Playtime: 51 Hours
Score: 9/10
A fantastic RPG that I absolutely loved playing through and felt satisfied when the credits rolled! So in terms of my history with Spiders, I played Bound by Flame back in the day and did not like it at all, despite some good ideas it had and when I saw mixed reviews for The Technomancer, I skipped it (however, I will be giving that one a shot now that I played this). This game however, did catch my eye and it reviewed well enough that I wanted to at least try it, and when I saw it on Gamepass I decided to download it.
I really do mean that this is a fantastic game, despite some limitations Spiders had with only having a AA game budget and not a AAA one. When studios I used to love like Bethesda, Bioware and CDPR are out making games that are either online focused, live service or buggy messes at launch, I look more and more to the double AA RPG devs, to give me those single player, compelling titles. Games like Outer Worlds, Wasteland 3 and now Greedfall have done this for me! Greedfall will instantly feel familiar to gamers who love some of Bioware's older games like Dragon Age Origins and Mass Effect, and I believe Spiders themselves wanted to make a game that felt a lot like those titles, kind of like how Obsidan wanted to make a Bethesda style RPG with Outer Worlds and succeeded IMO.
In terms of what I liked, Greedfall has such a interesting world with some compelling factions and storytelling. that I just loved exploring it all and completing every quest I could find! The game does have a reputation system which I think is one of my favorites since Fallout New Vegas, where you have to manage your reputation with each faction and companion, and see how they react to your decisions. My ideal RPG will always have a system like this, and I'm glad this game had it. Combat was clunky at first, but once I got the hang of it, I enjoyed it a lot and I like how you can make your character a two class hybrid, similar to Kingdoms of Amalur which did the same thing. Voice acting was excellent across the board and the writing was really superb!
As for the bad, the game does have some annoying jank, again due to a limited budget. While the three cities look great, interiors like your three different houses in the game look identical to each other. There's also a lot of annoying invisible walls, which can be frustrating and can break immersion for me. While the games does allow you to make meaningful choices throughout the story, the game does put you in autopilot, meaning that your character speaks for you a lot of the time. Generally in a quest for example, your character will speak most of the time and only at the end do you get to make a choice. That is disappointing, but the choices you do make, do have real impact so at least there's that. These things are minor in the grand scheme of things, and I can look past it, if the things I personally find important in a game are of a high quality, which this game delivers on for me.
While I played this game through gamepass, I will still be buying it on Steam to add to my library, so I can play it again. I also went and bought the De Vespe Conspiracy DLC, because I just wanted more of this game. For the cheap price that there selling it for, its definitely worth it as it adds a new region, new weapons and armor to find and a new engaging story to partake in. It will take you about 2-3 Hours to complete and is on the shorter side, so don't expect Witcher 3 expansion levels of content. If you complete it before you finish the main story, you even get ending slides for it specifically, reflecting on the choices you made which I appreciated! But overall, I really enjoyed this game and its DLC, and I can easily recommend them both! I can't wait to play Spiders next game, and I hope they make a Greedfall 2 one day!
Score: 9/10
A fantastic RPG that I absolutely loved playing through and felt satisfied when the credits rolled! So in terms of my history with Spiders, I played Bound by Flame back in the day and did not like it at all, despite some good ideas it had and when I saw mixed reviews for The Technomancer, I skipped it (however, I will be giving that one a shot now that I played this). This game however, did catch my eye and it reviewed well enough that I wanted to at least try it, and when I saw it on Gamepass I decided to download it.
I really do mean that this is a fantastic game, despite some limitations Spiders had with only having a AA game budget and not a AAA one. When studios I used to love like Bethesda, Bioware and CDPR are out making games that are either online focused, live service or buggy messes at launch, I look more and more to the double AA RPG devs, to give me those single player, compelling titles. Games like Outer Worlds, Wasteland 3 and now Greedfall have done this for me! Greedfall will instantly feel familiar to gamers who love some of Bioware's older games like Dragon Age Origins and Mass Effect, and I believe Spiders themselves wanted to make a game that felt a lot like those titles, kind of like how Obsidan wanted to make a Bethesda style RPG with Outer Worlds and succeeded IMO.
In terms of what I liked, Greedfall has such a interesting world with some compelling factions and storytelling. that I just loved exploring it all and completing every quest I could find! The game does have a reputation system which I think is one of my favorites since Fallout New Vegas, where you have to manage your reputation with each faction and companion, and see how they react to your decisions. My ideal RPG will always have a system like this, and I'm glad this game had it. Combat was clunky at first, but once I got the hang of it, I enjoyed it a lot and I like how you can make your character a two class hybrid, similar to Kingdoms of Amalur which did the same thing. Voice acting was excellent across the board and the writing was really superb!
As for the bad, the game does have some annoying jank, again due to a limited budget. While the three cities look great, interiors like your three different houses in the game look identical to each other. There's also a lot of annoying invisible walls, which can be frustrating and can break immersion for me. While the games does allow you to make meaningful choices throughout the story, the game does put you in autopilot, meaning that your character speaks for you a lot of the time. Generally in a quest for example, your character will speak most of the time and only at the end do you get to make a choice. That is disappointing, but the choices you do make, do have real impact so at least there's that. These things are minor in the grand scheme of things, and I can look past it, if the things I personally find important in a game are of a high quality, which this game delivers on for me.
While I played this game through gamepass, I will still be buying it on Steam to add to my library, so I can play it again. I also went and bought the De Vespe Conspiracy DLC, because I just wanted more of this game. For the cheap price that there selling it for, its definitely worth it as it adds a new region, new weapons and armor to find and a new engaging story to partake in. It will take you about 2-3 Hours to complete and is on the shorter side, so don't expect Witcher 3 expansion levels of content. If you complete it before you finish the main story, you even get ending slides for it specifically, reflecting on the choices you made which I appreciated! But overall, I really enjoyed this game and its DLC, and I can easily recommend them both! I can't wait to play Spiders next game, and I hope they make a Greedfall 2 one day!