I will preface this that I haven't played the series since the first one.
When 3 was announced and that it would be on XBOX, I was excited and even pre-ordered (I just don't do that anymore, I wait and rent first.) I will say, I should have stayed with my norm.
Don't get me wrong, when I am playing, I am enjoying the game, but there are things that make me just not want to play.
The story is one. This is the most convoluted thing I have ever seen. The story makes the assumptions that you have played all of the previous games, and from my perspective, also written a deep diving dissertation for your PhD on it. And can we please convince writers that just swapping two letters in a characters name to differentiate between an evil person and a good person is a strict no-no.
The second is the voice acting. I don't know if it is the translation services made, but it is some of the most wooden voice acting I have heard in over a decade.
I have finished 4 kingdoms and still have a lot more to do on it, but every time I am sitting there thinking about what game I want to play, and since I only play games at night to distress form the day, I have been passing this game by for the past 3 weeks because I just don't want to deal with the story.
I keep wanting to skip the cut scenes because of the voice acting, but then I keep thinking that if I watch the cut scenes the story will make more sense. Then when I watch them, I am even more confused.
The gameplay is great, but overall the game has become a torture device to me.
When 3 was announced and that it would be on XBOX, I was excited and even pre-ordered (I just don't do that anymore, I wait and rent first.) I will say, I should have stayed with my norm.
Don't get me wrong, when I am playing, I am enjoying the game, but there are things that make me just not want to play.
The story is one. This is the most convoluted thing I have ever seen. The story makes the assumptions that you have played all of the previous games, and from my perspective, also written a deep diving dissertation for your PhD on it. And can we please convince writers that just swapping two letters in a characters name to differentiate between an evil person and a good person is a strict no-no.
The second is the voice acting. I don't know if it is the translation services made, but it is some of the most wooden voice acting I have heard in over a decade.
I have finished 4 kingdoms and still have a lot more to do on it, but every time I am sitting there thinking about what game I want to play, and since I only play games at night to distress form the day, I have been passing this game by for the past 3 weeks because I just don't want to deal with the story.
I keep wanting to skip the cut scenes because of the voice acting, but then I keep thinking that if I watch the cut scenes the story will make more sense. Then when I watch them, I am even more confused.
The gameplay is great, but overall the game has become a torture device to me.
