Fallout 4
It’s fun if you like games where you build, complete achievements, and grow from a weakling where the mosquitoes and cockroaches murder you to a nearly invincible engine of death. You also go from a player character where every wicked and ungrateful NPC hates you and tries to get you killed, to a player character where every wicked and ungrateful NPC keeps their mouth shut.
In this game, you play a character who has emotional boundary issues and allows himself/herself to be used by every wicked person in the game who is too cowardly to fight their own battles, has profound ingratitude (Thanks for risking your life in deadly battle with all those crabs and monsters. Have a mutated plum and we will now expect you to defend us from now on).
– Real player with 1219.0 hrs in game
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If you know me then you know what I have to say. Great game, tons of replayability even without mods, native mod support exponentially increases that. 500+ hours on steam plus time on XBox clears 1000 hours played easily, so I’ve played it a fair enough bit to recognize shortcomings but also acknowledge that they can be fixed and looked past for a great experience. Community is wonderful, as long as you don’t happen to run into people with overly strong opinions against certain games/companies in the franchise.
– Real player with 500.1 hrs in game
Fallout 3
Fallout 3 isn’t just a game, It’s an experience.
Wow, since I’am getting so many thumbs up, I feel I should write something useful about this game and why I personally recommend it.
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One big continuous open world. Loading screens appear only when entering major cities or buildings.
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Very atmospheric and immersive world to explore.
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Every NPC’s are really living in that world. They follow their own daily routine from morning to night. You’ll meet them, talk to them and even remember their names.
– Real player with 405.5 hrs in game
Read More: Best Open World Singleplayer Games.
I am going to start this review with controversy. Of the Fallout series I think Fallout 3 is the best of them. Now before you start flaming me over the fact your prefer Fallout: New Vegas or Fallout 1 for instance, let me try and explain this.
Fallout 1 & 2 remain good classics, that must be played by any fan of the later Fallouts, if only for the feel of it for the moment. The first Fallouts had the best incentive to go away from the safety of community, because either your vault or your tribe was in danger - both of them showing much of Fallout world. However, that said although I enjoy pixelated games… they are pixalated games and some of the tactic options are for the time excellent, but now outdated.
– Real player with 282.3 hrs in game
Fallout: New Vegas
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn’t have too much to say
No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip
For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around
He’s an outlaw loose and running, came the whisper from each lip
And he’s here to do some business with the big iron on his hip
– Real player with 167.6 hrs in game
Read More: Best Open World Singleplayer Games.
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– Real player with 118.3 hrs in game
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
Quick Review
Although I consider Fallout New Vegas to be superior in most if not all ways to Fallout 3, I still prefer it over the “better version” due to a simple yet enjoyable story, plenty of content, entertaining stories and very impressive and depressing locations, filled with death, despair and also teddy bears in compromising positions. Beware of the insane number of bugs (even in the GOTY edition) and crashes due to Bethesda being Bethesda.
- Played only Vanilla, with mods the experience can be drastically improved -
– Real player with 68.2 hrs in game
❤ Audience ❤
☑ Beginner
☑ Casual
☑ Hardcore
☼ Graphics ☼
☐ Bad
☑ Alright
☐ Good
☐ Beautiful
☐ Fantastic
♬ Music ♬
☐ Bad
☐ Alright
☑ Good
☐ Beautiful
☐ Fantastic
☠ Difficulty ☠
☑ Easy
☐ Average
☐ Challenging
☐ Hard
☐ Brutal
§ Bugs §
☐ Bugs make the game almost unplayable
☐ Lots of bugs
☑ Few bugs
☐ Insignificant or contains humorous glitches
☐ None encountered during normal gameplay
☯ Story ☯
☐ There is none
☐ Bad
☐ Alright
☐ Good
☑ Fantastic
⚔ Gameplay ⚔
☐ Frustrating
☐ Repetitive
☐ Boring
– Real player with 45.0 hrs in game
Metro Exodus
Full of atmosphere, good guitar play, story line, feelings…
Seems like you need to have a taste of life; feel a bite of life… Some life EXPERIENCE to dive deeply into the storyline and feel the things in the most proper way…
Not sure if this will be a spoiler, but here is the link for one of the guitar songs in the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAxRWiV29k0
Seems like English-speaking people are amazed with the song and the game itself, and it’s a pleasure to know this. And same for the people from the former CIS who can dive into many CIS-specific things, meanings, machinery - subway itself! (and have some exodus:) ) - and so on and so on.
