![]() ![]() Then again, party-based tactical combat plus base management is a pretty apt summary of what the unimpeachable XCOM: Enemy Unknown is all about perhaps, much like the dev team behind Shadowrun: Returns, the dev team behind Kingmaker figured that t he more their game can be compared to XCOM at all, the better off they would be. This struck me as a weird addition to the game while I’m certain there’s probably a lot of people who are interested in both party-based, character-driven Western RPGs and base management-style strategy games, I had never heard any clamoring from anyone in any of my travels that would suggest there was much of a market for games that combine the two. ![]() I touched on this in my initial post, but Kingmaker‘s big gimmick is that, from the second chapter onwards, your main character is given a territory to rule, thus opening up an entire secondary game mode in which you manage your newly acquired lands. I return to my own soapbox a broken man, ashamed to admit that I must use my platform to issue a corrective blog post and tell the world that, unfortunately, it turns out Pathfinder: Kingmaker is kind of bullshit. The game pissed me all the way off again, and this time I fear that there shall be no reconciliation. I completed the first chapter a day or so after publication, and I’ve barely touched the game since. At the time, I felt I had survived the worst bits of the early game, and was looking forward to finishing up the first chapter and moving on to (theoretically) bigger and better things. ![]() Some of these issues are major ( terrible early-game encounter balancing, compounded by the needlessly excessive difficulty of finding recruitable party members), and some of these issues are minor (an overwhelming surfeit of build options), and some of these issues are both major and minor at the same time (for the absolute last time – stop making tactical RPGs with a completely fixed camera perspective!). It’s been about three weeks since I examined Pathfinder: Kingmaker in this space, and back in those innocent, halcyon days, I saw fit to praise the game generally, but also take it to task for a variety of issues. #Pathfinder kingmaker freeHere’s a bit of free (read: unsolicited) advice for anyone looking to get into the video game blogging racket: Seriously, give yourself enough time with a game to make sure you have your opinion of said game fully sorted out before taking to the internet to make sweeping declarations about it for all to see. ![]()
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