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  • RPG of the year?

    From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Thu Sep 26 19:17:54 2019
    On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 6:21:20 AM UTC-8, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On Mon, 1 Jan 2018 07:47:00 -0800, Justisaur <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 1/1/2018 6:06 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 22:55:18 -0800 (PST), T987654321

    I vote for Elex.

    Sure the gameplay is a bit iffy and the graphics are dated, but it is
    a sci-fi re-interpretation of the old Gothic games, and that's good
    enough for me.

    OOh! Well, now another one to get, being a huge Fallout fan. $33 on
    sale on steam right now. Very tempting. I wasn't too much into Gothic >though, so I'm not too sure.

    This might not be the game for you. The game's world is open (and
    often as wonderfully unforgiving) as Gothic's, and has a similar
    classless leveling mechanic, which allows you to mold your character
    to your play-style. The jetpack is great and makes exploring a lot of
    fun. But its combat is also very reminiscent of Gothic 3 (with its
    awful propensity for stun-locking you to death) and it looks like it
    is using the same 10-year old graphic engine. Its story isn't much to
    write home about either, and while its world is nicely interactive its
    NPCs aren't very well fleshed out.

    If you enjoyed the Gothic series, Elex is great. But if Gothic - and especially Gothic 3 - were not your cup-o-tea, then Elex is not going
    to win you over.

    Now it's on sale for 16.49

    More tempting.

    -Justsaur

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Sep 27 10:55:51 2019
    On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 19:17:54 -0700 (PDT), Justisaur
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 6:21:20 AM UTC-8, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On 1/1/2018 6:06 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    I vote for Elex.
    Sure the gameplay is a bit iffy and the graphics are dated, but it is
    a sci-fi re-interpretation of the old Gothic games, and that's good
    enough for me.
    If you enjoyed the Gothic series, Elex is great. But if Gothic - and
    especially Gothic 3 - were not your cup-o-tea, then Elex is not going
    to win you over.

    Now it's on sale for 16.49
    More tempting.

    Can I retract my original recommendation? I think I wrote it after
    only a few hours of play.

    By the time I had gotten to the end of the game, my opinion on the
    game had significantly changed. I actually had to go back and check my
    archives to make sure that I had written the above (and somebody
    hadn't used my name in vain) because it is so in opposition to my
    current opinion.

    I am a big fan of the Gothic series, but Elex was extremely
    disappointing. It was unimaginative, buggy and thoroughly
    unsatisfying. On the face of it, it should have been great - it
    followed Gothic's formula pretty closely - but in actuality it was one
    of the most disappointing games I've played. It's an extremely shallow
    game; its characters are one-note, the world is under-developed and nonsensical, its classes and weapons unexciting. Add into that the
    usual problems that plague Piranha Bytes titles - especially the
    cumbersome combat and dated visuals - and there's not much to
    recommend about Elex.

    Don't be tempted by the low price. Spend your money on something
    better (or just go back and play Gothic 2 again ;-)

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