Kingdom Come: Deliverance

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

This is a giant massive game that I won't be able to do any justice to in my weekly game thing. The sequel just came out and it is getting rave reviews. I started up the original, which I had bought on a Steam sale ages ago.



You start as, I think, a teenage kid or something. After meeting your mother, she asks you to go talk to your dad, and he wants you to go into town and get some charcoal. To pay for it, he asks you to talk to the town drunk, who owes your dad some money for some supplies he gave him. OK. This is pretty good for a fetch quest. I have tried, over the last 12 years, to think of quests that aren't fetch quests. I ... I think it's ok when your father in a video game asks you to do something, and that thing is fetch. It's realistic.

The town drunk is not the cool, affable type. He seems like a nasty old cockmonger. The game is trying to introduce me to the various ways to talk to people, but I get it wrong and have to eventually tell him that I'll tell my DADDD on him. I am surprised that Kingdom Come got so much shit from the woke crowd seeing how the first task has you telling on people.

I decided to see just how immersive this game was and started punching the drunk. He fought back and was beating the shit out of me and knocked me out. The first person fist-based combat is AWFUL, but it reminded me of Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion. It's terrible there, too. So this is "in genre." He knocked me out and while the game says it takes place in like 1405, it could also take place in 2025 Buffalo. My team-mates did not respond!! (I have no team-mates.)

I woke up and ran after the guy and this time suckerpunched him from behind, and THENNN I started beating his ass in to the point where he ran away from his house. Haha! What a pussy. I am not showing up to my in-game father without at least the stuff we sold this jerk.

This isn't the slickest game ever in terms of looks and controls, and it is so far to the left of the competency curve of a protagonist, you are basically playing a 15 year old kid, if not exactly then practically. But it is captivating. I want to see a little more where this leads. There are so many good games right now, and this one is like 7 years old. I was able to calm my brain down tonight and I played A Highland Song (brilliant), Jagged Alliance II (I will never finish it) and I am sort of gritting my teeth to bear down and finish Knight Orc after all these years using the Level 9 interpreter. So much good stuff out there.