Danger Scavenger

Danger Scavenger

Cautiously Recommend–Feels Very Much Unfinished

Stumbled upon this a few days back, wishlisted it and bought it today on a whim really digging the music and look the game has. Sometimes you strike out, sometimes you hit paydirt. This is paydirt, a diamond in the rough that after time can be awesome.

It’s VERY rough around the edges and definitely could use lots more polish but it’s highly addictive and the fun factor is very strong if you can get past the many nuances that hold this game back from being amazing.

Real player with 17.2 hrs in game


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I’ve written a fairly neutral preview for this game on Gamer Escape, which you can find here: https://gamerescape.com/2020/06/29/preview-danger-scavenger/ . At that time, the game had just switched from being official release to Early Access to address the user feedback based on the mixed steam reivew score (At Gamer Escape we do not do scored reviews for Early Access games)

Within days, the devs for this game have already gone to work with their stated goal: Make the game more appealing to both the twin-stick shooter fans and the roguelike fans whom both had issues with how these mechanics were combined. They have added “Arcade Mode”, which removes the roguelike permadeath mechanics, but also in this mode, each character starts from a different tower, so you get more of a distinct experience with each character in this mode. While it kind of comes off as just a lowered difficulty setting, it does open the game up to a lot of people who find the punishing nature of the roguelike style more frustrating than fun.

Real player with 14.2 hrs in game

Danger Scavenger on Steam

Tom Clancy’s The Division™

Tom Clancy’s The Division™

TL;DR: PvP is terrible and allows no-lifers to prevent other players from ever acquiring gear to compete with them in Dark Zone fights.

The Review:

Let me preface this by saying I have played since first Beta. I also played the second Beta and have also played since launch. So I can give a bit more insight than some. With that, let’s get fucked.

PROS

  • Huge, well detailed city

  • Cool Concept

  • Good Customization for Character Outfit

  • First 20-30 hours are amazing

Real player with 845.4 hrs in game


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Introduction:

I haven’t played a lot of third person shooters but this game seemed to offer an unique post apocalyptic themed open world setting along with a focus on co op content which was something I was looking for.

Therefore compared to any of the not so recent Tom Clancy games I remember playing I had some more expectations from this modern title not like I didn’t enjoy the stealth based mechanics of the previous games but this is more of a cover and shoot based game here. Lets proceed!

Real player with 830.5 hrs in game

Tom Clancy’s The Division™ on Steam

Warframe

Warframe

By looking how much time i have spent in this game, you can realise - this game, if it manages to hook you, will keep you for years.

Instead of bunch of words, i will just go straight to pros and cons.

Pros:

  1. Weaponry. Basically, you can find lots of guns of your liking by just trying them or asking people of how they work and get an idea of how they act and how good\bad they are. Well, since there are around 350 weapons available for you to pick from, you will surely find a tool of death and destruction of your own playstyle: bows and crossbows, rocket\grenade launchers, flamethrowers, machineguns, shotguns, sniper rifles and even futuristic LAZ0R guns. Basically - primary weaponry includes two-handed guns of pure murder, secondary can be either Magnum spewing thingie or just a bullet wind of two machinegun pistols, and melee… From swords, katanas and throwble disks to spears, staffs and two handed maces\axes\swords (LOTS more melee types not mentioned but existent in the game).

Real player with 6837.5 hrs in game


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Not pay to win

Before I start my review, I want to dispell this notion. Anyone who tells you this game is pay to win is wrong, or lying to you. Most of the good weapons are mastery rank locked and even if you buy things to bypass the grind, you still have to level those Warframes and weapons, you still have to play the game to grind and get mods for your weapons and Warframes to make them actually perform well in end-game content. You’re blindsiding yourself if you’re going to make the argument that this game is pay to win. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s get to the actual review.

