Recent reviews by OnePunchMan

When I found out it was on steam I knew that I was going to to get it immediatly.
I heavily recommend for anyone who enjoys RTS game or the AOE franchise to play this game. Age of Mythology offers one of the best strategy game campaigns of its time; a rich, lengthy, and exciting epic using many mythological elements from various cultures. It is a spectacular single-player experience, but not really an RTS to play for too long beyond that.
I've always loved this game.

Age of Mythology (AOM) is, in my opinion, the best game in the Age of Empires series. The idea to synchronize ancient civilizations with their gods intervening with their powers and mythological units was brilliant. The human soldiers being grabbed by a cyclops, legs desperately moving in the air, and then being tossed back into his friends while knocking down trees gives a sentiment of helplessness against the superhuman forces of the mythic creatures in place in this universe. The gods also help the humans, providing healing or thicker armor; acting in favor of their economies by providing a prosperous harvest, rain or even attacking the enemy's economy with locust swarms that eat every farm on their sight (and even the villagers on their way).

The game play is fairly dynamic, with battles being fought with large armies quite quickly instead of a long and protracted building phase as in older RTS games. This almost straight to action approach, with buildings being destroyed by the troops way faster than in earlier games in the series (with the also fast capacity for rebuilding them) gives Age of Mythology a more dramatic and fast-paced game play. Buildings aren't all powerful fortified obstacles that can only be breached by siege weapons (they do help, but are not essential) but they can form a fortified position when mutually supported by troops. The human soldiers fight in rock-paper-scissors counters: infantry with lances beat cavalry, who beats archers, that in turn beat infantry; plus specialized troops augmenting or changing such roles (archers beat infantry, but the fast running Huskarl will close-in fast and kill them). The mythological units are powerful but there are heroes in the game that will counter them. The same principle applies to naval warfare.

On the economic field, you have food, wood, gold and favor. While the first three are self-explanatory, favor is specific to this game and plays a great role: it is the protection your civilization receive from the gods. Each faction has a different way of gaining favor: the Greeks pray at the temple while the Egyptians build monuments. Each civilization has three major gods that will affect it in a particular way. At each Age you have to choose a minor god to advance, granting you a special power and a different myth unit. Gods also provide different research improvements and almost all of them cost favor. The game revolves around building and mantaining city centers, that not only provide the training of villagers, but also increase your population count and need to be built in specific and limited places; making it an strategic objective in-game.

The game has five campaigns but only the original one is good. The community does not allow discussions and is very weak in guides. Strategies, build orders... all of this must be researched outside Steam. Another problem is the lack of balance. The first expansion added the Atlanteans, that are awfully overpowered. They do not need to build resource depots (the mark of lazy design), they do not need to build any specific building for gaining favor (their city centers automatically generate favor), their buildings are stronger than everybody's and their villagers are small tanks with far more hit points - any of their units can become heroes... The Norse are the only ones to build heroes in unlimited numbers already on the Archaic Age and this leads to very cheap early rushes. The major god Loki summons myth units for Norse heroes fighting, so it is no surprise so many players pick this god. The Chinese, while not a bad faction, had such a lazy campaign, with boring missions and awfully crude cinematic (worse than the ones on the AOM original release)! Worse, the Chinese expansion changes the menu presentation and the theme music - which I hated - and does not provide an option for the traditional menu.

With those problems aside (like few people still playing the game), AOM is a great experience and I still to this day get a smile when I listen to the songs and sounds of this game (Prostagma?). The original campaign is a Tour de Force following the hero Arkantos and his friends through the myths of the ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Norse; with you fighting the Trojan War with Ajax and the like under the guidance of Athena. The visuals are great, with the gods of AOM being among the best portrayals of those mythical figures that I have ever seen. Playing this game with friends, even against the AI, is always guaranteed fun. Highly recommended.

---{Graphics}---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Paint.exe

---{Gameplay}---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Starring at walls is better
☐ Just don‘t

---{Audio}---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Earrape

---{Audience}---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults

---{PC Requirements}---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{Difficulity}---
☐ Just press ‚A‘
☐ Easy
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{Grind}---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isnt necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding

---{Story}---
☐ Story?
☐ Text or Audio floating around
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life

---{Game Time}---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{Price}---
☐ It’s free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{Bugs}---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

This is a very basic clicker game in which you get 1 achievement per click.

Pros:
Cheap (£0.79/$0.99)
Lots of achievements (5000)

Cons:
No gameplay

I would only recommend this game if you are have a little problem like me and like to collect achievements :D

DESKTOP ESSENTIAL

Customise your desktop to make it a unique & enjoyable experience. Animate your own images to create new wallpapers or import videos/websites and share them on Steam Workshop!

Positives:
+ Bring your desktop alive with realtime graphics, videos, applications or websites.
+ Personalize animated wallpapers with your favorite colors.
+ Use interactive wallpapers that can be controlled with your mouse.
+ Many aspect ratios and native resolutions supported including 16:9, 21:9, 16:10, 4:3.
+ Multi monitor environments are supported.
+ Wallpapers will pause while playing games to save performance.
+ Create your own animated wallpapers in the Wallpaper Engine Editor.
+ Animate new live wallpapers from basic images or import HTML or video files for the wallpaper.
+ Steam Workshop to share and download wallpapers.
+ Wallpaper Engine can be used at the same time as any other Steam game or application.
+ Supported video formats: mp4, WebM, avi, m4v, mov, wmv (for local files, Workshop only allows mp4).
+ Support for Razer Chroma and Corsair iCUE.
+ Loads of Anime content.

