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[Felius]

So, there's the "The Guild" game series. Tell me about the games. Is The Guild 2 an improvement over The Guild 1? Are the expansion packs worth it, or are they low quality bugfests? And so on.

[Mephansteras]

I have only played The Guild 2: Renaissance, but it's quite good. You have a lot of freedom for what you want to do, and there is quite a bit of depth to the game once you get into it. I found out about it by watching One F Jef's LP of it. Which was both hilarious and informative and why I bought the game in the first place.

[Frumple]

Obligatory search results.

Might help, I guess.

[Fanofgaming]

I enjoyed the first more than the second, but they're both fun games.

[Grakelin]

Obligatory search results.

Might help, I guess.

I've been here a while. Maybe I'm wrong. This forum community is generally not big on the "squash 'em for not gravedigging a year old thread" concept.


I forget which version of the Guild I run from GoG, but the frustration in mine was always that everybody else goes so much faster than me.

[Haschel]

Got The Guild 2 recently during the summer sale, it's pretty fun overall but I was kind of tearing my hair out due to the current state of the modding community. Everything I found was either "do it yourself" modding or very dated/dead mods. Normally I wouldn't have a problem with the do-it-yourself stuff if I have some guide-lines but it was really giving me a headache trying to sift through years old forum posts on a virtually dead forum. Other than that, great game with a few issues here and there. Apparently most of the expansions are stand alone and don't require the original game, Renaissance is the newest one as far as I am aware.

[Stworca]

Guild 2 with expansions (Never play it without..) is much more user-friendly than Guild 1, also much better graphically.
Guild 1 is more complex and more focused on the actual plotting, not running.

In my opinion, the first Guild is much better than the sequel.

[Fikes]

The Guild was crap. Terrible. The whole thing was a buggy excerise in guessing what will work, waiting a really long time, and the checking your results. There were so many stupid quarks to the game it wasn't worth playing.

Here is a list!
Regardless of your family size, you can only have three characters active.
Once you set a character to be inactive you can't make them active again and they do NOTHING.
Your class decided what types of shops you could work in, so if you have a child and he turns out different he can't work in your shop.
Your LEVEL decided what types of shops you could work in, so if you have a child, he has to level up before he can take over the family business
The only way to level up was to work in your shop.
Complete lack of important information. Sure, you can murder the owner of that shop if A) You figure out who it is. B) You figure out where they live C) you find them.

It looks and sounds so awesome but the basic functionality is fail. And the bugs. Even the least buggy version was totally fale. Your opponents just die off. No reason to help them along.

I know I am in the minority here, but the game isn't even worth $20 bucks.

As a final note, necroing the old thread isn't so bad. It is less than a year old and this thread will just be a repeat of those coversations.

[Stworca]

The Guild was crap. Terrible. The whole thing was a buggy excerise in guessing what will work, waiting a really long time, and the checking your results. There were so many stupid quarks to the game it wasn't worth playing.

Here is a list!
Regardless of your family size, you can only have three characters active.
Once you set a character to be in active you can't make them active again and they do NOTHING.
Your class decided what types of shops you could work in, so if you have a child and he turns out different he can work in your shop.
Your LEVEL decided what types of shops you could work in, so if you have a child, he has to level up before he can take over the family business
The only way to level up was to work in your shop.
Complete lack of important information. Sure, you can murder the owner of that shop if A) You figure out who it is. B) You figure out where they live C) you find them.

It looks and sounds so awesome but the basic functionality is fail. And the bugs. Even the least buggy version was totally fale. Your opponents just die off. No reason to help them along.

I know I am in the minority here, but the game isn't even worth $20 bucks.

As a final note, necroing the old thread isn't so bad. It is less than a year old and this thread will just be a repeat of those coversations.

You're talking about Guild 2, without expansions for some parts, and obviously unpatched for others.

[Fikes]

The Guild 2 Renaissance to be exact, which was supposed to be the least buggy version.

[Rakonas]

Personally I enjoyed The Guild 2 more than the Guild.

[hemmingjay]

The Guild 2 Renaissance was an amazing piece of entertainment for me. I must have put in 100+ hours trying out different characteristics/businesses/strategies. Just a wonderful experience.

[lordcooper]

The Guild 2 Renaissance was an amazing piece of entertainment for me. I must have put in 100+ hours trying out different characteristics/businesses/strategies. Just a wonderful experience.

Are any of the points Fikes raised valid for the latest patch?

[hemmingjay]

Fikes stated his opinion on those elements of play and so they are valid in his experience. Those elements didn't bother myself or many others, but there is no way of knowing which group you would fall into. I am unaware of any new patches in a long time.

[lordcooper]

Sounds like I'll have to 'demo' this before deciding if it's worth purchasing.