Alone in the Dark: Illumination™
I heard how bad this game supposedly was. Watched very negative reviews on youtube. But something made me want to try it anyway. Got it for $5 on a steam sale and I’m happy I did.
This is not a bad game. Not a good game, But certainly not bad, I’ve played several games that were far worse this year alone. At launch it may have been bad, but it seems after some patches in the years following its release, they fixed a lot of the criticisms.
The atmosphere is pretty nice, Some spooky locations on dark stormy nights, abandoned mines or in a graveyard for example. There is a voiced narrator that adds a lot to each of the 4 characters journey. The character models were good and the levels were overall nice looking. A Few glitches. And while not a good game, it kept me wanting to play it. Each character is unique and plays differently and has their own story. I can see this game being fun as a multiplayer experience with friends but works as solo player.
– Real player with 41.4 hrs in game
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I’m going to go against the general opinion here when I say that I do recommend this game, at least, I do since the June 2016 patch.
Alone In The Dark: Illumination suffers from one major design flaw that’s caused it garner such hate from it’s audience… the fact that it’s called Alone In The Dark. Whilst I am a small fan of the AITD franchise, I am also open-minded when first playing a video game and play them without expectations or immediate judgement. Alone In The Dark this game certainly is not, as it features nothing of the tropes that the franchise normally features, what it IS though is a competant and fun third-person horror/action game.
– Real player with 21.1 hrs in game
Watch_Dogs® 2
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– Real player with 360.9 hrs in game
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Great game but has a really short (also a good one) story if you skip most part of the secondary activities.
I really enjoyed the graphics and travelling around San Francisco while having some very good memories from San Fierro’s times of GTA San Andreas.
80% off at the moment of this review so GO GET THIS GAME!
– Real player with 85.8 hrs in game
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III
Campaign: An interesting attempt at something different storywise late into things, but starts off poorly and isn’t really fun to play at any point. Pass.
Multiplayer: Decent enough weapons balance and perkset, but the overreliance on Specialists and their abilities is grating, and the fact that a CRAZY amount of weapons are locked away behind lootboxes sits really poorly. Pass.
Nightmares: HAHAHAHAHA no. Pass.
Zombies: Five fantastic original maps, nine incredible remakes, and an endless assortment of custom maps… All with the most fantastic movement mechanics, perk balance and weaponsets you could ever want. Let’s face it - this is the Zombies game. Everything else about this game may be trash, but as a hub to play a HUGE chunk of the best Zombies content that Treyarch has to offer, Black Ops 3 really delivers.
– Real player with 407.3 hrs in game
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Black Ops III. I have mainly only played the zombies of it, but i have enjoyed the hell out of it, especially the custom maps. Even if this game didnt have custom map support, it would still be really fun.
DISCLAIMER: This ranking is pretty much only for zombies, but some things (Grind, Audience, Gametime etc) are also transferable.
Gameplay-
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Graphics-
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Audio
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– Real player with 168.8 hrs in game
Worm.is: The Game
Though the game can in fact be a little addictive, the seemingly simple core gameplay (which is a slither.io clone, or imagine the old school Snake with multiplayer if you’ve never played slither.io) ends up coming down to who is willing to shell out money for the best gear if you want to genuinely play competitvely. That’s not to say it’s pay to win, because some good moves and being in the right place at the right time can and will get you places, but it’s always going to be a very short lived triumph without the gear to back it up. You CAN earn the ingame currency through playing, but the majority of the daily quests they hand out are for game modes that are veritable ghost towns, so unless you’re willing to grind away in this fashion for months on end, you aren’t going to get past around mid-tier gear. Couple this with some very questionable hit detection and lag spikes that will cause you to freeze up for a few seconds and then shoot very rapidly in whichever direction you happened to be facing when the lag hit (often directly into a wall or another worm) and I really can’t give this game a thumbs up. It’s free to play though, so if you’re just really bored, no harm in giving it a go, I suppose.
– Real player with 29.7 hrs in game
This is a bad copy of a bad clone of a horrible game. Not only does the music in this game distract you from enjoying any little bit of possible glimmer of home this game has, but serious flaws in the games logistics keep the simplest benefits from being benefits.
