The game progression and design is good. The graphics are garbage but you can endure them enough to muddle through. Lag is the bad point but very very bad problem. Trying to move your mouse during combat or trying to click on a button to do something is like trying to pour molasses in the Antarctica during winter. It won't move at all. You will feel like Michael Moore in the Olympics trying to win any running event - it will seem you cannot move at all while the enemies have full movement. Avoid this unless you do in fact enjoy waiting 30 seconds to 1 minute for your mouse click to register like trying to heal a party member or zap an enemy for a few hit points. It is very hard work and needs patience.
Crashes every 30 seconds. You have to save every 20 seconds to be able to progress between crashes. The game is not bad - a no-brainer filler activity while listening to podcasts. Play on Veteran Hardcore for a reasonable challenge. Eventually will die but it is worth dying to try a new character or skill trees. Save every 20 seconds or after every bit of fighting cause crashes are depressing.
This the first fake "game" I have wasted money on. There is no game just a fog you run around in and there is nothing but cliffs to run into and nothing else just opaque boring fog. This should not be on Gog. Please Gog test games to make sure they are actually games so people don't waste money on cash grabs like this. The graphics are from 1970s, the sound is just a weird nightmarish monotone, and there is nothing to do or interact with and just endless running around in fog. Ugh! I need to avoid unknown indie "games" cause this is thievery.
This game has one of the best hero building systems because of the freedom and cool combos you can do to have fun. There are tons of factions, all with unique units and buildings, good music, and the units can go up to level 20 which is nearly as strong as a player hero and are quite powerful. TIP: don't level up your hero over 50 cause it will make you OP versus the armies in the game. And don't zerg rush the AI starting positions because the AI is very intelligent and challenging but weak in the beginning if a hero charges into their starting camp and destroys it. Just play casually and it will be fun. And set the campaign to hardest level in the beginning to have big fun battles. When you level up, there is an option to click that will stop you from leveling. So do that when you are level 50 because that is enough levels to fully develop one school of magic or become a powerhouse of melee combat or anything else. Note that SSG (Strategic Studies Group) went on to make nice WW2 strategy games after Warlords III and they are good games too like "Battles in Italy" and "Kharkov: Disaster on the Donets" and "Battles in Normandy"
very boring, ugly and depressing waste of time. I was hoping it would be something creative and a new look at the genre, but it was dull with very few unit types, very restricted building, and a waste of time when I could be playing a fun game instead.
This game has nice city building, exploration, trade network and what not, but really is good for combat. I like the auto-battle aspect and you still have a lot of control by setting up formations and orders before sending your army out to fight the baddies. When you are in game, zoom in to the cities to see really delightful Asian construction style, especially the nice castle towers. It seems they put some good effort into the graphics. You can also enjoy zooming down close to see the soldiers during combat, or even a peaceful view of peasants working in the fields. There are a lot of soldier and ship types to try out so make sure you experiment with them. I like the late era ships that look like floating shoes.... very badass shoes that can deliver a good whooping. There are even siege engines and artillery. I recommend highly to get the DLCs and try their premade campaigns. They are fairly built-up so you don't have to start from a basic town. Some factions like the powerful Song are fully built-up and some are barely starting like the Genghis Khan Mongol faction. There are even the original Turks, bandits, Buddhists and the popular Romance of the 3 Kingdoms factions made famous in the KOEI games.
doesn't run. I got an endless blue circle of death on my desktop trying to run this game while struggling to shut it off using task manager. Then did uninstall and it took about 2 hours to get rid of it. Seems like a virus. Never seen that before with a game.
I like the Japanese artwork. The battles are very tactical with an extremely smart AI that will try to fully surround your units and wipe them out if you don't use careful tactics. There are many army units to choose from with your limited funds. You can recruit large basic units with many soldiers that rout easily, or buy small elite samurai cavalry good at archery and melee, or quality samurai infantry troops. And then there are all the Korean and Chinese army units even including cannon. There are sandbox campaigns which I like because you have to recruit troops and fight over provinces in classic "paint a map" style. You get a vast array of campaigns and factions to choose from including Gempei war, Sengoku era, invasion of Korea, war in China, China vs Korea and the Mongol invasion of Japan. That is a lot of content to dig into. The white style art of the battlefield is nice, and you can use mods on the Slitherine forum for this game to make the grass green or deep orange for variety. I really like the orange style. The original creamy white art is most similar to traditional Japanese art from centuries past.
These torturous Avernum games are the same torture of struggling to see the tiny 2 pixel characters without a microscope while dying and reloading the game every 10 minutes in an endless loop of agony. The player misses at least 95% of all attacks melee, ranged and magic while getting hit by 100% of enemy attacks including acid spray that can wipe out a party in 1 or 2 turns. The monsters never miss, they are nearly impossible to ever hit, and they have literally thousands of hitpoints so it takes around 30 minutes to kill one group if you don't die in an endless loop of attack - miss - get hit - heal - get burned by acid or fire - then attack again and miss - get hit - etc. I play my other games with no reloading and enjoy the immersion. But in Avernum your party gets wiped out over & over & over & over so you reload or uninstall - only 2 choices. The developers hate the player and want to torture us for buying these Avernum torture games. They are not really games cause you are are not allowed to play them.
These torturous Avernum games are the same torture of struggling to see the tiny 2 pixel characters without a microscope while dying and reloading the game every 10 minutes in an endless loop of agony. The player misses at least 95% of all attacks melee, ranged and magic while getting hit by 100% of enemy attacks including acid spray that can wipe out a party in 1 or 2 turns. The monsters never miss, they are nearly impossible to ever hit, and they have literally thousands of hitpoints so it takes around 20 minutes to kill one group if you don't die in an endless loop of attack - miss - get hit - heal - get burned by acid or fire - then attack again and miss - get hit - etc. I play my other games with no reloading and enjoy the immersion. But in Avernum your party gets wiped out over & over & over & over so you reload or uninstall - only 2 choices. The developers hate the player and want to torture us for buying these Avernum torture games. They are not really games cause you are are not allowed to play them.
