Recent reviews by Old Game Genie

The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal!

Sweaty Vampire PvP meets Painful and RNG related tech base grind. I like pain. 10/10

Do you like Soccer? Do you like cars and driving games? Do you like rockets? Do you like leagues? If you answered yes to any of these you will probably like this game. 5/7 Top Game

I love it but it's terrible. Don't be me.

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please bluebutthole

This game was incredible at first with a few small flaws. The devs overtuned something to the point where it isnt any fun anymore. I don't know how to explain it any better if you haven't ever played it. The game has potential but the last year has shown these devs cannot really be trusted. I have reinstalled the game a couple of times since I bought it on the day it came to Steam, the most recent being today (1/16/17). I load in one game and I notice a few things seem to be better looking graphically but the movements feel just as clunky and about 6 minutes into my game it just froze completely in the middle of searching a locker (after a 9 minute queue time). Had to open task manager to close the process, common issue apparently.

Look I know it sounds negative but it really felt like betrayal when the game we bought isn't the game that exists now. The game in it's current state is not worth $5 let alone the $15 price tag attached to it. There are plenty of other game options in this category that would be much more rewarding investments.

TL;DR - Game used to be fun but really sucks now, little hope for future because nothing good happened in a year.

Let me start by saying that I have been a fan of this company since 1999 when I bought a copy of Everquest. I had such high hopes for H1Z1 following it through all of development and playing both closed and open betas. I played the day it came out when the servers were so overcrowded you could hardly ever even join a server, I played throughout the introduction of the battle royale system and subsequent realization by SOE turned Daybreak that battle royale was vastly more popular than their main iteration of the game. I watched how as soon as SOE was aquired by a hedge fund and turned into Daybreak how the entire game model turned into a means of producing revenue. This review is not like the plethora of others listed here saying that gun hitboxs are not working properly or that Chinese players and cheaters are prevalent everywhere. This review is mainly here to point to the reasons why this game has become what it is and why it will probably never become what the players want it to be.

TLDR Reasons why the game is not worth buying:

1: Development rolls out hundreds of new skins for players to spend money on rather than fixing game crippling bugs
2: Company is owned by a hedge fund solely focused on earning as much profit for as little effort as possible.
3: Weapon hitboxs do not function properly and all efforts at addressing them fail
4: Chinese players and cheaters exist on every server there is
5: Poor communication from development team and zero transparency about agenda and roadmap

I have been playing this game since early on in the closed alpha process. Both of the developers have put in countless hours and have really listened to the testers and worked hard to improved enjoyment for the community. That being said, this game is just fun, I have played thousands of hours of different survival and crafting based open world games. H2O brings a unique take to this genre with the focus on aquatic type vehicles and large group based combat. I cannot recommend this game more to anyone who is interested in these types of games. The game is incredibly enjoyable with a lot of room for improvement as well!

This game started out with an abundance of potential and overall forward momentum. The Devs make a lot of money oriented deicions that ultimately caused the community to fall apart, the gameplay quality to be lowered exponentially, and almost an entire year of "Weekly updates" that really did not accomplish anything. The Legacy version of rust was a blast, I spent over a thousand hours playing it! But the new version needs so much work and honestly, it just does not feel as fluid, as fun, or as immersive. If you want a broken game not worth your time at the moment, buy Rust.