Elex

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  1. Mandulum
    Jul 5, 2018
    4
    Five Word Review: Promising setting, crushingly disappointing gameplay.
    Favorite Thing: I love post-apocalyptic. I wish the game had drawn me in enough to see and explore more.
    Least Favorite Thing: I really hate moving around in this game, it's so rigged and sluggish. Try running down a hill. Every bump locks you into this terribly slow recovery animation. They even ruined the jump    Five Word Review: Promising setting, crushingly disappointing gameplay.
    Favorite Thing: I love post-apocalyptic. I wish the game had drawn me in enough to see and explore more.
    Least Favorite Thing: I really hate moving around in this game, it's so rigged and sluggish. Try running down a hill. Every bump locks you into this terribly slow recovery animation. They even ruined the jump jets. If you're running and you jump then jet it slows you down. GAH!

    Date Dropped: 2018-06-20
    Playtime: 8.5h
    Enjoyment: 4/10
    Recommendation: No. =(    … Expand
  2. TheNikus
    Mar 20, 2018
    4
    10 hours in and this game is seriously pissing me off. The scenario is a patchwork of a bunch of cliches, and that wouldn't be so bad if the writing was any good, but no, I haven't met a single interesting character, and the dialogs are clunky and boring. None of the quests are in any was exciting -- fetch this, kill that, go to that place, then return. The worst thing by far is10 hours in and this game is seriously pissing me off. The scenario is a patchwork of a bunch of cliches, and that wouldn't be so bad if the writing was any good, but no, I haven't met a single interesting character, and the dialogs are clunky and boring. None of the quests are in any was exciting -- fetch this, kill that, go to that place, then return. The worst thing by far is progression. I obviously need to finish quests to gain EXP, but to do that I have to fight my way through the world, but I can't do that because the only weapons I can use only take off a single pixel off most monsters' life bar while they kill me in a single attack, and I can't get any better equipment because it's either too expensive or I'm way below the attribute requirements (or both), which can't be helped because I can't get any quests done. This game's a vicious cycle of suck.… Expand
  3. ScienceAdvisor
    Oct 17, 2017
    4
    Game mechanics are meant to be chosen to drive the narrative. In this case Piranha Bytes decided to toss that out and just put a bunch of random mechanics into this because the individually looked cool. Then they ran out of budget, or more likely interest, before getting to the rest of the game. Story, animation, and especially combat are all sub-par, even for PB. Add in a lot of bugsGame mechanics are meant to be chosen to drive the narrative. In this case Piranha Bytes decided to toss that out and just put a bunch of random mechanics into this because the individually looked cool. Then they ran out of budget, or more likely interest, before getting to the rest of the game. Story, animation, and especially combat are all sub-par, even for PB. Add in a lot of bugs that range from massive FPS drops to CTDs, and even the shill brigade handing out GOTY 10/10s cannot save this from being known what it is: Avoidable.… Expand
  4. ShinobiJutsu
    Oct 29, 2017
    4
    Having played this game for 20 hours, I find it silly that people are rating it a 10/10. You're worse than the casual gamers who give games 0's and 1's because it was too hard for them. You're not balancing anything out. You're misleading people into thinking that ELEX is a must-play, when it will really only satisfy a small niche', and you can't objectively say it's well-made even ifHaving played this game for 20 hours, I find it silly that people are rating it a 10/10. You're worse than the casual gamers who give games 0's and 1's because it was too hard for them. You're not balancing anything out. You're misleading people into thinking that ELEX is a must-play, when it will really only satisfy a small niche', and you can't objectively say it's well-made even if you love it. I hated Gothic 2 for the first 10 hours, but I remember suddenly getting strong and coming back to those places and killing everything and how satisfying that was. This game made me play for 20 hours trying to chase that G2 dragon.

    I reached a point where I decided that it simply wasn't worth it. The combat isn't just hard. Dark Souls is hard. This combat is cheap; it's buggy; it's not fun. You so-called hardcore gamers can pretend like it's cool to use cheap tactics like leading enemies toward friendlies or drinking potions every time you get hit by a low-level enemy, but it's not. It feels like old school A-Rpgs because old-school A-rpgs were always buggy. But you can't get away with games like this after Witcher 3. Not with Shadow of War available for a few bucks more.

