Thread 718563472

is it good?

Nope

You gotta be ok with feeling weak as shit at first, and slowly overtime getting stronger.
And I mean weak weak, like you SUCK at the beginning of the game. You just gotta stay humble and keep leveling up, only use weapons your stats benefit.

If you are ok with that, its a very cool, immersive little game. Also download a mod that lets you save whenever. Limited saves have no place in a game like this.

>>718563472 (OP)
It's akin to bethesda games in the fact it's not hard to cheese yourself into a god with exploits and being a thief. That is to say, for an rpg, it's a very gamey one. But it's quite fun, and my only real complaint is I felt the story dragged on a bit; but if you enjoy content, you won't find a shortage of it.

>>718563472 (OP)
Among my favorite games. I think the sequel gets too much shit, but even so it wasn't as good as the first one.

>>718563472 (OP)
It's great and 2 is even better. Don't let /vpol/ turn you away, because of 1 black guy

>>718563472 (OP)
>Skyrim without all of the cool shit
No.

>>718565960
>Skyrim with all the fantasy bullshit cut
Yes

>>718565810
>combat gets trivial even faster
>also everything other than swords is nerfed into oblivion
>level up way too fast
>the city in the second map is cool but the countryside is a huge downgrade from the first map
>you get basically all the best gear in the game as soon as you reach the second map
>made Hans gay
I had other issues with it too but I can't remember them right now, been a few months since I played it.

bust
crust

>>718563472 (OP)
It's fun

>>718563472 (OP)

It's aggressively anti-fun at times. Which is why I dropped it 20 hours in.

Plus they make you have sex with a pastor and his wife for some jewish fucked up reason. The sequel makes you gay for some reason so its trash pretending to be antiwoke but its just subversive-woke.

>>718563472 (OP)
it's ok
fun at first, kinda drags towards the end

Oblivion for autistics who think having to clean your shoes every time you enter dialogue because else your speechcraft goes down by 1 point is good gameplay. There's a lot of great stuff in it but also much tedium that clashes with a first person action RPG.

>>718563472 (OP)
I wish the hardcore mode was more hardcore, having a teleporting horse is just immersion breaking
I had a lot of fun playing with a "borrowed" horse that I actually had to keep track of for like 20 hours, until I was forced to get pebbles

>>718563472 (OP)
It's good, but combat is really janky and can feel downright awful in some situations, the rpg progression is a bit fucky as well
Great characters and story, the game knows when to get serious and when to have fun

>>718563472 (OP)
First playthough on hardcore

>>718570638
Should have had to feed your dog and horse as well

>>718570263
You're not fucking his wife. You're fucking the tavern wench

If you have the slightest interest of history this game is amazing like no other. Also kcd 2 might have the nicest UI/menus ever made in a game.

The game has a simply story and trope "main character loses everything to war, slowly climbs the ladder and gets stronger to protect those around him and gain revenge" and executes it perfectly with full immersion
and Radzig was a fucking boss

>>718563472 (OP)
yes, play kcd first and then kcd2.

>>718572694
A boss of what?

Henry's come to see us!

>>718572962
boss of this gym

>>718572421
>Also kcd 2 might have the nicest UI/menus ever made in a game.
They don't get enough credit for this, it's *without question* the best marriage of visuals and usability in any game UI. Like, there are all sorts of UI/UX rule that designers now consider unbreakable, and KCD2 abides by them all, but it does so in the most visually sumptuous way. I hope they just iterate on it for the inevitable third game, and don't throw it all out and start again.

>>718563472 (OP)
It's good. Playing and living in the world is the best part. Story is just alright. Gameplay is a chore at first, but you get used to it.

kcd is a game where daring to swing your weapon on some shitty peasant turned bandit with a club means you risk getting locked into a counter animation and taking unavoidable damage so the best move is to have a staring contest with every enemy and wait to parry them to avoid it
master strikes existence ruins the fucking game and made me drop it
the world and quests are cool but not worth slogging through that horrible combat system

>>718563472 (OP)
Yes, very good :D
I am looking forward to warhorse's next game.

KCD1 is fantastic, it has great, soulful and genuinely funny writing sprinkled throughout the entire game. Everyone says it plays like Oblivion from a leveling standpoint but it also has very fun and engaging sidequests too, like Oblivion did.

I dunno about the 2, I only played the prologue then got tangled up with my backlog while I waited for Hardcore to come out, but the writing felt a lot more forced and tryhard on that one.

>>718575538
The best way to play is by turning off enemy master strikes
It won't change the fact that the combat if fundamentally fucked, but it will make it much more tolerable

>>718575538
>kcd is a game where daring to swing your weapon on some shitty peasant turned bandit with a club means you risk getting locked into a counter animation and taking unavoidable damage so the best move is to have a staring contest with every enemy and wait to parry them to avoid it
master strikes existence ruins the fucking game and made me drop it
This is true you do get bodied in clenches at the start but I know for a fact that you dropped it at most a few hours in past the tutorial section before you trained up Henry’s strength to a sufficient level, go to >>>/fit/ and try again

>>718572967
Henry's come to sodomize us!

Just add Auriel's Ascension in KCD and you're all good.

>>718570263
>pastor
lol

A lot of the game is like that monastery quest: super interesting, deep and immersive at first but after some time it just becomes a slog

>>718563472 (OP)
No, since the sequel ruined it.

>>718577562
JCBP

Too hard to be enjoyed

it's one of those games people pretended it was better than it actually was because of the "based" jewish dev who said there were no niggers in medievial Bohemia
now that he did a full 180 in the second game all of a sudden no one gives a shit about the first one anymore
>>718577242
you can't turn it off retard

>>718579142
>dev
director*

>>718579142
>you can't turn it off
You can with mods, retard

>>718566157
Holy fuck they cocked up their bromance, from 2 good brother into 2 gaylord and there is a skill locked behind the gay stuff.

