Gaming Kingdom Come: Deliverance II | Released on 4th February 2025

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The original game's story ended so abruptly that it almost made me angry.

I'm curious how they'll approach the gameplay this time. In the first game, it made sense that Henry basically couldn't do anything at the start - after all, he was supposedly a blacksmith's somewhat lazy son. But if the sequel continues Henry's story - and they should, considering the aforementioned cliffhanger ending to the first game - then he should start out competent this time. After all, my Henry was cutting up entire teams of soldiers with ease by the end.
 
Siorac said:
The original game's story ended so abruptly that it almost made me angry.

I'm curious how they'll approach the gameplay this time. In the first game, it made sense that Henry basically couldn't do anything at the start - after all, he was supposedly a blacksmith's somewhat lazy son. But if the sequel continues Henry's story - and they should, considering the aforementioned cliffhanger ending to the first game - then he should start out competent this time. After all, my Henry was cutting up entire teams of soldiers with ease by the end.
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Honestly I wish they'd go down the same route. I enjoyed Henry's evolution from being a useless zero to cutting up swarms of Cumans. I guess they could work that in the lore by having him suffer some form of serious injury before the events of the game, so he'd have to retrain himself to reach his previous peak.
 
I thought the first KD was absolutely superb in terms of setting, worldbuilding, storyline. However I far from finished it as I really didn't like the combat and the game was buggy as hell. If they can improve on the latter two, this will be my game
 
Loved the first one, best game I've played in years, can't wait for the second one.
 
AjaxNL said:
I thought the first KD was absolutely superb in terms of setting, worldbuilding, storyline. However I far from finished it as I really didn't like the combat and the game was buggy as hell. If they can improve on the latter two, this will be my game
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Ditto. The clunkyness of it stopped me short of finishing it but it's also the only game I played where I felt like it could be a proper representation of medieval Europe. Just traveling through woods at night felt more intimidating than doing it in a rpg with actual monsters in it.
 
First game was so good. Loved how manual the game mechanics felt and the humour in it was very British - reminded me of early Fable games.
 
Redplane said:
Ditto. The clunkyness of it stopped me short of finishing it but it's also the only game I played where I felt like it could be a proper representation of medieval Europe. Just traveling through woods at night felt more intimidating than doing it in a rpg with actual monsters in it.
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Yep, loved the authentic medieval setting, made a refreshing change of pace from fantasy RPGs where you'd fireball a group if imps and simply chug potions to get you out of a pinch. Coming across a bandit camp in KCD was genuinely terrifying, especially early game where you could barely walk with two feet nevermind swing a sword.
 
The reveal video looks beyond epic. This has the potential to be everything I want in a videogame
 
Really the first game should be everything I ever wanted. Maybe I should give it another go at some stage. The combat just never clicked for me and it felt so unbelievably janky. It felt like they went for too much realism and not enough fun factor. For anyone that kept playing it, does the combat improve with time or is it just a “get good” situation. If so I don’t think I ever will “get good” enough.
 
TrustInJanuzaj said:
Really the first game should be everything I ever wanted. Maybe I should give it another go at some stage. The combat just never clicked for me and it felt so unbelievably janky. It felt like they went for too much realism and not enough fun factor. For anyone that kept playing it, does the combat improve with time or is it just a “get good” situation. If so I don’t think I ever will “get good” enough.
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It’s a get good situation to an extent, the controlling and aiming mechanics are very “manual” but to be honest it’s ages since I played it so can’t be completely certain, I think as you level up improving things like strength/skill(?) the mechanics become a bit more forgiving and it’s less like a child trying something for the first time. A bit like the skyrim lock mechanics, the sweet spot gets a bit larger but the mechanic doesn’t change.
 
Pexbo said:
It’s a get good situation to an extent, the controlling and aiming mechanics are very “manual” but to be honest it’s ages since I played it so can’t be completely certain, I think as you level up improving things like strength/skill(?) the mechanics become a bit more forgiving and it’s less like a child trying something for the first time. A bit like the skyrim lock mechanics, the sweet spot gets a bit larger but the mechanic doesn’t change.
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It's pretty much this. A steep learning curve but once you have got used to playing with it + Henry gets more skilled it becomes far easier. I preferred playing it on PC to console though by far.
 
SilentWitness said:
It's pretty much this. A steep learning curve but once you have got used to playing with it + Henry gets more skilled it becomes far easier. I preferred playing it on PC to console though by far.
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Yeah I think this is the big one. I tried with a controller but it was an unpleasant experience; mouse and keyboard was superior, by far.

(also, lockpicking on PC was pretty much impossible with a controller)
 
I must give the first one another go. I remember playing it not long after launch and it was a buggy, sloppy piece of shit. I guess it improved a lot.
 
My only concern with the trailer is that it doesn't seem like the graphics have improved a ton over the original but as long as the mechanics and UI have improved that won't matter as much.
 
Redplane said:
My only concern with the trailer is that it doesn't seem like the graphics have improved a ton over the original but as long as the mechanics and UI have improved that won't matter as much.
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I mean the first game was notoriously taxing on even highly specced PCs. So I'm not surprised they've kept it modest with the graphical improvements. Would much rather they focus on gameplay and performance optimisations.
 
Excellent.

This was such a brilliantly inventive and interesting title.

A little bit of refinement and it has 10/10 potential.
 
This is great news. The first game was spectacular, one of the most immersive games I've ever played, I loved how it forced you to improve your skills as well as Henry's, especially combat. Very excited for the new one, a few quality of life changes here and there would be nice, but I really hope they don't try to make it too easily accessible (dumbing it down, so to speak), as that'll be throwing away what made the first one so brilliant.
 
Massive Spanner said:
I must give the first one another go. I remember playing it not long after launch and it was a buggy, sloppy piece of shit. I guess it improved a lot.
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It’s not a smooth and easy experience in any way. It is still janky, cumbersome, slow and tedious (not buggy anymore I think?) but it’s also charming, immersive, realistic and in the end, for me, a really good time.

Skill Up put it best back when he did those review one liner titles - an analog experience in the digital age (or thereabouts). That’s exactly what KCD is, it simply is not made for the modern gamer as it doesn’t give you of the quality of life features you’d expect from a modern title but its core strengths are extremely strong. If the sequel can make it a bit more seamless and improve on the combat / writing then we could have something great.
 
The Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 release date is 11th February 2025, the developers have now confirmed.

The game was previously announced for 2024, making this newly confirmed date a bit of a delay.
 
Never gave the first one a go because of the glitchy and janky vibes but I'll be keeping an eye out for this one. It's a game that should really tick a lot of boxes in theory, hopefully it does in practice too.
 
DWelbz19 said:
Never gave the first one a go because of the glitchy and janky vibes but I'll be keeping an eye out for this one. It's a game that should really tick a lot of boxes in theory, hopefully it does in practice too.
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It’s probably the only game I’ve played where I reckon the glitchy janky vibes added charm
 
I bought the first one but I don't think I ever played it. It's the sort of game I think I want to play, but in reality I want 10 minutes of FIFA before I have to take the kids out.

Who has the time, apart from school kids. I just don't get it!
 




Looks very similar to the original but with slight performance improvements and UI looking much cleaner. I like that they've not revamped it but kept to what worked. Can't wait.
 
Hope they bring more polish and quality of life changes to the table. Really liked the first but it was a bit too clunky and backwards in a few areas.
 
Oh shit. I didn't realise they had brought the release forward by a week. I'm on holiday until the 8th. :(

CD Keys have a good deal on for it btw on steam. £36 for base game or £47 for Gold Edition which includes all upcoming expansions and additional goodies.
 
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