...but most importantly, Leisure Suit Larry taught me how to love. This is a collection of classic point and click adventure games in the Sierra style, so expect a lot of unfair deaths, a lot of humor, killer tunes, and baffling puzzles specifically designed in a scheme to sell hint books. Because of Al Lowe's sense of humor, he really made a place for himself in the pantheon of all time great game developers. The games are antiquated by today's standards, but should be of interest to the oldest of old school adventure game fans, anybody interested in the evolution of PC games, and fans of off-color jokes. With 5 Leisure Suit Larry games in the collection (plus a very weird text adventure), you get a lot of value for your money, and I can say with confidence that this is one of the best purchases GOG has to offer. Please, help Larry Laffer in his quest to find romance and passion, and maybe you'll just learn something about yourself along the way. I know I did.
Soldier of Fortune is a pretty straight foward early 00's FPS, but with the added gimmick of gore. It does its job, and it does it fairly adequately. The storyline is a fun paramilitary romp. The gameplay is still perfectly playable by today's standards. There's a variety of guns that kill people in different ways. It's a fairly simple and average game, but simple and average is good. It's an safe bet if you want to play an old style of FPS before the days of digital knife collections and dancing emotes. I'm giving this a rock solid 3/5 for being as average as it gets, but I'd bump that up to a 4/5 if you like cheesy gore effects.
Note: I was a Kickstarter backer. Pathfinder: Kingmaker represents the beginning of a new paradigm for Dungeons and Dragons style RPG's. It does some things better than anybody else than ever before, but other things in the game design are just backwards and extremely unfun. Pros: - Implementation of the mechanics of Pathfinder ruleset is bar none. - Fleshes the Adventure Path it's based on in interesting ways. - Unparalleled DND style character customization with more options than you can feasibly play. - Dynamic difficulty sliders that mitigate some of the issues. - Great music, VO, sound, UI and graphics. - Lots of fun loot. Cons: - RTWP absolutely ruins some mechanics that would be easy to mitigate in TB, such as Trip Attack. - Completely useless kingdom management that will randomly ruin your save game in ways you can't anticipate. - Sloooooooow start. - Strangely poor party composition of both companions and vassals. - P:K all falls apart in the end, with a literally headache inducing final chapter. - Needlessly OP enemies everywhere always. Neutral: - You get the most out of the game with extensive use of cheat mods. - Long. 100+ hours. - Very good but pricey DLC. - A mixed bag of interesting companions and boring. Ultimately, I kind of really hated it in the end, but I'm absolutely dying to play a sequel just to see for myself how Owlcat improves upon their formula. With more experience, they absolutely have the potential for greatness.
