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Cyberpunk 2077

I just played 16 hours over night!

I am 46, and I rarely get caught in a night-session of gaming. But this one is very good, and on my machine very stable. Not a single crash, good GFX with amazingly detailed faces even on NPCs, good gameplay, good sound. If you played Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Divided, this is a big step further and way more open, but without ventilation crawling. Instead of a long pro-con list things that stand out for me: Once you are beyond the Introduction-and-tutorial mission you walk around on the streets. ALL NPCs LOOK SO DIFFERENT! They all walk at different speeds, there are many walking styles including many variants of "female" walking styles, including several limping variants. Young, old, homeless, rich, kids, skin color, simply everything... And they are not aggressive like those GTA NPCs. You don't habe invisible walls railroading you, and you can walk through the whole city right from the beginning. And the city offers a lot, REALLY a lot variations. Just walk around and listen, and some sidequests will pop up, though you should be careful since sidequests in further away areas tend to be too difficult for an Level 3 character. It has a VERY fair savegame system, enough slots and three quicksaves - IMHO the best implementation, like Mimimi studios does it too. Play it, you won't be disappointed! Footnotes: I am German, and we are quick to complain. Especially from my part of Germany. "Nix gemeckert ist Lob genug!" @GOG: When will you allow editing of reviews? To fix typos, or to change it when an updates fixes a problem. This way many negative reviews would get one more star later, like some of my negative reviews.

6 gamers found this review helpful
Desperados III

I rarely give five stars - deserved

Using the story to get the tutorial is well done. Controlling the characters: well done. Fair save-game system by having access to your last three quick-saves: Well done. Graphics / Sound / Stability: Well done. Having actually different Characters, even though some are definitely Shadow Tactics clones: Well done. Isabelle with her damage-cloning ability: Genius idea! Can play Rambo style, alarm everything and kill everything: Yes, possible, I started with that style. Can play "no alarm mode": Yes, possible too, I switched to that play style after a few levels and switched to highest skill - and replayed those I already done in medium skill Rambo style. Everything is manageable, even at the highest skill. Even the case when Hector ends up on the wrong side of Casa DeVitt and seems to be locked out of a part of a level (he says: cannot get there/can't do) you CAN get him to the right side without hacking and without raising an alarm (might create a video from it). So I've got nothing to complain? Hell... I am from Germany, of course I have something to complain, one of the story twist is too cheesy for my taste. but this pales compared to the quality they delivered with that game. @GOG: When will reviews be editable to correct typos or to change the rating up when a patch solved issues? (You can deny down-rating, if you want).

23 gamers found this review helpful
Aquanox Deep Descent Collector’s Edition

Mixed bag - will refund if not fixed

I saw all those one star reviews and thought: F-it, I take a look myself. Graphics: A blurry hell. The graphics would be very good, but look like rendered at 1280x720 and then upscaled to my large 4K screen. I can literally see scaling artifacts on non-straight lines (star effect). Menus are perfectly sharp. Playing in 1920x1080 makes the game look like 1024x576 upscaled. If a Titan RTX is not enough, then what? Sound: Is fine. Control: Is mixed. The layout is well thought, though the input delay is way too high (80+ fps at 4k with all GFX options maxed out), no matter what resolution of graphics settings I use. Gameplay: Up to now OK, just the tutorial and the "story introduction fight". IMHO the enemies are overpowered even at the easiest skill, and wait for you to hit a trigger point to appear out of nothing. So you have no chance to advance slowly and take them one by one. The weapon range of your starting gun in laugable - the enemies can hit you, but you cannot hit the enemies. Note to GOG: When will you allow us to edit our reviews when a game improved after a few updates? Or to fix embarrassing typos?

89 gamers found this review helpful
Aquanox Deep Descent

Mixed bag - will refund if not fixed

I saw all those one star reviews and thought: F-it, I take a look myself. Graphics: A blurry hell. The graphics would be very good, but look like rendered at 1280x720 and then upscaled to my large 4K screen. I can literally see scaling artifacts on non-straight lines (star effect). Menus are perfectly sharp. Playing in 1920x1080 makes the game look like 1024x576 upscaled. If a Titan RTX is not enough, then what? Sound: Is fine. Control: Is mixed. The layout is well thought, though the input delay is way too high (80+ fps at 4k with all GFX options maxed out), no matter what resolution of graphics settings I use. Gameplay: Up to now OK, just the tutorial and the "story introduction fight". IMHO the enemies are overpowered even at the easiest skill, and wait for you to hit a trigger point to appear out of nothing. So you have no chance to advance slowly and take them one by one. The weapon range of your starting gun in laugable - the enemies can hit you, but you cannot hit the enemies. Note to GOG: When will you allow us to edit our reviews when a game improved after a few updates? Or to fix embarrassing typos?

