Is the game worth the purchase/play?

[Big Boss]

I'll be frank with you all, I had tried KCD1 a looooonng time ago, like maybe when it first came out. I was not impressed and I got bored, and it got swept away. Recently, I've just moved across the states, and I have not been able to play games with friends since the major time shift. It got me a little bit down in the dumps. From playing every night to nothing. My wife even noticed how I wasn't even using my PC. I couldn't find a game that I could sit down and enjoy. I even upgrade my PC and everything and still I would get bored of playing whatever I was playing or install it and it would stay there never launched. On a whim I reinstalled KCD1 and OMG I hadn't enjoyed a game that long a while. First game that I dumped more than a 100 hours into, in a long time. I finished the game 2 weeks ago, and I want to play the 2nd one. But in its current state, is it worth it, we are supposed to be saving money, but it's going to be my birthday this Friday, and I'd like to gift myself the game.

[RoosterSuplex]

absolutely not, the heart is not in it the dev team sold out and sold a lie.

[corthew]

Yes

[orcaa]

yes i think it is worth it. if you liked the first you will probably like the second. pretty similar in a lot of ways.

[Arden]

The game is definitely worth especially for a fan of KCD1. But you should wait for bugfixes first. The game worked great on release but there are problems with the last patch.

[thegodsend]

its probably the most worth it. Think the skyrim side quest meme on crack. I didnt even know there were 2 maps before i read it here in the forum. i was having too much fun enjoying all the side quests on the first map.

[makbthemf]

It is worse than KCD1 - too skyrimmed, plot is too wowish - like a category B movie or a pulp fantasy book with a guy carrying a three-handed sword in a horned helmet on a purple cover. But most of KCD1 features are still there - like immersiveness and hardcore gameplay, which is fun to beat.

P.S.: first act's first half - before the end of "For whom thee bell tolls?" - is a complete disaster. So you need to suffer through it and get to the mediocre plot later.

[Problem Solver]

Got 100 hours in the game and haven't even finished the main story yet. Lots of side quest and tasks. Hunting a little tough early game, but gets easier as your skills and equipment improve

[DylanCut]

If you enjoyed the first one you will enjoy this one just understand there are two games at play here. The main story and the side quests. I mean this in the literal sense, they meant for the side quests to fit the narrative of either a Warrior Henry or a Thief Henry. If you go for the achievement been there done that you will be sucked out of your immersion and just the joy... it'll be sucked out of you. Play the game with the idea to say no to certain quests.

[emreyigit1967]

If you did not enjoy the first game, though in my opinion and those of players (84% positive versus 94%) the second game is better, as it is much the same in spirit and in mechanics, you should probably not go for this game. If you then found out that you did in fact enjoy it, then you'll enjoy No. 2 as well.

[Pappy Boyington]

Originally posted by Big Boss:

I had tried KCD1[-] I was not impressed and I got bored

pass your way then, its in the same spirit
unless you developped a taste for slow paced immersive story driven games, wich is one of the best last years.
you should know forum is filled with neo fa from two month who trashtalk the game everywhere because of their racist/homophobic/mysogyne view of the world,
you already can read two of em here

Originally posted by Big Boss:

I even upgrade my PC

did you try cyberpunk? little faster, still story driven, but an other way to enjoy your new pc capabilities

[Crescent Dusk]

If you can make it through the very tedious early game, the game gets amazing by the time you get to the wedding.

It's just the early game that is very miserable unless you make use of the DLC early game armors, and you have to spend many hours grinding alchemy, walking overburdened, and practicing with the trainers to get to a point where being ambushed by 2 bandits isn't a huge headache.

This game has the best writing of any game that has come out in the past decade. It has even better writing than BG3.

[JaM]

Originally posted by Crescent Dusk:

If you can make it through the very tedious early game, the game gets amazing by the time you get to the wedding.

It's just the early game that is very miserable unless you make use of the DLC early game armors, and you have to spend many hours grinding alchemy, walking overburdened, and practicing with the trainers to get to a point where being ambushed by 2 bandits isn't a huge headache.

This game has the best writing of any game that has come out in the past decade. It has even better writing than BG3.

no you dont... you can easily play the quest, and level up along the way... then game becomes even more interesting later on, as you dont end up overleveled once you reach Kuttenberg...

[Sergius Magnus]

Originally posted by Pappy Boyington:

Originally posted by Big Boss:

I had tried KCD1[-] I was not impressed and I got bored

pass your way then, its in the same spirit
unless you developped a taste for slow paced immersive story driven games, wich is one of the best last years.
you should know forum is filled with neo fa from two month who trashtalk the game everywhere because of their racist/homophobic/mysogyne view of the world,
you already can read two of em here

Originally posted by Big Boss:

I even upgrade my PC

did you try cyberpunk? little faster, still story driven, but an other way to enjoy your new pc capabilities

cyberpunk is a very well optimized game for the graphics it has. And if someone wants to tests its pc limits try ff16

[Jeza]

In my opinion KCD 2 is not as good as KCD 1 even as clunky as some things were in the first opus.
It's still similar but something is off, there are no quests as good as the night with Godwin for example, there are some fun ones but none that reaches that level.
Weather people like to admit it or not there is a lot of girl power, diversity is good, you have to be accepting of other faiths and cultures that feel very out of place in this game due to the time period.
They tried to streamline some mechanics without killing the difficulty but IMO they failed, this game is much much easier, it's even more so because even though they found a solution to basically reset your character at the start of the game, they still left you with enough stats and skills that the learning curve is too easy.
And finally there are 2 maps in this game, you play in 2 distinct regions and you can see how it was supposed to be 2 different games and your character was supposed to be reset at the start of the second one but they instead made a single big game without the second reset.
And so it makes you play the bigger half of the game with a character that's so leveled up and well geared up that it's a bit boring.
Also so many locations with the number of quests means that it's much harder to get invested in the NPC's and the world, they don't become friends and known people like in 1 they mostly stay strangers and makes it harder to care.

Now does that mean it's not worth it at all ? Depends on each person honestly I still had enough fun to justify the purchase but I can't guarantee you'll have the same opinion.

[Sergius Magnus]

id wait for the next update as there are some quest breaking bugs