– Real player with 73.6 hrs in game
Game-breaking freeze/crash bug in or around the fourth chapter (at a lighthouse) effecting a wide number of players, they’ve had years of complaints and they haven’t bothered to patch it, instead releasing an “enhanced edition” that looks like turd salad with ramped-up system requirements.
Linear game-play in a pseudo-“open world” (compartmentalized into regions/chapters) environment where a blind man could see the puerile “plot twists” coming, even though the B-movie comic book characters cannot. Yes, I’m talking about the cannibals thing.
– Real player with 73.4 hrs in game
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has changed dramatically after the second massive explosion in year 2006. Violent mutants, deadly anomalies, warring factions have made the Zone a very tough place to survive. Nevertheless, artifacts of unbelievable value attracted many people called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who entered the Zone for their own risk striving to make a fortune out of it or even to find the Truth concealed in the Heart of Chernobyl.
EPIC NONLINEAR STORY IN SEAMLESS OPEN WORLD
Take over a role of the lone stalker and explore photorealistic seamless open world in a 64-km² radioactive zone with a variety of environments that reveal post-apocalyptic atmosphere from different angles. Make your way through the Zone to define your destiny as you choose your paths within highly branching epic story.
VARIETY OF ENEMIES AND HUNDREDS OF WEAPON COMBINATIONS
Meet members of different factions deciding who of them worth your friendship and who deserve a bullet. Engage intense gunfights with a variety of enemies that follow different tactics trying to outsmart you. Choose your preferable firearms from 30+ types of weapons with numerous modifications that allow creating hundreds of distinctive lethal combinations.
LEGENDARY MUTANTS WITH DIFFERENT BEHAVIOUR MODELS
Prepare to encounter horrifying mutated creatures that will try to slaughter you following different behaviour model. Each mutant may appear in different subtypes which makes their behaviour less predictible. Truly extreme danger represent regions with lairs with numerous mutants hunting in large groups.
ARTIFACTS OF INCREDIBLE VALUE AND UNFORGIVING ANOMALIES
The most valuable artifacts and secrets of the Zone are hidden in the most dangerous places. Beware of the hazardous anomalies and unique devastating arch-anomalies as you hunt for highly valuable artifacts scattered around the Zone. Will you dare to unveil the mysteries of the Zone that took lives of many others before you?
Discover legendary S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe and experience:
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Unique gameplay built on a blend of FPS, horror and immersive sim
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Non-linear story with the variety of paths that lead to one of the several endings
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Benchmark-setting graphics developed using cutting-edge photogrammetric and scanning technologies
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Advanced artificial intelligence systems that will keep engaged even the most hard-boiled players
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Life-simulating system “A-life 2.0” that makes the game world feel alive as never before
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Immersive survival mechanics like hunger, sleeping, bleeding, radiation effects that enrich the gameplay
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Dynamic day-night cycle and weather will add even more realism to the gameplay experience
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Mod support giving the freedom to the creative players to extend and enrich the game universe
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Multiplayer mode, that will be added soon after release as a free update
GOOD HUNTING, STALKER!
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
Now, Part 2 of the revisions. To recap after the 1st stalker game revision….this is based on the vanilla experience.
