Sword Coast Legends

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  1. DaChunK
    Oct 20, 2015
    4
    I can't understand why they did this? Why mess with a system that works well as it stands. There was no need to have scaled Npc's, that alone has near ruined this game for me. The other thing that near ruined it completely for me is having no penalty for death. Where is the challenge in a game which holds your hands and walks you through it? With that in mind - it's a Diablo loot grabbing,I can't understand why they did this? Why mess with a system that works well as it stands. There was no need to have scaled Npc's, that alone has near ruined this game for me. The other thing that near ruined it completely for me is having no penalty for death. Where is the challenge in a game which holds your hands and walks you through it? With that in mind - it's a Diablo loot grabbing, hack and slash fest.

    Limited classes, No skill checks, Bad AI,, no crafting and I could go on and on.

    It's so unfortunate it's so far removed from DnD and is catered for a gamer that does not like to be challenged in a game. Thankfully some DEVS are still bringing out games which do. Divinity Original Sin, Pillars of eternity for example are vastly better games.

    True this game has the ability to have a DM. But it's so limited that I'd really prefer to not have it at all.

    Overall I'd suggest going elsewhere for a solid cRPG or, play this with an open mind and a very limited feeling of achievement when you finish it.

    Shame.    … Expand
  2. ragnarok1011
    Oct 20, 2015
    1
    Sword Coast Legends

    Pre-purchasing the game, I have been around since Head Start 1 in which time there has been extremely little added to this game. Issues: - DM tools very limited - No Tile by Tile dungeon Creation - No DM Craftable or Placeable Weapons, - All Loot is Random - Modules created by DM tools are extrememly linear with no DM as there is no scripting -    Sword Coast Legends

    Pre-purchasing the game, I have been around since Head Start 1 in which time there has been extremely little added to this game.

    Issues:

    - DM tools very limited

    - No Tile by Tile dungeon Creation

    - No DM Craftable or Placeable Weapons,

    - All Loot is Random

    - Modules created by DM tools are extrememly linear with no DM as there is no scripting

    - No Branching Dialouge options in DM tools

    - Single Player Campaign is very linear

    - Character Graphics are rough and Blocky

    On a bright note:

    - Background Environment is beautifully rendored

    - Excellent Music

    All in all, if you are going to purchase this, I would wait until it goes on sale. $20 or less. The game is alright as a SP game but no where near worth the full price. Many people are comparing this to BG1 and BG2, but you will not find the caliber of story as is in BG1 or 2.

    Since there is only one avenue that we can compare the DM tools to, just realize that these tools are woefully weaker then the Aurora Toolset released with NWN/NWN2. Easier to use, but you will never be able to make exactly what you want and with no mods and no scripting they will never fully satisfy.

    If you are just looking for yet another budget Single Player Game or for a toolset to create quick, simple Dungeon Runs with Friends, then yes this may be something that entices you, but be forwarned as to the limitations this game has.    … Expand
  3. wayavas
    Oct 22, 2015
    0
    I can't understand why they did this? Why mess with a system that works well as it stands. There was no need to have scaled Npc's, that alone has near ruined this game for me. The other thing that near ruined it completely for me is having no penalty for death. Where is the challenge in a game which holds your hands and walks you through it? With that in mind - it's a Diablo loot grabbing,I can't understand why they did this? Why mess with a system that works well as it stands. There was no need to have scaled Npc's, that alone has near ruined this game for me. The other thing that near ruined it completely for me is having no penalty for death. Where is the challenge in a game which holds your hands and walks you through it? With that in mind - it's a Diablo loot grabbing, hack and slash fest.

    Limited classes, No skill checks, Bad AI,, no crafting and I could go on and on.

    It's so unfortunate it's so far removed from DnD and is catered for a gamer that does not like to be challenged in a game. Thankfully some DEVS are still bringing out games which do. Divinity Original Sin, Pillars of eternity for example are vastly better games.

