Video Games

Not really playing anything in particular at the moment, I finished Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 recently and I was extremely disappointed by it unfortunately. I typically love strategy/management, or RPG games.

A few favourites that come to mind in no particular order:

Prison Architect
Skyrim
Pentiment
Chivalry 2
The Witcher 3

Hi orangutan, I am still playing KCD 2, why were you disappointed by it? I love RPG/strategy games myself....played them for probably too many years now! 

Firstly, I really did want to love it, after all the first one is one of my all-time favourites.

However, it just felt like a DLC for the first game rather than a proper sequel to me. I felt the story was pretty poor, the start felt super forced in terms "be strong -> get injured -> slowly build up -> get injured again".. but then by the time I was halfway through the game my stats were around the 20 mark in most things and at that point I just steamrolled through the game, absolutely nothing was a challenge for me and finishing the last half of the game felt like a chore. The cutscenes towards the end of the game were particularly painful, and I also felt like the further through the game I got the buggier it got - with dialogue options being missing and replaced with weird strings of text and characters refusing to move or anything. The majority of the side content was pretty dull, too.

Combat is good on paper, with nice animations, but also janky. If you're on ground that isn't flat, there's a good chance your htis will miss your enemy. Group combat is super easy because enemies don't attack you at the same time, instead they patiently wait whilst the enemy you're currently locked onto hits you and you parry or whatever. Also, by the time you're a high level you will kill almost every enemy with 1 or 2 hits, regardless of what armour they are wearing, completely destroying any immersion.

The attention to detail in the game is amazing and really sets it apart, which makes it even worse when it's thrown out of the window for the sake of the plot or by some bug. For example, without spoiling too much, at one point you are shot at by people with guns. If you kill them all, bullets will still continue to fly through the air because they are scripted to do so, and it just looks and sounds stupid.

Some of the improvements on the first game are great - I love the new weapons. However, one thing that really bugs me is the fact you can have three different outfits you can switch between which is awesome - yet when you complete a quest or watch a cutscene that involves you wearing particular clothes you'll have to then re-do your outfit when coming out of that scenario. Just a small thing I know, but when it happens 5 times an hour whilst doing the main questline it begins to bug you.

Finally, the injection of modern politics, although fairly small, is definitely noticeable.

Okay, rant over, sorry. I did really want to love the game; the world they've created is amazing and I love the atmosphere and audio and everything, but as an actual game it just sucked.

• Sorry only just seen your reply thanks for answering. I’m rubbish at the combat and was in the first game. There’s a bit too much fighting at the moment for my taste but I’ve quite enjoyed it. First person games I always find more difficult don’t know why. Thinking of maybe playing Avowed next or maybe waiting for AC Shadows.

• Sorry only just seen your reply thanks for answering. I’m rubbish at the combat and was in the first game. There’s a bit too much fighting at the moment for my taste but I’ve quite enjoyed it. First person games I always find more difficult don’t know why. Thinking of maybe playing Avowed next or maybe waiting for AC Shadows.