Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

The bad: the game is not implemented properly. It's covered with bugs all over. It takes 15GB of memory when running, loads take forever, characters get stuck in walls and you occasionally have to check youtube and forums to see if your plot is progressing properly or if it's stuck because of a bug. It's several months since release by now, so I don't expect those bugs to be fixed in foreseeable future The good: it's the most fun per buck game I've probably ever played. The story is complex and multidimensional, you are provided with plenty of freedom of choice, your actions are significant and have consequences all over. So if you think you can handle the bugs, I recommend giving this one a try

I liked: - Realtime (with pause) combat --- like in Baldurs Gate. If it wasn't there and instead fx turn based it would take an eternity (like real tabletop). - The Scope. Starting from the bottom where everything is deadly to higher levels where the encounter levels swing from walk-in-park to how-do-I-beat-this?? - The Lore. The first world and gnome bleaching in particular. I already knew bits and pieces about Golarion lore but this helped me get more invested in the world. Will definetly GM my next campaign in Golarion. - The Length. It could always have been longer (maybe an even longer time before I get my baronny?) But the episodic feel it gets because of the chapters does give it a feeling of a grand campaign. I understand: - Why they had to make things harder than in tabletop. In this game you can load and prebuff. - Why they didn't have spells like Fly, Teleport and Suggestion. In particular Fly would change the complexity (and confusion) of the combat - Why didn't have grapple etc.. I grapple and tie up the enemy... now that enemy needs a dialogue tree too. Now for their next game I have some (big) wishes: - Simple AI designer for Companions (like BG-series had) - Stronger AI for enemies. I'd like to see more tactics from even a barbarian than from an owlbear - Destructable environment - Toolset. Like Neverwinter Nights make a toolset so players can make their own adventure... - ... then make it multiplayer like Neverwinter Nights

Не нравится что в описаниях заклинаний/скилов/зелий и прочего эффекты и условия размазаны по большому тексту. Постоянно приходится глазами их искать. Эффекты и услвоия должны быть в начале карточки с описанием и выделены цветами. Так же хотелось бы иметь возможность настраивать стратегии поведения персонажей (как это было в Dragon Age). А то в бою из-за обилия скиллов и эффектов часто теряешься и бой превращается в с**чью свалку :) Радует что разработчики активно дорабатывают игру.

Very rich, very long or maybe even too long. Very good main story Companions characters are okay, but not really brillant thought, a bit too classical (Nok-Nok is quite fun). But main story is really good. Kingdom management is sometimes a bit too much heavy. I overall had a very good time. Note: I began to play with Enhanced Edition v2.05 (when I finished, it was 2.07), and I did not encounter any bugs. I say this because initial release was apparently full of bugs.

Very immersive, well written, very detailed mechanics, and practically unlimited character build options. Difficulty seems fine to play on normal settings. Most, if not all situations that are out of balance can be avoided and postponed or overcome with specific tactics, at least for the first quarter of the game (that's all I've played). The kingdom aspect of it is interesting so far. I'm in constant need of B(uilding) P(oints) to improve my towns, expand territory, claim "resources", and many other minor actions. Meanwhile my kingdom is ever beset by problems which require BP to remediate, and the ability to increase BP generation requires of course, tons of BP...so hopefully it's supposed to be a slow build or I'm just very bad at the game or both. I was a big fan of Birthright: Gorgon's Alliance and so far this is much more of an isometric TB/RTS/RPG - which is impressive and well done, but it isn't a map style, RISK-like, experience. My biggest gripe is navigating certain maps repeatedly is tiresome, there's no mini map or warp zone or trade route and scrolling is slow. No quick-leave option on maps, you have to manually set your character to go to the exit and then hit the exit button once they get there. And then a loading screen. A relatively trivial complaint, but it does get tedious, especially since all the things you should be doing require close management as well. Runs well enough on my rather old and weak PC. Often crashes after I quit, but has no impact on the save.