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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 8.9 hrs on record
Posted: Apr 9, 2020 @ 12:30am

A promising RPG butchered by one of the worst combat systems I've ever seen in this genre. It's a crying shame that the excellent world building, music, voice acting, 3D assets, and literally everything else in this game is all scuppered by a clunky, unintuitive, semi-broken system that eventually boils down to a waiting game. Master strikes completely upend all the mechanics of the fight system. Mods cannot fix this aspect of the game.

It's not that it takes any amount of skill, it's simply bad in that it controls extremely poorly, often wrestles control away from the player (this is unforgivably bad), and is completely unavoidable.

It pains me to tell you to avoid this.
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mkantor Apr 12, 2020 @ 12:24pm 
I personally like it very much. In my opinion it actually helped me with immersion in the beginning of the game. You start as a simple son of a blacksmith, hence your skills are not the best. Although i do admit that i like melee combat genre, i played lots of m&b and chivalry medieval warfare. Still, i think the combat is appropriate for a realistic game.
Icestorm dragon gaming Apr 12, 2020 @ 9:29am 
lol at that fanboy rage.
Lakezyz Apr 12, 2020 @ 4:29am 
at least play the game you dumbass, i never seen someone put 9 hours on a rpg exploring kinda game and then complain when he hasnt even played the game. youre honestly dumb.
NecroAnalCrusher Apr 11, 2020 @ 7:45pm 
LOL you just suck
Jxss_k Apr 11, 2020 @ 5:41pm 
You have 9 hours in the game, most of which was likely not spent in combat. it's not a bad system, it's complicated. You don't understand it and you are bad at it. Unfortunately it is skill based and it takes more that a couple hours to get good at. But don't cry, there are easier game for you to play where all you need to do is mindlessly click in combat. But don't ruin an amazing games reviews with your lack of skill and understanding, go play cookie clicker, it's much easier :)
bazzatron9000 Apr 11, 2020 @ 2:37pm 
I found the combat to be one of the best elements. I personally didn't find it unintuitive and I'm not sure what is meant by "wrestles control away from the player".

If anything, I don't think I've played a game where success and failure in combat is so much down to the player, than in KCD.

You're entitled to your opinion of course, I'm just not sure how you came to that conclusion.
TRON Apr 11, 2020 @ 8:23am 
Haha, great tactic to call everyone who disagree with you "fanboys". Shows how little you actually understand of your own ineptitude. I called you out on your "It has nothing to do with skill" bullshit.
I finished it when it was new and I moved on. I haven't even bothered with the DLC's
Cucumbnana Apr 11, 2020 @ 7:11am 
Try it with a controller if you aren't already, it helps the combat a lot.
KillSlim Apr 10, 2020 @ 11:50pm 
I have many more hours on the GOG version of KCD because I was having issues with my Steam account and couldn't play here at the time. The combat is far from difficult. As I said it's:

Clunky
Unintuitive
Wrestles control away from the player
Ruined by master strikes

Fanboys frothing at the mouth because their favourite game is under attack. Don't even waste your time replying here and calling me bad without saying why even one of my points is wrong.
spaceweezle Apr 10, 2020 @ 4:55pm 
Isn't it the point of a good game to have a combat system that makes sense and is enjoyable from the start ?

You people seem to be suggesting that just because you can adapt to a horrible combat system after many hours that it somehow makes the system better ? Hell, I could adapt to playing dark souls with my feet, doesn't mean it's a good way to play the game. It shouldn't be used purely because there are better options are available.