    True this game has the ability to have a DM. But it's so limited that I'd really prefer to not have it at all.

    Overall I'd suggest going elsewhere for a solid cRPG or, play this with an open mind and a very limited feeling of achievement when you finish it.    … Expand
  4. CatNight
    Oct 21, 2015
    0
    Character models are stiff, voice acting is very much lacking for many characters, battle feels boring and slow, story is.. well... boring. Let's see... hearing annoying confirmations from your avatar every time you click to move gets quickly on your nerves try as you may to ignore it. I noticed the weapons were not even being held in my avatars hands but were floating in many cases whichCharacter models are stiff, voice acting is very much lacking for many characters, battle feels boring and slow, story is.. well... boring. Let's see... hearing annoying confirmations from your avatar every time you click to move gets quickly on your nerves try as you may to ignore it. I noticed the weapons were not even being held in my avatars hands but were floating in many cases which is just weird. Dialogue windows randomly started to re-paste what I selected as I got further along in the game, causing me to have to hit "next" after I made a selection... I know what I chose game.. why tell me my own choice again instead of having the NPC respond? I wanted to like this.. I played Baulder's Gate and Neverwinter years ago.. but I just could not get into this. But hey.. lots of boring fetch quests if your into that.… Expand
  5. ogre
    Oct 20, 2015
    0
    If you're expecting D&D or anything like neverwinter nights, you're in for serious disappointment.

    This is more Diablo than D&D. Sure, you have beholders, but your wizard is going to have a skill tree and you're basically just going to be running around killing monsters Diablo style, and not a good clone at that. As a DM, you can't design dungeons. A dungeon master can't design a    If you're expecting D&D or anything like neverwinter nights, you're in for serious disappointment.

    This is more Diablo than D&D. Sure, you have beholders, but your wizard is going to have a skill tree and you're basically just going to be running around killing monsters Diablo style, and not a good clone at that.

    As a DM, you can't design dungeons. A dungeon master can't design a dungeon. They can auto-generate a new randomly generated dungeon, pick a tileset and a size, but that's about as much as you're going to be able to do with layout. You can place monsters and traps and an NPC, but an NPC is just a character with one chat message. It's basically a Diablo NPC. No chat options, nothing like that.

    If you ever wanted to play a cheap diablo clone where one of your buddies can take over as DM and throw monsters at your and possess creatures, have fun. If you wanted a D&D game, stop reading and move on with your life now. This isn't neverwinter nights, this isn't D&D. This is D&D themed bad-diablo-clone.    … Expand
  6. Chomag7
    Oct 20, 2015
    3
    Yet another rpg that wants to be a good c-rpg but fails due to low budget and low content. This game is NOTHING like Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights. The graphics are average for this age, the character models are horrid and glitchy, the voiceacting seems to have been done by Bob and Jen from accounting, and the overall experience is...lacking, at best.

    This game seems to have been    Yet another rpg that wants to be a good c-rpg but fails due to low budget and low content. This game is NOTHING like Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights. The graphics are average for this age, the character models are horrid and glitchy, the voiceacting seems to have been done by Bob and Jen from accounting, and the overall experience is...lacking, at best.

    This game seems to have been marketed primarily for the Dungeon Master mode, which itself is heavily restricted by all sorts of rules and and pre-made scenery that you can't edit and, let's face it, how many of you can actually get a few friends around to play D&D in multiplayer?

    If you wanted a good old style c-rpg single player experience, save your money. Besides, not sure what you expected from a microscopic studio.    … Expand
  7. Buford
    Oct 20, 2015
    0
    Who makes a Dungeons & DRAGONS game with a selling point of making you own adventures yet doesn't actually include any Dragons in the toolset? Seriously the Devs at N-space must be laughing all the to Fiji by now.
  8. myyrdin
    Oct 20, 2015
    4
    It is an epic failure to have a D&D game and have Wizards with skill trees. The skill trees themselves seem like an after thought - Magic Missile I-IV? Really?

