Kingdom Come: Deliverance

KCD is stupid compared to KCD 2

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is awesome. The combat is satisfying and more complex than usual. Some sound design issues and bugs still plague it, but it's still absolutely a great game.

Seriously wtf. The controls for keyboard and mouse are so stupid. You look with your mouse the entire game, but then when you're in combat, your 'look' with mouse now changes combat directions which makes no sense. You can't unlock from a target which feels incredibly stupid. You can't see your hands so you have no idea whether or not you're about to swing or not.. lot of times I'm just clicking and clicking and it doesn't swing or do anything. Let's talk about archery, standing 1 foot in front of someone and firing off a dozen arrows and not landing one. When my character is worse at things than I am it is no longer a medieval simulator and just intentionally annoying so you can say it's not easy. I keep having to undo my save and go back several hours because even though I'm following a quest for nobility I keep ending up doing crime because it's not clear. Now I'm completely stuck vs the boss Runt. I can't even hit him once, he just runs at me and chops me to death repeatedly. I could never go train my weapons or combat because the guy (Bernard) was never at the training area. There's no way I'm going to start the game over from the beginning, so thanks a lot for wasting all my time and money.

The game features many design decisions, which make it a really poor experience. Excessive amount of headbob make this completely unplayable. This is the second game I've played to have ever caused motion sickness. You have to try really hard to create something this bad. The character’s head spins as if he was drunk all the time. There's a mod which limits that. The default reticle is extremely intrusive. A flaring orange dot in the centre of the screen is extremely distracting. There's a mod which fixes this too. The game is too stringent with saving. This doesn’t add the the realism, this wastes players’ time and leads to lost progress. There are frequent bugs in which the character gets stuck in mid-air or mid-floor, this can during a save point too and requires backtracking. There’s a mod which allows for unlimited saving. Sleep and hunger don’t add to the experience, they simply turn the game into a chore, especially when the sleep/wait timer is extremely slow. There's a mod which limits that. Items are allover the place, but there’s a mod, which introduces better item names. Without mods this game is a 3,5/10 at most.

I own more than 500 games and have been playing PC games since 1991. I love rpg, fps, rts, turn based strategy, space games, flight sim etc and all the odd LGR type games in between. Within the last 4 years I do not have much time to play games so often only enjoy some really good games like Deus Ex for 15 hours or so. The only exception is GTA online which I play extensively because you can just jump in for a quick game but maintain a persistent character. The reason I witter on about this is because, with the above in mind, this is the single finest computer game I have played... Ever. This is what I hoped TES Oblivion was going to be. It reminds me of the feel of Lords of the Realm but with TES visuals and Crysis immersion. The acting seems a bit westernised at first but that is because the characters feel real to me. The writing is spectacular! Watch the Brian Blessed YouTube video explaining why he agreed to do the game. Usually, I game for about 10-15 hours per week. Since this has released, I have logged over 80 hours playing with my son who is learning all about 1400s Bohemia! There are bugs, but I have not encountered any game breakers except in one instance where I could not get a mission waypoint but I googled the target NPCs location and just went there.. he was standing there waiting because all NPCs are in the game. (no magical spawn ins). I have been playing with the unlimited save mod which is the biggest criticism of the game but it's as easy to mod as download, upzip, play. Oh yeah, also been cheating like crazy on my second play-through whit cheat-engine and still not caused critical crashes so bravo to the game for being able to cope with that. I cannot guess what everyone else will think, but I think this is the best game ever made and as you can see from my history, that is saying A LOT.