Recent reviews by ImberSaft

Path of Exile is the ARPG I always keep returning to. After playing Diablo IV it got way more apparent how great GGG keeps the game fresh with every league.
With the innovative seasons its never too late to start a new character, try a new build and enjoy the game.
Burned out from the game? Wait a season or two and come back. The depth of the mechanics as well as the content density (which only keeps on increasing), makes every session worthwhile. Even in the end game you still have goals to work towards and some of them I've yet to complete after 1500 hours.

Can't wait to see what the future (an PoE2) will bring.

This game does open world the right way. It has been years since I played a game that gave me this urge to explore. Yea the fights might be hard, more so for people that are not familiar with the gameplay of Dark Souls, but damn I just wanted to continue playing. I wanted to find out what's behind the next corner, and every time I found a secret I felt like I really earned it.
Of cause the game has flaws. For one the fall damage might seem a bit random at times, since the margin between starting to take fall damage and dying is really narrow. Unlike most blockbuster games, the story is not handed to you on a silver plate but you have to pieces it together yourself. For me there were also some issues with Easy Anti Cheat. It just crashes my entire computer when it is enabled, forcing me to play offline, but that did not bother me too much.

The worst thing about Elden Ring for me, is that I consumed most of it already. I played it, explored the world, but now I will have to wait YEARS for a game like this to immerse me again. I can't go back to the standard open world games. They feel dated now.

Great game. Now that it is free, give it a try if you haven't.

For all those people that freak out about it being F2P now, I didn't have a cheater in my games for about half a year now and that didn't change with the recent update.

For me there is no reason to not pick up this game. I have already spent 17+ hours playing it, trying to get 100% on every level, even though I'm still far from finishing that task. The soundtrack makes you calm, which is needed when facing tricky situiations. Gameplay wise it is different from other games I have ssen before and I really like it, it is easy to learn but harder to master. It got a fair amount of conent and replayability and I have no problem picking it back up every now and then when I feel like it. And as I stated in the beginning, for this price there is no reason to not pick it up if you remotly like the idea of the game.

Pro:
+ Easy to learn and pick back up after a longer pause
+ Fair amount of content
+ Great soundtrack
+ Replayability
+ Great Meachanics
+ Low price
+ Great visual style

Con:
- Loading screens between every transition (about 1 to 2 seconds)
- Endless modes sometimes feels a bit repetitive
- Naviagtion between zones is a bit anoying (only one step at a time)

As you might have noticed, I had to be really picky for my contra arguments of this game and I think that says enough.

TL;DR: Great value for the price and if you like the concept seen within the videos, pick it up and try it.

When I recieved my beta invitation for DOTA2 back in 2011 I was more than happy to play it after playing DotA in Warcraft III for several years. It sure didn't have many heroes back then and had needed a lot of polish, but in the course of the years it surely became a stable game with a lot of polish. After Valve added what Valve loves the most, hats, they game became an entire new addiction, because you now have the aim to gather cosmetics to show them off in game. The payment model of the game is one of the fairest I have ever seen in the world of free to play games. Every function of the game works without spending any money. The only thing you pay for are purely cosemtic items which you can get from free item drops at the end of each match as well. Of course there are some things that I wish Valve would add to DOTA2 such as a public ladder system. But all in all DOTA2 is a great game and for me the best of its kind.
If you like games of this gerne give DOTA2 a try. It's free after all.

Still good.