    It is even more of an epic failure to have less functionality and depth and only marginally better graphics than the games to which it is the spiritual successor. Auto-leveling mobs? Again, where is the D&D in this? The    It is an epic failure to have a D&D game and have Wizards with skill trees. The skill trees themselves seem like an after thought - Magic Missile I-IV? Really?

    It is even more of an epic failure to have less functionality and depth and only marginally better graphics than the games to which it is the spiritual successor.

    Auto-leveling mobs? Again, where is the D&D in this?

    The campaign appears to be playable, but by the end of Act I I am not clamoring to play more.    … Expand
  9. Lordgrey
    Oct 20, 2015
    4
    5th edition of DnD? No, thanks. Here you have no skills, no multiclass, no perks, no prestige class, no steal, no diplomacy, just few stat check in dialogs, 6 basic clases, ~10 infinity realtime cooldowning spells, press X to win arcade gameplay, etc. It closer to the Diablo with active pause than to the Neverwinter. But campain not so bad.
  10. Mendle
    Oct 20, 2015
    1
    I heard you wanted to play a slow Diablo clone with weak as **** skill system, mages who's cantrips out damage their main damage abilities by level 11, and monsters who "scale" to your level. So you know that rat? That little measly little rat? Over 100 hp when you are level 7. That goblin? Over 200 hp at level 11. Confusion? Save off the bat to not be affected, or you'll be stuck in itI heard you wanted to play a slow Diablo clone with weak as **** skill system, mages who's cantrips out damage their main damage abilities by level 11, and monsters who "scale" to your level. So you know that rat? That little measly little rat? Over 100 hp when you are level 7. That goblin? Over 200 hp at level 11. Confusion? Save off the bat to not be affected, or you'll be stuck in it for the full 45-60 seconds, where if you save again you'll regain control of your character for a single round, before needing to save again. (One round being 2 secconds now.) Does it use 5e rules? I mean... kinda? In name? Ish? It has words like advantage, and disadvantage. But never in 5e have i seen +radiant damage, Cooldown reduction, % Resistance to piercing (Not the flat 50% for being resistant like in 5e), nor have i ever gotten a paladin to 40ac. Or have a 6 minute cool-down meteor swarm. Or "crit range increase" To the point where rolling 2-20 gives you a crit. Or where Vorpal is only 5% to instantly kill. Long story short, only get this is you want a very watered down cRPG, or a very slow aRPG.… Expand
  11. LypseDK
    Oct 20, 2015
    3
    + DnD theme
    - Laggy and long load times compared to graphics involved.
    - Some weird bugs that could have been fixed after the "beta" weekends.
    - Boring fast, maybe due to the loot system being a variant of borderlands (refresh vendors)
    - "teamwork" includes kicking clerics from multiplayer games since they are not needed?
  12. fox182
    Nov 15, 2015
    3
    I am so disappointed with this game! It is filled with bugs, its outdated, the graphics is rubbish and it seems most of all like a bad beta or an early access. There is very limited control everywhere in the game and the companions in the story mode is a nuisance rather than a help. The AI is bad and the path finding is equally bad. Sometimes the companions just stand there and do nothingI am so disappointed with this game! It is filled with bugs, its outdated, the graphics is rubbish and it seems most of all like a bad beta or an early access. There is very limited control everywhere in the game and the companions in the story mode is a nuisance rather than a help. The AI is bad and the path finding is equally bad. Sometimes the companions just stand there and do nothing by themself even though they are set to respond. You have hardly no way to control the companions less set a friend to share the burden of badly programmed companions. and you cant drop to have them with you either no no you are stuck on it so if you are the host then its limited fun for you while your friend can waltz around. It really seems like the developers never have tried any of the D&D pc games like Baldurs, NWN, Icewind Dale, Planescape torment or Temple of elemental evil. Why is there no DM in story mode?!? There is so many problems in it that I dont know where to start or to end and what does the dev do they give us fluffy Halloween things instead even though there is no Halloween in D&D's fantasy universe. Instead of being spoon-fed with your fluffy sales tricks I would appreciate a lot more that you deliver the game that I payed for!… Expand
  13. ChowderAzul
    Nov 25, 2015
    1
