Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut

I feel like too many people give this game an easy pass because it is a kickstarter title. I find it is just... boring, lacking depth and ultimately I feel the devs could have done so much more with the IP. The combat is just tedious. It lacks weight, and, whilst it uses an xcom style cover system, the tactical options are severely lacking. The UI and all interfaces (such as levelling up, inventory etc.) are all very clunky to use. You could hardly call this an RPG. You do play a role, but conversations and customisation options are limited. Really, when you boil it down, the role you choose dictates what weapons you'll use, and outside some skills checks for things like decking, that's about it. See above for the review of combat... nuff said. Outside of combat, gameplay involves clicking on icons that pop up to gather gear, items or further the plot. When you talk to someone, you click on responses to get to the end. Then you click on the floor until you reach an objective marker and click on it to change the map... It often feels like a point and click adventure game without the adventure or the game. The story, which everyone touts as amazing, is pretty unengaging. Why can't you trade items between characters?!?!? Especially during combat?!?!? Why can't you select characters to use certain skills outside of combat?!? Is that not the point of gathering a party?!??! It is just confusing why the devs made such a choice for an 'RPG'. I would not recommend this. Save your money. It really is light on features, gameplay and fun.

The third part of the Shadowrunner RPG games is the best looking, and the slightly tweaked game mechanics give you more options in building your character. The game is fun to play, the setting is ... kinda nice and the overall game quality is decent. Having said that, the plot and character development fall kinda short. The previous two games had very engaging storylines and dialogue, i would rate them among the best written games ever. While the first one kind of "railroaded" the story (presumably due to budget restraints), the second one told an almost flawless story with great characters and amazing twists. In comparison, this game seems to be a bit "tired" when it comes to story and presentation. Nothing really wrong with it, it mostly misses the magic that made the first two games stories great. The side characters are great, creative and interesting, but the main protagonsists are very generic, as is the main plot. All in all, good game, buying it is not a mistake, just don't expect it to be as engaging as "Dragonfall"

Reviews misled me into believing this to be a normal CRPG, quite story-heavy, and really good. Sure enough, it started with the usual character creation awkwardness. But what came after that surprised me, and not in a good way. - Game alternates between making me feel I'm a team leader who micro-manages everyone, and making me feel I'm just the fourth wheel that nobody gives any details. Sure, this can happen in real life, but if this is what the game is about, it would have been worth mentioning in reviews. I can do without that kind of stress in my spare time. - Weird interface. To actually get the game started, you must click a weird looking ellipsis at the end of a speech bubble. (And again, and again,... I guess this is what people mean by story heavy?) - Game seems to be all about the combat. I honestly had no idea. Reviews didn't exactly stress that this is an effing TACTICAL RPG rather than a normal one. I have zero interest in combat and merely accept it as a necessary evil in normal RPGs. I do not buy tactical RPGs. Except when I am tricked into doing it by numerous reviews that stress minor details and neglect to mention how central combat is. - Weird interface again. It was surprisingly hard to quit the game. This functionality was hidden behind a question mark button. Overall: Very unprofessional experience, apparently with no proper play testing. And the initial hype for the series (as one of the first big Kickstarter games) seems to have had a lasting effect in the form of a myriad hyped reviews that are utterly useless for getting an idea of what this game is about. Objectively this game is probably a lot better than the two stars I am giving it, but as I have been tricked into buying an overhyped game of a genre that I am not even interested in, I feel I have every right to contribute to the normalization of its score.

Do yourself a favor and lower every hit probability by 25%, then the results should just about check. To my simple mind, if the game displays 72%, then about 7 out of 10 shots should hit, right? My runner managed to miss an impressive 7 shots in a row with those odds... At 56% it was 10 misses in a row. Add to that the very slow loading speed and you have your room for improvement laid out for you. Which is really a shame - the story isn't bad, your cronies aren't mindless yes-men, and the missions offer multiple routes to solve problems. But the combat is a slog.

Well everyone and their dog knows what good in it. But dad are: - Numbers. At times game does not count things properly. Most troubles I had with Essence and Armor. Like some armor will not work and show wrong numbers, and essence count easily breaks when you spend much time reinstalling cyberware. - Story. It is a bit childish, especially at the beginning, first games start was much more serious. But then it bombards you with tons of dialog which is hard to remember and understand, but for some missions yo really need to remember it. - Loading menu when you push F9. it really should just load autosave, not send you to a menu. - I was hoping it is more easy to operate your inventory here, but not too much, still lots of separate menus. And there is also a bug. allowing you to have one more weapon if you gather it on mission. It just goes in nonexistent 4th slot (in my case). And still I've finished this game, thanks gods, that was a mess, but I've done all the optional missions and the ending was...not interesting at all.