Останні рецензії користувача Animal Mother

Taylor Swift released a track on her newest album "The Tortured Poets Department" titled "I hate it here" many critics and fans have attempted to decipher the meaning of the track, does Taylor hate modern society after seeing its slow decay? Does she hate how fall we've fallen as a species ? If you answered any of these you are absolutely wrong. Taylor wrote the track about Hunt Showdown, because if you ask any hunt player, they will ALL tell you they hate it here.

excellent game, Dredd when?

This is one of my favorite video games of all time, I spent much of my childhood enthralled into the original release. When I heard that Nightdive Studios was going to remaster this masterpiece of a game, I was extremely excited.
I can not understand in what plane of existence that Nightdive thought this was ok to release in this state, they go through all the trouble with getting the IP and hyping it up only to put out the worst hack job of a mess I have ever seen. Audio issues galore, broken sounds, broken music that likes to break up and sound like I am listening to the game on a 2001 nextel phone, you remember that stupid toothbrush they sold called tooth tunes, that played like a 1 bit version of popular annoying pop songs? That is this games audio direction in this """"remaster""" how does this game, from 2022 sound WORSE than the 1997 release. With all the audio popping and crackling it was unbearable. Then you got FRAME RATE STUT-STU-STU-STUTTERING on these supposed "remastered" cut-scenes that they hyped up like it was gonna bring about world peace and change the course of human history. I could drag my balls across broken glass at 60 FPS and tell you its amazing, but its still me dragging my balls across broken glass at 60 FPS. Nightdive put an AWFUL blurry mess of a filter over the cut-scenes with this god awful smoothing effect over it that I had to go check WebMD to make sure I wasn't experiencing symptoms of glaucoma or I wasn't drinking paint thinner again. This game looks WORSE than it ever did, its like that cute girl in high school you had a crush on, but never talked to so one night after downing copious amounts of cheap gas station malt liquor you decide to look her up on social media and now she is 35, with 5 kids and is doing head only above the shoulder face selfies trying to hide the fact she let herself go while her friends comment and tell her shes so pretty but we all really know she's hit the wall, but if you ask her friends they will tell you she has a shining personality. Also, someone please explain to me why I can't point and click for free movement in a POINT AND CLICK game. Was the devs freebasing ambien over at Nightdive studios? Were they drinking the left over cough syrup they had laying around? In what world did they think "Yea bro, this is cool no one will notice in a POINT AND CLICK game" Due to this, this game has tons of technical issues like not being able to hit the targets on the target range. This game doesn't even have the restored content that the GOG version has, its like ordering a Japanese A5 steak, and they bring it out burnt and smothered in ketchup, yea technically its still the steak I ordered but what was the point of the entire experience. I can't believe that Nightdive released this product like this, a highly beloved and influential classic PC game in such a state. They went through the effort to get the IP, they hyped it up like they were doing some real work on it, saw how difficult it was gonna be and decided to yolo it, like setting up a game of axis and allies for your friends at a slumber party and then after the hour it takes to set the board game up, they all decide to go do something else. I know it was probably not easy to work with this game, but don't hype it up, act like your all about it and then leave it out in the rain to fall apart. Nightdive should be absolutely ashamed of themselves, not that they are, they know the fourteen people who were hyped for this all bought it anyways, just like I did. I am never giving any of my money to this company again, not just because of this poor product, but because they pretended to actually care about said product.

Years from now, as I grow old and grey. As I finally enter the final phase of my life, and prepare to shuffle off this mortal coil and into the oblivion, surrounded by my family and friends, I'll look back as I try to hold on to the vestige of my quickly fading life; my last thought being "I can't believe that I spent hours of my life playing battlefield 2042." Then, just as soft as the summer rain I will fade into the ether knowing that even receiving the game for free as I did, it still cost me something in the end. Then finally I will cease to exist. There is nothing free in this world, we all end up paying one way or the next.

This game was more cringe inducing than when I raced as an outhouse and T-rex in NFS2. I can picture a whole office of corporate fat cats and boomer game developers who sat around and actually thought this was a good idea. It has the research focused and proven EA color scheme for zoomers, according to their design documents that leaked for fifa, that was proven to entice a younger crowd to want to spend more money on ingame stuff. Its actually incredibly sad to see how hard the NFS series has fallen to this point. Game feels awful to play, hard cringe inducing storyline that is a waste of time, technical issues all over. I only got this game on a deep deep sale, hoping it would be as good as the game Juiced on the orignal xbox, you know a game thats almost 20 years old now and it can't even do that. not worth your time, there are plenty of other racers out there that doesn't act like a zoomer off their ADHD meds and with less technical issues too

