Its on sale right now and I heard a lot of good things about it. What's this game like?
Its on sale right now and I heard a lot of good things about it. What's this game like?
Its on sale right now and I heard a lot of good things about it. What's this game like?
sandbox at its peak
it has no main quest, no story, no nothing, so unless you can't make your own fun you're not gonna like it
also it's super brown and yellow
So the goal of the game is survival basically?
Not even, the goal is making a goal in your head and fulfilling it
Do you wanna be the greatest swordsman in the land? Do you wanna kill all the "boss enemies"? Do you wanna destroy a particular faction? Do you wanna make the greatest city ever?
none of these are actually achievable but it's fun to try.
it's one of the best sandbox games out there but it's kinda hard to get started since everything is out to kill you or enslave you
I don't really have a way to describe it, to be honest, it's a post-apocaliptic sandbox game where you can build almost anywhere, progression is hard, you can build bases but when you do so you will be visited by the local government goons to pay taxes or by bandits looking for tribute or easy raids. To really progress you'll need to unearth ancient technology from ancient forgotten bases filled with killer robots. The game has different world-states that trigger depending on faction leader deaths.
It's fun but as I said, start is hard and will feel grindy if you don't know what you're doing, I'd say starting as a slave or becoming a thief early are the easiest starts.
mind numbingly boring. have fun mining copper for 14 hours before you get to do anything remotely fun or engaging
>fell for copper mining
Point at him and laugh
Never start your game like this. What you want to do is find some npc's to come along with you and beat up hungry bandits. Or lure stronger enemies like Dustbandits or Swamp Ninjas in to town guards or hostile wildlife.
This anon's summary is harsh but fair. If you can look past it's flaws though I find that the game has a lot of SOVL just for it's setting and presentation alone. More than the sum of its parts and all that.
> find some npc's to come along with you and beat up hungry bandits
you need capital to get npcs in the first place
But you start with some?
The most you can start with is 1000, so nothing changes.
I spent it on food cuz I got hungry
It's one of the best sandbox games in existence, great if you want to explore aimlessly and set your own goals, worthless if you're the kind of a player that needs cinematic narrative cutscenes and constant guidance of objective markers.
I'm the last one and when I said "sandbox at its peak" I didn't give it any positive or negative connotations
I've never played or seen much of palworld. I'd say Kenshi doesn't have that many elements that are different from any other survival base building formula other than the factions that are already established in the world and their interactions with the player's party, a good progression and the enviroment.
The sandbox progression is it's trademark. If you want to build a city you can just go ahead and do it, if you want to become a caravaneer nomad sheparding animals you can go ahead and do it, if you want to make a hash drug ring you can go ahead and do it, etc. I won't say you can become "anything" but there are many paths you can take.
It's an autism simulator. I can see why it appeals to a lot of people and am not about to call it a bad game, but it's not for me.
I bought it last night and seemed cool but I spend maybe about an hour wandering around without finding any quest givers or hostiles wanting to fight or eat me then after like 15 minutes going from one end of a swamp to another I finally found a spider who killed me in one hit. Bout to play a bit more but so far it seems pretty lifeless although I've only spent time in a desert and swamp. Still seems like it should be less empty.
I was considering making a kenshi thread myself.
>without finding any quest givers
Quests don't exist in this game
So what the hell am I supposed to do?
make the numbers go up. Theres so many different ways to level up, you can change xp rates, add mods. It's essentially dropping you into 3d runescape and you level up to get more and better shit with more and better henchmen. The fun is in progression.
Welp the one time I dot pirate a game first to check it out I kinda regret it but $10 isn't much. I think I'll play Jedi academy instead.
You don't need quests in Total War, Mountainblade or 4x strategy games either. Just set up a goal for yourself
Build a Hive city for your noHive Hivers
End the slavery
Or destroy the anti-slavers
Help one of the factions to take over the world
As a Skeleton, destroy the world by flooding it with Southern Hivers, Fugmen and Cannibals
Make a drug farm
Stuff like this will be easier to come up with if you already know the setting. On first play-through just self insert, explore and adventure
>What's this game like?
It's a dead world.
Can't conquer or subjugate shit.
No point in taking over settlements.
The interaction with factions is heavily scripted with not enough variety to warrant it being so. Point being, it could have been made into some 'dynamic' RNG slop then in the first place if he didn't plan to bother with fleshing it out (making it more complex). The best example of it is "settlement events".
Almost no reactivity or consequences for doing anything.
Fake economy.
No cloud saves.
Bugs (of which most annoying are the settlement glitches).
