Game News ELEX II announced

[Darth Roxor]

ELEX is more of a local meme than anything. The only good thing about it, is the traditional free-form world design e.g. (go anywhere, when you want), otherwise it's pretty shitty.

- janky movement/controls
- console UI
- outdated graphics
- bland factions
- mediocre MMO-tier crap loot
- boring combat
- HP bloat
- €50 overpriced price tag

The truth is that this mediocre console RPG would have been shat on and torched under normal conditions, if not for the post-Renaissance drought.

none of these reasons are why elex sucks which is why i put my cerebral palsy jank on the top of the list

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

Yeah, Elex made you suffer with weird mob placements, incorrect hitboxes (try fighting someone with a 2H hammer), shitty story and pacing and a bunch of other things, but so what? Do you people have a list of boxes to check like a game journo? Or maybe you didn't get what the game was about, which makes me wonder how you even enjoyed Gothic in the first place.

Major evidence that the game was supremely COOL was right at the beginning. You could tell your Berserker buddy(forgot his name by this point) to piss off and go back up the elevator, where you could use your jetpack to climb the antenna and get a splendid view of the game world and find some loot in the process, and you can even go back to the crashing spot to find your black lambo space shuttle. After that, you don't even need to go to the Berserker town at all. In my second or third playthrough I decided to start with the Dome City (I think it's called that too) and things worked out just fine, so fine that it made me think the place was originally planned as the starter town until some genius probably decided they needed the early game to look like Gothic.

Sure, getting to the Dome City was tense as hell, like Dr. Grant crossing Jurassic Park trying to not get eaten. However, that same questionable game design made it 10x more fun. I had the same feeling in Gothic, when I was doing something my character wasn't "supposed" to, but it was still possible if you were extremely careful.

Just turn off all your quest markers and all the other crap and do whatever you want and you'll have fun. Simple as that.

 

[The_Mask]

The only issue I have with ELEX is that after you get the cool glasses that show you where all the items are, I realized what a poor explorer I am.

 

[ELEXmakesMeHard]

FIX THIS

Say what you will abouit Risen 3, but there's certain assets I wouldn't mind being re-used. Kaja could benefit from the "Patty makeover".

 

[Rean]

They just need to make their women less German.
Even Jax is more attactive than that fucking tranny abomination in the trailer (nohomo).

 

[HoboForEternity]

On gog

https://af.gog.com/game/elex_ii?as=1649904300

 

[Rincewind]

Fucking excited for this! I've had some of the best world exploration and "interlocking quest" moments in ELEX, despite for its (in my opinion, quite negligible) flaws.
My biggest problem was that some of the quests were almost impossible to complete without turning on the GPS... a shame, really.
Otherwise, the music, the atmosphere, THE QUESTS (!), and the worldbuilding were top notch. I have no idea what kind of crap are people who complain about the graphics smoking... Just scrolled through my 800+ screenshots and the graphics are as stunning and atmospheric as they were 4 years ago.

Trailer is perfect as it is. Clearly, Piranha Bytes did nothing wrong.
If you can't appreciate metal and teutonic women, maybe you shouldn't be playing real RPGs, you know.

Also, who says anything negative about Caja is not my friend.

 

[HoboForEternity]

I just did the abessa questline on my 2nd playtrough, and it reminded me how much i love this game. It extended up to when you reach all the factions too. Such rare quest design nowadays and i hope this extends in elex 2.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Elex had it's issues, but in retrospect there have not been many games since i've enjoyed as much. The exploration was really good.

 

[Fenix]

It's still best open world for me.

This, the only other game that scratched that exploration itch for me in recent years was Subnautica. Really fucking hard to find a decent open world game with a non-random generated world these days, that just lets you explore and find shit (and kill you if you go into the wrong place) rather than spam you with fucking POI markers on the GUI ruining the experience.

Try Kenshi, though exploration there is so-so, little to find per square kilometer.