ELEX

Took me 70h to completly beat it, I personally enjoyed it despite some unlogical consiquences. I would recommend to buy this at cheaper price tho (around 25 euros - 50% discount). Overall one of best virtual experiences I had in many years.

This is a sort of Steampunk Skyrim, where you run around a world with swords and sorcery but also jet aircraft and laser rifles. And as such, it seems like it ought to be tailor-made for me. Its a beautiful world, with lots of factions and companions and characters to interact with. It falls down, for me, in a couple of areas: 1) It is, as others have mentioned, fairly brutal. As in: I've sunk a fair few hours in, and made it up to level 11, and there is essentially no badguy in the game who can't kill me in 1 or 2 hits. Every combat is essentially me baiting my companion into fighting, and then kiting around tying to stay alive until he or she kills the baddies. This is, for the most part, kind of dull. It's possible that I'm so fragile because I haven't convinced any of the factions to take me on and give me faction armor, which is because... 2) All of the major factions are utter aresehats. To the point where I don't particularly _want_ to do their quests and earn their favor. And there isn't any compelling in-game reason for me to want to do so. No one is promising me better armor if I wander around murdering their citizens for them; they're just ordering me to go around murdering their citizens for no particular reason, and then getting pissed off at me when I instead tell people to run (which I apparently then automatically report back to the questgivers off-camera; they _always_ know. The Berserkers are nature-loving luddites who might almost be likeable if every single one of their quests didn't involve being a jerk for no reason whatsoever. But if I'm real nice to them they'll give me some furs to ward off enemy plasma bolts! So there's that. The Outlaws are Madmaxian murder-hobos who claim that everything is about power and money but get pissed off at me for not siding with beggars, and when I refuse to do anything for them without rewards of power or money. Oh, and they want to blow up the world. The Clerics are mind-controlling religious zealots. And the Albs are emotionless robots who tried to murder me in the opening cutscene. So while the world is detailed and full of _lots_ of talky-talky, I can't find anyone who will give me any reason - even blatant bribes, at this point! - to side with them. And there _are_ sympathetic characters - those are the people you get sent on quests to murder, hurrah! If you like to play a Skyrim-style game but ignore the story, then this may work for you; if you're looking for another Witcher, this aint it.

I've spent 8 hours in this game and I didn't like any minute of it. The game feels unfinished. The world is empty and boring. The NPCs are colorless; I couldn't care less about anyone. The story is not interesting and the whole place seems more like a sandbox with few things added than an actual RPG. Music is nothing to write home about either. I've played some hard games, but they were rewarding and had something to keep you going. I forced myself to sit through those hours to get to the good part. It never arrived. You'd better not waste your time on this. If you wanna nostalgia, play Gothic or Risen,

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This game right out of the gate is absolute garbage. From the fairly fates graphics to the terrible voice acting and idiotic dialogue. Then beyond that combat is like trying to drive a real tank in real life with only one person operating. NIGHTMARE. Beyond that the combat is so difficult that 25-30 hits on a regular animal sometimes doesn't kill it but it hits you 2-3 times and its over, this is on EASY difficulty. There's no clear mission to take that will be achievable in the beginning because you can't fight anyone or anything on the way which is clearly the only way to level your character to be able to fight these insanely monstrously stupid impossible to kill animals. This game is a COMPLETE waste of money DO NOT BUY IT!!!!!! GARBAGE