EDIT:
After 15 hours of playing this over the weekend i'll take a break from it. Don't honestly know if i'll return to it.
Overall i had my fun with it and i can see the huge potential but some things are driving me nuts.
- stealing
Why am i allowed to steal if everyone knows it's stolen? Nobody saw me steal it and it's not an special unique item. I chocked out a wanderer and looted him. 3 towns over i tried to sell his stuff and every merchant says to me it's stolen and they're not buying. What the hell? I likethe system that i can't rob a merchant and sell him his own wares back without him noticing and that i can#t sell unique items even a few towns over but this is a) broken or b) plain shit design. There're a few people you can sell stolen stuff to but they're poor as can be.
- choking
You can choke enemys/npc/everyone out from behind. This is fun but way overpowered. I, a peasant nobody, choked out a knight and robed him of his armor worth a few thousand coins. Nobody saw me doing it but as explained in the point "stealing" i couldn't sell his stuff. Magically every merchant knows it's stolen goods. Even his measly undershirt... After a few minutes i returned to the chocked out knight and he starts attacking me... I choked him from behind. He couldn't have known it was me but he's started to attack me anyway. (I didn't wear anything i stole from him either). He hit me with his fists and i attacked him with a sharp sword. I had to hit him over 20 times before he gave up.
- fighting
I like the fight-system in this game but man it's broken. When i in the real world, even as a peasant with no experience, hit anybody without clothes with a sword they'll die in a few hits. Not in this game. Multiple stabs (with the pointy end) into the head(no helmet/etc.) and my enemy still tried to hit me with his fists and nearly killed me before i was finished with him. When you're trying to sell your game on the "as much realism as can be" angle i understand that i need tactics against a knight in armor or enemys who know how to fight. But why does the realism suddenly stop when i fight against unarmored nobodys?
- fast travel
it's not my cup of tea... It's slow (a theme of this game) but your going to be attacked during it and when you fight against more than one enemy in the first hours you're fucked as the enemys'll even kill you with their fists. Even fater if they're in a group. You have to run away but every time i tried they caught up to me and killed me. So i didn't use the feature and walked through the beautiful game. But it takes ages on foot so add 10-20 hours traveling time to your adventure.
- random searches
In some cities it can happen that a guard is telling you stop so he can search you for stolen items. Even if you've never stolen anything in this town he'll search you (you can resist and run/fight/etc) and you've to pay a hefty fine (and all your stolen shit is gone). remember what i wrote under "stealing"... They can't know that this stuff is stolen but magically it still happens.
I don't want to trash the game because many people'll love it very much but for me these things are dealbreakers. If you're going for realism than please go for realism and not his strange mix.
Laatst bewerkt: 12 feb 2018