Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

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Posted on: September 29, 2018

ApolloX64

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Games: 556 Reviews: 2

Great Game Overall with Minor Issues

cRPGs like Pathfinder Kingmaker are a guilty pleasure for me and I've been playing them since Baldur's Gate and Fallout. Pathfinder works on an interesting variation of D&D 3.5 that I've never actually played in tabletop, so I can't comment on how faithful it is to the original. Bugs are here and there, but I haven't encountered anything game breaking in my 14 hours so far. This game reminds me more of Neverwinter Nights 2 than anything else with the gameplay style and overall feel. I enjoy the companion characters; they are well built with strong story arcs and excellent voice acting. There's nothing unique about them really, but they do stand out. The storyline is heroic and grandiose; bordering on DA Inquisition levels of personalized grandstanding; but it feels fleshed out and well constructed overall with solid kingdom building and management. The card system for managing your advisors reminds me of DA Inquisition once again, but the rest is quite unique. Combat is my biggest gripe overall or at least the overall difficulty of it. There's no sense of cohesion since one fight will be easy at level 4; then you'll enter a dungeon in the same area and fight creatures that you'd need to be level 10 to match. It's all over the place. Combat mechanics themselves are well built and very remeniscient of any other cRPG like Pillars or BG2. Spellcasting is manageable and again feels like any other D&D based game, and the typical quickbars show up with actions bound to your function and number keys; nothing we haven't seen before. Overall Pathfinder is excellent. It's entertaining and interesting all in one package with a lot of great features to set it apart from the rest of the pack. But be aware that even on the easiest difficulty it is not an easy game to break into. Leveling is long and arduous in a game jam packed full of encounters that will completely wipe your party in seconds. You have been warned, save early and save often.

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Posted on: September 30, 2018

InEffect

Games: 12 Reviews: 1

Old-school CRPG with loads of options.

pros: -complex system in place that is fun to explore and theorycraft even by itself -nice story that is not "you are literally jesus - go save the world" -harder difficulties will indeed force you to learn systems in place. "general idea" likely won't cut it. to me it's refreshing -they do fix bugs at a reasonably good pace. didn't encounter something that would stop me from progressing cons: -there are bugs. quite a bit of those. some abilities do not work at all or work when they feel like it -would love if they kept monster stats closer to pnp and solved difficulty by adding more enemies or upgrading existing ones instead of scaling their numbers. To me pros overshadow the cons. it's a game like they don't make 'em anymore.

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Posted on: October 4, 2018

Hunbaar

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Games: 268 Reviews: 6

I got my new addiction

The game is most excellent, infused a pure sense of adventure and camaraderie, it contains no distracting references to real world politics, no pseudo-philosophies subsumed by poor writing, just an open world, a rule set and good old table-top rpg feeling. The developers constantly updating the game, I am 20 hours in and yet to encounter a game breaking bug, for the scope and the budget this is just admirable. Artwork is great, interface is clear and clean, the game does a good job of explaining things if you are willing to read -- just right click the rolls to see the details for example. Speak with everyone, go everywhere and difficulty is thus quite manageable and fair, the game doesn’t hold your hand but provides everything you need to know. The developers did not compromise just for the mass appeal and I applaud them for that. While I liked PoE 2 this is much better on all accounts.

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Posted on: October 12, 2018

InkyCheeks

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Games: Reviews: 6

Great foundation game

Honestly, as an old NWN2 fan this has been epic to get into. I was initially wary because of the game bugs, but the team has been super responsive in addressing them and seems to be working hard to pull together a well rounded experience. Considering this was a kickstarted game by a new development team, and the projected scope of it, its actually amazing how polished and ambitious this project is. I hope they continue to expand it, and work towards sequels.

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Posted on: October 22, 2018

Venoltar

Games: 16 Reviews: 1

Avoid for now.

This game has awesome potential, but for me it is unplayable. As you progress into the storyline, the bugs get more and more severe until it becomes impossible to progress through the storyline. Each patch gets it a little further along, but another game breaking bug just waits further down the road. I recommend waiting until the game is at least playable to the end-game before buying. For now this one is going on the shelf for me for a couple months and then I'll have another go.

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