    I respect that the devs only had a few dozen folks working on what is really a beautiful open-world game, but the same amount of developers worked on Divinity Original Sin 2, and it is one of the best RPGs ever released. If you played this game and you didn't skip every convo after 3 hours, I commend you. I couldn't bear to hear any of the characters deliver their phoned-in voice acting any longer. 99/100 NPCs in this game are boring, idiots, or a-holes. There were so many times when my AI companion just stood there while I got overwhelmed by 3 enemies that it was almost controller-smashing. Yeah, 3 enemies--because the enemy lock in this game is so stupid that you're fighting the camera as much as your foes, like every terrible 3rd person game ever.

    OK. Rant over. I feel better. Still going to go back into it when it gets patched and chase that Risen 2 dragon again, because I need to know who wins between the factions and the Albs and what the deal is with that Elex-sensing chick. Because like you so-called hardcore gamers, I am a masochist.    … Expand
  5. EddyCosta
    Oct 26, 2017
    4
    A good game, with a interesting story, well written and well voiced characters and a nice, big world... which is transformed in a bad game by it's horrible, and i repeat, HORRIBLE combat system. It is clunky, unresponsive and nonsencical (just a little example: before writing this review i was in a base full with bandits, one of them was in a small house with a freaking rocket launcher,A good game, with a interesting story, well written and well voiced characters and a nice, big world... which is transformed in a bad game by it's horrible, and i repeat, HORRIBLE combat system. It is clunky, unresponsive and nonsencical (just a little example: before writing this review i was in a base full with bandits, one of them was in a small house with a freaking rocket launcher, and he started to shoot me from INSIDE the house, trying to shoot me through the walls, which made the rockets blow right in his face and he simply continued shooting... very nice AI indeed).
    Its is a pity, because the world is beautiful and full of stuff to do, but i just can't continue playing the game with this abysmal combat system.
    I simply can't recommend this game in it's current state. If you want to try it wait for a sale.    … Expand
  6. Chadpowers
    Oct 23, 2017
    4
    Graphics: 6/10
    Poor assets, effects and animations. However they manage to use those resources to create a beautiful, but cheesy world.
    Sound: 8/10 Probably the best aspect of the game. Nothing memorable and a few sound effects are rather weak, however the overall composition is satisfying enough and just misses that little bit to be really great. The voiceover however often sounds    Graphics: 6/10
    Poor assets, effects and animations. However they manage to use those resources to create a beautiful, but cheesy world.

    Sound: 8/10
    Probably the best aspect of the game. Nothing memorable and a few sound effects are rather weak, however the overall composition is satisfying enough and just misses that little bit to be really great.
    The voiceover however often sounds rather unmotivated.

    Gameplay: 4/10
    The combat is just horrible in various regards. It's an uninspired and clunky mess of failed attempts to copy other games, and that is just the melee combat. The ranged and magic combat are just a one button joke. All of that doesn't get better with the poor animations. The balancing also has some issues with spamming or abusing the jetpack that is available way too early and a few unintuitive mechanics like the weird combo mechanic in the game.
    The character development is also lackluster, lazily done and navigating the various menus is a nightmare due to the poor UI design.
    At least the game offers some decent quests, gathering and exploring. Too bad the player won't ever find anything of value because everything in the game just feels like a cheesy and cheap copy of something better from other games.

    Story: 3/10
    To sum it up, everything in the story, the setting, plot, writing and storytelling are poorly done. Not really worth going into detail, many of those things are just embarassingly badly written. But here is one example, right at the beginning of the game the hero talks to himself: 'What is that? Emotions? Must be the Elex withdrawal!'
    There is just so much wrong with just this one setence already. First of all it's poor style if you have to drop exposition like that. Then emotions are something the player will experience when he does so himself not when the game tells him to (duh). Further the whole sentence sounds so incredibly artificial it's just beyond cringy. The whole concept of emotions being a gameplay mechanic and story element is poorly thought out and even more poorly implemented.
    The whole game is riddled with things like that and overall gives the impression it has been written by some 10 year old after he played Fallout and Skyrim for the first time.
    It's just embarassing to watch. However 3 points are awarded for the little amount of fun once can have with some of the better written quests and the amount of effort put into the game. Though a smaller world, with less cheesy locations would have done the story and gameplay a big service.

