Recent reviews by Ronin Cross

Nopers.

Better than Stellaris and Endless Space 2 by far.

Good game.

Grom, leader of Clan Battlebeard; a warrior of unrivaled skill and valor. I set out on my journey from the dwarven homeland killing foul spiders and untrustworthy sheep.

Upon reaching the edge of some dark and undoubtedly UNHOLY wood(s?) I decided to make a hunting lodge for my clan. While doing so I saw a battleboar snorting a patch of swamp land, the sign of a true warrior pig; so I decided he must be mine. It was a fight for the ages, I punched my faithful hog into submission and then saddled him up. It was glorious.

We were only together for a short time, my battlehog and I; it started when the other boars saw my new friend "Grunt" and decided to attack him. Three on one, it was an uneven and dirty fight; those boars never stood a chance.

As I was congratulating Grunt a pair of Treants came near, now let me explain something about battlepigs and Treants; they don't like em. Grunt charged the massive elf-lovers while I ran in after trying to mount him to ride him to safety; but then it happened, I started to believe in Grunt. I watched as he battled the treemen, tearing into them as they knocked over the nearby trees, but finally with a crash one stomped Grunt into the ground as I cried out in anguish... mah pig was gone.

I barely escaped with my life after that; I let my rage guide me and now I am leader of my people. Our forges never sleep, and all the mountains bow down to us; Grunt, my battleboar will be avenged.


The real review now:

I was worried because of all the negative reviews about the lag and loading issues; the game loaded in less than 2 minutes and there's essentially no lag on the server I play on.

This is by far my favorite game now; its the right combo and D&D type fantasy world with open world survival. I could never get into Ark because I usually play solo but this game has towns with upgradable NPC's to buy and sell too, three major cities for Dwarf, Elf, and Human, ruins to explore, and monsters that are actually fun to fight straight from any fantasy setting.

EDIT: Game was effectively abandoned

UPDATE: Now you can just pay a subscription, for this singleplayer game, to avoid refinancing your mortgage to pay for all the DLC.

DLC is ridiculously overpriced and its hard to sort through which ones are needed to make the game enjoyable for you; aside from that the company raised prices just before the summer sale in order to be able to offer a higher discount percentage off the new, higher price.

Spend money elsewhere and lets not encourage such terrible business practices.

It's not Arma or a zombie survival game built on the Arma engine; it's also not a rip-off of a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ zombie survival game that will never be finished. This is a functioning and fun game to play that gets right to the action.

The game is good.

China numbah one.

Former grunt here; buy this game, it's got class. It's like Warhammers "The Dead and the Damned" mixed with old school Final Fantasy Tactics/Xcom.

How do you charge for DLC for a game in early access that isn't finished...?

Used to love this game until it became apparent it was going the route of Crusader Kings with DLC. Spending significantly more than the base price of a game on DLC, for a non MMO game, is unreasonble.

I'm not talking about a huge expansion that doubles a game, but minor DLC's that add up to cost multiple times more than the base game. You can argue it's a niche market and whatnot; that's fine, I just think it's excessive.

Only bad thing is the matchmaking, it takes awhile to get a match more often than not. The game is awesome and fun as hell though, even if I wasn't a Blood Omen fan I'd still play it. You have to actually use teamwork to survive and think, great game all around probably one of my favorites.