Posted on: October 21, 2017

Alatreon

Spiele: 86 Rezensionen: 1

The definition of potential.

The good: -if you liked Gothic, you will love this one - it has all the charm of the series -the character development system - you have the basic attributes like strength, cunning etc which raise your abilities a bit and are keys to unlocking perks; then you have perks which are your bread and butter of character building - here you can find your +dmg skills, pickpocketing, spells, class abilities etc. A nice touch is that some dialogue options require you to have a number of perks in a certain category to use them, but they never require a specific one, meaning there's no one "diplomacy" skill that affects conversations only -the world - it's created beautifully. The graphics are pretty, the lore is interesting, the clash between nature and technology as well as logic and emotions is thematically everywhere -gray morality - you don't split choices into good and bad. Many a time you are required to choose which moral value is more important to you instead of just going the "hero" route or "villain" one The bad: -the game lacks TONS of basic or QoL features. How am I supposed to know whether a potion is good or bad, when I don't have the access to numerical values of my HP and mana?! -the combat could use a bit more polish. The lock on system can mess you up big time, I made tons of evades I never meant to do, the mechanics like knockback are left unexplained and unclear. Sometimes I can kill an enemy without taking any damage, sometimes they just refuse to stagger from my hits letting them get free combos on me -the Polish localisation is very low quality. Many words seem to have been translated without the translator knowing the context. You can see stuff like "coefficient" in the place of "value", "screen mode" in the place of "sit down", or having more than one name for a single thing. One NPC even introduces herself as "Ania" while the subtitles say "Annie". Verdict - it's a nice game that needs some patches to become great one.

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Posted on: May 29, 2019

Abedsbrother

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Spiele: 1020 Rezensionen: 26

Classic Piranha Bytes RPG (good & bad)

A relief to play a newer game with decent story-telling. - Good characters. - Well-structured quests. I'd complete a side-quest, casually make the choice at the end, and be rewarded with loot and the message, "This will change the story." Resulting in me waking up and immediately trying to remember wtf did I actually do in that mission, and pondering whether I should load a save and re-do it. - World-design (hyped as "hand-crafted") is superb. Great fun to explore. - Combat is absolutely terrible, though. It's like they wanted to bring Dark Souls combat to a sandbox RPG but had no idea how to balance character progression with damage dealt. Quick-save often, because even the smallest creatures can stun-lock you to instant death. #PiranhaBytes never changes... - The loot, though plentiful, is tiny. Without the sunglasses to highlight loot (they can be found or purchased from merchants), you'll miss 75% of everything. - Voice-acting is meh. Could be worse, but could be better. - I get that re-used character models are common in a game of this size, but outside of squaddies there are barely a half-dozen faces in the game. I picked it up for $20 last December. Considering the games that can be purchased much cheaper than that, I over-spent. Worth $10-12, maybe $15 at most. Consider that there is no DLC (just the soundtrack can be purchased) and the game as offered is otherwise the complete package. Enjoy the spectacle, the world, and the stories. A throw-back to the old days of RPGs, but not a flawless throw-back by any means. I wanted to give it 4 stars, but that combat... I had to fight the game to finish it. That ultimately hurts its score.

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Posted on: July 4, 2020

Schithsificated

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Spiele: 68 Rezensionen: 8

Not a spiritual successor to Gothic

Some people are comparing it to Gothic but it is no where near that level. In Elex a burnt out turkey you find just in the staring area can kill you in an instant in Ultra difficulty. Gothic didn't have a foolish difficulty system which means they could do proper enemy placement and better level design. They intelligently put juvenile animals in the start, and tough enemies in difficult to reach locations. But in Elex you have to worry about a 1000 other things when fighting. Your stamina which keeps running out in the middle of a combo, staggering enemy attacks, rolling and evading, combos and special attacks with separate meters. It is unacceptable that a studio that constantly got bashed for bad combat systems still went ahead and made an even worse combat system. This is apart from all the immersion breaking issues. Why Beserkers don't care when I have a companion who is an Alb flying all over the city? aren't they suppose to be mortal enemies? In Gothic 2 if you go into a house in the harbour city people will drive you out but if you come back as a town guard they will not dare attack you. in the expansion, go to a bandit camp wearing the wrong armour and you are dead. Also why can't I take weapons from enemies? That is one of the things that made Gothic amazing, if you can beat a tough enemy their powerful weapon is yours. I truly don't understand how a studio that had that level of attention to detail based on the realism of old school RPG's like Ultima 7 devolved into making generic games. I don't think PB is getting enough feedback on their negatives or positives but I guess it is the gamers fault since they need to make financial decision based on what would appeal to most people.

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Posted on: February 5, 2020

Pyredyne

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Spiele: 513 Rezensionen: 22

Yep this is a Piranha Bytes game...

I dont understand this studio. Another interesting RPG bogged down by its awful combat. Something Pirnaha Bytes seems to be getting worse at designing. Gothic 2 was ok, Risen got worse with each installment and now here we are at barely playable. I really hope they spend a little more time on combat in the next game, that or just remove it completely.

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Posted on: August 7, 2019

grim1234

Spiele: 244 Rezensionen: 11

I only want to talk about the VO

If you're feeling that the NPCs don't have.. souls.. emotions... Call it what you will, I just call it boring voice acting... Then I suggest you play this game with german voice over. It's night and day difference. The NPCs with german VO feel like they actually give a damn about what they're talking. They USE emotions, they often have ROUGH voices, in short: they are not boring to listen to and feel like humans instead of talking dummies. That's all, have a good one.

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