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• gamedeal user

  Aug 8, 2023

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  Looks pretty, don't buy if you wanna act like a would-be-Sauron -knight, possible fun for fans of QTEs. Looks fantastic but combat and thus half of the game is painful for all the wrong reasons. You're a blacksmith's boy who doesn't know anything about anything beyond your home village, you start with zero experience on almost everything and you must practice to get good at anything. Yes, I get that. But when the combat system punishes you for trying to combat people, you know it's gonna be bad. To elaborate, if you try to attack an enemy and 80% of the time you're rewarded with a perfect counter on your face, there's no point in being an active participant. Just wait for your enemy to attack you, press Q at the right time and perform a counter on them instead. That's what the combat boils down to on higher levels. Or if you're against an enemy that's basically as useless as you are at the start of the game, they're probably gonna die in one or two hits. Fun. Using stealth is also a bit of a pain at the start as you're not actually as stealthy as you think. If you sneak up on a couple of sleeping people and stealth kill one of them while your stealth skill is relatively low, you're 100% gonna wake up everyone around you. Come back later with maxed out stealth and would you look at that, the exact same animations with the exact same sounds at the exact same volumes play but now you're completely fine. Diplomacy is also an option but the best it can do is skip a few combat sections, you're still stuck on the narrative train tracks laid before you but that's understandable in a game where your decisions have no actual impact on the story. The graphics are great though quite resource intensive. But boy howdy did I appreciate being able to see the light of a bandit's torch through a tent's fabric as I was trying to sneak through and away from said bandits. The DLCs offer some extra spice but not much new to what you'll see in the base game, except for rebuilding a certain town. Some of the cutscenes and interactions quests in general were hilarious as well. But I still want to punch Capon in the face myself. Yeah, I did enjoy some of my time with this game, about 30%, but most of the time was more about farming for XP and doing what to me felt more like a chore, 50% and the rest of the time was just frustration. Sure was fun to lose 5 hours of progress on Hardcore mode because I died from fall damage as I got off my horse while I didn't expect to die anytime soon as I didn't want to sleep in a bed half a map away, get nightmares (stat debuff on Hardcore mode), wait around for it to go away and then ride back to a mission while also not being able to use Savior Schnapps (yes, an actual consumable item you need to have in order to save without a bed) because I didn't want to level up my drinking skill too much in order to get sh*tfaced in one single quest I didn't essentially fail in my previous playthroughs. If that sentence feels like a chore to go through then you are not prepared to complete Kingdom Come. I'm sorry, there's some really good stuff like history, graphics, even actual real places (Warhorse even got the actual river by Rattay right) but man, half of what I can remember of this game are just all the grinding for levels but not the actual rewards.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 6, 2023

  The story, realistic combat and medieval setting is brilliant, but its such a shame there's constant head bobbing that you can't control every time our character does something, - picking up each item - sitting down, getting up - opening a door - jumping over a fence It all adds to a crazy amount of motion sickness. Excellent medieval game but beware if you suffer from motion sickness.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 8, 2023