Negatives:
- Wallpaper editor crashes occasionally.
- Compatibility issues with certain software.


Features & Review
Wallpaper Engine is extremely simple to use giving even the least tech-savvy people a way to customise their desktop experience. Barely any configuration is required and only an initial first-time setup is present. You can select between some of the pre-installed wallpapers or head to the Steam Workshop and download any extension of your liking amongst the thousands that are uploaded constantly.

The program also allows for custom wallpapers to be installed outside of the Steam Workshop if you want to use your own video files or someone uploaded theirs outside of Steam but you then have to deal with the risk of potentially downloading malware.

The majority of wallpapers can also be customised to adjust speed, colour, frame-rate, quality & effects. This makes sure everyone can have a wallpaper that suits their taste and needs.

A wallpaper editor is included so that anyone can make their own wallpapers with ease, many tools are provided and it's pretty simple to use, once you are done with your creation you can upload it to the Steam Workshop for anyone to download.

The Steam Workshop includes thousands of user-created wallpapers ranging from good to really great ones that even got featured by the developers, they range from a variety of genres such as anime, cars to game-specific wallpapers.

Price
For the price this software is honestly a steal, it's more like you are paying the developers for their coffee rather than the actual software. It's totally worth it even if there are some free alternatives such as Rainmeter, but those require a lot of configuration to work properly and aren't as simple to use.

[/h1]Technical Analysis[/h1]

Performance
With a semi-modern setup: i7-4790K, 32GB RAM, 980 ti, the software had absolutely no issues with performance and ran smoothly even on the "High" preset with minimal CPU, RAM & GPU usage.

Wallpaper Engine aims to use as few system resources as possible. You can choose to automatically pause or stop the wallpaper while using other software or in fullscreen to not hinder your experience.

Many options to tweak quality and performance are present, allowing Wallpaper Engine to work on any PC and its needs. As a general rule of thumb, 3D, 2D and video based wallpapers will perform best, while websites and applications will require more resources from your system. Having a dedicated GPU is highly recommended, but not required.

[/u]Bugs & Issues[/u]
The wallpaper editor has crashed on me a few times for unexpected reasons. I've had a few issues with compatibility with some software. The programs would behave weirdly because they don't know how to deal with an animated wallpaper. Hopefully, this will get fixed in the future as the developers release constant updates to the software.

Wallpaper Engine is a great program to customise your desktop experience to make it more interesting and essential for any PC user alike in my opinion. I fully recommend this software to anyone.

Cheaters
Questionable Hitreg
Baffling Inaccuracy mechanics

You have not experience true Love until you played CS:GO, like an abusive relationship, hate it while you're in it, but miss it when you're gone! Also IQ tests should be mandatory before being able to play competitive matchmaking.

There's simply no other FPS like it. Almost all the mechanics combine together to create an experience that is truly stellar for anyone who has an interest for high tension, high skill, and high reward FPS games. CS:GO is not for the faint of heart. In fact, I would say a good majority of people shouldn't even be playing it. But for the truly hardcore, there really isn't any other option. your character doesn't get better, you get better. A game with that kind of pure player involved skill progression, along with mechanics refined over two decades of innovation is something that any hardcore PC FPS player should play. Yes I recommend it. The game is frustrating, it's unloved by it's developers, and you are gonna wonder why you even try to play it when at times it feels so broken. But that's true of almost anything rewarding in life. And Counter Strike is rewarding.

Some Russian i've learnt that will help:
1) If your teammate did something wrong say: Mu-dak!
2) If your teammate did something good say: Krasava!
3) If you won clutch round: sosat suka sosat
4) Lets rush b: idem rush b nahui (same for A/mid)
5) If something went wrong: pizdec
6) Give drop: dai drop pliz suca
7) I'm going to save: ja seivit
8) If someone in other team plays good: pizdec cheater
9) Go eco guys, lets win next round with gun: eco odin raund a potom pizdi dadim s devaisami
10) When you win - GG izi
11) I'm from Russian - ja iz Rossii
12) If you want to kick someone - kick etogo pidara
13) If teammates are thinking that you are bad: zatk`nis
14) First Contact with russians - suca blyad idi nahui
you can also add "nahui" to every phrase.

Now you can play with Russians and understand them as you team will consist of:
1.You
2.Russian Guy
3.Another Russian Guy
4.Russian Guy who speaks a little English
5. A 10 year old kid who slept with your mother

fyi the odd of ever getting a knife from cases btw:
BLUE: 78.79%
Purple: 16.96%
Pink: 52.82%
Red: 0.99%
Knife: 0.44%

---{Graphics}---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☒ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look
☐ Paint.exe

---{Gameplay}---
☐ Very good
☒ Good
☐ Simple
☐ yuck
☐ Just don‘t

---{Audio}---
☐ Eargasm
☒ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Earrape

---{Audience}---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☐ Adults
☒ Human
☐ Lizards

---{PC Requirements}---
☐ Paint.exe
☐ Potato
☒ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich
☐ NASA PC

---{Difficulity}---
☐ just press any key
☐ Easy
☒ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{Story}---
☒ Story?
☐ Text or Audio
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life

---{Game Time}---
☐ A cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☒ To infinity and beyond

---{Price}---
☒ It’s free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ 75%
☐ 50/50
☐ Not recommended
☐ burn your money

---{Bugs}---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☒ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game is a big bug

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