Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What have you gotten in terms of games recently for 2023 so far, if anything?
Anyway, make sure to also answer the questions in the title.
Thanks!
Still playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and Elden Ring.
How’s Pathfinder? If I understand correctly it is made by Owlcat?
I absolutely hated WotR and loved Kingmaker. Apparently people usually feel the opposite way. The first one is great if you want any moral ambiguity. The second one has morals on the level of small children’s books. A huge drop in quality. I preordered because I trusted them after the first one and the game was an awful buggy mess on release and long after.
I loved both .
Is it that odd to like the first one and not the second? I played the entirety of the second one waiting for some interesting choices, the few interactions I enjoyed were with the evil-aligned companions (which is not really enough to warrant a full playthrough). The whole premise of the adventure path is underwhelming, really. Instead of doing something interesting like dethroning the monarchy, you get to fight demons for a feckless leader.
Some of the mechanics were improved, and I did like the mythic paths, but it felt like there was only one interesting chapter (the one where you travel to the demon city), even if it was annoying to navigate.
I don’t think it’s odd since I agree but the most common sentiment I’ve seen online was the opposite hence my precaution. I also wish they made a oriented game instead of pseudo multiple paths which play near identically with no choices to make you stop and think. I also hated how the mythic system worked. It was very random and if you don’t fart at the exact needed time during moon fading behind clouds on the day of a commonly spread diarrhea you won’t be able to get a certain ending or access a path if you don’t blink twice while walking over a teal carpet. (Bit dramatized but the requirements don’t make sense.)
That’s true, I guess I’ve just played enough similar games where I could say “oh, this feels like an important choice, I better do it.” And then my character became a lich.
But I can definitely see where you’re coming from for a certain other path where there are quite a lot of hoops to go through.
And I think the game is supposed to have replayability though those paths… but then they put all the content with the paths they think players will be drawn to. Not necessarily the most fun to play. Like, I picked Lich to resurrect certain dead characters, but there’s no interaction with them beyond “go home” and “come with me”.
Talking about the second game makes me want to replay Kingmaker. I actually liked the party members in that game.
It is made by Owlcat.
How is it?
I am not the right person to ask about these kinds of games because I don’t enjoy strategy-based combat. I put about 20 hours in the game and I liked the narrative but I wish it had much more focus. If you like games like Divinity and Pillars of Eternity you will like this too.
Thanks!