  NO ENGLISO BUT GOOD GAME
• gamedeal user

  Aug 7, 2023

  I bought this with several DLCs at $9.99. After 5 hours I've already gotten my money's worth - this is my go-to game for playing Farkle (a dice gambling game). The game has gotten varied responses, but from what I could tell before buying it, it reminded me enough of Mount and Blade that I figured I really had nothing to lose giving it a try. This is an RPG. But it's historically based, and other than alchemy, doesn't have any of the common RPG elements. There aren't any mages or orcs - there is a lot of real-world history though. I got fair warning from one review that the first 7 hours of the game is very linear - you really cannot stray from the path the game holds you in at first. So I'm still in this sort of "tutorial" or "cinematic" mode, which can also be very challenging and cliff-hanger in places. I have no regrets, I've enjoyed the ride thus far. I'm hoping to get far enough in the plot to say "okay I think I get it" and then switch the whole game into German, to give my ear some good exercise at hearing German again. The game is historically not so accurate - but as I am and never have been much of a student of history, I'm happy just to learn about some historical figures, even if the game doesn't get things completely right. As far as the day-to-day medieval lifestyle depiction, this does a good job, as far as I can tell. But is it fun? Well so far, yes. It was very satisfying to, after getting my ass kicked by one of the first people I had to fight, to replay the game and first raise some money playing Farkle, and then buy a butchers knife with which I was able to go back and give him quite the lashing until he begged for mercy. Yeah... I think I could enjoy this! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3016242267 A lot of time is spent in cut-scenes, and the game starts very slowly, which can create a bit of a drag. There are also tons of Easter eggs which motivates me to try to talk to everybody as much as possible. If you're in a big hurry, this game is probably not for you. If you're very picky that everything be "just so" - nope, not for you. But I get the feeling that if you, like me, are open to letting the game tell its own story, there is something here that is going to pay off. As I spend more time and let the story unfold in front of me, I'm willing to give the game this chance.
• crstnsantosb

  Aug 8, 2023

  I liked the story of the game
• gamedeal user

  Aug 7, 2023

  A really beautiful medieval world with a newfangled ugly combat system without a guide. During my first gaming experience years ago and after a few hours I gave up in frustration because I didn't like the combat system. Recently got back to the game and after a thorough read up I have no more problems. What is missing here is a game manual. No, not this incomplete ingame frustration. If you come up with something completely new, then maybe you should let the target group know about it? Even if I win every fight, it is still not clear what this or that push of a button or multiple pushes of a button does. Precisely because there is so much animation taking place in which you have an influence with the press - or not - I don't know! Time windows for a targeted press simply cannot be found and a wild clicker ensues. Intention? No idea! The combat system is still shit. For people who depend on a controller, hardcore should be unplayable. In normal mode, for example, it is still displayed when an opponent attacks outside of the field of view and you have to block. That's not the case in hardcore. Switching opponents in a targeted manner to keep track of things is impossible with the controller. It only gets more terrible later with main quest bugs, variables in texts that are not assigned, triggered quests that you didn't even start but someone who was relevant to the quest addressed. Quests that you only come across when you are already so rich that doing them makes no sense at all apart from the story and after more than 100 hours of play the first random CTD appeared, which destroy the immersion due to the shitty save system. The best bug, however, is the one with all the stolen things in my inventory, although I bought them all. I have no idea how many times my property has been flagged as stolen. Fluency in speech and charisma meanwhile enable me to avoid being incarcerated by the guards - but that wasn't always the case and out of sheer frustration it has now and then ended in Rattay's genocide... I don't feel like it anymore...
• gamedeal user

