Codex Review RPG Codex Review: ATOM RPG

[RK47]

 

[Latro]

and low on gameplay details

this is exactly why I would want to read a rpgcodex review though, for the grognard perspective. if the codex is going to lapse into some jezebel/the rumpus tier review, might as well just re-direct to the forum for front-page

 

[Van-d-all]

Well while enjoyable to read, the review is too artsy for a genre such as journalism IMO. If I haven't played the game myself (its just $10 FFS...), I'd rather have a detailed write-up on every aspect, especially mechanics and if they add up to an enjoyable whole. Which they do.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I'm too lazy to write a detailed review with proper grammar and attempt to pass the linguistic checks.
It's Fallout. Some parts copied blindly. Some parts they tried to change for better or worse, it's a fresh setting.
2 completed playthroughs.
122 hours and increasing.

It's just what I've been expecting without having watched a minute of gameplay outside of the trailers then. If anything will give it originality for me this will be the ex-USSR developers' take on the post-apoc USSR. I'm not much into postmodernism, but I loved the Stalker atmosphere, and I know no one could have achieved it except for people who knew this society from inside.

 

[hpstg]

You are both right. The standards are relative.

As is context it seems.

 

[Atomboy]

The distribution of exps is fucked up and rewards grinding. Go to five different locations to complete a quest. Earns 64 exps. Kill 3 wolves. Earns 200 exps. What should I infer from this? That quests are less important than repetitive trash mobs in the map. It feels underwhelming.

The game needs more informatiion in a couple places. For instance, if I hover the mouse over "withdraw" I want precise information about how this shit works, the penalties, etc. The same can be said about hunger and anything else.

Some minor things would improve the qualife of life of the gameplay significantly, e.g., the dialogue box oftens hides the small box. You earn 100 rubles doing a quest, but you need to close the diaologue box to figure it out how much you earned.

Yeah, we actually noticed some of the quests having defaut rewards or lacking a couple of 0000 in the end sum. Some are gonna be fixed in the big update!

 

[Atomboy]

We have a certain... um... unspeakable reason to wait so long.

Bought by Microsoft?

Not just yet! Ok i'm gonna hide it under a spoiler

Spoiler

we're getting ready for conversion to gog

 

[razvedchiki]

Rk47 go for an intellectual brute,melee all the way.

 

[RK47]

you've squatted your last breath

 

[Kev Inkline]

Can agree with that. I was a high IQ curious kid basking in post-Dissolution Russia's culture (flooded at the time by us/japan culture). If you want to get the same experience I recommend you reading Konstantin Vaginov's Satyr Chorus, Works and Days of Svistonov (experience of being a creative high IQ person in times of decay, consuming works of older culture which is long dead but seems to be more lively than decaying husk of what was not long ago), Ivan Shmelyov The Sun of the Dead (fairy tale like experience of a period of global loss of humanity, atomization and cultural depersonalization).

Isn't that pretty dumb to read vagina stuff?!

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Can agree with that. I was a high IQ curious kid basking in post-Dissolution Russia's culture (flooded at the time by us/japan culture). If you want to get the same experience I recommend you reading Konstantin Vaginov's Satyr Chorus, Works and Days of Svistonov (experience of being a creative high IQ person in times of decay, consuming works of older culture which is long dead but seems to be more lively than decaying husk of what was not long ago), Ivan Shmelyov The Sun of the Dead (fairy tale like experience of a period of global loss of humanity, atomization and cultural depersonalization).

Isn't that pretty dumb to read vagina stuff?!

It was the smartest decision in my life.

 

[Lord Andre]

Poor lurker king was more out of place in this thread than a pair of pumps at a dyke festival.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

Poor lurker king was more out of place in this thread than a pair of pumps at a dyke festival.

The review was more out of place than my comments. At least they were about cRPG stuff.

 

[lightbane]

RK sure is going along with the "kill everything that moves" route.

 

[RK47]

That's not true. I finished the game five times and most of the kills are just cigarette addicts and accidental trading of live explosives.

You can finish the game without killing any human being.

 

[Lord Andre]

Poor lurker king was more out of place in this thread than a pair of pumps at a dyke festival.

The review was more out of place than my comments. At least they were about cRPG stuff.

I said you were out of place not wrong.

