Did anyone here play Tyranny by chance? A shorter game, but I personally enjoyed it. Curious what other more hard core rpg gamers thought about it.
Sure! Overall I liked it very much with few caveats.
On a negative side: 1) combat got very stale, very quickly. Small enemy variety, cooldown skills meaning few repeating moves on a loop. A classless system, which skilltrees that still pigeon-hole you into somewhat of a class. 2) Some big choices in act one that we spent most of the game just playing out 3) A strong feeling of "season1" story wise. Stings especially now, when it seems highly unlikely we will ever get a sequel, especially from Obisidan.
Good stuff: 1) nice pulpy world, with unique atmosphere and "time period". 2) Big fan of spell creator 3) Some neat multiple ways of dealing with final bosses depending on choices made throughout the game 4) Really intrigued with some of the concepts of the title and magic of this world 5) did power fantasy really well. 6) Opening conquest really cleverly allows us to define and develop our character and establish her and his relationships with some of the major players before we even get to play. Really, really effective opening - whole act1 is pretty great.
