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For Teh EMPEROR!

Such a mixed bag with this one...

Let's start with the positives: graphic is nice, optimization is good, and skill trees are so-so (you are limited to three active skills tho).


Now the negatives.

Story. If you liked DA2 you may have fun with the story: it is being done in a similar manner of short stories narrated by Varric in which you are playing a role. Writing is just awful, not only the story but also the dialogs.

Combat. Diablo-like combined with GoW (2018) style. It can be fun if it wasn't buggy: some of the mobs and bosses have animations and indicators that do not correspond with the attack moment. Higher difficulty means only more spongy enemies, nothing else.

Music. Synthwave in a fantasy game?! WTF?!

Character development. Skill trees are so-so, but the main axis of development is items. Which feels cheap and taken from a mobile game (get two greens to get blue...). Even the character creation is very limited in terms of settings our character story feats and so on in the creation menu. Cool that I can shape the nose or mouth, but I would like to select someone neutral or with an evil background.

Other things. World riddles are just awful and they shouldn't be there at all. Bugs? Yep! It seems like the game wasn't tested at all: constant backtracking, killing enemies through walls and floors, falling through map, etc.


To sum this up: you may have some fun with this one, but I strongly advise waiting for some promo, as it is definitely not worth the full price tag. And wait for patches, hoping that they will fix some of the bugs (sadly: bad writing can't be fixed...).

UPDATED!

You can see the love Larian has for the fans and for the game! Updates are delivered to minor and major bugs, smoothing the experience and improving every aspect of the game. Even based on the feedback (like fetching some body parts...)!

It is really hard NOT to recommend this game! Baldur's Gate 3 is a masterpiece!

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Really great game!
However, Act 3 (in coop) is buggy...

If you love DnD, previous entires in BG series or good story and even greater role playing this is something for you!
You won't be dissapointed with all the options and possibilities!

Don't get me wrong: The Witcher 3 is a great game.

HOWEVER!
The 4.0 update, so called "next-gen", is just atrocious! Some of the bugs that were present on the launch, SEVEN YEARS AGO, are back. I couldn't complete dialogs, quests, etc. as the NPCs were stuck in texture, wall, ground, whatever. But let's talk about the performance issues. Once you get rid of the files messing overlay display to get the correct readings, of course. Frame drops, stutters, input lag - you will get all of that in PC version. Like it wasn't even tested.

SHAME, CDPRed!

Great cat simulator! And quite nice story in background.

Really nice game expanding on the League of Legends lore. If you are familiar with the events and characters, you will be super happy. But not only that: this is surprisingly good game with decent mechanics and systems in place. It reminds me of mixing several RPG titles (originating from Asia) with the combat mechanic, fishing and dialog style.

Overall I would recommend it if you either like the League of Legends universe or if you are into the RPG in general.

A bit buggy at the moment, but really nice writing. You can easily feel the world around and the investigations (and the deduction model) are simply great! It's a bit short and some plot twists are meeeeh, but the overall impression is very positive as you can literally sink in this world (lost count of hours even). You should definitely try it!

Some games are good. Some are great. But DOOM is ETERNAL!

The world presented here is great, rich and simply fantastic with all the mixture of magic, technology, living creatures and so on. However, you are not much to explore this given world, which makes everything pretty flat. Game is good, but for me it was dissapointment: I was expecting blast like first Torment (Planescape). Instead I have got dull characters, crappy combat system (however: you can mostly talk yourself out of combat which is a great plus for me!). Game is very heavy on dialogs and it is more like interactive book - with very black and white decissions (there were hardly ever moral dilemas).
With taken all of that into consideration I have mixed feeling abour Tides of Numenera. It is not a game for everyone, even some hardcore fans of this genre may not find themselves here. It is worth trying, definitely, but it is hard to say if it will stick with you.

Great shooter! Moving it to free-to-play helped to even expand playerbase. However, adding battle royale mode wasn't so good idea... But you know the saying: live and let live. Competitive is still great.