Bancho_Villa said:
HoloDust said:
Well, there isn't any WRPG game out there that is as known to mainstream audience as well as Skyrim. It is PR, Skyrim was, most likely, for most of those 20+ millions people buying it first open world WRPG they've ever played (if not first WRPG, period) - it surelly does sounds a lot better for press release than comparing it to Gothic, which is their main influence, but quite unkown to mainstream.
I like the game, I think it's very good open-world WRPG, but as someone who's been playing c/W/RPGs for almost 30 years now, I can find a lot of flaws in it. Bottom lines - don't fall for hype, people should really do their homework, specially if they're venturing into genre they're not very familiar with and maybe above all, keep your mind open and don't compare it to other games from different sub-genres and base how you like it on that.
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I actually consider myself quite familiar with rpgs. In fact, I play them almost exclusively. I did do my homework and I played w2 as well. I'm familiar with most sub-genres. Simply put, w3 disappointed me.
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OK, I was speaking more in general, though you said it yourself you fell for hype. Honestly, there are not too many open-world WRPGs of real-time combat solo character variety, so it's not really hard to know what to expect nor later to compare.
I'm not sure really what anyone who is familiar with this sub-type was expecting from this game, I can only speak for myself and judge it as that type of game, and compare it to that type of games only - and in some things it's a great game, in some others it often fails, but I still find it very worthy entry in genre that has quite long droughts.