    Overall: 5/10
    It hardly even deserves that since basically anything positive you can say about the game doesn't really effect the core gameplay and I can't recommend buying a game just to run through a somewhat pretty, but cheesy world to talk to NPCs.

    It's a shame that so many people abuse the review mechanic for this game. It definitely isn't a zero and it also isn't anywhere near a 10. The devs have stated themselves, that they largely rely on their communities wishes, so if blinded fanboys keep rating that high, the devs will never learn from their mistakes and this has been going on since Risen.

    Update: New Score 4/10

    After some testing I have figured out, that most of the ingame stats and skills have no function or don't function as they are described. Many of those stats are completely hidden from the player in an effort to conceal those bugs. So in terms of gameplay the game is a 2/10 at best, which lowers the overall score to 4.    … Expand
  7. ttt2233
    Oct 17, 2017
    4
    I just want to say this: don't look at user score, because there are "reviews" from people who specially made new account to give this game 10 points on every platform(PC, PS4, XONE). I mean, I'm sure they bought this game 3 times.

    About the game: game have weak story, at least to the point where i am (i played for something like 5 hours, maybe a little more) and i have not real hopes    I just want to say this: don't look at user score, because there are "reviews" from people who specially made new account to give this game 10 points on every platform(PC, PS4, XONE). I mean, I'm sure they bought this game 3 times.

    About the game: game have weak story, at least to the point where i am (i played for something like 5 hours, maybe a little more) and i have not real hopes for some good plot later, world design as mis of fantasy and sci-fi is the worst game feature. Graphics is not spectacular, just like in 2005. i can not enjoy exploring such game world.

    Animations are very poor, i woulds say as poor as I expected, a they will be (Piranha Bytes game).
    There are also some technical issues and many bugs.
    Overall - i would like to give it a 4,5 score (or even 0 just for the sake of Piranha Bytes fanboys), but unfortunately there is no option to give half scores, so it gets 4 from me.
    I think that this is the game which you can hate and can't love, so there is many ways to waste your money but this game is the worst of them.    … Expand
  8. ale3033
    Oct 22, 2017
    4
    Many aspects of the game are not dealt with sufficiently deep and the main core of the game is undermined by serious balancing issues, even the cure in the realization of the environment can't raise the judgment of a title that wants to dare too much.
  9. P4inskiller
    Apr 29, 2018
    4
    Es ist eine Schande! Der Enwickler bleibt sich treu..sovel ist klar! Es handelt sich um ein kleines Studio aus Deutschland, dass eine treue Fangemeinde um sich scharrt, aber es nach fast 20 Jahren nicht hinbekommt, ein hochwertiges und vor allem spielbares Spiel abzuliefern. Bugs, fehlendes Balancing und fades Spieldesign wechseln sich hier ab. Wer über eine hohe Frusttoleranz verfügt undEs ist eine Schande! Der Enwickler bleibt sich treu..sovel ist klar! Es handelt sich um ein kleines Studio aus Deutschland, dass eine treue Fangemeinde um sich scharrt, aber es nach fast 20 Jahren nicht hinbekommt, ein hochwertiges und vor allem spielbares Spiel abzuliefern. Bugs, fehlendes Balancing und fades Spieldesign wechseln sich hier ab. Wer über eine hohe Frusttoleranz verfügt und unterdurchschnittliche Spiele mag, kann es sich ja mal antun..dem Rest empfehle ich: Finger weg!… Expand
  10. deezermann
    Aug 12, 2019
    4
    This feels more like an unfinished MMO than a proper RPG. I got to 15 hours in, fruitlessly hoping to reach this alleged part of the game past which it's supposed to become fun. I have spent maybe 90% of this time running boring errands for NPCs that all have the same 3 faces and 5 hairstyles and talk waaaaaay too much while saying nothing, fruitlessly hoping for the story to getThis feels more like an unfinished MMO than a proper RPG. I got to 15 hours in, fruitlessly hoping to reach this alleged part of the game past which it's supposed to become fun. I have spent maybe 90% of this time running boring errands for NPCs that all have the same 3 faces and 5 hairstyles and talk waaaaaay too much while saying nothing, fruitlessly hoping for the story to get interesting, and fruitlessly hoping that my character would become strong enough to actually navigate this generic open world without being attacked at every step by creatures that can kill me in 2 hits and chase me across half the map, which has been my experience the other 10% of the time.

