I have yet to play Steelrising but I have played Greedfall and Bound by flame. Greedfall is my favorite. The writing and voice acting is top notch for a AA game.

Greedfall. Loved most of the Technomancer too, apart from having to revisit Ophir all the time (and the respawning mobs).

"RPGs" ^_^

I played all of them except Steel Rising. And Greedfall is the best, but The Technomancer was really strong as well.

I played and loved greedfall. I played technomancer to chase that high, and I enjoyed it enough to beat it, but it was a big step down. I am thinking of trying bound by blood, but im not sure. Anyone else try and like it?

Please no

Not an elder scroll

@@claymorexx Greedfall budget 5.5 million.. Skyrim 100 million (85 million development, 15 million marketing).. now imagine Greedfall 2 with a 50 million dollar budget

​@@arkeshn729 you really think they only spent 15 million on marketing? I have a bridge to sell you

of course smaller & more competent team could make better game for a fraction of money Bethesda used... buit it would sell less because it's not popular developer/publisher

Let's just hope they don't make you wear that weird hair strip on one half of your face lol

Greedfall was fucking god awful, I need to see way more to be excited for a second one Edit: when an echo chamber uses ad populum, it’s honestly kinda funny. Look, your standards have to be extremely low to play greedfall and have enjoyed it. That shit was unbearably unfinished and boring. It’s not any better than your average monthly iOS game coming out.

@@zzodysseuszz Really? well, to each their own. I honestly enjoyed it, but I do hope for some improvements in the sequel.

@@zzodysseuszz Interesting take. Everyone seems to have loved it.

​​@@zzodysseuszz greedfall was fucking awesome. Better then anything a triple A studio was putting out. At the time

The setting sold me alone i love shot and pike warfare wish fnatsywriters would use it more

Nah, the problems of Greedfall have nothing to do with low budget, it's just poorly thought out rpg mechanics. There are millions of rpgs with lower budgets that are so much better. Example: Outward.

​@@dificulttocure to each their own but I think you play Greedfall and Outward for completely different goals.

@@dificulttocure Outward is great. Nonetheless, I'm pretty sure that if Greedfall could have had a continuous open world without loading screens, they probably would have done that, and the budget limitations also are obvious when looking at how they skip scenes that would require a lot of extra voice acting (e.g. the trial of the evil scientist). That said, of course not all problems of Greedfall are rooted in budget - the aggro ranges of monsters and their reset mechanic are just bad and they should've done better.

@@dificulttocure all cities looking the same regarldess of faction ownership kinda blew balls

Arkane has the problem they are to big for the games they made. That has nothing to do with corporate BS. Dishonored and Prey were to big for the immersive sims they were and nobody wanted to play them. So they tried something new to survive with Deathloop and Redfall and that didn´t work very well. Arkanes story is a real tragedy and the antithesis of the spiders story.

@@ulfk5667 I get your point but to me it has MUCH to do with corp BS. Arkane and Eidos Montreal made big budget immersive sims and got relative success with Dishonored and Deus Ex, for a niche genre like this I'd even say they were great successes. They sold well and still do, both on consoles and PC. The problem is Zenimax and Square-Enix, selling enough to keep the studio afloat isn't enough for these parent companies, they want huge margins to please the share-holders. And they want unending financial growth, which is base neo-liberal stupidity. They grow a studio from 30 to 300 people, diluting the creative vision and freedom, letting key workers go to hire fresh, naive slaves. After a point the studio releases soul-less under-crafted soup and goes bankrupt. It can happen quickly or slowly (the long downfall of UbiSoft, Blizzard, etc...) but it happens. Spiders is at that crossroad where they finally get as big as their ambitions, I hope they won't become too big for the games they make too. Depends of their parent company's goal too, wait and see how Nacon/BBI manages them after buying Spiders from Focus Home Interactive. So far I find interesting that after struggling for many years with the combat part of A-RPGs they got the green light to make a souls-like A-RPG. They can learn from this experience (and relative success) to better their next games.

@@Biouke Dishonored was a successful game yes. And so they tried to walk this path and what happened? Dishonored 2 sold much worse than the first part. They tried it again with Prey. Nobody bought this game. Than came Death of the outsider. And it bombed saleswise. And all these games were fully developed under the umbrella of Zenimax. So you can´t say they didn´t try it. Deus Ex is another cup of tea imo. There i can see your argument.

​@@ulfk5667Prey was indeed an unfortunate casualty for one big reason: They gave it the wrong name. Remember that the Prey franchise had a rough history, and the unreleased number 2 sequel was still fresh by the old fans especially that Pray 2 open world looking trailer, and that was before we learn the awful sabotage by Zenimax. Arkane's game should had a more unique name, but of course Zenimax want to keep that IP alive somehow, even if it pissed or confused the general gaming populace.

