Decline Sword Coast Legends - RIP n-Space!

[ProphetSword]

I played this game until somewhere mid game when I stopped due to a bug they never bothered to fix. There are plenty of bugs the devs never bothered to fix. The storage chest in your camp actually makes equipment you "store" in it disappear? Hahaha hilarious, right? Didn't fix it.
The MMO style boss fight can't be finished because after an add phase the boss just doesn't reappear? Well, known problem... never fixed it etc. Clearly a case of piece of shit development team.

The interface is like babbys first user interface, the engine is a horrendous pile of garbage (unity?), the graphics are good tho, loading times are atrocious, the character system (is this supposed to resemble dnd5?) is like a greatly dumbed-down version of some random MMO. I mean, it wasn't entirely unfun and I guess I would have finished it were it not for the bugs. Worse than Dungeon Siege 3.

Not sure what bugs you encountered, but I had a pretty smooth ride when I finished the game last year. Enjoyed it a great deal, too. Wasn’t the best D&D game of all time or anything, but also doesn’t deserve to be stacked in with the worst either.

 

[Elex]

I played this game until somewhere mid game when I stopped due to a bug they never bothered to fix. There are plenty of bugs the devs never bothered to fix. The storage chest in your camp actually makes equipment you "store" in it disappear? Hahaha hilarious, right? Didn't fix it.
The MMO style boss fight can't be finished because after an add phase the boss just doesn't reappear? Well, known problem... never fixed it etc. Clearly a case of piece of shit development team.

The interface is like babbys first user interface, the engine is a horrendous pile of garbage (unity?), the graphics are good tho, loading times are atrocious, the character system (is this supposed to resemble dnd5?) is like a greatly dumbed-down version of some random MMO. I mean, it wasn't entirely unfun and I guess I would have finished it were it not for the bugs. Worse than Dungeon Siege 3.

Not sure what bugs you encountered, but I had a pretty smooth ride when I finished the game last year. Enjoyed it a great deal, too. Wasn’t the best D&D game of all time or anything, but also doesn’t deserve to be stacked in with the worst either.

of course we have stuff like the OFFICIAL cookie clicker D&D game, so it's hard to be the worst D&D game.

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Not sure what bugs you encountered, but I had a pretty smooth ride when I finished the game last year.

good for you I guess, I came up to the point where you have to kill the spider boss, Rhylfang or whatever, in a typical MMO manner every once in a while it would summon some spider adds and disappear, then once you killed the adds it would come back. Except then it didn't... nothing you could do about it. Research on the game's forums and Steam revealed it was a known problem they never bothered to fix. The advice was to start a new game and hope it doesn't happen again... lolwut? No, thanks.

Were it not for the bugs I guess it'd be ok-ish but I have zero tolerance for these kinds of development policies, e.g. not fixing known, game-breaking bugs.

 

[sstacks]

so now the game is a hidden and forgotten gem?

sstacks can tell you.

It's a hidden and forgotten... playable but not spectacular ARPG set in the Forgotten Realms extapolated from D&D 5E rules.

 

[ProphetSword]

Not sure what bugs you encountered, but I had a pretty smooth ride when I finished the game last year.

good for you I guess, I came up to the point where you have to kill the spider boss, Rhylfang or whatever, in a typical MMO manner every once in a while it would summon some spider adds and disappear, then once you killed the adds it would come back. Except then it didn't... nothing you could do about it. Research on the game's forums and Steam revealed it was a known problem they never bothered to fix. The advice was to start a new game and hope it doesn't happen again... lolwut? No, thanks.

Were it not for the bugs I guess it'd be ok-ish but I have zero tolerance for these kinds of development policies, e.g. not fixing known, game-breaking bugs.

That’s unfortunate. Like I said, I didn’t encounter that bug, so it sucks that it stopped your progress.

 

[Lhynn]

I found plenty of bugs in my run. The game was alright tho. A bit too long for my taste but at least the characters were fairly well done. Its one of those games you play when you have nothing good to play, like blackguards 1 or wasteland 2.

 

[vonAchdorf]

And it has an Inon Zur soundtrack.

