Jade Empire - To buy or not to buy

[Infinitron]

Dragon Age has a foursome, actually. You can invite Leliana too.

 

[Crooked Bee]

JE could've been a good game but I thought the combat was too slow for a proper action game and generally just too uninteresting.

Still worth a few bucks though.

 

[J1M]

As the title says. I want to buy this from GOG since I didn't get to it yet and it probably runs on my shitty laptop. Also, the setting is really interesting. Is there more to it than pew pew?

The game is typical sloppy bioware writing + rock paper scissors combat over and over and over.

Was so bad I had to stop playing it halfway through the first major hub.

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

Dragon Age has a foursome, actually. You can invite Leliana too.

:doing a double take:

:checks on youtube:

 

[Linden]

edit: Still, those bitches got nothing on Silk Fox.



So tasteful.

(why is she a giant jesus christ)

 

[Jvegi]

Leliana is one a few redeeming qualities of DA

I enjoyed JE a lot, although I've also enjoyed ME 1-3 for what they are, so... Surprisingly not terrible combat, very nice visuals, cute setting. And I think it gets better after a while. Character progression is broken though.

 

[DarthBehemoth]

JE is a fun game... if you pick it up with a 75% discount on Steam. Seriously, it is only worth the bucks if you're bored with the games you're currently playing

 

[Horus]

Rated M for mature.

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

So tasteful.

1:16


"you should kiss me before I'll remember who I'm supposed to be"

": :"

 

[DarthBehemoth]

Hey it is not like Bioware games are known for their writing (Although that is what all those journalists would like you to believe)

 

[Modron]

Leliana is one a few redeeming qualities of DA

At first I was like but then I realized you could only be trolling good show chap ; after all never forget

 

[Gurkog]

I am waiting for a 90% off sale before I pick it up. None of the Bioware stuff after BG2 is great.

 

[Jvegi]

I'm not trolling. She's the most complex and original character in the entire game. This good, but not goody chick with pretty well hidden wild side, openness and maturity you don't expect from her initially. I liked her, even if the song segment was cheesy and fucking stupid.
Also I'm probably remembering only good bits. It's been a long while since I played DA and I'm not planning on repeating the experience. Ever.

 

[Commissar Draco]

Leliana good Wife and Mother Material >>> than this crazy Skunk Morigan. Also Zevran was fun companion... after He was told once to stay of my back that is. Only Character I wanted to stab was Alice... Maker damned whiny little faggot. Maried the Queen only to send him to chopping block.

 

[abnaxus]

Leliana's a lesbo slut, Morrigan is more Codexian since she's 30-something still living with mommy.

 

[Tom Selleck]

 

[Night Goat]

I didn't really like Leliana, she was too religious. That does have some advantages - as we all know, religious girls love anal - but listening to her talk about Jesus the Maker got old fast.

 

[DragoFireheart]

The only character I liked was the Dog.

Rest were shit.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Dragon Age companion faggotry

Hopefully this thread will be locked and moved to Retardo Land shortly.

Also Jade Empire sucks but is much better than KOTOR. Play it if you want to.

 

[Dreaad]

Twas not so bad, mind you it's been a while. Though from what I remember there was a much smaller focus on companions than most Bioware games, oh they were there, and they are critical to the plot. But you only have to take one at a time, they don't interrupt you randomly to comment on the weather every 5 minutes and from what I remember there is no companion "quests".
The setting had some good moments. Like others have said it had better than average Bioware evil choices, in fact I would argue it had the best Bioware evil plotline at the end... even if you could switch morality completely in two choices.

As for the combat, well, it was bad. You can get a challenge out of it, but only in a very finger twitchy kind of way i.e. no strategy required. I also always liked Death's Hand outfit as an evil minion.

 

[Crooked Bee]

You can't even get a lot of "finger twitchy" satisfaction from combat, though, that's the problem with it. J:E plain sucks as an action game, not just as a tactical/strategy game. And that's my main gripe, because the setting was fairly enjoyable (then again, I enjoy pseudo-Oriental settings a whole lot, which may not be the case for other ppl.)

 

[Infinitron]

You can't even get a lot of "finger twitchy" satisfaction from combat, though, that's the problem with it. J:E plain sucks as an action game, not just as a tactical/strategy game. And that's my main gripe, because the setting was fairly enjoyable (then again, I enjoy pseudo-Oriental settings a whole lot, which may not be the case for other ppl.)

Every try this? http://jade-empire-in-style.com/

 

[Crooked Bee]

Nope, I haven't. I'll bookmark it for a possible future playthrough, though.

 

[Regvard]

Last time I tried to play this game I got hovering/glitching sashes, robes etc. I'll give the gog version a try.

 

[DemonKing]

It wasn't terrible in the way that the original NWN campaign or Dragon Age II were, but it certainly wasn't one of Bio's better games. At the time I played it, I was surprised how much the game's structure was ripped straight out of KOTOR but given that pretty much every Bio title since then has followed the same basic formula it's not as surprising in retrospect.

The actual gameplay (ie the combat) is mediocre so I could only recommend it if you're really dying to experience some patented Bio-Romance set in a quasi-Asian setting.