Recent reviews by Mongrel Senpai

It's pretty good

Imrik is a chad, a rock solid legendary lord with high combat stats and a dragon mount.
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His starting location is difficult due to Snikch and gets rough as the dwarfs and orcs battle it out.
By turn 50 you should at least have conquered the dragon isles, starting zone and snikch's starting zone before tackling the orcs / dwarfs or push southwest at Clan Moors.
I couldnt confederate Calador before Tyrion rekt it. :( lol
All in all, very very fun!

It's like Age of Wonders on crack.
If you're bored with CIV, this is top tier.

An absolutely unexpected gem.
Play this game without any expectations and see where it takes you.

It is MORE than a dating sim and is much more than the sum of its parts.

A college drop-out fights the forces of darkness and nihilism while maintaining her friendship with critters she grew up with. It's lovely.

>New Game
>"Wow! Neat graphics!
>Start scavenging nearby houses to find rags to make a backpack with
>Avoid spoopy zombies
>Made a backpack and found a Glock 9mm in an attic.
>Rdy4anything
>Get shot.
>Die.
>Lose everything. Respawn with nothing.

Problem: Apparently no matter what server you log on, social trust is 100x worse than war-torn Somalia.
Solution: Make PVP and PVE servers. And make different kinds of PvE servers.
Another Idea: Make a Prison Rules PVP server type: There are 3 factions, and you can only attack other factions except your own, this allows PVP combat in the form of raiding parties against other factions. Something like this isn't hard to do. You guys did the bulk of the work of server design and programming.

I only recommend this game if people who like to bring fists to a firing line.

It's no Fallout New Vegas, with heavy-handed central story hook and excessively streamlined dialogue, core RPG elements were traded in for action and combat.

+ The side missions more than make up for the stale main story. I generally ignore the main story.
+ The factions you get to choose feel a bit watered down, but functional.
+ The settlement building mechanic is fantastic, but not without its bugs.
+ The commonwealth is littered with unique locations. To each their own.
+ Weapon / Armor modding is well thought out
+ Leveling system is ok.
+ Many unique monsters.

It's a great game. It's not amazing, but it's great. DLC is fine.

Ok so this is actually a pretty good game.
It's definitely overpriced at 40$. I got it on sale for 12$. I'd say i would def. pay 20$ for it.
I think the marketing for the game was somewhat poor since it's actually pretty good.

It plays a lot of Far Cry 3 and Red Faction: Guerrila but it's non-open world. Rather you have multiple hubs you get to explore, scavange supplies and pick off "Norcs" (North Korean Military).

Collect supplies. Hack relays. Shoot Norcs. Unlock upgrades. Unlock safehouses. Progress through Story (which they made into alt-history reaching as far back as the 1970s.)

So far so good! Definitely recommend if you like Far Cry and Red Faction style gameplay with a Deus Ex-like environment hubs.

Fantastic in 1999.
Fantastic in 2016.

This is a cautious recommend.

Other than echoing the obvious crappy PC lauch, devs lying about certain features, and the highly repetative gameplay - I still like this game.

I enjoy No Man's Sky in a similar way I enjoy Skyrim; to get lost in the environment you're exploring and just zen out; the problem is that the locations on any planet you explore are predicable and arguably boring:

An empty outpost here; grab some tech
A drop pod there, grab a backpack upgrade,
A terminal station over here, sell 2 or 3 green items for credits for which all you can really buy is materials and a potentially better spaceship. There is no story like in Fallout 4, no scripted events, no real NPC other than the funny Cat-Frog space merchants.

And even despite that I still like this game. Why?

There is something to value about the experience of being lost on an Alien world with no one but yourself, in a way, like a psychological test, you may find new planets and locations, but you may also find something about yourself.