Posted on: November 7, 2020

deadoceans

Jeux: 257 Avis: 6

It's a different experience.

The main thing I can say about this game is that it's best played with an open mind. Throw out your preconceptions of what you think a good open-world RPG is and just try it out. You might actually like it. But definitely pick it up on sale. I haven't played the Gothic games before, but from what I've heard they have that strange awkwardness and clunkiness that is also present in ELEX. It was hard to get used to at first. The dialogue between characters seemed contrived and forced. The melee combat was certainly no dark souls and is bound to piss a lot of players off. The plot wasn't exactly compelling or unique. After pushing through the first few hours, none of that really mattered to me though. ELEX has a beautiful, vast world that is a lot of fun to explore and actually rewards exploration. The areas seemed to all be varied and unique, and it suprised me that a small team was able to create a landscape and environment with very minimal repetition and a surprising amount of intricacy. This was one of my favorite features of the game. Once I accepted the fact that I wasn't playing one of the more modern RPGs that tries to outdo its predecessors in every way possible with a massive budget, I really started to enjoy ELEX. Give it a chance. You will either hate it and never play it again, or it will start to grow on you when you realize you can't play many other modern RPGs that are this strangely flawed. It kept me coming back to see the game fully completed, and although I will probably be moving onto another game now, I will probably replay it in the future and enjoy entering a different faction with another build. The replayability in this game isn't limitless, but it's at least worth a solid 1-2 playthroughs for the experience.

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Posted on: June 10, 2021

MarcelHB

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Jeux: 378 Avis: 5

Disappointing

Gothic had orcs and dragons, Risen had pirates and monsters. ELEX has beserks fighting with axes and magic, alongside clerics being hightech robot fanatics, next to anarchists (or raiders in terms of Fallout) doing dirty weapons, battling psycopath junkies with air vessels. Gothic (not counting 3/4) was mostly a green world, Risen mostly Carribean sea. ELEX has a European-style national park, a freezing arctic, a dusty desert, a lava world with hexagon cliffs. At some point in the map, all those harsh borders come together in a few square meter. So we end up fighting, as a cold-turkey junkie, allied with raiders, fighting bit robots with a bow and arrows – successfully! – next to an icy hole in the desert. You try go out into the world, carefully, just to notice that close-combat really sucks since it completely drains the stamina bar within a very few, weak hits, just to notice that a bow does the job without that penalty from a safe distance, and that you better should be doing boring quests anyway, since XP rewarding is imbalanced as hell. DON'T STEP OUT before level 15 or so, really. The world serves little but garbage and monsters, it takes some time to notice we are really just out for a bunch of ELEX potions. Forget about secret weapons, treasures, it's an empty world, nothing like Fallout 3+. Ah, and there is no HP value you can see, but spending skills requires you to solve linear equations to see how to proceed, despite not having a clue what's relevant anyway. The game tries hard to present a lot of world and story, yet if fails to do any thing sufficiently good. For a short amount of time, it feels enjoyingly a bit like Fallout (in the desert, next to the raiders). Music is good, speakers are as well. But other than that, I found it disappointing and hard to play through.

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Posted on: September 23, 2021

Jezebel1988

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Jeux: 248 Avis: 100

Piranha Bytes jank...

PROS: + large open world to explore with no hand-holding + no map full of question marks and markers + blends fantasy, sci-fi & post-apocalypse + jetpack allows for (limited) vertical exploration + actions and consequences CONS: -- combat is typical Piranha Bytes jank: it's terrible - mediocre presentation, outdated graphics, wooden animations, bad sounds and mediocre voice acting, repetitive character models - AI pretty bad - conversations carry on during combat - menues are horrible to navigate - "cold meter" (this game's version of a moral meter) is only shown as a single word - bland quests - bad writing/script BOTTOM LINE: If you are like me and love to explore huge open worlds to the fullest but hate the hand-holding and map markers and flashy GPS symbols everywhere, then ELEX will keep you occupied for a very long time, if you are willing to ignore the typical Piranha Bytes jank and baggage. The combat is clunky and bad. It is easily the worst part of the game and somewhat reminiscent of their earlier games (GOTHIC series). It also maintains key features of these games, such as the slow progression from stick wielding wimp to somewhat capable fighter, the division of the games in difficulty zones (you are free to go wherever you want but the enemies are not scaled to your level), and the different factions. On the ugly side you got the mediocre presentation: while the landscape looks good and offers a lot of diversity, character models don't, many of which a copy & paste jobs (female models in particular), animations are stiff, sound effects poor and the voice acting mediocre at best. I did not care for the writing in the game and the quest design, which kind of makes you everyone's biatch with your tedious, standard fetch & collect quests. Overall I kinda liked it for the most part, but it has some serious flaws and jank to it as well. I recommend buying at a sale ($10 max.).

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Posted on: October 14, 2021

cuiq

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Jeux: 164 Avis: 4

Enjoyed

I bought this game on sale. Aftering readin some of the reviews I thought it best to wait for a sale. However, I thoroughly enjoyed this game. Yes, it definitely has it faults (but then again what game doesn't?). Some of the reviews about its glitchiness are legitimate, but not all. So read them with a grain of salt. Anyway, I found the transition to cut scenes a bit jarring because it seemed to happen at the most inopportune moments. Controls for the combat system seem to not register as one might expect, certainly not instant to my key presses. I am using a Razer Huntsman TE TKL keyboard so the linear switches sensitivity could have some effect, I expected a quicker response to my key presses but this was not the case, nevertheless I will test this when I do another playthough with a different keybaord. So, combat and cutscenes were the main issues for me but by no means did these make the game unplayable, for me. What I enjoyed was the exploration, the story, the build up to getting stronger in combat strength etc...as I leveled up. The side quests and choice system and its impact to the story. the jet pack. I can't wait for Elex 2 and the hopeful continuation of the story. I think it's worth a buy on sale.

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Posted on: June 8, 2022

Piroknight_13

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Jeux: 430 Avis: 12

Very interesting setting and lore

Well, long story short - interesting mix of tech and magic, open world, interesting and appealing characters, skills and weapon that you can modify and upgrade. Really different and unique fractions. All in all, very cool, but combat system not that good, AI also dumb.

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