its not often I refund games, or write reviews on them. Most of the few reviews I ever wrote have been good ones, this is going to be the second one I don't recommend. I bought this game, with only a small amount of before hand interaction with it. I thought 30$ isn't that big of a deal. Let me tell you, there is a reason this game is 30$. It feels awful to play, and is beyond frustrating in ways that go beyond "git gud". This game is an active chore to play, Enemies are not fun to deal with, due to the fact that combat feels like ass. It feels sluggish and unsatisfying. Enemies are thrown at you constantly with what seems like no thought into their placement. Oh, a narrow hallway style room is coming up? lets just throw 4 or 5 guys at you cause "muh challenge" the devs obviously went too hard on the "inspired by souls" without actually understanding what made souls good. I get that the dev team is small and "inspired by souls blah blah blah blah blah" but it that is no excuse when you are trying to sell a product and expect people to go into it with a certain mindset. Also there is little to no variety in enemies, bosses are nothing special either, in fact the game has a large boring roster of things that run straight at you, though this is more of a personal opinion, it bothered me and once again if someone is selling a product wanting my money I will criticize anything that I personally did not feel was adequate. I was perplexed by the gameplay feature where you must use items over and over again to actually understand what they do, its stupid. its not adding anything to the game and it only waste items. Just tell me whatever useless thing I pick up is, so I don't waste it when I don't need to. As far as environments go, its ok. nothing special. Areas look like they have all sorts of hidden secrets and nooks and cranny, there's nothing worthwhile anywhere. The game feels sterile. Environments are lame, just like the constant samey enemy spam. There is barely any actual content in the game. It is incredibly short from what I seen and read, you don't get different weapons, you get shells which are basically there because the devs "didn't have" the ability to design individual items and gear. So don't go into this expecting to play fashion souls and dress up. You have a small selection of shells and that is it. Each shell forces you to play a certain style of game-play and there are two shells that are obviously better than the others. Another issue I had with this game, is on the technical side, It has the usual unreal engine issues and that "certain" unreal look. But it had a really strange flickering issue on my rig with the in game lighting that I thought was because of issues with my freesync ultrawide so I disabled it and it still was doing the same thing. Not only that, it had mircostuttering and crashing and framerate issues on my desktop that I have zero issues with for any other game, and is no slouch either, (16 core ryzen, 64 gigs of ram, 6900XT gpu) I should not have ANY issues running this game. Its small with hardly any content. Overall, I got this as a stop gap waiting for the release of Elden Ring, as I have finished all the souls games several times and finished Sekiro as well. Games in this style are something I enjoy and stick with no issues, this is not a matter of "gittin gud" this is a matter of a game that sells itself as a certain style of popular game series, attempts to ape its style without understanding WHY those games are so loved and good. this is a pale intimation of what it tries to be. And I already know someone reading this is gonna pull the whole "ITS A SMALL TEAM" doesn't matter, they are asking for money for a product and the product is mediocre at best, bad at worst.

First off, let me start by saying this. I have been a massive dragon quest fan since childhood, anything that said "Dragon Quest" or "Dragon Warrior" I would buy. Dragon Quest 11 is one of the best JRPGs I have played in years. The story has some great unexpected twist and turns, the characters are all great, and the combat system shows that we can STILL have traditional style turn based systems in todays games. I am not going to go into super depth with a million page dialog documenting every single detail of the game, but for at least an hour or two each night before I went to bed I would progress a bit further, sort of a bedtime story. I would look forward to each night my allotted hour or two of DQ11. The graphics are beautiful (I have the original PC release) and it is a very cozy/relaxing game to play through each night. If you yearn for a traditional style turned based RPG that you can really get wrapped up in and look forward to playing more each time, this is heavily recommended. Just be warned, this game is a MASSIVE time commitment. I have just hit around 85 hours, and finished the main story boss, and still have plenty of post game content to chew through. IMO the best way to get through this game, is to do what I did and play in short few hour blocks before bed each night.

After buying it day one, on the original incrediably broken release I thought the Enhanced Edition would be a massive much needed update, well it wasn't. A lot of the same issues that were in the orginal release are STILL present in this one. Massive stuttering, lag issues ect. The devs don't bother to address these things, like the fact an audio bug that causes framerate issues is still present in this "enhanced" edition from the old one. Don't bother, you will only wind up with frustrations.

Let me first start off by saying, I have been a life long GitS fan. Starting with the orignal book(s) and the first animation.
So upon hearing that this game was in the works, I was excited. Then I saw Nexon and became skeptial along with many others.
I can safely say, this game has been great so far.
The devs are responsive and very active, it has some amazing sound design, and they were able to fit the tech in from the show and books very well into gameplay. lots of game fixes and friendly devs on top of it.
GitS fans have been starved for a good GitS game for years now, this was a very daunting task to create a game based on the franchise (GitS fans are pretty damn loud and a rabid fanbase, tough to please)

While the game does have a upgrade system similar to War Thunder, and you can use real money. Its over all well balanced and you can have a ton of fun without spending a dime.

