I found DOS1 underwhelming, mainly due to the lackluster story and level design. The combat was okay I guess. I played Underrail that same year and it was much better. So was AoD.
Roxor won't have any of your "happiness"Has anyone tried offering the codex reviewers a happy pill?
Edit: Also, D: OS2 got the GOTY of the Codex, just as it did here on the Watch.
Roxor won't have any of your "happiness"
The review itself isn't even wrong on many aspects. D:OS2 is mechanically inferior to D:OS1, mostly because of the absurd armor system which reduces everything except high damage to almost useless levels. The largest amount of abilities is entirely useless as it simply won't have any effect on enemies because they still have 1/1557 armor.
Add to that the reduction of AP from a very viable system to "you can do two things at most per turn", and all the other reductions like removal of resistances and hit/fail chances
(played through the game and I cannot remember seeing more than a handful of misses).
In the end, there is just much less to the combat than what was in D:OS1.
Still, it is very much enjoyable (if you don't try to get through the HP sponge mode somehow called "Tactician"), which is a detail Roxor just didn't get in his strange hatred of the game.
The game got voted as GOTY on the Codex for a reason, and to much butthurt by the few haters like Roxor.
Wrong, they didn't hate D:OS2 at all. It's their game of the year for 2017 and by a wide margin. In their voting, which was done by assigning each game a score of 1-4, D:OS2 scored an avg of 3.32, with 58% of voters rating it a 4 and 24% rating it a 3. Only 8% rated it a 1/4. It was one of the most well-received games in the history of their GotY polling.The Codex is such a gosh darned hipster site. They hate everything.
RPGCodex has a very vocal minority that hates everything. Just like everywhere on the internet.
I don't think there's any such thing as an "official" review at the Codex. I believe if anyone who's "respected" there does a well-written/researched review of a game, they post it. Some games have had 2 (maybe even 3?) different reviews posted, from different people.Well then they shouldn't hand this minority the Codex 'official review' of games.
Codex or not, some very valid criticisms that I agree with. Quest markers are terrible and I also don't like what they did with abilities and skills all being +5%.
Not sure on story as I have not played the game yet (played about half of first one and thought it was pretty good but not great). Just don't have much time and long list of games. Will probably bargain price play it eventually.
I still think Divine Divinity is their best game (even though I don't like real time combat)
Bottom line, the narrative being pushed by some here that "Codex hates D:OS2" is just as wrong as you could possibly get.