Jade Empire: Special Edition

I love this game.... not for PC... because apparently the developers thought a game port with the quality of a terrible emulator release was a good idea.... Not at all. Frame rate issues and even after adjusting the controls (or attempting to) to the xbox control to help me get all those great memories back I'm still left further dissapointed the gameplay suffers when the game won't allow you to macro the triggers...

It is one of those "this is probably good, but i am not sure"- games. Its a bit like "Beyond Good and Evil": Its beyond your average scenario and just pure, plain, addictive fun. If you like Action RPGs and have an open mind to something beyond every day fantasy, this game is for you. It will soak you into a big adventure :) I wish i had bought and played that game earlier. Absolutely worth it´s money!

I actually played it some five years ago, when I bought it from a Billa in Austria, as it was only 16 EUR, which seemed almost dirt cheap (a few weeks later I realised that it was a bit of a mistake, as then game was in German only and I knew no German whatsoever). Despite that hurdle in my gaming experience, I was captivated by the world in the game... The atmosphere is memorable (though I wouldn't be able to recall everything there was, it had a certain je ne sais quois) and at that moment the fighting system attracted me quite a lot, with its slight resemblance to WoW. Definitely going to buy it again.

I played through this game a hundred times and was very happy to find it on GOG only to find out that the game is utter garbage in this version. Enemies can stunlock you alone, dodging avails nothing as in this version enemies turn with you while dodging (but ofc your character does not under the same circumstances...), blocking is simply useless because your dumb character does not do it, however even with the fastest styles fully upgraded your enemies can block at any given time. WTH? Then of course, after you figured out how to trick the system, you go through almost any confrontation with one hand down your pants, until you meet deamons. For some reason some total crackpot thought: Yeah, you know what? In this version we'll make them live solely on cocain and delete their weaknesses. So deamons still turn with you and are henceforth lightning fast and their strikes almost unavoidable. Their greatest weakness was being slow. Now you have a towering elephant deamon, with longer reach than yours, striking just as fast as the second fastest martial style, turning with your dodges, unable to being interrupted and all that on top of a bunch of other enemies. Good bloody job of ruining a game entirely. I am not sure if this is an issue with the GOG version, or with the latest version in general, but it's not like I could check if my version does not have the issue as it is broken. But the problems are with the version you can buy here at this point you are paying scraps for a bloody broken game.

I bought this with nostalgia on the mind, I wanted to relive the experience I had when i first played this game long ago. Now the game is good, it works. But not for me sadly... I bought this on GOG thinking I wouldnt have to worry about bugs and glitches, that I will be able to play without having to go to some sketchy third party website to get it to function. But that wasnt what happened sadly. Honestly the only thing more frustrating than this game not working, is the fact that I am the only one with a GOG copy that wont work while everyone is praising how GOG's Jade Empire is working like a dream. I tried so hard to get this to work for me, having to redo the Bandit Raid over and over and over, just to get to the level up screen in hopes that I get to finally progress the game. If someone know's my issue and know's how to fix it, so I may get back into this game please tell me. I REALLY want to play but all the guides dont work for me...