Recent reviews by hexentwerk

greed

This is a game you had to pay full price, the expansions cost money, they basically force you to subscribe because they artificially create issues for the player (like bank space for crafting) you can only solve by creating tons of alt characters as banks or buying their subscription and almost all customization is locked behind real money paywalls. Even worse, its behind paid "crown crates" aka loot boxes, casinos, scams, lottery, non-metaphorically burning bank notes.
After many, many years they added "seals" you can earn a measly amount of daily and weekly.. after 1k hours recorded on steam I still had not enough to buy any of the apex/rarest mounts. It has all the predatory tactics of a F2P game except its not free.

Go play FFXIV instead, it also has a subscription but you earn all the colorful, eccentric and well-designed mounts, gear, titles and whatnot with grind and ingame money or just quests. The ffxiv real money shop is a joke compared to what you earn without paying real money, whereas with ESO the opposite is the case. Additionally, the ffxiv playerbase is far less toxic and angry.

The Fallout series has more fun scifi weapons and variety than this actual scifi game. Fallout has ALIENS! little grey/green aliens!! What does Starfield have? Humans, stinky normal humans and some small amount of weird animals, mostly harmless critters with no distinguishing qualities. The terrormorph is the singular exception but in 100 hours I've encountered it ONCE.

Space travel is supposed to be a thing of course but its less of a travelling in space and more like a space fast travel simulator. It plays pretty much like the carriage "system" in Skyrim, but it looks like a space carriage.

Atleast they made the protagonist mute again after their mistake with Fallout 4 and allow for more than 3 dialogue options excluding the sarcastic clown option...
Even though its a story based RPG theres not a whole lotta RP. Evil or even morally grey is barely a thing if anything the "morally grey" here is quite family friendly. Disney movies are more emotionally traumatizing and grim than this.

Actually, the lack of weapon variety isnt so bad. The colony wars of course took place in the past and arent part of the game and if you join the crimson nice guys you end up having almost no enemies. Now dont go thinking you can just attack the innocent goodie two shoes majority, your moral compass companion clones absolutely aint having any of that video game stuff

idgaf about the items, insane OST like these are worth supporting

Dragon Age: Veilguard made by the same studio that had created superb RPG in the past called Bioware is a beautiful role-playing game with a well-written and exciting story and distinguishable and complex characters set in a world that feels connected and immersive. It has challenging puzzles and combat requiring a tactical approach, exploiting enemy weaknesses as well as keeping your companions alive in order for you to succeed. The environment is sublime and the VFX pimped to the maximum. The performance stable and smooth on the high default preset for me. (i7-12700K, 8 gb RTX 2060 super)

-10/10

The last 1/3 of the "story" is pretty rushed and inconsistent;plot/leads stop abruptly with no conclusion, but the gameplay is fantastic and prolly its selling point. The combat, the pawns, travelling, exploring and collecting are fun. A pity that DD 1 has had insanely cool magic with no equal pretty much, while in DD2 they rather made a bazillion steps back..
The amount of content compared to its predecessor make DD2 seem as though a demo version. Somehow you can still manage to get >300 hours of joy out of it so..
Worth it.

Game breaking bugs, spaghetti code, a lot of items and abilities don't work. In 6 months when they fixed their FR game again it will be an amazing 40k cRPG but until then thumbs down

Solid game like their previous Divinity releases, but feels more like a Divinity 3 with dnd setting.

I wish PB's rpg would feature character customization or optional female protagonists but their games are amazing nonetheless.

was worth it alone for the silly romance and dialogues

too few updates for the mess it is. could be such an amazing game like mordheim is..