I bought this and then like never played it. Its fun so far but I wish that there was a 1st person view. All in all though worth the purchase.
There are some minor glitches I've encountered so far, some from the very start of the game. Aside from some screen tearing and the occasional graphical artifact the game so far has ran decent enough. At least none of these bugs have affected my game play in so much of a way that I die. That all aside the gameplay itself is pretty fun with a lot of different ways to do things. The story is pretty engrossing and I like how everything gets broken up between story segment and action so that nothing gets stale. Buy it if you can deal with Bethesda style bugs.
The game is solid but it is very much an in development game despite being polished and relatively bug free experience. As a city builer it is missing some key features like some form of measuring tool for roads and plots like there is for farm fields, control over who lives in which house so that workers can live next to their workshop/resource, more than one map and some form of cultural supply chain/buildings would round out the game. This is not to say the current city builder mechanics aren't good because they are! This is one of the most natural city builders I have played and while typically my OCD has me building grids, I find myself building around terrain in Manor Lord or using it within my city build. The first person is a great feature too and the envirorment is just perfect. As a strategy game it is missing some features like a built out diplomacy system for dealing with the Baron who is off map, or even a larger map with more that one Baron players could pit against each other as they build an army. A way to take out the off map Baron's economy would be great as well as any other way to mitigate them or handle them without resorting to combat. However, there were moments when the Baron and the Raiders challenged me and there is definently strategy required to win. So, it actually performed well in my opinion as a more basic RTS. All in all the game is good and if you are already a fan of something like City Skylines or SimCity then you will probably enjoy this one too. I will update this review upon full release.
Oblivion was the follow-up to the classic Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind that switched the engine from something that was more dice rolly to something that was more fluid and action based. It aged better than I thought it would and whereas it is not my favorite in the series it did come with Daggerfall!
I didn't get very far... I made it hard on myself I guess. I want to try it again with a controller, but on mouse/keyboard it is a little slow to start on the controls.
It is a timeless gem and a testament to the genre.
I like the game overall and it was worth the purchase, but it'd be nice if they expanded the government so that its a bit more dynamic. For instance in a democracy you'd need to sway votes to pass legislation to enact policy (change the tech tree), as an authoritarian you'd have to maybe sway a small council, and the totalitarian wouldn't need any approval. Then balance it with maybe adding the ability to slander congressmen or assassinate wayward warlords on your council.
I remember a friend lending me this game back in my Freshman year of high school. To have a game stick in your head as a fond experience for all these years is a real accomplishment. However it has some quirks as all old software does and so I'm subtracting a star because it might not run the best on other machines. The game really put forward something that was 100% unique for it's time and still is pretty unqiue in so far as I know. There are very few Steam Punk games and very few that force us to choose either magic or technology. Just that concept alone is what makes the game memorable, but then the game's characters have this loveable charm. Just going to add this here... If they ever remade this game or created a second I would gladly pay a AAA price for it.
