PorkyThePaladin
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Expeditions: Rome is utter shite. This is coming from someone who thought Conquistador was a fun game, and Viking is one of the better isometric RPGs of the last 15-20 years. Huge letdown with Rome. They learned nothing from the first two games, released a shit nugget, and were promptly dispatched by video game gods with poetic justice. Everything about Rome sucked, constant switching between 30 different layers, none of them good, turd combat with jumping through hoops for developers instead of actual fun combat system, stupid pointless meta-layers like army battles, woke stuff to kill the historical flavor, think of anything dumb, it will be in this game.
If managing a multitude of minions requires shallow systems, perhaps they shouldn't have included them in the game, and focused on a small group of characters, like in Viking, which was incidentally by far their best game.
2022 was a shit year. Rome, ELEX 2, and Elden Ring were all huge disappointments.
Fake news. ELEX 2 was not an asset flip of ELEX, it was a much worse game, where they somehow lost most of what made ELEX fun. Worse factions, worse world, worse story, somehow worse combat (which is not easy to achieve)...
Viking's character building was too complicated IMO. In Rome, you have to develop a squad of blank slate praetorians in addition to yourself and your companions. It was too much for many people even with the system it has.
If managing a multitude of minions requires shallow systems, perhaps they shouldn't have included them in the game, and focused on a small group of characters, like in Viking, which was incidentally by far their best game.
Worth it with choice? You get Elex II on top of it though i hear that's a shit game lul.
2022 was a shit year. Rome, ELEX 2, and Elden Ring were all huge disappointments.
Elex 2 is just an asset flip of Elex 1. The same exact game, mostly on the same map, with a few tweaks here and there.Worth it with choice? You get Elex II on top of it though i hear that's a shit game lul.
There's enjoyment to be had here, if you liked E1, but overall it just smacks of staleness and creative bankruptcy.
Fake news. ELEX 2 was not an asset flip of ELEX, it was a much worse game, where they somehow lost most of what made ELEX fun. Worse factions, worse world, worse story, somehow worse combat (which is not easy to achieve)...