GreedFall - Gold Edition - new colonial-themed action-RPG from Spiders

[Reinhardt]

Number of RPGs set during 17th or pseudo-17th century: 1

2. You forgot Deadfire.

 

[Ibn Sina]

I think the game could be fine if it was 30 or 20 $ but right now it is not worth the price according to what I am reading.

 

[Grauken]

its just 50€

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

The game is worth full price in my books, unless you are someone who absolutely needs to have perfect lipsync in your games.

 

[toro]

The game is worth full price in my books, unless you are someone who absolutely needs to have perfect lipsync in your games have a brain.

 

[Modron]

Number of RPGs set during 17th or pseudo-17th century: 1

2. You forgot Deadfire.

3. Blood and Gold
4. The entire Sea Dogs series.
5. Do Risen 1/2/3 count since you said pseudo 17th century?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Game is selling fine at the price they set it at — it has been the top seller on Steam for days now. I really doubt they'd double their sales if their halved the price.

 

[DeepOcean]

The game is worth full price in my books, unless you are someone who absolutely needs to have perfect lipsync in your games.

I agree with you, but I think you are forgetting about some other very, very small flaws but I think of all the omissions, you shouldn't have forgotten of the T-posing pheasant, that is unacceptable, you shouldn't play this game if you like perfect functional pheasants, this is a serious problem. Imagine someone is in there, there are the invisible walls; the invisible wall traps; the repetitive copy pasted popamole combat; the issues with the railroading on the main character personality and some quest outcomes, the copy pasted enemies, the copy pasted cities, the so so worldbuilding and etc., those are small problems not even worthy mentioning, right? But then you see a T-Posing pheasant, that is just pornographic, imagine an erect, rigid pheasant, that can't be tolerated, this game shouldn't be liberated for an young audience, period.

 

[Popiel]

20 hours in. I did some main story content, that is I resolved the “initial” Thélème plotline and what’s probably one of the most bizarre and interesting side plotlines I've ever seen. I mean the one which starts with stolen tablets in Eden. Player needs to progress the “main”/”initial” Thélème story to push this side quest chain further, and no fuckin’ wonder, ‘cause its resolution

Spoiler

fundamentally alters whole faction, changes perspective on one of the foundation stories of the setting and so on

. Although I didn’t encounter The Most Intense and Edgy Inquisitor™ that graced existence (RENOUNCE YOUR GOOOOOOOOOOOODS my ass, Jesus), that is father Aloysius or whatever his name was, so I doubt that I’m truly done with faithfags. What I’m willing to admit is that changing the setting this much in a side quest chain is a stunning and brave™ move, I wonder what’ll happen next in this department.

Other parts of the main plot are, just like Thélème mind you, just badly and blandly written, but I accept that, I guess I got used to mediocre writing. My De Retardet is still an occasional retard (pure fuckin’ tool if you ask me), still has little no agency when it comes to roleplaying. Yes, game gives to the player some important choices which alter the setting, but path to them is a railroad from fuckin’ Hades, you cannot strain in any way, player character just does his stuff and you observe. With this amount of backtracking certain sections (especially in aforementioned Eden in which to progress you at one point must run from guy A to guy B to gal C and back a couple of times, Jesus Christ) feel like mildly interactive movies, which is not good, I don’t like my cRPGs turning into visual novels this hardly.

I’m level 26 and my mage, who now has whole mage tree researched, offensive and defensive spells all maxed out, is unstoppable, game is just imbalanced in the right way, i.e. mages completely wreck all faces, including all guardians. I still have only four companions and when it comes to their design game is simple but decent. Player obviously should be aware as to which companions to take to which parts of the plot for maximum contextual content (surprise surprise, Pwincess Native is useful almost anywhere!), and interactions between them are sometimes competently written (I second what was said already, Petrus + Síora works very nice, Petrus is in general quite a nice guy). Companions themselves are copy-pasted from tvtropes.org (Kurt – a tough soldier with a heart of gold, caring for his apprentices but oh boi he won’t admit that he’s a softie – and so on).

In general my as for now verdict is that this game is just mediocre – it has some good, it has some (a lot in places) bad, it’s uninspired and ambitious at the same time (I presume devs just wanted to play it safe).

 

[DeepOcean]

In general my as for now verdict is that this game is just mediocre – it has some good, it has some (a lot in places) bad, it’s uninspired and ambitious at the same time.

Yep, it looks like an spiders game.

 

[smaug]

Some ITT are shilling, some genuinely think it’s good/great and some hate it.

Who’s going to review this game?

 

[Popiel]

Yep, it looks like an spiders game.

Certainly feels like it, 'though I didn't play enough of other ones to judge.

Besides, one more thing which I failed to mention. Game is now confirmed to be written in a way in which choices in many, many cases exist only theoretically. You theoretically could side with guy B against gal A in one of the quests, but why would you is beyond me, it's sort of like a case of Dark Side choices in KotOR1. Guy B is written as an obviously evil guy, nothing morally grey 'bout him and his position, it's theoretically valid in some respects but no, it's not really valid in any way 'cause of how it's presented in the game. I hate when games do that, choices are illusory 'cause of biased narration and it really happens quite a lot.

 

[fantadomat]

toro do you like A game?


