Pros: - the idea, - the art design, - the mood, - the sense of humor, - some of the puzzles. Cons: - some of the puzzles (too easy, or annoying because the solution is trivial, but it is necessary an unnoticeable element on another board, not logically connected, or something has to be caught in a slightly different place to move, or the controls are clumsy - even though we know for a long time how the puzzle is to be solved), - the need for a character to die to find out what the "surprise" is about. Wouldn't it be better if the player could, through perceptiveness and thinking, avoid death? - towards the end lack of good ideas, - very short, the whole thing for several tens of minutes.
The old Tomb Raider games were about looking for passages, solving puzzles, collecting items and new weapons. All this while admiring Lara's back regions. All those elements are gone now. No looking for passages, they are highlighted. There are ARROWS to the HIDDEN temples. No puzzles to solve, just sometimes you have to turn a crank or set something on fire. I don't know if there are first-aid kits, Lara hardly takes any damage. I used only the bow (except for a few doors, etc. - shotgun). You collect experience points for upgrades. I used them twice in the beginning, it was necessary, but then I finished with many thousands of experience points. no need to use them. The bosses: once or twice happens something similar to... Do you know the game Croc? 30 years ago, for children? There were similar bosses in Croc, only much more difficult. The massed attacks of enemies are unnoticeable (I read about them later). I played "normal", maybe I should start again with "hard", but it was so boring.. The only difficulty are 3 moments when there is a great combat system: 5 min of video, and "press the key". I press, 3 times. Wrong. Too fast. Lara dies. I repeat, wrong, you should have pressed only once. Lara dies. I move on, another video and "now press (another key)". I press. Lara dies, you should have pressed several times this time. And so on. Brilliant. Of course, the game is correctly done: only white people are bad Supposedly, the game is deep, how an innocent girl turns into a warrior, her moral dilemmas. It didn't work out. Innocent Lara leads to the death the guy who say he wants to help her. Her boss wants to talk to the still unknown people. Lara votes to murder them, not to talk. Then comes one moment when Lara kills another guy and gets an attack of tenderness. Then she murders the entire population of the island, even bunnies and birds (which is not necessary). I give two stars, because after all, it's Tomb Raider and at times it resembles the old series.
I completely agree with maglor_83's review. The game looks nicer at first glance, but at times it is very unreadable. Not sure what lies where, whether it's sliced, cooked, etc, the labels obscure what lies beyond - nothing is clear. The control is even worse than it was. I play using the keyboard - I don't know who invented menu navigation here. The map is a disaster (sometimes you don't know where the next level is). On the board itself - you can place, throw, cut things in a not very controlled way (e.g. the same key for throwing and cutting - you don't know what the program will choose, you don't know if you'll drop the thing you're holding or if you'll have to try several times). With all these annoying difficulties the game is much easier than the original, maybe 3-4 times we had to repeat the level to have ***. In a word, everything seems to look nicer, more varied, but the real progress is not there, on the contrary.
I love the KCD. It is by far the best game for me in many years. It features excellent graphics and incredible attention to detail in a medieval setting. One of its most important features is its unique relative realness (seen before only in Trespasser). Unlike the popular shooters and choppies for kids, you can't kill 200 enemies by holding down a key for 10 seconds. The combat is still quite unnatural (absurd emphasis on contrived combos), but it's a BIG step in the right direction. Now the DLCs. - Treasures of the Past: It's not necessary for anything. - From the Ashes: very simple (you just buy several buildings and that's it). It is prolonged with tedious cut-scenes and repeated long dialogues and marches with the construction supervisor. By the way: what interest does Henry or Sir Kobyla have in putting Skalitz residents in a new village? This is how the future of Skalitz is destroyed. - The Amorous Adventures: it begins with the Ledetchko dice player. I go there, and it's over. He has no dialogue options, I tried to play, pickpocket - nothing. I tried to look for the next stages of the thread - nothing (I find a ruined settlement in the forest NW from Sasau, but it's empty). - Band of Bastards: should start with finding a camp - but there's no camp. I receive information in the quest log that I was given a warm welcome. This is where the DLC ends. - Woman's Lot: I receive information that the DLC has been installed correctly, and that's it. In the DLC list there is an information that it is "coming soon". I don't have any mods, everything is clean as WarHorse provided. GOG service can't help. I understand that usually these DLCs work and it is possible that they are great. But I have an ordinary computer, not that old, pretty good, with an ordinary system, no fancy stuff, updated drivers. Kingdom Come Deliverance runs smoothly, never any crashes. So I assume the DLC should work as well. I don't buy it to get mad for two weeks and finally give up.
