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If you plan on buying the new Vampyr game...
7 years ago
Please take a moment to read this. Especially if you're an artist drawing for me
Please...for the love of everything, don't buy it before reading the negative reviews on Steam. There's fewer of them, but they're way more accurate and honest than the Developer fan boys spouting nonsense in the positive side.
The game is utter trash, all while trying to call itself an 'AAA' game. It calls itself an RPG game, when it's far closer to a Action Adventure/Visual Novel game, plus decisions you make are described in vague one-liners that does not communicate exactly what your character will do.
The game's not about 'living' as a vampire, it's about killing the same 3-5 different enemy types in repetitive two-step combat as a vampire, who does not feed on blood to live a healthy unlife, but does so to fill a 'blood' gauge that's nothing but a not-so-cleverly disguised mana bar so you can use vampire magic tricks! It's so incredibly linear, so incredibly, offensively untrue to the claims it puts on its store page, and on top of it all, it practically knows how mediocre and half-assed it is compared to its promises of grandeur, that it took a measly $5 away from the 'AAA' game price tag of $60(making it $55), and suddenly thinks people are okay with how incredibly low-level of an attempt this game was.
If you want a vampire game, guys? Go with anything, ANYTHING at all....EXCEPT this modern day hoax of a game.
The game is utter trash, all while trying to call itself an 'AAA' game. It calls itself an RPG game, when it's far closer to a Action Adventure/Visual Novel game, plus decisions you make are described in vague one-liners that does not communicate exactly what your character will do.
The game's not about 'living' as a vampire, it's about killing the same 3-5 different enemy types in repetitive two-step combat as a vampire, who does not feed on blood to live a healthy unlife, but does so to fill a 'blood' gauge that's nothing but a not-so-cleverly disguised mana bar so you can use vampire magic tricks! It's so incredibly linear, so incredibly, offensively untrue to the claims it puts on its store page, and on top of it all, it practically knows how mediocre and half-assed it is compared to its promises of grandeur, that it took a measly $5 away from the 'AAA' game price tag of $60(making it $55), and suddenly thinks people are okay with how incredibly low-level of an attempt this game was.
If you want a vampire game, guys? Go with anything, ANYTHING at all....EXCEPT this modern day hoax of a game.
AND you play as a vampire who is trying to regain their memory
The characters in the hub worlds don't really feel all that interesting, and talking to them was more of a chore than anything.
Sad that the LOK series has gone through so many cancelled games, and the multiplayer spin-off Nosgoth as well
And yes the game is linear. Sure you get to make choices and what not but in the long run the choices don't matter whatsoever and only contributes to the ending of the game, which comes around much too quickly, is confusing and honestly poorly put together for a company that prides itself on excellent story telling, and only has 4 possible endings, all of which are honestly uninspired and "Well yeah. I guessed that was gonna be it 3/4 of the way in"
The game is linear in the sense that you HAVE to talk to people droning on about their boring stereotypical 1910s British problems. You can't simply choose to be the beast as the game claims. No, they made that into a shitty ultimate ability that does shit for damage. Instead you can at best choose to be a liar or honest. Those are your options. You can't give into the vampire and play it like splinter cell and stalk your prey in the night. Instead you run through the same boring cookie cutter streets over and over again and kill the same stationary vampire hunters/ skals to get there.
The developers just made so many shitty shortcut decisions.
"Ugh I don't wanna render a ton of pedestrians"
Make it at night!
"Ugh still too manyyyy"
Have a plague there so a curfew is in effect!
"But there are still so manyyyyhyyyy"
Just make all of them from the same facial structure and make minor tweaks!
"But what should I do to make it believable that a city this big is this empty?"
Make it a vampire game so he only goes out at night.
"This is now an AAA game"
I'll say it again: this is not a triple A game. It's a half-assed moneymilking mess.