Of Orcs and Men was had a joint development with Cyanide Studios and Spider Studios. Cyanide is definitely better of the two imo which is why Of Orcs and Men is fun, and so is their Game of Thrones RPG.
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Technomancer - Review Thread
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Of Orcs and Men was had a joint development with Cyanide Studios and Spider Studios. Cyanide is definitely better of the two imo which is why Of Orcs and Men is fun, and so is their Game of Thrones RPG.
Game of Thrones game was probably the ugliest game I ever played lol but it had its moments yes...
Game of Thrones game was probably the ugliest game I ever played lol but it had its moments yes...
Ah yes, it's ugly but the story is so good, which is why their games shine.
That's actually very nice to hear, since it shows that the devs were aware of how bad the writing was and were willing to fix it. Although that TotalBiscuit quote mentioning comically bad writing for Technomancer sounds doesn't really inspire much confidence in their newest title.
It seems like a typical Spiders game, a budget grade RPG. I may pick it up later this week, but I just bought a new PC so a bit reluctant to spend more money the next few months.
If anyone was expecting this to be a stellar release, were kidding themselves. The reviews were expected TBH.
If anyone was expecting this to be a stellar release, were kidding themselves. The reviews were expected TBH.
Karak
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And some of this is the same, but then also upgrading your moves, and the ability to electrify your weapons oh and also stab people in the face with that electrified rebar
User 479360
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That's an eclectic mix of review scores. I'm still going to play it, though, as I've been looking forward to it since it was first shown and kind of liked Bound by Flame.
I'm just glad it's only 7gigs.
I'm just glad it's only 7gigs.
You can find my review here.
Needless to say, I liked the game a bit more than the colleagues' average and rated it 7.2/10:
I've also captured 17 minutes of gameplay footage of the PC version at max settings and 4K resolution (though unfortunately it's still processing so only 1080P is available right now), for those interested.
Needless to say, I liked the game a bit more than the colleagues' average and rated it 7.2/10:
I've also captured 17 minutes of gameplay footage of the PC version at max settings and 4K resolution (though unfortunately it's still processing so only 1080P is available right now), for those interested.
Morrigan Stark
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Yeah. Honestly this might be a deal-breaker for me... It's not like this game will have a really meaningful, interesting protagonist with a powerful narrative that would justify this, right?
Bound by Flame had a female avatar, which was fully voiced. I can't imagine why they'd regress here, unless they really cared about "telling his story" which by all accounts seems mediocre at best.
Cyanide made those. I think only Of Orcs and Men is a Cyanide/Spiders collaboration, but Styx and GoT are 100% Cyanide. Also, I haven't played Of Orcs and Men, but Game of Thrones had possibly the worst combat I've ever seen. I think Styx is a better game than anything Spiders ever made, but I'll take Spiders' combat over Cyanide's any time.
Maybe it's just not worth it from a budgetary perspective? Maybe they saw from Bound by Flame that only 1/5 used a female avatar, like the statistics Bioware released for ME3, and figured the budget for the female voiceover could go thoward something else. I really doubt Spiders have a big budget for this.
orthodoxy1095
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Like I said earlier, considering that Bound by Flame was butts, as well as their small team size, I would guess that budgets and development time are pretty tight all around at Spiders.
Karak
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Your confusing aim with result here. One can want to tell a good story and have it turn mediocre. Doesn't mean adding an additional aspect would suddenly make it amazing. It means what it means. They chose to indeed tell this characters story. The fault lies within that chracters telling if people are unhappy with it.
TAA maybe? I mentioned it in my review but the way the game is designed architecturally there is a lot of low load very high load moments in the game and that doesn't include the suddenly 10 on 4 battles.
Zach being a female would have pretty much no effect on the story.
Karak
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Aim versus result. Going backwards in time due to them not doing the best(result) doesn't negate their aim.