Ah, the prequel. Also, the game that the stalker community thought was forgettable. Me? I personally LOVED this game. Sure, it’s missing a few things….namely hunger, and an all-around creepiness with some of the environments. But to counter, this game introduced some features that proved to be worthwhile; for instance, the weapon and armor upgrades and repair. Do the weapons and armor still degrade? Yes, but now you can enhance them with more armor plates, flex the durability, and even add protection against anomalies. It’s needed because if you ask me, this is the hardest of the 3 stalker games. Just as is with the first game, once you get to a certain point, there’s no turning back. So, be prepared for ANY situation again.
– Real player with 432.6 hrs in game
This classic game works great in Linux with using a proton 3.16 but you have to make some tweaks to fix fullscreen/window issues:
1. set launch option PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command% in game’s properties
2. launch protontricks 20510 vd=1920x1080 windowmanagerdecorated=n windowmanagermanaged=n with your screen resolution to place the game in special borderless window
Game is good, it has a good story, but there are many unresolved bugs:
- to fix bug with USB flash drive I was obliged to unpack game’s resources and manually edit a script to add quest item into the inventory. This is the shame for devs! howto
– Real player with 54.7 hrs in game
Days Gone
Finished my first 100% play-through at 110 hours because I took my time, but haven’t done the extra challenges yet with some interesting rewards. With my ancient Intel CPU and mid tier GPU, my game ran fine at Very High settings, with some occasional drops on some specific locations but tolerable, I’d say this port is very well done.
Story wise it’s okay, everything came into conclusion in the end but you’ll have a feeling that it just ended abruptly. Also, the story is much less darker than Last of Us and feels like a cheesy Hollywood movie. There will be a sense of accomplishment and major twists in the end, it felt like I was watching a tv series with some character development with specific characters, there are other interesting characters which they didn’t build up which felt like a lost opportunity.
– Real player with 110.7 hrs in game
Days Gone Review
After reading and hearing many mixed reviews for Days Gone, I decided to give it a try, as someone who usually enjoys open world gameplay. And suprisingly, I was not disappointed.
Story Synopsis
The story is definitely the strong suit of the game, but it needs a while to pick up the pace and gradually introduce characters. The player takes on the role of Deacon St.John, a member of the Mongrels MC in Farewell, Oregon who at the beginning of a Zombie Apocalypse, tries to flee his hometown with his wife Sarah and club buddy Boozer, while the general population is in total disarray and panicking. He is seperated from his wife after she is being wounded and puts her onto a evacuation helicopter of the NERO organisation and the game fast-forwards to several months later. Deacon and Boozer are now so-called “Drifters”, free-agents that travel between the various outposts of humanity in the region and do jobs for them, like bounty hunting and supply runs.
– Real player with 73.8 hrs in game
Drive 4 Survival
Promising but heavy on the shooting
Very Early Access at time of writing, so understand that it’s a little rough around the edges, but zero crashes. It’s easy to pick up and play, and a strong showing this early into access.
Did I want another Open World Survival Craft game? I wasn’t sure I wanted to learn another set of you know leveling, currencies, crafting stations… with different graphics. But I got it for the driving and building, which is easy and nice. It looks as if there are plans to make this a little more involved and deeper.
