I'm rage-quitting this game because of its egregious autosaving, or lack of. Most games that I have played will autosave whenever you fast travel, enter a dungeon, or complete some other milestone. Not so Drakensang. You will either mash the quicksave button constantly or you will die and lose hours of progress. I don't want to use my valuable time re-doing simple tasks that I've already done. The game is not exceptional enough for me to continue playing it despite this problem. It feels like Dragon Age: Origins or Neverwinter Nights, but not as good. Everything just feels slow-paced. In Dragon Age: Origins, I felt like by the eight or ten hour mark I had a decent grasp of battle tactics and could "set up" a fight and adjust tactics accordingly. Here, there are no tactics, at least not in the early game. Battles are won by frenetically pausing after each enemy is killed so you can make everyone in your party target the next enemy. You have to do this manually because your friendly AI is incredibly dumb. I never figured out how to have a mage sit at the back and cast spells because every character in my party just wants to run headlong into the enemy. The Dark Eye roleplaying system is incredibly deep, and I never felt in my 8-10 hours playing this game that I was really using any of it. The story is classic generic fantasy, which I like, but it's not gripping enough to make me overlook all of the problems with this game. If you want to get deep in the weeds of a combat system, I'd recommend Pathfinder: Kingmaker; if you want a more casual experience with an engaging story, I'd recommend Dragon Age: Origins. If you're a hardcore CRPG player who just has to play every CRPG/Real-Time-With-Pause game, and you've already played all the classics, then Drakensang might just be for you.
Modern CRPG gaming would not be where it is without Richard Garriott's pioneering work, and this is the place that started it all. Unfortunately, Alkalbeleth: World of Doom is not a particularly fun game unless you are masochistic or just absolutely NEED to play every CRPG ever made. The graphics are so primitive it makes BRogue look like an Unreal Engine Four game, and the interface is highly unintuitive. I am OK with bad graphics and I am OK with difficult games, but this game is so bare-bones that it's not worth playing. Still, I'm impressed by Lord British's achievement, and glad that he kept going and improving. I give this three stars: one star for gameplay, five stars for historical value.
Get these porn games off my front page, GOG--or at least give me a way to hide them, like Steam does. I'm tired of seeing this shit. And seriously, how horny do you have to be that you need to pay real money to buy a game so you can jerk off while playing it? Get a girlfriend and a life.
First we had the porn games on the front page and now we have the sicko pervert fetish games on the front page. Hey GOG--can you stop putting this stuff on my front page? When I go to Netflix, they don't advertise pornos on their platform. When I go to YouTube, I don't see porn scenes on the homepage. When I walk into a bookstore, I'm not greeted with row on row of smut. So why am I seeing fucking porn and fetish games on a mainstream gaming website? This is gross and tacky and I'm tired of it. Let the coomers have their own website somewhere else and let this website be for people who want to play games for reasons other than jerking off.
This was a pretty neat little game. I've never played Dungeons and Dragons, but I've played CRPGs that use versions of the ruleset (Neverwinter Nights, Divinity: Original Sin 2, and Pathfinder 1), so the game felt familiar, right down to the punishing difficulty. The cursor felt floaty and the movement felt...weird. The font used for the text is hideous, and the low-resolution font, while more aesthetically pleasing, is unreadable. Would pick up if it was cheap; would especially pick up if it was available on Android.
Nope? Gooner Old Games. Not only does GoG keep showing this trash to me, but there is no option to hide it. Imagine going to buy a DVD in Wal-Mart and seeing the latest scenes from Pornhub right next to Mission Impossible or something. Cry harder, coomer weebs. You will never know the sweet caress of a real woman.
My impression of this game is that it plays like Divinity: Original Sin 2, but with ugly and confusing UI, and less polished gameplay. Perhaps the game will look more polished upon release, but right now it looks nightmarish, especially those eye-bleeding sans-serif fonts. Props to the devs for drawing inspiration from one of my favorite games of all time, but I honestly can't see the point in spending money on a weaker version of something that is already available and affordable if you wait for a sale.
Meat-and-potatoes hardcore RPG that jumps right into things and doesn't waste my time. I really like the dark fantasy setting and vaguely Lovecraftian themes. It feels like it takes the best of older games in the genre, but adds in some Quality-of-Life improvements for the 21st century. I didn't think I would like this demo, but now I'm excited for the full release. My only complaints so far is that I couldn't figure out how to save the game, and the music is obnoxious. Granted, the music is par for the course with the older games that this is a tribute to, but it is still obnoxious.
