You lost me on the word fanboi. Aside youngsters, only persons immature, complexed, unintelligent or a combination thereof should use the word. Trending...trends..., which will probably be your justification for it, are as well but a tool for the above categories to delude themselves into a semblance of belonging/acclimatisation.
Since however i too started here with a negative post, and of a personal tone, i thought i owed it to myself to read on regardless
Now you purport to knowing your RPGs, but your text shows anything but knowledge, or the experience through which it is attained;
- you highlighted gameplay issues that while perfectly surmountable, you yourself relegated to a personal failure (yours) to overcome by lack of critical thinking/taking advantage of the tools provided to you. Will not focus on what that entails any further, as it would only paint a bleaker picture. Of yourself, not the game's
- you mentioned a lack of bells and whistles (ie fluff, visuals, further personalisation of avatars) when, coming to this game with the experience you purport to have had, you should have known in advance they would have been absent. Since you did know, again, in advance, that this was an Indie title. Indie does not equate "hip", west coast, or daddy's money. Indie entails
1) lack of funds
2) lack of funds
- you find a lack of quest logging problematic, yet appear to have had no problem playing the GoldBox titles. One assumes pen and notepad should not have been strange a concept to you. Most especially in a title that harkened old school, in a title that consciously attempted to ---attract--- old schoolers in its KS. Most definitely in a title that was Indie, where funds would, and were indeed, best spent elsewhere
- your issues with having only 2 PCs are a matter of personal opinion, and i would be unfair to criticise it. My thoughts on the matter however are:
1) both wasteland and PoE had full party turn based. Larian therefore needed something different, will once again remind you they needed a successful KS (see incomplete past games)
2) unlike both inxile and obsidian, larian (graphics are a good indication towards this) also tried to attract a newer, younger audience. I am of the impression that they consciously limited it to 2 + companions, so as not to over-alienate the newer audiences. They need to both attract, and maintain a clientele
- everything else which you probably think i am neglecting falls back into my first bullet point. Including "abstract". Unless you have a universal, homogenous list of what rules there are for the term 'perception' to have a meaning, even within itself, do refrain from practicing use of the term. I assure you it has been overused, molested and abused to death.
That aside, welcome. Really
