Posted on: October 28, 2017

pareku

Игр: 52 Отзывов: 1

Don't buy this game

(This is a review from someone that hasn't played the gothic games, but has finished the main story and most of the quest, including two factions quests) There is one thing only that is good with this game and that is exploration. Interesting landscape and world, but the rest of the entire game is awful. The animations are wonky, tons of bugs (i found at least two broken quests which i'm sure of, also i found a way to do lockpicking without doing the puzzle), the difficulty goes from too hard to the easiest game in the world once you join a faction. The story is the most basic fantasy/sci-fi story and drags on for waaaaay too long, to the point of it being ridiculous and on top of that, the game is not self aware (in my opinion at least) AT ALL. There are also tons of tropes in the game like: * A Yoda with super magical powers who lives alone in the forest * Main character has lost some of his memory and has Flashbacks * Stereotypes and factions where every stereotype is gathered, to make it easier to find out what sort of b-hole you want to be. * Plot characters that exist solely to move the plot and has no personality at all Combat is clunky. Your biggest enemy in the beginning is a small enemy and a slighty slanted ground, and late-game it is hitboxes and controls. If you join one specific faction (to my knowledge, didn't try the outlaws) you can literally stunlock an entire army without being hit, so i suggest doing that to avoid combat as much as possible. Once the veil of mystery is gone, you will realise that the game is just a bunch of other games, but done worse in every aspect. To me, a good game to compare this with is Nier:Automata which in my opinion was almost everything ELEX is but better. Most of all, it had an actual sci-fi story and not a fantasy disguised in a sci-fi setting. However they are very much apart from eachother in terms of scale and gameplay, to which i would suggest witcher 3.

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Posted on: October 21, 2017

badgesareu

Владелец игры

Игр: 43 Отзывов: 1

Perfect for PB fans, even with its warts

I love the Gothic & Risen PB games; played Risen 3 for the 4th time few months ago, was playing Gothic 3 (with CPT patch) for the 6th time when Elex came out. If you love those PB games, you should love Elex. I bought this with some trepidation due to neg reviews, so glad I did! Is it hard - yes. Just like those earlier PB games, you start out with no armor and a crappy weapon, and you promptly get your butt kicked by wildlife. Remember those scavengers -- here they look like giant dodos, but still the same. Do you miss snappers -- they're back with a new name & new skin, but still just as friendly. Are you good at lockpicking in R3 -- exactly the same system here. I almost expected to stumble across an Orc calling me a Mora! I played this game for 8 straight hours after install, spent 3 hours exploring before reaching the first city. Stuff hidden everywhere (use the jetpack!) & still using the rusty axe I found near the start! Much of the criticism I've read deals with graphics & performance. Some people have the latest processor that can launch a space shuttle and the shiniest $2000 graphics card, which they replace every 6 mos., and want a game that exploits all that power, so they are disappointed that Elex does not. I play with a 7-year old processor (i7 920) and a 3-year-old GTX 950, and I have no FPS drops, no problems. (All the graphics are set to High, except render which was set to Medium.) It plays smoothly with no crashes (so far). I'm so glad they made a game that can be played on my older system. There are some funky graphics where the pommel of a sword may sprout out of an NPC wrist while talking, or you reach forward to pick up something and grab what was behind you. And as usual, the weapons seem to be magnetically attached to the NPC or player. One annoyance -- viewing your map or inventory uses your wrist tech gadget, and in the Berserker town, they all shout "forbidden technology put that away" every time! I gotta go play!

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Posted on: May 6, 2019

MrMuggles

Владелец игры

Игр: 302 Отзывов: 2

Just as frustrating as it is engaging

Whether you would enjoy the game or not, will depend on how much its shortcomings will ruin the experience for you. This is not a game which takes you by the hand, but throws you into a world, where things will just kill you. But combine that with unresponsive controls, some weird UX choices and a couple of bugs and glitches (not game breaking though) and you are in for a ride, which is just as frustrating, as it is engaging. You will get used to saving and reloading a lot. Be it because some overpowered creep comes out of nowhere and kills you in one hit. Some creature that has been following you kills all the NPCs around, rendering you unable to finish a quest. You accidentally hit an NPC instead of the monster attacking him and and he now turns hostile towards you. You want to talk to a trader, but accidentally select the axe lying in front of him, which means you steal it and everyone starts attacking you. If that doesn't turn you off and you can cope with the sluggish combat system, then you might still enjoy an otherwise excellent RPG. A big open world to explore (with a jetpack!). Multiple ways of solving quests with different outcomes. An interesting mix of sci-fi and fantasy. Different factions with different play styles. Hours of exploration and replayability. But beware: this game might turn you off, before you start enjoying it.

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Posted on: June 9, 2021

OGBear

Владелец игры

Игр: 295 Отзывов: 1

Good, but with some fatal flaws.

This was a solid 4 to 4.5 star game until I got to the final boss. Very rarely do I quit and delete a game before finishing, but this was just too much frustration to be fun anymore. Even dropping everything down to the easiest levels, the final boss battle is just too difficult to be enjoyable. Surrounded by enemies, constantly being knocked down so you can't recover, and when you restart from the autosave, you have to spend a few minutes trying to skip through all of the end boss monologuing. I wasted a full day trying different tricks and combos. Nope, the battle is still stupidly broken. Congrats to everyone who did manage to finish this game. I'm glad I got this game at such a steep discount, so I can say that the time spent prior to the final boss was worth the money. But not being able to end the game unless I chug some Jolt Cola and de-age myself back to my twitchy 11 year old self is not how I want to spend my free time. As to the rest of the game: Being forced to choose to align with a competing faction even though there is the theoretical possibility of forming your own was annoying. The game pretends to give you choices, but you are mostly railroaded. You can roam around freely, but doing things out of order can have a serious impact on the game, and could possibly even break it if a key NPC accidentally gets killed by a critter in the environment when they were barely on your area map. Save frequently with several saves if you don't want to risk having to lose dozens of hours of game play because of this.

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Posted on: October 20, 2017

Vizera

Игр: Отзывов: 17

No, it is nothing like Gothic 1 or 2.

Within a few hours of release there were plenty of gushing reviews proclaiming this to be a "spiritual successor" or otherwise on par with the original Gothic games. Let me assure you that is not the case at all, unless you are referring to Gothic 4 Arcania, in which case you would be spot on. This looks and plays like a 10 year old console game, and has all the issues one would expect from one. Awful UI, bad graphics, clunky controls and animations, simplistic 1click combat with "zomygawd combo!!!", tiny maps etc, etc. The voice acting is horrible but that is almost a none issue as no voice actor could make this atrocious writing bearable. I seem to recall an interview with some developer boasting about hundreds of quests, but when those largely consist of poorly disguised and badly written fetch quests, i hardly consider that a point in the games favor. In short, this is following the trajectory PB has been on since the first Risen failed to meet their sales expectations, with each new installment getting progressively worse.

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