Posted on: October 31, 2017

nedobrak

Gry: 302 Opinie: 5

Demanding, rewarding, fulfilling

Piranha Bytes have shown again that they are masters of game world creation. No easy way out via level scaling and respawning loot (looking at you Bethesda), every item is carefully hand-placed to keep the pace of the game, there are almost no artificial terrain gates that keep you from content the devs thought you should not see for some reason, which means every discovery you make feels very rewarding. And did I mention the jet pack? I was afraid it would break the game but instead it adds a whole new level of fun! Player that are not familiar with the formula this studio uses to create its games may struggle and find it unfair, player who are used to be pampered by uber graphics might be disappointed, players used to handholding/level scaling/follow-this-little-arrow-and-you-can't-go-wrong-type-of-gameplay might feel lost. That's ok. These games are demanding on the player, but the rewards are great. Free roaming around the world of Magellan, if you put the time and skill into it (aka avoid getting killed/eaten etc). Meaningful exclusive factions, which are by no means black and white. World that exists just fine without you and where you have to work from the bottom to make it take notice of you... and the great sense of reward for your achievement, because you know you earned it yourself and wasn't just given an emtpy title/cosmetic item. I am a big fan of the original two Gothic titles and the first Risen (though inferior in my opinion) and I have been waiting long for something that would fill the need for such games. And Elex delivered. It is by no means perfect and might not be for everyone but know that your gaming experience would be much poorer if you don't give it a chance.

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Posted on: March 2, 2018

normacc

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Gry: Opinie: 1

Amateurish, but annoyingly addictive

This is a thoroughly mediocre game, bordering on being poorly made. It comes across as a half-hearted attempt at a game, like the devs wanted to make something but just couldn't motivate themselves to put in the effort. The controls are dodgy and unintuitive. World-building is confused, as if the writers and designers didn't know what they really wanted to do and couldn't decide or agree on anything. The writing is very strange, as if each line were written by a different person and characters will often repeat themselves and respond to things that the player didn't even say. Pacing is non-existent. That said, I'm still playing it a lot. I keep thinking to drop it and get a refund but then I keep playing. I don't know if I just hope it will get better or if I'm starved for a new open-world game. I would've scored it a 2 if not for the addictive open-world. It's not a good game, it's not well-made at all. But it's still fun. Annoyingly fun. (Maybe it's simply unfinished. It could do with a lot of polish.)

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Posted on: May 15, 2021

Rokkr_0

Gry: 93 Opinie: 5

A diamond in the rough

Bonoobo's review is probably the best description of my experience with Elex. Bugs, terrible voice acting for most of the cast, clunky combat, strange difficulty spikes, and terribly slow character stat progression. Although, I'm a little more forgiving and gave the game 3 stars. The game could've used more polish, but it's likely that PB just didn't have the budget to put anymore time into the game.

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Posted on: December 16, 2022

Memfis-Pfeffi

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Gry: 284 Opinie: 128

interesting story

graphics are a bit outdated but that doesn't make the game worst the controls are acceptable I'm OK with this game

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Posted on: February 3, 2023

dark_paradox_21

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Gry: Opinie: 4

Could have been good, but unforgivable failures.

Elex could have been good. It is not. The graphics, story, setting - they're all compelling enough to make you think things will get good, but they don't. But in the end, games should be fun, and Elex is NOT fun, not at all. So here is the problem - the actual gameplay is hot garbage, and nothing BUT hot garbage. First, armor and damage are absolute, so if your weapon does 20 damage, and the monster has 20 armor, you can't damage it at all (unless you do these little 2-3 hit combos, each stage of which is also absolute, and raises your damage a couple points for each successful strike). There are no critical hits. There are not hit boxes. If the weapon does area damage it does the same damage shooting next to the feet as pegging them between the eyes. If you don't use guides, expect 30+ HOURS running from area to area, doing every moronic fetch quest in the game, just to level to the minimum stats to equip a weapon that damages enemies, like, at all. You will be one-shot-killed by every trash mob until you level enough to equip a good weapon and armor, so running is the ONLY thing you can do, for 20-30 FREAKING HOURS! THEN, when you finally DO get a good weapon about 30-40 hours in, the game stops being compelling at all because now you're the invincible juggernaut that staggers and one-hit-kills every enemy and there is zero challenge. I finally got geared and thought, "yay! now I can progress through the story!" but since there was no puzzle, or challenge, or anything other than clicking on enemies to insta-kill them, the mediocre story gave me no reason to continue. I felt I had wasted days of my life because of this game - not because it was good or it was fun, but it was JUST compelling enough that I thought it MIGHT get good around the next corner, but it never did. Save yourself the pain and do something better with your life.

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