For example-
Add free for all for random fun….except for 10 out of the 30 players are teamed up and working together as a team, and make it impossible to play.
Fix this by adding team play - except this is where people go to get away from the free for all, so they dont play as teams. They play to get exp to have a chance plater in the free for all.
– Real player with 25.0 hrs in game
The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame
This LEGO game is not like the others. Whether this change is for the better, it is hard to say as there are certainly pros and cons to each style of game. This installment focuses more on open-world aspects rather than the episodic nature that its predecessors provided. Players are sent to various different planets (levels) to collect master bricks that progress the narrative forward with the help of a number of different tools to solve each planets puzzles (paint wand, grapple gun, power fists, etc). Players must also use build-ables (trampolines, sprinklers, generators, etc.) to traverse the planets using bricks the player collects from destroying the environment. This provides players with a greater sense of control when deciding where to go next and how to tackle problems. However, it still falls into the same trap as previous games in that certain puzzles can only be solved by progress further in the story and ultimately completing it. This means that players must still redo every level over again if they want to achieve that 100% goal. Not that surprising given the rest of the LEGO games but annoying none the less. Additionally, the story relates vaguely to that of the movie it is based off of. It uses the same characters, but fails to follow the narrative established in the film even changing core plot points to fit the games design. This led to a significant disconnect between gameplay elements and the overall story-arc. In the end, I did 100% this LEGO game, as I always do, and I did enjoy it more than the aging gameplay mechanics that previous installments have provided; however, this style of LEGO game needs a little more work before I will be fully on-board with it.
– Real player with 32.1 hrs in game
The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame is not a typical Lego Game, its more like, when Lego Worlds was in EA (Early Access) but with The LEGO Movie 2 elements, like Characters, Worlds and Buildlings.
Controlls are better and this time also keyboard friendly. It works a bit like in Lego Worlds but simpler.
You have a lot of Quests to do, they are very simple so that even smaller childs could do it. With every Quest you complete you can get prints for buildings, a lila stone (on other Lego Games they where golden or red) or some items that need a shop to open it. (bad tongues would say “a few typs of loot boxes” but you cant buy them with real money ^^). The last reward can also be found with golden chests you find by explore the map.
– Real player with 25.3 hrs in game
Blood and Bacon
Just a Classic game and I really love this Holdout game ever.
Plus exploring things. (Including space moon)
– Real player with 27.1 hrs in game
ODAY it seems to me providential that Fate should have chosen Braunau on the Inn as my birthplace. For this little town lies on the boundary between two German states which we of the younger generation at least have made it our life work to reunite by every means at our disposal.
German-Austria must return to the great German mother country, and not because of any economic considerations. No, and again no: even if such a union were unimportant from an economic point of view; yes, even if it were harmful, it must nevertheless take place. One blood demands one Reich. Never will the German nation possess the moral right to engage in colonial politics until, at least, it embraces its own sons within a single state. Only when the Reich borders include the very last German, but can no longer guarantee his daily bread, will the moral right to acquire foreign soil arise from the distress of our own people. Their sword will become our plow, and from the tears of war the daily bread of future generations will grow. And so this little city on the border seems to me the symbol of a great mission. And in another respect as well, it looms as an admonition to the present day. More than a hundred years ago, this insignificant place had the distinction of being immortalized in the annals at least of German history, for it was the scene of a tragic catastrophe which gripped the entire German nation. At the time of our fatherland’s deepest humiliation, Johannes Palm of Nuremberg, burgher, bookseller, uncompromising nationalist and French hater, died there for the Germany which he loved so passionately even in her misfortune. He had stubbornly refused to denounce his accomplices who were in fact his superiors. In thus he resembled Leo Schlageter. And like him, he was denounced to the French by a representative of his government An Augsburg police chief won this unenviable fame, thus furnishing an example for our modern German officials in Herr Severing’s Reich.
– Real player with 20.5 hrs in game
Hide and Shriek
Let me dispel some common criticisms:
-Nobody plays this game anymore
This is a halloween-themed game, so yes, for those of you complaining in June that nobody plays this game, jump in around October and you’ll get plenty of games in.
-No updates
Fuck off, this game was perfect the first time and does not need “updates”, this isn’t League of Legends
-Only one map
See above. Also, this was meant to be picked up one time a year. One map is plenty. I have a feeling the people who complain about there only being one map are the same people who only play Final Destination on Smash.
