Initially I was sceptical of the claim 'every position matters' and it came true when I was one tile off and almost got a party wipe. Thats on the normal difficulty. While party composition SEEMS to be up to the users choice, meaning if you are recomended a Knight for a battle you can probably do without, but it certinly can help! The pacing is story, explore, fight, explore, fight, story. The explore so far isn't tricky but there are things to find. I'm glad you get a Theif character early because it always bothers me they put things for a Theif and you can't get to it. The only complaint I have is some of the character diolauge... I don't like Gwen (your Theif) ... but perhaps it's because of IRL stuff, but just comes off as self rightous or attempting a fourth wall break. Overall, its good and enjoyable. You don't get massive amounts of loot or XP so you can steamroll everything. You steamroll with tactics.
I think I have been liking this series just because its on the tough side. Yeah, the unfair crit happens from time to time but over all its more about strategy and party placement rather than just going in with 6 mages and blasting things to all get out .... ok well that's the end game but otherwise you'll need to adapt or you're gunna get stomped. Its more like playing DCC (dungeon crawl classic) than hero dnd.
Tired of being a hero in DnD? Well, Dungeon Crawl Classic is an answer to that. None of your characters are in their ideal profession and therefor adds a bit of struggle. Min Maxers HATE this game cuz their smooth brains can't handle the fact that the character isn't 'ideal'. Overall it gives you compelling choices and the choices you make shapes what happpens to you later. You have to manage wages, money, food, and happyness. Yeah, theirs some randomness to it, but to me, thats fun.
You got Titan Quest. Its a user error, but sometimes i can't attack some stuff proper, but i've always had that issue. Otherwise playing as expected. Oh, and soon Titan Quest 2 is comming (or already out depending when someone reads this)
No preformance problems but it does seem the enemy has an edge even in easy mode. So you new kids would say its a souls like game. I only played a demo of this back in the day and had no idea what warhammer was or how to play it. At the time the graphics were awesome. For its time, this has a lot of customization. While it can break the table top rules of mixing weapon types. The UI is clunky but its at least legable and it makes sense after a few turns of combat so you don't need to reach for a manual on how to play, maybe get some of the finer points. Enough clicking around and I was ok, but I'm also from that time. Idk if you youngsterrs will like it, as their is only one song for battle and it loops, but that midi track be slapping! The biggest irritant I have is when your guys are attacked at best they say 'im hit' or make a reaction, but you don't know untill they are dead or click on them. That's just something of the time tho. Also, I think it was designed to be played on harder difficulties where one shot will kill a guy. Yet playing tacticly enough, it gets mitigated. Suprising amounts of depth for its time. It takes me back to jagged alliance.
Similar Cyberpunk 2077, No Man's Sky had a rough start. Now with it's continued promise and development, there is a lot to do. Cross play lets you run into many a different player. There's still whole planets to discover (just might take you a while) where you can name it or the things anything you want. There's not much in the way of voice acting, if anything so think Animal Crossing, but the text is easy to read. There's various missions, random things to fall on/into and plenty of things to destroy/want to destroy you. Definatly worth it on a discount, and more fun as you add people. It is a solo play, unless you want people in. The only other time you see the other players is when you go to the main star base. Theres also enough explination on why and how things are and multipule paths to take. You can speed through your time or you can just take your time. You can make it zen, you can make it not so zen. I wouldn't say its super difficult, but at least for me, you can't shut your brain off entirely.
So maybe it was nostalga but I almost couldn't stop playing this game, well Origin's. I got this pack as I like to collect whole packs. SC1 is just fighting, SC2 is what we all know and love, a space adventure. SC3 was trying to be innovative but missed the mark. I'll try playing it sometime soon but I watched a few videos and I could see where they were going with it and thought it was a good idea, but why it fell short on the customer end. Origin tho is a whole new story that has some humor from SC2 but either due to the fact of it being more normal now, isn't the same. Like "hey we murdered monsters for your peace loving race" 'oh yeah we do that all the time'. To the 'uninitiated' its definatly funny but for the rest of us its like 'yeah saw that comming'. Eitherway, controls are responsive, sound effects are great and music is good. It flows well enough from star to star or race to race. Variations of the same music but done in different 'styles' i guess you could say. The story is see through-ish with a bit of a twist, and messing with aliens can be fun. While the story seems liniar you can approch it whenever you feel. I THINK there's a time limit to a certin extent but it seems generous as i litirally did all the side quests then finished the main story, and i didn't even have quantum drive, just regular old boring hyperspace. Unlike SC2 where you had to have quantim drive to pass the game. Anyway, if you get this on a good enough sale, you probably won't feel bad about it.
As someone who grew up with the games both table top and video game, I think this is finally in the right direction. The base game is lack luster but with all the DLC's it comes to life. Althought you can't attatch 16 AC 20's and have unlimited ammo, at least without mods, i think some of the limitations of weapons makes the game a little more realistic. Granted, were talking about walking tanks, in that is not realistic, so its a 'realisim where applicable'. You can Co-Op the game and it really takes off from there. The main mission is lack luster, but some of the side missions have a better story then the main mission. Also, the main story arc dosen't make much sense because you're getting revenge for your dad's murder... and there technicly isn't murder in war... idk. Over all if you want guns, explosions, metal music, and stomping robots give it a spin.
I wanna say i didn't play the crap outta this while at a contracted security post, but i put in about 150 hours. Theres easily 3 different endings with an 'ansestory' gimic. In a play through you can seal away 5 items for your next of kin. So as you may figure, thers some pretty powerful stuff, and while you can aquire it all, it takes like 5 or 6 playthroughs to get it all. Even then, you're not a god, you just have good stats. Overall, if you want to be spoon fed information, your battles easy, and liniar one playstyle wins all type of game, this is not for you. I played through as a different 'entity' every time and felt it was rewarding to some degree, if at least, out of curiosity. Also, split screen. Combat is a bit slow and clunky but your character isn't a hero or decended from a hero line. Just a guy who gets thrown in a really crappy position and has to turn to adventuring to survive. Also, you get to work around this. So if you want Jedi jumping all over, super ninja Goku crap, well...were human down here. Please pass this planet up. Definatly more fun with a friend. so grab a controller, or buddy up on the keyboard and have fun! Oh, and the 150 hours was in the base game, no DLC. Planning on getting those, just ... in time. The best way i can describe it to the modern gamer is, a solo experience MMO. Large enough world, a few options to skills and combat, and things want to kill you dead if only for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
