Age of Decadence Reviews

[felipepepe]

'Cause we're assholes.

 

[Johannes]

It's the key to selling 30k more copies

 

[Bibbimbop]

It's the key to selling 30k more copies

Now VD will never allow it. Would ruin his struggling artist "I'm no longer a high-powered marketing executive" bohemian cred.

 

[Whisper]

Who is Vault dweller?
Vince?

 

[Durwyn]

Codex Lore skillcheck failed

 

[dragonul09]

I really dislike the fantasy elements in this game,instead of doing the usual mumbo jumbo gods hurr durr ,they could have a made a really interesting game without it.They should have fleshed out more the guild quests and the characters you encounter, or your path career, not do 3 short quests and let's move on.

Do i ask too much if want a game without monsters,murgic and other hocus pocus bullshit?

I do like the writting in general and i feel rewarded when i get my way of doing things, but the usual hocus pocus just killed my mojo dude.

 

[Rake]

But it's a single player game. Why fuss over how other people play it?

 

[laclongquan]

The few reviews appear show that majority of reviewers are soooo not very good at combat.

We need a combatfag finish this game and write a proper review from that aspect~

 

[Jasede]

I'd try but I can't get past ten minutes into the demo without losing interest. :< The decline has affected me deeply.

 

[Mustawd]

 

[LeStryfe79]

Who is Vault dweller?
Vince?

(Vince) D. Weller.... "dweller"

 

[Johannes]

The few reviews appear show that majority of reviewers are soooo not very good at combat.

We need a combatfag finish this game and write a proper review from that aspect~

It's shit if you only consider the combat

Not because it's too easy or hard, but it's not varied or tactical enough to carry the game alone

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Some polish articles, but those are not even preliminary reviews. Their authors clearly hasn't played it and are just paraphrasing ITS marketing.
http://www.benchmark.pl/aktualnosci...syczne-rpg-wydane-po-11-latach-produkcji.html
www.eurogamer.pl/articles/2015-10-15-the-age-of-decadence-wydano-gre-rpg-w-klasycznym-stylu
http://www.gry-online.pl/S013.asp?ID=94548

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Who is Vault dweller?
Vince?

Cleve.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Brian Mitsoda.

 

[Lurker King]

I'd try but I can't get past ten minutes into the demo without losing interest. :< The decline has affected me deeply.

You played too much action games and watched too much animu. May God have mercy upon your soul.

 

[Lurker King]

A TELEPORTER FAN!!!!!!111

VD is a man ahead of his time.

 

[Night Goat]

Every mainstream reviewer says every isometric RPG is "like Baldur's Gate", yet they also uniformly refer to Pillars of Eternity as having "deep tactical combat". Do they only know Baldur's Gate by reputation?

Yes. PoE's target audience is people who want to pretend to be old-school RPG fans.

 

[Taxnomore]

Canard PC, french magazine which is usually quite monocle (they had a lot of doubts about Fallout 3, which is more than you can ask for in the gaming press), gave AoD a 6 out of 10. They said the gameplay basically locked your character on a path once you have well defined his class and that there was no actual liberty to solve the problems.

I can't comment on that, having not played the game, but I tend to gather from the other opinions here that it's another case of someone who can't play well enough.

 

[Delterius]

Isn't that the whole point? Maximum freedom lies in CC, then you watch what happens with your choices there.

 

[Infinitron]

Isn't that the whole point? Maximum freedom lies in CC, then you watch what happens with your choices there.

The point of what? RPGs, or this game in particular?

 

[Sensuki]

The point of the design.

 

[Delterius]

The point of what? RPGs, or this game in particular?

AoD in particular, of course. At least that was my impression from people's discussions.

 

[Bubbles]

ITS will be lucky if the average stays at 6/10. This has the potential to be the worst reviewed RPG of the decade, depending on who does the reviewing.

 

[Lurker King]

Isn't that the whole point? Maximum freedom lies in CC, then you watch what happens with your choices there.

The problem is that all checks have requirements to appear. If you don't have these requirements, you can easily assume that you only have three options, instead of the usual twenty options hiding just under the surface. If codexers who know their stuff didn't notice this, imagine this guy. That is another of the suicidal old-school decisions that VD made to complicate his life. He could at least reveal the values of all the skill checks, but nope. That would be too easy. But to be honest, even in one playtrough you more choices than in most cRPGs. I think that when they complain about lack of choices they are actually complaining about a myriad of other things, from the teleports to the harsh skill checks and scarcity of SPs. Mostly these last two.