– Real player with 74.7 hrs in game
tl;dr version: Is this the kind of game you’ll play for ages and have ranked tournaments with months from now? No. Is it $5 worth of Halloween entertainment for the next month or so? Absolutely!
Hide and Shriek is a very well balanced 1v1 scarematch game where you have to either outscore or outscare (or ideally both) your opponent. The fact that resources are randomly distributed - even the runes you use to craft spells are randomly chosen at the start of the match - means that there’s no one preferred location or ideal loadout you can use. Having to continually scramble about looking for resources and never quite having the right spell components in place keeps it from being too comfortable at any point. (It is admittedly true that sometimes the RNG blesses you with abundant resources of exactly the right kind for your strategy but you can never count on this being true.)
– Real player with 16.5 hrs in game
Evil Cult
Evil Cult gives the player control over a Cult which tries to take over key figures in society to spread its influence and complete the Final Ritual, before any of the competing cults.
Generators generate resources, making them an obvious prime target for expansion, yet the easier (cheaper) to influence Adepts increase the probability of gathering Virgins, which serve as resource wildcards and are of course necessary for rituals as a sacrifice.
Sects within the cult allow for some optional micro-management. However, the player’s attention is mainly directed at the expansion on the map, resource balance, and awareness of the Investigator.
– Real player with 15.9 hrs in game
This game represents a very niche and rare computer game genre: the cult simulator. There are only two games I know of in this genre: 1. Evil Cult, and 2. Cults and Daggers, which is also available on Steam. This game has great potential, and is being improved with expansion sets. I highly recommend this game, which also has an excellent soundtrack.
– Real player with 13.1 hrs in game
Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare - Gold Edition
I was going to recommend this game initially, but one month after release and the developers seem to have gone silent on us, no more updates or messages on the steam community. I am going to split this review into two parts, single player and multi player and talk about the pros and cons. Here we go:
The Single-player campaign - Length: 6-7 hours - Difficulty: Average ( I played about 8 hours of it )
So we get another typical cod campaign, the story is great, altho not at the same level as Black Ops 2 was, your choices do not impact the ending, in fact the campaign is preety much all linear. Graphics are the best the franchise has ever seen, and so are the audio effects, also gameplay has been refined to be extremely fast paced and enjoyable. Kevin Spacey’s performance is incredible, at some points the engine is struggling to keep up with his performance, making you wish Sledgehammer would have used live action cutscenes instead of CGI. The campaign is overall a great experience, if not a bit too short, they could have expanded on it and made it longer, it has some plot holes and rushed moments.
– Real player with 18.4 hrs in game
(TL;DR can be found at the end of the review)
Call of the annual Duty - Underdeveloped Lagfare
I’ve been a huge fan of the Call of Duty franchise when Modern Warfare hit the stores. For years I’ve been playing pretty much nothing else and dumped hundreds, if not thousands of hours into it. I also played Modern Warfare 2 & 3 but it wasn’t the same for obvious reasons. Since then I wanted to buy another CoD that could bring back the nostalgia. Then Advanced Warfare comes along and actually gets a lot of good reviews and I get curios: Another studio, a longer delevopement time and fast dropping prices.
– Real player with 14.7 hrs in game
Genital Jousting
Do you still have some friends left despite your quirks and strange interests? Well we can fix that right quick! Invite your friends and family over for some local co-op. Guaranteed to make people look at you differently during and forever after playing. Say things to your loved ones like “Get out of my butt!”, “Quick, get in my butt!”, or “Block your sister from scoring with her butt.” You won’t realize how sexual the thing you said was until it comes out, because there is no other way to describe what happens in this game.
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
The Greatest Sausage Party Ever
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The concept is both shocking and hilarious. You play as a sausage and compete against other sausages in ridiculous mini games.
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Gameplay is extremely entertaining. Each event is very short, normally under 30seconds which reminds me a bit of the minigames in Mario Party or Wario Ware.
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Extremely Graphic… you will be penetrating butts, shooting splooge, flopping around, touching tips, tying knots, and sticking your joystick in places you never thought possible.
– Real player with 4.4 hrs in game