Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning

Ellen was right.

This is a tough one, but I am going to give this a positive review because this game did a lot of things right and they took some risks but it also has many problems. ♥♥♥♥ that sucks: -No jumping/z-axis. There technically is jumping, but it's scripted. -No mount. You are running everywhere, but there is sprint. -Animation locking in combat. -Severe FPS drops for inexplicable reasons. -Unpatched quest bugs from the ORIGINAL version and NEWLY INTRODUCED bugs. So-so: -The story. -The voice acting. -The graphics (although the artstyle is pretty good). -MMORPG style quests (done well at least, not too many collect 15 spider arse quests). -Ultimate Ability (titular reckoning). ♥♥♥♥ that doesn't suck: -Witcher 3-lite dialogue system -Classic World of Warcraft/TES feeling world -Multiclassing (Destinies) -Kingdom Hearts-esque magic system -Crime system similar to Oblivion -Non-combat skill system similar to Oblivion -Arguably the best feature: Ability to use two weapons and mix combos between the two weapons. The weapons have their own movesets (albeit they are small) like a fighting game. You can literally juggle enemies like Tekken. -Talent trees like MMORPGs that you can mix between. -Player home that's actually useful and you can upgrade it a lot. Recommended: For players that want a chill, comfortable, familiar, stock standard fantasy world to ♥♥♥♥ around in with an actually good combat system as long as you don't mind not being able to jump.

This game is a MMO, barely reworked to work as a single player game. Your build choices do not matter, all combat plays out the same, stagger-lock your enemy before they stagger lock you, this does not matter if you pick a warrior, rogue or mage achetype, you are just deciding on what damage type you stun lock enemies with. Player customization is pathetic, 4 races that are 2 different sets of human/elves that only affect starting non combat skills. The story is another chosen one story, no interesting characters or lore to follow. All financed by the state of Rhode Island.

В детстве эта игра казалась намного интересней... Ну, ностальгия штука такая. Игра довольно-таки скучна и однообразна. Вроде бы что-то и есть интересное, но чего-то не хватает. Души, что ли... Поиграв в нее менее часа, понял что не осилю даже беглого прохождения сюжета. Возврат.

The memories and nostalgia! I played this game as a young teen and I absolutely LOVED it. Now? I still love it. It's exactly the same game as the original; graphics, gameplay, audio. I don't notice any changes, but I also played the original a long time ago on console. The story is still so rich and captivating! It feels like there are endless side quests and so many things to discover. I think this is a highly underrated game. The voice acting alone is incredible. Even though it's basically the same, I love playing it now for the pure nostalgia and those 'old school' graphics that don't look as realistic as the games today, but was an amazing advancement back then. It really transports you back in time to a simpler gaming atmosphere where you could borrow a disc from your friends and not have to worry about internet connectivity either. (It you like realistic/complex graphics, this game is probably not for you.)

Goated Game, hopefully THQ Nordic greenlight another game in this setting

Honestly, at first glance this seems to be a good game, but as you keep playing, the amount of frustrations and bad design decisions just keep piling up. First of, the camera is just horrendous during fights. It keeps zooming around randomly with any real reason. If you get attacked from multiple directions, its gets really frustrating to keep track of all enemies. Its fine in 1 on 1 combat, but the game throws a lot of groups and ambushes onto you... Secondly , the controls scheme is not exactly ideal, but cant be changed completly freely. For some reason, you cant change the mouse buttons. I don't want to cast with my RMB, i want to use that for my block... Additionaly, enemies have leash ranges. If you kite them too much, they start resseting and running back to their spawn . This mechanic can be fine in mmos, but is completely out of place in single player games. This hinders certain play styles and is very annoying at higher difficulties. Story, crafting and items and combat itself are good, but those things really hold to game back. Really sad considering this is a remake that could have tackled those problems

Some people might say "this is a game from a different time". I'm old enough to say that this isn't true. This game is filled with generic ass dialog with fantasy word creations that make you facepalm. The most generic boring story you've seen 1000 times even before 2012 when this came out. Filled with unfinished ♥♥♥♥ like, the chakram weapon basically failed as soon as there is a slight different in elevation between you and the mob. Animation-locks that make combat feel clunky and unresponsive. Go play "Divine Divinity" which came out the same year and you will see the night and day difference. In short: When your dialog is more boring than ES Oblivions and you have more clunky feeling combat than a turn based game, then it's no surprise this game failed.