This game mimics a table top game where you tap your cardboard character through the dungeon and fight generic cardboard monsters. The graphics are nice and the music isn`t bad (although I muted it because I couldn`t stand the sims-like `Tavern` music). There`s a cuteness cartoonishness to the characters taht almost puts me off but is tolerable. The real disappointment was not being able to make custom characters at the start which the game looks like it should do. All you can do is name them and change inventory when you get some. Many things are not explained, like you MUST put your new guys through the first dungeon as this gives them their starting weapons (which you don`t get like the game says until you go through it). So don`t even attempt to go throughthe 2nd dungeon without doing that or your character will be fighting with fists and be captured very, very fast. The dungeons change sometimes although once revealed they tend to stay the same for subsequent guys to go through. You have to be careful where you step your dungeoneers though as they will walk over traps happily otherwise. It`s ok, but the lack of making your own characters, and its lack of info at the start (like everyone must go through dungeon 1 to get starting weapons) is annoying, so gets 3 stars.
I`ve waited for this game a long time... I won`t go into detail but it`s been years. I have played the board game then later the pc versions and even a little on MWO. This game would be XCOM with mechs. Mechs are huge bipedal walking weapons platforms piloted by Humans. they are to me, the most `realistic` of giant mech-type games and one of the originals being around since 30 years ago. You start as a noob for some Lady when there`s... Well I won`t give it away. The story is predictable. It`s really just a tutorial.. This is an impressions review as I have only just got past the Intro, but I`ve seen a fair bit. The mechanics work very well. And tactics work here. Height is an advantage in hitting targets. You can fire all weapons at the same time (Alpha) , but beware heat which will cause your mech to shut down. best to shoot weapons smartly. Visuals are good. Sounds are good. You have full 360 rotatable view and zoom with cinematic modes that can be turned off. Once out of the tutorial you find yourself as the boss of a Merc group and this is really quite extensive. You can name your Company, design the Mech Colours, dismiss and hire Mechwarriors, check out your cash flow and even travel around the system looking for Mercenary jobs. Way more than I expected. Full marks on this. Negatives? There is a `Fire` mode and `Attack` mode. Attack really means `Melee` and several times I`ve melee`d when I meant to shoot weapons. They should change the word `Attack` to `Melee`. I am annoyed by the little SJW influences. For instance when making your character you can have a `Him` or `Her`, which is fine, but now you have the retarded pronoun of `They`. Don`t bring your sjw politics into games! Neither is it or has ever been in the spirit of Mechwarrior or Battletech. We don`t want it. Also people are supposed to wear less in mechs (not full armoured suits) since it gets real hot. Apart from that the game is so far good. So 4 stars for now until I see more.
I`ve waited for this game a long time... I won`t go into detail but it`s been years. I have played the board game then later the pc versions and even a little on MWO. This game would be XCOM with mechs. Mechs are huge bipedal walking weapons platforms piloted by Humans. they are to me, the most `realistic` of giant mech-type games and one of the originals being around since 30 years ago. You start as a noob for some Lady when there`s... Well I won`t give it away. The story is predictable. It`s really just a tutorial.. This is an impressions review as I have only just got past the Intro, but I`ve seen a fair bit. The mechanics work very well. And tactics work here. Height is an advantage in hitting targets. You can fire all weapons at the same time (Alpha) , but beware heat which will cause your mech to shut down. best to shoot weapons smartly. Visuals are good. Sounds are good. You have full 360 rotatable view and zoom with cinematic modes that can be turned off. Once out of the tutorial you find yourself as the boss of a Merc group and this is really quite extensive. You can name your Company, design the Mech Colours, dismiss and hire Mechwarriors, check out your cash flow and even travel around the system looking for Mercenary jobs. Way more than I expected. Full marks on this. Negatives? There is a `Fire` mode and `Attack` mode. Attack really means `Melee` and several times I`ve melee`d when I meant to shoot weapons. They should change the word `Attack` to `Melee`. I am annoyed by the little SJW influences. For instance when making your character you can have a `Him` or `Her`, which is fine, but now you have the retarded pronoun of `They`. Don`t bring your sjw politics into games! Neither is it or has ever been in the spirit of Mechwarrior or Battletech. We don`t want it. Also people are supposed to wear less in mechs (not full armoured suits) since it gets real hot. Apart from that the game is so far good. So 4 stars for now until I see more.
