Objective Rating: 4,4
Subjective Rating: 5
Outstanding:
The soundtrack
The length
The choices
The freedom
Good:
Experimanting with the classes and abilities in fights
The voice acting
Mediocre:
The D&D system
The multiplayer experience (partly fixed)
Bad:
The perfomance in act III for many people (partly fixed)
People running away from your pets (fixed)
Missing crafting element
The Worst:
Thoughts:
Where to begin with this behemoth of a game. There is so much going on, that there is a lot to attack. But thats the thing, you can critize so much on this game because it has it all. So many classes, so many dialogues, so many fighting abilities, so much story and so on. This game broke the RPG genre and sucked in so many players who had nothing to do with RPGs or CRPGs before and they had fun. If I had to critize something its the too early release date. They should've waited a bit longer and release it with all the features it has now like changing your appearance.
And we have to talk about multiplayer. Multiplayer even being an option is outstanding by itself because you can share your experience with others and really roleplay your way into the world. But no one tells you in the beginning how important the origin characters are. If you play with three friends you are missing out so much important content. The game should recommend atleast one of you playing an origin character or let them be an weaker ally you can bring as a fifth member. Also if we can alter the classes of them (which makes no sense) why not let us alter the looks? Just a weird choice overall.
And I am not 100% on board with the D&D system. It is very cool to theorycraft stuff but there are so many dead spells and abilities. Why would you ever want to pick the champion if you knew what he does and when do you cast spells like true strike? I atleast didn't use half the spells because after one or two uses they felt completely useless.
But even though I only used half the spells and perks it has more to offer than 95% of other RPGs. Thank you Larian Studios for bringing this genre and the fantasy theme on a podium again and giving it the spotlight it deserves.
Subjective Rating: 5
Outstanding:
The soundtrack
The length
The choices
The freedom
Good:
Experimanting with the classes and abilities in fights
The voice acting
Mediocre:
The D&D system
The multiplayer experience (partly fixed)
Bad:
The perfomance in act III for many people (partly fixed)
People running away from your pets (fixed)
Missing crafting element
The Worst:
Thoughts:
Where to begin with this behemoth of a game. There is so much going on, that there is a lot to attack. But thats the thing, you can critize so much on this game because it has it all. So many classes, so many dialogues, so many fighting abilities, so much story and so on. This game broke the RPG genre and sucked in so many players who had nothing to do with RPGs or CRPGs before and they had fun. If I had to critize something its the too early release date. They should've waited a bit longer and release it with all the features it has now like changing your appearance.
And we have to talk about multiplayer. Multiplayer even being an option is outstanding by itself because you can share your experience with others and really roleplay your way into the world. But no one tells you in the beginning how important the origin characters are. If you play with three friends you are missing out so much important content. The game should recommend atleast one of you playing an origin character or let them be an weaker ally you can bring as a fifth member. Also if we can alter the classes of them (which makes no sense) why not let us alter the looks? Just a weird choice overall.
And I am not 100% on board with the D&D system. It is very cool to theorycraft stuff but there are so many dead spells and abilities. Why would you ever want to pick the champion if you knew what he does and when do you cast spells like true strike? I atleast didn't use half the spells because after one or two uses they felt completely useless.
But even though I only used half the spells and perks it has more to offer than 95% of other RPGs. Thank you Larian Studios for bringing this genre and the fantasy theme on a podium again and giving it the spotlight it deserves.