First of all, I did not watch the old versions from 1984,1995, 2006 so my judgement will be strictly based on this 2014 version, but for sure I'm gonna give the older ones a try to compare because Romance of the Condor Heroes was a complete failure, that's my opinion of course. So you may ask what is the particularity of this drama ? Simply entertainment and a fresh amazing lead actor : Chen Xiao ; he was probably one of the reason I had to finish this drama no matter what. I really liked the character Chen Xiao portrayed : Yang Kang's son Yang Guo who is a very funny, playful, smart guy. He was not fully aware of his father's past and what sins he committed but it's like he atoned for his father's wrongdoings since he lend a hand to the Guo family and was always here in critical situations. I really like that he was so different from his father, as a child he wandered everywhere and had no place to call 'his own" but still he only made the right encounters which led him to be the asltruistic, reliable, and friendly person he is as an adult. And when he loves someone it's till the end he will never let anyone ruin the love he feels for this one person no matter the hardship he has to overcome to be with her. The only other good point I can find to this show are the fighting scenes and all these martial arts shows, even if it was not always well executed and choregraphed it was fine for me. I almost forgot there's finally something that I really liked, it was the Jilun Guoshi/Xiang'er's moments near the end . And now I will list all the things I disliked and there are a lot unfortunately. -The characters, which I found to be very plain, dull, underdeveloped and totally useless, honestly I did not understand the use of introducing so many characters which would simply die after two eps or make them disappear juster after their introduction. They did not manage to convey their feelings the way they should or maybe they tried but they did not reach their goal which is to move the audience. If we take a look at the cast we can see there are not less than 30 supporting characters, they are supposed to bring something new to the story but I could not feel it and I did not take interest to their stories, I found them to be very annoying. -So many despicable characters, I would have gladly hit to death : *Zhao Zhi Jing : each time he opened his mouth I had murder desires ! *Fu'er , I simply can't understand why Rong'er doted so much on her, she was too spoiled and always acting like a capricious girl. *Huo Du *Gong Sun Zhi and his wife were so annoying and I hated Sun Zhi's fake smile. -Xiao Long Nu, I found her too passive, she has no expressions at all always the same bland expressions. The actress had no chemistry with Chen Xiao and I think that only comes from her. -Bad dubbing voices, especially the ones who were dubbing Zhou Botong's characters. -The characters never age, oh well Zhou Botong is supposed to be 80 and even more but no he is still alive with amazing Martial Arts skills, the same goes for Huang Laoshi, JiLun GuoShi, Reverend Yideng etc. -Special effects were very bad too, and yet I expected a lot since it's a new version, I thought they would work darned and show us some beautiful sceneries but nothing! And it's better to not get me started on that topic ;) I never ever do speedwatching so even if I found the drama very boring I watched it till the end without missing any parts ;)