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Game News The Age of Decadence Released

Quatlo

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i shiver and sweat profusely each time i spend skill points in this game

WHAT IF I END UP NEEDING THEM 5 MINUTES LATER?!
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I finished the game with 140 unspent general skillpoints.
I guess metagamer in me is just too stronk.
 

Zeriel

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I finished the game with 140 unspent general skillpoints.
I guess metagamer in me is just too stronk.

For all the talk of the game being punishing, some of the later checks are pretty lenient. I think the area design might have benefitted from making the beginning more forgiving and the middle and late game less so, you really have to scrounge points to get past the first few checks and then once you hit Maadoran suddenly the difficulty falls away.
 

GloomFrost

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Completed the game as a loremaster. Great ending, lots of choices, didnt have to fight once (I would have died straight away anyway lol). Any ideas on how to make a "drifter" character build. I try to separate points between streetwise, stealing and critical strike but needless to say I dont have nearly enough of them so I die..... A LOT.
 

Zeriel

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Completed the game as a loremaster. Great ending, lots of choices, didnt have to fight once (I would have died straight away anyway lol). Any ideas on how to make a "drifter" character build. I try to separate points between streetwise, stealing and critical strike but needless to say I dont have nearly enough of them so I die..... A LOT.

Drifter can enter pretty much any faction/storyline, so you have to decide which you want to plump for (or betray them all, but still, general idea of choosing an archetype applies). It might help to think as Drifter as the ultimate "expert character generation mode" rather than a background/storyline of its own, the main merit is you get more customizability at chargen, other than that I haven't seen anything that other playthroughs can't individually see.
 

Vault Dweller

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Never been called a hipster before.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/230070/discussions/0/490123197943449365/#p5

Kasseopea said:
Vince said:
Kasseopea said:
Oh, really? It was not true for older ES games like let's say Oblivion, who everyone praised high and above?
Not everyone, I assure you.
Hipsters gonna hipster. It had a massive world that actually changed, you could create your own spells, you had a complete other dimension, creative sidequests and tons of secrets. The only people who disliked it were the ones who were to busy whining about casuals ruining gaming and how it wasn't hardcore enough.

It allowed roleplay, but the player had to be mature enough to restrict himself, rather than the game punching him in the face each time he didn't. Yes, you could become the Archmage-Ultrawarrior-Megaassassin of doom +3. Yes, you could build a weapon with which you better not stumble, cause if it hits the ground, the planet will probably burst into fire. But it was up to the player whether he did it or not. I for once roleplayed as a man of virtues and honor, so i simply swatted off the Dark Brotherhood and the Grey Fox.
 

VentilatorOfDoom

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i shiver and sweat profusely each time i spend skill points in this game

WHAT IF I END UP NEEDING THEM 5 MINUTES LATER?!
I always saved up skillpoints until I needed them to proceed.

But it was up to the player whether he did it or not. I for once roleplayed as a man of virtues and honor, so i simply swatted off the Dark Brotherhood and the Grey Fox.
This is quality role-playing. Especially if he also wore clothes fitting to this archetype.
 
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Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire
Arena Champion is a tough bitch to kill.
Nearly can't block anything ever with 9 block, can't survive pass 3rd turn because of that and poison.
I can't even defeat the third enemy with his fucking crossbow. :cry:
At least the first two were surprisingly forgiving for an all blocking skilled (otherwise talker) character.
 
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Zeriel

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More rewarding than actually releasing a game.

It's certainly a purer and more platonic pursuit. Reading through that review, I'm reminded of your love of Daggerfall, and debating it with you back in the early 2000's. If you had an unlimited budget and could credibly make a first person RPG, would you aspire to the perfect evolution of Daggerfall, kind of like Age of Decadence started out as the evolution of a Fallout-like game? Or are the early TES games now a guilty pleasure?
 

Vault Dweller

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It's certainly a purer and more platonic pursuit. Reading through that review, I'm reminded of your love of Daggerfall, and debating it with you back in the early 2000's. If you had an unlimited budget and could credibly make a first person RPG, would you aspire to the perfect evolution of Daggerfall, kind of like Age of Decadence started out as the evolution of a Fallout-like game? Or are the early TES games now a guilty pleasure?
I still love Daggerfall but my preference as a developer isn't procedurally generated content but hand-scripted storytelling so I can't imagine evolving Daggerfall, even hypothetically. Same goes for Dungeon Master and Grimrock. I loved LoG2 but it's not the kind of game I would ever consider making.
 

Kz3r0

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Your wish has come true. Darth Roxor has been granted the honor of writing the (first) official Codex AoD review.
Here the leaked draft:
Age of Decline is a CYOA visual novel with shitty teletransport between places of interest, the game is also horribly unbalanced and combat is feasible only through heavy metagaming.
For so called roleplaying the only options are to be shafted, screwed up or fucked over not that it's matter your build will be always underdeveloped and you can't accomplish much either way.
5/10 won't play again, Shadowrun: Hong Kong is better.
 

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Divinity: Original Sin Divinity: Original Sin 2
I hope at one point in this game I'll discover a blaster and start mowing down all the heavy armor clad shitheads with zero combat skill points invested.
 

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