>>718566157
>>combat gets trivial even faster
>>also everything other than swords is nerfed into oblivion
Do you know if Hardcore solves this.

>>718563472 (OP)
No it's garbage and 90% dialogue, read a book instead.

>>718563472 (OP)
I wanted so badly to like this game and tried so many times to get into it. But after about 30 hours I concluded that it just isn’t fun.

>>718577432
clenching is different than master strikes
also i put in 90 hours before i gave up realizing the combat would never be fun
>>718577242
might look into trying a mod for this at some point

>>718563472 (OP)
Yes, but it's woke.

>>718581756
So play it, just don't buy it.

>>718563472 (OP)
No. The story is dogshit, the combat sucks and half the quests are buggy or straight up broken

>>718563472 (OP)
Yes. Shame it didn't get a sequel.

>>718581913
Oh yeah, guess the thread was about the first game. Hehe...
I'd still pirate it so that idiot Daniel Vávra doesn't get money.

>>718563810
>And I mean weak weak, like you SUCK at the beginning of the game.
you play as a coming of age blacksmiths assistant who has no idea how to swing a sword
for me personally, it makes perfect sense that youre as weak as you are to start off with

>>718581756
>2
Wrong thread

>>718563472 (OP)
It gets ruined by master strikes
>what's that, you successfully parried an attack?
>here's an unblockable attack you can do nothing against

Whoever thought that was a good idea is a fucking retarded faggot and probably also a retarded nigger.

>>718581075
>after 30 hours
I spent about 8 hours and everything just put a bad taste in my mouth. The entire section of Henry losing all his armor & stuff after working your ass off in the first game, and then having to deal with fucking gypsies, & the fact that you lose the duel against the Cumans no matter what bugged me out. I also didnt like the casualized combat, I actually kept pressing Q to block like in the first game, but to be honest I didnt see a lot of the game's proper writing like getting my sword back.
What turned you off after 30?

>>718580837
Dunno, wasn't in the game back when I played it

>>718582524
>master strikes
>clinch spam
>obnoxious slow mo
There's mods to fix those but I still hold it against the game.

Niggas on this thread don’t even know whether the OPs pic is about KCD 1 or 2.

>>718583991
It's obviously 1, but I guess that's not obvious enough for some people

>>718564590
The sequel makes Henry gay and introduces a black character, then makes the story about oppressed Jewish people. It's a shame they did it right as wokeness was starting to decline in mainstream media. If the devs had just held off on that, they would have come out with a game everyone would have been begging for.

>>718570140
>"...and this is our son's room"

>>718585959
>makes Henry gay
It makes Hans gay (which I do take issue with), whether Henry is gay or not is up to the player.
>introduces a black character
My main issue with him is just that you don't get to shit talk him back when he shit talks your culture. On his own I don't mind him because the game never tried to portray him as if he was native or common. But I do mind that they bent over backwards to make him black, he's based on an arab scholar and traveller, but they then combined him with Mansa Musa for seemingly little reason other than making him black and giving him a famous name.
>makes the story about oppressed Jewish people
They're not central to the story, just one of the stepping stones along the way. Also the first jews you meet immediately betray and try to kill you

>>718583990
I read about the mod but I prefer to play a game vanilla first.

It's alright but it's too long and it goes from being satisfyingly tricky to brainless in a snap and then the game still goes on for 40 hours.

>>718586839
You should, but if you're getting annoyed with the combat like 30 hours in don't feel bad about modding it

>>718587164
I already finished the game lol, but thanks for the advice.

>>718587164
The combat shouldn't even be hard that far in. People say enemy Master Strikes are cheap, but you can avoid them by doing your own, or striking when enemies are unable to counter. I like holding a stab and releasing it when the enemy commits to a swing.

Crazy how nobody has yet talked about this being maybe the only game in the history of the medium to have truly emergent gameplay options.

My favorite example is the chapter where you are meant to do loads of annoying chores and tasks to become a monk- all so you can gain access to the monastery to assassinate an acolyte and steal an item he owns. This is normal RPG stuff so far but what makes KCD so unique is that you can skip all this bullshit, sneak into the monastery at night, pick locks and dodge guards, and then simply stab this guy to death in his sleep and take the item.

>>718587547
The issue isn't difficulty, it's the combat flowing like shit.

>>718563472 (OP)
The original? Yes, it's one of the best games I've played and it gave me hope for WRPGs.

>>718587690
I really liked that quest. There were so, so many ways to skin that cat. Sorta like deus ex but theres a bit more to the options that either going in by door or a vent.

>>718587820
And then the hope was crushed.

>>718563472 (OP)
If you enjoy movie games like The Witcher, yes. If you're expecting a deep RPG like a CRPG, no.

>>718588817
>quest to find these vile antisemites
>turns out it just kikes astroturfing the so called 'antisemites' persecuting them
checks out, historically speaking

>>718590284
i don't know if that is even a historical term, after all jews invented a special word for "racist" because they are so special

>>718588817
Yup. I bought it then refunded it after a couple hours, then tried playing a pirated copy but eventually gave up because it was shit.

>>718592419
They also invented the word racist because weaponizing language is what they do.

>>718566157
>combat gets trivial
>complains about weapons being underpowered
fucking lmao

>>718588817
>sees the word "goy"
>loses his shit and spergs the fuck out
/pol/ and its consequences have been a disaster for the 4chan website

>>718594640
Both can be true. Also even aside from their strength, non sword weapons just get fuck all variety and a gimped moveset.

>>718594804
>plays the /pol/ card like a good goy

>>718586603
very reasonable take and thanks for this post
will skip the game after reading your take