Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Imperial Edition Bundle

So today I finished the game after a very long time. In itself this game is not a bad game, but unfortunately some things are not well thought out and not implemented correctly. Many ideas are nice but the implementation makes the game extremely unattractive. That's why this game is not so popular. Kingdom management with time pressure is an example of how a game is deliberately made unattractive. In addition, the game is extremely complicated but unfortunately it doesn't make sense, it's absolutely pointlessly complicated. There are hundreds of spells, but 80% of them are unworkable and many of them don't work at all. Many different spells have the same symbols, so you have to read carefully each time whether it is a specific spell you need or something else that has the same symbol. Many talents, skills and abilities are described so complicated that you need 2 semesters of studying the game to play the game optimally. This game is rarely fun but often frustrating. It's a shame actually, this game has a lot of potential but some people deliberately wanted the game not to be popular like BG2 or something like that. At least the game is no longer buggy and the graphics are ok. But if someone still wants to play the game, I recommend playing with some good mods (around 15). Without mods I would stay away from the game.

First 50 hours or so are great, by the midgame it starts feeling like butter scraped over too much bread, in the last few chapters there's no butter left and it's just a rusty broken knife grinding against blackened rock-like piece of bread that your grandfather dropped in the cellar in 1964 and forgot about. Also, Owlcat needs to be forbidden by law from adding management minigames and timed quests to their RPGs.

Just look up the term. Most quests and events are timed and at the same time most content requires time consuming world exploration to experience it. It does not mix well together - you can't enjoy both things at the same moment so you will most likely never meet any expectations that game sets upon you. Most time while I was playing the game I felt slightly frustrated and at the same time it was enjoyable enough to go on. If you are a fan of Stockholm syndrome it's a game for you.

Why has nobody mentioned this. It's in the game so should be part of any review. I'm one of those guys who checks the OPTIONS first. I immediately noticed a section that wants to track me. On checking it, it takes me to a site that explains it will track my game playing details, my IP, pc stats, etc, etc, but I can OPT out. So when I chose to opt out it says, "Please note that this will result in a non-personalized game experience." What? Am I being blackmailed for a game I PAID for? Now on a forum someone told me that I won't lose anything from opting out, but too late, this put a very bad taste in my mouth. I wanted to enjoy a game and instead I'm now worrying what this game is doing in the background? Unacceptable. Refunded. Not what I expect of a game on GOG and I support GOG a lot. But I will NOT support this.

And I've played Temple of elemental Doom. Keeping things short and succinct, nearly every aspect of this game is irrevocably broken, and whoever designed these quests either never played as the game master in a pen and paper rpg. Mechanically-Wise, the game was supposed to be a turn-based combat, 'upgraded' to real tactics, which is a serious problem when your foes can move out of order, your characters need to make the animation AFTER their turn started (wasting even more time), the rules aren't clear on what was changed from the pen-and-paper version (there is no disarm for example) and god help your soul if you aren't familiar with Pathfinder. This is even made worse and more jarring when the enemies are insanely over-leveled (even on normal) with wild rules spawning random encounters ten levels above your party. If you and your party aren't min-maxed optimized, game over man, game over. And to make things even more interesting, the recruitable npcs have some of the worst point distribution I've ever seen. Which is made worse by how this game was made, story-wise. As an example, the first quest out of the tutorial is to find some berries. Your party will at most be at level 2. You are expected to kill giant spiders and spider-mobs, who are immune to anything except splash damage. Originally there was literally no indication on how to kill those mobs or any help to do it, it had to be patched after complaints. Said mobs have a touch AC of 17. AC 17 against a level 2 group. Let it sink. And now extend this thought through the entire game. I couldn't resolve a tribal conflict peacefully without bloodshed because my character WASN'T NEUTRAL. To call the companions one-dimensional is overdoing it, they are parodies of their classes, with the 'for the evilz' rogue, the barely-understandable rage barbarian, the young and pure and naive cleric, the asshole knight. There is no charm, there is no lure, there is no epic struggle or mystery.