Kingdom Come Deliverance - Or how I stopped worrying about SJW and love Bohemia | Now with betrayal and a lot more niggers. "Historically accurate." BlackRock ruined the series.

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Kinda looks like TES Oblivion but without magic.
 
I was an early backer because I loved the idea of trying to recreate a real place in a real point in history in as much minute detail as book learnin' would allow. And I loved Vavra's single-minded devotion to his idea and 'screw the h8ters' attitude. I got to piddle around in the beta, but I'll wait for a while on the final because I don't actually get a lot of gaming time and I have a stupid backlog.

I'd pay to play a similarly painstaking game about Shaka Fucking Zulu, niggers not withstanding. I think this is a great approach to a game environment.
 
Here'ss Polygon's review. They're claiming it's awash with bugs, is boring, is sexist (erm, Central Europe in 1403 was not known for progressive views on gender equality, people) and dredging up Gamergate. Again.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/16/17007762/kingdom-come-deliverance-impressions

They also clearly haven't played it; not properly anyhow. They claim that the only priest you talk to is gluttonous and snide. Really? Father Godwin is a fucking legend. But the Vicar (the bloke sent down by the bishop of Prague to purge heretics in the "Waldensians" side quest) is frankly terrifying despite being a balding man in a brown robe. Because his sackcloth and ashes routine and the fact that he's a true believer and would sling you on the rack even though he's hired you makes him genuinely frightening. Women are either decorations or whores? Clearly he hasn't played the quests "The Sport of Kings" which is about a widow trying to get her late husband's horse-trading business taken seriously in a macho world, "Aquarius" in which a woman pushes herself forward for a man's job, or "At M'lady's Service."

It's almost like the reviewer gave it the once over then decided it wasn't morally deserving of a good score and wrote that half-arsed shit.

Also, I've not seen half as many bugs as people are alleging.
 
Nobody listens to Polygon anyway. They don't play games and when they try, they can't. Varva has the wrong politics, so it will get a bad review. While they'll praise some tranny visual novel as game of the year even though five people have heard of it and nobody played it. Honestly, their opinion never matters. When it comes to influencing things, they're inconsequential. The game is already on the Top Sellers list and has tons of hours played.

Once more, it doesn't matter your politics as long as your product is appealing. This is something they will never understand or grasp. And why they will always fail.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
Here'ss Polygon's review. They're claiming it's awash with bugs, is boring, is sexist (erm, Central Europe in 1403 was not known for progressive views on gender equality, people) and dredging up Gamergate. Again.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/16/17007762/kingdom-come-deliverance-impressions

They also clearly haven't played it; not properly anyhow. They claim that the only priest you talk to is gluttonous and snide. Really? Father Godwin is a fucking legend. But the Vicar (the bloke sent down by the bishop of Prague to purge heretics in the "Waldensians" side quest) is frankly terrifying despite being a balding man in a brown robe. Because his sackcloth and ashes routine and the fact that he's a true believer and would sling you on the rack even though he's hired you makes him genuinely frightening. Women are either decorations or whores? Clearly he hasn't played the quests "The Sport of Kings" which is about a widow trying to get her late husband's horse-trading business taken seriously in a macho world, "Aquarius" in which a woman pushes herself forward for a man's job, or "At M'lady's Service."

It's almost like the reviewer gave it the once over then decided it wasn't morally deserving of a good score and wrote that half-arsed shit.

Also, I've not seen half as many bugs as people are alleging.
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Far as bugs go, I only encountered one: the Bailiff of Skalitz's sword not appearing when I reloaded the game thinking that I could actually of beaten Runt after he kicked my ass. The sword from reloading that save never appeared unless I exited the game and the loaded it from Steam or my desktop. As for Godwin, yeah the dude shows hypocrisy in getting drunk and banging a woman but I like how he speaks of Jan Huss's words. The segment with him literally felt like a medieval version of a segment from a comedy flick where the main character would get drunk and do some wacky shit.

