1 - Can only play new area in Legendary. This is terrible because TQ (like most ARPGs) have severely unbalanced late games, and the age of TQ only makes this problem even worse. 2 - New skill tree is extremely boring and while you can make it work with any other, of course, I can hardly see why I'd want to. So that leaves with no reason to have, buy, or play this shameful cash grab.
The combat has issues, but once you get used to them, it's rather enjoyable. Get it on sale and it's worth it.
Except that there's simply no reliable information for the game, especially regarding the differences between different versions. The manual is extremely unhelpful and outdated and blatantly incorrect. Character planning is therefore almost impossible, and planning is needed if you want mage characters who won't die instantly to an archer. The early game is painfully slow. Everything misses (I guess spells and abilities were nerfed at some point) and trading misses isn't fun. Eventually, you can hit, and everything dies or gets controlled in one round, including bosses. Then even further in, enemies will just oneshot you with Lethal Blow. Your only choice is to have high speed characters do it to them first, if you're lucky. Your casters will always go last, even Hasted with max Speed. So combat is a mess. It's both too easy and too hard. I've never seen a fight with the right amount of challenge. You can't speed up spells or music using Enter, so fights drag on. There's no communication with the dev, anywhere. There are no patch notes for v3. Just avoid it until the dev puts in another 23 years of time.
I could almost get this game to work without GoG except for the fact that the mouse lags horribly and simply will not move in certain directions at certain times. I tried dozens of fixes. Naturally, I expected that if GoG took a crack at the game, the mouse issue would be addressed, but it's not. So the game is, unfortunately, literally unplayable. Also, don't trust reviews that start say "I haven't played it yet, but..."
Siege of Dragonspear is being unfairly reviewed by some bigots. I'm giving the game 5 stars where it probably deserves 4, to help counter some of the negative reviews that aren't based on the game at all. First and foremost, I don't understand how the inclusion of a transgender NPC with an OPTIONAL dialogue is, as many reviewers put it, "shoving an agenda down my throat." Take off the tinfoil hats, people. There is no "agenda." It's one trans character. Get over it. I was glad to see Beamdog had the balls to include her, honestly. Second, let's talk about the actual game. Cons: The black outlines around the characters is a little ugly, but I got over it in about 30 seconds. There are a couple of non-game breaking bugs (this is why it deserves a 4). Pros: It's really fun. They got many of the same voice actors to come back and work on this title. Did I mention it's fun? Finally, get over the trans character. Or, don't talk to her. If you can't handle a trans character in a game... you're not going to like the future.
