This game sucks so much.

[Hurricane]

Fight is clunky and stupid mobs flee and regen as soon as you move one meter outside of their comfort zone?
That's feels really artificial.

[Keldor]

At the time this was made. The developer (Spiders) was literally a handful of people using a modified Sony PhyreEngine, called Silk Engine. And they were being published by Focus Home Entertainment. Who were bordering on Bankruptcy at the time. The tiny team did a lot with little time, money, and resources.

This game laid the foundations for Greedfall, which Spider's developed and released in September. To widespread acclaim.

If you can't handle the dated engine and odd mechanics (which is due to them running out of time and merging three different combat/progression systems). Then don't force yourself mate, just find something more to your liking. If you want something more streamlined and fleshed out by these developers; try Greedfall.

[Wamp-Bier]

Yeah... this game has alot of small problems, but still... it is one of my favourite games. With all the flaws the game has, there is one other thing that this game has. Something that many polished AAA Games don't have anymore: It has soul. It has it's own character. It's own Identity.

I only hate the fact that it doesn't work on my Ryzen 3900X, since it has too many cores and Spiders won't release patches anymore.

[Hurricane]

Originally posted by keldor837:

At the time this was made. The developer (Spiders) was literally a handful of people using a modified Sony PhyreEngine, called Silk Engine. And they were being published by Focus Home Entertainment. Who were bordering on Bankruptcy at the time. The tiny team did a lot with little time, money, and resources.

This game laid the foundations for Greedfall, which Spider's developed and released in September. To widespread acclaim.

If you can't handle the dated engine and odd mechanics (which is due to them running out of time and merging three different combat/progression systems). Then don't force yourself mate, just find something more to your liking. If you want something more streamlined and fleshed out by these developers; try Greedfall.

It's not about the dated engine. It's pretty fine. It's really the clumsiness and this ... aggro area?
When I realised it was the same team that for Greedfall, and that I specifically waited to buy Greedfall because some reviewers commented on that same mechanic I simply gave up on both.

Originally posted by Wholy Cheezus:

Yeah... this game has alot of small problems, but still... it is one of my favourite games. With all the flaws the game has, there is one other thing that this game has. Something that many polished AAA Games don't have anymore: It has soul. It has it's own character. It's own Identity.

I only hate the fact that it doesn't work on my Ryzen 3900X, since it has too many cores and Spiders won't release patches anymore.

I didn't realise. Instead of playing it on my gaming machine I've played it on an Hades Canyon.

[The Jagji]

I don't know why you say combat is clunky. It has its own flow that you have to learn. really only played as Rouge though my playthough, and it was as fluid as Batman with me being able to doge, get in and so on. Pick one 'class' and learn it is my advice. You can only really fill two of the trees, so I went Rouge and Tecnomancie, witch was quite good.

[Keldor]

Originally posted by TheJagji:

I don't know why you say combat is clunky. It has its own flow that you have to learn. really only played as Rouge though my playthough, and it was as fluid as Batman with me being able to doge, get in and so on. Pick one 'class' and learn it is my advice. You can only really fill two of the trees, so I went Rouge and Tecnomancie, witch was quite good.

OP probably doesn't realize you can interrupt any action with block or dodge (depending on weapon stance). Which would lead to them getting their ass kicked and assuming the combat has no fluidity.

[Floppy Chops]

The combat is mediocre when everything is going well, which is only some of the time. But I expect that from this kind of game anyway, so it wasn't a huge disappointment.

The biggest problem I have is that the game is so damn repetitive, going back through the same damn areas over and over, forced into fighting the same damn random baddies along the way. Tedious as hell. Most of the areas are far bigger than they should be, considering how empty they are. It would have been half as long and twice as enjoyable if the whole thing was streamlined. Same problem with Mars: War Logs, actually; seems they didn't really learn anything from it.

[Atlanticore]

the combat is OK-ish. I would divide the whole experience in 5 chapters

chapter 1 terrrible
chapter 2,3 awesome
chapter 4 terrible (LOTS of backtracking)
chapter 5 pretty good, ending is rough but well done

[de.lorca]

I am a fan of pretty mutch every game this studio made and I will say aside from greed fall i really can't recomend any to pretty mutch anyone

the combat is good but is super counter intuitive it will feel awfull until you get it which is 100% the games fault, the story has great idée's but doesn't have the budget or skill to do them justice

but dont let this game disparage you from playing Greedfall that game is actualy good
it fixes allmost all the problem's there other games this one included have and while it's never groundbraking if you like RPG's like dragon age or mass effect you will probablie have a good time unlike this game that only crazy people like me enjoy

[tracksone]

TM is one of my all time favorites

[WarpGuN]

your mom suck ffs!

[Nucas]

only a spiders game can fill you with that kind of bleak despair, and that is why i love them

[Fiach]

I'm playing again on Xbox 1 and it's still great imo.
Just finished Greedfall and really enjoyed that, you can see the foundations laid by Technomancer in it's combat.

[Keldor]

Originally posted by Fiach:

I'm playing again on Xbox 1 and it's still great imo.
Just finished Greedfall and really enjoyed that, you can see the foundations laid by Technomancer in it's combat.

Not just combat. It's actually the same engine as well (which is why it seems a bit dated) but with some updates and further graphics support. Because they used the same but updated engine. This tiny studio was able to put more time and effort into the story, world, and combat. Greedfall is amazing when you consider the dev team is around a dozen people on a budget not much bigger than a steam-app game.

[Zerotix]

After playing Greedfall, then Mars War Logs a 2nd time after a long time, and now playing Technomancer, I can honestly say I can't believe this game didn't get more acceptance.

Dude, use the staff. Use the staff and get used to the controls. It gets better.

Wrap yourself in the lore. Greedfall barely scratched the surface of any character. Every character in this game has something different to say about the settings and people you visit. And the skill tree is hella more detailed.

[aweigh]

Originally posted by Hurricane:

Fight is clunky and stupid mobs flee and regen as soon as you move one meter outside of their comfort zone?
That's feels really artificial.

You're clunky and artificial!