 

[fantadomat]

I am surprised that this game had a DLC. From what i remember the game disappeared in to the mist of nothingness fast. The game was ok but the level design was boring as shit. I don't even remember why i dropped it. All remember was that there were some shitty sewers and some knight/paladin castle.

 

[DavidBVal]

I am surprised that this game had a DLC. From what i remember the game disappeared in to the mist of nothingness fast. The game was ok but the level design was boring as shit. I don't even remember why i dropped it. All remember was that there were some shitty sewers and some knight/paladin castle.

Very likely before release they took part of the content and split them into a DLC...

 

[Arkast]

i BOUGHT IT BECAUSE IT WAS SO CHEAP.

I'm waiting until 80% off! Not getting Aarkash Legacy'd again!

 

[ProphetSword]

i BOUGHT IT BECAUSE IT WAS SO CHEAP.

I'm waiting until 80% off! Not getting Aarkash Legacy'd again!

I wouldn't wait long. This is the final sale before it is removed from Steam forever (or so they say).

 

[DemonKing]

I played for a bit and thought like most people - not D&D but not completely terrible. I went off and did some other stuff for a while and came back to finish the game off only to find in every save my character avatars just all dropped through the floor and died a second after the reload.

Haven't encountered a bug that bad for a while...I'm assuming a patch ended up breaking my game saves. Can't say I want to really replay what I did get through again as it wasn't that much fun and I don't want to get killed off by the same bug again.

 

[Elex]

I played this game until somewhere mid game when I stopped due to a bug they never bothered to fix. There are plenty of bugs the devs never bothered to fix. The storage chest in your camp actually makes equipment you "store" in it disappear? Hahaha hilarious, right? Didn't fix it.
The MMO style boss fight can't be finished because after an add phase the boss just doesn't reappear? Well, known problem... never fixed it etc. Clearly a case of piece of shit development team.

The interface is like babbys first user interface, the engine is a horrendous pile of garbage (unity?), the graphics are good tho, loading times are atrocious, the character system (is this supposed to resemble dnd5?) is like a greatly dumbed-down version of some random MMO. I mean, it wasn't entirely unfun and I guess I would have finished it were it not for the bugs. Worse than Dungeon Siege 3.

Not sure what bugs you encountered, but I had a pretty smooth ride when I finished the game last year. Enjoyed it a great deal, too. Wasn’t the best D&D game of all time or anything, but also doesn’t deserve to be stacked in with the worst either.

of course we have stuff like the OFFICIAL cookie clicker D&D game, so it's hard to be the worst D&D game.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/627690/Idle_Champions_of_the_Forgotten_Realms/

 

[Mikeal]

Games was mediocre, but fuck expansion. Only thing got with this shit was giant, purple square in the middle of the screen (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=711198661) and worse performance, because my graphic card was outdated (but it didn't affect FPS output in clear original).

 

[Galdred]

I played this game until somewhere mid game when I stopped due to a bug they never bothered to fix. There are plenty of bugs the devs never bothered to fix. The storage chest in your camp actually makes equipment you "store" in it disappear? Hahaha hilarious, right? Didn't fix it.
The MMO style boss fight can't be finished because after an add phase the boss just doesn't reappear? Well, known problem... never fixed it etc. Clearly a case of piece of shit development team.

The interface is like babbys first user interface, the engine is a horrendous pile of garbage (unity?), the graphics are good tho, loading times are atrocious, the character system (is this supposed to resemble dnd5?) is like a greatly dumbed-down version of some random MMO. I mean, it wasn't entirely unfun and I guess I would have finished it were it not for the bugs. Worse than Dungeon Siege 3.

Not sure what bugs you encountered, but I had a pretty smooth ride when I finished the game last year. Enjoyed it a great deal, too. Wasn’t the best D&D game of all time or anything, but also doesn’t deserve to be stacked in with the worst either.

of course we have stuff like the OFFICIAL cookie clicker D&D game, so it's hard to be the worst D&D game.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/627690/Idle_Champions_of_the_Forgotten_Realms/

OMG, their licencing policy is even worse than I imagined...

