Posted on: October 17, 2016

dtishin

Gry: 40 Opinie: 1

Great story, factions, hard challenges

I enjoyed the original story, quality of writing and depth of the lore in Age of Decadence. The music brilliantly helps to create an immersive atmosphere. It's also a rare game where you control one character rather than a party. This allows to emotionally invest into the character and pay extra attention to character development. It's definitely a game to try out. Some good-to-knows: - Most quests are faction-based. I.e. depending on your alignment / background (loremaster, thief etc) you can only access so many dialogues and quests. Pro: High replayability. You can explore the world from a different angle every time you play. Con: Limited freedom of choice after you choose your alignment - some NPC encounters feel artificially staged. E.g. you come to a thieves' guild and talk to a guy at the entrance, and the only option is "Leave", because you are not a thief yourself. - Because it's faction-dependent / replayable, the total playing time of one run is much shorter than that of Fallout 2, for example. Which can be viewed as a good thing and a bad thing :) - Combat is super hard, and there's no way to grind / raise your combat XP in an easy way (e.g. in Fallout you can simply wander around the map and win random encounters). There are no combat companions either, so unless you have two combat skills (active and passive) at 6 or higher, combat doesn't make sense at all - which was a pity really. - It is extremely difficult to win all quests you get, since skill and stat checks are everywhere. One piece of advice is to distribute skill points on a needs basis. As for stats, as I know there's only one point in the game where you can permanently raise one of your physical abilities. But that's it. No pills that temporary boost your intelligence, strength etc. So if you miscalculated what stats your character needs at the start of the game, you'll find the game unforgiving. The next run will be much easier of course. - There are some minor bugs, including a couple quest issues I noticed, but nothing major. Camera control can be frustrating, but not critically. - All in all, Age of Decadence is a solid hardcore RPG that stands out for its story and atmosphere!

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Posted on: March 24, 2020

carotherunner

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Gry: Opinie: 41

Fully Punk 2020 review

The Age of Decadence is upon us, life is brutal and the well of souls deep. Exceptional writing, bringing in tangents from thieves worlds, plane-scape and conan. Political backstories with different factions - where do you fit in? Divergent multifaceted gameplay that can only be seen through plaing multiple times with multiple character classes. Combat is DIFFICULT. This is old school your mums not here and its after dark kinda real deal combat. (In an isometric way) You might get mugged and stabbed and have your agency taken away. This is more elric and AD&D 1st ed than it is 5th ed. Remember, this is a labour of love from a small crew, its not fallout 4, and its not x-com. It is storytelling and trial - that is where indie excels.

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Posted on: October 30, 2023

horrigoth

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Gry: Opinie: 2

Not the worst 5.99€ I spent, but meh

I gave this game a chance since I really needed an immersive old-school RPG. I ended up playing it quite far and I had no problem with the combat difficulty, but I never really got immersed, sadly. None of the characters are memorable and neither are the locations. This is when I'm 10 hours into the game. The towns don't really feel alive and it just feels like the game could be text based and be exactly the same, since the graphics are very outdated. Fallout style isometric might even feel more immersive than this to be honest. Even good old Baldur's gate you have environments that pull you in, the sounds of nature etc. In this game there are pretty much zero environmental sounds and you just listen to the music and go from dialogue window to dialogue window without any extra sounds. But what really annoyed me were the very illogical choices by devs to include stupid things in quest solutions such as: - There being no alternate ways to do quests for combat characters. You simply get half-way in a quest just to realize that since you didn't put points in skill X, forget it. You might even get some item that helps with proceeding the quest, but then not passing a speech check halts the quest. For example: end up in a palace to rob it. Only after getting inside and already having fought off some guards (basically half-way to the quest), does the game show that actually you can't pass any of the skill checks required, so the only choice is instant death in dialogue, or the choice "leave the palace" and fail the quest. Who would ever think this is a fun way to design a quest? - Bugs such as getting into an area and talking in dialogue mode, then suddenly it skips the next dialogue window and I die instantly by dialogue choice I didn't make. Holy crap, this does not belong in a game of this age! There are just so many things in this game that are implemented in an amateurish way and it ended up being a disappointment.

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Posted on: August 19, 2017

mushaden

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Gry: 742 Opinie: 4

I bought it twice

I have played through this game countless times. It's almost hard to judge the game without playing through at least a couple of times. The story and lore is rich, and the way the game is designed you can do quick playthroughs where you uncover different bits of it all, and even change how the story progresses. I wish I had the patience to discover all of the cool things in Planescape Torment, which I would put as the pinnacle of story-centered RPGs. The way this game works, with fast travel vignettes, makes it easy to feel like you have accomplished a lot in a single play session. Is it a choose-your-own adventure? Maybe, but it's a damn good one. Are you railroaded? Maybe, but this railroad has a multitude of elegantly designed switches that will keep you engaged. The combat is excellent and fun to master and breaks up the rest of the game quite well, if you choose to play a fighter character. If you like RPGs, try this game. If you enjoy replaying RPGs to discover content you missed the first time around, you might love it. The achievements for this game on steam really add to it, and serve as an indicator of how much of the game you have actually experienced. I repurchased the game on steam for this reason. I don't know if these are incorporated into the gog galaxy client; they weren't when I last played.

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Posted on: July 5, 2018

Kutmar

Gry: 329 Opinie: 4

Good, but niche and overrated

A good game, which has been praised for the rich plot, meaningful choices, compelling universe. Most of those praises are true, and I will not repeat them. Instead I would mention why I think this game is, in many ways, overrated. The problem is that the game often confuses difficulty with the necessity to pursue a perfect constellation of point distribution, dialogue choices and gear to even have a chance at success. The margin of error is tiny, you often have to plan several levels ahead to succeed, and failure to do so can put you into a situation where even the main questline becomes insurmountably difficult - but you'll only notice this way past the point of no return. This issue is exacerbated by the fact that the game world is not robust. It's a gradually expanding sorta-open world, but it doesn't take too much effort to exhaust available side-quests in a new area. You simply cannot afford mistakes in developing your caracter, because you'll get no chance for some non-crucial xp. No flair skills, or rpg-fluff here: you have to unchain your inner number-cruncher munchkin for merciless metagaming, or you'll keep dying, and the game will even gloat over you for it. The other issue is that the game ensures replayability by simply denying you certain quests. You will encounter those quests, or locations, or characters, but they will require a combination of stats that ensure you will never proceed with them unless they fit into you main character profile. I understand the reasoning behind this, but with the size of the game world, you are constantly running into inaccassible quests. It's not a bad game, but it's very frustrating. There's no "exploring" or "completing" this game. You have to let it kill you nineteen times over to learn its weaknesses, start with a dirty trick to bring it to the ground, and then keep stabbing at its windpipe until it stops moving. And then you will have yanked your first successful playthrough away from its cold, hard fingers.

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