  Feb 16, 2018

  You're gonna hear a lot of mixed reports regarding this game - some that have performance issues, and some that don't; some that like the gameplay, and some that don't; some that stand by the save system, and some that don't. The truth is though that there is no definitive answer as to how well it'll play until you play it - which is why Steam's refund system exist. If you don't have problems, then great! But I'd highly recommend giving it a try if you like the sound of the premise. In any case, I think the most helpful review I can give is one that reminds you of what this game IS, rather than what some would wish it to be, and reminds you that the technical problems aren't universal. Kingdom Come is an immersive first-person RPG set in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) in the 14th century. You play the peasant son of a village blacksmith during a period of political unrest. The opportunistic Sigismund wages war against his half-brother, the hedonistic king Wenceslas IV, and the people of the kingdom are unwillingly swept up in the feud. The story itself is masterfully executed, and while the voice acting can be hit and miss at times, the main characters are all largely well-cast, and along with the direction of the cutscenes maintain a fantastic emotional resonance that really invests you in the narrative. The developers have aimed towards realism and immersion in a fashion I've never before seen attempted. The clothing, weapons, buildings, amenities, and fighting styles are all period-accurate, as is the gorgeous soundtrack which is performed by Czech musicians. As you explore the world you unlock pages and pages of lore and information that educate you about the period, the place, its people, and the players in the story, and the loving commitment to the design philosophy is more than evident. Which is why personally I can confidently give a pass to any kinds of rough-edges that I have experienced. While some have had crippling gameplay issues, and in that case I would understand their frustration, I haven't experienced anything of the sort. It's not perfectly optimised, but it's also an indie game and massively ambitious, so I expected a bit of this. In saying that, I haven't had any particularly nasty issues with the frame-rate, or any CPU bottlenecking, which is interesting considering I'm playing on a years-old i7, and better-polished games like Watch Dogs 2 were utterly unplayable for that reason. I'm confident that when the dev team say they're not getting much sleep at the moment, they're serious - this game has gotten far more attention than many of the team's oeuvre, and if you've played something like ARMA 2, which to this day is still a buggy, idiosyncratic, but loveable mess, you should be pretty well-acquainted with something a lot more rough than what I think they've delivered here. Yes, the combat can be clunky, but it works. Yes, the save system is intentionally inconvenient, but you can sleep to save, and it's not that hard. Yes, some of the animation is a bit wonky, but it's not all the animation, and it's not game-breaking. Yes, there are bugs and some up-and-down frame-rates, but they fulfilled every single stretch goal they listed on their Kickstarter to the letter - they were responsible with the money that was given to them - so I have a feeling their promises that the next patch will come in a fortnight and that these problems will be fixed in time are genuine. Others might disagree, but I think it needs to be taken into consideration that this isn't EA you're dealing with, it's an indie dev that has a clear love for the game they've made. And I'm not saying the people complaining are wrong, but I have not had many of the issues that I've heard talked about. But I've already spent more time than I'd like to talking about issues that I think are way overblown. Kingdom Come is an RPG unlike any you can buy today. The branching questlines, and the character depth, and the commitment to the period and the story gives the game so much life. The people judge you on your appearance - whether you're dressed well, whether you're covered in dirt, or blood. Bring a sword to a fist-fight and your opponents will panic. Spot a bandit from afar in a rain storm and instead of bum-rushing you, he'll stand there warily calling out for you to identify yourself. Come closer, and he might attack. Wear dark clothes at night and you're harder to spot. Keep food on you too long and it'll spoil; eat it and you'll poison yourself. Beat down on someone and their face will swell and bruise. Sleeping will restore your health but make you hungry, get too hungry and your stomach will start to rumble and you'll lose stamina; starve yourself and you might die (which is why coming across a castle feast feels like a feast). If you start to get too tired, your vision will swim and your eyes close. Steal a little too regularly and the city guard will start stopping you for spot checks because word is getting round that you're shifty. Items seem expensive at first, because some things are out of reach to a peasant, which is why you'll find yourself pickpocketing, or inclined towards stealing. And it's after I criticised someone for looting corpses, and then had the accusation thrown right back in my face because I had done the exact same thing that I realised that this game wasn't going to let things like that slip through the cracks. So now when I plan on taking something I'm not supposed to take, or going somewhere I'm not supposed to go, I shut doors behind me so no-one can see, and make sure no-one's around when I slip in; I don't know for a fact that I'm going to get punished for being seen to enter the guardhouse illegally, because I didn't get immediately punished for accidentally walking into someone's private room, but I FEEL like the punishment for entering the guardhouse is going to be markedly higher, and in a game as intelligently made as this, it probably will be. And this doesn't feel burdonsome, it feels reactive. It doesn't make you feel like you're constantly up against the ropes - it's not a chore to attend to your needs or to conform to the rules of the world, it simply feels logical. Sadly, I bought this game during a week of early starts and late finishes, and I'm just dying to dive back into it. But I thought I'd write this review up quickly first, because there's a lot of confusing rhetoric flying around. This is the first full-price game I've bought in years, and I don't regret it one iota. Kingdom Come isn't perfect, and I can't guarantee that your experience is going to fall on one side of the fence or the other. But if it doesn't work or you just can't bear it, then refund it. For everyone else, I highly recommend giving this a shot. If you like the premise, chances are you might love the game.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 25, 2023

