You Really Should Play Elex
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- A small spiel in favor of Piranha Bites' polarizing 2017 Open World RPG, Elex.
Note: I kept this mostly early-ish game footage to avoid spoilers for those who want to play the game. I know some of it is repeating. I simply didn't have a large pool to choose from. I reloaded an old save to make this and recorded maybe two hours of footage.
ALSO, I realize I called the Outlaws 'Bandits' in this video. I'm sorry to any Outlaw stans out there.
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Recently started playing this since it caught my eye on PS+. Never played Gothic or Risen before, but decided to take a chance on it after watching a few reviews. 25 hours in, and I’m obsessed. Haven’t been this invested in an RPG since the first time I played Skyrim a decade ago. It’s rough around the edges and often frustrating, but truly an amazing journey. Great video
Glad you liked it! And yes, Risen has a magic to it that’s hard to define (as seen here haha).
Risen is a lot of fun if you enjoy action rpgs and don’t mind somewhat dated graphics
Started this game two days ago and i love it!! Cant wait to finish it and play the second One
Enjoy it!
2nd part is pure garbage
@@pepehabichuela1004 it's not a straight up improvement, but I wouldn't call it gargabe. the story is definitely hot garbage though :D
@@pepehabichuela1004 Wrong....Fake news
One of the best rpgs ever the only rpg that made you fear for your life and actually feel like your character progresses and became steonger
i freakin love this game. it has a depth many triple A titles pretend to have.
Honestly I think a lot of people crap on it because it’s controls are admittedly a little wack but it’s great fun
It’s extremely detailed and doesn’t get any credit for it
@@memenazi7078Knowing that there will be a lot of combat in the game, one would expect that Piranha Bytes would make sure that the combat is at least bearable. Personally, I'm baffled by the fact that Piranha Bytes in still in the early 2000s when it comes to combat. I'm not at all surprised that many people were disheartened by Elex at the very beginning of the game.
I started this game and I'm two hours in. I can say that I see myself doing over 100+ hours in this game easily. Game is amazing! Nice video too!
It’s fantastic. It’s a shame people can’t overlook the jank to see the gem
Finished the game once, got every faction to the last rank (Regent, etc) and start now 1-2 years later my fourth Playthrough (:
And with Pirhanna Bytes potentially going under we have to appreciate it even more now. Enjoy your run!
@@Soul_Tomato Yeah, i Hope we‘ll still get elex 3
Ah Piranha Bytes, making the same janky, frustrating and ball smashing experience since 2001. And I wouldn’t have these games any other way, they’ll be sorely missed.
Dude the news they’re probably going under does hurt a lot. Gothic 2 got me through my childhood.
@@Soul_Tomato
Played the first 2 games early this year, it was terrible I loved every moment of it. Loved them so much I checked out the fan mod Chronicles of Myrtana : Archolos, and now I have more hours in that than the first 2 games combined.
Archolos is like if you made Gothic 2 actually a good to play game (it’s a good game but jank as sin). It’s also ENORMOUS. I couldn’t finish it because I had things going on but I think I put like 75 hours into it.
7:29 oh yeah it's super hard to get a good footing on the combat.
Fuck i miss this game. With the state of gaming today it'll definitely be worth it playing this game again.
Ill take a janky AA game over any overproduced, soulless AAA day one patched games as a service crap.
Agreed
once i started playing this i didnt want to stop , the guns were fun while the melee combat was just ok not great not terrible , i also liked the atmosphere in the last few areas up where all the albs live , the overall artstyle was nice to look at especialy the clerics red and black uniforms , the only real issue i had was enemies that used crap like grenade launchers that essentialy stunlock you into oblivion
In Elex each faction is more suited to a certain playstyle. In my playthroughs and experience playing this game .
Berserkers - Mage Playstyle (Fire and Poison are good. Ice is mediocre.)
Outlaws - Best suited for Melee playstyle (Tough guy, Pick Me up and Mind Changer Chem are OP)
Clerica - Best suited for Range playstyle (One Man Army, One with weapon and Psi Hologram ability are good for a range build).
As for your video, good work sir and you earned my respect and sub for taking the time to play and review this hidden gem.
I hope I did the review some justice. It’s not my forte at all but every once in a while I get the urge to try. I went Clerics because of the insane magic but it did feel like by later game that the magic lost most of its luster and I was just using ranged.