This is an rpg in a Fantasy Sword/Magic world where you can make a custom character, black/white/man/woman/ dwarf/ skeleton/ elf/ lizard. You can play fighters, thieves, wizards, etc, but everyone appears to be able to do some magic. I tried to make as dedicated fighter as possible, no magic. But yea, he still can do magic. As usual women do everything just like men, they can`t possibility be different... yawn. Without giving away the plot everyone seems to have this thing against `Sourcerers` a kind of magic, so they get imprisoned. The dialogue is quite indepth and pretty good so far, with some interesting sideplots. In many ways it`s like Baldur`s Gate; you can be nice, neutral or mean. However, the way the dialogue works is very strange. It is in 3rd person ie, "You ask him how to escape the Island!" instead of ," How do I escape the Island?" I don`t understand why they used this 3rd person way of talking, it`s really anti-immersive to me. Half the time I`m not sure if my charatcer is talking about himself or someone else! A mistake in my view. Another thing :they have a Narrator voiced saying all the Narration. Why? It`s completely unnescesarry and a waste of good voice-acting in my view. It can be muted. All npc Followers appear killable. One had such an attitude I killed her then wondered if she was a Follower- which she was! I like that flexibility. It`s kind of nice how you can set each new member`s vocation, they become whatever you want to be - although not very realistic. Combat is confusing at first until you realise you have to whittle down their armour and magic defence before you can really take down an enemy. Some enemies are weird. Wanna attack that Saltwater Crocodile? Well in this world, crocodiles are NOT what you expect them to be! The game does not molly coddle you as much as some- There will be a LOT of trial and error as you learn. Which is nice. It also appears to be quite a big game. I give it a cautious thumbs up.
Didn`t expect to give this game such a low rating. Considering the raving and someone even said it was as good as Morrowind, I never got that vibe from this game at all. In fact I got really bored. Morrowind never bored me this early on. Now I played the Witcher 1 2 and thought they were great, but here there is something wrong with him. It`s like he`s become a pussy. He seems to be just riding around for the sake of women all the time. Let me explain, at the start of the game he`s seeking a woman, ok, fine. Not sure why... is it for love? He finds her. Oh now he`s got to find Ciri who might be in trouble- Do I have a choice to say yes or no? Nope, I just have to agree. She`s uber super good which is like in every tired feminist movie we see today. Also I don`t want to play as uber Ciri, I bought the game to play as the WITCHER, Geralt. Why does he even have to rescue her if she`s this good? But he crawls after her anyway. So I wander about the nice countryside in forced 3rd person doing some sidequests (some are interesting, most not). Bump into a guy where another woman needs help and had a baby that was aborted... sigh.. In the Witcher 1 and 2, Geralt was HIS OWN MAN. Sure he sought women but for a very simple reason, to have his way with them! ;) Sometimes to help them, of course. But now he`s a wimpy mangina chasing women around like a love sick dolt. Heck, you don`t even see any female nudity like in the previous games (well I saw a bit of a bum). The women are patronising to him, talking to him like they own him and he won`t even lip back. I stopped playing out of boredom and a lack of feeling like I was playing the REAL Witcher and went back to Dragon Age where I felt more like a Man in a real adventure where I`m not chasing women forlornly everywhere. Graphics are admittedly, amazing. It`s not enough. Maybe it`ll get better later when I can be arsed to go back- If ever. Disappointing. I`m sure I`ll be called a sexist and all that- Don`t care.
I didn`t wait. On release it was expensive and even there EA was beginning to try and microtransaction players AS THEY PLAYED. I remember accepting a quest and then a pop-up told me I`d have to purchase it! People forget that. I refused and it really soured the enjoyment of my game. Now, with GOG`s release, you get everything in and not DRMed either! If only I`d waited... even if it took 5 years or more... The game itself is very good, perhaps because it follows very much in the mold of the excellent original Baldur`s Gate I & II. You start off as one of 3 races, human, dwarf or elf, each are quite different as they are either privileged or disadvantaged, for instance, as Human you start off as Noble`s son, but as an Elf you basically start off as a servant/slave. You can be a mage, warrior or thief type - Black, white, man or woman. The adventures is the typical "save the world" fare, but you have many, many optional quests you can take (and I advise you do for the games full enjoyment). Not only can you fight, but you have many speaking options and decisions to make which do have real consequences. It follows the lovely Baldur`s Gate tradition of the "Good, Neutral or evil" responses, I love this mechanic. I tend not to take the mean or evil options, but I love reading them, for example your Dad won`t let you go to fight an important battle. Your evil optional response is, "Let me go or I`ll kill You!" Or if you come across a lost little child with a sob story needing help you can say, "Yes, well, good luck with that!" They make me laugh. These days you just don`t get those kinds of options any more (due to sjw bs) which is real sad. Criticisms: Your character skills creation is woefully simple. If you`re black in the game you`re the son of a white family and nobody ever mentions this as unusual (I`m black). There`s a fair bit of politically correct crap, but it`s nothing like as bad as what we get in games today. Highly recommended.