Real player with 3993.2 hrs in game

Warframe on Steam

PixKeeper

PixKeeper

World… It always holds secrets and discoveries that we will learn. A team of ordinary guys must fight against the mighty army of evil Lord Erlion, who is going to destroy the country of these brave heroes! Immerse yourself in a voxel 2.5 D world! Together with you, you will call your loyal friends who can protect you and your Homeland at the cost of their own lives. In battle, each team member reveals new abilities that they did not know about before! You will learn what incredible passive and active skills an archer, mage, and knight can learn! For each of them, you can play separately! You will need to develop your camp alone, or with friends online! Everyone will be able to develop individual abilities, and you also need to learn the unique style of the battle tower. For the tower, you will have three development branches available: defensive, attacking, and mixed. You will be able to develop individual characteristics of the tower. As the battle progresses, your scores will be updated on the leaderboard! You have to fight against a strategically developed enemy, so you need to awaken the same strategist in yourself! Each new wave will be stronger than the previous one! You will be able to keep a list of opponents, thanks to which you will know the weaknesses of each of them! Upgrade your tower, upgrade your heroes, upgrade your strategic points! Save the kingdom from defeat!

PixKeeper on Steam

OUTRIDERS

OUTRIDERS

I like to think I’m a patient person, and I’ve waited a month to post this negative review. I honestly regret not doing it sooner. I waited because the game is genuinely fun to play, but at this point the issues are a lead weight on the other side of the scale. I can say that with 134 hours, I’ve gotten my $60 out of this game, but I had to actually “try” to get that value. By the time I was totally fed up, I was outside the refund window, so I kept going to get my money’s worth.

Pros:

1. When the game works, the gameplay is stellar. The blending of shooting and ability use throughout combat works really well. It is also visually entertaining.

Real player with 134.6 hrs in game

Ok, so the developers are being super open about problems and they just releases a 24 GB update. The game is so messed up that it needed an update 1/3 the size of the total package?

Crashes on start up. You double click your desktop icon and there is a 5 to 10 sec nothing happens. Now I had an SSD card drive that plugs in directly to my motherboard with a read speed of 2.5 gb/s. So the game starts with this beautiful graphic, a sweeping view of the game world. The the screen goes black. It stays that way until the first ad screen appears, maybe. Or it just stays black until the game loads a crash log. Which by the way adds a 340 mb file that sits on your drive every time it crashes. I cleaned out the crash dumps and there were 15.5 GB. They don’t tell you about that. Well anyway they said they fixed it, and well they were wrong.

Real player with 131.8 hrs in game

OUTRIDERS on Steam

Relic Hunters Zero: Remix

Relic Hunters Zero: Remix

with the new update, new bugs have arrived that alter gameplay. I have been a long-time fan of this game, but over the 3 games of endless I have played today with the new update, my approval rating has gone down. originally, if you or an enemy threw a grenade, it would be visible 100% of the time from throw to explosion, but now some enemy grenades thrown by ducks will become invisible land mines. I’m not sure this was intentional, but it still occurs. likewise, when a body spills out loot like bounty, ammo, and sometimes scrap, some items' icons will fly down to the bottom of the screen, dissapearing from view, but the item will still in the game, just invisible. also, grenade throwing animations have slowed significantly, and sometimes the ducans won’t even fight the kami, just sitting still until you approach. i would enjoy a fix of these bugs and maybe an increase in drop rate of the new scrap currency, because upgrades are now few and far between, making combat significantly harder.

Real player with 160.1 hrs in game

The very fact that this game is free, there is nothing stopping you from giving this game your time, and trust me, it warrants it. Do you like arcade-style gameplay? Done. Fast-paced run-n'-gun action? Absolutely. Addictive levels of replayability? Triple check. tl;dr at the bottom.

The main plot is easy enough to follow: You’re a Relic Hunter, and you hunt relics. Simple enough, right? One hitch: the asteroid you’re on is teeming with vicious wildlife and cutthroat thugs. The solution? Shoot everything that moves.

Real player with 54.7 hrs in game

Relic Hunters Zero: Remix on Steam

Shadow Warrior 2

Shadow Warrior 2

After 3 years since the remake of Shadow Warrior the developers released a second title that continues the story. Though it is not a large span of time, it is big enough to fix the problems of the original and improve its weak points to create a true full-fledged sequel. However, instead of this obvious option, the developers decided to totally change the games mechanics and gameplay, going away from classical single player shooter to some multiplayer-ish looter shooter aka progression for the sake of progression. Did they succeed? Well, sort of.

