Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

Halfway through the game. Here's what you can look forward to: - After every act, I have to manually unzip my save file and delete 90% of it because of how horribly inefficient the save format is. For some reason this doesn't break the game at all. This fixes loading times, ingame lag, and savefile bloat. - The Act 4 finale is very unbalanced even on normal difficulty. I know what I'm doing in this genre and my party was getting wiped by enemies that could 1v3 my entire tank frontline dead in two hits. These guys could appear in pairs, alongside 3 normal guys and 2 heavy casters in the back using Hold Person which is also guaranteed death if it hits. Switched to easy mode and skipped through the dungeon. - The game crashes every time I exit. - Inventory is full of garbage that I have to keep, and sorting never works. Anytime you pick up a magic item you have to spend another 30 seconds finding it again in your bag before you can see if it's worth using. - There's a ton of good QoL difficulty options but I can't imagine how bad this game would be without them. Half the combats in the game would normally require a 7 day roundtrip out of the dungeon and back home to heal. That could make your game unwinnable from all the time limit events. - "Kingdom Management: Auto" works but is really janky. You get constant UI popups that make no logical sense. The game is telling me that everything is failing, my kingdom is collapsing due to riots, and I have to just keep playing and trust that the spaghetti code won't game over my 40 hour save.

After 136 hours I finished the game! I had to install a mod to help with some fights because the game can be unbalanced and it would have taken much longer if I didnt cheat. lol But what I loved about it was the story, characters and world! Easily in my top 10 rpgs, together with Neverwinter Nights, Dragon Age, The Elder Scrolls and others.

I kinda like the game, at least the idea of it, but it's just not finished by now. So many bugs, none CTD for me but it's really annoying. What annoys me the most are the long loading times, to start it, from the travel map into a location, just camping takes its loading time, from the throne room into the kingdom management, from kingdom management to city building screen, all the way back again, from throne room to the city, back to the travel screen. Loading, loading, loading and never ending of loading screens. Almost half of the game time is spent there. And as you have to learn a lot by the hard way you will reload a ton! Ant that's another problem, you have to make so many decisions without any or barely any information. It's basicly just guessing. The problem with the random encounters is not that they are imbalanced, it's that you have no clue what you will meet. You just can sometimes choose if to fight or avoid. It's not capable to tell you if you see 4 Kobolds or 3 Acient Elemtals before hand. Or what kind of impact your advisors have or which one to take with after chapter 1. Or you are in a location made for about lvl 6 onwards, but there are absolutely ridicules enemy groups that just whipe your group in seconds. Seriously, why should you expect that a F***** Owlbear has godlike strength, +14 bonus, and a total of 2d6+24 of damage, with the +28 to attack is it just nuts! Seriously, that's just awful level desing! Safe a lot! You regret it otherwise! This game is made for Min/Maxing your Characters, otherwise you bite the dust on regular basis! But with the lack of information of how to progress your Character you just hope you didn't make the wrong choices. And of course it doesn't help that the choices they made for your companions are abysmal and that you just try to get them into shape over several levels so they become useful. The ridicules price you have to pay for a custom companion isn't helpful. Please fix the loading times and infos!!!!!

Oh boy, I had a Baldur's Gate inch for a long time and this game scratches good. Great music, art, writing, solid graphics. All your party members are unique and have interesting backstory. Many people complain about the balance, but I don't think it's broken. Here's the deal: on a normal difficulty you have slight advantage on your enemies and sometimes that is not enough, so use potions, scrolls, magic, read your skills, passive abilities to have a bit of an edge over your enemies. I play on normal and don't have any difficulties, it's challenging and I love it. If you don't have an experience in D&D or never played game like Baldur's Gate you probably should choose easy mode, or even story mode. Never had any bags so fourth, I'll update my comment if have any. That's enough of the banter, can't wait to play it more!

If you have ever played a tabletop RPG this is the closest Ive ever seen to it, I thought from the reviews etc... that real time would not feel right, but the pausing just worked, it auto paused for you as you stumble into combat. I have a lot of RPG games but this one is perfect, it just isn't like computer gaming an RPG, it is real tabletop. If you have never played a real tabletop version you will get a feel for them, if I was learning a real RPG this serves as a great way to see the mechanics in action.