Recent reviews by 󠀡󠀡Kizu

First of all, I got way more hours into this game than it shows here, I played on-and-off from 2012 up to this very day, I skip years, then come back and play for a year or two and drop it again, on the EA launcher, and only recently I installed it via Steam, I think I have at least 1000 hours or more.

The base game is a letter of love to Star Wars fans, more specifically, Star Wars The Old Republic fans.

The worldbuilding is beautiful, the lore is consistent, you have fully voiced storylines and even sidequests and planet quests, all the way to level 50 or so, there is a lot of content to unpack and explore. If you really love Star Wars, you will be immersed in the story and the characters.

The bad thing is the gameplay itself.
Being a MMO it is very dated and grindy by default: Full of boring quests, mundane activities and backtracking. It is not engaging, specially if you are playing by yourself. Updates made the game a LOT easier than what it was when I started playing. I bet you, you can be very casual about it, and you won't struggle to kill any bosses or progress. You can play clicking with your mouse instead of using keyboard biding and macros.

The endgame and current state of the game, is where things get scuffed even if you love Star Wars.
You will be playing space barbie and collecting fancy things for your character to use, or for your in-game house.
Devs make dodgy decisions to say the least, at times repressing negative comments.
All expansions/post-vanilla content stray further and further from the original storylines that made this game so great, and don't get me wrong, I like them but we had 16 different unique storylines that got somehow merged into one. There is no possible way you could retain the quality of them all.

PvP can be fun, but it is broken. Also no servers outside US/Europe, so if you live in SA or Asia you get used to play with high ping.

This game was made by BioWare on its apex, and you can tell by it's great worldbuilding and dialogue, it was incredibly good even if the MMO aspects of it always held it down in my opinion, what really killed this game was EA terrible decisions over the course of many years.

First and foremost, they gave us a amazing storyline, but even at its prime the MMO aspect was always lacking, and this was supposed to be the WoW killer at its peak, but it lacked too much WoW content.
They made the game Free2Play, but they ostracized F2P'ers like they were the plague. Nowadays is not so bad, but back them, F2P could not even equip artifact items, had incredibly low credit cap, couldn't use dyes, received way less XP, could only play 5 matches of PvP per day... Even if you paid money to subscribe for a while or buy Premium currency, you would become Preffered but still be very limited. The game is limited for free players still, but way more lenient nowadays.

This was one of the biggest mistakes. Players, specially in a multiplayer game, are content. This is proof by the fact many games nowadays make themselves free to play to attract as many players as possible, instead of treating their free players like garbage like EA did.

I am a lonely person, but even for me, this game feels way too lonely at times. I remember playing with planets full of people, hanging out in the cantina, doing raids and PvPs in group... you can still have some semblance of that nowadays, if you join a guild or a discord or something like that I guess...

It feels almost wrong to recommend this game because of all these flaws: EA's greed, mediocre devs, bland gameplay, bad endgame... but the original vision for this game by it's original developers were good, they were onto something there, unfortunately, they were victims of EA lack of vision and pettiness, who made a supbar MMO with a great singleplayer story, alienated it's free playerbase and never bothered to expand to SA even though theres lots of Star Wars fans here as well.

This game goes down in my books as one of the most missed potential of all time. The foundation for something great is there, but it devolved over the course of many years and years of bad decisions pilling it up and corroding the integrity of the game.

Ultimately, I think this game is a easy skip if you aren't into Star Wars. Just play some other singleplayer RPG instead like Fallout, Skyrim, Witcher, Elden Ring... but if you LOVE Star Wars, I think you must at least check the original storylines, because the expansions are lame and flanderize the characters, the endgame is boring, the community is kinda dead, the gameplay is boring... However, this game is the only game to this day that truly lets you be a Jedi, a Sith, a Bounty Hunter, a Smuggler, a Stormtrooper or a Imperial Agent.

This game remains to this very day, even with all it's flaws, the ultimate Star Wars experience you can get.

I solely bought this game to date my wife Juri.
This is the worst party game I ever played, can't even be considered a fighting game.

700 hours into this game all DLC bought what went so wrong with my life

Very fun, but utter garbage servers

Do you want to play a game where your decisions matter?
Where you can learn, train the fundamentals and grow stronger?
Where you feel like the best player in the server will win 9/10 times?

Then play literally anything else. This game picks the worst of RNG games, but without any of the fun.

In card games, despite all the obnoxious meta and stupid draws, you still can build your deck, and read your opponents deck, there is a degree of control in there, a degree of personality customizing your own deck and tech cards.

Here, you have all the RNG in the world, but your degree of control is almost non-existent.

The units are the same for everyone and just randonly distributed, you need to built your build the way the game is "selling" to you at that moment, or try to make a build you enjoy and get rekt by not having the right pieces.

And also like in card games, some compositions just dominate the game to a point you NEED them to achieve some win, while others are harmless even if you max them out.

On top of that, the game doesn't even bother to teach you anything.

It doesn't teach anywhere that some classes are bulkier and should be the frontline, where others are pure support, it literally doesn't even imply anywhere that.

So it just takes a lot of unecessary painful trial-and-error to figure out which classes are for what purposes unless you read a guide online, something it should be already taught in-game, since if you don't follow the Frontline x Backline composition you pretty much already lost.

Same thing with placements, gold management, synergy between classes, win streaks and lose streaks.

