Divine Divinity
After finally finishing this gem of a game I can only but recommend this game to any RPG lover out there. Beneath the now dated graphics lies a sound game with a complex world, rich lore and funny little gameplay gimmicks that made me smile a lot.
The good:
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Rich lore, decent story (if a bit cliché by now)
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Plenty of content (Took me appr. 70 hours to finish)
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Pretty extensive and flexible RPG elements (create whatever character you like as you go)
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Easy to get into, but challenges along the way
– Real player with 74.5 hrs in game
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Divine Divinity
Date of this review: 15 March 2018
Update (25 April 2018): Formatting fixes
DISCLAIMER: I would like to point out that I likely achieved 100% completion in this game. Because it is so old, there are not achivements so I can’t be sure, but I did complete every quest that is listed in online guides, and I fully explored every map.
===Notes About Me===
Graphics/Animation: I usually don’t care about; I still play NES games occasionally.
– Real player with 71.7 hrs in game
Dungeon Siege II
Dungeon Siege is a series of action-RPG, where every chapter feels very distinct from others. You can see the evolution, but there is so much diversity, that people who like DS1 may be strongly against DS2, DS2 fans might be opposing DS1 and DS3… At least, it is not that hot, as “apple vs. droid” holywar now.
Dungeon Siege II made much to expand all that was good in the DS I - the system of character development, an interesting setting of fallen and reshaping empires - just like from known history, only with magic, demons, and angels… To add pathos and glory, you know.
– Real player with 161.1 hrs in game
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Update 04-24-18:
Another special thanks goes to Killah not just for providing us the the expansions to DS2 & DS1 but also fixing the no mouse cursor issue in fullscreen and not being able to play the DS2 Broken World expansion in 1366x768. It is awesome to have someone work so hard to keep this legendary title running on newer systems.
I still own the physical Deluxe Edition of this DSI & DSII and was very excited to see them reach steam so that I can access and install it no matter where I might be in the world. I have probably put roughly 3k hours or more into this game alone.
– Real player with 119.8 hrs in game
The Dwarves
The Dwarves (also known as “Die Zwerge”) is a tactical-based RPG based on the novel series written by German author, Markus Heitz.
Story and plot premise:
The series takes place in the fictional fantasy realm of Girdlegard. The humans, whose primary deity is the goddess Palandiell, have seven kingdoms in the land, some of which house enclaves of magi who train famuli apprentices. The elves, who revere Sitalia, hide their kingdom of Alandur between the borders of two human kingdoms, Gauragar and Tabain. The dwarves, however, built their kingdoms around the mountain barriers of Girdlegard. Vraccas, their deity, ordered the dwarves to defend Girdlegard from orcs, ogres, and alfar (dark elves), all of which worship the dark god, Tion.
– Real player with 20.6 hrs in game
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I’ll give this a thumbs-up, but only under the following conditions:
a) do not buy it at full price. 40€ after 5 years is overpriced! I bought at full price - I regret.
b) you should love~ 3 Games based around Dwarves
c) you should not be afraid of a lot of text - and if you are not afraid of a lot of text you should not expect a deep CRPG.
Why I love the Game:
Gameplay
It is a bunch of fun to guide the Dwarves (not those other dudes!) through combat. Build a line, crush the Orcs with Hammers and Axes. Even when they run and when enemies are close the Dwarves auto-attack, which is a bunch of to just push through the Hordes.
– Real player with 12.9 hrs in game
Dungeon Siege
Dungeon Siege 1 is a very simple game in terms of gameplay. Meditative action without guts covering the whole battlegroud, plus some actions with your items, such as changing your equipement, reading a few books, and walking through the game in a rather thin corridor…
…would say someone and, despite that description works, that won’t be true in placing the accents.
Most noticeable part is the party work. Every character has only a little of story, but… you can play from a point of view from any of them, just as with your hero - you can even give a boot to your created character and beat the rest of the game just with your conpanions without hero! You can specify their roles, formations in groups, actions of each other like “to seek and destroy anyone” or “not to fight even when attacked”. It reveals you some interesting cases, nearly impossible in other games, such as “you are a healer, all others are stunned, so you run around, heal one, but get stunned instead, so he runs around instead, trying to rise someone else”… or “companions form a group around dragon by themselves, so you don’t need to correct their formation at all”. Yes, there were flaws, like, the big parties could not by themselves stand together on a lift, so you have to move some of them. But it’s still amazing how simple and at the same time workind that solution is, so you can imagine, how it was 17 years ago!