    Fifth edition D&D is an interestingly-balanced game with flavorful classes and rich opportunity for interesting tactical decisions. Sadly, despite claiming otherwise in its marketing, this game completely abandons all of that, replacing important 5e mechanics with simplistic cooldown mechanisms, turning the game into a wait-for-the-cooldown-to-expire exercise common in (bad) MMO RPGs. DoFifth edition D&D is an interestingly-balanced game with flavorful classes and rich opportunity for interesting tactical decisions. Sadly, despite claiming otherwise in its marketing, this game completely abandons all of that, replacing important 5e mechanics with simplistic cooldown mechanisms, turning the game into a wait-for-the-cooldown-to-expire exercise common in (bad) MMO RPGs. Do not buy this game, and hope that Wizards of the Coast gets the message and decides to create a true spiritual sequel to the Baldur’s Gate games.… Expand
  14. EvilNobody
    Oct 21, 2015
    3
    Besides the story, the game has nothing to do with D&D and plays more like an mmo or for example Diablo. The DM mode is horrible with very few content and options. In its current state I cant´t recommend SCL.
  15. Sarn88
    Oct 21, 2015
    4
    Maybe this game has Forgotten Realms setting therefore it may appeal to the funs. But this is simply not enough for me to be a good D&D game. I feel like this game is some sort of aRPG with FR flavour. Im lucky because I got refund from steam.
  16. McKeu
    Oct 21, 2015
    2
    I will concentrate on the DM tools here, since for most D&D hardcore fans it is the most important feature.
    What you CAN do as a DM:
    - Create encounters on preset maps - Place NPCs with dialogues - Place loot What you CANNOT do as DM: - Create own maps - Create dialogue or item based quests (except for collect x amount of y) - Have a character make a simple stat / ability check    I will concentrate on the DM tools here, since for most D&D hardcore fans it is the most important feature.
    What you CAN do as a DM:
    - Create encounters on preset maps
    - Place NPCs with dialogues
    - Place loot
    What you CANNOT do as DM:
    - Create own maps
    - Create dialogue or item based quests (except for collect x amount of y)
    - Have a character make a simple stat / ability check roll
    - Influence what loot the players get (all random)
    - Create items
    - Place enemies freely on maps (only on preset spots)
    - Award XP to players
    - Create a dialogue between NPCs
    - Script any behaviour of enemies / NPCs, except for setting them to friendly/neutral/enemy    … Expand
  17. TheSwordmaster
    Oct 22, 2015
    2
    Terrible graphics, terrible game-play. It looks and plays like a beta version of a game made 15+ years ago. Booooooooo!!! Everyone who had a hand in this or ok-ed this should be fired.
  18. TheEvangelist
    Dec 29, 2015
    0
    This game is a wannabe and its short on everything connected to D&D. Beware of the community also.
    If you are a critic, be ready to be mangled by the Knights of SCL Forum defenders. Game is bad and so is its community. The only nice guy is Ash. And he is just the companies Messenger pawn.
  19. ReddNW
    Feb 19, 2016
    3
    I didnt go into this game expecting a PnP simulator or D&D clone. I appreciated any features that went in that direction however, and was excited about the possibility of even limited DM capability.
    There appeared to be too many bugs in the game to make it viable. The third party log-in never allowed me to access online features (though sometimes informing me that I was logged-in so    I didnt go into this game expecting a PnP simulator or D&D clone. I appreciated any features that went in that direction however, and was excited about the possibility of even limited DM capability.
    There appeared to be too many bugs in the game to make it viable. The third party log-in never allowed me to access online features (though sometimes informing me that I was logged-in so couldnt log-in again). I often got booted out of the game when trying to build modules... or even at the end of the first single-player quest (3 times this happened). In all, it made the game unplayable. Even at $20, it doesnt seem worthwhile to have a game that I can play one short mission (but not complete), and create simple modules (that my friends can never access).
    With all that angst being put out there, the game has done some neat things. I'm satisfied with the quality of the sound, graphics and music. I understand some corners have to be cut, particularly when you allow player customization. I think simplified combat is appropriate for the same reasons. The character builder is good, though they neglected to have gnomes.
    In the end I have to rate the game poorly because of its instability, but I wish more games would go in this direction, and with the right patches they might be able to make considerable improvements.    … Expand
  20. ZickZak
    Oct 21, 2015
    3
    Had this been created in a PoV like War in the North or LotR: Conquest and the story potentially removed - might be cool game. So far damn boring, I played for 2 hours and just hoping it would get exciting. Nope. Uninstalling.
  21. pkloop
    Oct 20, 2015
    2
    Unfortunately this game is notable for what it is not..it is not a D&D game. At best D&D in name only. Nothing worthy of a purchase here for D&D fans. This one is a reminder of why one should never pre-order. Wait for reviews kiddies!!