The absolute worst that made me sure to unnistall was:

Even if you care to learn and master those things, you will still lose.

Thats it.

Someone with a nutty hand or your bad hand, will be the final deciding factor for who wins

And when you say this to some Dota UL fanboy they just say " well you gotta play for the fourth-second place "

When my friends who tried out before me, all said that: " the game plays itself " " its a lootbox simulator " " its a mobile game filler " I thought they were just salty or didn't get the game, because I couldn't understand how this auto chess format that is so popular suddenly, could be so braindead.

But it actually is.

So, if you just want to burn time by clicking pretty icons for a hour or so, and get that dopamine fix from getting a stupid good hand that gives you undeserved free wins, this game is great for you.

However, if you want competition, control and skill, don't waste your time.

Yeah, we get it, you have the DLC

How about playing with other chars? hurr durr my achievment

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tryharders dude, I can't even get 2 games in a row without some random popping one of these chars like, give me a break ♥♥♥♥♥ we get it, YOU BOUGHT THE DLC, NOW CHILL OUT FAM

garbage game

I will never understand the hate this game gets by the Fallout community.
It gets hate from Obsidiancucks who hate Bethesda and overrate Fallout 1, 2 and NV to death as flawless masterpieces beyond good and evil.
It gets hate from nu-Fallout fans because they claim the game is buggy/ugly and rather play Fallout 4 and 76.

In my books, this game is the ULTIMATE Fallout experience.

First of all, you play as you are literally born. You start the game crawling as a baby, it doesn't get more immersive than that.
Second, you are born as a Vault Dweller. You are born as a Vault person who never knew the world pre-war, or outside and lived your entire life in your little community underground. Your vision of the world is extremely limited, and when you leave the Vault for the first time and see the world outside with all its glory, it is such a memorable, unique feeling.

The game plot involves family and raises moral questions, for some this might not be good, but the original Fallout 1 you go outside to try and sacrifice yourself to save your family and colleagues of your Vault. The world building and exploration feel amazing.

The game's atmosphere involves a certain feeling of dread, depression and grittiness, but in a beautiful way. You walk around the rumbles of what once was the peak of civilization, the skies are grey and greenish, everything looks dead and hostile, but there is a sense of familiarity with the music on the radio, the good souls you find on your way, and the beautiful buildings that remain as good memories of a long gone past.

This game is perfect? Absolutely not. I don't even mind the said bugs and filter that much, since I experienced maybe 1 or two crashes playing vanilla. Keep in mind I played this on my PS3 first and got on PC years later, and in both occasions I don't record struggling with crashes and never needed any tweaks or mods.
I have critics about the game storyline, world building and characters, that while are pretty good, are still flawed and rushed. I am not giving spoilers, but this game is a LOT of missed potential as well.

Even with all it's problems, this game should still be mandatory as the introductory experience to the Fallout world. No other game comes even close to making you truly feel like a Vault Dweller. Watching people play this game for the first time as their first Fallout game makes this even more true, they really feel like a Vault person who lived isolated and never interacted with the world of Fallout, it is simply the peak way of introducing anyone to the franchise.

Fallout NV is a fun game, but it feels too chaotic and not introductory at all, it feels like Fallout 2 compared to Fallout 1, and it's funny because, Fallout 3 does feel like Fallout 1 in a lot of ways, even the original creator of Fallout, Tim Cain has a soft spot for Fallout 3.
So it is really ironic in a way that the community demonizes this game so much, specially the NV playerbase, when this game feels like the successor of Fallout 1 and NV the successor of Fallout 2, making Fallout 3 and NV truly siblings in a weird way.

Fallout NV feels more like a DLC or expanded universe for someone who already loves Fallout.
Fallout 4 has its own share of flaws and qualities and while it could be a good introductory game, Fallout 3 is still the best at this aspect specially because Fallout 4 is in a lot of ways a refference to Fallout 3.
Fallout 76 is just a fanfic, mickey mouse game, Rick Morty inspired full of corny abominations and lack of respect to the Fallout lore.

Oh, and the DLC in this game is amazing. Specially because it was from that time in the gaming era where devs had courage to explore and experiment with different concepts in DLC, for instance: in one you get abducted by aliens and in the other one you go into a simulation. It is somehow Lore-friendly and lots of fun, giving you good loot, too.

I could talk about my love for Fallout 3 all day, and how it really, factually is the best Fallout game to introduce someone, and even if you already got introduced to Fallout, is not too late to give this game a try.
There is rumours about a possible remake, but honestly, don't wait for it and play the original, I bet the remake will miss some of the soul and essence this game has, like it's gloomy atmosphere for instance, like how the RE4 remake while good, doesn't replace the original.

And if you still aren't convinced this game is the GOAT of the Fallout franchise, your dad here is voiced by Liam Neeson. Play Fallout 3.

Valorant has better servers, anti-cheats, graphics, performance, skins, community and now even maps, since all these CS2 maps are complete flaming garbage.

Delete this game off Steam already, Valorant brutally mogs it so hard it is pointless to exist. Only played by uncles who have sunk cost fallacy because they already sunk over 9k hours and wanna flex their pixels.

CSGO peaked in 2017 and been in a downhill ever since, with CS2 being the nosedive into total trash.

The only way you can enjoy this game, is if you enjoy fighting cheaters, racist subhumans, and a pathetic 64tick server in a game so poorly optimized, that it lags and drops frames even in high-end 30k PC builds.