Posted on: November 1, 2020

Mailanka

Games: 1095 Reviews: 55

A Great AA RPG

I waited on this one, and I must say, I was blown away by the quality of my experience. It hooked me immediately and kept me playing for more than 40 hours, and I still didn't experience everything I could have. Some people compare it to Bioware, and I think that's an apt comparison. It reminded me a lot of the older Bioware titles, like Jade Empire, Mass Effect 1 and Dragon Age Origins. It even follows a familiar formula: become some neutral-but-important figure, gain main quest, get faction-based side-quests, get companions, get companion-based side-quests, have up to two companions with you at any given time. The story is good and engrossing, and the characters are alright, but where it really excels is in revealing the world to you, which is very well-done on many levels. The core of gameplay turns on combat, with a dash of stealth gameplay and branching dialogue. This latter seems more present in the early game, which rewards exploration, but towards the end I noticed it fell off a bit. Combat is well done, but there's a lack of variety when it comes to enemies, so it becomes somewhat rote after the first ten or so hours. Combat is also a bit on the easy side: consider increasing the difficulty. The game is beautiful and has very few bugs, but it's clearly not a AAA experience. Assets tend to be heavily re-used and you'll run into a few bugs, but nothing really game breaking (though one prevented me from finishing a quest). I really enjoyed this like I haven't enjoyed a game in a long time. I definitely recommend picking it up. I'll be paying more attention to Spiders from now on.

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Posted on: March 28, 2022

Seracen_Alpha

Games: 542 Reviews: 5

Worth your time, especially on sale

Got the PS4 version when it was on deep discount. Amazing value. The story was compelling, the character work was solid, the graphics are respectable. Definitely a cut above the previous entries, and hopefully a sign of greater things in the future. The ending was a bit rushed, and the DLC was, quite frankly, undercooked. But again, if you can get it on sale, it's well worth the time investment. And if you are a fiend for storyline-rich action RPGs, a la Bioware, then you'd be happy even without the sale price. One caveat: it's well worth getting the mods. Per many Spiders' titles, the game balance can be a bit off for some people. Especially if you just want to play with the different abilities. So I never minded giving myself a head start with the leveling. Other than that and the rushed ending/DLC, no complaints.

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Posted on: January 29, 2025

metalinspired

Games: 297 Reviews: 2

Uncut diamond

The title says it all :)

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Posted on: October 13, 2020

SCHEUERMAN2

Verified owner

Games: 57 Reviews: 3

Fun, but...

There are a lot of glitches, slowdowns, and combat is so effing hard that it's like it told Dark Souls to hold its beer

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Posted on: December 11, 2021

Ramevox

Games: 650 Reviews: 68

Backtrackfall: Cliché Logs

Having previously liked Mars War Logs and Technomancer, I had high expectations towards Greedfall. However, it's the worst Spiders' game up to date. After finishing the main story and almost dropping the game altogether a couple of times, I'm struggling to name any positives. It's definitely the best looking from the three, from a technical perspective, I guess. The foliage is nice. The game is painful to play regarding all its aspects, because its core design is misfit to the scale. Greedfall is almost 1:1 a carbon copy of Mars: Wars Logs. However, it's padded to a couple of dozen hours of artificial busy work and holding a "Run" key back and forth, and it's not enough to uhold the whole thing. The entirety of content (enemy archetypes, loot, crafting, quest variations) is exhausted in the first 2, 3 hours of the main story. It's just the prologue and a short bit of the main island. If you had played War Logs or Technomancer, you will immediately recognize reskinned enemies in Greedfall: they even share the exact (or almost exact) reactions. Bosses (except the last one) share the same move set. Open world isn't integrated with the quests at all. It's just a background for the player to run from point A and B (sometimes a couple of times in the same quest). There's no real gameplay to talk about besides running back and forth through copy pasted locations and encounters. You will quickly be steamrolling through them. Exploration is not rewarded and itemization is unbalanced. The story and the setting are one of the worst examples of the noble savage cliché I've ever seen. If you had experiences with it before at least once, you know what will happen in the main story and during every side quest. It's all one dimensional. The writing is subpar and you quickly end up skipping it. There's a lot of it, but most is unsubstantial and repetitive to the point of pure annoyance (especially in investigation quests). VO is bad.

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