    So much wrong here with this one..sigh
  22. JasondeAngelo
    Oct 24, 2015
    3
    Not the game anyone was expecting, it's an OK loot crawler but if you want anything even resembling D&D.... look elsewhere, the devs straight up lied and employed some very underhanded tactics with refunds.
  23. brindle88
    Nov 29, 2015
    0
    Surely all the positive reviews on here are false, possibly put up by the the sword coast legends gaming studio to help increase there sales. I cannot imaging why anyone would think this is a good game. Perhaps if you where a little kid, say 10 years old or younger you might enjoy it, with this perhaps being there target audience.

    The last 2 games that have been released from the    Surely all the positive reviews on here are false, possibly put up by the the sword coast legends gaming studio to help increase there sales. I cannot imaging why anyone would think this is a good game. Perhaps if you where a little kid, say 10 years old or younger you might enjoy it, with this perhaps being there target audience.

    The last 2 games that have been released from the forgotten realms franchise, sword coast legends and neverwinter (not neverwinter nights) have been complete flops. Whoever is calling the shots here needs to be sacked and the forgotten realms franchise needs to be reinvented. So sad to see it wasted away like this.    … Expand
  24. XxSoULxMaNxX
    Nov 8, 2015
    1
    I tried and tried. The game is simply not good.

    Character creation is bad and the G-rated character interaction is silly and off-putting. The combat is not satisfying = hit T; click on an enemy; everyone auto-attacks one target...you can occasionally hit 1 or 2 to activate an ability [i.e. fireball 1 through 4] if you want. Turning off the AI only makes it worse as the skill trees are    I tried and tried. The game is simply not good.

    Character creation is bad and the G-rated character interaction is silly and off-putting. The combat is not satisfying = hit T; click on an enemy; everyone auto-attacks one target...you can occasionally hit 1 or 2 to activate an ability [i.e. fireball 1 through 4] if you want. Turning off the AI only makes it worse as the skill trees are too basic and combat gets monotonous.

    The game is NOT optimized in any respect - it crashes and, if you fix that, then it will overheat.

