Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

Like Skyrim, but a grimdark world of Arthurian legends. Smaller in scale, but packed with cool landscapes and exciting quests. Yeah, it's real good.

TLDR, Act 3 was boring. Most of the game was interesting. But Act 3 bored me so much I couldn't bring myself to get all achievements. As a completionist, I love to search every corner for secrets and exhaust all dialogue and complete all quests. I love mysteries and mystical lore and I read every book I find. This game gave me a lot to find and try. I got beyond enough hours out of it to justify the price. Build crafting is pretty interesting. Item crafting is expensive but also interesting. I had a totally mismatched set of equipment by the end and it was cool. That being said, I was disappointed by the end. There are three Acts. I loved Act 1. I loved Act 2. But by Act 3, the dialogue of the game and the quests just lost me. The game had somehow transformed from mysterious and immersive to shallow and I completely disassociated. Many quests seemed like they should have had other ways of completing them. A lot of quests were just boring. The dialogue was so weak that it was like I was just reading random words. I got strong AI dialogue vibes and it sucked. Most of the dialogue options in Act 3 were little more than "Next" and the responses were always inconsequential. "No one knows what's going on" (except me, the player... who actually reads and pays attention), "Go kill monster", "come back", and outcomes are fixed whether you as a player have better ideas or not. Also I was so excited to unlock the secret skill tree in Act 2 and was thoroughly disappointed by its basic number-oriented abilities; it brought almost nothing new to my play-style. Just more damage. Regarding the ending; there are a lot of choices to make along the way in the game and like older games you get some outcome summary when the game is finished which changes a lot based on what you chose. It's pretty cool, but some of my choices were contradictory and some of the outcomes at the end of the game didn't make sense in the context of others. The end fight was satisfactory in its difficulty, considering much of the game was very easy after leveling up. The options for ending the main story were pretty good.