Lichdom: Battlemage

 Xbox One
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2.9

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 25 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 25
  3. Negative: 18 out of 25
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  1. CrazyAsianJake
    Apr 22, 2016
    0
    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!
    As of 4/19/16, Lichdom: Battlemage is UNPLAYABLE. This has to be the WORST port since the Batman: Arkham Knight PC port. The frame rate is in single digits... let me repeat this... The frame freakin rate of this potentially great game has never hit 20fps. Most of the time you'll be playing a PowerPoint.
    But then again... this console port was done by Maximum    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!
    As of 4/19/16, Lichdom: Battlemage is UNPLAYABLE. This has to be the WORST port since the Batman: Arkham Knight PC port. The frame rate is in single digits... let me repeat this... The frame freakin rate of this potentially great game has never hit 20fps. Most of the time you'll be playing a PowerPoint.

    But then again... this console port was done by Maximum (more like Minimum) Games, the people that brought you Farming Simulator 16.

    Update: They have addressed that they will be working to patch up the game. No promises though. I'm sorry for those who bought this mess of a game.    … Expand
  2. stoliontherocks
    Apr 22, 2016
    0
    Horrible frame rate and sickening motion blur!
    I'm only talking about the XBox One version of this game. The idea of this game is entertaining and starts out fun, but as few as a couple minutes in the horrendous motion blur started to make me ill. In the tutorial videos if you look at the characters hands the movements look crisp an clean, but the second I would cast the same spell its a    Horrible frame rate and sickening motion blur!
    I'm only talking about the XBox One version of this game. The idea of this game is entertaining and starts out fun, but as few as a couple minutes in the horrendous motion blur started to make me ill. In the tutorial videos if you look at the characters hands the movements look crisp an clean, but the second I would cast the same spell its a blurred mess. You'll notice the same thing with all the backgrounds and edges which ended up getting annoying very quick. Then I made it to the first boss fight. if your camera has any part of the green force field in view(which is most of the time) the frame rate drops to the low teens or worse making what could be an enjoyable moment in the game simply sadistic. The game continued like this the entire time I played it. Then theres the very minor complaint of having no crosshairs, but compared to the extreme graphics flaws of this port(which make the game nearly unplayable) that doesn't even really matter.    … Expand
  3. pawz7
    Apr 21, 2016
    1
    I can't believe anyone finds the graphics of this game "gorgeous" as has been said on Steam. It looks like someone did a 1k overhaul of Oblivion. The combat is laggy and clunky (on Xbox One), the voice acting is barely mediocre and the animation is laughably out of date. This costs a standard Xbox account £40. £40! £10 more than PC, which is still too expensive for this unoriginalI can't believe anyone finds the graphics of this game "gorgeous" as has been said on Steam. It looks like someone did a 1k overhaul of Oblivion. The combat is laggy and clunky (on Xbox One), the voice acting is barely mediocre and the animation is laughably out of date. This costs a standard Xbox account £40. £40! £10 more than PC, which is still too expensive for this unoriginal MineCraft mage simulator which made me feel so ripped off I actually wanted to cry.… Expand
  4. Viiper
    Apr 23, 2016
    0
    this is an unspeakably bad pc to console port. this game will not even reach the 30 second fps mark, and runs at an average of 15 fps. it is quite literally unplayable.

    this is an actual product being sold for $50 right now. DO NOT BUY THIS TERRIBLE GAME.
  5. ashermadan
    May 21, 2016
    0
    It's been weeks since the game released and it's still broken. How this is acceptable in any way whatsoever? The developers keep on promising patches but there aren't any. They should issue refunds to everyone who bought the game. This is just unacceptable. How can a broken game even be approved on Xbox One? Does no one check anyone?
  6. whysomuchhate
    Apr 21, 2016
    8
    This game is a pleasant surprise. I went in with low expectations but have been having a lot of fun. It plays like a modern shooter but with spells instead of guns. No reloading and no mana bar to deplete shoot as much as you like fireballs ice kinesis and my personnel favorite necromancy. Its not demon souls difficult but it's also not a walk in the park. I am giving it an 8 because itsThis game is a pleasant surprise. I went in with low expectations but have been having a lot of fun. It plays like a modern shooter but with spells instead of guns. No reloading and no mana bar to deplete shoot as much as you like fireballs ice kinesis and my personnel favorite necromancy. Its not demon souls difficult but it's also not a walk in the park. I am giving it an 8 because its not perfect but on cry engine 3 its pretty and most important it's just fun.… Expand
  7. osprey
    Jan 25, 2017
    4
    I should have listened to the user reviews as they are right about this game being broken. It is a real shame and that is why I am giving it a 4 rating as it has potential to be a good game but it is very frustrating that the game won't even accept my log in unless I exit out and reload and sometimes not even then. I have never had this problem with any other game and it is driving meI should have listened to the user reviews as they are right about this game being broken. It is a real shame and that is why I am giving it a 4 rating as it has potential to be a good game but it is very frustrating that the game won't even accept my log in unless I exit out and reload and sometimes not even then. I have never had this problem with any other game and it is driving me nuts. It also has a very confusing upgrade system and the fact that you can't read the tiny stats adds to the confusion. To explain, I am logged in on my console but the game does not accept that I am logged in and keeps asking me who I am. Ackkkkkkk!!!!!! I tried rebooting my console think it was an Xbox live issue but no, it is the game. You can't even exit out to the main menu, you have to turn off your console and start the game again. I don't know how many times I will be willing to do this so I may be forced to abandon the game.… Expand
  8. Steyraus
    May 27, 2021
    8
    Picked this up on sale on a whim and was pleasenty surprised by this origional title , with a great mature story and different combat. The game could use more control options and desperatly needs a contrast and brightness slider, but aside from that its a blast..
    Its so anouying that great games like this get so little attention from games media while the corperate and conected triple A    Picked this up on sale on a whim and was pleasenty surprised by this origional title , with a great mature story and different combat. The game could use more control options and desperatly needs a contrast and brightness slider, but aside from that its a blast..
    Its so anouying that great games like this get so little attention from games media while the corperate and conected triple A titles get non stop coverage to the point its anouying. It no wonder inovation amd origionaluty is so rare in the modern gaming industry. Almost every major FPS feels and control the same as eachother because the devs stick with the controls games journalists didnt complain about.    … Expand
  9. Professorfett
    Apr 21, 2020
    0
    You’re a wizard Harry, but not The Dragon you seriously don’t want to be The Dragon. Why? Because that would mean you are associated with Lichdom Battlemage, and you want to avoid that like the **** plague or those Nazgul **** from the Harry Potter movies. Hello everyone Brandon here with what quite possibly might be the worst game I’ve played all year. Now I must say this is the consoleYou’re a wizard Harry, but not The Dragon you seriously don’t want to be The Dragon. Why? Because that would mean you are associated with Lichdom Battlemage, and you want to avoid that like the **** plague or those Nazgul **** from the Harry Potter movies. Hello everyone Brandon here with what quite possibly might be the worst game I’ve played all year. Now I must say this is the console version only I hear decent things about the PC version of Lichdom Battlemage, but Xbox One version can lick my taint. I was thinking 2016 was being a decent year not too many great games so far, but from what I played no piles of **** either. Until now. Let’s see how making you an overpowered mage with fire, ice and psychic powers can be even close to being a piss poor game.

