I played it for 90 minutes now and I think it’s OK. It feels like an MMO that came out 20 years ago, whether that’s good or bad depends on you. Lots of grinding, running back and forth, and doing fetch quests.
Some parts of the game are really nice, I love how streamlined everything is and how the map tells you exactly which resources can be found where. The game overall is very, very polished for a smaller indie MMO. That said, it feels overly simple and grindy. The first quest literally starts by telling you to come back when you’re level 60, which is insane. The map is also very limited and not really open world, it’s like a bunch of interconnected rooms.
The worst part is one I didn’t even face yet, but everybody is saying that your character resets upon entering a new zone. That means all your skills reset back to level 1 and you don’t carry over any armor or weapons or anything like that upon finishing one section of the game. The entire game is episodic, so you could grind a hundred levels in combat only to walk into episode 2 and start all over. That sounds bizarre to me. Not sure if I’ll play any further.
They don’t reset, they just don’t carry over, also your gear is severely debuffed. If you come back to the previous episode you’ll still have the levels in that episode’s skills.
Yeah, but that’s a bizarre decision. What’s the point of grinding combat if none of it carries over to the rest of the game? What’s the point in going back to the starter area to grind again?
Skills not carrying over (as another commentor said happens, not actually being lost), that is so weird to me. I’d be interested in getting to that point myself to understand it, but I’ve never heard of an MMO touching your skills as you progress through zones/episodes. If they provide some information on why they do this I would definitely be interested in why they went that route. 🤔
Is there an in-game tracker for how much farther to go? If not you might be able to keep track here completionist.me/steam/app/2884590 . As an avid achievement hunter I don’t see a problem with achievements like this in most cases there are probably ways to “cheese” them I don’t know about this game however. (Steam guides can be useful for finding what other players have used)
Edit: looks like there are no guides for this game I tried to look on mobile so disregard that haha
I like the idea of Bazzite, but the release cycle is rough for me. I’m running it on my HTPC, a thing i just want to work, and it feels like half the time I sit down to use it, some update broke something with Jellyfin. Rolling back updates is pretty easy, but that’s 5 or 10 minutes of futzing isn’t great. I’ll be switching back to mint sometime soon.
I think it will improve with time, and HTPC isn’t 100% their jam, and Jellyfin is a flat pack… so my use case isn’t ideal.
I never owned my own copy of Wind Waker. I borrowed it when I was a kid from a friend and then later I played the Wii-U version from a different friend. Now that I’m like, an adult (more or less) with my own console, I want a copy for myself. And also I want to play it again. Man! Love that game!
It’s a cookie clicker type game that occasionally drops steam items that you can sell on the marketplace for real money. Most of the playtime comes from bots, not actual players, which is why it is so far up the charts
My friend who also has a deck said BG3 was unplayable after getting to the city, which prompted me to not even try to run it. What are other people’s experiences?
If you are looking for Stardew-likes, I have been enjoying Coral Island. Full disclosure, I think it’s bullshit they they market it as version “1.1” when it is so very clearly not finished, but honestly after 400+ hours in Stardew I’ve been enjoying it despite its very present jank.
If Stardew is a 10/10 for me, I’d give Coral Island a 6.5/10 and mind you that’s on a real 0-10 scale, not the 5-10 scale usually used lol.
See Coral Island is so cute and unique that I personally felt it was just perfect. It wasn’t so closely resembling SDV that I felt like I was playing a bootleg version haha
Yes, I love its characters and some of the ways it diverged from Stardew. But it has a lot of undeniable jank and is objectively unfinished. Mind you that hasn’t stopped me from approaching 100 hours in it, but I would feel dishonest not mentioning it.
Impressions from watching someone play it: it looks like a clone of Stardew Valley. The music isn’t terrible but I wouldn’t say it’s good. Some mechanics from Stardew Valley that weren’t easy enough were changed, like fishing. I’m not sure that’s bad for everyone, it can just be a casual game to relax.
Fair point. I didn’t find it relaxing, it just felt like a gutted version of Stardew that treats me like I’m not smart enough to figure anything out. Everything has an unskivable tutorial like blacksmithing and cooking. You can’t buy any of your own basic recipes. It just sends them to you automatically in the mail, which is extremely annoying because it undermines player choice. That’s what was kinda annoying to me. Maybe if it was more like old-school RuneScape it would be more relaxing ? That game has no recipes, you just level up and know the recipe by default.
Not to belittle Stardew, a game I adore, but Stardew is itself very much cribbed, as a desperately needed spiritual successor to the Harvest Moon/Rune Factory games. I don’t intend on checking out fields of mistria so I’ll just take your word on the rest.
I don’t like the graphics. It looks very generic. It’s higher fidelity but looks worse than OSRS because at least osrs is somewhat stylized.
I don’t like that you have to click twice on everything.
I played the tutorial, and nothing hooked me in. It felt like your average mobile game.
Dialogue was painfully generic. “Go here to accomplish objective then come back for next objective”
It doesn’t have a unique identity or anything to grab my interest that makes me want to put up with the grind it demands from me, which it did immediately after the tutorial.
Your opinion is valid. I think some parts could be reworked. I see what you’re saying, but how you’re saying it is what is rubbing people the wrong way.
Honestly, I like these opinion posts, because even if I’m a fanboy, I might agree with certain things.
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