Paladins: Champions of the Realm

 PlayStation 4
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6.8

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  1. BlueCatPK
    Dec 20, 2017
    6
    It's an enjoyable Free-to-Play Hero Shooter with 3 modes; The main one being capturing the objective and then pushing it to the enemy base, the second one focusing solely on pushing the objective, and the last one being typical point-based deathmatch. It's all pretty standard.
    Some time ago there was also a survival mode where everyone had just one life, but they removed it for some    It's an enjoyable Free-to-Play Hero Shooter with 3 modes; The main one being capturing the objective and then pushing it to the enemy base, the second one focusing solely on pushing the objective, and the last one being typical point-based deathmatch. It's all pretty standard.
    Some time ago there was also a survival mode where everyone had just one life, but they removed it for some reason. What it already has is decent enough, but it could use some more varied ways to play and have fun.
    There's no real lore or story here, unlike other popular Hero Shooter/Moba games, just some one-liners and jokes to give the colorful cast some character.
    But it doesn't need any, in this type of game, it's all about characters and gameplay.
    The characters are hit and miss, but that's just my opinion. They all offer something unique to the table and are fun to play with (Unique in regards to this game and its characters. You will find a lot of parallels between Paladins and Overwatch or TF2.)
    There are also plenty of maps to play with and much more to come (with the being available to players for testing, which is a nice idea, involving the playerbase into some part of the creation of the game.) all of them being colorful and generally well designed.

    Of course, there are still a lot of glitches and broken elements present, but it's understandable as it is still in the Open Beta, and the developers are constantly working on it, throwing in patches after patches, changes, and new content.
    It's amazing to see. Especially recently, when they were introducing new Champion every single month.

    But then, Cards Unbound happened...
    A new patch that basically threw away the unique loadout system that differentiated it from the other Hero Shooters, allowing the player a lot of customization of Hero's abilities to suit their playstyles while still being balanced, which was easily the best part of this game...
    And instead they put in a system that not only removed all the balance from the game modes where the vast majority of players are, but also turned the grind up to eleven, making it really annoying for the old players, horrible for the new ones, and more Pay-to-Win than it was ever before (and the funny thing is, they've decided it was a good idea to announce it right after the StarWars Battlefront 2 afair,) pretty much forcing the players to use what they get from lootboxes rather than building the loadout they want... so they wouldn't get destroyed all the time by players that have all their cards maxed out without any limits.

