I like the idea of games like this - but at the moment, this is still undercooked. Right now if you were to follow the game tutorial you will lose the game. I lost the game after two game years. The issue is literally no one is buying the tanks you make. I had for contracts in 2 years. You just bleed cash out of every pore and your business goes bust. Its crazy that you can't find customers or sell overseas or even sell unsold stock. Right now, I can't recommend this one in this state but if the devs keep at it, then this could be a fun game.
This is supposed to be the 2013 remake of a 90s game. It feels and plays like a game from around 20 years ago, not 10. Very clunky and very janky. The main issue is combat and skills. Your characters are quite simply, dreadful at everything they do. From combat to casting spells. The miss ratio is staggering. I lost most fights due to the constant misses. Even with aggression levels set up high boost their chances, they were most likely hitting 20% of the time. Skill use and spells like wise had very high fail rates. As a result spells rarely got cast. Healing was rarely done. You could kill your own party trying to heal them after combat. I barely managed to get 4 rooms into the starter dungeon before this got on my nerves. Sometimes nostalgia is best left in the past. Save your money and give this one a wide berth.
Dreadful game with dreadful mechanics. You have to play within a "fun budget" of dice. Run out of dice, you have to head for home and end your day. Want to explore that market. Too bad you ran out of fun dice. Need to see a doctor? Too bad you ran out of fun dice. Need to buy food desperately or starve? Too bad you ran out of fun dice. You use the dice to complete tasks, which progress a wheel, you need to fill out the wheel. But you have too few dice. Fail at a task and the game punishes you. Run out of dice and you literally can't do anything else. The type of dice you get is random. The number you get is determined by how strong or weak your character is from day to day. On day 2 my character started to starve and I couldn't get anything from the market because I was unable to fill a task wheel and I ran out of fun dice. I could sort of tolerate this mechanic if the story was vaguely interesting. But it really isn't. refunded.
I played this bitd on xbox. It really felt like it was configured for a controller. A spy game with some cool mechanics and felt like it was riffing on Jason Bourne and Mission Impossible. It was however quite janky in places and some builds were pretty naff and others were pretty OP. Shotgun and/or melee builds for instance were pretty awful and some boss fights could be brutal if you played one. Pistol and stealth builds were incredibly poweful. The pistol had an ability to one shot enemies and could be chained to auto take down up to 3 at a time. It was also useful against bosses as well. I don't know if this was ever addressed when it switched over to PC. Its difficulty system was unique as I recall. You picked between an unskilled agent or a vet with established skills at the beginning.
I remember getting this game when it came out. Played it a lot and did a lot of pbem and online games. The community was really active back then. Played in some tournaments had a lot fun. Lost my disks a while back and of course now most PCs don't even come with CD disk drives anymore. So it was quite a surprise to see all three of the original titles on GoG for under a fiver. So I bought them all. The graphics a basic, but they were considered basic 20 yrs ago. But the gameplay still holds up. Next to steelpanthers, this is still my favorite wargame on PC.
Because of some stupid "games for windows live" requirement, I cannot get this game to run. I have various solutions including mods but it simply will not run. Best avoided.
No matter how often I have tried, not matter how many mods I use...I simply can't put up with oblivion. For me, its the weakest entry in the scrolls games. From level scaling to the mediocre main story, it was an absolute chore to play. I have never been able to finish it. Skyrim was a major improvement but that isn't saying much. Neither manages its main story very well. But Oblivion seems worse than its successor. The gates of oblivion are opening! The Emperor is dead! devils are coming through, but from the reaction from NPCs everywhere, you'd think it was just another tuesday. No sense of drama. No sense of unfolding horror. No tension. The world seems asleep and unware of whats unfolding around it. The DLCs don't really help as they just add to the lack of urgency to a game that already feels like its sleepwalking to a conclusion. I can reccomend this at all.
This is the new entry into the venerable Baldurs Gate series. It has big shoes to fill as the original entries have become lionised by players over the years. What I can say is this is a very good game. Built around 5e but not exactly 100% RAW. It is broken into three acts. The 1st deals with setting up the story and the dilemma the players find themselves in. Alliances can be made and broken. Eventually your travels take you to the underdark in search of answers. Act 2 sees you following your first real clue and you enter the shadow realms. Act 3. This is were you head to Baldurs Gate and trying to come up with a plan to deal with the dilemma once and for all. Acts 1 & 2 are very well fleshed out. Not surprising they got the most attention during development. Act 3 feels very undercooked and rushed at times. It just about holds together though. The final end scene is a little rushed (no spoliers) and was a little underwhelming. The combat is amazing. The spells are very satisfying. There is plenty of cool loot. Characters look amazing as is the voice acting. Its just let down by the curse of xcom - dice roller clusters around the low end making you miss high % chance to hit targets. The undercooked third act was frustrating at times. I am sure that Larian will work on this as they are bound to release a GOTY version at some point. No DLC is planned, so I suspect it will be QOL changes we will see. Its a good game. Not a 10/10 or a 9/10 but it is a damned good game.
I play a lot of TTTRPGs - but I have never seen such a messy system as Pathfinder. It started out as a bells and whistles version of the old 3rd edition ruleset. But it has morphed over the years into a rules heavy mess. There are too many character classes. Even these are broken into numerous prestige classes and subclasses. This requires a fair degree of knowledge to build a optimised character. I actually found this intimidating. Crunchy and rules heavy systems really do not appeal to me. So this was the first sour note I hit with the game. The second was the story. In a story based game, if you as a player don't care for the story being told - thats a game thats not going to remain installed for long. The characters you control as part of your party also grated with me. I didn't like them. So strike two. I don't care for the story and the characters annoy me. The acutal gameplay...the combat takes too bloody long. The devs throw way to many enemies at you for a turn based game. The combat is satisfying as long as it works. But the RNG rolling the dice in this game is a barsteward. One early fight I had with a couple of low level enemies took 20 combat rounds. The amount of missing was staggering...given my characters had decent starting values and were fighting low level monsters. Somehow the dice always rolled lower than results, every round for 20 rounds. By the time I finished what was the tutorial mission. I was introduced to the main game. When I saw the crusade mode...I hated it immediately and so there was strike 3. I'd wait for Baldurs gate 3 or maybe try Solasta
Unresponsive controls, means I can't even play the game. Has really not aged well and looks awful.