Secret Asshole said:
Nobody listens to Polygon anyway. They don't play games and when they try, they can't. Varva has the wrong politics, so it will get a bad review. While they'll praise some tranny visual novel as game of the year even though five people have heard of it and nobody played it. Honestly, their opinion never matters. When it comes to influencing things, they're inconsequential. The game is already on the Top Sellers list and has tons of hours played.

Once more, it doesn't matter your politics as long as your product is appealing. This is something they will never understand or grasp. And why they will always fail.
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When wanting to know of how bad they play it, just look at DOOM. The way the video was in showing gameplay was something of a joke. As for politics, sure Vavra may as well be right-wing in the eyes of a guy from Burgerstan or Canuckland (or some Twitter spergs, considering some complaining about him and Kingdom Come can hail from a country like Germany or Britain) but those that want to know how the game is can care less about him and more on how the game is, especially from those that actually gave a good amount of time to play it.
 
Secret Asshole said:
Nobody listens to Polygon anyway. They don't play games and when they try, they can't. Varva has the wrong politics, so it will get a bad review. While they'll praise some tranny visual novel as game of the year even though five people have heard of it and nobody played it. Honestly, their opinion never matters. When it comes to influencing things, they're inconsequential. The game is already on the Top Sellers list and has tons of hours played.
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I recall that they gave Witcher 3 an 8/10 for insufficient POCs (when everyone else was giving it 9+) but they at least deigned to actually give it a proper go. But then CDPR are a lot larger than Warhorse etc. and maybe they didn't want to offend the owners of a large digital distribution platform.

Actually, I've noticed that about Polygon even though I don't normally read them. They happily gush and provide arslikhan towards big developers while damning smaller ones with faint praise or even sneerily throwing invective towards them. A quick search shows page after page after page on AssCreed Origins and on Destiny 2, all gushing. Yet they didn't even deign to review ELEX (a game that I found to be a surprise hit and have two runs under my belt of, despite being rough around the edges) other than an advance piece sneering at its premise and setting and saying it was probably going to be a disaster. I smell payola?

Unless of course they're some obscure hipster indie bollox as you say because that's their target audience.

What games reviewing really needs is something like Amiga Power from the old days. A print mag that comes out once a month and gives honest and in-depth reviews. The monthly format means that there's proper time to give a game a proper going over and to digest it and reflect upon it, rather than this sort of "make it fast, make it first, make it up" shit. That, combined with genuine writing talent and wit meant that their reviews were generally pretty accurate, even if I didn't agree with them on everything.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
They also clearly haven't played it; not properly anyhow.
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Everyone knows "game journalists" don't play games. They're too dumb. This is why they're universally ignored other than by other angry autists.

Ginger Piglet said:
What games reviewing really needs is something like Amiga Power from the old days. A print mag that comes out once a month and gives honest and in-depth reviews.
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It says something that you literally have to go back that far to find anything good to say about these utterly worthless "journalists" who are nothing but parasites on the community they should be serving.

I haven't bought a single game in over a decade based on a "review" from one of these frauds. It's always been because of word of mouth from actual humans who I know who have played it and whose opinions can be trusted.

They're not only liars, they're incompetent hacks. Even if they tried to be honest, they have no opinions anyone should even consider.
 
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Jesus, do I ever regret even reading just a paragraph of that Polygon article.

On another note, I just realized that I was not utilizing my horse's carrying capacity at all.

And I encountered my first really aweful bug. So, after killing some Bandits, I noticed that my mouseview was yanked in some direction occasionally. I thought it might be due to something being stuck in the mouse's sensor. I mounted my horse and quicktraveled to Rattay (with the bow still in hand), there, my mouseview was now constantly dragged down, checked my mouse and there was nothing. I then noticed that I couldn't move my character and when trying to dismount, Henry whistled (even though he was already in the saddle). Tried to save and load, which means I now spawn within the horse when loading the game and I am still stuck, even when quicktraveling to another place.

I don't know what caused this bug, but I have a feeling it might have been caused by quicktraveling with a weapon in hand.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
Jesus, do I ever regret even reading just a paragraph of that Polygon article.

On another note, I just realized that I was not utilizing my horse's carrying capacity at all.

