I'm enjoying the callbacks to the Gothics…
A domed city, a lighthouse full of thieves and king's sorrel!
… but some people… what?
Anyway, did anyone find "XY was here" note? I wonder which game that XY is from.
… but some people… what?
Anyway, did anyone find "XY was here" note? I wonder which game that XY is from.
Grinding and rush to power isn't the best approach for such game. Exploration is the best part and if the thrill of danger mostly disappear because you can kill almost anything, then exploration lost a lot of its charm.
This is one of the very strong points of G2 at least in some parts. And that's why I enjoyed FO3 because I could reproduced it a bit with deep exploring before character becomes too strong. For now it seems Elex is just at another level, so cool on exploring, so many thrilling exploration to do, many quests leading you in dangerous areas.
Better not level up and power up too fast and lost this fun. :
Another surprise in the game dealt with all those notes and journals you find through out the game world. I found a nice little place in the mountains to relax and go through my inventory. As I was reading and clicking through all the notes and journals I was getting 10 experience points for each read through. I never noticed it before because the notification fonts are too light to notice reading those messages when they are by themselves (at least for me). But when I was going through the 50 plus notes and journals, the experience reward notifications were clearly visible (10 for notes, 20 for journals). So make sure you take a moment to go through those messages, there might be some points coming your way.
My little review/impressions after 70 hours. Nothing too serious, just penned it quickly, and it mostly talks about the various features I find interesting in it, with a few flaws in there as well.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/fluent2332/recommended/411300
Informative review, Fluent!
Elex really has me intrigued, given the positive response by the many frequent Watchers. I'm not too bothered by the relatively janky animations, but a hand crafted world with no level scaling is already a huge plus.
I'm terribly tempted.
Explore her story and you'll find out more about her. They actually took the time to explain that stuff.Does she have a death-wish!? I only managed to recruit her recently by jetting away to a distant location and sniping at the huge monster we were 'fighting together' with fireballs…melee was near instant death. She went down very quickly. She seems to think she's hot stuff with a sword - well, news flash for you Nasty, you're actually quite crap She always goes down quickly - the Outlaw guy seems better actually. Now I just returned to camp and she whisked me away to fight two giant Cyclops creatures …which she promptly charged (she's supposed to be a strategic genius too…) It did not end well…I tried to flee and ran into a pack of some nasty raptor creatures. sigh. When I reload I'll avoid moving near her in the camp ;-)
It's definitely worth it if you're into it for the exploration, lack of level-scaling and overall slow progression curve. It's a PB game through and through and probably their highest quality and most polished one yet, so if that means anything to you then there you go. I'd say it's up there, if not surpassing Gothic 1 & 2 and Risen 1 for me.
It's like Risen 1 set in a huge hand-crafted world pretty much.