The hook/redeeming part:
The interaction between combat/leveling up/limb systems IS FUN. Growing your band of shiters and exploring the map IS pretty satisfying. Shame that there's no real closure (a satisfying point where to stop playing).
Personally, I was a bit disappointed by the final product. Kenshi 2 is probably going to be the v1.2 of the base game that never came to be.
9$ is probably worth it, but lack of cloud saves kind of defeats the point of having it on steam so might as well just hoist the sails and torrent it.
It's Minecraft for edgy people.
If that doesn't sound like something you'd be into, feel free to skip it.
>avatargay constantly refreshing the board to get in an early moronic shitpost in every thread
i swear the spiders and bugs freak me the frick out so much. especially with headphones on. im literally cringing
I fricking love kenshi. It's hard to describe.
Imagine the sims had a lovechild with mount and blade. Then rimworld and morrowind fricked and made a lovebaby. Then those two kids got together and fricked and made a kid. Then THAT kid who grew up to be a pot smoking astronaut, who decided to frick weaboo rts fallout 2. And they had a baby born in england.
Made by a single dude who was like "man, video games suck these days. I have an idea for the ultimate video game" and he just made that shit in mom's basement.
It's not everyone's cup of tea. It's weird, the graphics are dated, it has ZERO direction.
But the world building, lore, political factions, and sense of hopeless freedom are boundless. You make your own way and its glorious. Minimal writing. His own sister made the story. Little narration, loads of depth.
Highly recommended. Probably my favorite game ever.
It's peak squad based sandbox rpg. The caveat is the player has to be willing to write their own story. Jobs and auto tasks are superior. Load times in the mountains will make the game unplayable. If you like the Courier from FNV not being voiced so you can RP and write your own char then you will love Kenshi. My main squad is 12 white greenlanders males who explore the waste, with 12 robots or women in the outpost farming and hauling water. I never use the blacks or alien guys. A Fallout Tactics/Battle Brothers mod would be killer for this. Kenshi 2 should fix the loading problems.
Kengo:Master of Bushido at a squad level. Play as samurai Dutch in cool and unique world. It's peak. SsethTzeentach reviewed and agreed it was peak.
Uncanny.
is it not tho?
We all use youtube to get a qrd on games, one way or another. Don't hate anyone in particular, despise the system itself. Don't let yourself be blinded by their stupidity. Everyone knows that most people who try half the games he plays are baited normies. If anything thank him for driving sales to games from the people never get achievs from killing the first boss.
>We all use youtube to get a qrd on games
i don't
Some games are better learned about than actually played in my experience. I can't stand games that require you to learn a literal skill and study for hours to play a game. Some people love dwarf fortress tho. I don't judge.
Older crpgs, shitty games like kings field, games that are classics but not worth playing I look up on youtube.
indeed, sounds like you shouldn't judge, because you are a moron and have no room to talk about anyone else.
brother. I'm a full blown neet with thousands of hours wasted on video games. I have nothing to prove to you and I won't justify myself. At a certain point seeing is believing. I'll waste my time on things I like and learn why others appreciate what they do. I don't like every type of rpg but I find all games interesting.
Don't like it? suck me homosexual.
you've polluted your brain with the opinions of other people and led yourself down into the path of being both a voyeur and a digital parrot. i spit on you. but, don't worry, i know you lack any sense of shame about yourself, you've decayed too much.
it is unreasonable to expect anyone to actually play every single game in a genre.
>it is unreasonable to expect anyone to actually play every single game in a genre.
Name 6.023e23 RPGs.
What kind of autism is this? Why would you be surprised that people use genre of the game to describe it? Do you find it weird that people call Baldur's Gate an RPG and Call of Duty an FPS too?
It's an open world rpg/rts? with some base building bullshit shoehorned on top. The highlight of it is the exploration and the logistics therein which you only really get to experience once and it's mechanically shallower than it initially seems and incredibly easy to break but it's a decent enough time for the price.
Kenshi has opponents too, you tard. You can defeat factions here or be defeated by them. Every rpg and strategy game improves by leaning more into simulationist aspect over gamey one anyway. Kenshi would be better if it further improved it's simulationist aspects.
kenshi is a toy game, a hollow thing that's fun to play with for a time, but then suggests its own uninstallation as you grasp it mechanically since it is quite awkward to continue playing once you see past the illusion of simulation. the biggest lie is that you aren't special, since the world revolves around the player's actions. i just don't think the guy who made it can make a good game.
>illusion of simulation
The game's embodiment of this.
the optimal start is leveling stealth and thievery with repetitive grinding to steal everything everywhere and print infinite money that you don't actually need.
If you have solo'd catlon, have you even tried playing this game?