Game News The Age of Decadence Released

[Namutree]

I must admit, playing a full combat hammer guy is absolutely hilarious.

I yell IT'S CLOBBERING TIME! each time I enter a fight.

I was fortunate enough to make my first pc an all-out combat character. It is more amusing being stronger than everyone in this game than in most RPG games for some reason.

On a side note: I don't know how hard it is to be a hybrid, but as a full combat pc I wrecked the game pretty handily. Everyone has been talking about how hard the game is, but I haven't found it to challenging. It seems all you have to do is really focus on a single type of main pc. This tactic works in most RPG games in general so for such a vanilla tactic to be all that is needed to to wreck this game I'd hardly call it a challenging RPG imo. It's not super easy, but it's also not the masochistic punish fest I was hoping for. I still like the game well enough despite it being a bit too easy for my taste.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I was fortunate enough to make my first pc an all-out combat character. It is more amusing being stronger than everyone in this game than in most RPG games for some reason.

It's even more rewarding because you fucking EARN it.

 

[Irenaeus II]

despite it being a bit too easy for my taste.

Try this:

Best way to play is still without tags and ironman.

 

[Stompa]

It is more amusing being stronger than everyone in this game than in most RPG games for some reason.

Overpowering everything after you've spent assload of time scrounging for points as a hybrid is THE shit in AoD.

 

[Lurker King]

Best way to play is still without tags.

How?

 

[Irenaeus II]

How?

Elhoim

 

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

I think dificulty level of the game is from what I heard:

Easy peasy: Talker character
Medium: Combat character
Hard: Hybrid Character, Crafting-less Combat
Very Hard: Hybrid craftingless. Try it In Iron Man for supreme hardness.

 

[Johannes]

So, I've been playing with this game for a good 7-8 hours now, and it is amazing how different it feels than other cRPGs. I'm running with a full talky-talky loremaster, with alchemy and crafting skills, so I'm not doing any fights. It's strange, like I'm playing an adventure game. Talking to people, finding stuff to use on machines, avoiding any confrontation. Also it has one of the best examples of doing skillcheck in games ever. When I fail a persuasion check for example, most of the time the conversations continue and there are other opportunities to pass the checks with different skills, trading, or streetwise etc.

Good stuff so far.

One question: when I see dialogue options which have 2 skills attached to them (persuasion-trading for example). Does that mean that I have to beat a skill check for either of them or I have to beat the combined value for the 2 skills?

A talky-talky playthrough is basically a CYOA with stats, there's plenty of those around. Just because it isn't like other cRPGs doesn't mean it's unique.

 

[Irenaeus II]

It's unique.

 

[Lurker King]

A talky-talky playthrough is basically a CYOA with stats, there's plenty of those around. Just because it isn't like other cRPGs doesn't mean it's unique.

A CYOA with stats, and skills, and the ridiculous amount of reactivity and top notch writing of AoD? I’m in! Where?

 

[Irenaeus II]

inb4 follow me down this alley

 

[Lurker King]

 

[Stompa]

A CYOA with stats, and skills, and the ridiculous amount of reactivity and top notch writing of AoD? I’m in! Where?

Long Live The Queen.

 

[Irenaeus II]

Long Live The Queen.

I know anime was a mistake, but isn't that considered an unique game by weeaboos?

 

[Lurker King]

Long Live The Queen.

Rule the world or die trying!

Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.

This sounds like shit for me!

 

[Stompa]

Stop being so ageist you shitlord

 

[Irenaeus II]

This sounds like shit for me!

 

[hivemind]

Long live the Queen is pretty kawaii.

I played it for a few hours when it was released and remember it being pretty fun.

 

[Lurker King]

Stop being so ageist you shitlord

At least "Long live the animu" it's more a cRPG than a lot of assumed cRPGs. Happy now?

 

[Lurker King]

CYOAs are all cRPGs!

 

[Mozg]

I played LLtQ until I beat it once as a vaguely lesbo wizard, which took like 30 minutes for some failed attempts and 30 for the winning run and I've never reinstalled it since. Thieves' Guild reminded me of it, as in you miss checks and instantly die a lot.

I liked Commercium and a talky Praetor for skill check characters. Generally pretty redundant and there is a lot of soft failure, good for one quick fun playthrough. If I'd bought the game expecting those to be the mainstay of the game I probably woulda been let down. I preferred the more systemic stuff with combatlads and hybrids.

 

[~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-AIN'T]

Hard: Crafting-less Combat

Nah, alchemy and to a lesser extent CS are just as viable as crafting for a full combat dude so they would be medium too.

Very Hard: Hybrid craftingless. Try it In Iron Man for supreme hardness.

Agreed but also alchemyless (though crafting is slightly better for hybrids due to its use in dialogue checks).

 

[Johannes]

Long Live the Queen is one, though the mood management makes the gameplay better than a CYOA where you just gain and assign skillpoints like in AoD. So playing the metagame requires you to think and not just save/reload.


Lone Wolf CYOA books also have stats, and also a (very simplistic) combat system, now you can play them on a computer http://www.projectaon.org/staff/david/index.php

Here's also wild west one, used to be free when I played it, but maybe they've also expanded it when putting it for sale: http://store.steampowered.com/app/375130/

A lot of them here, quality may vary
https://www.choiceofgames.com/category/our-games/

 

[Irenaeus II]

You have got to be kidding.

 

[hivemind]

CYOAS > RPGs like PoE