The game is your atypical bulding RPG. This: Command & Conquer but cold. I can appreciate the work that went into this game, both in the programming logic, and in the graphic elements (eye candy). Playing the game, however, is just so slow and boring. If there's a way to speed-up game play, then you'll just get bored faster. To be fair, I'm not into micro-managing games - the last one I played that I considered to be hella-fun was Command & Conquer. This is not that. It's a complex game which brings me to my second issue: I just don't want to work this hard to learn/play a game. tl;dr: moments of furious clicking followed by long bouts of screen staring. pretty tho.
Playing area too small. Couldn't get missles to fire. Got into research facility - door locked. No key. No progression. Uninstalled. Refund requested. This is either bugged or a not a shooter/looter rpg. Wasn't interested enough to waste any more time figuring it out.
I'll admit up-front that RPG games, or whatever this is, aren't my cuppa. DE reminds me of a GUI wrapper around and old text adventure of the verb-noun type. Have Headache. Buy medicine. No Money. Get bottles. No bag. Get bag. Get bottles. Get money. Get medicine. Get out. Go insane. Hooboi we be adulting now! I didn't make it any further than that because that's about the time the narrarator's voice began to sound patronizing. Game throws in adult stuffs for color, a discriminator. It probably tested well with the snickering 14-year-old market. It does succeed at being bleak and conveying a sense of hopelessness that was in equivalent portions to the fun I was having playing. Playing DE is not so much a fun distraction as it is a chore. A tedious one you did back in the 80's. But the art was cool. Go west. Open door. Leave.
I get that the button mashers were disappointed on release - I bought this game as soon as it was released for PC and just played the hell out of it. Didn't notice any game-stopping bugs or performance issues - got a decent rig and a great card - no more than, say, FarCry5 or RDR2. Actually, I liked this game much more than RDR2. My interest waned a bit once I finished the main story line - and I've not been playing it as much since then since, at this point, it's a wash-rinse-repeat and, other than cashing cheeves, there's really no point. I'd really like to see driving controls improved - use the mouse, man! - this is probably my #1 complaint with the game - on PC, driving just consists of dozens of little nudges with the arrow key. YAWN! IMO, well worth the money spent - got dozens of hours of fun out of it! When's the xpac going to be released? I'd buy it...
Love this game! One of the best, and most creative UIs seen! Combat is excellent! Spellcasting is a little meh with closed presets but not a blocker. Big fan of modding but all mods are handled by nexus mods so no mods. Still a great game and will be playing this until New World releases.
I wanted to like this, I did but didn't make it more than 15 minutes into it put off, first of all, by being required to go to the publisher's website and create an account. FFS, why? Once started, selected the hand-holding mode... game boots, and I get prompted to press f2 to open something, and that was it. Nothing to tell me what to do after I opened the something- the wee ai bot just ... went away. So did I at this point. Uninstalled.
