Recent reviews by Mordy

Upsides:

New culture with three branches which help with replayability, new books for spells, terrain and realm options.

Downsides:

The price and that's about it.. if you like Age of Wonders 4 and want more options to play around with then this absolutely worth a grab.

Overall, it's more flavor for this already quite fantastic game.

Are you looking for a Star Wars story to rival the original trilogy?

If the answer is yes, then SWTOR got you covered with EIGHT class stories, from jedis to imperial agent to republic trooper to sith power struggles and more that will keep you entertained long enough for the bitter taste of the sequel trilogy to fade away and the best thing is, it's all free!

Gameplay is pretty standard old school mmo fare with plenty of skills to click, "dungeons" to complete, raids to run with various seasonal and not so seasonal in game events to spice things up every once in a while so if you got the time and like Star Wars, give this game a shot.. you might be surprised how fun and well voice acted the stories within here are!

I.. cannot recommend this game.

The game, when it works, is fun enough and learning new recipes and preparing them is enjoyable but the Gordon Ramsey level gold tongues that are, somehow, able to detect one milliliter of extra oil on a dish and reduce your rating by one whole star if not more is just.. aggravating, because the controls in the game are hilariously imprecise so it's practically impossible to get everything juuust right be it trying to pour something or cut something up cos if it's even slightly off then bye bye rating!

Throw in all the bugs like food items clipping into counters and becoming untargettable, ladles and spatulas clipping through canisters and plates, sending them to the floor and potentially breaking them + the game regularly failing to transition from one phase (cooking->cleaning, for an example) to another, forcing a full game restart because reloading a save won't fix anything and the experience overall becomes a headache more often than not.

So steer clear, unless you can get this either free or super duper cheap.

Played through this with a friend whom i completed all the other Anthology games with and we had a pretty good time here as other than two instances of a screen/camera getting stuck, requiring the return to an earlier save point, the only other issues i personally encountered were visual glitches of the characters momentarily blinking in and out of existence here and there (most commonly during animation transitions) and some very glaring texture pop in after some early scene changes.

Story wise, i liked this one.. a solid B tier horror movie which is what these games are imo.. as for gameplay, nothing has really changed here other than the characters now being able to jog and pick up certain items that may or may not be helpful somewhere down the road.

Overall, i feel this was an entertaining end to a fairly uneven season and i very much look forward to our new alien overlords coming to take us for a wild ride in the season two premiere!

This is funny.

You remove the campaign due to some nebulous download size related reason and then have the audacity to start selling the guns from the expansion at a pretty hilarious mark up.

So kudos, trolling your paying customers yet again by removing access to playable content they paid good money for.. makes one wonder, when will this happen to Witch Queen?

Can't be that far off, so buyer beware, i guess..

Woke up in a house.. looked around but it was real dark so it was hard to see.. heard some noises coming from another room so checked that out only to get attacked by a crazy person whom i had to beat down with a chair leg.. thought that was the end of it but then lights went out and got overwhelmed by the tide of darkness washing over me.

Turns out, that was just the beginning of the dark and disturbing journey into eastern european forest where almost everything is out to get you.

This is a survival horror experience like no other where combat is slow and brutal, making planning ahead crucial be it for weaponry that feels like it is constantly in danger of breaking or healing and other supplies that far too often seem to be running dangerously low.. but fear not as it is not all doom and gloom, there are others out there, some even willing to help you out on your journey.

(don't trust the Wolf..)

Crafting, exploration, preparation.. whatever you do, remember one very important thing.. always get back to your hideout before the sun goes down as the dangerous denizens of the forest are not the only thing one should worry about.. the deep, dark shadows are seemingly out to get you if you stay out too late and we really wouldn't want that to happen, now would we?

Endless fun with friends!

This game is not worth full price.

My main gripe with the game is that there is very little content to play around with, only 6 locations, while pretty to look at and fairly large in scope, are greatly limited by piss poor design decisions that limit what you can actually make happen.

And then there's the AI, which is so deeply retarded you can spin around, dance and run laps around it without it reacting to you because all you need is a coin or another item that you can throw and that is all you need to break the game, because the idiotic AI will, without fail, always go investigate a noise meaning you can lure guards, random npcs, even targets that pass by into bathroom, closets, whathaveyou and make missions an utter joke because the stupid sheep willingly walk into the slaughter without complaint.

That said, first time running through a level is fairly enjoyable, observing the limited, repeating routines of the AI targets, guards and other npcs to try to figure out a best approach to get to them (at least till you realize you can just walk into a room with pair of scissors for an example and throw those on the floor to lure everyone near by to come to you), the story ends before it really even starts (need to buy Hitman 2 to continue it!) and.. that's about the positives for the game.

The potential was there, but it was sadly sacrificed at the altar of piece meal delivery and combined with the fact story barely goes anywhere before it ends i hesitate to recommend this game to anyone so if you looking for a stealthy puzzle 'shooter', look elsewhere or wait for a very DEEP sale as anything beyond few bucks/euros is a waste of money.

This game was a license to print money.

At least it would have been, had Bethesda not screwed up the launch and then continued to mess up practically every single decision up to this point, from overly greedy monetization schemes like shady pay2win costume packs and quality of life features like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fridge (to keep food fresh longer) to real money purchasable repair kits and bots that collect materials for you.

But let's look past all that for a moment since this is Fallout, after all.. unfortunately there's very little new here, as it's all mostly just reused assets, so if you've played Fallout 4, it's hard to avoid the feeling of déjà vu and when combine that with the fact that there's very little interesting things to to do in the game the end result is a boring, over-monetized mess that's trying to wiggled it's fingers into your wallet by annoying you with constant equipment breakage, far too tiny inventory management and the neverending need to eat & drink to keep the your bars full to avoid debuffs.

There are some upsides, like exploration which is fun and discovering new places can be exciting till you realize that's all there is, no real stories, no nothing.. the new NPCs added by the Wastelanders update help a little but it also reminds you that better Fallout games exist and with mods, they'll be bigger, better games than Fallout 76 can ever become by the simple flaw of it being a live service shackled to the whims of Bethesda who may or may not keep it up and around for years to come.

(Also, honorary mention goes to the hilaribad controls or the lack there of because the game would not allow me to play with keyboard+mouse because a controller was detected and that's all the game cared about apparently!)

So much wasted potential.. can't in good conscience give this thumbs up when far better Fallout games exist that are not only cheaper but can be modded freely so pick one of those up instead for better value of money! :ghlol:

You got me good, Bungie.

Dangling that missing content in front of me, like a carrot on a stick and like a donkey i went for it thinking that surely even though the next big Steam sale was right around the corner you would not discount your latest expansion, the one you just crapped out two weeks prior.

Fool me once, shame on me.

I learn my lessons and you showed me loud and clear that whatever you shove out the door, waiting couple of weeks will have it deeply discounted making it waste of money buying your products at launch.

(this game also suffers from utterly garbage in game monetization system that despite developer promises to the contrary remains as awful as the day it was implemented!)