Is this the new thing yes?
To bring out games, that are totally unfinished?
I swear this was the last time I pre ordered any game and for shure the last game I baught from you people.
The game itselfe could be great, one of the best RPG in years, but instead we got an unfinished, bugged, unplayable pile of Problems.
And instead of fixing it, the devellopers are bringin out one patch after another that doesent change anything.
Buy this game only if you want to be brutalized by its punishing difficulty. After spending hours of being repeatedly one shotted by a group of three wolfs, I have had enough. Other games can be difficult but at least they give players a chance to look around and explore a bit before ramroding it in! Asking for a refund - its unplayable.
First and foremost, I am currently about 6 hours into the game and have yet to encounter the "kingdom management part." However from what is there I can already tell that the game has been made by peope who love pen & paper Roleplaying and who have put a lot of work to make this game feel just like a pen & paper adventure would. The pathfinder system seems to have been transfered quite faithfully though it may be a bit overwhelming if you have never come in contact with Pathfinder or D&D 3(.5) before. You can spend a lot of time with the character creator. There are lots of choices in the game where you can decide your characters actions from a roleplaying side. (espacially notable are the alignment decisions (pushing the player to a certain alignment or requiring a certain allignment to be made)
The world is quite open and is not afraid to let you decide where you go and which objectives to prioritize at any given time once it has opened up.
Anyways, for Pen & Paper Roleplaying fans this is a must buy.
The scale might be legendary but also are the encountered bugs and currently it seems to me the devs use customers as playtesters. The release of so called hotfixes might look like they care for the game but instead each patch they release might fix a handful of problems but adds others, too.
Quality assurance is most likely not the strength of this studio and because of this i would advise against buying the game until they got their stuff together and the game is fixed from start to the end - especially the mid- to endgame experience is rather a pain right now: broken quests, broken npcs, etc. etc.
Buy now if you don't care to end up having to start over again, playing at a low pace or taking a break when encountering a bug that prevents you from moving on. I will probably throw the game in a corner and wait for them to release a real patch that fixes the broken bullshit we have right now (1.0.9). It would end in me hating this game if I keep playing it in the current broken state - something I really don't want to happen because I like the setting, the rules behind the game and the story is writen well.