  Remember Oblivion? Not the gameplay, not the plot, but the feeling you had when you first got out of the sewer. This is the first real rpg in a long time who reminds me of this.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 22, 2020

  After 80 hours of gameplay ( 100 hours Steam record) I finished Main story + DLCs and many side quests. (I finished it only once so I don't know the game perfectly, so take my review with discretion) Game...is buggy (even 2 years after release), I some times had to restart game or restart missions to fix bug, but it wasn't very often. STORY is amazing if you go only for main story it will be maybe little bit fast, but storytelling is great, it's interesting from the start to the end. Even side characters have interesting story and missions. For me the Funniest mission was Mysterious Ways . Open world it's very detailed, every house have interior, every village has it's life. NPSs has it's own regime, the wake up, go to work or to tavern and do something and at the night they goes to sleep. You will want to explore all of it and yo, there is many of it to explore. Somebody may not like the game for its MECHANICS, those are very characteristic for this game and yea...they are hard to control from the start, sword fight or hand to hand combat, you will hate the game from the start, but after you manage to learn and control this mechanics you will enjoy whole game. REALISM... you need to eat, drink, sleep, you can get drunk you can poison yourself from rotten food. This is great and from the start you will be scary from getting hungry or tired. Realism in fighting, 1v5 fight you have no change to win it, only if you have heavy armor and those five enemies are peasants. If you want other kind of adventure, this game have lots of challenging achievements. Overall I love this game and I enjoyed my time playing this game. This game isn't for everybody but I think it's game worth try. This game isn't something we see here every day and I think it's piece of art, but even the art isn't perfect. My score: 8.5/10 (if you finished reading here, then thanks you for reading my review of the game Kingdom Come: Deliverance)
• gamedeal user