    For whoever might be a PB fanboy thinking that I just don't get it, I'm familiar with all their games, the first two Gothic series being among my absolute favorites. This game here is more comparable with Gothic 3, which was only okay, because of flaws very similar to what I mentioned above. The key difference is that G3 was released in 2006, ELEX in 2017. A Gothic-style steep progression curve is no longer enough to make me defend this game, my standards have changed, unlike those of PB.    … Expand
  11. mindw0rk
    Oct 18, 2017
    3
    Im disappointed. Although I missed Gothic series, I liked Risen and Risen 3. So I expected a new fun game from PB. But after playing little less then a hour, I feel like giving up. Its just not enjoyable.

    -Graphics is mediocre and feels like worse then in Risen 3. -Combat is slow, clunky, unresponsive and plain boring. -Controls are also clunky and stay clunky even after you rebind    Im disappointed. Although I missed Gothic series, I liked Risen and Risen 3. So I expected a new fun game from PB. But after playing little less then a hour, I feel like giving up. Its just not enjoyable.

    -Graphics is mediocre and feels like worse then in Risen 3.
    -Combat is slow, clunky, unresponsive and plain boring.
    -Controls are also clunky and stay clunky even after you rebind defaults.
    -Music is terrible. I turned it off because it just annoyed me.
    -UI is bad.
    -The worst of all if writing and dialogues which are key thing for RPGs. They feel very amateurish. It is especially noticable after playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 where dialogues were excellent. Every time NPC spoke to me, I was like "Cmon, shut up already".

    PB, word of advice: start getting out of your comfort zone and making modern games.    … Expand
  12. rattlehead
    Sep 29, 2018
    3
    Miserable combat system, miserable story telling, miserable animations, miserable balancing. I only find this game (somewhat) visually appealing. Underneath it's just a trainwreck.
  13. Liun
    Oct 23, 2017
    3
    Terrible controls, so much unnecessary dialog, horrible combat, no character creation/customization and so much more... The only good parts of ths game are the beautiful open world, the equipment divercity, the scenery and the jetpack exploring.
  14. bladex
    Oct 19, 2017
    3
    This is just a terrible game it has xbox 360 graphics, poor slow and clunky battle mechanics even playing with m/kb, way way too much damn dialog, a terrible HUD and quest tracking system, useless mini map it's just black with a few blips on it half the time you can't tell where you are or are going have to constantly open the real map and very bad animations most of the time it looks likeThis is just a terrible game it has xbox 360 graphics, poor slow and clunky battle mechanics even playing with m/kb, way way too much damn dialog, a terrible HUD and quest tracking system, useless mini map it's just black with a few blips on it half the time you can't tell where you are or are going have to constantly open the real map and very bad animations most of the time it looks like your damn floating! you can tell right away it was dumbed down to the max for consoles. waste of $… Expand
  15. night4
    Oct 21, 2017
    3
    Pros:
    -Sci-fi and Fantasy together? Is that a pro?
    -Locks onto enemies Cons: -The graphics are embarrassingly bad, like from 15 years ago -The water effects are a spectacular failure, many PS2 games did it better -You're forced to play as this annoying, throaty-batman-voiced guy -Camera tends to wildly whip around when an enemy is defeated -Can't skip intro movie -Can't skip    Pros:
    -Sci-fi and Fantasy together? Is that a pro?
    -Locks onto enemies

    Cons:
    -The graphics are embarrassingly bad, like from 15 years ago
    -The water effects are a spectacular failure, many PS2 games did it better
    -You're forced to play as this annoying, throaty-batman-voiced guy
    -Camera tends to wildly whip around when an enemy is defeated
    -Can't skip intro movie
    -Can't skip splash screens
    -Difficult to tell from a distance what you can pick up
    -Not very fun or rewarding    … Expand
  16. Bullzz
    Mar 4, 2020
    3
    Vorweg mein Review ist nicht objektiv sondern subjektiv für mich geschrieben.