 

[Commissar Draco]

I just got a quest from a "leninist"(which is a cult that believes Lenin was a supernatural being that ate trotsky and stalin when the three of them were secluded in a cabin IIRC) to stop some 'mutants'(which apparently are just regular capitalist people) from melting a lenin statue to sell the metal. There's references like that all over the place, so yeah, it is russian fallout 2.

I don't really dig the writing and most of the quests, I think they're pretty weak overall. However the game does have solid classic cRPG mechanics, which probably explains why I can't put it down.

Its WH40K Imperial Guard pastiche which is in turn the Soviet/WWII Red Army pastiche, I thought it was good way to show how after the fall of civilization certain people and historical figures become a mythical like god king Lenin (reference to God Emperor of WH40K) in this case. It was fun quest and one which gave you car and tons of loot too. As to review it was bit too much intellectualized but nicely read and made Commissar to (re) read Alexander Andreyevich Prokhanov's books. So Spasiba Comrade bataille the game is worth 15 shekels spend and true successor to original Fallouts.

 

[DarKPenguiN]

Codex...You have failed me. I say this with a heavy heart and I wish it werent true, but it is.

This review has kept me from buying the game because I believed that it was going to be filled with inside Russian jokes and have too much 'high brown' intellectual bullshit forcing me to click through pages of dialogue I dont give a shit about.

There are pages of dialogue but its all good and relates to the game and if there are references and inside jokes, they are weaved into it in such a way that you cannot even tell. I've seen a few Fallout references but they were placed in a way that made sense to someone who has never played Fallout.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

Codex...You have failed me. I say this with a heavy heart and I wish it werent true, but it is.

This review has kept me from buying the game because I believed that it was going to be filled with inside Russian jokes and have too much 'high brown' intellectual bullshit forcing me to click through pages of dialogue I dont give a shit about.

Pretentious people are terrible creatures.

 

[Wunderbar]

Codex...You have failed me. I say this with a heavy heart and I wish it werent true, but it is.

This review has kept me from buying the game because I believed that it was going to be filled with inside Russian jokes and have too much 'high brown' intellectual bullshit forcing me to click through pages of dialogue I dont give a shit about.

There are pages of dialogue but its all good and relates to the game and if there are references and inside jokes, they are weaved into it in such a way that you cannot even tell. I've seen a few Fallout references but they were placed in a way that made sense to someone who has never played Fallout.

the game is actually worse if you're Russian, because most of inside jokes are terrible and immersion-breaking.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

the game is actually worse if you're Russian, because most of inside jokes are terrible and immersion-breaking.

The worst aspect of this game is that they spend so much energy trying to make every single NPC unique, but very few of them offer goddam quests. By the time you realise you just waste 20 minutes reading walls of text that will lead to no quest, it’s already too late. The developers feel very strongly about it and won’t acknowledge it was a terrible idea. Most cRPGs will signal to you which NPCs to avoid by making them dummies. They broke this traditional rule and the result is a disappointment.

 

[samuraigaiden]

God forbid developers put characters in a game that aren't just there to hand out quests, right?

 

[StaticSpine]

Codex...You have failed me. I say this with a heavy heart and I wish it werent true, but it is.

This review has kept me from buying the game because I believed that it was going to be filled with inside Russian jokes and have too much 'high brown' intellectual bullshit forcing me to click through pages of dialogue I dont give a shit about.

There are pages of dialogue but its all good and relates to the game and if there are references and inside jokes, they are weaved into it in such a way that you cannot even tell. I've seen a few Fallout references but they were placed in a way that made sense to someone who has never played Fallout.

the game is actually worse if you're Russian, because most of inside jokes are terrible and immersion-breaking.

So true.

It must be like Fallout 2 for Americans. Here in Russia, we don't get the jokes MCA now repents for.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

God forbid developers put characters in a game that aren't just there to hand out quests, right?

You are right. Instead, they should provide wonderful walls of text so that pretentious developers can fulfill their failed artistic ambitions at the expense of gameplay and the player's spare time. It makes perfect sense.

 

[Saduj]

The "walls of text" in most cases are short enough to skim through quickly if you're not seeing anything important. Some of the NPCs that don't give quests provide useful info and some conversations that aren't quest related still give XP. It is definitely a matter of personal preference, but I liked the custom NPCs better than having mostly generic NPCs with a few relevant NPCs who give huge info dumps in each location.