BurntWitsWeekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
AshtearWarhammer 40K: Rogue Trader. Other than a couple of hours in Dawn of War, this is my only experience with the setting and I’m really digging it. I also already like Argenta more than any of the party members in Kingmaker or WotR. I’m nearing the end of Chapter 1, I think.
I have an interesting feeling about this one, like it could possibly be an all-timer for me, although my experience with gaming is telling me it’s more likely it’ll end up being more of a near miss. I had a good feeling about Kingmaker early too, but that game always felt very raw, obviously a product of a young studio. WotR was massively disappointing, unfortunately. Hoping Rogue Trader ends up more like the former. Just wish I had more time/energy to play it.
Denjin
CoelacanthDamn, very sad to hear WotR was a disappointment for you. I also had similarly mixed feelings about Kingmaker, but I was looking forward to WotR as everyone was saying it’s so much better.
Yeah, that’s part of why it was so disappointing! Hah. I had a really good time with Kingmaker, really the only big complaint I had about it was the encounter density. Just far, far too many fights. The kingdom management fell off the rails at the end, too, but at least that was a pretty small part of the game. So I figured I’d love WotR. Most of my complaints are with the story (especially since I loved Kingmaker’s villain, so that’s a tough bar to clear), not the gameplay, but yeah, so much of it didn’t land for me.
The amount of fights wouldn’t be so bad either if the encounter design wasn’t so bad. Especially towards the endgame it just felt like Owlcat absolutely hate their players. Both HATEOT and the endgame sucked, and that’s coming from someone who was earned beforehand to put Blind Fight on every single character. That being said there were parts I really enjoyed - the whole Vordakai arc was great I thought.
Shame to hear that about the story. That’s the part that always made me hesitant about WotR too - I tend to prefer more grounded narratives over epic godslaying adventures.