I remember when this bad boy was released as a demo way back when on Steam... I played through it, realized it was quite fun, then increased the difficulty setting (good thing they slapped that in in the demo), and... played it again! Again and again and again. Eventually bought the whole game and beat the singeplayer on all difficulties, and then the multiplayer... its up there with Aliens vs Predator 2 (2003). Dreadnot DLC was fun too but it was shortlived. SPOILDER I was also pleasantly surprised because I thought you were "just" up against orks..! 5/5, would memory wipe myself for the chance to play it completely fresh. PS2: Havent played space marine 2 and never will. Why? killing humanoids is fun, alien bugs not so much.
This is nu-rpg done right. I hated everything about PoE, and going in with such a hyped up disappointment in mind... well, luckily, I love everything about Tyranny! Bolstered by this I almost feel brave enough to try out Torment; Tides of Numenera. Almost. Minor petpeeves: I don't have a problem with the "shit" words in the dialogue, but the "fuck" words make it seem like this was written by some goober in the current year. Sad! The overworld map could be a bit more colorful, the game world isn't actually "bleak". I find it colorful and the overworld map reflects poorly on this. Ugly design for the sake of "le main character is a villain"? Bad! More trashmobs because it is fun to kill things, but do away with the crap items and just replace it with money for the sake of simplicity. Broken armors are fine with the lore but 300 magic slippers, no. Just No. Enemy and overall item variet is fine, tho. This game is worth your time, and it is one of those few games were you wish it was twice as long and that other half was just filler because the filler is so much fun. Then again a new game in a different direction of actions makes "up for that", so to speak. Great game. I love it.
Gothic - stern but fair the german way Five hours into the game and I was planning on a scathing review, six hours into the game and I went crazy. Crazy in the sense that I LOVE the controls, are they the worst german roundabout controls ever made or so on point and advanced lesser races simply do not understand them? Same goes for the combat, it' so intense! This game reeks of german "flow", its so horribly unhuman and unintuitive it somehow ends up being the best ever. Same goes for everything in this game, you will hate it until you love it. Use a guide to get 60 fps, use a guide for the first few hours to get your bearings with the controls, quest and "feel" of the game. This game is also a good way to gauge your add-levels brought on by modern games, this is a proper RPG not an Arpg. Play accordingly or suffer the consequences. Game also has beautiful 3dgraphics, no shitty bloom bullshit shat on everywhere by some affirmative action sjw last minue employee. Yes, in this day and age this is an issue you need to adress when reviewing a product people spend their money on and if you don't like that fact well too bad for you, buddy. The game does however feature a very "diverse" cast of characters, it is after all a prison game. The story is kickass, the world is inhabited and it is fun to explore and not once did I feel I was "wasting my time", both in game and irl, doing seemingly mundande things. That is a great achievement for a game to pull off. Paramount but often overlooked and ignored. In summary, this is a game made by autistic white germans for autistc white males, the golden age of gaming the way it should be. And if you don't like these kinds of games, good games, then why are you here reading this?!? As for me, I'm currently playing Gothic 2.
