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The Bard's Tale Trilogy

Perfect Remake

After some initial rough bumps in the road, by now BTT is a dead easy recommendation to anyone who remembers the game series fondly from way-back-when, or anyone who wants to check out what an old-school RPG can be like, using modern means. Krome managed to improve the old game in so many ways, from shared inventory to unifying the game rules for part 1 through 3, and beyond that: The visuals! Man, the visuals. All this while keeping as close to the original games as possible, and through what is called "Legacy Mode" the chance to play the games pretty much with the mechanics as they were in the originals. All over, an amazing product.

10 gamers found this review helpful
Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

A good, hard game.

So, my Kingdom has just been destroyed, somewhere in the middle of the 3rd act. I felt pretty confident, that I had everything under control, but turns out: I was wrong. Up until now, I had fun playing this. I'm a tabletop RP veteran and played a lot of Pathfinder, so the mechanics were familiar to me) I agree with what some reviews said: If you're brand new to PF, this will be a challenge). And yet, I very likely won't start the game from new or even try to find a saved game (in my 3 dozen or so saves) that I could make work. Why? The game is hard work. You have the "standard" CRPG components of following the main story (which isn't always clearly marked as such, and I kinda like that), chasing down side-quests, following personal stories of your companions, all while trying to manage a kingdome. That was fun to me, but, I sort of never got reaaaaly hooked. I can't even say why. The story works, the kingdom management is solid and ads depth, I like Pathfinder. I will say, the load times have been an issue. Waiting anything like a minute or more for bigger maps to load breaks the game fun for me. For now, I'll go and play some of the other RPGs I have yet to play. Maybe I'll give this one a shot once its final patches have been applied.

6 gamers found this review helpful
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Brilliant, engaging story

Short: If you like classic, iso-style RPGs with an engaging story, just waiting for you to sink countless hours into, buy this. I finally finished this monster of a game, and I was loving it all the way through. I found the game, with it's story's twists and turns, with spot with no "good" answers to choose from, a great ride. Sure, there is that thing where you can get 'sidetracked' from the main story by all the side quests (since when is that a bad thing in an RPG?), and I certainly fell into that rabbit hole a few times. Especially with the three DLCs added, that's hard to avoid (which I btw finished none of them - they are bloody hard). But all that does to me is show how big that part of the world is. The main story line if really well done. Caught in the web of a political power struggle you have lots of options, factions to engage with. And none of those are plain 'bad guys' either. The one thing I was unhappy enough with to score this only 4/5: Loading times: This has been a huge issue early on, got a little better towards the last patch. By now, going into smaller maps is ok, but going into Neketaka (biggest city in the game) is still a real pain. Visuals themselves are really well done. Especially some of the maps in the later part of the main storyline, anything with the statue in it, is breathtaking.

5 gamers found this review helpful