Recent reviews by Buddha Fett

First madden I played since 05.
Absolutely horrendous how EA has handled itself since then. Use to be excited hearing "EA Sports, in the game"
Now its "EA Greed, in your wallet"
15 years ago you would have custom stadiums, players, fans, an actually decent franchise system. Face of the Franchise is a joke. You are forced to skip entire seasons only to play one game against your rivals, over and over. Its just not fun.

ARE YA READY?

The most intense game of red light, green light I have ever played.

For your homes. For your families!

UPDATE:
The community (or lack there of) is piss poor in this game. Organization is abysmal. Half the time, half your team is running around trying to kill something. While the other half is struggling to organize a defense. The lack of maps at launch causes the game to stagnate extremely fast. Since there are only 4 or 5 points per map (instead of the earlier promise of 15-20 points for a more organic frontline), each point turns into a meat grinder with one or 2 squads taking the risk of flanking around, only to find another enemy squad doing the same.

Like I said in my older review below, I give this game a big "meh" Its road map seems promising. But we all know how Early Access games turn out. Let hope this one defies the stereotype.

I wish there was a "Meh" option in reviews.
Its a fun game at times. But it honestly feels like a stripped down Squad/Post Scriptum.
Yeah it looks pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ amazing. But as the old saying goes graphics don't make the game.
Looking at other reviews, old gameplay trailers and videos, so much has been taken out.
I have some hope, not much but this game can be something good.

I CANNOT recommend this game in its current state.
There are way to many bugs and exploits used in game.
The constant High Packet Loss (The devs say its a ragdoll/cloth issue but lowering the settings does not help) disconnects you every 5-10 minutes. So you can get right to the end of a match and lose all your progress, or disconnect on the final wave of Horde and lose all your progress.

Its a shame I have to thumb down this game. It plays amazingly when It can. The amount of fun you can have in a single match is astonishing. Its been a while since a genuinely good game came out and this I can see myself playing for a while.
But its shoddy performance and connectivity issues are holding me back hard. As soon as I get into a murderous groove cutting my enemies to ribbons Im pulled out and sent back to the main s-sssccc-ree-e-enn.......

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I was excited for a Grand Strat in Rome but this game has absolutely no sense of what its suppose to be. Like many of the other reviews, its an attempt to blend CK2, EU4, Stellaris, and Vic 2 with some elements from other games. But is just a messy mix of all of them. Plus the game breaking bugs that are running rampant on launch makes this an Early Access title under the guise of a fully released game.

They released a patch that broke the game even more than it previously was. What happened Paradox? Did you get an entire new dev team for this? MANA is a failing system, they copy paste systems from older games and this is somehow a "successful" release.



Update:
THIS IS NOT A BOT DOWNVOTE BUT A LEGITIMATE REVIEW

Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru

You wanna know how to remake a game?
Because this is how you remake a game.

Im not sure what the Devs did.
It plays the same, the ship to ship combat is glorious and satisfying to watch.

But it lost its feeling. Multiplayer was gutted for something more simplistic and casual. You no longer get the feeling of "This is my fleet" but "Here is a fleet". Customization is gone. The battles though beautiful to watch. Are short lived and arguably smaller than its predecessor.
The campaign feels stripped bare bones aswell.

Its like the devs took all the meat out of the game and left only fatty, boney bits.
Tindalos what happened? When did it start to fall apart? Why change something that worked so well?