Ok. Here's My Recap

[Mright]

Finally finished my first play through...


First of all I would like to say the game is wonderful! I loved every moment of it! I can't say how awesome you guys are for making this game!


I was a huge fan of the QFG games and have literally been replaying it every few years for the last 20 years... So you can say I have been waiting to play this game for at least this long.


On this first playthrough I was playing as a sorcerer and was attempting not to use any help, I also tried to play as evil as I could, since it is a quest for infamy after all...


Unfortunately I didn't accomplish that much outside of the main story line, not even doing the sorcerer fight the necromancer quest and despite doing all the evil I could my infamy was a mere 180 ish. 


Any way, I took some notes for the team and I found a number of issues(minor bugs), difficulties(areas lacking logic) and comments(helpful ideas to improve):

Issues:these easily qualify as minor bugs and glitches.

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1)Eating Time - So I keep eating my rations and am not able to catch breakfast or dinner at the inn. (perhaps modifying when Rohan will eat his rations could fix this?)

2)Slavers house(this place was full of bugs)- First off there is a room, the with the stairs, that I can not interact with in any way. Secondly when I try to cast fear on the guard in the hallway it casts in a different screen and has no affect. Third when I look at anything in the bedroom it says "I can't see through walls"

3)When exiting aqueducts screen from the southeast there is a glitch which causes the player to walk across the water and exit from the south west instead.

4)After making it through the sewers and into the kitchen and casting fear on the chef I am not able to look at or interact with his body.

(these last three might not fall into glitches or bugs but they sure are annoying)

5)Black Smith - You certainly know about this or possibly have a reason for it but is the blacksmith supposed to come out only at night? If so the robbery of the house next door doesn't make sense at least not at night.

6)Casting unlock around doors that say they are locked - This annoyed me a lot but the worst was after defeating the leader of the Morri. There is a building, when you look at the door it says there is some good stuff in there, when you use the hand, it says that it's locked, but when you cast unlock... it says there is nothing to unlock... (could you at least take a card from QFG and say it's barred?) This happens at many buildings throughout the game IE Tyr houses etc...

7) At the beginning of Act III your map is missing from your inventory - this just seems like a cheap go around... If you are going to take it's function away at least give it an explanation, either explain why you don't have it or better yet just say you can't use it right now since Rayfords men are looking for you. (I don't like when things go missing from my inventory without explanation)

Difficulties:These are areas where I had undue difficulty and feel are illogical. Most of these forced me to seek help outside the game. If I missed in game clues please let me know, I hate absolutelyillogical solutions.

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1)Selling loot - Not sure how I was supposed to figure out who to sell it to


2)Owl Feather - I knew I wanted a feather or something but I kept trying to throw stones at all the birds (pigeons crows etc...) By the time I saw the owl I had given up on a feather. Why does it have to be the owl? 


3)Getting the Servant piece from Japsworth - This might have been my fault a bit, but his conversation just made no sense, why did he want to go outside? only to go back in? Have him wonder home if I don't make a move, have me wait till tomorrow (maybe give me a narrated hint if you want to make it easy)

Comment: These are areas where the game that, well, disappointed me. While originally I made a whole section for this after finishing the game I only had one.

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1 and only) The Slaver - His house was a mess of glitches and seemed half done at best and with a name like quest for infamy I was expecting some way of siding with him. At least giving it some depth like pointing out how after you kill him the slaves in his current keep starve to death since he never shows up to feed them... or something. I had been looking forward to the slaver for some real moral ambiguity all game. But if he lacked any depth or choice, and is so full of glitches, why keep him in the game? 

Any way, all that said it was an amazing game. I will start my next playthrough tomorrow morning I am sure (if not tonight haha). Thank you guys so much for all your hard work!

[Lambonius]

Hey, first of all--I'm really glad you enjoyed the game!


Secondly, thanks for taking the time to post your detailed thoughts, and for pointing out those bugs and making some great suggestions.  We'll definitely address the bugs in our next update--I've logged them all for our programmers to look at.  Suggestions are always welcome--I can't promise we'll be able to change anything, but feedback and constructive critiques are very helpful for small teams like us.


Anyway, thanks again! 

[Mright]

Is there any other way that I can help out? I donated a few times and bought a few copies of the game for me and my friends, but I tend to have more time than money these days... (though I am not rich in either) I would love to help out if I can.

[Mright]

Reading through my recap I realized how negative it sounded.... I'm sorry about that, you know how it goes. We wouldn't be on these forums if we weren't already your biggest supporters haha, so it seems like all the good things go without saying. That said I know that it can be more important to hear the good than the bad at times, so here goes.


The entire game was so good that I couldn't even begin to make a note of each and every part that amazed, inspired, excited or just made me laugh. None the less I will  give it a try .


First off I love the way you guys dealt with classes, making it something that you have to interact with and having a mentor, genius!


The dialogue is so witty that I find myself constantly laughing or giving a good guffaw (sometimes while surrounded by people as I wear headphones while traveling)


Bringing back old school style is more than just graphics, and you guys see this. Given your budget and situation you never disappointed me, you brought a focus on a well thought out story line full of interesting imaginative and insightful characters that the gaming world has been missing. Your emphasis on the game as a means to move the story forward, rather than the story as a means to move the game forward, is one of the first steps in the right direction that I have seen in gaming in a long time.


What most impressed  me, and what I didn't expect, is the way that you did what games have been promising and failing to deliver on for decades, you brought coherent realistic and tangible moral ambiguity to a video game. By making the hero gain infamy (which helps in game play) by being ruthless cunning or ballsy AKA infamous, but at the same time killing the hero if he does anything outright stupid you are forced to run a gauntlet between becoming feared and making friends. The way you play the grey line on morality, and veer away from the current standard of black and white is like an oasis in the desert that has become gaming.

Thank you once again, I look forward to my next 20 playthroughs haha

Goodnight!