    Compared to what I hoped it would be - this is an immense disappointment.    … Expand
  25. nocker
    Oct 29, 2015
    0
    SCL would have been a passable game IF they didn't try to draw the consumers pretending this was a D&D game. It's not and I feel betrayed. I'll just stick to playing Temple of Elemental Evil and Neverwinter Nights until some developer remembers remembers what makes a decent D&D game: Actually implementing something resembling the system on the books. I can forgive bad graphics and I canSCL would have been a passable game IF they didn't try to draw the consumers pretending this was a D&D game. It's not and I feel betrayed. I'll just stick to playing Temple of Elemental Evil and Neverwinter Nights until some developer remembers remembers what makes a decent D&D game: Actually implementing something resembling the system on the books. I can forgive bad graphics and I can forgive a shallow campaign (as long as the game is moddable). I can't forgive that atrocious mockery of the game system.… Expand
  26. Robobob
    Jun 4, 2016
    3
    I had such high hopes for this game thinking it would be an updated version of Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2. But, unfortunately it is a dumbed down version that seems like it was almost built to run on consoles than a PC. Why, oh why does your inventory get thrown into a giant pile that you have to sift through and can only select one of a handful of inventory types to help sort it. WhatI had such high hopes for this game thinking it would be an updated version of Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2. But, unfortunately it is a dumbed down version that seems like it was almost built to run on consoles than a PC. Why, oh why does your inventory get thrown into a giant pile that you have to sift through and can only select one of a handful of inventory types to help sort it. What was wrong with a click and drag inventory that you can sort yourself so you know where everything is? Ya now, like any decent RPG or MMO has had for the past 15 years!!! The graphics on this are pretty decent at a distance but you are so limited in the range you can zoom in on the action or zoom out from the map to get the big picture. Another issue is the confusing quest system. I had a very hard time trying to figure out where to go next for many quests. Actually, I'm stuck in the main campaign in ACT II because I'm going where I think I'm supposed to go to continue the main story after completing side quests and I'm not finding the NPCs to continue. No pathfinder or compass to point me where to go. One quest I walked all around 3 areas a few times looking for an NPC to complete the quest and never found him and have up after wasting a good hour or 2. In a nutshell, the interface and controls are kind of a mess, like they learned nothing from any of the popular games of the past few years.
    On a positive note. The AI is pretty good. Your party is pretty smart in using their abilities to stay alive once you get past the first couple levels. Searching for traps and hidden rooms is also a blast which you rarely see done right in RPG games. At normal setting the fights are just the right difficulty.. not too hard and not too easy.
    The main thing I'm disappointed about is the module creator. I was hoping for something like NW1&2 where you could break down to the nitty gritty and script the hell out of the game. I spent years doing that with Neverwinter Nights. This version is just way too simple and vanilla for my test. A very small selection of creatures and characters to use and you can't even create your own areas. They are created at random for you. Too bad. I would have paid big bucks for a NW with updated graphics and an improved editor.
    Oh, one other sad note. The combat system is nothing like D&D. There are abilities I've never heard of. No skill system. You can't specialize in specific weapons with Feats like Weapon Focus etc. Why did they throw away the core D&D rules for an average run of the mill system you would see on any game today? I was going to give this game a 5 but the more I write the more I've decided this game has let me down.    … Expand
  27. CommissarMonkey
    Oct 24, 2015
    2
    Terrible slaughter of the 5th edition rules. Voice acting isn't too bad in my opinion. But the simplified everything and complete lack of any meaningful conversation tree tools basically make it a D&D version of diablo (which could actually be awesome concept if that was the goal of a game)
  28. Rohaldos
    Nov 27, 2015
    0
    This game is a massive disappointment.

    The story, graphic and sound are terrible. Overall the game is very poor and boring.

    If you want to play a good DnD game go back to the classics like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights (not Nevewinter the online game which is another horrible game) etc.

