 10 seconds or so.

Dont start playing with:  Rook, Demon Assassin & regulus.

5.  The best armor pieces in the game include:  Banded armor, scale mail, scaled helm, plate visor, unbreakable boots, nimoth chest piece,  vlemish faceguard, plenor battlecrown, hauberk of life, groffling warplate. 

There are some other good ones as well but start with those. 

A typical middle game build should be:  Vlemish, Plenor, Unbreakable, nimoth & banded armor (or hauberk) along with bishops (bishops are the upgraded monks).  Please note that you can wear more than one piece of the same armor type!  Ie.  you can wear two chestpieces or multiple crowns etc.

let us know what you need help with, this is a fantastic game.

hey, folks, I didn't expect to see so many replies to a useless post like this

so guess what, I found a tutorial that made some sense, finally, and I think I might be able to play this game. Don't expect I'd wanna be reading tons of documentation in order to learn this game, it's just a game, for chrissakes if a game is easy to learn and intuitive enough, I'll play it if not, I'll let the 12 year olds who have more time and patience and passion for this kind of stuff do it, cuz they don't have anything better to do anyway. so, yeah, I'm not 12 y.o., but I do like to bitch like a 12 y.o., how about that?

so anyway, in the tutorial, the guy is of the same opinion as I am, that the game has unreasonable expectations from the player. there's no way you can read all there is to read, during gameplay, aaaand also play the game.

and for whoever thinks I should read tons of documentation in order to be able to play Demigod, again... I think that if you can't learn "on the fly", while playing, it's unreasonable to expect that a normal human being will waste time doing research in order to learn a game. a game is supposed to be fun, not "homework".

cheers!

amazing smileys btw!!!

What world do you live in because in the real world you actually have to research and learn how to do stuff, you dont just do everything on the fly. All you want is something that is going to be easy for you to play instantly, so my statement stands; give your copy of the game to someone else.

lol if a game is easy to learn then its just a childs game so im assuming you like to play little kids games. well whwn you want to play the big boy games come back here

There are certain things you can pick up while playing the game, but trust me, it's much more painful for you and your teammates. You won't learn much by playing against the computer; you'll win no matter what you do.

Certain things aren't exactly common sense in this game, but if you do the math you'll find out what's a good idea and what's going to make you lose for certain. For example, you should buy the currency upgrade in the citadel as soon as possible. Over time you'll get back much more money than you put in.

Also, you don't purchase priests too early, or the other team will level up by killing them and get more gold. There are a lot of little things like this in Demigod, and the game is too fast paced to figure them all out unless someone tells you or you read it on the forums. 

I'm not trying to be an ass, but I'm just telling you how it is. Their are so many posts because when a noob comes to the forum then thats a step in the right direction, and we enjoy helping them. Only if they show  us they are willing to actually learn how to play and not bitch about every little thing in the game.

have fun playing 'pacman' and 'snake' old man river.

The let's have fun mentality does not apply in strategy games . If you don't want to do your homework then play some FPS's or something.

mhm,

never had a problem like this...

but i think there is a kind of tutorial video on the homepage, right at the start... and the handbook (is it called hand-book in english? i think of the guide or manual or whatever you get when installing the game)

another point is that you can pause the game while in menue (F10?!) in single player AND versus AI: why in a hurry? take your time, just read the stuff and start a new game after reading (this is for citadel upgrades)! for the skills and items just look at

http://www.demigoddb.com/

but you can also just ask random people around here (in-game). i bet 70% of them are lucky to help (the others are jerks).

cu in the lobby!