Is this game as trash as people say?

It's VERY vapid.

Little to no interaction with NPCs/towns and the skill ceiling on combat caps out very quickly. Crafting is situational enough that it feels completely tertiary. Add to that, you're fast-traveling constantly, so areas are a blur, so it all feels like a thin smear of content spread across as large a place as possible.
It has neat ideas. The endless war against the reincarnating elves, some gameplay tweaks like levelling up a mage-class replaces your dodge with a teleport, but it's borderline impossible to recommend.

If you're looking for an aRPG, there's Elder Scrolls, Gothic, Fable, hell I'd recommend Twin Worlds over this. I sunk 40 hours into it on Hard and just deleted it out of pure apathy.

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It was planned as the lead-in to an MMO, but the MMO died because of some political troubles with Rhode Island that I never quite understood. That is, the MMO was intended to be the follow-up to this game, with this game establishing the setting and context of the MMO.
That said, I dunno, I would recommend it to fans of Cookie Clicker.

Kurt Schilling(?) borrowed money from Rhode Island to have Big Huge Games make KOA, and it didn't sell well enough for him to repay his denbts.

Man, shut the fuck up.

It’s actually quite an interesting story

Yeah, but I vaguely recall, it caused some serious scandal within the Rhode Island legislature or governorship, so that they had their funding dry up all of a sudden. Did they actually default on some debt, or was the state government afraid that they would start defaulting, or...?

No!

The studio filed for bankruptcy

Same thing happend to me. Maybe I should've played a class with fancier effects. I can't even remember what the magic was like.

It’s the most overpowered build in a game where you become overpowered

The music and combat are alright.
But the story is run of the mill. The environments are boring. And pretty much everything else is as well.

It's ok, but it becomes piss easy at some point.

I liked it, but it's very easy even on hard mode, and the story is forgettable. Only character I remember is that dokkalfar dark elf chick I wanted to mating press.

Alyn Shir IS cute!

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Well given that, in practice, the game only contains her and Canderous Ordo, you're one for two.

> but the MMO died because of some political troubles with Rhode Island that I never quite understood

its actually really funny when you learn about it.

Basically the State of Rhode Island (through a state backed corporate loan) gave 38 Studios (Curt Schilling's studio)a $75 MILLION dollar loan based off of notoriety of Curt Schilling alone. the stipulations being that 38 Studios were to relocate to Rhode Island and create around 500 jobs into the state over the next year, which is by far the stupidest financial move in history.

38 Studios never managed to hit that mark. they moved HQ to Rhode Island, but didn't have the resources to create enough jobs while ALSO working on two games simultaneously. One of which was KoA: Reckoning and the second being the followup MMO. When that became a major problem, they outsourced a bunch of the work to Big Huge Games to keep themselves afloat, and brought on EA for publishing, distribution, and advertising.

So while not good, it looked like the game would have had a fighting chance if it weren't for one thing. It launched 3 months after Skyrim, so literally NO ONE bought it. By the time the numbers were crunched, 38 Studios needed to sell 5 Million copies at launch JUST to break even. IIRC they sold less than 1 Million, and to date the total figure is probably somewhere around 2 Million, 7 years after release.

The game failed, 38 Studios crumbled, and the state of Rhode Island was on the hook for the $75 Million dollars it spent on it, which almost bankrupted the state.

>Crafting is situational enough that it feels completely tertiary.
If anything crafting is to powerful.
You can make gear as powerful as end game epics with decent smithing and the uncommons you gather before leaving the fourth area.

Christ it almost bankrupted the whole state?

I don't know who that is, and unless you skipped all of the side quests and the main quests, there's loads of characters. The problem is that most of them are forgettable.

>I don't know who that is
The bearded fortune teller you meet outside the tutorial dungeon. Can't remember his name.

The washed-up fate guy, who you encounter just outside the starter dungeon. I don't remember his name in KoA, but he has the same voice actor as Canderous/Mandalore (in KOTOR 1 and 2).

>75 millions
>Bankrupt a state

Jesus christ was adam west the mayor at the time?

Then Curt got cancer and asked to be let off the hook in court. Not sure what happened after.

Its like if the first Fable got an actual sequel that stayed true to the first unlike the sequels it did get but with none of the charm of Fable.

Almost. The 38 Studios "get" was a cornerstone of Rhode Island trying to build up their "tech" industry. But it crumbled a year later, and most other tech companies and startups based in the state all fizzled out soon after. But most of it was because the Corporation that issued the original Loan is _still_ in an ongoing lawsuit for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars trying to prop up the "tech industry" of Rhode Island.

Singleplayer mmo. Quite boring

He went completely broke. Spend $50 million of his own money trying to keep the lights on at 38 Studios before going bust, then lost another $60 Million in lawsuits.

About a year or so ago he got hired on as an anchor for ESPN before he got fired for being a racist twat on social media, so there's a real good chance he's going to die broke.

I had fun. That fucking tilted camera tho

Fucking hell.

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I’m going to buy it just for that shitshow alone

i mean the studio itself wasn't enough to do the job, but it was the proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back" that saw Rhode Island's economy almost collapse.

the bankruptcy of 38 Studios led to an ongoing investigation by the FBI and SEC into a number of companies that were backed by the Rhode Island government and were financing all of the Tech Industry of the state. As it turns out these companies had been defrauding investors for years by lying about the risk of their investments and were passing that money onto any tech venture they saw fit.

So because 38 Studios folded as quickly as it did, it ended up costing the state of Rhode Island hundreds of millions of dollars in investment and financing because they were now (at least partially) responsible for repaying investors who were cheated out of their investments

it's honestly not a bad game.

the biggest sore spot is definitely how empty the world really is. the combat is entertaining (if not super complex), the skill and leveling systems are pretty unique and inventive, and the writing and lore is actually pretty decent if you're into that

I played it a few years ago and it is quite enjoyable in the early levels. Then it just gets tedious and repetitive

>Basically the State of Rhode Island (through a state backed corporate loan) gave 38 Studios (Curt Schilling's studio)a $75 MILLION dollar loan based off of notoriety of Curt Schilling alone. the stipulations being that 38 Studios were to relocate to Rhode Island and create around 500 jobs into the state over the next year, which is by far the stupidest financial move in history.
>worshiping a sportsball player so much you give him a loan that nearly bankrupt's your state

They absolutely deserved to get fucked this hard. Bunch of fucking idiots.

>hurr this ball player going to make cool video game and bring jobs to us durr

I liked the attack animations but it wasn't enough to stop the game getting bland quickly.

It gets boring in the first 8 hours. At first it feels like a hidden gem, then you realize it is just a singleplayer MMO.