Posted on: September 10, 2020
lowtechgeek
Possesseur vérifiéJeux: Avis: 3
Fresh coat of paint over a rotten core
THIS IS A LAUNCH WINDOW REVIEW of v1.0d The good: This is a vast, fun game at its core. The world is large and colorful. Combat is some of the best in a 3rd person ARPG. The crafting and upgrade systems are varied yet easy to understand. The DLC packs actually load now! The frame rate has been increased, and no more EA server login timeouts! (because no more EA logins) The bad: I've completed the original release 5 times, and played probably 400+ hours. There were some bugs for sure, but nothing too distracting. I've now played through the first main area of Re-Reckoning and about 5 hours. Somehow this version is buggier than the original, especially the audio. Background music routinely fails to play, or cuts in and out. Creature sounds continue to play after they're dead, sometimes even at their original spawn points rather than where they died. Some effect volumes are way too loud and noticeable (like footsteps and background noise at inns), while others are way too quiet (some combat effects, like magic). The graphics aren't much better, and sometimes worse. I was expecting more of a visual upgrade, but for the most part it looks the same as the original, only now with maybe a new contrast or ENB filter. Also, the extent of some of the new visual effects are ridiculous and need to be toned down by about 10x, especially the visual camera shake and infrared head wave coming off of fire-based weapons. I'm very disappointed with this release. At this time I can't recommend it, especially at or near full price. Hopefully THQ Nordic has access to the source code and game assets and can fix a lot of this, but I get the uneasy feeling that what's really happening under the hood is that THQ just wrote a wrapper that adds some filters but launches the original game binary. If so, then this release will become just another sad chapter in this game's storied history.
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