– Real player with 68.9 hrs in game
So what do we have here another EA open world survival game? Ok I’ll admit I’m a bit obsessed with the genre. What’s interesting here is your vehicle is ultimately the center piece or your main tool for survival. As a gearhead, mechanic and a MadMax fan this is something I’ve wanted to see happen for a while. I can see being the hardcore survival game I so wanted the MadMax game to be. So you have some pretty interesting features, there forest maps that have temperate climates but the main map is a frozen wasteland similar to The Long Dark and your vehicle is your main source of warmth. The engine heats up as you drive keeping you warm I don’t know if the engine can overheat yet but that would be a cool feature. Of course you’ll need gasoline to keep it running as well as water and food to keep your character running. The game has a cool way of carrying and transferring liquids you will need bottles or jerry cans whether it’s gas or water. For instance if you find a fuel barrel you will need to equip a jerry can walk up to the barrel and press a button to fill the can, you can also dump the contents of your jerry can into the barrel. Same if you want to consolidate liquids in your inventory you will have to drop one container and equip the other to move the liquids. Might seem like too much busy work to some but I like these kinds of details. You’ll have initially repair your vehicle when you get it with scrap and parts and this is how will maintain it. Human enemies have their own vehicles as well and you can drive them, you can also apparently collect other vehicles though I don’t know how yet. There is some base building and outposts that have to be found and repaired though I haven’t really got into that yet besides building my first garage and a campfire. There seems to be no map and you will need to have an actual compass in your inventory for it to show on your hud. For how early access this game is the vehicle handling is pretty good even with the keyboard it’s fun to drive. You get a 4X4 Camaro which is pretty BA if you ask me and it’s pretty capable vehicle. The game also has a pretty cool feature where radios in the game, the car radio and radios at bases and some POIs connect to a rather large list of real internet radio staions. A bit of everything from 70s dance to modern rock. I’ll say there is something fun about being chased by Hot Rodding bandits in an arctic wasteland while listening to Diana Ross “I’m coming out” that I think Fallout fans will understand. There is also another feature where when your “fatigue meter”(that’s what I call it anyway) runs out and your character will pass out right were you stand, or drive. I once had it happen while I was driving across a bridge and my character fell asleep at the wheel and drove off the bridge to his death which I thought was funny. The cold affects this meter as well as fighting and sprinting, and it was bit excessive at first but the devs responded quickly to feedback and have already balanced it and many other features to make it more manageable. Now on to the combat. This is very basic at this point, you’ll find yourself fighting wolves, bears, zombies, and human raider/bandit types. The 2 aforementioned animals are arguably the most decent. Decent animated, decent AI. They will actually fight each other if the haven’t noticed you yet. I’ll often come across bears fighting packs of wolves which is cool. Zombies are zombies pretty basic. Bandits are definitely the most janky at this point but not really in really bad way just animations are kind of weird. There ar only a handful of weapons and tools at this point so far I’ve seen and used the axe in both stone and metal versions, similarly the pickaxe. Then you can craft a wodden club and I found a version with nails. So far only 2 firearms a pistol and rifle both using the same pistol ammo and a hit scanning insta kill crossbow. Well everything except bears are insta kill with the crossbow. The bow and pistol are animated ok but the rifle is bolt action yet uses a pump action animation. Doesn’t seem to be locational damage but I may be wrong. This is definitely the weakest part of the game right now but it’s not terrible, again this is very early access and it’s also not the major focus so if that is a problem for you then maybe this isn’t the right game at the moment for you. The name of the game is “Drive” 4 Survival not “Fight” 4 Survival. However the devs seem very active as of writing this the devs have already put out like 5 or 6 updates, hotfixes and even rebalances based on player feedback and its only been out a few days. I was actually watching a Youtuber livestream and the dev jumped into the chat to get feedback and also give tips to the streamer. So they seem active in the community. Only time will tell but I do see a lot of potential here for a vehicular based openworld survival game and if that tickles your fancy like me give it a try.
– Real player with 47.8 hrs in game
Fallout 4 VR
I really love fallout games. this game was probably one of the reasons I bought quest 2. I am playing with air link to have wireless experience. game is good but Bethesda did not put alot of effort to make it great. I can really play only games that has depth. Thats why even if original game itself is ok, due to its depth, lore, huge world and RPG elements, game becomes must play for me. Luckily there are AMAZING mods that you can actually download and make this game GREAT! Basically my review score for original game ONLY is OK, but game + mods are must have!
– Real player with 74.6 hrs in game
TIP: Reach through locked objects and grab loot. It’s a cheese, but I grabbed cryolator on the way out of the vault at the beginning of the game :) You’re welcome.
VR: I have an Oculus Rift S and the game plays fine on it so far. Some of the complaints, many have had early on in release of this game, seem to have been fixed. I haven’t had to do anything special to use the game.
– Real player with 47.2 hrs in game