I really don't know, because I haven't played either of them myself. It completely depends on the content I think.

Ten hours in a RPG could mean a number of boring, losely connected fetch quests, but it could also be great storyline with memorable new characters and enemies.

10 hours in a strategy game, could mean 10 hours more of the same. Which would be a little lame, but could still be a nice deal for $3.99). It could also introduce new enemies, strategies and units and in that case it would be quite impressive.

Not sure if one of the two is harder to make or more cost-intensive.

I hope the latter describes better the Witcher 3 expansion... :)

I'm considering buying this base game with both expansions, but the reviews on the store page are less than what I would consider to purchase something at such a high price point.

Granted the reviewer said they only had the Steam version.

If 20 buckaroos is much for a game that has 4/5 stars on the user reviews and one retard who spends most of his review talking about irrelevancies like "my CPU was at 80deg", which should be in the review about his shit computer that hasn't got a cooling system worth a damn.

Seriously though, check a let'splay video on youtube in order to see the game in action or something. Then you see whether or not it's a game for you, some idiot who posts a user review is hardly going to tell you what is a good game for *you*.

Well, I guess I'm sold. :) It's a good thing it's not a used car.

I posted a review. It was honest, I stand by every comment I made, and the overall sense of the review. PC is good btw, majorly specc'd with water cooling. It's just that Kalypso games have habit of pushing Asus overclock features. However that was not the point of the review. If you'd like a fuller review I can provide one, I was just looking to give a brief roundup of the game, and my experiences of it.

Incidentally, 4/5 stars on GOG is actually a pretty bad score.
I'd be happy to discuss my review if you wish, to see if this would be a game that would suit your needs.

I just read the thread title as "A Dong of Sand and Fire".

... Which sounds unpleasant.



That is all.

You posted a review which wasn't helpful, honesty doesn't enter into it. No doubt it was honest. I have *no* doubt your computer CPU went up to 80deg while playing the game. But that just says your computer has issues. It has nothing to do with the game you're ostensibly reviewing.

You start the *honest* review with an entire paragraph dedicated to the first game in the series, a game which is probably not that good - but at the same time, it isn't *this* game. It doesn't matter how the last game was. You clearly have gripes about that last game, it still does not matter to this game, and it isn't helpful for anyone considering *this* game.

It may be honest, you probably honestly felt that way, but ironically, *honestly* it's completely irrelevant whether you were honest or not. Your review is crap even if you were lying through your teeth.

Because there's no meat to your honest review, which makes it easy to stand by no doubt, there's nothing there except your personal bias. How hard is it to stand by your bias? Pretty damn easy, I'd reckon.

And incidentally, if you think 4/5 stars is "a pretty bad score" on gog.com then zip up, your bias is showing.

May I ask, what bias you believe I have?

"It's as though they've taken everything we liked about DK and DK2, and kind of done it worse."

Believe you have? You declared it in your review.

That's not bias, that's assessment.

But.. the paragraphs in the middle are quite relevant..

I hope he's not right, however, because the game concept with DK+world seems cool :\

That assessment is biased because, you compare Dungeons II to some games from the 90s made by another company, other people in another decade.

That's your bias, towards the idea that Dungeons II should be anything like those games. When in reality, it doesn't matter. Maybe Dungeons II is a terrible game, but that has nothing to do with how it compares to DK or DK2.

Which is why your review was completely unhelpful to anyone considering whether or not to buy Dungeons II *unless* that person shared *your* particular bias. Then I suppose it could be somewhat useful, but I'm not so sure, since we all look for different things in our nostalgia.

Dungeons II seems to be a re-imagining of the DK idea. As such it only stands and falls on its own, it really has no connection with the DK series.