Posted on: October 6, 2020
Early Access review
JeanMich
Games: 641 Reviews: 34
Crookery at his best
Like most players, yes, paying 60€ for an unfinished game is the work of crook. When you were a tester, before, you used to have discounts or even the game for free. This model is like tasting raw food at a restaurant, paying fool price, and wait a long time before being served and then realize that the customer next to you pay only 10-25% of the full price without having to taste before like you did. Give a Nobel of crooky capitalism to this studio, they've beaten EA games ! The game itself : -very poor animation level. You are far from current standards of most AAA games. And it seems to be the core of the game... -plenty of bugs but that's normal - music is not immersive... - no big bad antagonist presented. I mean, where is the new Sarevok or Irenicus ? BG implies some standards, this is one of them. - random loot : that's not RP friendly, loot have to be coherent with the monsters you kill. Finding a sword on an imp is irrelevant. - 4 people party. Those standards do not match the spirit of BG. 6 people party give more interactions between characters and allow us to test various kind of roleplay for our characters. With for, you specialize too much. - Turn based is quite slow even if they try to fasten it. Pillars of Eternity and Pathfinder succeed into bringing back RTwP. Larian should be able to do it too. - The dice system is the strenght of this game : that gives us no choice but to adapt, that's very RP friendly. To make it better, disabling save-quit-reload is interesting. Only thing, it shouldn't pause the game, we do not need to see it. It's a waste of time. To finish : the game will be good, yes, but it won't be with BG heritage, that's just bad marketing. Pathfinder of PoE are way better descendants. Just wait the full release, and wait few months or a year for a bigger discount, 60€ is way too expensive for that.
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