Enter the gungeon is original, plays very very smoothly, has good humor, amazing sound.. You need a few hours in to realize this is one of those pieces of software where Directors were clear in what they wanted and developers were inspired doint it. And of course, all had enough time to finish their job There's much positive to say which is found everywhere online. So instead I'd warn this: -This game feels unnecesarily random and demands too much patience if you want to finish it. The amount of gold you make is random, which you use to buy weapons and Items.. which are random.. which you use to kill enemies.. which are random.. you get the idea. True, the randomness has bounds but you will have succesive runs where you played equally good and the outcome is totally different just because of luck. There's also a lot in the game that requires you to.. decipher? Discover? It turns out you can read online about powerful items/synergies/etc. But I don't have the patience for that. I don't want to "study" for some goofy action game. It seems to me that you need to know that in order to beat the game I get they need to do that, so that you don't finish the roguelike game in 2 hours. But I feel they went a bit too far. In fact, I didn't finish it after 25+ hours and I stopped playing for a year.. Would I have the patience to re-learn and try again all the levels I plaid a hundred times? no :)
PoE1 was a success selling because it created hype on fans of Infinity's engine Baldur's Gate and the likes. Fans massively backed, and many other joined in retail. But Baldur's Gate is an obsolete game, with too many hours/achievement ratio and a bad combat system. PoE1 Delivered precisely that: a new and greatly executed Baldur's Gate that kept the obsolete-ness. That is the truth. Mind you that the story and the writing are secondary to this, contrary to what many reviewers say .. - let me elaborate: During the 90's, without good internet we used to spend hours to play games. It all happened slowly. Even starting a game would take several minutes! So spending hours reading about equipment and setting up your party was OK, then you would read plot exposition for another hour and many other hours would go in loading/saving due to bugs, crash, and retries of challenging combat. In a session of 5 hours you would achieve nothing in the game's progression, and that used to be fine. But not anymore. If you were a young fan then (like me), you won't have the time and patience to do this today. If in the other hand you are a younger player today: this game will most likely feel unfulfilling and heavy to you compared to modern ones. The fact is aggravated by the combat system which features many overlapping weapons, skills and complete chaos on screen. 20 Years ago this used to be novel, but now it is only a confusing system with no chance to let the player admire the flow and a dilution of the actual impact of each skill/feature you get. No young player would and should like the buff stack/unstacking mechanics for example. It's the embodiment of how obsolete BG is. Obsidian did put amazing talent for art and music. They also created vast lore and game structure.. but just look at how PoE2 sold much less than PoE1.. take the hype away.. and you are left with an obsolete game.
I loved returns and DragonFall. I got Hong Kong with hesitation because of almost unanimous veredicts telling that Dragonfall was way better. Well, no. This game has objectively: 1) Graphic improvements: there's some overlaying scenery that looks great. Map art is also better than previous 2) Minor gameplay improvements: npcs skills, better UI, more items and tweaks 3) Major gameplay improvements: Virtual battles are fun now. They were terrible in previous titles. 4) Music is , simply put, done from better talents. It is true that the story is not as novel, and the characters are not as impactful as Dragonfall but, they are not bad. In fact, the story telling is not necesarily worse than the previous games: it's less exhaustive, This last point together with the previous improvement list made me go through the game faster; it's just so smooth. If I would play only one title of this series it would be no doubt be this one.
Believe it or not this was my first Infinity Engine(s) game.. even today I have not played most of Baldur's gate II .. :) But I think the criticism this game gets its because most players were expecting , well, BG with its engine and style. The main popular complaints of this game are: No NPCs, linear flow of the game, too much fight. What I see is: No recruitable uninteractive NPC with a couple banters, no overwheling open world, a lot of action. And mostly: D&D 3.5rd edition rules! I also never played Ad&d nor 2end edition.. and I objectively know that 3.5 is simply superior; specially in video games.. i mean here you have clear meaning and fun customization of stats per character feats and no wonder items that "set your XXX stat to YYY". This game is the only real way I see an enjoyable part management of 6. Even recent titles like Pillars of eternity get too fiddly when it comes to customization and items. The last star is due to the inexcusable lengtiness of some dungeons,the unexplicably worse graphics and some oddly untested features like .. Druid's shapeshift forms not unlocking properly (bug) at later levels.
Grim Fandango was a masterpiece and deserves a 5 star on its own. Reviews to the game are found everywhere. I see though, the remaster is not loved. Well let me remind you of something: -Original grim is barely playable in today's OS even using SCUMM Virtual Machine. And yet it will still crash and corrupt. You will not have to worry AT ALL about this with the remastered version. -It includes Author's comments .. isn't this why we are re-buying this classic? -The graphical enhancements are.. perfect. They improved mostly the 3d textures and left all the beautiful art in its original shine MOST IMPORTANT: - The remaster didn't profane the orignal game in any way: no unfitting extra content, no great alter of art, it removed glitches and bugs and added none, AND it set a price for an old game (unlike other enhanced editions.. that cost the same as any today's game) THIS is what I want from remasters you know. I.E. Baldur's gate EE while good, added a bunch of badly devised and badly acted characters that are , mind you, unavoidable. That's the kind of intrusion you dont find here, and it doesnt cost as much ;)
I got bg1 EE from Steam and now BG from GoG. And I also own complete sagas from GoG Having played all I can say that the Enhanced Edition IS worth the extra cas (on sale only :) ). Let's face it, BG is dated. The features from EE that new players will see are: - No modding , configuring hassle (its not an issue to me, but to others it is!) - very enhanced UI: fits screen and has more options , more "modern" - Zoom in Zoom out, Map- this is just major, gamplay is improve too much by this - Journal - it was useless before ==Note that EE is better today than when it was released, they have improved a lot!. == True there are some unpopular changes (some quests I think?) But the major complain is the new characters which are bad, but you can just ignore them - you will always ignore 15+ NPCs anyways Conclusion: EE is about gameplay and game experience. If you have to install BG a few times you will really appreciate how theres no need of modding, save files get less corrupt. When you ply the game this way you wont go back since it is visually better in every way
This is a 50+ $ game, certainly not impressive graphically but once you get throuhgh the tutorials and play a couple of random generated maps its obvious that there is a lot of depth and the game is polished. Now.. - There is no campaign/story mode - The multiplayer/internet lobby has... 2 people online? Which I cannot see btw. So.. a game that is supposed to be only Multiplayer has no players online. Please someoe clarify this! Am i missing something or what? Definetely not worth the price if you have noone to play with
