Recently started playing this since it caught my eye on PS+. Never played Gothic or Risen before, but decided to take a chance on it after watching a few reviews. 25 hours in, and I’m obsessed. Haven’t been this invested in an RPG since the first time I played Skyrim a decade ago. It’s rough around the edges and often frustrating, but truly an amazing journey. Great video

Started this game two days ago and i love it!! Cant wait to finish it and play the second One

i freakin love this game. it has a depth many triple A titles pretend to have.

I started this game and I'm two hours in. I can say that I see myself doing over 100+ hours in this game easily. Game is amazing! Nice video too!

One of the best rpgs ever the only rpg that made you fear for your life and actually feel like your character progresses and became steonger

Finished the game once, got every faction to the last rank (Regent, etc) and start now 1-2 years later my fourth Playthrough (:

Good video. Don’t worry about your editing. Content is good. Subscribed and take care✌🏻

In Elex each faction is more suited to a certain playstyle. In my playthroughs and experience playing this game . Berserkers - Mage Playstyle (Fire and Poison are good. Ice is mediocre.) Outlaws - Best suited for Melee playstyle (Tough guy, Pick Me up and Mind Changer Chem are OP) Clerica - Best suited for Range playstyle (One Man Army, One with weapon and Psi Hologram ability are good for a range build). As for your video, good work sir and you earned my respect and sub for taking the time to play and review this hidden gem.

Review - pretty damn solid. Albeit the early game struggle, I learned to compensate utilizing some old school fundamentals that will surely help new players: 1. scum save often, 2. learn to jet pack to a nice camping spot inaccessible from the ground and chip damage with the bow, 3. buy arrows often (like everytime you're near a trader); 4. cook and keep all meat products (you will have more cooked meat than health potions for a long time). Be patient, have fun and when possible, try to be observant. Also, agro tough enemies and lure then into friendly NPC character mobs when possible - essential NPCs are best as they cannot be killed in most, if not all, circumstances - they only get "knocked out" when downed. Good video and the commentary was quite enjoyable.

In Elex 2, you learn it totally was technology that caused the meteor to hit Magalan.

Ahhh a fellow cleric! good work on the video brother!

Ah Piranha Bytes, making the same janky, frustrating and ball smashing experience since 2001. And I wouldn’t have these games any other way, they’ll be sorely missed.

This gameplay gives off Knights of the old republic vibes. I like it and well definitely give it a go thx to the video.👍

Loved the world in Elex, I was wondering how you get the textures to look so crisp? (especially noticable when you talk to npcs in this video) Is it just the resolution scaling option?

I wanted to play range with spear guns but didnt worked and it ruined the immersion and i unistalled twice, i followed guides, and read tons of wiki stuff to learn to level propertly but nothing... now i want to try going for meele this time.

I feel like something like elex and other games you aren’t feeling like doing full edited playthroughs of would be good as livestreams into VODs on the channel. Less backend work than the edited videos and but you can kinda chill and play stuff were gunna play anyway, hang with the community, and as you play have clips to pull from for actual KZfaq videos like this later on.

the clerics got to you, didnt they?

"the berserkers blame the meteor on technology, which makes no sense"... unless the game is called elex 2.

Hey do ever plan on making a elex 2 video?

What about Elex 2? More of the same, worst or better? Did you play this game in de hardest difficulty?

Walkthrough soon ?

this game kicks your A*** but its fun

The game is janky, the combat system is challenging, the difficulty, especially the first few hours, is brutal. However, the worldbuilding and exploring is exceptional and I so happen to like the main character and the companions, even though companion AI is absolute crap. I haven't had this much fun exploring a world since Fallout 4.

Ill take a janky AA game over any overproduced, soulless AAA day one patched games as a service crap.

Elex feels like a Piranha Bytes impression of a Spiders game. PB's earlier titles were much better and I enjoy Spiders' stuff for the most part but Elex is an exercise in meandering bloat.

I guess I'm not getting a reply...

I'll be honest with you. I've played all Piranha Bytes game except Elex 2, most of them numerous times. And Elex 1 was really disappointing in comparison. The difficulty was not challenging, it was tedious, especially at the beginning when I was yet to equip a decent weapon and all my attacks bar the special one dealt a single point of damage to everything stronger than a young rat. That's because the HUD blatantly lies to the player - increasing your strenght does NOT increase your melee damage directly, the only thing attributes do are allowing to meet requirements for equipment and abilities. I COULD'VE increased my STR and DEX anyway to get a better sword or a bow but instead I invested in INT and CUN to get more perks from personality tree so I could pass speech checks with NPC's in Goliet. I thought investing in dialogues is going to be worthwhile like in New Vegas but my reward was a couple of herbs and some lunch money. Some time later I finally get my hands on a new bow so I no longer had to scratch enemies to death. Than five hours later I upgraded my old bow increasing my damage even further. Five hours later I upgraded my new bow as well. And five hours later I found a legendary plasma rifle which has a fire mode that completely stunlocks any target. My "zero to hero" adventure lasted 15 hours out of 85 of my total playthrough time after which the final boss died after eight shots. Regardless of my point in power combat was NEVER fun except maybe occasional troll, cyclop or robot. Despite visual variety all ranged weapons behave exactly the same to the point that if your animation of pulling an arrow from a quiver gets interrupted you cannot shoot your bow until you press the reload button. But it's leagues ahead of melee with absolutely unsufficient stamina pool at the beginning, some hitboxes extending three meters forwards, effectiveness of blocking and parrying overly depending on both parties' equipment type and next to none tracking between attacks. Souls games are fun because they give you a hard task and all the tools you need to complete it. Elex instead throws you on hostile world, says "have fun lol" and proceeds to throw rocks at you. This is NOT how previous game worked, either the road to power was relatively straightforward (G1, G3, R2) or you could overcome the power gap using player's skill (G2, R1, R3). Do I consider Elex 1 a bad game? No, the open world, the setting, the interconnected quest structure, the environmental storytelling are all great. But it only adds to the disappointment because PB did the hardest part and then fell flat with something trivial in comparison which however makes a crucial part of the gameplay loop. If you're new to the Piranha Bytes's school of cRPGs, consider giving Risen 3 a shot. It's easier, it's more fluid and it's a steal on a sale.