You couldn't be more wrong in your faction analysis. Berserker magic is actually terrible, worst than any proper mid-late game weapon. Berserkers also have that +50 melee skill, making them the best melee class. Clerics are in fact the best for magic playstyle as their magic is much more versatile and overall stronger than the mere Berserker offerings. With that said going full mage isn't really a thing in Elex. Technically Clerics are also the best ranged class with their class weapons and that +50 ranged skill, however since heavy weapons are also considered ranged than Outlaws absolutely give Clerics a run for their money in terms of ranged prowess. In fact the Berserkers aren't at all bad at ranged combat either thanks to the bows being the best ranged damage weapons in the game, ironically, and Berserkers have a couple of bow skills to supplement this prowess. With that said those skills are rather hit and miss with Elex' clunkiness and the lack of a magazine makes the bow the hardest ranged weapon to use, but it is very doable and if you play well and overcome all the jank it is very rewarding.
So if you want to go melee go Berserker. If you preferred range than all 3 classes have something to offer. Outlaws actually get the highest bonus thanks to their unique stim but being a consumable that's very expensive to buy and craft it's much less consistent than a flat melee/ranged bonus like the other 2 factions have. So the biggest question is what kind of ranged weapon you prefer. The hardest hitting but also hardest to use bow? The most standard and easiest to use Cleric rifles(of many varieties) or the heavy stuff, Rocket and Grenade Launchers, Flamethrowers, etc, being trickier to use than rifles, both in terms of targeting against moving targets and also as you can die to your own AoE if you fire at too close a target. However they also has the highest damage output thanks to that very same AoE.
Review - pretty damn solid.
Albeit the early game struggle, I learned to compensate utilizing some old school fundamentals that will surely help new players: 1. scum save often, 2. learn to jet pack to a nice camping spot inaccessible from the ground and chip damage with the bow, 3. buy arrows often (like everytime you're near a trader); 4. cook and keep all meat products (you will have more cooked meat than health potions for a long time). Be patient, have fun and when possible, try to be observant. Also, agro tough enemies and lure then into friendly NPC character mobs when possible - essential NPCs are best as they cannot be killed in most, if not all, circumstances - they only get "knocked out" when downed.
Good video and the commentary was quite enjoyable.
Glad you liked it, and some good tips for would be players to boot!
@@Soul_Tomato TYVM
the clerics got to you, didnt they?
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Really looking into this game, prob gonna get it. I love how it has factions, in a way it reminds me of new Vegas with the factions and the mechanics and what not. I don’t know why we don’t get rpg more games now a days it sucks. Theirs a lot of jrpgs being released but not traditional ones like these
This gameplay gives off Knights of the old republic vibes. I like it and well definitely give it a go thx to the video.👍
Def worth it imo
Good video. Don’t worry about your editing. Content is good. Subscribed and take care✌🏻
Hey appreciate it. But this one is pretty old. I’d assume (hope) I’ve improved since.
Loved the world in Elex, I was wondering how you get the textures to look so crisp? (especially noticable when you talk to npcs in this video) Is it just the resolution scaling option?
Probably just the resolution. I didn’t use any mods or anything for the video
@@Soul_Tomato alright, i guess i never knew it could look this crisp, my pc just barely runs this game smooth, but that didn't stop me enjoying this game to its fullest 😁
I feel like something like elex and other games you aren’t feeling like doing full edited playthroughs of would be good as livestreams into VODs on the channel.
Less backend work than the edited videos and but you can kinda chill and play stuff were gunna play anyway, hang with the community, and as you play have clips to pull from for actual RUclips videos like this later on.
Not a bad idea
This is one of the best "bad" games I've ever played. If you can forgive all the jank and amateurish dialogue sequences, the feel of the game and the environments are really nice.
If I had to give the game an objective review score, I'd probably give it a 6. But if I rate it purely on my subjective enjoyment and satisfaction, it's a solid 8.
The game is janky, the combat system is challenging, the difficulty, especially the first few hours, is brutal. However, the worldbuilding and exploring is exceptional and I so happen to like the main character and the companions, even though companion AI is absolute crap. I haven't had this much fun exploring a world since Fallout 4.
Literally the epitome of “it sucks, I love it.”
@@Soul_Tomato 😂👍
I wanted to play range with spear guns but didnt worked and it ruined the immersion and i unistalled twice, i followed guides, and read tons of wiki stuff to learn to level propertly but nothing... now i want to try going for meele this time.
Melee is primo
@@Soul_Tomato I still want to try it, maybe for christmas, i will try range on easy mode to see...
Enablers let pb to survive for long but they didn’t let them to evolve to actually succeed
"the berserkers blame the meteor on technology, which makes no sense"... unless the game is called elex 2.
Then its retconned reason 😎
Elex 1 is the bomb. XD
Elex feels like a Piranha Bytes impression of a Spiders game. PB's earlier titles were much better and I enjoy Spiders' stuff for the most part but Elex is an exercise in meandering bloat.
I was a big fan obviously but that’s not an unfair take. It’s def bloated.
What about Elex 2? More of the same, worst or better?
