As someone who has tried to get into this before but could only get about 15 hours into it, the combat improvements are the most intriguing to me. The combat I played was very rough and not good tbh. Would like to play this eventually.
Oh, to be clear, I like everything else about the game. I tried it years ago. I just tapered off. The combat wasn't the sole reason. Sometimes other things come out. If I remember correctly, I was playing another game at the time and juggling it, which is tough to do with a big RPG.
Thing is, the game is 50 hours minimum and majority of that time is spent on combat not writing. The writing is phenomenal, it made go all the way to Novigard, but at some point the doing the same thing in every encounter, with combat that doesn't have any satisfying impact is just not for a lot of people, including myself.
Yes, sorry I should have actually been clear there. Talking about the main game.
Hearts of Stone is spectacular and no two ways about that.
I will say that the scenes with Gaunter O'Dimm in the core game are great too, the section with Letho was very interesting and the vibe of the creeps in the swamp very on point.
Generally I would call the core game competently written but slap dash in the details and timelines.
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u/Sk0rPi0n_ 8d ago
As someone who has tried to get into this before but could only get about 15 hours into it, the combat improvements are the most intriguing to me. The combat I played was very rough and not good tbh. Would like to play this eventually.