At first glance, it looks really cute and fluffy thanks to the art style, and some of the early battles are really easy, but as the game goes on (and especially at higher difficulties), things get much MUCH more difficult, to the point where you can expect to lose pretty much every battle if you don't have a solid party. This is not a gripe - this actually saves the game for me, since it keeps things from feeling played out after you get comfortable with the way the mechanics work. Everything feels super polished and well-made. Game's smooth, looks great, and WILL surprise you if you get into it and stick with it to the end of the harder campaigns. Get it, play it, you won't regret it.
One of my favorite games - it's a really brutal survival sim, very inventive and full of endless hours of gameplay (seriously, if you like the game it is an endless experience). It's focused on management of your citizens, their bases, and dealing with situations and conditions that affect your colony. As apposed to controlling one or a group of characters, you control the faction, and the game keeps going as long as just one citizen is alive, meaning that all your characters are temporary and there can be alot of changes in terms of battles. Characters are unique, with skills, backgrounds, ages, working differently, fight differently, and have personality quirks that can be good and bad (such as the damn pyromaniac citizens always burning down my wooden bases for kicks). It's kind of like the sims, with a more intense focus, since the fighting and wounds can be really vicious, and all your people can die and the game will keep going, and often there will be conflict and violence. There will often be relaxing moments too, and drama, and art, since your citizens are needy and will get pissed off if conditions suck. They'll chat with each other, form relationships, and other things. The controls are a challenge when starting, getting used to how everything works is hard, though it's a really a great experience. You will get so sucked in. And the game is pretty tough, the A.I. has improved alot since the earlier versions, meaning situations are more diverse. Examples: - The biggest gang i've had is about 20 people plus half that in animals, with a huge farm - game with 5 colonists who all had missing leg limbs, making it very hard moving to another base, armed with heavy weapons - Nomadic trade caravan setup w/ animals, selling wares and doing mercenary work - Snow terrain mountain gang in drunkard's refuge (the game chose that name), with pack of huskies (in the winter the dogs dined on the bodies of raider gangs that came to steal from us) - Island life
If you start from nothing this version can be pretty brutal - you either have, or have not and get slaughtered, but once you get a little band together and have good skills you can do alright Different from warband, in that it's less technological. Not so many bows and arrows on the field or horses, meaning A.I. uses tighter infantry formations and close-range javelins and such alot more. Can work really well at some points, and be totally busted another minute. Then again, it's warband so it's pretty much an essential buy in my book. If you find a good trade route selling wares you can build up your character and thrive - actually surviving to the point you have a good band is really rewarding in this version, since it's kind of hard to do if you start from a common background. Alternatively, starting from a clan leader and stuff like that is good for roleplaying. Pros Era-specific setting Pre-bow and arrow combat Realism More Warband Cons Challenging, and at times annoying to lose at Pre-bow and arrow combat (sometimes gets boring) Challenging starting game
An absolute hidden gem Part driving sim, part beat-em-up, part story, an open-world extravaganza Great aesthetics, good meaty gameplay Story is kind of weird, but it's a wasteland so it's excusable Play it like an arcade game and you can't go wrong Play it like it's GTA and you miiight be disappointed
It's a pirate RPG in the carribean that goes into a huuuuuge range of genres, and has alot of strange things that can happen to your character throughout the course of a game (like getting marooned on an island by your crew, or sacking enemy ships under a privateer's license for the British). I played it as a tween and it was the best. Look, it's been like a decade since I played this jem and I feel inclined to write a review just from seeing the title. If your a strategy gamer and never played it, it's probably worth AT LEAST hours of fun nowadays.
Never played a homeworld game until now. Excellent, Excellent Excellent. Best Artwork and Storyline for a game that I've played in a long time (not often nowadays I want to play a game's single player campaign just to find out what happens in the story) The first levels where the three-dimensionless of the battles gets introduced are like 'huh this is amazing, I bet this game is gonna get pretty tactical." But how far could that really go? Especially for an older game? And then you take on the first fleet and you realize that it's true what they say - they just don't make them RTS games like they used'ta. Absolute mayhem. And challenging gameplay. Basically, it's Ender's Game.
Have been hoping that Bannerlord would move to other platforms, especially GOG seeing this is a dream to be honest, I bought it immediately Will be back to give the review
This game. It is a brutal survival simulator 'experiment,' and is super raw in terms of today's very fluffy game experience standards. I've played the demo for maybe 5hrs and just bought the game for 20 during the sale, it seems well worth it by this point. If final fantasy as an RPG is Windows, then Kenshi as an RPG is Linux. Feels like the game that Planesacpe: Torment's developers would dream about playing. Also, it feels more like your using developer tools than most games, able to manipulate the camera so much in these huge vast landscapes, which I appreciate. The player, for all intensive purposes, becomes the director of their own apocalypse film. Oh, and it's a brutal as hell movie, to be sure. Definitely a game for those wanting a different take on the wasteland then other franchises have been delivering, a more hardcore experience. The game is super gritty. My first character lasted a good few weeks before being bled out on the sands, pecked to death by mutant bird-creatures. This was while fleeing slavers with my friend, heading through the countryside. My friend could have gotten away, but I had him be a hero, double back to try and draw the birds off. He got eaten alive. No room for sympathy in the wastes. Second character (because my first one DIED, and fast) saw an ally becoming crippled from a (series of) fights, and we had no splints, and were in the middle of nowheres. You can still crawl when crippled. My other character could walk. Do I leave them to crawl, or carry them? I ended up carrying the wounded ally and all the goods we collected night and day, and through this my character's strength and athletics became amazingly high - so high that when a gang of bandits tried to ambush us and he dropped everything (including his friend) and ran, the bandits couldn't catch a thing. Just another day in the wasteland. I would highly recommend playing the demo, to get a feel for the game style, since it's quite...unique.
Played this as a kid, always loved star wars. Wanted to replay it now in 2020 - I gotta say, it really sucked me back in, played through the the whole thing, loved the content, has great writing, great voice acting and for any star wars fans this is a must-have that expands on the source material into earlier eras that are largely unfamiliar for the films (currently). One of the better (if not best) Star Wars games out there. Plus there's a sequel.
I still never found him. The sniper. The sniper in the milkman level. (mutters something incoherent about needing to buy the game again)
