Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

This game should be exactly everything I want. Turn-based combat, "choices matter" decision making, sci-fi setting. However none of it comes together and ends up being a bland experience. - The story is boring, but serviceable, for this type of game it's trying to be. However it's drowned by the bad pacing of everything else. In Chapter 2, you get to navigating the world map and every jump is either some warp being incursion that waste time or some form of "Captain! Someone cooked fish in the microwave again! You need to come deal with this or your companion will die by the fish-smellers!". It bloats the game play and you barely remember what task you were trying to accomplish. It wouldn't be so bad except for the next points. - Then there's the endless dialogue. Asking someone about their favorite color will end up in a lore discussion about how their culture uses colors and serves really no purpose other than to be a wiki article dump. Many people bemoan there being no Voice Act...

Plays a bit slow with all the dialogs and loading screens, but the setting, the story and the characters are compelling enough that I want to read through stuff; and the combat and leveling mechanics are fun.

Nothing new to add. Game is great. With some tinkering, it runs okay on SD. Definitely a must try for Warhammer and BG3 fans.

I don't know why I thought Rogue Trader would be different from their Pathfinder offerings. The graphics are good, the combat is pretty well done, the genre poorly done, and the program is fairly stable. Mods work pretty well with it. My issues are more with the gameplay. The first is that as in their Pathfinder games, the NPCs are better than your main character. They get all sorts of special neat stuff, while you are limited to vanilla. The second is that while I like consequences to my choices, a lot of times you are pushed forward after making a choice when you are should have the option of selecting another choice or doing something in addition to your choice. They have long scenes strung together, and if you misclick or say the wrong thing, it all collapses like a house of cards and you have to reload to before you started. The third, and in my opinion, the most egregious, is that time after time I get to a certain point and find out that how I've been building my charac...

A good CRPG in a lot of ways. Excellent atmosphere and world building, a reactive narrative that's engaging and doesn't fall into the typical good/neutral/evil buckets, and a cast of characters that are interesting and 3 dimensional. So why the negative review? Easy. This is, without any reservations, the worst gameplay system I've ever experienced. It's capricious, it explains itself poorly, it's tedious. Everything takes twice as long as it should. Hitting 2-3 buffs in a row is an exercise in patience. My eyes cross every time I have to level up and read through some of the worst skill descriptions ever crapped out of an AI - except it's not AI, somebody wrote these. Somebody looked at the entirety of this flaming dumpster of combat mechanics and thought "ah, perfect", right on the heels of BG3. I'm embarrassed for them, to be honest. I like Owlcat as studio, really, but they need to figure out how to make their game a game first and foremost. To this day I still can't explain half...

Its an amazing game. Take combat from XCOM, and mix it with a rich story like Baldurs Gate 3 in a Warhammer 40k setting and you have this masterpiece of a game. They are not joking when they say they have over 120 hours of content, and from the looks of it they plan on adding more. (their is certainly enough room on the map for it.) The first 2 chapters are very well planned out. Very open, and consequences for your actions are very real. Chapter 3 is very different from the first 2 but is a nice change of a pace, although much shorter. Chapter 4 is where things kind of...narrow down, so to speak. It could have a bit more to it, but overall is decent. Chapter 5 its rather short and linear for the end chapter... I hope they add more for it later. Only major complaints I have are the lack of voiced parts throughout the campaign (you will be reading ALOT). As well as bugged quests that usually require a restart/save reload, or are completely shot (Yrliet's romance quest was br...

Right out the gate I will say this: textures and animations look like they are old enough to vote, buy drinks and go to college, and that will be my only major criticism of this game. As for my review: By the Emperor, this game is easily one of the best RPG's in existence. It's roleplaying aspect can give Baldur's Gate 3 a run for its money. Truly stands shoulder to shoulder with giants such as Baldur's Gate and Fallout. Presentation and lore depth of WH is incredible and impeccable. You truly feel your decisions carry weight and impact, as a servant of the Emperor should. I feel like there is a skill bloat in the game and some class specializations are downright useless, but youll be fine as long as you specialize in what you want to do. Looking forward to Dark Heresy. For the Emperor!

Great game. Definitly get if youre a fan of CRPGs or if you love the 40k universe.

the whole prologue is with voice acting. i thought the game was buggy when it went silent after the prologue. turns out that's normal..... after the prologue there is nothing. it changed the game so much for me that i lost interest to continue. it was more like reading a book than playing a video game.

this is a complicated game, one which many times i contemplated not finishing. it's exhausting. but there are few games in this world that can compare to the absolute gem that this one is. you need a lot of willpower to play, but it's worth it.