Lets Play: The Age of Decade

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PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

poo poo, at a glance I'm hugely tempted to go grab this game and try it out myself. Anything to be aware of before I make that decision?

# ¿ May 28, 2017 07:13

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PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Cathode Raymond posted:

Cons

- Difficult and RNG dependent combat system necessitates save scumming some fights, even with an optimized combat build (to the game's credit, there are a number of different and viable ways to optimize a combat build. No way to guarantee you will survive a given fight, though)
- Skill checks can be bullshit at times, and trying to pass some skillchecks are completely impractical (may have been changed since 2015)

Well, I don't care about the graphics, but...

Is the combat more RNG-based than, say, the Infinity Engine games? If it requires more save-scumming than Baldur's Gate due to save-or-die effects, it may be just too far gone for me. :v:

And with regards to the skill checks, is that to say that for some skill checks require extremely high values to pass, for the point of the game which they're at? Or is it something else?

# ¿ May 28, 2017 17:53

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Are there any outright trap options or useless skills? Or is everything roughly equally handy?

# ¿ May 28, 2017 19:24

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