    ​The story is of course generic as all hell. You are The Dragon which is a mage who can shoot fire from his hands and it is your job to free the land from this darkness that has been oppressed by this dark magic. Not personal enough for the players? Let the main characters wife/girlfriend get killed and now you have to go out on revenge. Well not only is it cliché to find out you are some “chosen one”, but you need revenge on the mustache twirling bad guy as well. The game doesn’t have a deep nor interesting story in the slightest. It seemed like a bit later in the game they were trying to maybe build it more into an epic, but good Christ I couldn’t care less if what happened to anyone in this game. The story is about as interesting and almost the same one as Arcania Gothic 4 which I reviewed last year and hated that just as bad.

    The game looks God awful, and with this being a delayed game I’d love to know how. Seriously how the hell do you make an Xbox One game look as if it was an Original Xbox game? I’m not being internet hyperbolic this game looks like a blocky mess, and it is so dark on my bright ass TV I think they did that to hide the ****ty textures. The game doesn’t stop there they said, “Jim we made the game look like ass how can we make it sound like **** as well?” Well they came up with that solution by ****ty voice acting. I think they got the original Resident Evil actors and told them to just try and sound witty.

    All of this might make for at least a mediocre game if the gameplay was at least fun. Sadly it is boring and a bit confusing. So it is a first person mage game, or the slowest FPS you’ve ever played. Imagine if you played Skyrim in first person and could only use magic spells. Now take away 75% of the spells you’d get in Skyrim, and then make them barely usable. Sounds fun? They kept telling me I could mix spells and make them more powerful, but for the life of me I couldn’t do anything of the sort. I think I leveled up my magic, but I never noticed a difference. Say if you wanted to freeze an enemy with ice then hit him with a fire ball. Well switching between spells is so slow by the time the fireball is ready the enemy is already free. Basically I ended up just sticking with the fire power because it seemed like the only power that did a **** thing. I do admit with my go, go attitude when it comes to tutorials in games I may have missed something, but it is up to the game to at least make the basics of what the game is up front. So if all that isn’t enough the games frame rate is **** It is a jittery mess, and this is noticeable to me a guy who couldn’t tell 30 frames per second to 60. Then the icing on the cake is generic enemies that range from brown blobby cultist (remember bad graphics) to skeletons. I know skeletons oh lord they must’ve been up all night thinking of that starting enemy. I didn’t finish the game so I can say how long it was, but damn I just don’t have time to put into playing **** damn unplayable games.

    So I know by now you are definitely wondering the score, right? Ha. Let me say if you see this at a garage sale and they will sell it to you for a quarter. You call them a snake oil salesman and go buy yourself a gumball you earned that gumball by avoiding this sack of **** game. I had a frown the entire time playing this game. I give it a 0/5. **** this game, and **** whoever decided that this was a finished product.    … Expand

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Critic score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 1 out of 3
  3. Negative: 2 out of 3
  1. ZTGD
    Jul 19, 2016
    50
    There is no excuse for launching the game the way it was in April, and most gamers have already forgotten about the title entirely. But for those that may stumble upon it on sale somewhere, feel good in knowing that you are picking up a solid, and unique title, that is finally worthy of sitting on a retail shelf.
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  2. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Jun 20, 2016
    20
    Will have you glued to your screen...waiting for it to do something. Spare yourself the pain. [July 2016, p.82]
  3. ICXM
    Apr 27, 2016
    10
    By far the most appalling thing about Lichdom: Battlemage is not its dull method of storytelling, its unsatisfying combat, its convoluted crafting system, or even its game-breaking frame rate issues. The most appalling thing is the sheer lack of sincere communication and apology from Maximum Games, who have released the most utterly broken Xbox One game that I have ever played and have demanded a whopping $50 for it.
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