    To be fair... I didn't really test those changes for myself, so it may be that I misunderstood some mechanics of it, but in any way, it's blatantly obvious what they're trying to do.
    It's really sad and disappointing, which is why I won't be giving it any more of my time despite the game being fun.    … Expand
  2. Caribeguy
    Feb 28, 2018
    5
    Paladins was a fun and fast game, but ever since the inclusion of Terminus and the change of the card system the game has progressively gone downhill. Although I adapted pretty easily to the new card system; a Terminus on the enemy team has made it so that he is a must pick for your team to counter him, or your team has to pick a Torvald to directly counter Terminus. Overall the game wasPaladins was a fun and fast game, but ever since the inclusion of Terminus and the change of the card system the game has progressively gone downhill. Although I adapted pretty easily to the new card system; a Terminus on the enemy team has made it so that he is a must pick for your team to counter him, or your team has to pick a Torvald to directly counter Terminus. Overall the game was fun, but since Terminus's inclusion it overall has gone down.… Expand
  3. sebastianali
    Jun 19, 2020
    5
    Paladins la verdad que proponia ideas interesantes, pero algunas de ellas muy mal planteadas, y es una pena porque la base del juego era buena e interesante. Básicamente es un shooter genérico accesible (esto ultimo si esta bien) inspirado bastante en juegos como Team Fortress 2, Overwatch y la base del competitivo de League Of Legends. Al empezar el juego te muestran un tutorial bastantePaladins la verdad que proponia ideas interesantes, pero algunas de ellas muy mal planteadas, y es una pena porque la base del juego era buena e interesante. Básicamente es un shooter genérico accesible (esto ultimo si esta bien) inspirado bastante en juegos como Team Fortress 2, Overwatch y la base del competitivo de League Of Legends. Al empezar el juego te muestran un tutorial bastante inútil, y aquí mi primera queja: El tutorial no te explica como va el sistema de cartas, el de habilidades, etc. Para el que no esta acostumbrado a esta clase de juegos, la interfaz es algo confusa en el menu principal, pero al menos la interfaz en el juego en si es cómoda y no molesta para nada, eso si que es accesible y todos los botones que uno tiene que tocar a la hora de jugar para hacer determinado ataque te los podes acordar si usas un personaje en particular. Ahora al empezar una partida, tenes para elegir entre 3 modos de juego, cosa que me parece muy poco. Estos son el tipico Team Deathmatch, el tipico modo conquista y el modo de arrastrar un carrito de mineria que de aca si que se lo copiaron de Team Fortress 2. Hablando de las partidas online en si, tengo que agradecer que... como ya dije, es un juego muy accesible y las partidas son bastante disfrutables al principio, terminan bastante rápido, etc. La verdad que en la base que intenta transmitir la jugabilidad esta bastante bien, y te van dando dinero (aunque es muy poco) y experiencia. Hablando de la experiencia, esta muy desaprovechado, ya que no sentís una sensación de progreso dentro del juego, simplemente vas desbloqueando cosméticos, pero no podes mejorar al personaje de ninguna manera, mas alla de la habilidad o de la carta equipada, que vuelvo a repetir el juego no te explica nada de como funciona y son muy pocas. Ademas de que el juego abusa excesivamente de los micropagos, en una partida obtienes 200 monedas aprox... o menos, y los objetos cuestan mas de 30000 monedas, por lo que tenes que estar jugando 10 horas o 20, para comprar una skin mediocre. No me quejaría de los micropagos si estuvieran bien implementados dentro del juego. Ahora hablemos un poquitito de los gráficos... Valgame dios, los gráficos son bastante mediocres para ser un juego de la PS4 del año 2017. Team Fortress salio en el PS3 en el año 2007 y se ve un millón de veces mejor. Lo unico que puedo destacar de los gráficos es el diseño artístico de algunos personajes como Moji o Ruckus, pero aun así siguen palideciendo por el año en el que fue lanzado el TF2 y encima este siendo superior en todos los aspectos. Ademas, si bien Moji y Ruckus me gustan bastante su diseño, al final es un desperdicio puesto que no tiene modo historia, y me van a decir ustedes: Pero es un juego gratuito!!! A lo que les respondo: Gems Of War es otro juego gratuito de la PS4 y hace todo lo que Paladins no hace. Y siguiendo con la jugabilidad en si, las clases están bastante desbalanceadas, con personajes en el online como Moji o Viktor siendo muy débiles y haciendo poquísimo daño aun sabiéndolos usar, ademas de que las partidas se vuelven repetitivas, ya que como dije no desbloqueas mucho y son 3 modos de juego, los mapas son bastante chiquitos y no hay nada de exploración. Luego tengo que hablar de la implementacion de los "Mixer Points", la cual me parecio pesima, que te hagan ver directos por mas de 80 horas solo para ganar skins. Y por ultimo los glitches... La verdad que no me lo explico... Una cosa es que el juego se te congele una vez por mes, puede pasar, pero este juego se me crasheo 3 veces en tan solo una semana! Suerte que a veces al iniciar el juego de vuelta te vuelven a mandar a la misma partida automáticamente. En resumen, Paladins puede llegar a ser divertido por su accesibilidad y algunos personajes interesantes, al menos en su diseño; para pasar el rato diría yo. Pero como juego en si, deja que desear en muchísimos apartados, siendo una copia descarada mas que Overwatch como decían muchos, en Team Fortress 2, y ya TF2 tenia sus fallos, así que este imagínense los que debe de tener. Esperemos que con las siguientes actualizaciones, Paladins mejore como videojuego en general, o en una secuela puedan darle a Moji y a Ruckus la historia que se merecen realmente.… Expand