    Ich selber bin leidenschaftlicher Dark souls, Sekiro Gamer ... ich mag es " hart " aber auch fair. Und vor allem muss mir das Spiel das Gefühl geben das ich besser geworden bin durch skill und nicht nur durch Ausrüstung. Nachdem ich von Sekiro gekommen und direkt Elex gestartet habe hatte ich gleich    Vorweg mein Review ist nicht objektiv sondern subjektiv für mich geschrieben.

    Ich selber bin leidenschaftlicher Dark souls, Sekiro Gamer ... ich mag es " hart " aber auch fair. Und vor allem muss mir das Spiel das Gefühl geben das ich besser geworden bin durch skill und nicht nur durch Ausrüstung.

    Nachdem ich von Sekiro gekommen und direkt Elex gestartet habe hatte ich gleich mehrere Schocks. Grafik, Movement, kämpfen das fühlte sich an wie 10 Jahre in die Vergangenheit. Ich hab den Titel trotzdem eine Chance gegeben und durchgespielt.

    Das mit den verschiedenen Fraktionen ist nice und auch die Welt hat eine ansprechende Größte aber mir hats trotzdem nicht gefallen.

    Was mir bei den alten Gothic Teilen gefallen hat ist das man Gebiete kannte wo man anfangs nicht hingehen sollte weil sonst war man Frischfleisch. Es hätte auch keinen Sinn gehabt dort hinzugehen... hier in Elex könnte man überall hingehen. Durch das Jetpack kann man relativ schnell abhauen wenn man aufpasst.... ich hatte nie das Gefühl das ich " in Gefahr " bin.

    Das die Elex Generatoren alle gleich aufgebaut waren.. Level Recycling hallo, hat mir auch nicht gefallen. Das ganze Cyber Laser Kanonen gegen Schwert und Schild. Viele Skill Möglichkeiten die sich super lesen und es auch sind aber effektiv hab ich anfangs gleich voll auf Stärke gehen müssen um überhaupt mal stärkere Waffen tragen zu können um auf " hard " überhaupt mal was tot kriegen zu müssen.

    Auch das die Welt erkunden habe .. Safe und Truhen geknackt habe nur um dann eine " Toiletenrolllllllllllllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeee " zu finden und das nicht 1 mal .. 30 mal das hat mir den Rests gegeben .... ich hatte keine Lust zum erkunden.. für was auch ? Für die nächste Toiletten rolle ? ne danke

    Ich hab fast bis zum Ende des Spieles immer alleine ohne Gefährten gespielt.. ich spiele gern alleine aber es ging dann irgendwann nicht mehr. Wenn zuviele Mobs kommen hast du als Melee DD ohne Range Schaden einfach ab einem gewissen Schwierigkeitsgrad keine Chance.. ausweichen kostet sehr viel Ausdauer... richtig Schaden machst erst nach ner Combo Serie die natürlich von vielen Gegner schnell wieder unterbrochen wird .. und unendlich weit davon laufen bis endlich nur 1 bis 2 einem direkt folgen zum verdreschen ist weder " skillig " noch ist es " lustig "