    This is the worst DnD game around.
  29. erlervix
    Oct 22, 2015
    3
    Apesar do prometido, não da o sentimento de estar no universo de D&d, apesar de esta ambientando no cenário. Mecânica ruim com um jogo pouco desenvolvido.
  30. Cariad
    Nov 8, 2015
    3
    So much potential, but it just keeps disappointing.
    The skill tree system over the D&D classes and feats system was a mistake, there is not much else to say about that.
    The single player campaign story is almost good, and is helped by good voice acting, but doesn't quite make it for me. I haven't done much with the multiplayer yet, and I may re-look at this review when I do. Combat is    So much potential, but it just keeps disappointing.
    The skill tree system over the D&D classes and feats system was a mistake, there is not much else to say about that.
    The single player campaign story is almost good, and is helped by good voice acting, but doesn't quite make it for me.
    I haven't done much with the multiplayer yet, and I may re-look at this review when I do.
    Combat is unrewarding, it can be challenging, but unrewarding.    … Expand
  31. RolandCrain
    Oct 24, 2015
    3
    Худшее воплощение идей DnD. Рудиментарная одиночная компания, баги и абсолютно невнятный AI. Единственное, что имеет более или менее неплохо воплощение - это мультиплеер .
  32. CCh
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    This is NOT a DnD game. And no, this is not Diablo either, Diablo was way better than that.
    You can roll your head on the keyboard and still be able to clean any dungeon coz you've got unlimited number of lifes and you can stack to 0 cooldown time for all the powers.
    Lessons learnt: Wanna pre-oder games? Think about Sword Coast Legends. Buy game from Steam but not the official    This is NOT a DnD game. And no, this is not Diablo either, Diablo was way better than that.
    You can roll your head on the keyboard and still be able to clean any dungeon coz you've got unlimited number of lifes and you can stack to 0 cooldown time for all the powers.

    Lessons learnt:
    Wanna pre-oder games? Think about Sword Coast Legends.
    Buy game from Steam but not the official website so that you can have a refund.    … Expand
  33. dangerclay
    Dec 13, 2016
    0
    So disappointed. I waited for two years to play this game after I heard about it coming out. The release date kept getting delayed. Which was a bad sign I know. It finally comes out and I download it for the $19.99 standard game. I am sad to say it is a huge disappointment. First of all, I couldn't even play it because there was pink box filling up the middle of the screen. Even if I couldSo disappointed. I waited for two years to play this game after I heard about it coming out. The release date kept getting delayed. Which was a bad sign I know. It finally comes out and I download it for the $19.99 standard game. I am sad to say it is a huge disappointment. First of all, I couldn't even play it because there was pink box filling up the middle of the screen. Even if I could play it the game is still terrible. The problem isn't with the graphics, I understood this was an old school game, that's why I wanted to play it in the first place, but it takes forever to load, the font is small, the playability is bad. It clunky and unimaginative. I guess the old style, Baldur's Gate, RPG action games are gone forever...… Expand
  34. Lazyyawn
    Jul 17, 2021
    0
    Wayyy too overpriced based on how mediocre it is ... but people seem to buy it mostly because there is no p2w (yet) ... which is a very low standard. The rest is just mediocrity and some aspects are so bad that it looks like a joke.

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 39 Critic Reviews

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  2. Mixed: 34 out of 39
  3. Negative: 3 out of 39
  1. RPGamer
    Jan 27, 2017
    30
    Sword Coast Legends has overreached far beyond its abilities. What might have been a fine successor to Neverwinter Nights is instead a playable, but dull experience for every playstyle it offers. Dungeons & Dragons brand name represents a long lineage of CRPGs. Some excellent, some considerably less so. I, personally, had hoped that this entry could have been the former, given its ambitions to the Neverwinter Nights lineage, but ultimately this game fails to interest for any length of time.
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  2. Brash Games
    Jun 7, 2016
    70
    Sword Coast Legend is a game that combines great story-telling with character development. The gameplay provides a good experience by customization but does not manage to keep the experience entirely fluid with consistent bugs and glitches which riddle the game.
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  3. Everyeye.it
    Jan 22, 2016
    58
    In the noble attempt to resuscitate the original Dungeons and Dragons brand in a videogame, the developers really messed things up, as the gameplay is a mixed bag, and not all mechanics work as they should.
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