Is food completely useless?
I heard it works as healing, but have never used it so far. Out of combat, a single click on a bedroll item added to the hotkey bar heals the whole party instantly.
Completely useless? No.
Practically useless? Yup!
There's some stuff you can make that's not
bad, exactly, and I guess that if you (for whatever insane reason) took the talent that doubles the bonuses, that might be worth it. Usually, though, it's not the bonuses that's the issue, but the duration. You want to eat before combat, but it's entirely possible for it to run out before you actually end up going into combat, especially if there's a dialogue beforehand. And if it doesn't, it may still end up maybe lasting just for a single round, maybe two. Especially with the round robin turn orders, it's pretty useless to buff beforehand, because in most cases, the bonus won't really matter.
My main gripe so far apart from inventory management is how often I feel force into typical good guy choices in dialogue. It feels like there's no neutral or "gray morality" choices, and I'm either left with a dumb and brutish answer, or archetypical hero answer.
It's annoying, but I don't see why it'd be someone's
main gripe. Some games just let you play the hero, and everything else is just flavours of that. The game doesn't really pretend to let you play anything else but then pigeonhole you into really fucking derp situations that makes no sense in the given context (like certain other recent games.. I'm looking at you,
Tranny).
The derpy dialogue system being used as a substitute for actually articulating and writing what is said just feeds into the issue, too, because unless you're in that heroic mindset, it's just not going to work based on the reactions. It's trying to create a situation of "Believe whatever you want your character to believe was said!", but in reality, if the "answer" is "*Ask him what he is doing, and tell him to stop immediately*", we know what's
actually being said is something along the lines of
"Excuse me, what are you doing? Stop that at once, this is unacceptable behaviour" and not
"Oi! Cuntface! Stop that shit before I wear your crown jewels around my neck!".
But
main gripe? This shit hadn't even registered to me.
