Submitted 6 days ago by TreseBrothers@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.vg247.com/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-preview
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 feels like a hobgoblin game. A game for late nights, sick days off work. A game you can obsess over. It’s a wonderful historical romp for the average video game-enjoyer, if they have the constitution to munch on the occasional wave of tedium. Allow me to make a case for the game’s merit by comparing it to the inevitable rival it’ll have in the eyes of gamers: The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim for good measure.
Jesus Christ be praised
Henry has come to see us!
I’m ashamed to say that I could not play the first game because I NEVER managed to pick a lock.
Really? Even in the little tutorial one with the miller?
The very first one, that’s in a small house/shed. And because we can’t save the game everywhere, I had to reload the las checkpoint to try again. It was really stressful. I play on XBox, so I don’t know if with a keyboard it’s easier. All I know is that I gave up.
Could never pick a lock either. I quit because I couldn’t hit anything with a bow and that noble guy made fun of me.
Kunesh better be in KCD 2 or I ain’t buying
Even fully kitted out with guns and armor he’ll still beat you to a pulp if you come for his hammer.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
Does it have the same skill-leveling mechanic as the first one, where the player has about as much control of their body as a drunk standing on one stilt, and sometimes has to fight with actions failing to work at all, until they slog through hours of mind-numbing training sessions?
I wanted to like KC:D. There were parts of it that I found really appealing, but I found that mechanic bloody intolerable, so I ended up deleting it and never looking back.
DV8@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The combat for me was refreshing honestly, it felt like actual skills and knowledge I have irl about swordfighting (which are bad against better fighters and limited knowledge tbh) translated really well. Once you figure out the controls it’s pretty easy and just about managing your stamina a bit.
Other parts like the monastery mission just felt bugged and we’re frustrating to the point it basically stopped me from finishing the game. I even looked up a walkthrough and that did nothing. A shame though because I really liked wondering around in the world but that mission basically stopped me from just doing that too.
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The monastery was great, you could cheese it in so many ways
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
My main issue with the first game was that I felt like it didn’t respect my time. There were some missions where the game would send you miles away to get something or find a person, only for you to arrive there and have an NPC go “Nah it’s not here” and send you miles in the other direction and do the same thing, and sometimes arbitrarily dump like 6 bandits on you along the way that you had no hope of defeating, so you’d die and go all the way back to square one again. I had to bail on eventually because of that.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Just do archery. Maybe a dagger for backup. I was playing a shitload of Mordhau back then, and that only underscored Deliverance’s melee clunkiness even further. Still a fun game, though.