    Werde mir Elex 2 genau anschauen werde es aber sicher nicht von Start weg spielen sondern wieder auf Patches bzw sogar mods warten. Erst wenn das Feedback merklich besser ist wie von Teil 1 dann schau ich mir das an.    … Expand
  17. JackieBoy
    Oct 17, 2017
    3
    If you are familiar with the risen series, then you already know what to expect from this game. Bad combat and animation, laughable story and boring game world.
  18. defive
    Oct 19, 2017
    2
    Atrocious. It's like PB are stuck in some kind of time warp circa 1999 and haven't learnt a single thing about game development since then. What is an interesting concept is ruined by substandard graphics, animation, voice acting and the jankiest combat system you've ever seen - and all of this at a non-indie price you'd typically pay for an AAA title - which this is most certainly not.
  19. Josphi
    Nov 4, 2017
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Unfinished game with MMO quests. Hard at first then easy and borring later. Quests purpose is just to level up not to enjoy story. Map exploring is awful also as theres rarely something interesting to find. This is no Gothic, Fallout nor Stalker, but pushed out early product... Best faction of free people are Clerics, because of tech and you can find best Energy Weapon in game in their biome "Mortal Beam" easily.… Expand
  20. marc5477
    Oct 26, 2017
    2
    WARNING: This games reviews are extremely suspect. For a small game with a few active players, there are too many reviews and lot of new accounts that seem to only review this companies games, and of course all the scores are 9s and 10s. They are likely paying for these reviews or they are reviewing it themselves to keep the score high. Dont be fooled. This game, at best is a 4/10 and thatWARNING: This games reviews are extremely suspect. For a small game with a few active players, there are too many reviews and lot of new accounts that seem to only review this companies games, and of course all the scores are 9s and 10s. They are likely paying for these reviews or they are reviewing it themselves to keep the score high. Dont be fooled. This game, at best is a 4/10 and that is generous. Its generic and very shallow.
    My score is heavily weighted on the combat portion of gameplay. Combat is terrible. Further, this game is designed for console and not the PC. The way movement is designed is better suited for a analog controller with 4 buttons. The console style camera is absolutely atrocious. Its clearly meant to address the limitations of a console but the bottom line is that when youre in combat, you arent really fighting enemies, you are fighting the camera. If you can fight in an area where there is little movement, then no problem, but forget any sort of tactics or thinking outside the box because the camera will get you killed. In fact, if not for the camera, I probably would have never died in this game. Of course you can always cheese your way through the game from range but want to know how many arrows it takes to kill a random animal? Try over 150 for some lame raptors and thats on normal difficulty. If you set it to the highest difficulty, you are looking at 400+ arrows to kill 1 enemy using your level 1-6 bow.

    Graphics: Are a mixed bag. Some stuff looks good like vegetation and architecture but some stuff looks pretty bad like faces, creatures and water. I mean... the water looks like it came from a 90s Tomb Raider game.

    Combat: Terrible with no redeeming qualities and shameful for a real time action based game. They fans call it "difficult" but if you read my other reviews I give examples of difficult vs bad design. This is bad design. For one thing, they decided on a demon souls style movement scheme which means that you move like a 60 ton tank rather than a human (except when you use the jet pack...). Luckily there are not as many camera collisions making movement slightly better than demon souls but this is still completely artificial handicap and it distracts from game immersion. It has some environmental problem such as slow pivots and at times a little pebble mound in the ground can cause collisions preventing you from moving. When you execute a move, you have to wait for wind ups which is fine but the problem is that most enemies do not have this problem which means you are being crippled simply to balance the game. When you hit things, it has little to no weight despite the long wind up. For instance you can do a power attack against an enemy and it will not phase it in the least and it will continue through its own attack as if nothing happened. Its the same with you, you can be flying and when you get hit it seemingly just passes through you and you feel no impact. Then there is the invisible hit box which appears to be huge for you but fine for the enemies. For instance, an enemy will swing and even though I am clearly 3-5 feet out of their reach, they still hit you. This makes it hard to get immersed into a battle since contact is not respected. From what I can tell in the 1st 15 hours of the game, there are only 2 attacks, a light fast attack and a heavy attack. You can also finish a 2 hit combo with a special attack which always seems to be the same. Ranged attacks are clumsy which is fine but I hate (loathe) the auto-aim feature that happens you take aim (it actually messes up my shots more than it helps since it does not seem to take into account physics). All in all, combat is terrible which is too bad since the rest of the game is actually ok.

    Quests: Are not bad. Many complain about dialog but the time I spent in the Berserkers camp was actually good. The quest givers have good voice acting (most of the time) and a lot of what was said was reasonable in the context of the game. There were few MMO style collect 20x of this but the few that did exist were extremely boring and cumbersome. One required you to harvest 50 plants which was not fun. 10 would have been more than enough. But again, quests and quest givers were not bad overall and the factions were not as clearly defined as their laws state. For example, even though the Berserkers are supposed to be the faction that cares about people, some are actually corrupt and others go outside the laws seemingly regularly. But in the end this is no Witcher as characters were not as interesting and a lot of interactions were comically unreasonable.