  Oct 28, 2020

  I suppose, if this review required a title, it would be: Realism vs Believability I always dreamt of a massive RPG that tried to realistically emulate real life aspects of late Medieval/early Renaissance times – and here it is in the flesh. But realism is just a word, right?Even the most realistic game – and Kingdom Come is definitely the most realistic 3D game I’ve ever played – is choke-full of conditionality. You heal slower than in most games, but you still heal overnight. You can get lost in a vast forest on hardcore difficulty where there are no markers, but it’s still only five minutes across on foot. You can fence with all the shaky camera immersion, but you are still not in control of your entire body. But it doesn’t matter. Because any artform is smoke and mirrors in the end. It’s not about realism – it’s about whether it’s believable. The player has to believe it’s like real life. And when it comes to believability, this game has no peer. Look at the landscapes of modern RPGs. You can see a few landmarks from each point of the map. Colors are vibrant, everything is set so that the player doesn’t get bored on the journey (the journey he’s likely to never take or take only once because of fast travel, but that’s besides the point). Kingdom Come is green during the day, grey during the rain and black during the night. It has paths that look the same, it has fields that roll across the horizon, it has streams that murmur gently and samely, and… It’s real. It’s actually not, because it’s so small you can’t really talk about a big world of any kind, but it feels real. Where in any other game a bandit camp would be marked by all sorts of signs like Shrek’s swamp, here it’s just a few small oddly twisted twigs on tree trunks along the path. In reality it would be like hanging up a neon sign: “HERE BE MERRY MEN”. By videogame standards it’s almost unnoticeable. Or take the protagonist. A countryside simpleton – unrefined and dumb. Not stupid, not dim – just dumb. The game goes out of its way to show how much of a child he still is. As the plot progresses he slowly turns into his lord’s very own “human can-opener”©, a pragmatic down-to-the-ground problem-solver, not cruel by nature but not averse to using violence as a tool. In real life such transitions last years if not decades. Here it only takes a few weeks. But we see this process, it unfolds before our very eyes, and so we believe in it. And Henry’s reaction to the plot twist. No spoilers here. People say: “he should be angry, why isn’t he?!” But would he be – in real life? That’s the thing: he could be, and he could be not. But by not being angry he looks far more believable than he would otherwise. Take the plot. Assassin's creed taught us that historical games are those where you meet at least a dozen prominent figures of the depicted period and get involved into the biggest of events. Nope - says Kingdom Come - a historical game is the one where you get immersed. And immersion is far more than just meeting cool people. Apart from Sigismund, there's pretty much no-one of international renown that Henry encounters. That's believable. I can only assume they are going to continue the story into proto-Reformational Hussite wars, so I suppose, historical events will be far more present and big in the next few installments, but still. But then there is combat. And – believe it or not – combat in Kingdom Come is not believable. It’s realistic. Let me explain. Now, local combat system got a lot of flak from the uninitiated and the uncaring, but not only from them, and the reasons to this aforementioned flak are more complex than it might seem. I would describe my relationship with it as consisting of four phases: first, I didn’t understand it, then I loved it while being bad at it, then I hated it while thinking I got good at it, and finally I accepted it for what it was and thus truly learnt it. Phase one. Being the village oaf that you are, you can’t fight anything, and it’s only through a lot of trial and error that you begin to present even a fraction of a threat to a desperate armed peasant. Here is where people not keen on putting themselves in drop off, claiming that combat is awful. Phase two. Soon enough, you discover that captain Bernard is the best man in all of Bohemia. Because he can teach you combat. Every day. All day. You can spar, and through sparring you will actually level up your fighting skills! You know, like in real life? I cannot stress enough, how good this design decision is! You can literally lose yourself in the sparring arena for days, advancing your weapon mastery, kicking captain’s buttock and getting your buttock kicked, learning combos, feeling proud if you managed to pull off one of those on your ultraskilled teacher. And then… Phase three. You start getting into fights. And that’s where all of your knowledge about combat that Bernard taught you washes away. Because this game’s system is built for duels, and even two versus one is already a problem. Enemies have no honor. They will spam left mouse button on you if they flank you with no hesitation. You will be lucky if you manage to pull a single combo at the beginning of the fight – before you have to feverishly block, reposition and chop out of harm’s way with little rhyme or reason. It’s utterly frustrating. And even when you get to fight actual duels with a skilled opponent, they can interrupt your fancy combos at any given time with master strikes. Woe… Utter woe… @#%$ this game! Phase four. And then it hits you. It’s not a tournament we’re talking about. It’s a dirty, nasty fight to the death! So put your opponent between yourself and his archer friend! Pincushion them with arrows from afar! Take advantage of your horse and fight from the saddle! Sneak on them and do terrible things to them from the shadows! Reenact that scene from Pasolini’s Oedipus Rex! Pretend to give up and attack suddenly! Buy the Woman’s Lot DLC and let slip the dog of war! Combo-loving posers don’t live long. Win by clinch. Win by feints. Win by treachery. Win by brains. For better or worse, Kingdom Come’s combat is not believable, it’s literally like real life. All is fair, and no quarter will be given. I suspect there is a phase five where you discover a meta, but I probably won’t get to that, neither do I care. This progression – from an absolute zero – to an eager beginner – to a cocky graduate – to a cocky graduate who’s been handed his bottom line to – to a fully functional man of war – is the best thing this game has to offer. And trust me – everything else it offers is very good, because every system here is designed to be unique, believable and fully synergetic with other systems. Kingdom Come is the game I love for its flaws. And that’s because where its design principle is believability, its biggest flaw is actual realism. I think I applaud. PS That English translation of characters' names though... Jindřich turning into a generic Henry... Right... PPS Also, if approached really slowly, this game gives off a certain feeling. I don't rightly know how best to describe it. I suppose, I only really had it one other time in my gaming experience - when I was playing Gothic as a child, so maybe it's just a personal thing and shows how much I am fond of this game. I would call it a "surrogate Heideggerian Feldweg feeling". As in: not quite the real deal, but as close as a game can take us. I don't know, maybe any massive RPG can evoke this feeling, but I love The Witcher 3, and it didn't give me that, nor did Oblivion, which was my first TES game, and those who know, know how much a first TES game can mean to a person- no matter which one it is. I don't know. It's probably personal. I thought it might be a curious observation anyway.