Did you play this game in de hardest difficulty?
Elex 2 was smoother for sure but I think a lot of the fun of the factions and even the world itself were lost from what I remember
got both games a few years back and i really like them(But 1st game is the one i prefeere)
its kind of clunky and stiff and i also hate the mission n invetory...But it has something new games lack..cant actually say what?
But the world build is intresting and thats probably what i like most.
Fighting is kind of ok and even terrible"could be that i suck at it"!
But all in all i like these games...
2nd game-Elex 2 is kind of horrible to run on my pc-rtx3060 i5 12400f-it got better after a while,but still not great to run on my pc
Thanks
Walkthrough soon ?
Like a Let’s Play? I’m thinking of doing one for the Archolos mod or Gothic 2 soon actually.
I'm trying to enjoy it but the canon faction for the sequel was spoiled for me. So I really love the look and idea of a certain faction, but if I beat the game with them and then start the sequel, it's going to be jarring as heck because that's not the canon faction. It's not going to feel like my choices were represented and just ruin the sequel for me lol.
I could just play the game with the intended faction, but they're just so generic and boring.
Eh the sequel is also not even worth playing since the trilogy will never be complete with Pirhanna Bites going out of business. Plus it’s not as good besides in the controls imo.
this game kicks your A*** but its fun
Hard agree
I'll be honest with you. I've played all Piranha Bytes game except Elex 2, most of them numerous times. And Elex 1 was really disappointing in comparison.
The difficulty was not challenging, it was tedious, especially at the beginning when I was yet to equip a decent weapon and all my attacks bar the special one dealt a single point of damage to everything stronger than a young rat. That's because the HUD blatantly lies to the player - increasing your strenght does NOT increase your melee damage directly, the only thing attributes do are allowing to meet requirements for equipment and abilities. I COULD'VE increased my STR and DEX anyway to get a better sword or a bow but instead I invested in INT and CUN to get more perks from personality tree so I could pass speech checks with NPC's in Goliet. I thought investing in dialogues is going to be worthwhile like in New Vegas but my reward was a couple of herbs and some lunch money. Some time later I finally get my hands on a new bow so I no longer had to scratch enemies to death. Than five hours later I upgraded my old bow increasing my damage even further. Five hours later I upgraded my new bow as well. And five hours later I found a legendary plasma rifle which has a fire mode that completely stunlocks any target. My "zero to hero" adventure lasted 15 hours out of 85 of my total playthrough time after which the final boss died after eight shots.
Regardless of my point in power combat was NEVER fun except maybe occasional troll, cyclop or robot. Despite visual variety all ranged weapons behave exactly the same to the point that if your animation of pulling an arrow from a quiver gets interrupted you cannot shoot your bow until you press the reload button. But it's leagues ahead of melee with absolutely unsufficient stamina pool at the beginning, some hitboxes extending three meters forwards, effectiveness of blocking and parrying overly depending on both parties' equipment type and next to none tracking between attacks.
Souls games are fun because they give you a hard task and all the tools you need to complete it. Elex instead throws you on hostile world, says "have fun lol" and proceeds to throw rocks at you. This is NOT how previous game worked, either the road to power was relatively straightforward (G1, G3, R2) or you could overcome the power gap using player's skill (G2, R1, R3).
Do I consider Elex 1 a bad game? No, the open world, the setting, the interconnected quest structure, the environmental storytelling are all great. But it only adds to the disappointment because PB did the hardest part and then fell flat with something trivial in comparison which however makes a crucial part of the gameplay loop.
If you're new to the Piranha Bytes's school of cRPGs, consider giving Risen 3 a shot. It's easier, it's more fluid and it's a steal on a sale.
The word you’re looking for is artificial difficulty, and it’s in every pb game, just way worse in Elex.
At least risen gives you a sense of direction after you’re randomly kidnapped by monks. Then they actually train you and throw you back into the world.
Elex forces you to do the quests to have a good time it feels
agreed
I tried this game once and didn't like it despite really wanting to
@@dougr8646 it takes a WHILE to get going tbh
I guess I'm not getting a reply...
Not sure what sort of reply you were looking for my dude. It’s a different opinion and you’re valid on a lot of points but I obviously disagree.
@@Soul_Tomato well, what I expected was pretty much that, thank you. But since we're already talking I am interested what we exactly we disagree on. Do you find combat system better than I do or do you just don't care that much as long as difficulty is there?
@@czapla1024 No the combat system is actually pretty awful. Honestly most of the general movement is tedious and unintuative but that's how all their games have been. I just enjoy the world, which I think is one of the best they've made, and the exploration. I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to jank.
@@Soul_Tomatogood video. oddly, i love the combat. has a kind of cadence when you get it down. 2 handed sword is so fun!