  4. JP_Wilde
    Jan 30, 2020
    7
    I really wanted to give a grade of 8 or more, as it is one of the only online games that I play, that I had fun and that I have been playing for a longer time, but they have been making the game worse over time and I ended up being disappointed, it has been removing some things, complicating the purchase of characters and skins, and the game has also had an absurd imbalance, either youI really wanted to give a grade of 8 or more, as it is one of the only online games that I play, that I had fun and that I have been playing for a longer time, but they have been making the game worse over time and I ended up being disappointed, it has been removing some things, complicating the purchase of characters and skins, and the game has also had an absurd imbalance, either you sell easily or lose easily.
    Whenever they launch new characters, they come with too much Overpower, which gives a lot of advantage to the team that has it.
    They might as well take some offline mode to tell more about the history of this universe of Paladins.    … Expand
  5. SuperkenGaming
    Jun 29, 2017
    7
    Paladins
    too much grind
    Paladins is a free to play online hero shooter there are 3 game types here Onslaught which is capture and hold, payload which is an escort game and siege where it’s a mix of the 2... You try to capture a point on the map and escort the payload... the first team to 4 points wins… Theres a great deal of variety in character select, currently 28 champions total..    Paladins
    too much grind
    Paladins is a free to play online hero shooter
    there are 3 game types here Onslaught which is capture and hold, payload which is an escort game and siege where it’s a mix of the 2...
    You try to capture a point on the map and escort the payload...
    the first team to 4 points wins…
    Theres a great deal of variety in character select, currently 28 champions total..
    The game gives you 8 of the 28 from the start... its up to you to unlock the other 20 and unlock other perks and cosmetics along the way…
    The gun play here is great.. There’s a damage class, frontline, flank, and support…
    my favorites being damage and flank… The other 2 I just couldn’t get to work for me in the given game modes
    Each champion has their own set of special attacks with cool downs…
    and one super move you can unleash once you’ve accumulated enough damage
    and there are in games boosts and perks in the form of cards that you purchase throughout the match with the currency you get as you work on completing objectives…
    You can change your card loadout and unlock new cards from chests that you’ll get naturally as you play the game…
    And this is a free to play so of course there are chests focused more on character cosmetics that can only be bought with crystals... and you earn crystals by logging into the game consistently or just buying them of course... you can unlock champions with these crystals as well…
    or you can just grind for them…
    And this is where the free to play model hurts this game
    champions cost 5000 coins to unlock…
    from matches you’re going to get about 200-400 coins..
    meaning it’s going to take around 15-25 matches minimum to unlock just one character…
    or about 4 and a half hours…
    you’re looking at around 120 hours to unlock every character in this game…
    There is not even close to enough content here… not interesting enough maps, not a variety of enough maps.. Not fun enough match structure to make that 120 hour grind worth it…
    And it’s a shame because again the gunplay is so good...
    im either really great at this game which I doubt or the game is so accessible that it can make anyone feel great at it..
    I had fun playing with the different champions…
    but even after only a few hours I was already tired of the maps as the objectives are always at the same spot, require hardly any tactics and the maps are so small that you’ll get to these points on your sweet stallion in a few gallops…
    which I do appreciate…
    the siege mode in particular feels fast and hectic thanks to it
    The problem here isn’t the gameplay..
    It’s the hook…
    The game doesn’t rewarded quickly enough to hook the average player and incentivize them to go for more characters…
    25 matches or 4 and half hours for 1 single character is ridiculous…
    aint nobody got time for that…
    With more maps, which the devs are working on as you can even test them once you reach level 15
    and a grind cut by about 75% and there’s something here…
    until then it’s a grind fest that you’ll most likely lose interest in before you have a chance to play with everything
    I give Paladins
    a 7.5/10    … Expand
  6. Termin8ter
    Aug 12, 2017
    5
    Sorry, but this game is an absolute joke. A low effort re skin of Overwatch that feels and looks like it was made by some lazy student developers. Almost every character from Overwatch has been replicated, except they look a lot less polished and refined. I'm overwhelmingly surprised that Blizzard hasn't sued the developers of this average slop for blatant plagiarism, because they reallySorry, but this game is an absolute joke. A low effort re skin of Overwatch that feels and looks like it was made by some lazy student developers. Almost every character from Overwatch has been replicated, except they look a lot less polished and refined. I'm overwhelmingly surprised that Blizzard hasn't sued the developers of this average slop for blatant plagiarism, because they really should. Don't get this game, get the aforementioned Overwatch or another good multiplayer shooter, but not this garbage.… Expand