    Since combat is the most important part of the game for me, and the combat aspects of the game are very poorly designed, I had to pull the score for this game way down to reflect the fact that I did not enjoy the 1st 15 hours at all. Definitely wait for a steep discount before buying. Im sure you will see this for about $10-$20 by years end so dont rush    … Expand
  21. realWhiteMan
    Apr 9, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand
  22. Lordgrey
    Oct 21, 2017
    1
    Pros:
    -original setting
    -open world

    Contras:
    -archaic graphics
    -buggs and poor optimisation
    -ugly animations
    -primitive plot and dialogs
    -lack of story logic
    -trivial quests and characters
    -nonballanced roleplay system
    -terrible battle mechanics

    Verdict:
    Dont waste your time and money for this trash.
  23. Grenodeur
    Aug 30, 2018
    1
    Combat system in this game is absolute nightmare, its so cluncky and unlogical, animations is total trash.
  24. lhmtgame
    Mar 30, 2018
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Two words... BAD GAME.
    + Game graphics is good enough, better than Skyrim SE. And that's all the game has.

    - No performance optimization for PC.
    - No physics simulation in game.
    - Story is worse than bad, boring.
    - Stupid A.I. reaction. NPC kill me every time I enter a house just to talk to Mission's NPC while I don't steal anything.
    - Gears are ugly and poor.
    - Mini-map is useless because it only show tiny icons and a black background. The mark is also useless because it's just a tiny icon on mini-map.    … Expand
  25. Ulugras898
    Oct 30, 2017
    1
    This game looks like a cheap mod to Skyrim stylized on Fallout 4 and Mass Effect. I would not recommend this even to download, not to mention about the purchase.
  26. Jaevla
    Nov 6, 2017
    1
    a) Loved Gothic 1-2-3. b) Risen series,was just another average RPG. c) ELEX...NOPE NOPE NOPE.. For a hyped 2017 title? Awful super outdated visuals, awful textures, awful combat, and top of that, the weird mixture of Plasma/Laser rifles, with bow,swords and shields. PB should work more and harder to reach at least class B at creating RPG and in general games. I'm not a hater, buta) Loved Gothic 1-2-3. b) Risen series,was just another average RPG. c) ELEX...NOPE NOPE NOPE.. For a hyped 2017 title? Awful super outdated visuals, awful textures, awful combat, and top of that, the weird mixture of Plasma/Laser rifles, with bow,swords and shields. PB should work more and harder to reach at least class B at creating RPG and in general games. I'm not a hater, but please... Just take a look at the main character's hands @ https://imgur.com/r/elex/lSlK2GD ,and install Gothic 4 Arcania (that released back at 2010), and check again main protagonist's hand's there... Just amazing.. 7 years passed and PB dev team was unable to fix that monstrous hands? Next please..… Expand
  27. Lowd01
    Jan 8, 2018
    1
    Absolutely terrible game. Tried getting into it numerous times, and wasted about 12 hours on my life on it. Graphics and animations would have been outdated 10 years ago. Add clunky as hell gameplay, appalling mechanics, and very average story, and you have ELEX...

    As much a flawed jewel as a plastic ring in a Christmas cracker.
  28. Hagal
    Jul 3, 2018
    1
    There is ONE good thing about this game and that is the base idea. EVERYTHING else is so painfully bad. I am familiar with the vast parted sides of fans vs naysayers and I am next to convinced that those that praise this abomination has no real references, no real experience in the gaming world. If you have ever experienced ANY other game, then you cannot think that this is something good.There is ONE good thing about this game and that is the base idea. EVERYTHING else is so painfully bad. I am familiar with the vast parted sides of fans vs naysayers and I am next to convinced that those that praise this abomination has no real references, no real experience in the gaming world. If you have ever experienced ANY other game, then you cannot think that this is something good.

