Recent reviews by Mosquito Joe

I cannot in good conscience recommend this game at this stage when it still has a game breaking bug of homelessness. It does not matter if you actually put your residents indoors, it does not matter how many seasons pass. If you get this bug, you will be stuck with homelessness with no way to remove it, which will stifle the growth of your settlement and stop you in your tracks. It's a shame because I can tell this game is promising, I just wish the developers would fix an issue that has apparently been in this game for the past few months.

Fun game, has bugs like my microphone (blue yeti) will not work in game despite being the default setting on windows. Played all day yesterday, but when I try to get on today it crashes on startup every time. PC version is absolutely broken. They have since rectified this, games was amazing enough that I put up with the bugs and queue times, worth every penny.

You have to disable the DLC which removes the throne. The utter incompetence behind this decision, if I hadn't played the game religiously I would have requested a refund for this pack, but by the time I had realized it, I'd gone past steams time limit on refunds. It's sort of funny the level of incompetence that was behind this error, but the hilarity is outweighed by the money spent on this piece of ♥♥♥♥ to support a 40K developer. ♥♥♥♥ you. I haven't even seen the throne yet, but judging by the other reviews, it's pretty damn telling that they don't even show an image of the throne in the official images of the DLC store page. It's disingenuous and preying on the devoted Warhammer fans who genuinely want to support those making games for the universe they desperately love. Again, ♥♥♥♥ you OwlCat Games, specifically for this. Games decent otherwise, just do not, and I repeat, do not buy this pack.

Good game, go Bulldogs

This is a little bit of a graphical review and comparison, and mostly a story review and comparison

The graphics are definitely not the best, but they're not 2011 levels of bad. The worst I get on ultra high is texture pop in, but I can deal with that as long as it hurries the hell up. It's beautiful, for a Bethesda game. Honestly I think it's a huge improvement over fallout three's one colour game, and the face models are way better than they were in Skyrim and fallout 3. Also I only find that certain characters have more of the fish eye look, Piper is possibly the best animated character in the game when it comes to facial animations, her eyes convey a lot to me, where as others are lacking, especially small side quest characters. Witcher 3 of course has better graphics yes, but after over 120 hours in W3 and pushing 100 in F4, I can honestly say F4 is still on a much larger scale, so I give it some slack with the comparison. Witcher 3 also pulls at a lot less strings emotionally for me, because there is an actual good ending, bad ending, neutral ending. Aside from Skyrim, Bethesda does what it does best at throwing a bitter-sweet, or down right heart wrenching ending into F4 (spoilers will be below the gap, so watch out for that). I mean I love both of these games, and Witcher 3 is by far, my personal GOTY, but I don't think it's fair to compare the two when the games are on different scales. W3 is huge, but its game is divided up into major areas, Fallout does have its own instances in buildings and such, but that's no where the scale of how Witcher 3 breaks up the game. also the ♥♥♥♥ that goes on in the F4 world goes leagues past Witcher 3, so I can understand why the game isn't necessarily as stellar, graphically. I do think they could have waited another year to get a new engine fleshed out (they did start working on this after Skyrim) to have better graphics, but you won't hear me complain about what we got. Also Fallout 3 and NV's dialogue trees will still lead you to the same response, if you want to believe me or not. Yes some might be varied, but a lot are the same. I'm not defending the dialogue system that's in place now, I hope they change it, but I do feel like it's not fair to point out a fault in one games dialogue system while not pointing out the same faults in its predecessors.




*SPOILERS*


Fallout 4 has no good ending in my opinion, whatsoever. Whereas in Witcher 3, there is a chance that Ciri will die, there's a 66% chance that she will live, versus Fallout 4 that no matter what you do, Shaun will die and you can either die with him loving and respecting you, or hating you for what you've done depending on if you side with the Institute or the other three factions. I played through the BoS ending, and the Institute ending, and I can honestly say that they both suck, not story telling wise, but emotionally. I felt bad after each ending, which is how it should be, given the angle that they were going for. I couldn't tell what was worse, knowing that I destroyed everything my son had worked his whole life for or returning to the Institute and being reminded that he's gone, just after finding him, either by NPC dialogue, or by hearing my player say "goodbye Shaun" whenever I activated his tombstone. I feel like F4's main story was more driving than the glorified "help your dad replace a water filter" in F3, or NV's power struggle. Don't get me wrong, I loved the NV storyline, but it's so unsatisfying. You should have been able to play after, seeing New Vegas with crucified people along the roads, seeing Caesar set up his throne in the Lucky 38, or seeing a Nevada, independent of NCR presence and Legion raids. All in all, I find that F4 has the most impacting storyline of any of the recent Fallout games, and it kicked the ♥♥♥♥ out of Skyrims "fantasy action hero" story, where the toughest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ decision you have is whether or not to kill Parthonaax. That's another thing, Skyrim had no choices whatsoever, except for like..three or four, literally, none of which had any major impact in the story of the game.

This is possibly the worst alpha in game history. The servers alone cannot be connected to. I connected to a server in China, and I could not connect to a server that was twenty miles from my house. The servers I could connect to were virtually unplayable. Everyone throws out "It's an alpha" as an excuse. This game makes DayZ Standalone look like a full release. The fact that they charge as much as they do for a game as poor as this, is terrible. Maybe in the future this game will be decent, but for now, I wouldn't recommend this game to my worst enemy.