Pathfinder Kingmaker is one of the best, if not the best CRPG since Baldurs Gate 2, at least for me. There seem to be a lot of balance problems for some people, I personally didnt have any such problems and were able to clear all fights in less then 10 fights. I also havent had a single overly broken random encounter as well. Of course the Boss battles were somewhat hard, but as soon as i Had the 5th group member i basically stomped everything (normal difficulty). The Kingdom building is a neat housing mechanic thats way more personal and deep than for example the keep in Pillars of eternity. This also means that people who dont like this kind of things will miss out on a lot of content and should think about buying the game really carefully. I for one havent met with any game breaking bugs or any real bugs honestly so far. Will update if i come across a truly breaking bug but so far all in the good. The only real negativ are the unbearable LODINGTIMES!!!!. Honestly how the hell do you programm a game soooooo badly that you have loding times that feel like im plaing Football manager 2004 on ps2 all over again? You want to leave the city? 1 min loading time, you want to enter a building? 1 min loading time, you want to open a simple fu*king kingdom map and click 3 buttons, then return???? 2*1 min loading time. WHAT THE FU*CK!!! seriously. all in all great game though.
The combat is fun to use and on top of that hard af. Almost no encounter can be beaten 1 try. while most likely not for anyone, it hits exactly the mark with me. The Story is at least interesting this time, so miles ahead of Original Sin 1 and in an other universe compared to Pillars. The Charakters are interesting and from time to time really dark, giving a little Vicionia vibe. On top of that it looks decent enough and the MP possibilitys are awesome. One of the best games of this Year.
Baldurs Gate. I bought this game because i really like RPGs and old games I missed out on, but BG does not live up to the Hype. I can only assume its mostly nostalgia and nothing more that gives BG this high ratings. So lets start at the most important point of an RPG, the Story. A lot of people here praise the "great story" BG seems to have, but for all of you who consider to buy this: no there is no great story, or maybe I was not able to find it. The Story starts with the death of your Fatherfigure, who you dont even speak to before it. There is simply no time to get to know him or to convince me to give a shit about him. After that it just gets completly random, you dont see the bad guy again for hours and simply do pointless and bad designed sidequest. The questdesign is another downside of the game. Mabe I am to young but the directions given by the most questNPCs are so bad, you will find yourself searching empty map after map. Yes, the Maps are a lot of times EMPTY. Sometimes there are 1 or 2 Quests but thats about it. Combine that with the slow movmentspeed and you know, most of the time spend in this game, is simple walking and searching. The next big dissapointmend is the combat. Who the fuck ever thought this combat system is a good idea? Its based on luck only, stratagie and skill have nothing to do with this game. To jsut give you an example: you travel trough an empty forest, find a group of weak goblins and think, lets fuck them. Now, even if you outlevel them by far, it can still happen that you send 2 or 3 melees against one goblin, they dont hit for like 10 seconds while the other goblin kills you mages with his bow because he has luck. That is not fun. So if you are looking to buy a good old RPG, i would recommand you to look at another game, this one is simply not worth your money.
