SCL: Stumbled coming out of the gate or simply fallen on it's face?

[Jester David]

I like to divide my reviews into the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Awesome. So I can always look for the positive and be fair.
But, man am I having a hard time finding "the awesome" in this game...

 

[Sacrosanct]

The awesome is that STEAM refunded me my money today

 

[Zalbar The Mad]

question: Now for someone who plays D&D, this is such an in deep tool set. Explain how they can literally take their campaign from a tabletop pen and paper into this digitally digital game?

"One of the things I put to the designers when we framed this all up for them was, I want you to take this campaign, and I actually gave them the 5th edition starter set and I said I want you to take this campaign and I want you to reproduce it, I want you to reproduce it, and I want anybody to be able to reproduce it. And if they can't, the tools aren't done. And so uh, I think we got to a place where you can create that content real quickly and real easy and uh and just recreate your favorite homebrew or your favorite module or whatever your heart desires."

-Dan Tudge

https://youtu.be/pdUxKRlKTDU?t=3m29s <-- last quote

Yeah, I feel cheated. They really screwed the pooch on this one.

 

[Dargrimm]

Yeah, I feel cheated. They really screwed the pooch on this one.

Cheated and lied to. They lied to us, as plain and simple as that. The game itself is bad (*very bad*) but the way they lied to us all is what's really driving me mad about all this fiasco of a game.

The reviews are destroying the game but they're still way too kind.

 

[Sacrosanct]

I feel like we're repeating history when the first D&D movie came out. You get all excited, then when it finally arrives, you realize just how much of a piece of garbage it is. You know, actually I wouldn't think it would be all that bad if it were even remotely stable and playable, and had the basic content from the PHB in it as options. I could probably still manage to enjoy that. But the constant crashing, lagging, choppiness, horrible interface, and lack of content dooms this game.

 

[darjr]

Normally I would not go so far as to call a developer a lier. And technically in the quote above he did not. But it's worded in such a way that it sounds like he says the released game has these features, and it clearly does not, at least from the many reviews so far. Even the good reviews.

 

[Mirtek]

Really wanted to like the game, but I too did just request the refund from steam

 

[Cody C. Lewis]

Steam refund requested.

If I made a bad purchase, and didn't really have fun with a game, shame on me.

However, I'm really trying not to curse here, if a S.O.B. game developer releases a game that can ************************* one or both of my $500 GPUs... let's just say I'm getting a refund. Oh yeah, I'm getting a refund.

 

[Jester David]

Metacritic gave it a 63 while users gave it a 5.4:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/sword-coast-legends

However there's a curious number of really high reviews on the game. That always seem to match the negative reviews in number. And all posted by people whose only review & rating is Sword Coast Legends. Which is curious to say the least.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Metacritic gave it a 63 while users gave it a 5.4:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/sword-coast-legends

However there's a curious number of really high reviews on the game. That always seem to match the negative reviews in number. And all posted by people whose only review & rating is Sword Coast Legends. Which is curious to say the least.

Extra curious when many of those high reviews all say the same thing: "The voice acting is great!" Odd thing to measure a game by, to say the least.