KCD 2 is an interactive movie - 80% of playtime spent in cutscenes

[Charlemagne]

I don't believe in the game industry anymore, every major release is such a letdown. KCD 1 is one of my favorite games of all time, but I was struggling really hard to finish KCD 2

Most of the "gameplay" time is spent in cutscenes and being locked in dialogue. I was excited to explore the world, but instead I was greeted with a 5 minutes unskippable dialogues on horseback

When I finally arrived in Kuttenberg, I skipped every single side quest possible because I knew that I was going to be greeted with 15 minutes of yapping about some drama that I don't care about

Now that I finished the main story, I don't feel like I've played a game, I feel like I just watched a new season of a TV show. KCD 2 sucks, I'm never picking it up again

[ATom]

It is definitely not a true.
But still. Story is the main reason why I am playing it.

[MaSeKind]

So you're playing a story heavy RPG and complaining that it has a lot of story? Kids these days

[EMT-Fields]

Um no.

[Piderman]

I call bull$hit.
Most of the gameplay is actually open world stuff. Yes, the larger quest chains contain cutscenes, but it isnt nearly as bad as you try to make it look like.
I highly doubt you played more than one hour and ontop of that, you´re yet another account that doesnt own the game on steam.

[Incrediblejimmy]

Originally posted by Charlemagne:

I don't believe in the game industry anymore, every major release is such a letdown. KCD 1 is one of my favorite games of all time, but I was struggling really hard to finish KCD 2

Most of the "gameplay" time is spent in cutscenes and being locked in dialogue. I was excited to explore the world, but instead I was greeted with a 5 minutes unskippable dialogues on horseback

When I finally arrived in Kuttenberg, I skipped every single side quest possible because I knew that I was going to be greeted with 15 minutes of yapping about some drama that I don't care about

Now that I finished the main story, I don't feel like I've played a game, I feel like I just watched a new season of a TV show. KCD 2 sucks, I'm never picking it up again

100% agree - worst of all you get locked in all the time by invisible walls for no apparent reason, so you can't even leave...That means nothing ever times out, so devs didn't have to put in alternative solutions to things running their course without Henry like in KC:D1 - its just lazy and disappointingly shallow...

KC:D1 did this so well - you could leave mainquest objectives be after the prologue - even in the monastery you could just grab the key and run out and do other things in the world. No KC:D1 quest forced you into endless death loops to learn guard routines bc you got forced to do stealth. Only real stealth mission in KC:D1 was meant to be failed, so even if you got discovered you didn't die, just had to flee without damage to the story...Now I feel there are no real alternative solutions to anything. And dialogues so often ignore what you chose its painful - worst quest for me so far was the wedding in Semine, where you got locked in the location for absolutely no reason, and got a ton of lame fetchquests - all give you the option to refuse - and give you the quest anyway if you do... Compared to KC:D 1 its just not good quest design - repetetive, generic, uninspired and boring.

Mainquest simply isn't integrated into the world - in the first game the cutscenes enhanced and explained what you did, in this one it just feels like a movie with some busy work for players inbetween - I don't think the problem with that are the cutscenes - its the actual gameplay inbetween...

[Charlemagne]

Originally posted by ATom:

It is definitely not a true.
But still. Story is the main reason why I am playing it.

How is that not true? I finished the game myself. I'm not saying that the story is bad, i'm saying that it feels like a TV show rather than a game

[Mouse Rat]

Try to RP as Henry.
Then the info dump cutscenes make sense for the history/Lore details.

This is a strong story driven plot, otherwise what exactly do you want to get out of this game?

[Settings]

The disinformation trolls are really reaching for new lies to tell now that the "Hans is 15" ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ finally got called out by devs are nonsense

[Charlemagne]

Originally posted by Piderman:

I call bull$hit.
Most of the gameplay is actually open world stuff. Yes, the larger quest chains contain cutscenes, but it isnt nearly as bad as you try to make it look like.
I highly doubt you played more than one hour and ontop of that, you´re yet another account that doesnt own the game on steam.

Open world stuff = riding or fast travelling for 10 minutes and then watching 5 minutes of yapping

I play on different accounts. I finished KCD 1 like 4 times on hardcore but i only have 30 hours on this one

[Settings]

Originally posted by Charlemagne:

Originally posted by Piderman:

I call bull$hit.
Most of the gameplay is actually open world stuff. Yes, the larger quest chains contain cutscenes, but it isnt nearly as bad as you try to make it look like.
I highly doubt you played more than one hour and ontop of that, you´re yet another account that doesnt own the game on steam.

Open world stuff = riding or fast travelling for 10 minutes and then watching 5 minutes of yapping

I play on different accounts. I finished KCD 1 like 4 times on hardcore but i only have 30 hours on this one

Nobody believes you lol

[Charlemagne]

Originally posted by MaSeKind:

So you're playing a story heavy RPG and complaining that it has a lot of story? Kids these days

Back in my day, story heavy meant rich lore, not 10 hours of cutscenes

[Piderman]

Originally posted by Charlemagne:

Originally posted by MaSeKind:

So you're playing a story heavy RPG and complaining that it has a lot of story? Kids these days

Back in my day, story heavy meant rich lore, not 10 hours of cutscenes

Yeah, right. Just stop it dude, this is just pathetic.

[Siameasy]

i'll take long dialogs and unskippale chatty horse rides over....

- carrying sacks 5+ times for 5 minutes walking at a snails pace, i imagine devs sat in design meetings saying "yep guys, this is what every player enjoys so lets make them do it in six quests!"

- digging graves and burying multiple corpses for minutes, i imagine devs sat in design meetings saying "players are gonna love this so much so lets get them to do it in multiple missions!"

[Charlemagne]

Originally posted by Piderman:

Originally posted by Charlemagne:

Back in my day, story heavy meant rich lore, not 10 hours of cutscenes

Yeah, right. Just stop it dude, this is just pathetic.

Only insults, no arguments

[Charlemagne]

Originally posted by Settings:

Originally posted by Charlemagne:

Open world stuff = riding or fast travelling for 10 minutes and then watching 5 minutes of yapping

I play on different accounts. I finished KCD 1 like 4 times on hardcore but i only have 30 hours on this one

Nobody believes you lol

Go to my account linked on my profile. lol. 103 hours, 100% achievements. I'm a better player than you