The game is very, very good when you first play it. Your ability to customize your MC (and your slaves/friends/offspring) is unmatched by pretty much every other game. There's tons of main story and sidequest content to play through at first, and the sandbox mode is imho pretty much unmatched. And there are enough variable outcomes to some quests that a second playthrough is worthwhile.
And you see that new players are nearly always amazed by this game by the high number of good reviews LT gets from those new players.
The issue is the completely unacceptable update pace, which is just glacially slow. And the few updates we get are also far too small, and too often don't even progress the main story. So if you look at TiTS, CoC2, or Degrees of Lewdity for example, they all get more or less regular updates that have a good amount of meat to them. So you can be a follower of those games, and regularly replay them for the updates.
The few, rare updates LT gets usually are not worth it to replay the game. That's a big failure on Inno's part. And I fully understand why this sours the attitude of a lot of people towards the game. Because the game IS VERY GOOD! It's fun to play it, and it's fun when one has a lot of new content to explore. But you have to wait like two years between playthroughs to get the same amount of new content that some other games get in their monthly updates, and that made me mad.
I've stopped being truly engaged in LT as a result of this. I no longer care about Inno's glacially slow update pace. I still follow the thread to skim whether there's content I want to play through, and after enough updates have come out, I'm giving LT another go. And I always enjoy playing it. I would love it if this great game got regular updates like others get, but I've resigned myself to the fact that it's worth to replay it like once a year.
If you've never played LT before, and like text based games, do give the game a shot. You will enjoy it. Just be aware of the fact that once you've exhausted the game, it will be a long time until it's worth it to replay it again for new content.
And you see that new players are nearly always amazed by this game by the high number of good reviews LT gets from those new players.
The issue is the completely unacceptable update pace, which is just glacially slow. And the few updates we get are also far too small, and too often don't even progress the main story. So if you look at TiTS, CoC2, or Degrees of Lewdity for example, they all get more or less regular updates that have a good amount of meat to them. So you can be a follower of those games, and regularly replay them for the updates.
The few, rare updates LT gets usually are not worth it to replay the game. That's a big failure on Inno's part. And I fully understand why this sours the attitude of a lot of people towards the game. Because the game IS VERY GOOD! It's fun to play it, and it's fun when one has a lot of new content to explore. But you have to wait like two years between playthroughs to get the same amount of new content that some other games get in their monthly updates, and that made me mad.
I've stopped being truly engaged in LT as a result of this. I no longer care about Inno's glacially slow update pace. I still follow the thread to skim whether there's content I want to play through, and after enough updates have come out, I'm giving LT another go. And I always enjoy playing it. I would love it if this great game got regular updates like others get, but I've resigned myself to the fact that it's worth to replay it like once a year.
If you've never played LT before, and like text based games, do give the game a shot. You will enjoy it. Just be aware of the fact that once you've exhausted the game, it will be a long time until it's worth it to replay it again for new content.
