The Age of Decadence

The writing is poor and dull. The graphics are mostly pointless because this is really just a text choose-your-own adventure book. All you do is read long swaths of (poor, dull) writing and click through tedious dialogue trees. And die if you pick the wrong thing. Wish I could get a refund.

One of the best RPG I ever played. True you the game seems to lock many choices between arbitrary stats ceil. However this is not a game intended to be played once, you have to play it several times with different game plans in order to uncover the full plot. A single playthrough might seem limited, but in truth it's a masterpiece and you will forget thoses boundaries once you understand your class, your game plan and gonna stick with it... whatever it might be

Dont believe the glowing reviews, this is not an rpg but more like choose your own adventure with skill checks along the way. its simply retarded and abominable in design. Ignore the comments like "not for Bioware lovers", "Bethesda fans neednt apply" or "old school hard-core only". Its not old-school hardcore in fact lots of old school games like Wizardry were acutally crappy. Its unintuitive in its design, has a dumb as dirt story, assets look like garbage. Its sold as post-apocalyptic but you wouldnt know that when playing it. Its basically a game heavily reliant on trial and error all the while bragging its deadly difficult. It aint. Its stupidly and dellusionally designed. The dev/s must be retarded or drunk to even compare this game to Fallout(which it doesnt). Its not realistic like it says it is. Dont believe the shills from RPGcodex praising the this game. If you must play it just borrow a copy before actually buying the game.

I've managed to play maybe twenty minutes by that time I've crashed six times on different occasions. Talk to first guy - crash, press map icon - crash, hit esc - crash, etc. All this is too bad since I had high hopes for this game and would have propably really enjoyed it. But I don't have time for constant restarting.

If only there were an option to turn off the embarrassingly bad, repetitive, fight banter it would be so much easier to appreciate all the good things about this game. It's very clear that a lot of thought went into making this, and it's equally obvious that while the person doing that thinking was putting his soul into making this game, another part of the creative team was totally dedicated to breaking his heart. The fight banter is the most unavoidable iteration of this, but there are plenty of others. The over all impression is very much like trying to appreciate a stunningly beautiful orchestral concert while the person seating beside you is farting continuously. You regret walking out, but it's worse to stay. It's a real shame.