– Real player with 100.4 hrs in game
[My steam total is much less than I’ve actually played since you can play offline without Steam connection. EDIT: Game is of quite sufficient length. Longest mazes I’ve ever played.]
Fun game from 2002. I started as a huge Diablo 2 fan. I’m catching up and enjoying the era of now-cheap RPG/action games before upgrading my system to run more modern games. Just so I don’t spend before I really need to. (currently a Radeon X-600) This includes the Dungeon Siege series + Fallout, Torment, Torchlight 1/2, Baldur’s Gate, Titan Quest, Morrowind, Oblivion …before hitting Skyrim, D3, etc. Bottom line: In many ways, this fits in the older era. – So, those are your ganeral Action/RPG + hack/slash comparisons.
– Real player with 96.8 hrs in game
Koi Unleashed
Koi Unleashed was a really great game, the illustration art is awesome. The music really envelops you in the atmosphere of an ancient Japan and during Boss fights it feels quite epic.
It’s a solid game that revolves around the combat with big enemy Bosses. While the game is simple and fun to play there is also an increased difficulty in controlling your party with commands at the same time as you have to avoid all the different enemies attacks and when you have to avoid boss mechanics.
The controls are great and I love that I can drop my controller and just go play on my laptop if I feel like it.
– Real player with 44.6 hrs in game
Game Review:
Koi Unleashed is an Action RPG. It looks nice, is Challenging and fun. Its Got a Good Soundtrack, The Landscapes are pretty, and the boss battles were good. Make sure to take advantage of your Runes & Crystals when it gets hard. Game really requires you to switch back and forth alot to take advantage of everyone’s powers.
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Good Music
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Controller Support (tho it recognized my Xbox one controller as a PS4 controller but was able to change this in the pause menu)
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Multiple Fighting Classes, Adds a lot of replayability to this
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
Ember
Not sure why Ember is getting poor reviews. I’m a tremendous Diablo II, Planescape Torment, and Torchlight II fan. I’d say that Ember is a lot of fun too. Sure, I’d make some minor changes, but overall, it’s excellent for what it is. A basic, isometric, single player RPG.
CONS: I would complain about the controls – but the keys can be remapped. ….(2) There’s a LOT of elaborate lore, but honestly, it’s not necessary to read all of it. To trim inventory, you can store/toss the books you find, but I understand that some people find them interesting. ….(3) In battles, it’s somewhat irritating that your followers may get in the way. Sometimes there’s a crowding situation where you cannot get a solid shot at the bad guys. ….(4) And nearly every thumbs-down review mentions that you need to click to a visible point on the screen to enable your main character to navigate to that place. Then you click again. You don’t “steer.” Instead, your main character goes to that point at a good rate, and your NPC sidekicks dutifully follow. ….(5) Limited active skills. …(6) Crappy unlocking chest model. …(7) Not substantial choice consequences. …(7) Limited character variety. … (8) Limited skill paths. …(9) Lastly, sometimes I couldn’t order my characters to act successfully. Not a valid target? Sorry I can’t clarify here, but there’s clear opportunity for improvement.
– Real player with 83.3 hrs in game
I’m going to cover the important points of this game but keep it brief. Now I’ve played a TON of arpg’s, crpg’s and…rpg’s in my life but this is a bit of an odd one.
At first glance, something doesn’t quite add up, you look at the price, look at it’s popularity and yet notice that the reviews are very positive from users amounting to….well not even in the 1k area.
Here’s the thing…hardly anyone knows about this game. I was a bit flummoxed when I saw this pop up on the new release list thinking of how I could have missed something that looks like it appeals to me. Because of the “oh so cheap” price, I got it straight away, I mean why not? What’s another game in my 200+ backlog?
– Real player with 53.5 hrs in game
Dredgers
This is tough, because I love this game and it’s concept. It’s so fun! I have a lot of praise for it.