With full disclousure, I did buy the Early Access pack at its sale price for 2.50$ which in my personal opinon is HIGHLY worth it.

Overall, this game is deserving of your time and money. Its fun, Has great design, uses tech from the series in a cool way for gameplay, amazing sound design, and even the voice acting is show like quality.

While I can admit I am an Alien superfan, so I might be a little bias towards this game. I can 100% say this is a great game, its the game all of us superfans have been wanting for years. The pc version is incrediably optomized, which is something that is quickly becoming rarer and rarer this days. It scales awesomly with SLI/Crossfire and mutlicore processors. I am running it on 2-270x GPUs and a highly overclocked 8350 8 core processor. My frames are up into the hundreds easily completly maxed out with ultra settings and everything cranked up.

On to the gameplay side of things,

Graphics
This game is stunning. The atmosphere is just breathtaking, the volumetric fog and beautiful lighting takes the cake. The attention to detail is wonderful. You really feel like you are in the Alien universe, it all combines together to draw you in and take hold of you. There are a few flat textures here and there, a few small things like pictues in lockers and wall paneling are low rez in some areas, but if you don't sweat the small stuff you will be completly ingulfed.


Sound
This game's sound design may be some of the best in years. The creepy ambient soundtrack does wonders for imersion. Hearing the alien stomp around somewhere near you and you don't know where from is intense. The game's musical score is heavily based off of the first film (which is a given) but it does it well and uses it to great effect at the best moments. Hearing the Alien hiss and snarl as it hunts you is pretty frighting, hearing its heavy thuds as it disspears into the vent system is enough to make you want to stay in hiding as long as you can.
One negitive I can say is the voice acting isn't the best. While it is not anywhere close to being horriable, some of the character's voice's fall flat and emotionless. The main character, Amanda flip flops between great and kinda meh. There are a few accents for some of the characters, which all of them sound authenic not just someone tyring their best to put on a english, or scottish accent. But then again like I said, some character's fall flat. Also for some reason, lip synching isn't all that great. I have a feeling it is because the pre rendered cutscenes run at 30 fps while the game is at 60 (or whatever you are playing it at) so its a jarring difference when it comes up.


Gameplay
This is not Coloinal Marines. It is nothing like it at all. This game is a survial horror/stealth game. You can not kill the Alien, don't even go anywhere near it. If it sees you, thats pretty much it. Instadeath if it gets ahold of you. You will spend most of you're time hiding from anything and everything. There are human surviors that will not hesitate to gun you down. You can try to fight them if you wish, but the smarter ideal is to use one of the crafted items such as the noise maker or flare to lure the alien to them and let the alien do the dirty work for you, monster infighting is something I have always loved in games and it plays into the game very well here. You will loot items and parts to create new gear and items to help you survive such as the nosie maker which emits a lound static sound or healthpacks for well you know, healing yourself. That means there is no regenerating health which has become the annoying norm in modern games. While speaking about bad modern game design. the popular tend now is to have the game autosave for you. That is not the case in Alien Isolation. This game features good old manual saves. You can find phone boxes on the wall to use for saving. While you use them, you can still be killed for a few seconds so its smart ot make sure you are not in hostile terriotry while trying to save. There are no checkpoints if you dont save and get killed guess what? You are going back to you're last save even if its 2 hours from where you were at. Last but not least, the Alien AI is pretty dang good from what I expected. A few review sites like IGN whined and cried about it "being frustrating" but what that means is they were boo hooing because they couldn't rush through the game on easy and wanted it to cater to their casual taste. The AI is random and not scripted, and I have tested this out myself. THIS IS A GOOD THING it really drives home the survial horror feeling. Wondering what the Alien is going to do at anytime is nerve racking and quite a few times it surprised me from vents or out of nowhere.


*Correction I believe there are autosaves, I can not confirm this but I have noticed the same icon appearing here and there not sure what it is, but I always just load from my manual saves*

Overall, Alien Isolation is a game I can fully reccomend to anyone if they are currently on the fence about it. Its got great graphics, it is really well optomized and will run great on a large specturm of systems. Its sound design is fantastic, and the gameplay is a breath of fresh air for the boring and tired troupe of space marines vs xenos ect. This game is estimated to be 15-20 hours long. I am not sure if that accounts for the amount of deaths (you will suffer many this is not some casual persudo stealth jog like dishonored) or not. Again when IGN and a few other review sites whined and cried about it being too long, think about it, they get the game for free and don't have to spend money on it of course they don't care about how long it is. But as it is, its still making me enjoy playing it so far 10 hours in. I haven't felt bored or anything though you're milage may vary.


Other things to note are yes, a lot of the game has you doing things like get from point A to point B and back agin, press this switch, use this computer ect. Fetch quest over all is a big part of the game, traveling through the station doing those fetch quest while dealing with the Alien really is a intense experience and you won't even notice things like that