Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition

You know you can just block the game from accessing the internet, right? It's a single player game, it doesn't need access anyway.

I LOVED kingmaker, and thought that any follow-up would be challenging, but they managed to outdo themselves with the sequel. Drastically improving on game mechanics, and even sharper writing. Some of the companions are incredibly evocative, and memorable. The crusade system which has many detractors adds some scale to the game that is fun, and appeals to me, even if the mechanics aren't as refined as they could be. The character building is amazing, giving you a hug variety of game-playing experiences and roleplaying options. It can be overwhelming at first, but as patches have arrived, they have helped mitigate this. The post release support has been great, and they have greatly refined the experience, and the UI is in a better place than ever. My main complaint about this game, is I just want to play it again and again, and now struggle to appreciate other CRPG's.

There are issues with this game such as annoying mechanics like corruption and the boring (but skippable!) crusade mode. However, what it does well is fantastic. It's like dating a supermodel and complaining about her nails. There are few games that give you an tabletop experience. In this game, one agonizes over character choices and combat is truly strategic and complex.

The game suffers from terrible story telling and bad UI. The problems with the spyware that comes along have already been mentioned by many others so I will not elaborate more here.

I'm not far into the game, so I hope it gets better (much better!), but so far the writing has been atrocious and the characters are boring and uninspired. Also, the whole setting has a much more juvenile feel, compared to the previous game. It's very manicheistic, gruesome and simplistic. Good guys vs bad guys and you're the chosen one! The story may get better, but I don't think there's any hope for the writing and the characters. Gone are the days of characters like Amiri, Regongar, Octavia, Jubilost, Nok-Nok. This time I will probably just create some custom characters and ignore the premade companions, because they're so generic and bland, that there's no justification to use them, since they're abviously less optimized than a character I make myself. Also, control casters have been nerfed, which I dislike. They've removed the ability to add some metamagic to some control spells, which really penalizes my playstyle.