I Love Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 for Respecting My Intelligence
Added 2025-02-18 16:08:42 +0000 UTCA new essay on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is now available from Nick!
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I appreciate your thoughts and opinions, but I have to say exactly nothing here sounded like it respected either your intelligence or your time. It sounds like the game is using it as an excuse to not actually design good quests and systems to let you progress, insisting you just stumble around until you happen to progress. A key example is having to google what the flower looks like; a well designed game would have you be able to purchase or find a book to look it up and give you a reasonable way of ascertaining that it both existed and how to obtain it. But this nonsense is what’s made Souls games riotously popular so what do I know? As a Yorkshireman I also wouldn’t be able to put up with those accents for more than a few minutes; why not have them sound Czech?
Tim Wilson
2025-02-21 18:49:15 +0000 UTCI understand the points this video makes, but I'm always reticent to celebrate anytime "respecting player intelligence" is used as a vague marker when "respecting player time" would be more accurate. I've seen what happens when a groundswell of people online insist a game "respects their intelligence" and it's almost always when a game doesn't actually respect their time. It relies on arcane mechanics it never fully explains. I find it bleeds into needless challenge that exists for gatekeeping elitism, the same way JRPGs in earlier console generations got effusive praise for being 60+ hours when they were, frankly, glorified time sinks, save for a few. Mostly the ones that got crapped on at the time for being "too short." Kingdom Come 2 clearly DOES respect player's time, but I'd hesitate to say it "respects intelligence" simply because it gives multiple viable options. It feels a bit like praising old Sierra Adventure Games' "challenge" because they were willing to kill the character and soft-lock the game behind inventory puzzles.
Dr. Judge, Private Eye
2025-02-19 17:41:42 +0000 UTCJesus Christ be Praised, Nick has come to see us!
Christopher Hosking
2025-02-18 18:52:37 +0000 UTCThat's why i love playing Gothic 1 and 2 to this day. No GPS, no help to do your job, just you, the world and people in it. Dude lost his necklace? Yea, around some cave to the north..ish. It's full of animals and a corpse you take the necklace off of... Might not actually be his necklace after all . And while the games are super old by now, they hold up well enough, janky combat and all.
Thall
2025-02-18 16:42:29 +0000 UTCDid you keep Pebbles?
jahr
2025-02-18 16:32:11 +0000 UTCMan Valhalla really killed that series for me. And Forbidden West was too Grindy. Any grind I do in KCD2 is because I want to so that I get a benefit. And then I put on a book and get to brewing
Luke Gorman
2025-02-18 16:27:06 +0000 UTC
