Up front I have to admit that this game kicked my butt when I first started it, and it's still doing so after 14 levels. That said, patience and tactics are needed; button mashing will not win the day. If you can hang on long enough to learn how the combat system works, and you loved the Gothics, then you'll probably enjoy Elex.
This game is a gem. When it first came out I dismissed it as "Morrowind Lite" but after several plays it's become one of my all-time favourites. It beckons me for yet another play in just the same way that Morrowind does -- and Skyrim does not. Sadly, the latter, for all of its size and grandeur, simply cannot hold me the same way. Other reviewers can better express what is right about this game. What I love is its easy accessibility, the wonderful Guild Quests, the bright, beautiful game world, and my horse.
Fantastic RPG. Witcher 3 runs flawlessly, has a deep and involved story line, with branching outcomes, and looks just beautiful. The base game on its own is great, but add in the amazingly generous Blood and Wine DLC and you've got a game beyond compare.
When I downloaded this and played it, I thought it was promising, but I wonder where this project is at, development-wise. It's been almost 4 years since the demo first became available and still the game is not completed. Has it been abandoned?
I played most of the KQ games back n the day, but it was KQ8 that started me on my path to ruin; that is, it ripped me away from my comfortable and familiar point and click adventure games and threw me into the dark, dark netherworld of action and combat. I thought it would be like the other KQ games, and flipped when I first realized it had combat...and more combat...and even more combat. But there came a point where I realized, somewhere around the 20th skeleton, that I was having freaking awesome fun. And I never looked back. I haven't played an adventure game since. Look, the graphics are dated, sure, and the story line is pretty cliché, but for its day it was a pretty darned good game. I'll probably have a go at it again, just for old times' sake.
I've been playing this game (and Thief Gold) since it was first released and I love it still. The first two games in the series are true gems and were for me a radical departure from what I thought an action game was. Sneak, steal, blackjack anyone who gets in your larcenous way. Make your way across the rooftops or crawl through the sewers. Steal the purse right off a guard's belt. Find all the loot. Hide from creepy mechanical security faces, or find a way to turn them off. Or throw caution to the wind and blow them up! Tiptoe across marble floors to pick a bank clean. Aim a water arrow into a steampunk robot's boiler and listen to its dying musings. The graphics are basic at best, but still the missions were gripping and complex and without a doubt I'll be at it again soon.