    To start of,
    Open world? it´s the worst open world I have ever had to experience. No life. No passive processes. Nothing. Just lifeless and painfully dull. No charm to be found anywhere. just large empty spaces.

    Graphics? Overall I don´t care, but man, even I couldn't believe my eyes when those xbox (original) graphics set the initial feelings in place... (I am not referring to nostalgia but lifeless greyish crap)

    RPG elements? Dull, uninspired & certainly not groundbreaking, the protagonist is the ugliest, dumbest and most awkwardly moronic protagonist I have ever seen, I just wished he could shut up and be invisible. Nothing to see here.

    Combat? Combat, AI & Animations are all some of the poorest I have ever seen.

    Immersion? Love immersion but never found any.

    Story? Bad, BUT as I implied earlier, the most basic roots & idea's are pretty interesting, the way they are put in mechanic is horrific...

    I have to give the developers that it seems like they have their heart in the right place, but maybe not their programming skills... I wish them all the luck in future undertakings.
    But long **** short. This is the worst game I have ever played.    … Expand
  29. aidan0
    Jan 1, 2018
    0
    Look at all those fake accounts that posted 10's for all 3 platforms on Oct 30, 2017. Piranha games should be ashamed. It’s getting a 0 because of this.

    The bad: Combat is bad, slow and dull. Dialogue is boring and bad, it so slow and puts me to sleep Main character is a hard ass, that’s as weak as a stick. Quests are bad and boring. Inventory management is outdated. The    Look at all those fake accounts that posted 10's for all 3 platforms on Oct 30, 2017. Piranha games should be ashamed. It’s getting a 0 because of this.

    The bad:
    Combat is bad, slow and dull.
    Dialogue is boring and bad, it so slow and puts me to sleep
    Main character is a hard ass, that’s as weak as a stick.
    Quests are bad and boring.
    Inventory management is outdated.

    The graphics are good, but you can’t fix a broken game.
    The game is not fun and it's boring.
    I won't be buying a Piranha or Nordic games ever again because of their review manipulation.
    What a waste of money, I should have gotten Wolfenstein II.    … Expand
  30. AcerolaOrion
    Sep 7, 2018
    0
    This game has set a new standard for how awful games can be.

    I have never seen combat this bad. Even the previous Risen games and Gothic games had better melee combat than this. How they managed to **** up this hard is beyond me. This **** came out after witcher 3, alongside games like Nier Automata and Original sin 2. It is a disgrace in every aspect of game design and the fact    This game has set a new standard for how awful games can be.

    I have never seen combat this bad. Even the previous Risen games and Gothic games had better melee combat than this. How they managed to **** up this hard is beyond me.

    This **** came out after witcher 3, alongside games like Nier Automata and Original sin 2.

    It is a disgrace in every aspect of game design and the fact that anyone would charge 60 bucks (on release) for this is insulting to say the least.

    Stay away as far as you can even if it only costs 1 Dollar/Euro. Its not worth that much. They literally would have to pay you to play this crap.    … Expand
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#13 Most Discussed PC Game of 2017
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#21 Most Shared PC Game of 2017

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 31
  3. Negative: 2 out of 31
  1. RPG Site
    Feb 2, 2018
    70
    Elex is a hard game to genuinely recommend, it does so many important things to only an acceptable level or worse. It's a game that's carried based on the strength of its quest design, or more pessimistically, one that's let down by a general lack of polish and uninteresting combat. It feels like a nice refreshing counterpart to some modern rpgs that treat their quest lists more like chores, but as a complete package, it falls disappointingly short.
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  2. Games.cz
    Jan 2, 2018
    70
    A flawed jewel. Beneath its layers a sophisticated game is hidden, created with love yet with bugs and poor technical design. The game mechanics are the top, but they are nowadays detrimental. Whoever wants to find a treasure in Elex, must try very hard.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Dec 30, 2017
    76
    Although dialogue writers were burning the midnight oil, the team responsible for combat was obviously slacking off and did nothing to really improve that mess of a close combat which ELEX inherited from Risen. Monster fights are as choppy, unnatural and buggy as ever, for example, enemies slide right up a steep slope if they happen to dodge in that direction. [Issue#225, p.68]
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