Tyranny - Standard Edition

Game isnt bad when you get it running, but getting it running is an absolute pain. Trying to get it to run is an absolute lottery, and you'll spend 45minutes trying to get the game to run, running file verifications, etc and then maybe it'll load. Game just continually opens to the opening frame of the loading credits and shuts itself down. Over, and over, and over, and over.

I liked this game. Most dialogs are text only, and there could be more voice-overs (maybe, even text-to-speach as I do usually listen to books instead of reading them with my eyes), but overall I have enjoyed the experience anyway The plot idea is interesting, I did have the feeling that my actions have consequences in the world. The companions have been engaging enough, but there weren't any that I REALLY liked. I also feel that the story line could be made stronger. For example, when you declare independance, former freedom fighters could start joining you. Also, the "independance" ending where you convince the justice archon to bow to you, while somewhat satisfying, also feels a bit far-fetched. In the advertizing, the authors have described the world as "extremely corrupt". This is not the case. I come from a really corrupt country, and I think that the authors didn't really understand what "corrupt" means. Not that it would detract from the enjoyability of the game. In game you can basically do whatever you want, and the game will go with it, and this is something that I really enjoyed. I don't really like in-game puzzles, but most of ones presented in this game weren't too annoying. However, I got stuck at some and googling for the answers took more time than it should have. Overall, if you liked classic plot RPG's of the 2000s, you'll probably enjoy this game as well

Great RPG. The only downside was that I was not aware that certain locations will be closed after certain actions. Therefore i finished the game without scouting the most western spire. But it was a great experience as well. Somehow I also feel the story was not resolved completely, maybe the developers have some sort of datadisk at hand. Maybe not.

This game has a famously unusual setting (playing one of the enforcers of the (evil?) overlord) but fails to live up to that level. - The game suffers from bad load times, to the point of unplayability (currently in the middle of act II, load times have increased exponentially and now the game simply crashes instead of loading my save file). - Everything in the game feels extremely railroaded (to the point where you eventually stop reading the text and just head to the next battle because this is the only new open map zone). - Spoilers are mildly necessary to have an interesting experience (e.g. where to get sigils, what to do with spires, etc.)

A lot of people will complain about how short the game is, but you will not be able to see more than half of the game's content in one play through. The amount of reactivity in this game is simply astounding. Every choice has real consequences which can lead to entire areas opening up or becoming inaccessible. Just finished my 2nd run where i sided with the "good" faction, which consists primarily of npc's i mercilessly slaughtered on my 1st go as a loyal subject to the overlord. It was almost an entirely new game. There were a lot of new areas, and the re-used ones often had lots of entirely different quests to solve. The only other game i have played with this level of reactivity was Age OF Decadence, and that took about a decade to create. This is some really impressive work by obsidian. On the technical side, this game runs on the same engine as Pillars OF Eternity and uses a lot of the same mechanics. However, Tyranny manages to improve on almost all of it. Personally i hated the combat in POE, it was way too fast paced and the engagement mechanic was just plain awful. Both of these issues have been solved in Tyranny, and there are several other improvements as well. Spell crafting is downright brilliant, and the text/conversation system is miles ahead of the generic one used in POE. My only real gripe with the game was its final chapter, which was clearly rushed. Eagerly anticipating a sequel as this story is far from finished.