New RPG just dropped, set in abolands, anybody played it yet? Worth a pirate?

New RPG just dropped, set in abolands, anybody played it yet?
Worth a pirate?

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  1. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Nothing to say myself as I haven't touched it yet, but the steam reviews aren't looking so great. Appears to be agreement that the combat is either poor or feels irrelevant. It may be somewhat on the short side, at least if you follow the story critical path, and the story may not be as dynamic in response to player input as expected. This is generally what I have seen being expressed so far.
    But I see that Maddmike, the game director it seems, actually gave feedback to an overall negative review and admitted they may have to either roll out patches or revise certain design decisions. He also implies that replaying with a different origin and moral leaning is worthwhile, so perhaps a lot of divergence in the story begins with those two factors. So I would expect dedicated post release development of the game to address any issues and if you want to see significant differences based on your choices, then your initial choices even as far as character creation may matter a lot.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      This just confirms my decision to not buy new releases anymore.

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah pretty much agree on that. The first few patches tend to be even necessary these days for the full game experience.

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        2 year lag for games is best

  2. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    PC Gamer gave it a higher score than rogue trader, a very respectable 64/100, so make of that what you will.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Didn't they give Dragon Age: Inquisition an 87? They are not worth paying attention to.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      rogue trader was an unplayable unfinished mess at release so its not hard to be better than it

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >PC Gamer
      are they the ones that complained that rt isn't mass effect?

  3. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Just wait for moeblob to play it.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >moeblob
      who?

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I need moeblob to play it for me. I don't play games.

  4. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    If you wanna play the game then just buy it third worlder.

  5. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I played the demo a while back and it a was alright. Probably worth picking up in a while once it's been patched up a bit.

  6. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    oh no oh on oh no

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Damn, not even mixed? What happened?

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Mostly bugs it seems like. Reactions on the actual game seem to be more average, but the game being buggy pushes it into the negative.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Damn, not even mixed? What happened?

      I wait for a couple of days before checking steam reviews. On release day there's usually a lot of thumbs-downs from people with like 0.7 hours playtime

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It's a pretty bad game and I would not recommend it, but this is moreso disgruntled Australians complaining about politics in the reviews. It's sort of like AoD but gay and australian.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >out of 47
      to be honest this is absolutely meaningless

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I agree, the game sold less than what, 2000 copies? It is absolutely meaningless.

  7. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    4 hours in, it's pretty bad.
    writing is bad, combat is bad, characters are bad, quests are bad, graphics are bad...
    it's just bottom of the barrel fallout clone, ATOM feels like masterpiece in comparison.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >ATOM feels like masterpiece in comparison.
      What was their budget? 500 CAD?

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Atom's? A crate of vodka

  8. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Saw it at Pax Aus a few years ago. Thought the shifting morality/philosphy system was an intersting take on the more binary Faction Like/Hate + Good/Evil.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      it's railroaded trash. You get locked into choices, you don't get to change your opinion or worldview. It's d&d alignment but somehow worse

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >shifting morality/philosphy system was an intersting take
      Black person, it's just basic b***h dnd alignment system

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      it's not even shifting, you get to adjust/set your morality at character creation by answering a 6 points questionnaire and that's it. You're locked in your "morality choice" for the remainder of the game. It appears similar to the Tides in Tides of Numenera, but it just superficially so, it's just a one way street since all of the "different" options lead to almost exactly the same outcomes and are inconsequential. It's not an rpg it's a very bad visual novel.

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >It's not an rpg it's a very bad visual novel.

        More where that is coming from, thanks to Disco Elysium.

  9. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >every npc is a condescending butthole or a self-important homosexual
    not even worth pirating

  10. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Man I wanted to play Aussie fallout if everyone was calling eachother a wanker.

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