The Technomancer

$10 for an up to 40 hour long bioware-style RPG. Yes, it's worth it. This follow-up to Mars: War Logs is a great story experience. The gameplay is solid, but also rather difficult. There are some strange issues in the writing, and a couple of bugs, but overall, it is functional. It is a rare breed of game that works, is fun to actually play, and also to invest yourself in given its larger overall universe. The characters stand out and the areas (which you will go through often) evolve as you do, and as the story does. This is one of the best singleplayer RPGs I have played in years; despite not being anywhere near perfect.

This is really overlooked, but great RPG! i am blown away from how amazing the world, the lore, and the story is. I am quite frankly astonished that more people haven't heard of it. it really do deserve more hype. Yes it's a little buggy, but even with that the RPG elements shines through! and the atmosphere is amazing! The game is a little bit janky, but full of heart. so get the game! it goes on sale all the time!

This is a game full of potential successes. Unfortunately it lacks atmosphere and features a few annoying elements. Still it is worth a try because of all the options and the changing storylines it offers.

I really enjoyed it. The setting is beautiful, the storyline is interesting and engaging, and it's actually a fun game!
Contrary to other reviews, it does work on multiprocessors (only had one crash in all).
Yes, some parts are tedious and you end up running like an idiot from A to B encountering the exact same bunch of enemies (looking at you, Underworks), and yes, the combat is occasionally completely haphazard and random, which makes it frustrating. But all in all, it's a good game, and if you can bag it on sale, don't hesitate!

I wrote a review for this already, and I'm not sure why it disappeared, but I love this game. It's weird and refreshing though imperfect. The companions and setting are very interesting. It's got some similar flaws to Dragon Age 2 in that the zones are linear/repetitive and the combat is similarly repetitive. But it is satisfying. It's a weird one but worth playing if you are looking for a companion focused RPG to play. Spiders tries a lot of new things with their games, but keep that older magic from the golden ages of Draogn Age Origins alive. It's no DA:O or Mass Effect but it scratches an itch in a way no new Bioware game ever will again.

This game isn't all that good, but it's not bad either.

It's kind of like a mix of Mass Effect and Dark Souls.

I switched it to easy pretty quickly. This is one of those games that has a prologue that teaches you the game, and it's very easy, thus not preparing you at all for chapter 1 where enemies kill you in two hits. This is especially annoying since people with guns can stand off screen and mercilessly shoot the heck out of you, or I guess...twice.

So after taking three tries to kill two people more than a few times, I lost my patience and switched it to easy, which made it more of hack n slash than a dodgefest throwing in an attack or two when you can. As that's my preferred type of game, this suits me wonderfully. Thus I died less the whole game afterwards than I did trying to kill one group on normal.

There are a lot of customizable skills that are based around three weapon types you can switch between any time. In addition to those skill trees there are two other trees that increase other things as well, such as health, lockpicking, and upgrades that allow your class to equip better equipment. You only obtain a point for these every four and five levels I believe.

This is one of those rpg's that can weigh you down if you carry too much. I hate that. There are ways to get around it, but honestly, just having my characters fully equipped pretty much weighed me down. The only thing that happens though is you can't sprint. To me this doesn't add anything to any game. It just wastes my time. There's already an annoying amount of inventory management in this game as it is, which also wastes my time. Cut that out, yo!

Most of the game is spent running around the same three maps. This gets boring, as you have to fight the same five groups of enemies 175 times. I couldn't imagine doing that on harder difficulties. Plus the layouts of the maps are somewhat confusing. Thankfully, holding down a key overlays an extremely helpful map over the screen like in most ARPGs. There is also a mini map in the bottom right corner and a full map to help if need be.

The story is okay, but its one of those games that has so much talking, and the uninteresting kind. You know what I'm talking about, where its just a shot of the character talking from the waist up, then switches to the next person talking, only there mouths moving. Man, I hate that. So I wound up skimming very quickly through the story bits. And the perhaps two dozen or so side quests? I skipped all that dialogue completely. Sometimes the dialogue is so long my finger got tired from clicking so much.

You can romance people in this, and you better believe I @#%ed her good. At least I hope so, since they don't show it.

Overall it's a decent game. It just has a lot of things that I hate about games in it, so if I still kinda enjoyed it after all that, and if you don't mind the things I talked about, then you might actually like it very much.

Not an easy question to answer with Technomancer. Would I recommend it?

Overall, it was a pleasant experience so I would say yes but there are some issues that could hinder some folks' enjoyment of the game. The combat is relatively simple, repetitive and there is a wild amount of backtracking expected of you, provided you're looking to complete most of the quests, both main and side stories.

With that said, I did enjoy the overall story here. It was interesting enough to keep me going and I was curious to see where it would all lead. The companions were all different and had their own thoughts and opinions so it was fun to play through their story archs. There are plenty of choices to make that influence your ending which is voiced by the main character at the end.

If you're looking for an RPG to dive into akin to Dragon Age or Mass Effect and you're a fan of cinematic RPG's, you'll likely have a decent time. Especially, if you've played most of them out there by now.

Hope this opinion helps you make a decision!

PS: If you have more than 8 cores on your CPU you'll need to reduce them to 8 or you will not be able to play the game. I recommend following this guide here: