Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

After 136 hours I finished the game! I had to install a mod to help with some fights because the game can be unbalanced and it would have taken much longer if I didnt cheat. lol But what I loved about it was the story, characters and world! Easily in my top 10 rpgs, together with Neverwinter Nights, Dragon Age, The Elder Scrolls and others.

I kinda like the game, at least the idea of it, but it's just not finished by now. So many bugs, none CTD for me but it's really annoying. What annoys me the most are the long loading times, to start it, from the travel map into a location, just camping takes its loading time, from the throne room into the kingdom management, from kingdom management to city building screen, all the way back again, from throne room to the city, back to the travel screen. Loading, loading, loading and never ending of loading screens. Almost half of the game time is spent there. And as you have to learn a lot by the hard way you will reload a ton! Ant that's another problem, you have to make so many decisions without any or barely any information. It's basicly just guessing. The problem with the random encounters is not that they are imbalanced, it's that you have no clue what you will meet. You just can sometimes choose if to fight or avoid. It's not capable to tell you if you see 4 Kobolds or 3 Acient Elemtals before hand. Or what kind of impact your advisors have or which one to take with after chapter 1. Or you are in a location made for about lvl 6 onwards, but there are absolutely ridicules enemy groups that just whipe your group in seconds. Seriously, why should you expect that a F***** Owlbear has godlike strength, +14 bonus, and a total of 2d6+24 of damage, with the +28 to attack is it just nuts! Seriously, that's just awful level desing! Safe a lot! You regret it otherwise! This game is made for Min/Maxing your Characters, otherwise you bite the dust on regular basis! But with the lack of information of how to progress your Character you just hope you didn't make the wrong choices. And of course it doesn't help that the choices they made for your companions are abysmal and that you just try to get them into shape over several levels so they become useful. The ridicules price you have to pay for a custom companion isn't helpful. Please fix the loading times and infos!!!!!

Oh boy, I had a Baldur's Gate inch for a long time and this game scratches good. Great music, art, writing, solid graphics. All your party members are unique and have interesting backstory. Many people complain about the balance, but I don't think it's broken. Here's the deal: on a normal difficulty you have slight advantage on your enemies and sometimes that is not enough, so use potions, scrolls, magic, read your skills, passive abilities to have a bit of an edge over your enemies. I play on normal and don't have any difficulties, it's challenging and I love it. If you don't have an experience in D&D or never played game like Baldur's Gate you probably should choose easy mode, or even story mode. Never had any bags so fourth, I'll update my comment if have any. That's enough of the banter, can't wait to play it more!

If you have ever played a tabletop RPG this is the closest Ive ever seen to it, I thought from the reviews etc... that real time would not feel right, but the pausing just worked, it auto paused for you as you stumble into combat. I have a lot of RPG games but this one is perfect, it just isn't like computer gaming an RPG, it is real tabletop. If you have never played a real tabletop version you will get a feel for them, if I was learning a real RPG this serves as a great way to see the mechanics in action.

I really wanna like this game. Don't get me wrong, Its a good game, and its almost a great one. First off, Im only about 25 hours in, and only lv 3. So it moves very slowly. That's kinda a good thing in some ways. Feels like it makes you really work for things. Your choices in character build and development is crucial to even be able to play for more than 5 minutes without dying. I literally had to research the rule set and character builds for a few hours to even be able to play. Im a huge fan of Icewind dale, Baldurs gate, Pillars of eternity etc. This game is waaaaaay more strict to the tabletop rules than any of those. Maybe that's your thing. The game could be amazing if they'd just help you out a little more in the beginning. You can literally create a character and level them in ways that make it impossible to hit anything, and impossible to play. You really need to know the mechanics and the rules, or you'll just die and miss everything. And why the hell do you move so slow? That was one reason I loved Pillars so much, you can double time your walking speed. It feels like your walking in slow motion. I dont know, I really want to like it and Im going to keep on going hoping things progress a bit more. This game is not for the faint hearted, or uneducated! Very very difficult game if your new to tabletops D&D style games and rules.