I just LOVE the Morrowind. I played it for years. I have bought it several times over the years as CDs get damaged or lost. In my opinion it is the best RPG game ever. So my current rating is not for the game itself (which I gave a 7 out of 5), but for the GOG distribution. I bought the game again because I wanted the original English version, required by some mods. Unfortunately the game does not start, a message appears that a CD is required. The end. Theoretically it's a matter of Windows settings, but it doesn't work. The bottom line is that when I pay for a game - I want to have fun. I'm not paying to spend days and weeks trying to get the game to work. The upshot in this case is that I had to buy the game again - used, for terrible money in an English language CD edition.
First of all: I just love The Witcher III. I finished it four times (the hardest level, of course - which is easy anyway). I love the story, the sense of humour, the beauty of the art. But the Heart of Stone is painfully boring. Boring characters gab idly, after half an hour you have to skip the endless conversations. No true emotions, no true characters. No real choices, you are forced to make one of two bad decisions (although in a "real" life you'd act totally different). It was visible earlier, in the main Witcher III game: you had to make one of two stupid choices, or you were forced to make a choice with absolutely no clue what would be the effect in the future. Here it is pushed to the level where you finish a game not with satisfaction, but with a deep disappointment. The missions are even more boring than the dialogs, you are forced to do some pointless and uninteresting tasks consuming hours. The fighs are easy (as generally in the Witcher III), but longer (the opponents are not smarter, just have much more health points). Moreover, all the system of your character's developing is ruined, every strength you were developing becomes useless. During The Witcher III you had to collect lots of money. So there is a guy introduced who takes this money and gives you almost nothing (a new, totally worthless runes to improve your equipment). Yjere was only one reason I even finished this cr.p: at the beginning you are branded like a cattle. To remove it and enjoy the Blood and Wine you have to finish this sh.t.. Of course it is just MY opinion. Sure there are people who liked it. So why not try. Anyway, I would never buy it again. MUCH better is just lovely, very immersible Blood and Wine.
(Be warned... Spoilers...) First of all: at last we get something at least trying to be a bit closer to the reality. It is not a game for children, where you kill thousands of enemies, drinking your milk with the other hand. So, you have to posess some skills, although I play in a Hardcore mode, and I still wish it was a bit more difficult. What is too easy for sure: archery, hunting and getting money (after several hours of playing you can have the best equipment and tens thousands of Groshen, thanks to hunting and looting killed bandits, it is very naive), too easy is the fight when, after you run for 10 seconds, the enemies forget about you and hide their weapons, too easy is to be able to carry 1000 pounds of goods to sell. But, anyway, it is great that the game is at least trying to be realistic it is great it gives you choice if you want to be a warrior, a thief, a pacifist. After 150 hours I still know I am clumsy in swordfights, and I like it. It is as it should be. Technically the game is very good, although (comparing e.g. to The Witcher 3) the gestures and facial expression are wooden, the world could be much bigger and detailed, especially the main town seems funny: just 10 shops and several other buildings... At least several houndreds of people should live there, shouldn't they? But generally, the game is great, and the work of artists, historians, programmers too. Flaws: still many bugs and some threads not thinked throug. You can go to jail for stealing or killing, although you killed only Cumans and bandits, and never had any stolen (or even taken from a dead trader) item. There are quests which are time sensitive, sometimes it is logic (if you don't hurry, the ill people will die), but sometimes not (talk to the guy to make your friends' work a bit easier). After you finish the mission you get an information that you have failed it. After a fight all the bodies dissapear (after a minute, with all the goods you were going to commandeer). There is a romance, but after the girl gets what she wants she stops talking to you... women... Lots of annoying little things. But still I give 5/5 for an unprecedensed fun thanks to the climate and realism attempt.
I started with Civilization I, it was great back then. The Civ II - even better, but for me the 3D map was a bit hard to read and navigate. The Civ III was a good improvement. But the 4th was the best possible - with Beyond the Sword expansion. Great 3D engine, LOTS of units, civilizations, buildings, wonders, new concepts as religions, espionage (corporations didn't work form me, don't know why). It is wanderfully complex... well, maybe not really so complex to became difficult, but gives a lots of possibilites, I still play it after so many years and cannot get bored. The Civilization V was... maybe not poor, it had some good ideas, but the idea of one unit on one tile was too strict, it drastically simplified the wars, the AI was just stupid, cities developing was unreallistic (in XI century I have to decide FOREVER what will be my town), half of the leaders, cililizations, units, concepts was taken away. Civilization VI is a slight upgrade of the Civ V, with some major flaws improved, but with hideous graphics, and still very poor and simple comparing to the Civilization IV Beyond the sword, the best Civ so far. Now I have to buy Civ IV again, because the b.a.s.t.a.r.d.s from MS made it impossible to run Civ from CD on Windows 10. But I will gladly pay once more, it is worth every dime.