Real player with 62.3 hrs in game

“Who… wants… some… WAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNG?!” – Lo wang

Doom slayer with katana be like.

Pros

  • Gameplay

  • Graphics

  • Coop

  • Upgrades

  • Weapons

  • Weapon animations

  • Cutscenes

  • Lo Wang quotes and oneliners

  • Soundtrack

Not great, not terrible

+- Story

Cons

  • Grind

  • Repetitiveness

  • Too many upgrades/weapons

Summary

Shadow Warrior 2 is a classic FPS quake/doom style shooter, with a twist.

The gameplay overall is great, but most of the time it feels like you are just dashing all over the map.

Real player with 59.4 hrs in game

Shadow Warrior 2 on Steam

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is following the tales of Borderlands 2 and still has the characteristics of spending hours collecting loot, farming bosses and more story-based orientated compared to previous games.

7/10 would play again. (screw the oxygen)

Real player with 617.6 hrs in game

ver como jack lentamente va transformándose en handsome jack es una experiencia que en lo personal recomiendo, ademas de que puedes jugar como claptrap ¿que mas puedes pedir?

handsome jack/10

Real player with 57.0 hrs in game

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel on Steam

Borderlands 2

Borderlands 2

The game’s good but some of the shit that can happen really bites… take for example the whole of Fight for Sanctuary. Also if you are coming into the game expecting Jack to be one of the best villains of all time then you are sorely mistaken. While my initial rating may be misleading as I do think this is a true masterpiece, I should warn you that many things you hear about it are ill informed.

Real player with 313.1 hrs in game

I’m going down to South Park

Gonna have myself a time

Friendly faces everywhere

Humble folks without temptation

I’m going down to South Park

Gonna leave my woes behind

Ample parking day or night

People spouting “Howdy neighbor!”

Heading on up to South Park

Gonna see if I can’t unwind

I love girls with big fat titties

I love girls with deep vaginas

So come on down to South Park

And meet some friends of mine

Real player with 306.7 hrs in game

Borderlands 2 on Steam

Borderlands 3

Borderlands 3

Borderlands 3 is The Family Circus by way of Spencer’s Gifts, a game with long, earnest quests about how darn good coffee is punctuated by gore and gun violence. Borderlands 3 walks by dog poop, points at it, and laughs, and then sets it on fire. Borderlands 3 stays up until 11:30 pm drinking soda and googling crass Flash animations, taking detailed notes.

It’s stuck in the late ’00s, when surface level vulgarity was enough to qualify as edgy—Borderlands 3 is seriously obsessed with turds—and when the series was first conceived. It’s stuck in a time when memes lasted months rather than days, when referential humor was still a novelty and not exhausting, when you could point at something the slightest bit abnormal or gross and call it a joke. Simpler times, not necessarily better times.

Real player with 2983.2 hrs in game

Let’s talk about the positives first, the graphics as everyone would expect are a lot better, the devs managed to keep the comic/cartoony look of the past games which gave the franchise more character. The combat is faster and more chaotic, the shooting is far better and the mobility of your character is a lot smoother. The guns are better, there is more variety with cooler designs and mechanics.

Now about the negatives, oh man where do I even begin… First big oopsie, I felt that the game doesn’t care about almost any of the loved characters of the previous games. Half of the past characters appear for 1 or 2 hours (or not at all) and the other half that plays a major role are treated with no respect. Like where the fuck is claptrap?! You cant have a borderlands game without Claptrap playing a major role. The second big oopsie is the villains, they are so cringe… literally. I mean ok, everyone knew that it’s hard to compete with Hansome Jack, but these villains are so fking bad, probably the worst villains I have ever witnessed. Their character feels so forced, they tryed to make them cool with all the memes but the execution is so bad. The DLCs are a lot better than the main game and part of the reason is SPOILER the main game villains don’t appear in any of them.

Real player with 91.1 hrs in game

Borderlands 3 on Steam