da PAC Nigguh wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2018 1:19 am
So even after a fucking 25GB day one patch its full of bugs?
Here is how it works - when they release 25 GB patch, it's not 25 GB of new data. The data is stored in large chunks, typically around 2 GB each. Now imagine that you have to replace one tiny file in that big, compressed archive. To my understanding, it's possible to patch such system in a way that doesn't require such absurd file handing, but game development is all about cutting corners where you can, and with this game, they certainly tried. Ubisoft does same thing, Wildlands typically has patches that can be from 10-15 GB on uplay, but interestingly enough, on steam they are much smaller, usually around 5 GB, so it would seem like steam just has better way to process data.
I've backed Kingdom Come and I am pretty happy with it myself, despite playing it just for 30 minutes to get the general feel of it for myself - I've mostly watched dev logs and some gameplay streams, I am waiting for the big patch, it should come out this week. It adds some major improvements aside from Save and exit feature - how that wasn't part of the game already, I don't know, but it's going to make a big difference. Without it, the game just doesn't respect your time, and anyone who has some life shouldn't ever be fond of such thing.
It runs decently well on my system, no crashes, but I usually don't have problems even with games that get a lot of criticism for being unstable (Just Cause 3). I love the writing, it is fantastic. The gameplay itself, well, it's rather clunky and certainly could be improved, but just with many other games, this one isn't primarily centered around super well thought mechanically satisfying combat. You can do many things in the game, combat is just one of them and frankly, unless you really want to do it, you don't have to fight too often to begin with. It really is more of an rpg in general than action rpg.
There is of course a big learning curve to combat, with advanced moves etc. My friend raged about the combat in first few hours, because it's just quite difficult to tell what you're doing wrong, since the fist person view gives you this weird lack of depth I suppose, where it's simply problematic to guess how to do things and it takes time to get used to it. When he did, some hours later, and learned some new moves, he is really enjoying himself, despite playing on old computer that can barely run the game - switched from him being rather grumpy about the game to enthusiastic.
Over all, this game is special and I dare to say that there is nothing like that available right now, by which I mean the entire package as it is. It has issues, which is why it's always reasonable to wait, but if you aren't a moron, and did some research (gameplay videos) that tells this is a game you want to play, and after the big patch finally drops, you shouldn't regret getting it.
Gunner445 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2018 6:45 pm
Also the voice acting is a bit below average(could have atleast gotten Troy Baker to do some fake accents)
Really? As a foreigner, sometimes I get the feeling that I just can't appreciate when someone is acting badly, but I would say all the main characters are pretty solid. Most of the sound genuine to me, again, perhaps I can't sense the more delicate details, but if I just try to ignore what the characters are saying, the way they talk sounds convincing to me. If the delivery sounds like the actor believes what he's saying, that's good enough for me - and there are many examples especially in games where I am not pleased with the voice acting.
It reminded me of this new short film based off Papers, please, which I think has fantastic acting, despite me not speaking russian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFHHGETsxkE I'm not trying to compare these two on quality level, I think the short film is absolutely fantastic and the acting is somewhere else, but I am sure that someone would come out and say that their acting is bad.
