Divinity: Dragon Commander

An excellent and charming strategy game. The game is split into to phases: Diplomacy/Board movement and Combat. The first phase is where the game really shines. There's plenty of hard choices to make (almost unrelentingly so). Do you spend your gold on troops for board control or build academy's to upgrade your troops? Do you support gay rights or shun them to get tactical support from the undead? This is the heart and soul of the game. The Combat phase is also cool. You begin combat by selecting who will lead the battle and what resources you want to spend on it. If you let one of your generals do it (or let your troops fight without a general because you don't want to spend the cash) the game will auto resolve the battle. If you lead the battle yourself then the RTS gameplay will happen. I've only briefly played one RTS game before this one (Company of Heros 2) so I can't really comment on how it compares to it's competitors. That being said as a beginner RTS player I thought is was pretty neat. There's plenty of unique units to research (as well as techs that improve the units already available) that keep things fresh throughout the course of the game's runtime. That being said, I only really decided to lead battles that had a low chance to succesfully auto resolving as I preferred to let my generals do most of the fighting. Because of this, most of the fights I fought were fairly difficult but I was able to win most of them. On higher difficulties (or any difficulty really) it's impossible to win every single battle. By the end of the game I had about 80 victories and 25 losses. This may sound like I curbed stomped the enemies but truly I was crawling my way to victory most of the way through. In a nutshell, the gameplay loop is about either making combat easier on yourself or making the political decision that sound right by you. It made me tense all of the time, and as exhausting as it was that is part of the games charm. The other part of the games charm is the quirky characters you meet and command, all with branching paths that give meaningful consequences and bonuses. A lot of people have pointed out shortcomings of this game, but I think the game's strengths out shine them. As of writing this review I've only gone through the game once, but I'm eager to do another playthrough soon and make choices I didn't make last time. This game is kick-ass and a must own. If you want to wait for it to go on sale it goes as low as $4. BUY THIS GAME Oh and also you get to be a dragon. It's pretty neat.

Практически симулятор политических решений. Разреши трансплантацию органов, запрети игры и книги, одобри облаву на обезумевшего инквизитора. Башни дракона нет, но есть неболёт с демоном внутри. Можно выбрать жену, но я хз есть там коитус. Порой откровенно выпирает лгбт тема, феменизм и борьба за свои права маленких и не очень меньшинств. Расизм, словоблудие и не только ждут вас тут. Малость топорный режим ртс, не конёк студии и это сразу видно. Проходить стоит ради сюжета.

My experience for this game is weird. First and foremost, the RTS part of the game didn't work at all. The game crashed every time I went into RTS phase. I finished the game without doing a single RTS Battle and I have my achievment to prove for it. Having the possibilty of playing the game even with a critical bug actually gave me some relief rather than giving me anger because of said bug. I was scared there would be RTS phase that cannot be avoided but that never came. I enjoyed the game even though I was deprived of 30% of it. So make your own opinion based on that fact. This bug should make me not reccomend the game. I played the game at highest difficulty though and it then proved to be the best Risk game I ever played and enjoyed lol. As I didn't have any dragon power available to win my battle I had to play the game with strategy only and that proved tricky at first. In late game you just spam the destroyer and roll on everything with it... All other units are just there to support it and allow it to land and reach the target. Because I only played with the strategy side of the game by auto-resolving all the battles the pace might have seemed faster to me. Then there was Edmund. That condescending lizard commander is alot alike the red prince but at least three times better in terms of writing for those who played divinity original sin 2. He's witty to point of being funny. Adding the rest of the cast makes for enjoyable dialogue while I, at first, thought the dialogue sequences would be dull. Most of the characters are actually interesting. Except for Maxos the wizard who's really dull. The third thing that marked me was the dialogue sequence with the demon. You have this calm music in the background with only part of a huge ominous head visible and I found the atmosphere of that scene fabulous. I played almost all divinity games. I found most of them slow and repetitive and hard to finish. I found a lot of characters in divinity games reveals themselves to be shallow. I didn't found that this time. I finished Dragon commander. This game is unique in the divinity serie of games because it focus on the narration and it actually made me enjoy again this great serie of game.

Режим дракона не сбалансирован. В плане ртс игра показывает себя хорошо, но в некоторые моменты я начал скипывать большинство боёв. Карт для ртс мало, а сама она заканчивается слишком резко. Игра сама по себе несложная. Я не испытывая, не каких, трудностей проходя её на предпоследней сложности. Сюжет тут для галочки, но наша команда сделана неплоха. Наши капитаны и жена меняются от принятых нами решений, по мере продвижения сюжета. Что к сожалению нельзя сказать о наших советниках.

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requires some trouble shooting but its a solid semi rts/visual novel game... can't really ask for much from an indie game made on a gas station budget

Посредственная стратегия с отличной ролевой начинкой. RTS-часть ощущается устаревшей и невыразительной, а масштаб сражений явно порезал мелкие детали в угоду оптимизации. Однако быть драконом в бою приятно, а главное достоинство игры — интересный сюжет и живое взаимодействие с персонажами на корабле. Если готовы терпеть слабые битвы ради политических интриг и хорошего юмора — рекомендую заценить.

Проходил еще на выходе. Скачал второй раз, вспомнить. Не понимаю, как проходил это 10 лет назад. Плюсы: - 3 фазы геймплея, взаимосвязанных. Решения на корабле перетекают в поддержку и ресурсы на глобальной карте, а они потом решают в РТС режиме. - Визуальная новелла на корабле. - Ролики между актами - Фирменный юмор - Простая РТС база - камень-ножницы -бумага. - Юниты не просто классические пехотинцы и рыцари, а машины, которые интересно выглядят. - Ривеллон дип лор Минусы: - Колдуны - Жуки - Захват зданий - ИИ всегда микроконтролит лучше - Лимит ресурсов есть только для игрока, привет Empire Earth - Минус для DOS2 - редкон нежити