Don't worry smaug ,i will give it a fast review once i finish it. Normally i finish such games in two 2-3 days,but since it released i can't find time to sit on my ass and play it . Still i am advancing decently by codexian standards .

 

[Reinhardt]

review this game

>

it looks like an spiders game.

 

[Nano]

Nothing about this game is particularly good.

• Not good as a storyfag game - the story is too shallow.
• Not good as an NPCfag game - the companions and other characters are lifeless and one-dimensional.
• Not good as a combatfag game - the AI is too braindead for that.
• Not good as an immersionfag game - reused assets galore, including NPCs and enemies, and nonexistent animations (they use black screens to get around that). Also impossible to finish quests without the quest marker.

Sad that standards have fallen so low that people think this game is good. Not having microtransactions is really enough for people to praise your game nowadays, huh?

 

[DeepOcean]

toro do you like A game?


Don't worry smaug ,i will give it a fast review once i finish it. Normally i finish such games in two 2-3 days,but since it released i can't find time to sit on my ass and play it . Still i am advancing decently by codexian standards .

Are you doing a neutral-neutral review, lawful neutral or chaotic neutral review?

 

[fantadomat]

toro do you like A game?


Don't worry smaug ,i will give it a fast review once i finish it. Normally i finish such games in two 2-3 days,but since it released i can't find time to sit on my ass and play it . Still i am advancing decently by codexian standards .

Are you doing a neutral-neutral review, lawful neutral or chaotic neutral review?

Do i look like one of those western centrist faggits??? It will be pure chaotic Bulgar review with a bottle of a rakija!

 

[smaug]

toro do you like A game?


Don't worry smaug ,i will give it a fast review once i finish it. Normally i finish such games in two 2-3 days,but since it released i can't find time to sit on my ass and play it . Still i am advancing decently by codexian standards .

How can you write a review you can barely speak English?

 

[Popiel]

Okay, I think that by complete accident I was graced to not interact with the worst companion up until now. I've just met Aphra. Oh no m'lady, I'm not travelling with you. Why do modern devs just fail to grasp art of writing female characters who are not edgy whores. Besides, her name is Aphra. And she’s black. You get that. Like people from Africa.

...

Kill me.

Thankfully my bro Kurt was with me and he introduced himself basically like “Hey, I’m Kurt. I watch his back (him being MY NAME IS DE RETARDET, LEGATE OF THE MERCHANT CONGREGATION). You go mad, I’ll kill you”. Good job Kurt, patrolling thots all day

 

[fantadomat]

toro do you like A game?


Don't worry smaug ,i will give it a fast review once i finish it. Normally i finish such games in two 2-3 days,but since it released i can't find time to sit on my ass and play it . Still i am advancing decently by codexian standards .

How can you write a review you can barely speak English?

The power of rakija unlocks my inner perfection and i could write review in all the barbaric languages....like English.

Africa

Is really shitty companion,she is only ranged and that makes her useless at best. Her quest would have been interesting.....if she was not in it.

 

[toro]

toro do you like A game?

I don't like A game.

Honestly, for a Bulgarian, you have a pretty shitty taste in games.

 

[fantadomat]

I don't like A game.

I see,i am yet to see you talk about any game positively.

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

The game is worth full price in my books, unless you are someone who absolutely needs to have perfect lipsync in your games have a brain.

So how far are you in GreedFall?

 

[toro]

I don't like A game.

I see,i am yet to see you talk about any game positively.

Don't be a dumbfuck: Underrail, Sekiro, Kenshi, Ghost of a Tale, Lisa, Insomnia: The Ark, Kingmaker, F:NV and many others. The only problem is that I'm no into shitty games (unless they have at least something special which elevates them from their natural state).

I don't have a problem with Greedfall per se as I already know that the game is not for me. Spiders's best game was Of Orcs and Men, then Mars: War Logs had some good moments but it was unfinished. On the other hand, Bound by Flame and The Technomancer were absolute shite designed to waste the players time. I don't have proofs but I'm like 90% sure that their last 3 games are just skins for the same mechanics/engine.

Greedfall is the same shit but somehow some posters are shilling for it on codex. Let me be clear: at best this game is on the same level as Mass Effect Andromeda (idk but maybe that one is actually better) and that one is hated while this one is loved just because of Jehanne's saggy tits. It doesn't make sense ... unless codex's standards went down the drain. Perhaps we are circling the drain considering the shilling for this crap. Thanks for doing your part in this decline.

Also I shitpost out of boredom. Seems to work.

 

[Alienman]

Okay, I think that by complete accident I was graced to not interact with the worst companion up until now. I've just met Aphra. Oh no m'lady, I'm not travelling with you. Why do modern devs just fail to grasp art of writing female characters who are not edgy whores. Besides, her name is Aphra. And she’s black. You get that. Like people from Africa.

...

Kill me.

Thankfully my bro Kurt was with me and he introduced himself basically like “Hey, I’m Kurt. I watch his back (him being MY NAME IS DE RETARDET, LEGATE OF THE MERCHANT CONGREGATION). You go mad, I’ll kill you”. Good job Kurt, patrolling thots all day

She is not so bad when you talk to her a little. Just your typical science before everything else gal, but she kinda has an arc I guess

And yes, I had my bro Kurt with me as well. Funny as hell reaction from him.