The lighting in 1.0 looks so cool. Even with the mod that's supposed to restore it to 1.0 lighting it doesn't look as dark/contrasty.
Not sure what's your point. That's also my opinion of the game.
If only it could remain hard the whole game.Björn said in one of his videos that this is done by design, i.e. they purposely make the early game, and to some extent the mid game, hard as ass on purpose. After that, it turns into your typical Skyrim-like: Everything just topples over when you blow on it. This is what their fans are used to, what they expect and want from them, so that is what they give them.Though despite being hardcore, ELEX has a very weird kind of ~balance~ where just a few hours after you're finally capable of safely taking on low level creatures, you can find yourself with top-tier weapons and the build to use them to take on everything with relative ease. The game slowly goes from 0 to 30 and then slams on the gas to go to 100. Witcher 3, by comparison, has a far more traditional-feeling difficulty curve.
Not sure what's your point.
Agreed, I do also think the end-game difficulty could use some tweaking. But all in all, it does feel very rewarding to become so powerful, that you can one shot enemies that used to rape you. I just really enjoy how Piranha Bytes gives the player the feeling that all of their hard work leveling up and exploring didn't go to waste.If only it could remain hard the whole game.Björn said in one of his videos that this is done by design, i.e. they purposely make the early game, and to some extent the mid game, hard as ass on purpose.
I would like to add that combat in ELEX is also much more interesting simply due to the huge arsenal you have to choose from.Still, the difficulty is why the combat is much better than in The Witcher 3. TW3 was quite shit, at the hardest difficulty you could just mash the quick attack button and win everything, no timing or strategy necessary. And that was with a build that put almost no points in sword fighting or fast attack. Quite a decline from TW1-2.
At least with ELEX, you need to pay attention or you get fucked. In the early game, you have to treat enemies as obstacles to bypass, or get an advantage on them to be able to defeat them. You need to time your shit. And you can actually fight enemies harder than level-appropriate ones, you can take on a challenge, and you feel accomplishment for doing it. TW3 prevents this with their almost-invulnerable monsters if they're not level-appropriate (the Skull-rated ones). So in TW3 you either have fights that are too easy, or ones that are almost impossible and frankly quite boring because they become a slog due to their artifically inflated high damage resistance.
TW3 did a bunch of things well, but combat was the worst.
I don't like jank, I like smooth animations, just as much as I like nice graphics, but gameplay is KING. That said, graphics fags and animation fags can get bent.I'd take jank ELEX combat over polished shit TW3 combat any day.
It is still a positive review though. ELEX fans are even praising this guy, because ELEX 2 is being made.Not sure what's your point.
Just shits and giggles. He actually destroys the combat system in his review.
I did play ELEX to completion.
ELEX combat is shallow and the opposite of polished. Just pure jank. I'm sure Germans and the German-minded prefer it to Twitcher because in the first few hours of the game everything is so strong that you have to run away from everything
AKA crack cocaine.elexit
The difficulty curve is steep. Some like it, others hate it.I almost skipped playing Elex thanks to all the negative comments, and it was a great game.
elexit is great review title in case of failureMan you niggas are smoking too much elexit.
AKA crack cocaine.elexit
The difficulty curve is steep. Some like it, others hate it.I almost skipped playing Elex thanks to all the negative comments, and it was a great game.
If PB would have made normal mode easier, then the game would probably have a lot less detractors.
Not so much waiting for price, but for the game to be patched into respectability. By the time I played ELEX, the game was technically rock-solid, which at least means no crashing with your euro-jank.Looks awful as expected, will wait til it's dirt cheap
If you did not ENJOYED Elex 1, there's something wrong with you.
If you did not ENJOYED Elex 1, there's something wrong with you.
Yeah youre a moron
enjoyed what
- dumb cutscenes
- janky movement/controls
- console UI
- bland factions
- MMO-tier crap loot
- boring combat
- HP bloat
Cealrly never played elex lol. You're just spouting bullshitMMO-tier crap loot
I'm all for feeling powerful at the end game by destroying enemies that used to be hard at the beginning.Agreed, I do also think the end-game difficulty could use some tweaking. But all in all, it does feel very rewarding to become so powerful, that you can one shot enemies that used to rape you. I just really enjoy how Piranha Bytes gives the player the feeling that all of their hard work leveling up and exploring didn't go to waste.If only it could remain hard the whole game.Björn said in one of his videos that this is done by design, i.e. they purposely make the early game, and to some extent the mid game, hard as ass on purpose.
Another similar example, to name a popular game, would be Fallout. In Fallout you will get brutally murdered if you dare take on a Death Claw in the early-game, but in the end-game you can one shot those bastards with a plasma cannon. I just absolutely love that kind of game design, the only difference is that in a PB game, the rats from the starting area would rape you as well.
Elex was average but as there are few good RPGs one could enojy it for an RPG fix at the time, even if it was completely forgettable.
But now after Archolos I can't imagine playing it and enjoying it the same, and seems like Elex 2 doesn't improve on anything.
All they have to do is literally copy Gothic as they did with first Risen - and it worked! But instead they are dead set on making this crap.
I guess I won't understand them as a non-G*rman.
It's a "buy on -75% sale" game.