Posted on: June 25, 2021

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anamaensis

Gry: 50 Opinie: 1

Solid mechanics, light on story

Taking after the old Interplay Fallout games, Colony Ship wears its inspirations on its sleeve, for both good and bad. Starting with what the game does well, a lot of work has clearly gone into the combat mechanics and it shows: the turn-based combat manages to feel difficult without crossing over into brutally unfair, although it never quite hits the heights of XCOM. Many of the quests allow for multiple resolutions, even if many of them turn are of the 'use a speech check to avoid a fight' flavour. However, the game really drops the ball on story and atmosphere. The setting of a multi-generational colony ship is interesting, but the game never manages to conjure the atmosphere of actually being on a ship. We're told that our starting location is a shanty town in the cargo hold, but from what we actually see it could just as easily be a bunch of crates piled up in a warehouse. Also - why are there no children or old people on this generational ship? The dialogue in the game is functional at best - characters will utter 3-4 lines when giving you a quest and that's about it. One quest in chapter 1 involves choosing which of 2 characters you'll support, and I had no idea which one to choose because literally the only thing either one had said to me was asking my help to kill the other one. The biggest disappointment, though, is that the devs completely forgot to include to include any story. I'm serious - the player character literally just wakes up one morning and decides to start asking random people for quests. All that's happenned by the end of the current chapter is that you've run out of quests and need to head to another area to (presumably) ask for some more. I really hope the devs take a fresh look at what they've produced so far and at least hire a new writer or two to flesh things out a bit - the setting has a lot of wasted potentiol, but if the current chapter is any indication of the direction they're taking I really can't recommend this.

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Posted on: February 4, 2022

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drakewintersong

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Gry: 34 Opinie: 1

RPG has promise, flawed game mechanics

Interesting setting, nice atmosphere, potentially great story, but this game has serious flaws, especially in combat mechanics, stat balance, and skill development. This game is still in development, which is surprisingly slow despite the relatively basic graphics and primitive combat system. The combat is laughably bad. No amount of stealth, strategic setup, etc. matter once the battle starts. Your party is auto placed in the center of the room, circle surrounded by the enemy (with great cover), ready to be cut to pieces by NPCs who are all initiative junkies. I don't mind tough enemies, but at least allow a tactical approach to battle. Also, several times, the party is railroaded into obvious traps through storyline or dialog which is annoying in any RPG. The Mission Control scavs are particularly irritating. Apparently, the developers have never heard of shooting through an open door. Vendor prices are all expensive and the same. Everything you loot is basically worthless by comparison. It seems that space causes market economics, competition and supply/demand balance to cease functioning. Energy weapons are ridiculously expensive to use, consume ammo at an insane rate, and really aren't much more powerful. The ammo could be rare and costly, but at least give more than three shots from a 12 round rifle. Speech skills are not that useful. A few skill levels can be helpful, but in the end, it all comes down to blasting (or smashing/cutting) the bad guys. There are many more problems with the game which I may add to the this review later. Suffice to say, it makes me appreciate Wasteland 3 even more.

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Posted on: May 8, 2024

2Foots

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Gry: 18 Opinie: 1

Love/Hate

I have a love/hate relationship with this game. Some aspects are truly great, while others have left me bashing my head against the wall. So why 5 stars? Maybe I like bashing my head against a wall idk. When this game works (not talking about bugs here, the game runs perfect), my god does it work. It truly makes you feel that fallout 1/2 experience. The issues crop up though, where you might expect, in its more experiemental features. On my first charcter, the experience what about what you'd expect. Ass handed to. Nothing new for a genre like this. On my second, admittadly after leaving the game on the backlog for a while, I decided I'd go for a spy build. that one worked out better. higher charisma and persuasion being the major helpers. But when I got to later combat in chapter 1, once again my ass met the silver platter that enemies were ready to serve it on. It took my third character, a pure diplomat before I really understood what this game is trying to do. You can talk your way (or run) out of EVERY encounter. There are even acheivements for it. But with the experience of already knowing what compainions I had acess to and what their skills were I was finally able to build a team that made my earlier characters look like NPCs. Thats when it clicked. Everything seemed to have its place. Combat was something you chose to engage with on your terms (most of the time). Dialoge skills cold peacefully resolve situations, but was that really the best option? people you spare can betray you, or you can betray them first. Compainions react to your situation and give thier thoughts on your actions. But enough about whats great. Stealth doesnt work in this turn based system. It's essentailly a dice roll that you'll be successfull on a stealth run unless you do it multiple times. Combat does not give you all the information you need to accurately asess the situation. And for some reason my crime-freindly compainions want to support an authoritarian regime.

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Posted on: November 17, 2023

AGlezB

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Gry: Opinie: 20

Hate it

Lately I've become used to "RPG" games where it doesn't really matter what I do. This is the first time in quite a while that playing a RPG I feel like I have to watch my step carefully and think carefully about what to do and how to do it and for me that is the true essence of the RPG genere. This game, true to a dystopic setting, has no good choices to pick from and I hate it. Or maybe I just hate myself for having to make those choices even when I know that I'm just choosing one evil over another. In any case this is the first game in a while that really scratched my RPG itch and for that alone it deserves a 4. I give it 5 because for me, as someone with a full time job and a life outside of gaming, a fast travel system that says "don't worry I will not waste your time" is a very welcome feature. I don't mind sinking time in a game as long as I'm having fun but wasting 10 minutes going from point A to point B is not my idea of fun, regardless of hoy much effort was put in the visual design. RPGs often suffer from this so I'm very happy with this game in that regard.

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Posted on: November 9, 2023

Tom_obe

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Gry: 74 Opinie: 1

Well worth your time

Reminiscent of the studio's previous game, Age of Decadence, Colony Ship offers a notably more polished and visually appealing experience. Similar to AoD, it could be argued that the game's difficulty is presented as a selling point. This time around however Iron Tower has introduced two difficulty options, "Hero" and "Underdog". "Hero" mode providing a more accessible experience for those seeking a less arduous path through the game. The story places the player on a generation spaceship in disarray after a failed mutiny many years ago. Positioned as a nobody in the lawless parts of the ship, you stumble upon something that could tip the power balance among the major factions. The game offers plenty of replayability between your choices in the world and how you tailor your character to accomplish your goals. It's up to you if you want to go at it alone or have up to 3 companions tag along, talk people into doing what you want or shooting them out of the way. Occasionally, the game may feel a bit confined. This, perhaps, owes itself to the constraints of the studio and budget size. Nevertheless, this perceived compactness is outweighed by the evident dedication and hard work apparent throughout. If you're a fan of the isometric CRPGs of old (or new for that matter), I think it's worth giving Colony Ship a try.

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