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GreedFall

<div class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;deals jeg&lowbar;deals&lowbar;float clearfix">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;dealsheader clearfix">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"dealstitle">&NewLine; <h3>GreedFall DEALS<&sol;h3>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;storeinfo">&NewLine; <ul class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;storelist">&NewLine; <li>&NewLine; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;playstation&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;product&sol;UP4133-CUSA14211&lowbar;00-GREEDFALL0000000" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" class&equals;"storename">PlayStation Store<&sol;a>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"priceinfo">&NewLine; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;playstation&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;product&sol;UP4133-CUSA14211&lowbar;00-GREEDFALL0000000" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" class&equals;"price">&dollar;50<&sol;a>&NewLine; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;playstation&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;product&sol;UP4133-CUSA14211&lowbar;00-GREEDFALL0000000" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" class&equals;"productlink">VIEW<&sol;a>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <&sol;li><li>&NewLine; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amazon&period;com&sol;Greedfall-PS4-PlayStation-4&sol;dp&sol;B07TBGWMP7&quest;th&equals;1" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" class&equals;"storename">Amazon<&sol;a>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"priceinfo">&NewLine; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amazon&period;com&sol;Greedfall-PS4-PlayStation-4&sol;dp&sol;B07TBGWMP7&quest;th&equals;1" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" class&equals;"price">&dollar;42<&sol;a>&NewLine; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amazon&period;com&sol;Greedfall-PS4-PlayStation-4&sol;dp&sol;B07TBGWMP7&quest;th&equals;1" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" class&equals;"productlink">VIEW<&sol;a>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <&sol;li>&NewLine; <&sol;ul>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <&sol;div><p>As a big fan of Western roleplaying games&comma; I am disappointed this year&period; Where we had enough choice from RPGs in previous years&comma; it has been relatively limited so far&period; But there is superb news&excl; The small French developer <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;spiders-games&period;com&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Spiders<&sol;a>&comma; known from Bound by Flame and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;the-technomancer-review&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">The Technomancer<&sol;a>&comma; released their newest game titled <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;spiders-games&period;com&sol;games&sol;greedfall" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">GreedFall<&sol;a>&period; The question is&comma; of course&comma; whether the game takes full advantage of the scarcity of RPGs or whether it is going to undermine its ambitions&period; Here is my review&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>THE BLACK DEATH<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>In <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;greedfall&period;com&sol;en" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">GreedFall<&sol;a> you end up in a world that has gained much inspiration from the seventeenth century&period; Although this is peppered with the necessary fantasy elements&period; In the game&comma; the world is plagued by a disease that is suspiciously similar to the Black Death&comma; also known as the plague or as it is referred to here as the Malichor&period; The mother of the main character is also affected by this&comma; but the newly discovered island of Teer Fradee offers some hope for a cure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As Lord or Lady De Sadet you have to travel to the island to work as a diplomat for your faction&comma; the Congregation of Merchants&period; In addition&comma; you have to keep an eye out for your not too smart cousin&comma; who will become governor of the city of New Serrene&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-147933" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;10&sol;04052935&sol;GreedFall-5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>FABLE&colon; WITCHER CREED<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>GreedFall has an original setting compared to other Western RPGs&period; Not a standard medieval fantasy world&comma; but one based on the seventeenth century&period; You can see this mainly in the buildings and the clothing style&comma; which made me think of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;5-pirate-games-play-assassins-creed-iv&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed IV<&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;fable-ii-removed-games-demand&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Fable II<&sol;a>&period; The game does not contain a large open world&comma; but consists of different open regions that are connected to each other&period; A bit of Fable here too and I personally like this&period; The regions look particularly beautiful&period; It is definitely not the most beautiful RPG of this generation&comma; but it all looks good and especially attractive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There is something to be found everywhere&period; Whether it is a treasure chest&comma; group of enemies or new side quest&period; The environments look great&comma; but it is a shame that especially the interior of buildings is pretty recycled&comma; which means that you regularly encounter them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition to Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed and Fable&comma; developer Spiders has also looked at the success of The Witcher III&colon; Wild Hunt&period; For example&comma; on the map you will see question marks with interesting places and here and there you can find skill altars that give you an extra skill point&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-147930" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;10&sol;04052925&sol;GreedFall-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"GreedFall" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>WARRIOR&comma; TECHNICAL AND MAGIC<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>You start GreedFall by creating your character&period; The options are not huge&comma; but diverse enough to create a unique character&period; As a good RPG agrees&comma; you then choose a class&comma; and in this case there are three&colon; Warrior&comma; Technical or Magic&period; A Warrior opts for two-handed swords and likes combat close by&comma; while the Technical is more the rogue&sol;archer who stays at a distance with firearms and places traps&period; The Magic classes are not entirely surprisingly specialized in magic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The skill points are there to make your character&&num;8217&semi;s attacks more powerful and to unlock new fighting options&period; Attribute points improve the general power and magic&comma; and then there are the talent points&period; These are a lot more interesting because they