Unfortunately, I feel like I can’t recommend it at this time for two reasons:
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Missing basics like any type of saving, which pretty much everything I’ve played since the days of shareware has had, seems quite sloppy. The display of the amount of hours I’ve played isn’t really correct: most of that has been on pause because I didn’t want to exit and lose all my progress on the run.
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Do you know how my last run ended? No? Neither do I. Based on all the information I had, it didn’t make sense. Many key things are just not explained, so new players are going to go through several baptisms by fire, creating a lot of frustration.
– Real player with 152.5 hrs in game
Pretty solid roguelike with emphasis on speedy playthroughs and choosing your next step, though that can be its weakness too. Its big selling points are the 30+ races and crazy class combinations which are very very satisfying to play with, as well as actual honest-to-god necromancy where you can have a zombie horde if you want. Or you could skip zombies altogether, dominate the minds of your enemies, send them at your foes, blow up their (animate or inanimate) corpses into a huge mess when they die and then revive them and your former foes as skeletons. Full crafter build is viable, and thats before we get onto races. Pretty much anything that spawns in the dungeon is something you can unlock and play pretty quickly. Only exception afaik is the slime MAN (you can be a regular slime) but I suspect that’ll be implemented in time.
– Real player with 61.1 hrs in game
Lost in Random™
As much as it pains my heart, I cannot recommend Lost in Random. While it started off as a visual feast for the eyes, embodying the art style of Tim Burton and feeling like playing a live-action version of The Nightmare Before Christmas, the game was clearly rushed to production, and its quality suffers heavily because of it.
Here are the major detractors for Lost in Random:
- Repetitive game play, lack of variety (the card mechanic and its related interface are unnecessarily difficult to navigate and, when you finally do figure out how it all works, you will get bored)
– Real player with 32.7 hrs in game
Lost in Random is a gorgeously crafted adventure in a fairy tale world, with lots of Alice:Madness Returns vibes and a Burton~esque art style.
Without spoiling much about the story, you live in the world of Random, a kingdom with 6 districts that’s being overseen & ruled by an Evil Queen. You control a cute girl named Even, searching for her sister Odd, which gets “abducted” in the beginning of the game by the Queen to her castle.
– Real player with 25.5 hrs in game
Mass Effect™ 3 N7 Digital Deluxe Edition (2012)
9/10
Graphics
☐ Beautiful
☑ Average (The textures have aged poorly, set pieces however hold up very well, ‘ALOT texture overhaul mod’ HIGHLY recommended)
☐ Outdated
Gameplay
☑ Very Fun (Just a lot of fun, especially biotics everything feels so much smoother over previous entries, never got bored)
☐ Average
☐ Repetitive
Audio
☑ High quality (Great audio mixing, everything from enemies to weapons, biotics to music are all some of the best a game can offer)
☐ Average
☐ Repetitive
Difficulty
☑ Hard (On Insanity, enemies *Seem to hit a little harder than in ME2 though weapons and biotics are more effective in ME3)
– Real player with 212.9 hrs in game
I recommend this game, But not on Steam.
In its Current State, The game is unplayable.
Edit:
There is an Unofficial workaround, installing ReShade seems to Solve the FPS problems, You don’t even need to install any of the filters, Just reshade, and point it at ME3 and the Stuttering is fixed.
(This isn’t a Guaranteed fix as some users found that this didn’t work or that ReShade isn’t compatible with their PC’s)
Still not recommending this as;
- Performance Issues
Without going to extra effort. The game Runs at a solid 60 FPS easily, but dips down frequently during cutscenes and gameplay, down to 22 and even full freezes for a half second or so.
– Real player with 51.7 hrs in game
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
Can’t express enough, nor can I make this a full review as it would take far too long, how amazing this game is. Still survives more than 18 years after launch through the Enhanced Edition and I’ve been playing since that launch. Roleplaying online for over 15 years, as well. It continues to get amazing improvements as it goes along, and I’m excited to see how much more it can bring.
– Real player with 7840.3 hrs in game
You know what you could be playing instead of a MMO?
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition.
– Real player with 965.0 hrs in game