Senaste recensioner av Diamond💎

This game came out when concepts spoke louder than words. The idea of being hunted while AI mercilessly follows in your wake, hounds hunting in your footprints wake was a huge selling point even though there was not enough resources in the world to make a game that intricate and advanced. Given the eleven year gap from when I played this first and how it plays now, it's nothing you haven't seen a thousand times by now. Ai shows up in towns when you're nearby, they patrol, you search generic assets for items and eat food to keep going. Would've been very exciting to see this evolve into an IP or another spiritual successor, but what we got what we got and now what we got is outdated and quaint. 5/10. A better price reflecting the age of this game would've brought it to a 6.

When the orange box was announced, it was like hearing lightning in the middle of the night. As it got closer, me and my friends obsessed over which class would fit us and who'd we'd main. When that conversation got dull we'd start talking about who our second main would be. I wrote comics about the adventures we'd have and the games we'd play. Overwhelming victories, last minute reversals, spies sapping a sentry just in time so a medic could ubercharge and finish the fight. The lightning so close it was like a battle drum. Running over to the electronics store a month early just in case some poor worker put the game up for sale early.

Friendships started and ended over TF2. The classes I thought I'd main got old and new obsessions came out. Just when things felt routine BAM! New maps, events and changes. BAM! Items that change how every class plays or even the rhythm of the games played BAM! Cosmetics... (Well... that one took some time to get used to). It felt like electricity every time I thought about playing. The craziest part was that the crackle and life from every strike of electricity was just as powerful as the one I remembered before.

When the lightning died, it was heard from further and further away. The time between strikes counted to months, then years, then a decade. I never knew how to review this game with that feeling so far gone. I mean, do you write a review from the perspective of your first play? Your last? How do you write something that changes you from a perspective where you've already changed and that person is long gone.

All I know is that I'd do anything to hear that lightning again.

10/10 - Even today nothing comes close to the design, fun and content this game brings. Few opinions could ever be universally correct and this is one of them: TF2 is one of the best online shooters ever made.

You can mod this game to play TimeSplitters 2 HD. I have no opinions on Homefront.

Deepsilver was kinda cool while they lasted tho, eh?

Very surprised how well this holds up, especially since stealth has moved far away from this slower-paced classic. Only remaining annoyance were some weird key-binds and forced full screen/resolutions. Conquering a system where you're ham-stringed in every way during combat just feels good when you start tearing through these levels and making the auto-aim AI look foolish. Rare example of how a gameplay loop and mechanics build immersion and the immersion comes right back to improve the gameplay loop. Maybe it's not a case of the industry moving on from slow, methodical stealth and realizing it'll never be this good again.

8/10 - Clunk, cheesy, but still a timeless classic with a lot of fun lessons to teach.

I think enough variants and copycats have come out where the content and replayability of the original have become a little bland over time. Still good. Just not the auto-shooter I'd recommend to newcomers anymore. Tried a few of the DLCs and kind of felt the same way. Let me know if there's one that makes it better.

6/10 - Art and attention to detail is amazing. Unfortunately long-term content is lacking.

God this game holds up so well. Hard to think about what we gave up for an 'esports ready sequel,' without revisiting this gem every once and a while. Custom maps still go super hard, the culture is still unfiltered and wild, and you never know what kind of experience you're going to get until you're deep in it. This is the 'them' in 'they just dont make them how they used to."

10/10 - For cultural impact, simplicity of design/balance, implementation of mods and a community that will go down in history. I feel like any criticism would be more directed at the design of the time of that era and less so against the actual design behind the game.

I've played this game enough times on mobile and steam to give a fair review. Good time waster, no matter your reaction time the game scales to give you a fair challenge. So replay-ability for a faster speed run is always on the table. Kills time well, makes your neurons fire off when you get a large combo, and you're always upgrading something or unlocking something. I'd recommend it on mobile more, but if you need a solitaire replacement to kill time this is a great option. 5/10.

On my goal to review every game in my 1000+ library. I'm going to make this one super simple. It's not an idle game, you actively have to play in order to get materials. You'll spend most of the beginning thinking "I wonder when the game starts," then realize two hours in that this is the game. No hate against the dev, happy you scored this awesome deal with Humble. But content with any cohesion to the whole is not value, it's a toy box. And I'm too old to be playing with toys. Love the art and assets, but the gameplay loop had me grinding my teeth. Fighting off thoughts of "Wow, this is how game addiction happens, I'm just playing until a level up screen flashes in front of my eyes." as apposed to "wow, this is so fun, I wonder what happens next." Looking forward to your next project, this just aint it. 4/10

Didn't age well; screen-shake is nauseating, no FOV slider, map colliders will yeet you around and just block you, bullets will show hit-reg icon but won't register. You have to have some pretty serious nostalgia to push past the discomfort this game gives.

1. You can go into this game if it's your first Metal Gear game.
2. It won't make a ton of sense, but it's because the story is incomplete and super spotty due to Konami pulling the plug early. The actual ending is missing sadly.
3. (IMHO) Spoil the ending, the main character becomes a lot more interesting when the ending gives some actual context to a pretty empty story.
4. Have fun, don't go 100% stealth. Embrace the chaos.
5. Save the base multiplayer for the ending. There's still people playing and they will steal everything you have if you keep poking hornets nests.