The Guild 3

I liked the idea of the game and the pictures and videos made it look great but what the game promises and what is actually delivered is so far apart from each other its really disappointing. Like, where do you even start, everything about the game is very shallow. Its like they thought of an idea and then just touched on it but not actually expanded it in any way. For example, you make a character fall in love with you by spamming sweet talk or some other random chat option until the % is high enough to ask to marry. Then you have a baby and your lineage carries on... cool. Thats it for love. You can woo other random people but theres no point. You can max out their love meter, suggest to have an affair but again thats it. Would have been cool to be able to carry on the lineage with illegitimate children but I guess that would have been a layer of depth too far. There's no individual character relations, everything is based on the entires houses opinions on you. It calls itself a life simulator but the only thing that can be attributed to that tag is the fact your characters die of old age and you carry on through your heir. They don't need to eat or drink. There's an RPG element in the sense that you can put points into stats but the only one that was actually needed is charisma for the 2 seconds you need to make someone fall in love with you to have a kid. That's if you can even be arsed... Levelling up your character required them to carry out anything, highest level I ever got to before they die of old age is 4 despite them working non stop in a business. Highest level is 10. Trade... what trade, buy low and sell high, not a thing, unless you only want to make a profit of 1 per item which wouldnt be so bad if 1 gold had much sway but its nothing. You can buy a cart, horse cart or extra bag but the extra amount of inventory is tiny. It doesnt make sense to have a horse drawn carriage and only be able to carry twice as much as what he could by hand... Business side of thing. Looks quite busy but when you break it down, you choose a skill, you build the building, you hire the people and let it automate.... For every building, and every skill its all the same. Just let it automate and sit back. Your business has no impact on the rest of the world. You can flood the market with food, the amount you can sell for might go down by 1 or 2 eventually but it doesnt matter. Also, whos buying it? No one needs to eat... When you buy a skill the rest of the family, before and after, just know it. You cant own a business unless you have the skill, which again doesnt make sense. It would make sense if it said your character cant partake in doing the task because they dont have the skill but owning the business shouldnt be an issue because you hire randoms that do it for you. Thats the other thing, theres just an unlimited amount of people to do anything and everything. Politics side of things... You have to start at the bottom and work your way up. Depending on your position you may be able to change a certain law. It doesnt let you climb striaght up to the top because you have to get a title high enough to unlock the ability to rule the world. It forces you to have to play the game. Once you have the title though you can apply your way to the top, you can only apply for the level above, you cant jump it. Thats the rule... except for everyone else, if you want to apply for level 3 office you'd think you'd be in competition with your peers but nope, randoms just get to apply too... to ensure you win you just kill your competition. to ensure you win the fight you just have to buy armour and a sword... It prevents you from just killing everything though because theres a massive cool down for some reason.... Law and Order. Is a joke. I dont know if theres a limit to the amount of people that go to trail or what but I never had an issue even after killing guards and just about anyone and everyone. It became a pain in the arse when I started trying to go for achievements and despite fighting the guards non stop, none of them wanted to report me... I had to start again on a small map with max 1 dynasty for it to work properly. But even then... jesus, get all 3 members of your party arrested at the same time, attacked 3 different guards, sorted, just got to wait. comes to trial which is a year later... and one of the guards seems to have bugged out. After the auto save some guards just seem to break. I also found a nice bug which was if the person on trial gets judged and told to go to prison while they lie in the street unconscious because they got beat up on the way to the court it seems to be void. Im currently just waiting for the last of the achievements which requires me to get to the year 2000... Im leaving the game running and adopting a child every now and then to ensure I dont game over... all in all, the game feels like such a let down. For the third iteration of the game I would have thought there would be so much depth to the game but theres nothing to it. Everything feels like it has no meaning. I have a feeling 1 and 2 play exactly the same way but they have just upped the graphics. I saw a trailer of their new game and I feel like its going to be exactly the same but with another graphic upgrade.