Why this game has so many positive reviews? Please Explain!

[Lone WOLF]

I do not understand why so many people like this game. For me this game is just a pain. Every system, including combat, is terrible and the saving system is the worst. I tried to like it but cannot after hours of play. Please tell me what intrigued you to this game so I can understand...

[Bandy]

Originally posted by Ayahuasca:

I have been playing games since 1980 ...

Not that anyone couldn't enjoy KCD (and am sure lots of younger gamers do), but it all depends on what they expect from a game. Player context is everything, and having an open mind to new experiences all to important.

So, was it on PC or playing Atari or Intellivision or...? Where does Pong fit in? Played that on B&W TV in late 70's.

[Ayahuasca]

Originally posted by Bandy:

Originally posted by Ayahuasca:

I have been playing games since 1980 ...

Not that anyone couldn't enjoy KCD (and am sure lots of younger gamers do), but it all depends on what they expect from a game. Player context is everything, and having an open mind to new experiences all to important.

So, was it on PC or playing Atari or Intellivision or...? Where does Pong fit in? Played that on B&W TV in late 70's.

Atari in the early 80s ......then a C64 shortly after .....My step dad was a bus driver for a tour company and had connections and was able to bring the stuff back from the USA before you could even buy the stuff in Canada

[AbSlayer]

combat in this game is what made me stop playing
It just seems like a blow with weapon means nothing most of the time
Could be me not playing it right
it is the only game I never finished

[Ayahuasca]

Originally posted by AbSlayer:

combat in this game is what made me stop playing
It just seems like a blow with weapon means nothing most of the time
Could be me not playing it right
it is the only game I never finished

Meh I have over 200 hours and still never finished

[Gustuv Wynd]

The thing with this game is either you get it...or don't. If you are coming in from skyrim and just want to click your way to winning...it isn't the game for you, Though once you do get master strikes you can actually just to that and win each fight with not much effort...but I find it more fun to use fients.

The save system probably could have been better. I mean it is only limiting for the first little bit of game play. Once you learn you are really never more than a minute ride from a save bed and learn where the herb for schaps grow...it really could just be a F5 button. Like it would not effect the game what so ever for me if they patched one in.

[Ryeloc]

Originally posted by Lone WOLF:

I do not understand why so many people like this game. For me this game is just a pain. Every system, including combat, is terrible and the saving system is the worst. I tried to like it but cannot after hours of play. Please tell me what intrigued you to this game so I can understand...

Me either, I played it for an hour and almost fell asleep in the cutscenes. What a boring mess, uninstalled, refunded. Also, I saw 2 AI just walking face first into a wall. Apparently cant even be fixed since the game has been out for years.

[AmesNFire]

Originally posted by ngovandang1997:

I personally like this game and would give it 100 thumb ups if I havent faced a hundred bugs where it prevented me to finish or continue story and the weirdest lock on mechanic in the history

I'd like to focus on just your complaints about killing people resulting in saves being 'bugged'.
This was common practice in older games, to the point that many modern games will joke about it by allowing you to kill important NPC's and be forced to "continue in a doomed world" or reload a save.

Have you tried just not murdering random NPC's for the hell of it in a game like this?

[AmesNFire]

Originally posted by Wasted:

Because people pretend like it's a good game.
Yes, it's a good game in terms of story and graphics, design, but it's all ruined by most stupid game mechanics, especially combat and weird saving system, also weird and buggy controls that make you stuck in some ridiculous places and situations. You also will be thrown in a lot of places with multiple enemies, which are overpowered and move faster than you.
Not to mention a lack of support from dev's that don't want to fix all that mess.
If you want to play it without it being pain in the ass you have to mod it, at least to get saves whenever you want.

I've used exactly one mod, which is the unlimited save mod, to play the game with the time I have to play it.
If you dislike the game because of it's bugs, I'm surprised you play any games at all. At least KC:D is honest about the game's issues if you bother to inform yourself about the thing you're going to purchase before you purchase it.

Oh, and the enemies are only 'overpowered' if you didn't train. If you did, they'll almost always be 'underpowered' because they have pre-set 'difficulties' that never change.
Maybe listen to the guy in armor when he says you should start training instead of running off into the forest in only ragged cloth to be a 'hero'.

Edit: I think the best part is you gave Zomboid a thumbs up, which is a game that has an absurd amount of odd UI decisions, lock on/inventory issues, and plenty of bugs.

[ShadowFox]

Originally posted by Lone WOLF:

I do not understand why so many people like this game. For me this game is just a pain. Every system, including combat, is terrible and the saving system is the worst. I tried to like it but cannot after hours of play. Please tell me what intrigued you to this game so I can understand...

This game is amazing because you are not the dragonborn you are HAL and you will die and you will struggle and every minor success will feel amazing

[Dangel Deviliono]

Originally posted by ShadowFox:

This game is amazing because you are not the dragonborn you are HAL and you will die and you will struggle and every minor success will feel amazing

Bro played Skyrim in the easiest difficult and talking sht about it

[Tellic]

The game just feels like you're playing a real person, leading a real medieval life - with a heroic storyline thrown in. Apart from Alchemy potions which are a bit 'magic'. Choices matter, and you need to train yourself in skills before taking them for granted.

Combat is a little hit and miss for me, but once you train up some, then it becomes almost too easy.

For me, it's up there as one of the best games I've ever played - the atmosphere, story telling, graphical style, and music all contribute to something bigger than the sum of it's parts. (I really think the musical score should not be underestimated in the way it creates atmosphere).

[Judeo-communism]

Originally posted by Tellic:

The game just feels like you're playing a real person, leading a real medieval life - with a heroic storyline thrown in. Apart from Alchemy potions which are a bit 'magic'. Choices matter, and you need to train yourself in skills before taking them for granted.

Combat is a little hit and miss for me, but once you train up some, then it becomes almost too easy.

For me, it's up there as one of the best games I've ever played - the atmosphere, story telling, graphical style, and music all contribute to something bigger than the sum of it's parts. (I really think the musical score should not be underestimated in the way it creates atmosphere).

Pretty much this. The writing is the best ever done in any video game I've ever played, including growing up with the classic Final Fantasies and JRPGs. If the combat wasn't so atrociously bad, it would be the best game ever made.

[AmesNFire]

Originally posted by Tellic:

(I really think the musical score should not be underestimated in the way it creates atmosphere).

Can confirm, use the sound track for ttrpg games & drawing.

[Patton]

You suck, this game is rocket sauce.

[моноліт]

Might not be your type of game. Iv never had a problem with the game apart from learning the combat, apart from that Iv always loved the game. I love how close stays to realism while maintaining the fact its a video game. At the same time I can understand why people dont like the game. Im a huge history buff and brought it a couple years before release.