99 gamers found this review helpful
Supreme Commander 2

I like it

I am a sucker for RTS which play well, and this does play well. Even though the missions are partly scripted you have the change to think what to do and how to win since the triggers are rarely bound to a timer. And you can still zoom out from being close to a unit to see the complete map, something I liked about the first Supreme Commander games. You are practically not limited by resources here if you know how. The story is still the same style, being the hero switching sides. Though I am still at UEF missions the story clearly develops the same way. Why four stars? You can't remap the keyboard layout, "Space" is pause for me, but here it is "turn battlefield view" which is normally the middle mouse key. "Pause" is actual pause. If you know Autohotkey you can work around it that way. Graphically they could have done a bit more shine, higher texture resolution and HDR for a 2010 game, but the gameplay and the missions are good so far, and the tech tree has to be used differently for each mission. Both negative point are probably since Gas Powered Games was bought up by Square Enix somewhere in development, at least that's what internet rumors tell.

6 gamers found this review helpful
COVID: The Outbreak

Strange abstraction management style

Thanks to the hypocrite reviews of people who never played it I got it. That, and because it looks a bit like Defcon meets Plague Inc. After playing it: It feels like some very abstract Global Health Organization management of actions, where you can hardly guess what action or research actually has some influence. From that point it could be an old Paradox Entertainment title which are hard to get and play. If that if your playing style get it. If you expect reverse Plague inc: A bit. If you expect Defcon: No. For me this game is not my style.

178 gamers found this review helpful
Gunship!

Works, but needs tome GOG work!

ToDo for GOG: Manual. External configuration helper tool for a few setting in "custom.ini". Big warning at system requirements: Joystick recommended! Once done it will get four stars. Against other reviews here: The game works fine right out of the box here (Win10 64 bit, Ryzen 3900x Nvidia RTX card). Might require a reboot after installation since some features were activated and installed. Why only three stars? Where is the manual! I tried playing with keyboard first, but I don't know which keys since the manual is missing. I dug out my old Logitech Wingman Extreme, restarted the game and can control it now. Cannot tell yet whether full keyboard control is possible. There is an in game tutorial, or rather videos to watch which I personally hate. It is not really efficient since you cannot skip forwards and have to wait the video out. Like those youtube tutorials where you have to skip 8 minutes of useless blah blah until you get to the point. Why still three stars? The game flight model is realistic, and the difficulty as well. And the game is fair to give you Invulnerable and endless ammo options to avoid frustrations when you still learn how to control the chopper. And it works in up to 2048x1536 (old directx limitation).

54 gamers found this review helpful
The Surge 2

Works fine, nice maps, fun to play

The game is very good. With the last update fro 6th march my Vulkan crashes were gone and I played it fully through once already without a single crash. There is no minimap, which trains your orientation skill. Fortunately the maps are well made so you can indeed orient well, the areas are more diverse compared to The Surge 1. The graphics are good as well and fit to the game. All those different weapons actually feel different. It is very good designed and gets my full recommendation. But why only four stars? It is very grindy, you go through the same areas a lot to cut of (literally) new armor and resources to upgrade your stuff while trying not to die. Some of the bosses are too overpowered for me, so you may need a helper for health later on, but I recommend using it only when you cannot get forward.

5 gamers found this review helpful
Ostriv

Nice game

It feels very close to Settlers 2 and banished, but without some weirdness of banished. Take your time and pause, look, give your orders what to build. And you will fail the first mission on the first try 'cause you didn't manage to build enough houses before winter, mostly due to resource exhaustion. Though your don't actually fail, just some inhabitants will leave the settlement. The balance is good, the game is very relaxing to play, even though things are obviously missing and marked with a "will come soon". The music fits nicely to the game as well.

24 gamers found this review helpful