Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin

It was imposible to play with my setup, I have a 3070 ti after lowering graphics and the display the heat of card didnt went down.

[h1]7.5/10 AoS world presentation. 6.5/10 game. I got it on sale for 10$ so it was a good investment for few hours. It definitely doesn't deserve whole price tag..[/h1] Cannot recommend because it has game breaking bugs even year after launch. Escpecially when unit behavior is so numbingly dumb as one can be attacked from all sides and just stand there doing nothing. And unskippable cutscenes in 2024 . . . And cheating AI with infinite resources and no requirements whatsoever. This game seldom brings fun, mostly cringy facepalms over how all over the place the pace is. Director expects me to to fight against infinite horde of enemies, even if it is stated they are on verge of collapse in every mission. FFS, why devs never really think through their designs . . . . Visuals are nice, I admit very nice so that is a thing. presentation of units are awesome, animations feel good. They try to be real, but . . . that holds them back from having "that thing". They do not feel “chunky”. Sound design is awesome. I like it. Story progression is all over the place. At first it is sandbox game, a minute later you play doom eternal on ultra- nightmare. I wouldn't mind that whole map starts attacking me right after a cutscene, if that was everything it had to offer. Not whole map + infinite troops. Characters are fine. Awesome to see it in an RTS game. Except Sigrund - that is a cardboard cutout and exposition dump medium. She didn't feel like forced character, just not a not-character anyway. You cannot blame it on being reforged stormcast. On the other hand, other characters in campaign feel like proper people with distinct personalities. [h2]But . . . . [/h2] Difficulty setting is an illusion - AI does not care about your DIFF setting, it's going to cheat anyway, in campaign and in skirmish. I get tit that EVERY RTS has possibly infinite amount of models to summon, but good RTS games have bounds of reality of their world they upkeep. Not in this game. Because why would AI follow rules of the game. Naive wretch, did you expect intelligent design? from GW franchise? it's like 20 years too late for that. I have no idea who accepted game in this state. Game jumps from easy to ultra-nightmare and back to sandbox from mission to mission. Pacing and exposition exists. It just exists. It is not pervasive, but few sentences were cringy. For all that was prepared for me, it didn't make me dislike game. I suppose for new players it is good they explain some things and what is going on, but that has never transpired. In campaign, I am thrown into random field trip into rocky savanna. Had I not know lore of the wold, nothing would make sense. I might as well had led car people to exodus from evil clutch people who want to use car people as multiplication devices. Yes, that is what is going on in the story. It was clearly prepared for fans, not for casuals, however it does not have enough meat on the bone to entice fans. [h1]Is it substitute for DOWII? Nope. [/h1] Game play drags itself into abyss. Everything takes too damn long. There is variety of missions, which is fun, I give them that, but ultimately EVERYTHING is form of capture and hold against cheating AI. Someone clearly tried to make it a fun game with variety, but ultimately everything there feels same'y. Sluggish and very,very,very slow progression. Even if skirmish lasts 20-25 minutes, it feels like eternity. I feel like I am watching mobile fortresses rolling out of basement. I don't think it's because of map sizes, but because armies move realistically, when map sizes are kilometers in size. On top of that, there is no variety big enough to call it DOW II contender. It might have better visuals and production value, but doesn't have that something which makes you keep coming back. It lacks FUN factor for me. Perhaps I am looking at from perspective o 1000 hours in DOWII, but still, it doesn't grip me. Unit variety is ok, I guess. Similar to DOWII for each faction, but not enough faction representation. I get it, that in past we got 4 armies at base and we were happy, however 4 sides in representation of whole AoS world is a joke. They are all rock-paper-scissors and all armies have their equivalent. Every army is the same army with a reskin. It is similar to DOWII, but DOW II had more enticing gameplay engagement. This was a setback of DOW II as well, but c'mon. It's been 20 years and we all should expect better game design by now. Seems like DOW II will remain best RTS in GW's IP world.