@@Deliveredmean42 to be honest i don´t think that had much impact. Prey 2006 wasn´t the big Smashhit. Yeah fans of the first prey maybe didn´t buy the 2017 game. But they even didn´t do that if the name of prey 2017 would be different. Prey didn´t sold because it was an immersive sim. A genre popular by the critics but disliked by the mainstream.

Steelrising was a bit of a step back for them, but proved they're learning how to make combat more engaging and fluid. Greedfall 2 could be the one to watch out for with them.

@@TheWildManEnkidu Here's hoping Greed Fall 2 turns out great then.

I hope i will be proven wrong, but i think their budget is too limited for the kinds of games they want to make.

@@TheWildManEnkidu I think stepping out of their comfort zone, quite successfully I must add, was a great thing for them to do. More like a step to the side to find a much better path than back.

Nier Automata was made by a completely different studio than any other Nier/Drakengard game.

I gave greedfall a chance and I really like a lot of what it does as far as customization, art style, and even the tone of the game. I cannot get past the combat though, is it going to open up more as I progress into the game? I want to enjoy the game for what it is but there are certain aspects that make it hard to keep on, even though I feel like there's something there

I love the soundtrack of the game. Last played it when it came out, but i still listen to the OST.

Steel rising is the Spiders game I skipped. Might try it for 10 bucks but I'm a little burnt out on souls like games.

@@arkeshn729 Steelrising is good, just not for me, I bounce off most souls likes. Just don't have the manual dexterity and reaction timesto make em work. Still bought it to support spiders. One of the best AA studios IMO.

Don't they have a easier mode on it?

For some reasons spiders has always kept the same combat mechanics for the last 4 games i think

@@stockpilethomas7900 it's easy by default, it has to be the most easier of all souls like that have been released so far. You might struggle with a few specific mobs in the path but every boss is slow, dumb and you either make it hard for winning or just stick close to them and you use buffs to kill them in 20 seconds max.

Being hardcore means willing to play anything even if it's not up to par, being hardcore does NOT mean not willing to play games just cause they're janky

That genre of combat is called "souls-like" and its a well populated tag on steam in case you like that stuff.

@@XhumpersX Souls like is one thing, Sekiro like would another. I 'played every single notable souls like game available. Hopefully games that are inspired by Sekiros deflect/parry combat are on the rise with Wo Long Fallen Dynasty, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order and Surviror and Thymesia being prime examples of it.

M:WL is Amazing! One of my favorite RPGs of that generation! Definitely Reminds me of an old Bioware title! I agree if he got past the first hour he would probably of liked it!

He probably only did a couple of hours and left. I finished that game to completion. Here's hoping for a third game in that series.

Surprisingly, Of Orcs and Men is actually backwards compatible on Xbox One / Series.

@@daddydeadly3428 I didn't know. Seems to be unavailable but will keep my eye out. Thnx

of orcs and men has a pc version... I did not play it because I did not like kt

I think one reason people hate the combat in both Mars and Technomancer is that enemies can just decide to dodge your attacks, and you'll just swing through the enemy. If you don't immediately dodge when you notice that, they'll get a free hit. It actually adds a fun sense of rhythm to the combat when you are aware of it, but if not, it'll just feel like enemies just get a free hit in on you.

@@KrazyKain Yeah, it was definitely clunky at parts, but whew.. so much atmosphere & strategy I honestly barely even noticed it. Though I am a diehard Piranha Bytes & Spiders fan, so prolly a bit biased in that regard. xD

@@drearmouse9510 Piranha Bytes and Spiders... You are a person of good taste. Literally my favorite rpg developers.

@@KrazyKain Aaamen! No one does it quite like them. Just had a flashback of needing to shrink a giant troll with a scroll in Gothic so ya cld squish em, and it's like.. you don't even see that type of curious gameplay anymore. And that was over 20 years ago!

No lol. Thats one of the worst games Ive ever played. Theres no excuse or defending that garbage game.

V good games but man I'm not gonna lie I'm still rather miffed they went and had prequels based on Styx instead of a sequel that picks up on that cliffhanger

@@Minority119 Im guessing they realized Styx was the most popular and interesting character. The games are mostly stealth and platforming so at least both serie are their own thing. They might still do a sequel later , who know 😜

Fr?

They weren't develeped by Spiders, but Styx: Master of Shadows and Styx: Shards of Darkness are set in the same setting.