Is this game a mindfuck, Sup Forums?

Is this game a mindfuck, Sup Forums?

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Stop caring after the 15th cutscene explaining a brand new great tale of the gods for each sidequest

Mindfuck? Not really. You're just thrown into a world where a lot of ancient magi-tech exists and a lot of bad shit is leaking out of it.

Consider it more like, say, Shadowrun where the world occasionally fucks itself up so bad it forces a reset, but the godly relics of the previous World's iteration are buried deep beneath the surface until people find them and start FUCKING WITH THEM and cause the cycle of Bad Shit Happens to begin again.

Quests and setting are pretty good, not sure I'd call it a mindfuck.
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It can be, if you like. It can also be goofy as fuck schlock horror or classic winternight horror.

And it does it all really well. The only reason I don't talk about it on Sup Forums is that I don't want more normies to play it

>I don't want more normies to play it
Don't be silly, those 'normies' would watch Ross' Game Dungeon or some shit and then get turned off when Ross goes "OH NO, THE COMBAT SUCKS", when it's obvious he is just using builder skills in the first place.

No in the slightest. Great game but it's pretty straight forward for the most part. The setting itself is a hodge podge of mythology, cthulu, and so on. Good fucking game, shame the combat is so bland and boring. Gotten 3 friends to try it, none could get over that hurdle.

It's a hurdle everyone must leap.
I used my boner as a pole vault

Everyone is so eager to shittalk the combat, but to me it doesn't seem any worse than other MMOs.

At least this game has good music, atmosphere, world building and settings.

>Everyone is so eager to shittalk the combat, but to me it doesn't seem any worse than other MMOs.
Totally agree.
Eh, I'm more the Succubus type of guy.

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Why didn't you turn off HUD?

I've scoured the lands long and hard and there are too many to chose

Didn't know you can do that at the time I took that pic, would as well return there some beautiful day and turn off the hud

I felt so bad for this game

the publisher was EA and it was supposed to be released around the time tortanic would also get released and we all know all the money EA had thrown at it

it was dead on arrival

> look up this game
> enemies look great, has a strong puzzle focus, and reminds me of the World of Darkness MMO that will never happen

> play the actual game
> combat is tedious busywork
> cutscenes are just characters going on drawn-out monologues that barely go anywhere
> puzzles are interesting but veteran players just speed through them because there's no randomization to the solutions

It's not terrible, but I lost interest really quickly.

It's odd, there is some seriously great creativity on display, the quest where you have to die was a particularly great example. But the combat, sheesh. Dull as a doorknob.

But the combat does suck

The puzzles are actually pretty good.
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How do you make a waifu in this game? All the face/jaw combos looked manly as fuck.

Thank you. I really wanted to like this but WOW is it a drag.

I found the initial Kingsmouth zones were the most interesting, with a clear Lovecraftian inspiration and good atmosphere. But nothing mindblowing. It kind of goes downwards from there. Transylvania is ok. Egypt was more boring.

The combat system is fine. A shame they didn't remake the animations and sounds. Many abilities from the skill wheel have no real use, nor synergy; it's kind of an ivory tower design where you have to find out which abilities are the good ones and which ones are there to mess with you. That's easy to do thanks to all the theorycrafting published. Even with that, it's free enough to keep being interesting and open to changes you might want to make in your build.

I played the basic content from packs 1-4, nightmare dungeons, scenario grind from pack 8... Once you get there it becomes your typical gear grind game and quite hardcore at that, since it has various layers of upgrades (gear, glyphs, signets, augmentations).

Nah, just a decent waste of time.

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The only problem with the abilities I find is 2 fold
>Most become obsolete
Could've done what Diablo 2 did where the earlier abilities got alot more powerful the more you unlock
>1 Elite ability
Funnels builds towards 1 focus rather than the two weapons you have access to.

When I started off I used Shotgun/Blood magic and in the end I just went with Shotgun and 1 heal spell, going for elite heal spells would simply make fights last longer, simpler to just kill things quick and heal out of combat.

Dungeon mechanics where great in vanilla
> that cthulhu fight

>cthulu
Delete yourselves

Just fucking delete yourselves "Everything is XD CTHULHU TENTACLES LOL :P" memesters and read some Lovecraft