And I encountered my first really aweful bug. So, after killing some Bandits, I noticed that my mouseview was yanked in some direction occasionally. I thought it might be due to something being stuck in the mouse's sensor. I mounted my horse and quicktraveled to Rattay (with the bow still in hand), there, my mouseview was now constantly dragged down, checked my mouse and there was nothing. I then noticed that I couldn't move my character and when trying to dismount, Henry whistled (even though he was already in the saddle). Tried to save and load, which means I now spawn within the horse when loading the game and I am still stuck, even when quicktraveling to another place.

I don't know what caused this bug, but I have a feeling it might have been caused by quicktraveling with a weapon in hand.
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I've not had that bug but during the quest where Hans Capon invites / orders you to have a bath with him, my character spawned in the bath right on top of Hans so it looked like they were bumming each other. It was rather amusing.
 
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I hope there is DLC with this game with perhaps going to other lands with a Landsknecht DLC as that would be cool to be like that sort of build going to be one of the best mercenary forces the continent of Europe saw during the Late medieval ages.
 
Haven't played it but from what I've seen, is their pristine dentistry historically accurate?:thinking: This is important info like the amount of blacks and gender neutrals in the setting.
 
Just to say to any Kiwis playing the game: it helps to have a horse (you get one after you are done hunting with Capon), a bow (if you beaten Capon at archery, you get his bow which is better in damage than the starter bows), and a lot of arrows (you can get these from killing archers such as Cumens). I say this because earlier, the game's random encounter nature had me going against a couple bandits, one of which had Milanese plate armor. After a lot of arrows and dodging axe swings from horse back, I managed to get some good plate armor (though oddly enough, the lamellar armor from a Cuman I killed is on par despite the cumen armor being made of leather instead of steel).

Also, talk to Bernard even after you done the storyline quest where you train from him. He can teach you how to riposte and doing non-lethal training can help raise your skills without fear of getting killed.
 
The combat really stands out, I am wary of engaging more than two people at a time.

Liking the fast travel system as well. Fast traveling, get notified of a wayfarer, turns out to be a merry mercenary that wants to spar and wager on the outcome.

I have good armor, can take 2 opponents and pretty decent with blocking.

Get my shit wrecked while managing to land only one hit.

On another instance, huntig rabbits in a mission, stumble on a fight of 4 knights versus some Cumans.

Hop in for an easy kill, the cuman notices and bumrushes me, wrecks my shit. A kinght manages to strike him in the back while I am being beaten like a ragdoll, Cuman flees and we all take after him, run him down and I take as many valuable items I can while managing my inventory weight and trying to stop myself from bleeding to death.

This is the way I want to live.
 
LazloChalos said:
The combat really stands out, I am wary of engaging more than two people at a time.

Liking the fast travel system as well. Fast traveling, get notified of a wayfarer, turns out to be a merry mercenary that wants to spar and wager on the outcome.

I have good armor, can take 2 opponents and pretty decent with blocking.

Get my shit wrecked while managing to land only one hit.

On another instance, huntig rabbits in a mission, stumble on a fight of 4 knights versus some Cumans.

Hop in for an easy kill, the cuman notices and bumrushes me, wrecks my shit. A kinght manages to strike him in the back while I am being beaten like a ragdoll, Cuman flees and we all take after him, run him down and I take as many valuable items I can while managing my inventory weight and trying to stop myself from bleeding to death.

This is the way I want to live.
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In contrast:

Come across a fight between bandits and Cumans. Let them duke it out until they thinned out. Kill a bandit with some good leg armor and loot him.

Come across a camp of three Cumans, one of whom has a better shield and another with a better bow than what Capon gave me. Also get some lamellar armor, making me more well-armored.

Two in-game days later, do some horse archery against a bandit in Milanese style breastplate (which weighs less and is more or less the same with the Cuman lamellar) and his less well-armored archery buddy (who kills a nearby wood cutter).

Make 3k from this misadventure while keeping some decent gear.

At this point though, I feel like the save system can fuck itself since I failed to take a Savior schnapp before engaging a bandit camp (seriously, fuck those stupid bandits rushing in to help their leader and my horse can go screw itself for not coming to me). At least I can redo it at night and try to snipe some bandits while running off like a punk.
 
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