GreedFall – Gold Edition

After reading the reviews I launched the game not really knowing what to expect. Maaaan, I was in for a surprise. The setting is amazing, the clothing (tricornes!) is sooo aestethically pleasing. The story is quite interesting, Searching for a cure for a deadly plague while at the same time uncovering buried secrets regarding your country and your past for both of those plots to intertwine during the ending. NPCs are okay too, some of their personal quests do push forwards or influence the main plot. Fights? Taking a shot with a musket between melee attacks is strangely satisfying. Did I mention the tricornes yet? Runs flawlessly on Linux under Lutris/Proton, I had to edit the installation script to remove The Adventurer's Gear DLC as I don't own it. The bad? A bit clunky movement, be careful to lock your targets during fights because otherwise it gets random (to the point of shooting your musket into the air, hitting no one). Animations, especially speech, yikes. Overall? I had lots of fun with the game, certainly worth it.

This is a solid game, and perhaps the most polished entry from this company. I hope this is a sign of further improvement on future titles. This is closer to AAA, but really well polished AA at the least. The game does a decent job of drawing you in fairly quickly. Decent story, gameplay, graphics, and sound. Certainly welcome with such a dearth of Bioware style games currently. The ending certainly felt a bit rushed, which happens to many such titles. But overall well worth the time investment, especially with the sequel now announced. I'll be honest, I definitely played with mods, because I can't always be bothered to deal with the leveling structure in games nowadays. But there is a healthy collection of other options on that front as well, for folks who want it. The DLC is really short, and ultimately doesn't affect the story at all. The DLC is worth playing, but not worth screwing up the mods, unless you are a completionist. I'd say have a separate save file for a DLC run, if you do mods.

It took me a long time to figure out how to get around in the game and find places, because the maps are non-existent and completely un-helpful until you've finally discovered several places. It gives you ZERO help in finding places it sends you to. Just explore until you finally discover where you're looking for! If not for the map issues this would be a pretty great game, the storyline is actually decent and enjoyable, just trying to make it thru from one place to another is very difficult early in the game. The ending is satisfying if you've made choices to make it that way. Just may take more than one run thru to figure out what the "better" choices are. But that is what makes it an interesting game, the puzzle of making choices to direct the game in the direction you'd like.

I really enjoyed the first 50% of the game, It looks good and had an interesting plot. However, the constant travel back and forth between points made the game VERY repeative over the last half of the game and took away alot from my overall experience with it.

I really liked this RPG the story and setting is really good, I reccommend to get it if you want to have a good time. The combat is the weakest part, so far I only done a run with one style, did not even try magic, you can certanly do more than one run in different gameplay styles of combat. If you like rgps I'm sure you'll like this one.