 

[thesheeep]

I played this game until somewhere mid game when I stopped due to a bug they never bothered to fix. There are plenty of bugs the devs never bothered to fix. The storage chest in your camp actually makes equipment you "store" in it disappear? Hahaha hilarious, right? Didn't fix it.
The MMO style boss fight can't be finished because after an add phase the boss just doesn't reappear? Well, known problem... never fixed it etc. Clearly a case of piece of shit development team.

The interface is like babbys first user interface, the engine is a horrendous pile of garbage (unity?), the graphics are good tho, loading times are atrocious, the character system (is this supposed to resemble dnd5?) is like a greatly dumbed-down version of some random MMO. I mean, it wasn't entirely unfun and I guess I would have finished it were it not for the bugs. Worse than Dungeon Siege 3.

Not sure what bugs you encountered, but I had a pretty smooth ride when I finished the game last year. Enjoyed it a great deal, too. Wasn’t the best D&D game of all time or anything, but also doesn’t deserve to be stacked in with the worst either.

of course we have stuff like the OFFICIAL cookie clicker D&D game, so it's hard to be the worst D&D game.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/627690/Idle_Champions_of_the_Forgotten_Realms/

OMG, their licencing policy is even worse than I imagined...

It's not really a policy.
More a "we will let the pants down for anyone who wants to stick something inside".

 

[Arkast]

i BOUGHT IT BECAUSE IT WAS SO CHEAP.

I'm waiting until 80% off! Not getting Aarkash Legacy'd again!

I wouldn't wait long. This is the final sale before it is removed from Steam forever (or so they say).

Aha! I knew it. Gamebillet has it for $4.89, and an additional 5% off code (gb5off).

And I tried that Forgotten Realms clicker game. It's not that bad. Kept me up much longer than I wanted last night. Much longer than when I originally 'tried' Sword Coast Legends, in any case.

 

[DavidBVal]

If this game was not an official D&D title, and was instead released by an indie "inspired by 5e", it would have been praised here. It's a problem of expectations. We thought it would be NWN3, for ill or good; it ended up being a much weaker effort of a game and it made clear we'll never see again a D&D title that truly tries to break previous boundaries.

Meanwhile, the Marketing:

"BALDUR'S GATE BALDUR'S GATE!!"
"NEVERWIIIINTER NIIIIIIIIIIIIGHTS! NEVER WINTER N I G H T S!"
"DRAGON AGE ORIGINS, DRAGON AGE ORIGINS! DRAGONAGEORIGINSNEVERWINTERNIGHTSBALDUR'SGATE"

You: Sadly, it was a problem of expectations! People expected far too much for some nebulous reason~

I never said the reasons were nebulous, nor said they're not to blame for it. In addition to themarketing you mentioned, there's also the price tag (I can't remember exactly, but around $50 at release?). A more humble approach and selling it at $19 would have saved them a good portion of the negative reaction. We'd go "oh, so this is like a mini-NWN, meh" instead of all the rage.

 

[ArchAngel]

i BOUGHT IT BECAUSE IT WAS SO CHEAP.

I'm waiting until 80% off! Not getting Aarkash Legacy'd again!

Or you can get it for free from swedish highseamen. Don't give money to useless people that made or own SCL.

 

[Luzur]

Needs more tranny issues and random forced SJW

 

[Mustawd]

A postmortem of SCL by players and modders. Timestamped for relevant portion.

 

[sstacks]

felipepepe asked me to write a review of Sword Coast Legends for the CRPG Book Project. So I did.

 

[rohand]

Were the classes from the 5th already? I was under the impression it was from the dreaded 4th back then but maybe my perceptions were misaligned.

 

[sstacks]

Were the classes from the 5th already? I was under the impression it was from the dreaded 4th back then but maybe my perceptions were misaligned.

It was all 5th Edition stuff, although through the lens of their engine.

 

[Lhynn]

Were the classes from the 5th already? I was under the impression it was from the dreaded 4th back then but maybe my perceptions were misaligned.

Only thing that follows 5e closely is itemization.
Its actually a shame, could have been a hit.