Game News ELEX RELEASED

[Iznaliu]

Three pages in and apparently no one's actually played the game?

What else did you expect?

 

[the_dagon]

I'm playing the game.

Easy to review :
It's basically a Gothic 1/2 style game with a bigger world, nicer graphics, and a sort of (quite uninspired) Science Fantasy twist.
A pure PB product.

If you enjoy Piranha Bytes games, you will enjoy Elex.
If you're a PB hater, you will hate the game.

Very bad marks on some french websites, they expected handholding, progressive "nice" fight progression and they encountered high level angry mobs while exploring from which they had to run. Combat is also quite slow paced. That means for those reviewers a bad game :-/

 

[CRD]

ELEX is unnecessarily hard. Even when playing on the easiest difficulty level I was massacred by everything. The first bandit I encountered killed me in about two hits. Twelve hours later that same bandit would kill me in three hits. Everything is so hard to kill and so high level I don’t know how anyone is able to progress in the game. Buying new gear cost so much money that you may get lucky and be able to afford a weapon that increases your damage by simply one point. You would think that you can run away from most battles, but guess what? Enemies are so relentless they will follow you to the ends of the Earth. At one point I had encountered a Raptor dinosaur and found out I was too weak to defeat it. I ran from it for probably fifteen minutes. I couldn’t even see it anymore and just went on to complete my quest. As I'm going about my business, guess who shows up? The same Raptor that I ran way from fifteen minutes ago still following me. It never stopped following me. This happens with every enemy I encountered. I got so bad that I had to run back to the first village and let the village guards kill everything for me.

/reviewers

Bought it yesterday, will try on weekend, but I will beat it in 9/12 months, after a lot of patches and probably some community mods

 

[Grunker]

Bought it yesterday, will try on weekend, but I will beat it in 9/12 months, after a lot of patches and probably some community mods

literally my current strategy

 

[Darth Roxor]

i'd say expecting any mods to appear is very fabulously optimistic

 

[razvedchiki]

Why is that glorious rat?

 

[Iznaliu]

i'd say expecting any mods to appear is very fabulously optimistic

PoE sold 1 million+ copies and got very little in the way of mods.

 

[Joni Odin von Hassenstein]

Three pages in and apparently no one's actually played the game?

What else did you expect?

Moar pages!

 

[Watser]

But we all know that I saved one of you bastards from dropping full price on this thing while you're replaying Deus Ex again

Curse you

 

[Darth Roxor]

I must also say that I am not at all surprised that the rpgcodex twitter posts messages about the release of "South Park: The Fractured But Whole" and some whatever PoE2 update, yet stays completely silent about ELEX.

makes u think

 

[Falksi]

ELEX is unnecessarily hard. Even when playing on the easiest difficulty level I was massacred by everything. The first bandit I encountered killed me in about two hits. Twelve hours later that same bandit would kill me in three hits. Everything is so hard to kill and so high level I don’t know how anyone is able to progress in the game. Buying new gear cost so much money that you may get lucky and be able to afford a weapon that increases your damage by simply one point. You would think that you can run away from most battles, but guess what? Enemies are so relentless they will follow you to the ends of the Earth. At one point I had encountered a Raptor dinosaur and found out I was too weak to defeat it. I ran from it for probably fifteen minutes. I couldn’t even see it anymore and just went on to complete my quest. As I'm going about my business, guess who shows up? The same Raptor that I ran way from fifteen minutes ago still following me. It never stopped following me. This happens with every enemy I encountered. I got so bad that I had to run back to the first village and let the village guards kill everything for me.

/reviewers

Bought it yesterday, will try on weekend, but I will beat it in 9/12 months, after a lot of patches and probably some community mods

Christ what a fucking society of pussies we've created.

Was talking to a mate about this the other day. Youngters nowadays are weak as piss, like big fucking babies, and I think anyone 30+ is gonna be part of the first elderly generation which the young fear getting mugged by.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Ban Infinitron

 

[Grunker]

I must also say that I am not at all surprised that the rpgcodex twitter posts messages about the release of "South Park: The Fractured But Whole" and some whatever PoE2 update, yet stays completely silent about ELEX.

makes u think

Crooked Bee

 

[Hellion]

CONFIRMED GOTY

 

[Elex]

CONFIRMED GOTY

schrodinger review.

 

[CRD]

to be fair, from what I've played and read people for now, that conclusion is spot on.

elex have the potential to be a gem, but they need to patch and change a lot of things. The game is good, but still far from great or amazing.

It is a game to be purchased day 1 to help PB, but to be played in a year.

 

[Roguey]

I must also say that I am not at all surprised that the rpgcodex twitter posts messages about the release of "South Park: The Fractured But Whole" and some whatever PoE2 update, yet stays completely silent about ELEX.

makes u think

Crooked Bee

She's both Location: Deutschland and a fan of Gothic so the snub is either unintentional or a slight against ELEX for reasons that I'm sure are justified.

 

[vdweller]

I've read a couple negative reviews and I'm still not entorely convinced that what they perceive in the game as flaws are...well...flaws.

 

[Iznaliu]

I've read a couple negative reviews and I'm still not entorely convinced that what they perceive in the game as flaws are...well...flaws.

What else did you expect of reviewers which cater to a mainstream audience?

 

[Crescent Hawk]

Game is cool as fuck, but its way past time they motion captured animations, this is simply not acceptable. Also the art style is very hit and miss but kinda reminds me like a mix of 80s corny shit like Captain Power, and Mass effect generic sci fi. Except even corny 80s shows like it and I dont know Kinght Rider were much darker\edgier looking and consistent instead of the deluge of super high color contrast and hexagons we get today.

 

[Grumpy Grognard]

Game is cool as fuck, but its way past time they motion captured animations, this is simply not acceptable. Also the art style is very hit and miss but kinda reminds me like a mix of 80s corny shit like Captain Power, and Mass effect generic sci fi. Except even corny 80s shows like it and I dont know Kinght Rider were much darker\edgier looking and consistent instead of the deluge of super high color contrast and hexagons we get today.

Got to pick you up on something, and it's not your almost unreadable sentence structure.

Mass Effect's style is *not* generic sc-fi. It's a very specific aesthetic, heavily influenced by the work of Syd Mead, a legendary artist. You don't have to like it, but you're wrong about that.

 

[Grunker]

I must also say that I am not at all surprised that the rpgcodex twitter posts messages about the release of "South Park: The Fractured But Whole" and some whatever PoE2 update, yet stays completely silent about ELEX.

makes u think

Crooked Bee

She's both Location: Deutschland and a fan of Gothic so the snub is either unintentional or a slight against ELEX for reasons that I'm sure are justified.

I don't think it is, I think the Codexspiracy is laughable. I was tagging her because I thought she might have overlooked the game

 

[Infinitron]

She's both Location: Deutschland and a fan of Gothic so the snub is either unintentional or a slight against ELEX for reasons that I'm sure are justified.

She might just think this newspost is too cringy to tweet (which it is)

 

[Grunker]

its 2tally not tho

 

[Darth Roxor]

it aint cringy when its true