No wonder I'm stuck. It's all about the grind but right here it's to the point artificial game time is added. Such a shame since it could be a game with no-go zones until a level or 2 in another dungeon or zone and leveling was way faster.
So first off, yes it's DRM free. But the performance on modern hardware is not all that great. And it's not updated for those at the time of playing. I went through several hoops just to get it to minimal crashes. Technical things aside, Dragon Age: Origins were very disappointing for me. The origin stories had great potential in the start of the game. But eventually it all comes down to the same conclusion based on your choices in the main game. What I mean by that is that the origin stories only matter in the context of how other characters look at you. Otherwise you can progress the story like normal. The graphics and gameplay didn't age very well compared to games that came after this one. Or even before this game. Movement felt slow and they went a little overboard with micromanagement of your pary members in my opinion. It just takes the flow out of the gameplay. The gameplay loop revolves around having muliple rooms with enemies, with slow combat, quest progression etc. The graphics part is a matter of taste and it just weren't to my liking. One more thing to note is that it's possible to softlock your character at a certain point. Look at Games like Mass Effect, Diablo 1&2, Fallout NV etc. Here's why I think they are superior experiences. Mass Effect aged gracefully, although I did play the Legendary Edition. The Gameplay is phenominal, and the RPG Mechanics actually mean something. Diablo might be difficult to get into nowadays, but the pixel art, sound design and theme of the games are top tier. Fallout New Vegas might need anti crash and preferred shader fixes. Luckily the engine were built for that and many of New Vegas' issues are ironed out nowadays. It truly is one of the best RPG experiences ever. Now for the positives: The storyline and character development are sublime despite being semi linear in progression. The DLC were fun to play. It ended in a satisfying way. In conclusion, it's not overrated, just expected more out of this game.
If you feel like you're tricked by the 4.4 stars. Don't worry, you're not alone. This is the least configurable PC game I have played in my entire life. And that's saying somthing. No dedicated "block trigger 1" or "skill trigger 1" botton" for KB/M, little controller support on bluetooth even (in my case) with DS4Windows and the first boss feeling like practically cheating because of it make for an unpleasant first half hour - an hour. Don't make the same mistake I did and skip this one by any means necessary. I'm sick of the kind of practices where you have to figure "modern PC port" "X console port" yourself.
I think this is a decent entry in the Ys series. But I have a few complaints about this one. First, the positives: +Satisfying combat. +Fun story. +Voice acting, abeit up to you whether you like it or not. +Some of the bosses. So here are the negatives: -Some platforms near invisible until leap of faith (with the sort of swirling ability). This makes the "AHA!" moments a little less satisfying for me -The dark rooms of the Quarry have nearly no checkpoints. With many enemies and some annoying platforming sections. This makes for some unfair difficulty. Might be not being well equipped on my part. This made me give up on the game. Depending on the person, either the positives outweigh the negatives. Or the other way around. For me, it's a 4 star game, despite giving up on it and the negative aspects for me.
Fun game, but having to wait at LEAST 10 seconds (with cutscenes) before trying a segment again is a pain in the ass. That could've been totally avoided by making death animation shorter and having an actual save/checkpoint at the bossfight itself.
After some years of getting many classic games to work (including some Steam games) I'm tired of companies not patching a game to work flawlessly on modern systems. I refuse to fix this myself as there are ways to get it for free. If it were free I would have been more than willing to patch this game myself. From what I've seen it's a good game, I just want to be able to consistently enjoy it. Buy at your own risk.
I'm getting tired of big companies releasing broken ports of games. It's not GOG's fault, it's Ubisofts and their lack of proper play testing. While I think the game is fun so far, it suffers from random crashes and a 2GB memory limit error. For a CD based game not running on Windows 11 and/or 10 this would have been totally fine. Since there usually are fixes for those. For anyone interested, here's a fix I found for the 2GB memory issue: https://www.moddb.com/downloads/large-address-aware1 For the random crashing issue I read something about setting the game to DirectX 9. Don't take my word for it though In summary: Buy it at your own risk, and know it could be a hassle to get it to work.
I've played this game on PS4. Throughout the entire game I didn't feel any connection with the characters. The only character with some character development is Erend. And, seriously guys, not to bash on this game, but it is so immersion breaking when the white guys are either antagonistic or bullies or alcohol addicts etc. or even needs saving. The women or people of color are either leaders, kind, get to live longer on average etc. Sorry but that were a pattern I saw. This made the game painfully predictable at times. The combat and enemies are unique. That one I must admit. But for me it got stale after a while. The only good things I can give this game are the graphics and its borrowed systems being well implemented (not counting combat). But those alone don't carry the game. So this is at its highest a 4 out of 10 experience for me. 1 point for the graphics, 1 point for a functional game, 1 point for well implemented mechanics, 1 point for Erend and the combat.
