Since I got basically no experience with DnD or PF, I've used build guides for my playthrough, so I'd like to think they were well built.
As I've written in another post, the last third of the game was just a complete slog, with overtuned enemies, that took far too long to kill.
Nothing game breaking for me as well, but tons of small stuff, plus atrocious performance.
Also, in my opinion, the last third of the game was just a complete slog. Enemies had just far too much health. Some of the final fights against trash mobs took as long or maybe longer than the final boss. I wouldn't call that balanced.
Dunno if you want to count it towards the balance, but the Kingdom Management was also not implemented well at all. In the first half it's just event after event, no breathing room. The second half it's constantly waiting, doing nothing, just clicking "next."
Yeah, 220 hours for mine, including the DLC campaign. Game is a buggy mess though and not properly balanced, especially near the end. As long as WotR improves at least those things, I'd be happy.
I wanted to play this game for a while now, but it's probably gonna take me like two months to get through, and finding that kind of time is tough, with the gazillions of other games, that I also want to check out.
Now, I'll definitely wait for this patch and maybe a few bug fixes (since it's Owlcat), to finally get to this one (hopefully next year).
It's fun, but I don't think I'll stick with it for too long. I dig the top-down stuff a lot more.
I also never got to a point where I was completely overpowered, like in Vampire Survivors, which I always enjoy.
How so? I actually think in recent years, they've gone away from making you log in all the time, with less daily quest and much better catch up mechanics, so it doesn't matter too much if you don't play for weeks or even months.
I think you're looking at this through rose-tinted glasses.
In my opinion mounts, pets, toys or whatever don't count as content, so in that case, you still get everything with the expansion and a sub.
But even if you think it's content, back in the day you also already had Collectors edition mounts and pets, the stuff from Blizzcon (before it was digital), TCG codes, etc. Not much different than today I think.
Stopped buying there a long time ago when I realised I can’t backup my purchases and have to use their platforms to play.
Many games on Steam are actually DRM-free, but of course it's not as easy as just going on GOG. You'd probably have to go to some 3rd-party website, like PCGamingWiki or SteamDB to find out.
I don't get how anyone is getting screwed over.
Also, what's an alternative? Everything is physical again? 99% of indie games cease to exist. But hey, at least you don't have to fumble around with a few accounts, although CD-keys will probably be back, which is basically the same. Or would you rather buy directly from the devs or publishers? Great, accounts for every single one. Have fun with that.
I gave FFXIII 3 shots, putting in over 40h in total. The farthest I got was about halfway through, two years ago. I hated the game so much, that I actually stopped playing games altogether for like three months. It was completely miserable. I'm a certified FFXIII hater.
~250 games testet, about 90% worked without issue.
Some games were hard coded to avoid Intel graphics and would use the AMD iGPU by default (even a newer title like Alan Wake 2 did this), but after disabling the iGPU, most of those were fine.
I think like 10-15 games didn't work at all or had basically unplayable performance, maybe a few more with graphical glitches, some minor, some more noticeable.
I did play on core difficulty ("intended PF experience" or something), but as far as I can tell nothing affects the enemy HP, just how much damage you take (maybe there's something in the custom modifiers). I guess even with a weak character you can get through on a lower difficulty, but it'll take ages.
However, even if I used proper builds, I still used my very limited knowledge of these games and systems. If you know what you're doing, you can probably use better spells or abilities to kill things faster.