Senaste recensioner av Kaplan

I will just begin by stating that many of the reviewers for this game seem to purchase it with an expectation, and based their review off the game NOT meeting the expectation. It would be like expecting to find an orange in your fridge, but finding an apple instead. If you don't like apples, that would suck... but apples still rock in my humble opinion. ANYWAY...

All that being said above;
This game is meant to be a simulation of a simulation of a parody of an MMORPG. Let me explain... it's a simulation of an anime that is also a simulation of an MMORPG that is also very heavily parodied of past REAL WORLD (ironic) MMORPGs.

I am not entirely sure if SAO was based off of one particular MMORPG, but I have seen elements of different games ranging from Everquest to Final Fantasy XI. Basically, if you have played any MMORPG title, you will be able to relate with SAO in some way. SAO Pokes fun at the quirkiness of MMO tasks that range from town skills like cooking skill level, to field skills like weapon skill levels etc. With all of this, it feels like an attempt to make your MMO experience feel more like a real world experience as if our real world had MMO elements.

If you are expecting a purely single player MMORPG experience, then you will be kind of surprised to find that this game isn't that simple.

You can expect cutscene dialogue sequences that rival Hyperdimension Neptunia. By this I mean that to progress in the game, you need to get through hours of cutscenes. For players like me, I like this and expect it.

THE GRIND... This game is all about grinding. Killing trash mobs over and over to progress your mad sword skills. There are NMs (Notorious Monsters) and HNMs (Hyper Notorious Monsters)... when I saw "HNM" I immediately flashbacked FFXI. If this is you too, then think Serket or... Jormungand.

Anyway, I think this is enough basic info about the game.
My overall opinion is that this game rocks. I give it 9/10.
I deduct one point just for it not having an English spoken audio option.
The graphics rock, and if you have a controller then the controls are not an issue at all.
It has awesome music and you can get immersed in the world of SAO.

Happy grinding!!

This is hands down the best hunting game that I have ever played. Actually it's the only hunting, and first hunting game that I've ever tried out unless we count Duck Hunt. ;)

If I had to give this a xx/10 rating, I'd have to say 9.5 out of 10. Why not 10 out of 10? Here's why.

Cons:

-Some of the HUD can be very glitchy and clunky.
-It's difficult to scroll down menus and select tabs (sometimes the tab is unclickable for a few seconds).
-Sometimes menu items appear to scramble.
-Lack of firearm variety. There are only two shotguns for example.
-Addictive

Pros:

-Crisp gameplay mechanics; bullet drop; bullet penetration; bullet expansion (hollow point ammo is optional).
-Lots of achievments to work towards.
-Many missions and side missions to keep you busy.
-Does not ever seem to get boring. At times I have had 5-10 people watching my stream for most of the day.
-THE GRAPHICS! This game is OPTIMISED. On a GTX 1060 this game can be 100% maxed out with no lag.
-Looks like real life! (is this a good or a bad thing though?)
-Rare albino animals!
-A level up system with perks and skills

As I said, those cons above are only reason I didn't give this 10/10.
Some reviews complain that this game is nothing like "real life hunting" or some such, but come on. It never could be. Maybe in 10 years?

I was afraid to write this, for fear it wouldn't come across properly. However, in the best most exciting way possible, this game is incredibly relaxing. It's relaxing in the most not-boring way possible.

I first experienced this masterpiece when I was 7 years old, way back in 1995. I remember being amazed by the game's OST (soundtrack) and characters.

I still love this game to this day.

The storyline and character development are very deep. This purchase is worth more than steam is charging for it.

**EARLY ACCESS REVIEW**

I first purchased this game when it was very first released sometime back in 2013. At the time, I got a little lost, and it seemed laggy, so I quit playing.

Something kept knawing away at the back of my head, though. I had to get back into the game and find my way to another town, to find other players. I saw how many copies of the game had sold, so I knew I would run into someone eventually.

After a few hours of running around in the middle of Chernarus, I found myself in an airbase (now that I understand is Balota airbase). I ran into survivors that didn't KoS me (great first impression, yes.)

We befriended each other, and locked down the airstrip and waited for more survivors to show up. We recruited a new survivor here and there, and arrested the occasional soul and fed him alcohol tincture and disinfectant spray in a scientific attempt to understand what these items properties and affects really were.

From time to time my motley crew of men would have to pop a cap in a bandit on sight. I swear he was reaching for a knife.

After a few weeks, and having no luck finding a server during the early alpha that had regular server population, we decided to brand our group, and we called ourselves the Band of Hawk. I petitioned for donations, and within 2 days had over $300 worth of donations from only about the 10 of our community members at the time. I set up a 100 slot mumble server, and yes, a 50 slot DayZ Standalone server.

The Band of Hawk server, after lots of advertising, community recruiting and a promise to keep hackers (to the best of our ability) off our property, we skyrocketed to the top 10 servers worldwide on gametracker.com.

Our community has since dispersed, but I want to attest that this game is one of the single best MMOFPS masterpieces ever created... and this review is based off of an experience starting from the first day of early access alpha in 2013.

DayZ Standalone is like a fine wine. You will acquire a taste for it. Give it a chance. It's worth more than whatever price tag they can put on it.

You will make many everlasting friendships, and some of the most brooding rivals of any game you will ever play.

99/100.


The Band of Hawk will be locking down Balota once more in late 2015.

See you in Chernarus.


Yours truly,

Kaplan

This game is great.

At the time of this review, it is currently still beta.

I will update this when the full release is ready.

Amazing game, just like the television program that it was based off of.

I have played hundreds of hours of this game on the PS1 version when I was a kid. I hope they patch the music issues in this one so that I can log some more hours on it with my pc.

:)