Grim Dawn

There are just too many mechanics which block having fun. For example: healing potions have a cooldown, important areas can only be entered again after restarting this session (and guess who's back?! Yeah, all the trash mobs I slayed before!). and the devotion thing is a nice idea but there is no comfortable way to search for stats (you have to go through the constellations manually . . .). The boss fights are usually incredibly boring: as a shaman I just stand in front of them, kepp the left mouse button pressed and press one or two action keys; no movement at all. The number of occasions when I had to move are countable with on hand and my char is at level 55 now. The item management is awful too. I did not find a way to sort my items by stats. Instead I went through every item and compared its stats to what I had equipped (another boring aspect of the game). The story started with an interesting video but there never came one again. Also the gameonly referred once to my class/classes chosen. The rest of the time you go through areas and slay groups of monters and then you fight bosses who look all the same. . . Coming to another aspect: no iconic monsters/enemies/NPC's. What made D2 so strong is not existing in Grim Dawn. The only creature I remember is the final boss of the main campaign. The good things about Grim Dawn are: it works, you might be able to play it without the internet and it keeps you busy. But it did not thrill me and it actually did not entertain me in a positive way. But as I said: it keeps you busy. Nevertheless, all in all, the title of this recession sums up my opinion perfectly: this game is boring; and I am so sick of it, I will not touch it again. Greetings.

After 50h spent ingame, I've not found any magic as there was in Titan Quest. World is boring, locations looks all the same (copied form antoher games) and i had to always to look for help online when doing confusing quests. Monsters are boring and unispiring, there is too much worthless loot. For positive: there is leveling schema copied from TQ. 3/5. I'll wait for D2 remake.

Can not recommend a purchase. Matter of fact I wish I had not bought this; it is ultimately a very disappointing experience. The developer never took the time to properly balance the game so it is too easy to create a character that is virtually invincible to any enemies. They kind of "fixed" this with annoying sections where the ground you are standing on does insane damage; its a joke. If I wanna play Mario, I will play Mario. Torchlight or Diablo 2 remain better choices for an ARPG. It really is a shame, because this had the makings of a really good game. Too many damage/resistance types are another example of muddying the waters with phony depth. They really did not try hard enough to do anything except get sales. What a shame.

Well I really would like to like this game, because the world, skills, equip,... all is good and interesting. BUT when you start playing you can play only on 2 / 4 difficulty settings which is the problem. Game encourage you to explore its big world, but if you do that you are extremly quickly highly overpowered and the fun is gone. In this game I literally can stand in a huge group of enemies, hold right mouse button, look out of the window AND I STILL WIN A BOSS FIGHT. Where is a chalange? Where is micromanagement of poitions, skill and equip??? Yes is this type of a game you should feel like demigod who can kill anything, but it should also give you a challenge and push you as a player to get better. This for me, is so easy then it is boring,

I picked Grim Dawn up during a sale as it's claimed to be Diablo II's successor. After having played several hours, having reached Act 3 I've yet to encounter anything that'd make Grim Dawn a valid Diablo 2 successor in the loosest way possible. From that perspective, to me, the game is a complete let down. That said, at the core Grim Dawn is still a very solid ARPG with its own unique style and setting. Unfortunately that doesn't necessarily always work in its favor. Clunky UI and non indicative buttons/functionalities that may escape your attention completely for several hours into the game (or googling for any of the features, really). Dozen of stats, many of which feel useless and underdocumented. Items that drop seldom make you go 'whoa' but more along the lines of 'Well, this will/must do'. Legendaries only drop starting at level 50, so there's no low level legendaries or legendary scaling. Act 2 made me question myself as to why I'm playing that game. That's a really bad sign. Act 2 felt like a never ending, tedious, stale and uninspired grind. Not yet sure if Act 3 can change that. On Veteran the game isn't a complete faceroll, in fact I find myself kitting quite a fair bit. Perhaps my choice of setting is at fault and the game would be less tedious on normal. Overall the game feels 'slow' in contrast. Tthe world feels bland and 'MMOigized' for lack of better terms. I don't feel/see any dread or immediate threat and many of the (side) quests don't really reflect any of it, either. Occasionally it feels like a hubbed MMO with collect/clearance quests. The biggest short-coming in my eyes though is the fact that Grim Dawn Maps are static. So are monsters. There's no RNG involved here, which drastically (to me) kills replayability. Diablo III wasn't exactly great in that regard, either. It's an okay purchase during a sale but beyond that I personally would stay clear unless you're desperate for something new in terms of ARPG fix. 3.5/5.