Would people recommend Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous for someone who was just "okay" with Kingmaker, prefers turn-based to RTWP, and doesn't like individual combat encounters lasting more than 2.5 hours?
I like what I see online about the choices and build options, but I am worried the length of combat and the overall crunchiness of the Pathfinder system might make the game too time-consuming.
Depends. - Did you play Kingmaker in the later-added TB mode or in RTwP? - Of the early-game (less abilities per character) vs late-game (lots of abilities per character) in Km, which did you enjoy more? - What was your opinion on the Kingdom Management in Km?
If you played Km in TB, then WotR is more of the same: combats are length-wise designed for RtwP, so TB combats can be a slog. In Kingmaker you get Mythic abilities, which makes your characters more powerful and more complex. Imo WotR's Army Management was a much worse version of Kingdom Management. More intrusive, less fun, more time-consuming, and gates exploration progress. (This was as of like a month or two after release, so it might have been updated to be less terrible...?)
I enjoyed Km for the most part, playing through twice but never completing the final couple Acts because it just got to be too much. I dropped WotR somewhere in the Act 2-3 range after ~40hrs playtime, as I just didn't enjoy the combo of 6-person party + RtwP-designed-game + Army Management.
Confession: I didn't finish the game. I did the first 10-15% of it. I played it in turn-based but it felt the game wasn't built around turn-based and was going really slow and clunky. I don't hate RTWP. I love it in Paradox games and would take RTWP grand strategy games over turn-based grand strategy any day of the week. But for some reason with the need to select each character to manage with different moves and statuses, --and if you ignore or miss one, bad things happen-- RTWP makes RPGs feel very micromanagement-y for me. I know a lot of people like the more detail-oriented style of strategy, but I've always been more of a big-picture kind of person who likes things in macro-chunks (except when I'm playing economy simulators. Then I LOVE micromanagement).
I might give Kingmaker another go before getting Wrath of the Righteous. How do the characters and writing stack up between the two? I vaguely remember finding some of the characters in Kingmaker very annoying (not all. Just like 1-3).
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