GreedFall: The Dying World

If you're tired of every new game trying to reinvent the wheel, and you're just looking for some tradtional CRPG experience, but you don't want to replay Dragon Age Origins for the 17th time? This game just might be for you. Nothing about this game is mindblowing or truly innovative. It could have easily be made 15 years ago. But at the same time, it offers the kind of experience that feels in a way comforting. Everything about this game is FINE and servicable, the story, the characters, combat and other game mechanics, it's all simple and if you've played a few CRPG's before, you'll pick everything up pretty much instantly. Is the technical state of the game great? Sadly, not exactly. A few times I feared about having ran into a game breaking bug, but fortunately, I was always able to find workarounds and finish the game successfully. Get into the habit of saving manually a lot, and you'll be okay. It's also important to have the right expectations going in. This is a AA eurojanky Spiders game and it should be judged as that. Don't expect this to be something that I was never meant to be, like something from peak Bioware. Lastly, I was quite impressed by the quality of cha…

I was actually really enjoying this game. It plays like Dragon Age Origins and has an engrossing setting and narrative. Character models are a little wooden and it's not the most polished looking game in the world but it has that old school Bioware feel to it. I played through the entire opening in one sitting, about 9 hours, really dug where it was going and was excited to explore The Dying World in a sort of reversal of the first game. Unfortunately less than two hours into the post tutorial section and I've already encountered several game breaking bugs. These aren't simple visual glitches or freak one off's. I had to reload multiple times because the equipment system kept breaking when I modded my weapons. Now I'm in a situation where a main quest can't progress because I reloaded a save and the item I need to progress isn't there anymore. I really wanted to keep playing but if this is what I'm experiencing after such a short time I can't see myself finishing this out in the state it's in. Sadly with Spiders closing down I don't see this game ever getting patched to a functional state.

This is a tough one. Overall, it's an [b]Unpolished Gem[/b] that was thrown in to the bin. [h3]World and Setting:[/h3] Phenomenal. And sadly, is the main victim of the whole debacle. Good Colonial Fantasy can be counted on one hand. [h3]Story and Characters:[/h3] I think the story was better in the first one, because it was more intimate to the MC and Constantine. Here it's suffers from a common trope of "Stop the Bad Guy from destroying the world, the End". Companions are good. Sometimes they're fine, sometimes they're great, but overall good. But they are to "Goody two-shoes". They always apologizing and saying how sorry they are about what happened to MC, and that they absolutely against colonialism. So instead of exploration of the Setting and the Time Period that is rich with all sides of Good and Bad, we have a standard Hero vs Villain. [h3]Combat:[/h3] [b]It absolutely OK.[/b] The whole controversy was created by some casuals who think button smashing and CoD is the pinnacle of gaming. It good old party combat ( But without custom AI setup ). Just play in Tactical, turn ON the "autonomous AI" and Pause only when you want to intervene. And if you set Par…

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While I haven't played the original Greedfall game, The Dying World caught my interest because I kept seeing promos about Neil Newbon voicing the antagonist. I can't really compare The Dying World to the first Greedfall game, but for the most part, I did enjoy the lore and worldbuilding as well as the plot. But of course, I'm also speaking as someone who usually really enjoys story-rich fantasy RPGs (which anyone could tell from looking at my profile). The combat mechanics took some getting used to, but I found it easier to navigate with a gamepad than with the keyboard and mouse. It did feel like the game was easier to play with a gamepad, but I wouldn't say the controls are necessarily more difficult with a keyboard + mouse. I also found myself wishing that there was a wider variety of reactions to the Teer Fradeans and the way that the Alliance mistreats them, especially because the first Greedfall revolved around other continents wanting to colonize Teer Fradee. It kinda just felt like the NPCs who aid the party [i]all[/i] found the treatment of the Teer Fradeans appalling, as opposed to there being more of a spectrum to how people view the Teer Fradeans who are quite obvious…

I'm sad. The first [i]GreedFall[/i] is a classic and this sequel/prequel is bursting with potential to be even better, with so much going on with world-building, story, presentation, and even gameplay. But it was released long before it was ready. The game feels incomplete in some ways, is riddled with frustrating bugs, and has a combat system that needed a [i]lot[/i] more playtesting and refinement. Alas, the developer just barely managed to release the game before going out of business, so it's never going to be fixed. This is what we have. I'm glad it's in our hands but it's hard to recommend it to anyone except for the most serious fans of the first game, and moreover those that have [i]a lot[/i] of patience. Even if the devs had more time it's doubtful they could have fulfilled their ambitions. There's a strong sense that they bit off more than they could chew. For example, the game covers several continents and islands but you get only a small taste of each area such that the world feels oddly smaller than in the first game. Quests keep reusing the same locations and characters at the expense of coherent storytelling. There are also many more companions this time around but…