Does not make it a good game... I have played over 100 hours of this game with various builds and despite this being an overall satisfying game with great feeling combat and a great game enviroment, the game has some glaring flaws that make it a sub par game in my view. This first is the story. Most of it is through exposition dump through NPC dialogue and there is very little of it actually explained in a way that makes you actually understand the lore. There was little to no investment in story development or creating an actual logical story line and it shows. Story threads start and lead nowhere, some dialogue lines are narrated, others aren't which you can clearly tell was because they added it post recording. The loot is just plain dead boring, you get tons of it which you can very helpfully filter, but most of it is either below your current equipment, over your current level or just plain ugly. Most of the loot suffers from this issue - I have played over 100 hours and most of what you get is just plain, similar looking and so boring. You sometimes get really cool burning clothes and other clothes with such effects but that comes so rarely and most of the times you don't have matching sets. Mission leveling is the worst aspect of this game - you start a mission with enemies at your level or below and end the mission with a boss 5 levels above you that summons 15 undead and kills you with 3 hits. Enemies don't appear to have cooldowns to their effects and spam fireballs and other area effects that just suck away your health and leave you frustrated trying to run away back and fowards navigating the multitude of enemies around you. Ultimately the game is fun, until it just gets boring and uninteresting. It is way overhyped
Darksiders was crumbling with the weight of its outdated mechanics, story progression and cohesion. Each game was rated lower than the previous and it just felt that the franchise was heading for failure. Genesis is that breath of fresh air. It's a satisfying game with a good story and a phenomenally voice acted protagonist. It's really what the franchise was needing and I am happy the developers weren't afraid to change things up. 100% get it!
I don't know at what state was this game released but this is far from fixed. I can't open the damn menu and closing it without my game crashing... It's the enth time this has happened and forced me to reset my progress. A damn shame considering just how much I was enjoying this game. Don't get it until they fix it, but its been years and if nothing has been done until now, well I don't think anything will be done
I've played this game for the first time so I believe my view is unclouded by nostalgia when this game came out and despite me being a lover of older games, this one really doesn't stand the test of time as an amazing game. Altough the gameplay is satisfying and the enemy variety, combos, weapons and overall mechanics are really nice and interesting, it is in hte pacing that it suffers the most. You see the whole thing takes about 20 hours, depending on how thorough you want to be with your session and in all of that time your missions basically comprise of - go there, do that thing so I can do this thing so you can do that thing. I think the worst example of this is when you have to 'remove the curse' of basically a walking gate and in order to do that you have to complete 4 trials with random weird objectives like kill 15 monsters with a parry, with each point being infuriantingly far away from each other. It's redundant and it feels like it's there just to add padding to the game time. I would say, if you are getting into the franchise now and you have some hours to burn play it, but if you are getting it as a standalone title I wouldn't reccomend it. You will just get bored
I find it hilarious that the same people who are complaining about how buggy this game is, or it's cost, are also the ones saying it is like 'Skyrim' - the game that to this day can't be played without a community debug mod and is released at 60 dollars for every device on earth. As always the overall rating for this game is lower than the verified owners rating, which continues to prove that GOG should only allow those who buy a game to review it, to avoid these idiots being so upset at not being able to afford something, like they are entitled to it by birth or something, that they take it to multiple platforms. To the game, this is an amazing title by all accounts, and altough not perfect, no game is, it is very close. All NPC's are voiced which even nowadays is a hit or miss, the combat mechanics are smooth and satisfying and altough you can button mash good things await those who memorise the combos. The graphics are stunning, despite a lacking draw distance, and clearly a lot of work was put in making the graphics updated. The story is ok but its in the side missions that this game really shines. The loot is quite excessive and you will have to make regular trips to sell it all and the enemies are varied and well planned. This is an absolute must-buy, I really suggest you ignore the negative comments as they are made by sad people who feel entitled to things in life. I have played for about 100 hours and I haven't ecountered a gamebreaking bug yet, but my game has had a couple of audio bugs, nothing that a reload can't sort out.
I must admit I was a bit sceptical at first, given the game's different graphics and gameplay. I love story driven games, but I am more of an RPG kind of guy. However I took a gamble when this game went on sale and boy do I wish I had it full price. I won't spoil things for you, but this game will have you griped and hooked in seconds and you will be desperate to understand what was teh fate of obra dim. Buy it now!
not good
This game has a demographic of people that love to smell their own flatulence, and call farts flatulence unironically... I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone can rate this game a 5/5, or anything above 3 really, and the 2 stars are mostly for the effort and time it takes to put any game together. If you are going into this 'game' expecting a 'game' you are sorely mistaken and honestly don't even get it. For whatever price you are getting it you will enter a drab grey city, the boring convoluted dialogue that loves to use pseudo intelectual conjectures and takes itself more seriously than any game has the right to and finally the plain embarassing combat mechanics makes this a sleepy, boring and outright crap game. The 5 stars on this must be from people that like movies for their 'conceptual undertones' rather than the actual substance. Just don't get it
All around a great game, it has satisfying mechanics, a compelling story and interesting characters. For me it loses a few points on how bad the mapping system is, leaving you running around trying to find which entry is the one that will take you to the actual objective, until you find out its actually the shady backdoor you were sure you already been in. I hate having to run around like this, sometimes losing 30 minutes to straight up nothing... It's frustrating and has led me to simply quit an otherwise great game multiple times. The story is really insteresting and right down my alley, it doesn't take itself so seriously that it becomes cringy mess - like Allan Wake - but it also doesn't become so goofy that loses all self-respect - like Borderlands 3. It's well paced, interesting and overall a solid experience. At first I thought that the fact you only had one pistol was a deteriment but actually it turned out that you can modify it to become sort of a small shotgun or rifle, the shooting is great and I love it. 100% buy it, it's a game everyone should have in their library
Human growth and development was a long and tedious process that involved many redundant and useless actions that eventually led to the golden age of species development we are experiencing. This game is much like that - it is a boring game mostly comprised of tedious actions that feel redundant and are redundant that will eventually result in a great conclusion. In the great schemes of things this may sound poetic, but the game being good only at the end is just plain uninteresting... Some people will love it, those perhaps are the same that read the instructions before they set up a new microwave, read the terms and conditions of a music streaming service before they use it or they plain like to be bored. A+ for the effort, straight up F on the excution and the concept
