Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

After years of it's release, still is bug ridden. I was recently hit by a game breaking bug that shuts down my computer. There's a fix, but good luck making it work. The fix involves changing the permissions on the shutdown file inside the SYSWOW folder of your Windows machine. It seems simple enough but there is something wrong with my computer that won't let me change it... I could spend my time trying to fix that, but I won't. This happened just days after purchasing the last DLC of the Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous (I know, that's another game), but when searching for solutions to my problem with Kingmaker, I found some people got the same problem on WOTR. I am heartbroken, I'd love to continue playing this game and WOTR, but I'm not going to. Not sure if I'm going top continue supporting the company that make the games too. I love the pathfinder universe, but this is unnacceptable.

Being a backer from the kickstarter, I am very sad to write this. There is great potential is this game, but what good is it when you have to replay large chunks of the game because suddenly it cannot load saved games? It could have been game of the year, had it been developed by professional programmers and properly tested before launch. So far, it is only a chore to play. A poor beta with big optimization issues. I don't think I will ever have the nerve to play it through the end.

By the game itself its so much like a classic Baldurs Gate and it has very nice characters involved with pretty great stories behind them. The most brutal and annoying part is the difficulty curve EARLY on. At low level its just frustrating to get 1 shot in the tutorial missions, thats crazy and even if its true to the Penn&Paper (as first level is supposed to die to absolutely everything) , the game would work a lot better if it simply started at like level 3 and avoided this problem (as for a video game, this is just annoying, its not fun, its 100% annoying). Then you get again very early a Quest with an enemy that is just flat out immune to your damage and you just die. Again, its true to the Penn&Paper , but in these points it absolutely should avoid putting players into these situations so early in the game, when people badly need to just get into the game. The non-existence of a way to respec and reskill your characters is also an annoying problem that is just again because in Penn&Paper you dont allow it , but the game should absolutely allow it (and make it simply an option or a game mode that does not allow respec/reskills , but any more casual level should not stand in the way of the player). Then we have some very crazy difficulty spikes in the game early on, which should be easy to avoid for the devs. Simply put, these things should not exist, the very first playtester will point these things out and they have to be fixed immediatly. City Building and all the later parts are fine, i dig them and they are fun, at the later stages when you understand the games rules and all its trying to do, the game works way more smoothly (it even becomes too easy, which is ironic, as the early game is literally the most deadly point in the game). A better representation of time and active quests like a timeline would be great. In the end, its a really great RPG game, its pretty much on the level of Pillars of Eternity and does some things even better.

Tons of bugs. Infinite loading times each time your load a game. *each* *and**every**foockin'**time* you enter a dungeon. Minutes you can count ! *each* *and**every**foockin'**time* you enter your capital. *each* *and**every**foockin'**time* ....whatever. And, except if your are already an expert mastering the rules (yeah, Pathfrinder 's rules are fine, but not obvious for beginners) you'll have to save and reload a lot. So, considering the price, my concusion is : NO. No. Don't waste your money here until the game is fixed/documented on an acceptable level for the required price. Ho yes, graphics are fine, though. So, if you pay only for graphic, please go. If not, just NO.

Title almost says it all. I've been a huge BG fan ever since the games came out and never really found a similiar experience. I was rather disappointed by Pillars of Eternity. For the first time I am playing an cRPG which gives me the same feelings I had back then when I was 20 years younger and was playing BG on my first play thru. The stories are very well written and engaging. The characters are also very well written and believable, which is a huge plus for me. The graphics may not be the best out there, but they work perfectly with this kind of genre and make the world authentic. For example I like that the weather actually has an effect on the party! Combat is very similiar to BG. If you are experienced with this kind of game than you will probably have no difficulties dealing with the system. Some fights are tough. But you always have the control over the difficulty settings which you can adjust to your playstyle on the fly. One of the best features in the game imho are the resting system, the book event stories and the kingdom management system which is not seperate from the actualy game, but tight into it, which makes it even more interesting! I understand the game had many bugs when it first came out, but since then the developers worked hard to eliminate most of them. Pathfinder Kingmaker is now a very solid, engaging, fun game. I totally can recommend it!