Started playing this again recently and after about 20 hours on the EE and roughly 50 on classic, im enjoying it somewhat but i think classic is the better version. Rogues have been nerfed pretty hard, having winged fleet is a must, and their damage output doesn't seem as high as in classic. I also find i'm spending way more time trying to get into position to back-stab and
avoid damage than actually do damage like in classic, i guess that's 'balance' for ya. I also prefer the single wielding double back-stab attack/animation to the dual-wielding one, if just feels better when it connects. Archers might now be the better overall class just for the fact they are much less of a headache to micro.
The voice acting is all kinds of levels of awful, but it's not just the voices themselves it's the pace at which they talk which is far to slow for a lot of the dialogue encounters. It also show cases just how bad the overall writing is, DOS:EE is a much better game without it and 50 times less cringe.
Playing on Tactician mode the game is def. a lot harder than regular DOS, more mobs spawning in also makes each encounter that much more interesting, i'm really enjoying these tougher fights. Just killed the lighthouse monster and it was a rough but fun fight, had to reload once cause i screwed up my opener on the patrol.
So far i'm liking it combat wise. Itemization has improved so far from what iv'e seen though it's still too early to tell, and i didn't mind DOS classic itemization, it wasn't great or good even, not bad just adequate. I really can't judge yet if EE is better until i at least get to around the 40-50 hour mark. Cringe dialogue aside, if combat remains challenging like this to the end than i will def. finish the game but no promises.
Finaly, WTF did they do to the original cheese vendor voice actor? He was the most memorable character in the whole game.
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