unlock talents such as Lock picking&comma; Science and Charisma&period; With this you can open doors and certain crates&comma; blow up a wall for a secret passage and make potions&comma; or convince other characters during conversations&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s all well-known food for RPG fans&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s nice that there are enough choices to make your character your own&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>DIPLOMACY<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>In GreedFall you are a diplomat and the game focuses to a large extent on diplomacy&period; This is also necessary because there are several factions to keep as friends&period; In addition to your own Congregation of Merchants&comma; there are five other factions to take into account&period; The Bridge Alliance consists of alchemists and wizards&comma; the Coin Guard are soldiers&comma; the highly religious Theleme try to convert everyone and the Nauts are rough sailors&period; The final faction consists of the Natives&comma; the original elf-like residents of Teer Fradee&comma; who are now slowly being locked in by their settlers on their island&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>GreedFall leaves you free to deal with the factions&period; Put them against each other&comma; help a specific faction&comma; or keep peace between all&period; You can of course try to keep them all friends&comma; but for that you have to lie regularly&period; And who knows&comma; maybe this will bother you again later&period; Because diplomacy plays a major role in GreedFall&comma; you are talking a lot with characters&period; The voice acting and the script are of a good level&comma; but the lip sync is unfortunately painfully bad&period; The faces also look like they came from the previous generation&period; Personally&comma; this did not bother me during the conversations&comma; but it certainly stands out and they could have put a little more work into this&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-147931" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;10&sol;04052928&sol;GreedFall-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"GreedFall" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>UNIQUE QUESTS<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>The diplomacy in GreedFall is one of the unique features of this game&period; Of course this has already been done in other RPGs&comma; but I find the effect here at a higher level&period; This is partly due to the connection with the very nice quests&period; The game contains no standard fetch quests in which you have to retrieve a certain item and bring it back or kill ten spiders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Every quest has its own story and has an influence on the relationship with the factions&period; Because of this&comma; every choice you make during a simple side quest also influences the main story&period; The great thing about the quests is that they can be completed in multiple ways&period; Entering somewhere can be done by bribing the guards&comma; supplying drink with sleeping pills or fighting them&period; If you prefer stealth&comma; you can see if there is another entrance or go dressed as a member of the guards faction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Add to that the fact that you can take faction partners with you on a journey and build relationships with them&period; The partners also have their own quests and respond to all actions and choices that you make&period; If you choose to work closely with the Theleme&comma; then the partner of the Natives will not like this&period; Later in the story&comma; this can have major consequences and cause a lot of tension along the way&period; then the partner of the Natives will not like this&period; Later in the story&comma; this can have major consequences and cause a lot of tension along the way&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>WOODY COMBAT<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>If diplomacy does not work&comma; you end up fighting as fast as you can&comma; no RPG can do without combat&period; Where the game with the world&comma; diplomacy and quests excels&comma; the combat is a bit of a disappointment&period; It is certainly not bad&comma; but the fighting system looks somewhat woody&period; Think of the old Gothic games and the Risen series and you have a bit of an idea what I mean&period; This can be frustrating&comma; especially at the beginning&comma; because GreedFall is pretty tough&period; As you unlock new skills and get a stronger character&comma; the combat gets better&period; Still&comma; the animations make it look somewhat woody&period; What gives the combat some extras are the partners&comma; each with their own fighting style&period; They assist you during battles with powerful attacks or medical skills&period; This way you will appreciate them even more during the adventure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-147932" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;10&sol;04052932&sol;GreedFall-4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With GreedFall&comma; Spiders wanted to deliver a large-scale and ambitious RPG&comma; and they definitely succeeded&period; The game contains an original setting that draws inspiration from the seventeenth century and looks closely at a number of successful games&period; The biggest compliment goes to the diplomacy with the factions and the fine quests&period; Other developers can learn something from the latter in particular&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;review&lowbar;wrap">&NewLine; <h3 class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;review&lowbar;subtitle">The Review<&sol;h3>&NewLine; <h2 class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;review&lowbar;title">&NewLine; GreedFall&NewLine; <&sol;h2>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;reviewheader clearfix">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"review&lowbar;score score&lowbar;avg">&NewLine; <span class&equals;"score&lowbar;value">7<&sol;span>&NewLine; <span class&equals;"score&lowbar;text">Score<&sol;span>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"desc" style&equals;''>&NewLine; <p>GreedFall is not entirely perfect due to the moderate faces and lip sync&comma; and the somewhat disappointing combat&period; In addition&comma; it does not help that the interiors of buildings are quite similar&period; Despite these negatives&comma; the game is very successful&comma; and this is the nicest Western RPG I have played since The Witcher III&colon; Wild Hunt&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;reviewdetail clearfix">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"conspros">&NewLine; <h3>PROS<&sol;h3>&NewLine; <ul><li><i class&equals;"jegicon-check"><&sol;i> Original setting<&sol;li><li><i class&equals;"jegicon-check"><&sol;i> Great use of diplomacy<&sol;li><li><i class&equals;"jegicon-check"><&sol;i> Unique quests<&sol;li><&sol;ul>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"conspros">&NewLine; <h3>CONS<&sol;h3>&NewLine; <ul><li><i class&equals;"jegicon-cross"><&sol;i> Faces and lip sync<&sol;li><li><i class&equals;"jegicon-cross"><&sol;i> Combat is a bit disappointing<&sol;li><li><i class&equals;"jegicon-cross"><&sol;i> Recycled interior throughout the game<&sol;li><&sol;ul>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;reviewscore jeg&lowbar;reviewbars clearfix" data-scoretype&equals;"point">&NewLine; 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