A friend insisted on gifting this to me by Steam, even though he knew I wasn`t a Steam fan, so I tried it, expecting very little. The game really surprised me. So I waited for Season 2 on GOG. 1 took you through a zombie catastrophie scenario where society has fallen apart. A man, called Lee finds a little 8 year old girl, Clementine, and together they face real hardships and trials in this horror. You have to make some very tough tough choices with very real conseqeunces. I`m black (even with the goatee), like Lee, with a mixed race daughter, just like Clementine, so this really hit me. The writing and how it`s all handled is very realistic and adult- Considering a little kid is involved that`s some damn good writing. Season 2 takes you through more of the chaos except now you`re doing things from an 11 year old Clementine`s point of view. Again it`s very well done with choices and options that have some very hard consequences. Pros: Play season 1 before 2 as the 1`s choices will carry through to 2`s game. Some sad emotional situations with the rare happy. Controls work fine with a mouse and keyboard. You sometimes get what it feels like to be a kid such as when Clemntine went to talk to the adults who were talking about sex and everyone goes quiet. Or when she tells someone to do something and they say, "Adults talking!" Cons: Game refuses to start with ANY other controller except Mouse and keyboard. Unplug everything else if you want this game to work. The writing isn`t quite as good or logical as Season 1. An example, [beware, small Spoiler]: Clementine gets savagely bitten by a dog. She does well to cope with that, but then she gets a needle and thread and sutures up the arm by herself?? Sure, she`s been hardened by what she`s seen, but no way would an 11 year old be able to stick needles in her own arm and continue sewing it up. No f***ing way! [End small Spolier] However, I recommend Season 1 and this season 2- On a sale.
I`m in the middle of this on the Steam version. This is a 3rd person rpg where you are the "Arisen" and must go and slay some Dragon that`s causing lots of aggro in a long quest. You can completely design how you look, black, white, male female). You have 3 basic classes Sword/Bow and magic which further advances into 6 later. There are lots of items, weapons and clothes to pick. The game doesn`t really explain why, but there are a bunch of people who never really die who are called "Pawns". They look and act Human, but don`t really have much self will. And because you are the Arisen, you get a free personal pawn Helper. This Helper serves you no matter what, you can make it whatever class you want, even how it will speak (it uses a great varied audio speech system) and even their character traits from rude to meek, etc. So I made an ideal pretty lady Magic user with a meek countenance to be a Helper on my travels. They also sort of learn after a while of travelling with you, remembering where they last were. It`s a really, really nice and endearing after a while of travelling with them- more games should do this. Areas to explore are large and interesting, also enemies don`t scale with you so be very careful where you go. If an enemy is too tough, leave until you get better, or hire 2 more Helper pawns. Save often. Travelling can be time consuming and especially difficult in the dark, but I like it. Monsters are GLORIOUS. You can attack as normal, but also climb them and try to destroy key parts of them to take them down faster. Sometimes they will desperately grab at you as you stab at their face and cry in pain, while your Helper fires magic from the ground. It`s really very well done. Criticisms? Pawns can be a bit stupid, repeating the same thing. Fights are somewhat arcade reminiscent of Soul Calibur beat-em ups, you can see the Japanese influence. I would`ve prefered a 1st person view mode. Highly Recommended. Will buy this version too.
Do you know how much I hate Steam? how often I have not been able to continue New vegas because I didn`t have net access and Steam decided I couldn`t play any more? Did I just say how much I hate Steam? Well now it`s on GOG and I can play this game without worry that Steam will say, "Not today!" thankyou Gog and thanks Bethesda for releasing it. And the game? It`s a masterpiece rpg set in a post apocalytic world where you can join factions, disguise as another faction, fight mutated things, deal with interesting quests, shoot guns, use swords, etc, etc, etc - get it.
Do you know how much I hate Steam? how often I have not been able to continue New vegas because I didn`t have net access and Steam decided I couldn`t play any more? Did I just say how much I hate Steam? Well now it`s on GOG and I can play this game without worry that Steam will say, "Not today!" thankyou Gog and thanks Bethesda for releasing it. And the game? It`s a masterpiece rpg set in a post apocalytic world where you can join factions, disguise as another faction, fight mutated things, deal with interesting quests, shoot guns, use swords, etc, etc, etc - get it.