  7. PatMac19
    Jun 19, 2017
    7
    Actually I was really surprised how much I liked the game, considering it is a free to play game. Played for about three to four weeks on my road to Platinum and there wasn't really a moment I hadn't fun with the game. But in the end there isn't enough variation in game modes, and in general it seems to repeat very often, so it cannot be on a level with other MPs like Battlefield or CallActually I was really surprised how much I liked the game, considering it is a free to play game. Played for about three to four weeks on my road to Platinum and there wasn't really a moment I hadn't fun with the game. But in the end there isn't enough variation in game modes, and in general it seems to repeat very often, so it cannot be on a level with other MPs like Battlefield or Call of Duty or other games.
    Positive aspect: Although it's free to play, it's definitely not pay to win - so everybody can take a look at it without getting frustrated :)    … Expand
  8. destinyfan1
    Jun 23, 2017
    7
    This is a great game that is not a garbage copy of overwatch , infact it is almost as good as overwatch the action , hero's are good , besides some to op hero's
    its also hard to know how you upgrade your hero's , they could have made that a little bit easier
    The graphics and sound are decent and the maps are ok besides 1 horrible map which I forgot the name off because its so garbage    This is a great game that is not a garbage copy of overwatch , infact it is almost as good as overwatch the action , hero's are good , besides some to op hero's
    its also hard to know how you upgrade your hero's , they could have made that a little bit easier
    The graphics and sound are decent and the maps are ok besides 1 horrible map which I forgot the name off because its so garbage
    Overall a must download    … Expand
  9. ergenecondom
    Aug 27, 2017
    7
    Eğlenceli bir oyun overwatchla kıyaslamak saçma tabi overwatch daha iyi fakat biri 150tl istiyor diyeri bedava ayriyeten p2w bir oyun değil oynaması gayet eğlenceli ve kolay.
  10. Fifitao
    Nov 11, 2019
    7
    Paladins é um jogo muito legal, acho tão bom como Overwatch, porém menos conteúdo.
  11. MartinEzy225
    Aug 22, 2020
    5
    For a knockoff Overwatch game, it actually wasn't that bad. But at OCE, the servers are very empty and only a few modes have active players. The matchmaking is terrible since not many play, new players are grouped with veterans and gameplay just becomes dull.
  12. DerGluffy
    Oct 22, 2019
    6
    Meiner Meinung nach ist es eine Overwatch Kopie in schlechter es macht schon Spaß aber die Onlinegegner sind nicht die besten aber bald kommt Crossplay raus das finde mega nice
  13. DackoPlays
    Jun 25, 2020
    6
    For a free to play the game it's hard to complain too much. It gets updated frequently and the devs seem to listen to the community better than its competitors. The problem with is that Triple-A games dominate the industry and when you have games like overwatch that have hundreds of millions of dollars in it the quality of the two games shows. Not saying I like overwatch because at thisFor a free to play the game it's hard to complain too much. It gets updated frequently and the devs seem to listen to the community better than its competitors. The problem with is that Triple-A games dominate the industry and when you have games like overwatch that have hundreds of millions of dollars in it the quality of the two games shows. Not saying I like overwatch because at this moment in time paladins is more fun. My major complaint about paladins is the lack of competition. Its hard to get a competitive feeling in paladins as each game is easy for an above-average shooter player.… Expand
  14. Julio987
    Oct 31, 2020
    6
    Es un juego normal y corriente nada DEL OTRO MUNDO LO RECOMIENDO ESPERO QUE OS HAYA GUSTADO ESTACRITICA
  15. MisaXD
    Jan 28, 2021
    7
    Muchos Bugs en el juego además de demasiados bots suqnue yo creo que sí hicieran más publicidad del juego sería mejor
  16. yertre
    Feb 8, 2021
    5
    The game is enjoyable, but the devs seem to have minimal interest in improving it, with each update making the game worse than before.

    The hit detection is horrible. The matchmaking is horrible. The game is riddled with latency issues, and only half the roster is actually playable in any real sense. I could go on, but the game's fast pace is a redeeming factor. It's average in its    The game is enjoyable, but the devs seem to have minimal interest in improving it, with each update making the game worse than before.

    The hit detection is horrible. The matchmaking is horrible. The game is riddled with latency issues, and only half the roster is actually playable in any real sense. I could go on, but the game's fast pace is a redeeming factor.

    It's average in its current state, but the game will no doubt get worse as time goes on. Can't really recommend it.    … Expand
  17. aaronnmp96
    Feb 3, 2023
    6
    A classic Battle Royale, fun to play with friends, and each character has well-based skills