Tyranny - Standard Edition

As a fan of the old Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, & NeverWinter Nights as well as the new Mass Effect, Dragon Age, & Alpha Protocol; This game is terribly short but very well done. Giving five stars as I believe even a novice at computer games in general could enjoy this game, am I. The game could use a different AI that used more of a toon's unique abilities, including combos. The voice over seems only partially done though, as the general interaction between your toon and the world's NPCs {Non-Player Character} are very lacking. So it may surprise you sometimes when the a character decides to actually speak to you. Immersion is what the game excels at, believe do I. The myriad of choices at the beginning, allows the player to create very different worlds that we experience with our characters. The only game that does it better is Dragon Age: Inquisition if you used the online system to modify your beginning. Similar to DA:I, Tyranny's story altering choices richly continue past that. That they already are working on a game altering expansion that takes us into another fight with Kyros's minions, pray do I. Additionally, that they are already beginning to plan out Tyranny II. Paradox Interactive's foray into CRPGs is astounding. The only con is their music. They reused the same beginning atmospheric music from the Witchers series and while I love Witchers, hearing it again repeatedly makes me turn the music waaayyy down. Grateful for you sharing your time and Force; May you ask the Goddess to eternally alight your path. You deserve and are worthy of being loved, joyful, and happy.

I agree with the good reviews in terms of game design, story, atmosphere, etc. However, technical problems have ruined the experience for me. Not only does the game run poorly, but after playing for about 8 hours I realized that my quest line is in a broken state. I'd rather not restart the game so I'm just going to uninstall it and forget that I ever bought it.

I love CRPG's and would probably enjoy this game, But there are flaws that straight up hinders me from playing it. The app uses 100% of my CPU with crashes the machine. I found a somewhat decent way around this, But no solutions offered from the creators. My eyes are fine, But the UI is so small that I can't read the dialogue. Pretty annoying when most of the game is text-based.

The concept for the game is interesting enough. Unlike pillars it manages to have more interesting characters, which should make it a better game. But it's not. The problem is that the combat is atrocious. It's somehow worse than pillars, you have no conception of what is strong or weak (until you die) and very little relevant information is transmitted to you. It's very clunky, in that sense its very faithful to old CRPG's. You can easily softlock yourself out of encounters in the intro chapter by picking the wrong build for your main character. As with pillars, there are too many filler items, potatoes, tomatoes, milk, look I don't give a shit about this, just take it out. This game is just proof that people will blindly praise anything that calls itself a CRPG. As usual the games systems are needlessly complex, with 50 different kinds of dodges and damage, that no one is going to care about because the combat fundamentally sucks. Obsidian do not understand how to make gripping story driven games, they have not made one since New Vegas, people need to realise this. My only blind spot is PoE 2.

The game is so good, I actually boght it after completing. Even though it crashed from time to time, and loaded video card to much for its graphics, it still was 100% worth paying. The music, the characters and the stroy is brilliant. God, I wish Obsidian will make another Fallout game sometime.