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#The guild 2 renaissance manual upgrade#
The ability to upgrade your businesses and home and buy improvements adds more choices. This action bar driven game play has the advantage of short cuts, but the disadvantage that if you are not used to those short cuts you can lose your target and not find them again as using an action reselects your character. If you hold the right mouse button a more detailed explanation comes up. Simple pictures with hover over titles tell you what the name of the action is. The game is done via a master menu, akin to console games. There is no difference in being male or female (I don’t like that because that isn’t true to the time period), but there are differences in being Catholic and Protestant (mainly being the other folks will not like you). Your character has stats and can improve as they gain experience. The icon based menu says what things do but unless you are familiar with the franchise or have patience, being dropped into this game without prior experience will make you want to shelve it immediately.
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The game is centered on anticipation, on seeing a good plan come together. In between those periods of waiting are the times of action. You must wait for your person to get married. You must wait for your business to flourish. Then I had Thanksgiving, a family emergency and a visitor from out of town, so I waited.
#The guild 2 renaissance manual how to#
I found no real solid explanation on how to do what with this game because I found it was a stand-alone expansion pack. I went on forums, looked at donkey porn, then at reviews and boards about this game. I received this game and spent hours trying to figure out what to do. The problem I encountered is that The Guild 2: Renaissance is not intuitive at all. Sometimes I would manage supplies and employees, other times who to stab or spy on. Time and time again, with different paths, I waited. I waited to find out just what the heck I was supposed to do. By day I was a lout, but by night – the leader of a thieves’ guild. I started off my new life in the post dark age of Europe as a man about town. The background music isn’t bad though, it fits the period and actually makes a good listen when not playing. I prefer to listen to the city over the musical score. Having a nice, soothing narrator along with the sounds of a medieval European city is sometimes lost with the busy background music. I would say it has your typical Euro game aesthetic. You can generally tell characters apart by looks alone and the game looks at least decent. There are usually a decent amount of characters on screen, living their lives. If you turn up the graphical options, things will look better than the default settings.
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They may be a bit dated and stiff, but not the worst I’ve seen. Getting on to the looks of The Guild 2: Renaissance, the animations on the characters are fun to watch and the graphics are not that bad.
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I like this story! Why? Because you essentially make your own story. Become one of the new middle class and climb the social ladder. You and your dynasty are about to start breaking backs and stabbing folks to get by because that’s how things go down when the nobility and church are losing influence. You are the head of a family and you are out to make money, gain power and generally capitalize on the zeitgeist of the rediscovery of learning. Was this difficulty worth it and am I just naturally bad at JoWooD games? Being completely fresh to the experience proved to make this one of the most difficult games I have ever had to play. I have never played a single installment in The Guild franchise until The Guild 2: Renaissance.