Worth buying Re-Reckoning if you have old edition ?

[☢LordMiki☢]

Haven't played the game in like ages, so i want to play it again, buy dont know if to buy new edition or just stick to old version, not to waist the money ?

[Bankai9212]

Short of the camera you can tweak for combat, new difficulty, and enemy scaling. Unless you are interested in the new dlc no there really isn't any reason to buy the remaster.

[Mez Koo]

New version has a much better camera thanks to various options including advanced rotation control and customizable field of field and now that the zones including enemies and loot more dynamically scale to your level (there is still a minimum and maximum) it feels like a more consistent experience all the way through. Controller also gets a second skill set now having 8 slots instead of the original 4.

Although since its more of a "update" rather than an actual remaster I'd say wait for a sale unless you really want it now and don't mind the cost but I'd recommending skipping the Fatesworn DLC. This version includes both of the original expansions and that's really all you need as the quality of the new Fatesworn dlc is not up to the quality as the original game and dlc.

[Ernasty]

yes, it's worth it

i'd wait for it to go on sale like Mez Koo said

[grodenb]

I'd recommend getting it with the Fatesworn DLC, which I enjoyed, when it is on sale. Not for the full price.

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by grodenb:

I'd recommend getting it with the Fatesworn DLC, which I enjoyed.

Out of curiosity what did you enjoy from Fatesworn? I certainly don't feel like it was a waste of my time and got my money's worth out of it but I definitely wouldn't ever recommend it. Sure it gives you a lot more "game" to run around in but its just that, a place to run around while doing fetch quest after fetch quest without much world building and immersion that makes the rest of the game so good and everything from the setting to the characters and plot feel so contrived and against the main story. I'm also not a fan of the chaos dungeons that pretty much force a head-on button mashing play style unlike play your way structure of the rest of the game and the long stretches of interior castle tunnels aren't much better.

[grodenb]

I didn't like the chaos dungeons, but almost every rpg/adventure game has some area which I find to be a chore. However, I mainly like to play games for the exploration. I'm a tourist, I want to see the sights, and those I enjoyed. The base game is full of fetch quests as well, regardless of how well they are disguised.

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by grodenb:

The base game is full of fetch quests as well, regardless of how well they are disguised.

Sure but they usually led to something else more exciting such as another quest or alternative quest or just a surprising little story. For example the quest where you find the village attacked by spiders and they tell you to go to some cave to find their leader but what seems to be a simple fetch quest soon turns into a little twist moral decision and leads to the larger Widow questline. Or there is the person asking you to help complete their ritual and get seeds and you go and get the seeds and then they make another surprising request, its little things like that that are immersive and fun but the Fatesworn quests are literally just go here, come back, go there, come back over and over just to get constant plot devices to magically kill the bad guy.

Originally posted by grodenb:

However, I mainly like to play games for the exploration. I'm a tourist, I want to see the sights, and those I enjoyed.

Yeah I get that and the dlc definitely delivers on that but its all surface level and there is no depth. In the main game almost all npcs are an actual character you can talk to and almost every place you can go into and figure either what happened or who they are/were but in Fatesworn its the opposite where so many npcs nameless and can't be talked to and almost everywhere not directly quest related is an empty building and both are there solely to take up space.

[DarknessSephirothX]

Originally posted by grodenb:

In the main game almost all npcs are an actual character you can talk to and almost every place you can go into and figure either what happened or who they are/were.

this is blowing my mind as someone finally working through this game
the amount of voiced dialogue and chat options with random people is insane
there's no crazy mass effect dialogue trees i've seen but the ocean is very wide
I'm more playing the game for the combat and exploration more than the story but it's still neat occasionally

I do think it's weird how the tuatha are bad and the gnome that brought you back was named fomorian.
it's like backwards welsh stuff

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by Flampasy:

I do think it's weird how the tuatha are bad

From our perspective sure, its complicated. ;-)

[Halcyform]

Besides other changes, new version is worth it just for the zone level scaling fix.

[Blue Thunder]

I'd say its worth it only for the simple fact of level scaling fixes and loot fixes. For the levels, especially on Very Hard, the fact that you won't be oneshotting enemies by the time you are level 20 is already something. You will still be able to do that later, once you make MasterCrafter Gear, or with the right combination of Unique Gear, but I take a more consistent power upgrade than a massive spike the OG had.

Then there's the loot, my biggest gripe with the OG one was that you could just go inside a tavern, and it would spawn 3 set items and 4 uniques in it's containers, and not be the wiser because you just don't feel like stealing, and those items would be there forever. The remaster fixes that by actually just rerolling the loot inside containers each time you go inside an area or instance if you haven't opened said container.

[The Time Traveler]

Originally posted by ☢LordMiki☢:

Haven't played the game in like ages, so i want to play it again, buy dont know if to buy new edition or just stick to old version, not to waist the money ?

Since widescreenfixer is no longer real then yes id reccomend this for sure over the old ♥♥♥♥♥♥ pile of crap version where the camera is literally set behind your characters head so its like your behind someone tall in a theatre the whole time.
This game lets you set camera distance. that alone makes this game worth playing, whereas the previous version is entirely not.

[Pharis Gough]

So, the fatesworn dlc comes with an arena mode that actually starts to get challenging at Round rank 30. So if any one wants to test end game cracked out at builds, the victory arena is the place to go (I do about 120k damage with a Crit quick shot with a bow, it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nuts)

[Blisters]

If you had an itch to play the game in anyway, it's best to play re-reckoning. The dynamic zones and updated loot pools alone make it worth it. The bonus is a nice ten levels more. I don't really replay to follow the story so much as I play to make cool gear and wreck stuff.

[Dwarf80]

there are some cheap keys to be had out their, grab one and enjoy it, it does make for a change of pace most of the games out their anymore i feel like im playing recycled versions of the same thing over and over. Have to take down the old ones to find out now that they were really good after all.