Posted on: January 12, 2017

BlackyNoir

Spiele: Rezensionen: 3

A big miss…

…for this game. To be clear: it's not a good RPG. What's being sold by the marketing, playing some kind of legate of a victorious evil supreme lord, making real tough choices with real consequences is just not true. You will spend most of your time mob killing people, crawling through maps, looting corpse, selling batch of iron swords… does that sound like a legate job or life? There very very little diplomacy, intrigue, moral and legal questions or dilemma. And on top of that combat is messy. You won't know who's who on your screen, who's doing what when to whom. A full mess. Even worse, if the game was a tabletop rpg it would be labeled Narrativist, as the game impose incoherent and ludicrous scenes. Like the leader of your enemy taunting you for 5 minutes literally just 2 feet away, then just running away. And you can't move during all that, at all, the game deem you able to play it only once the pseudo cinematic as concluded. And not once or twice, but a lot. A lot. And the writing isn't tip top too. And even worse, the game railroad you all along. Yes you can choose, right at the very selective moments, one of the 4 paths scripted for you. Once you do, even if the game and a whole lot of NPC tell you to be subtle, you won't be because you can't. The game will make choices for you, even a whole lot of unreasonable or incoherent one. You're not making choices, you're not making A local temporary arbitration, you're choosing every damn quest and decisions for your character until the end of the game. Decisions being go there kill them, even though the quest givers usually have whole armies at their disposal, somehow again and again and again a young “diplomat” like you is needed for this FantasyNavySeals RPG of killing people and selling their petty stuff back to the local quartermaster, sorry merchant. Could have been a good game. It's not.

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Posted on: June 7, 2021

Sharpshell

Spiele: 55 Rezensionen: 4

Smoke and Mirrors

Ironically, these games that emphasize how "choices matter" often make me feel even more railroaded. Let me translate what "choices matter" really means for this game: Sometimes in the game a dialogue choice you make will lock your character into a certain path, and block off others. Don't worry, you can play through a second time to make a different key choice! Cool, I guess. What would be really cool is if how you actually conducted yourself in the game really gave you different options throughout the game. Like, OK you made one alliance based on a past choice but you could maybe convince some other faction to work with you through dialogue or proving yourself to them? Nope, not in this game, that area is greyed out and you can't go there or you just have to kill them all (even though you didn't even know anything about them when you made that fateful choice, btw). It's hard to explain without spoilers but at the end of the day, there are basically 4 paths. So it's really a very linear game you have to play 4 times. But that's fine because the story is... OK. It's OK. It's not a masterpiece but it's interesting and I was having fun learning more about the world but it was frustrating how little autonomy I actually had in that story and being forced to be the bad guy got kind of old. I played for like 25 hours but I think I'm basically done because the gameplay loop is just not interesting. The combat is kind of samey after a while and the tactics are limited. At first, making spells is fun but that gets old too. The loot system is... a mess. You collect an endless amount of straight garbage (and it all seems to be heavy armor that you will never use because the companions are, also a mess...). So I had a decent 25 hours, which isn't bad for the 8 bucks or whatever I paid (GOG sent me a steep discount) but in the end, I am pretty disappointed. New Vegas this is not.

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Posted on: December 27, 2017

alfoulkes

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Spiele: 657 Rezensionen: 15

Best of the new RPG for me

I preferred this game over the other new isometric RPG's (Wasteland 2, Pillars of Eternity and Torment: Tides of Numenera(I haven't played Original Sin games)). It stinks that they never finished the game properly but still, it engaging and imaginative world and story. Reminds me of the ancient Greece stand against the Persian empire (just as dark and mean).

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Posted on: June 25, 2018

jacemos

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Spiele: 272 Rezensionen: 1

True RPG revival

It is a rare pleasure to play RPG that combines a meaningful story line with true moral choices, solid fighting tactics and beautiful graphics. On the top of that the game can be really challenging if wish - very good variety of difficulty levels. I spent over 200h playing this game. Fans of original Fallout series (Fallout 1 & Fallout 2) will feel like at home. 1) Story line - non banal and non linear main motive to which you are immediately submerged thanks to a very well constructed introduction - an interactive one that joins the specific history with your choices as you tag along. It is something different to stand on the side of invaders whether it is right or wrong. In time you are able to understand more and more about the reality that surrounds you thanks to reach discussions you are able to have with many characters. You are able to decide what is good and bad since you represent the court of justice on the side of the invaders. You advance your journey, your experience and your rank within the faction your represent, decide who you wish to part with and make justice in many individual small cases as well as within the general plot. 2) Fighting tactics - rich mechanism that allows to start and stop the fight as you go. You are able to decide whether you want the game to run in a fast or a slow pace as well as how often (if at all) the game should automatically stop on specific types of events. You can pre-determine how your characters act in a battle (aggressive stance, defneding indivudal or defending party etc.). The pre-determined AI from your party is not perfect. Also in general the AI of commanding system is not perfect . This is one of very few issues I found in the game. Other than that fighting system is exciting - combination of expanded phhysical skill set, magic (great compelx system) and weapons and artifacts, very well described and working nice. You can issue mutliple commands and see how these unfolds or interrupt and redefine as you go.

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Posted on: June 22, 2019

Gsom900

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Spiele: 184 Rezensionen: 22

This was great!

I really like pillars of eternity 1, played it twice but i still have no idea about poe's world and lore and about half of mechanics and i have no intetion of finding out. Tyranny on the other hand estabilishes itself perfectly. The world is smaller, the combat is simplier at first, you have well organised trees of skills and nicely done character stat page. Character themselves are entertaning and original, the world is unsual indeed with you clearly not being the main hero of the tale but important indeed. Tyranny does both talking and fighting and does it good. You have lots of dialogue options that change because of your choices. You have a very talkable teammates who unlike some mad priest dont drown you into obsucated lore. Leaders of two armies under overlords command are so well done you just cant wait to talk mor to them. Fights feel weighty, every animation is smooth and pretty to look at. You even have special moves that can be done only with your party members. Also there are talents, artifacts, scrolls, spell constructor, forge upgrades, unique items in stores and more. Also i have to mention favor/wrath system. They way you deal with various factions and their members affects your standing both with each character and the faction as a whole. Your actions have consequences, you have to think before you say something because it can ruin a relationship you did a big effort of estabilishing. I hope there will be a sequel or more games like this.

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