Recent reviews by Dragnulls

This game is deader than the fish buried in my backyard roughly 12 years ago. Seriously, why are people still playing this? There are far better options nowadays. I wish I could refund my permanent gold pass (that ship sailed several years ago). I sold off all my items for this game around a year ago to try and salvage any money I could get from it. This game was good a decade ago before I had an actual PC capable of playing games (unless you count a fossilized Windows XP Dell Inspiron desktop circa 2014) for those with potato hardware. Even when I got an actual PC capable of gaming, this game was still good to me because my PC at the time was still low-end.

I'll go over the good aspects first. The gun mechanics are surprisingly balanced, catering to different playstyles with advantages and disadvantages for each scenario. Looting feels satisfying, and grinding can be rewarding. Base building and raiding are also pretty fun. Especially after grinding for a while to get C4, only to find someone’s base with nothing of value. Leveling up to use such items feels rewarding, although the gameplay loop can become quite repetitive over time.

However, the biggest issue right now is multiplayer, which was my main motivation to play. The community dynamics shift a lot during development, making strategies from a few years ago obsolete. While this is true for many games, the rate of change in Unturned is drastic. The servers that actually have decent player counts are plagued by pay-to-win nonsense making this issue far worse, posing a longevity issue. Many have complained about this. Imagine being new to this game and unfamiliar with it, I wouldn’t have even tried. This fosters a toxic environment, which also affects RP servers (which I haven't played much but have seen complaints about). It's evident that fewer content creators with influence are making videos on it, as seen on platforms like YouTube. There is fair reason to assume the majority of the player count is artificially inflated by bots.

TL;DR: Unturned was once enjoyable, with its appeal being its entry-level requirements for playing. However, the experience has significantly diminished. Look for alternatives and support those instead.

BaZed

I've owned this game for several years, I've seen most of the development cycle for this game over the period I casually played it. The initial release was rocky, riddled with bugs and broken promises, but its had more than enough time to redeem itself. I'll delve deeper into the goods and bads.

Firstly, you have a lot of ways to escape and each one has their own nuances and planning which I feel is well executed here. You have relative freedom to mess around with what you're given. Although, the issue here is the dependency on looting items for sources of items which feels like wasted potential, there should be more rewards through other methods, would make progression feel more nuanced and realistic with a wave of guard dogs coming at me.

Secondly, the AI is quite robust from my time playing, all inmates have their own schedules and same with the guards as well. It's done well and adds a layer of strategy that is greatly appreciated. Although, the punishments for negative actions are too harsh and unrealistic in some cases. I don't know why the developers gave the cops such thick plot armor, but it only serves as an annoyance rather than being challenging. The entire prison should not be aware of my existence the split second I beat up a guard and take their items once noticed. Even subtle nuances like missing items that alert guards and ect is unforgiving. There is little room for error which should be expected for breaking out of a prison, but this isn't the future, there is no way some of this stuff should happen as fast it does, which is not rewarding or thrilling.

Thirdly, Multiplayer has been one of my motivations for playing. I bought a copy of this game, when it went on-sale again I bought another copy and gifted it to someone I knew so we could play together. It added so much replayability. Although singleplayer is fine, I would absolutely recommend playing this with someone you know as it greatly enhances the experience. My time with multiplayer is what kept me hooked on it and I don't have any notable complaints about it. Any complaint I can think of would just be a symptom of the faults of the base game itself not inherent to multiplayer.

Fourthly, the playtime itself. It's ok, but could be longer, as it's rather easy to beat the game and can feel repetitive at times. Would feel much more rewarding, although multiplayer makes up for this due to the increased amount of options. And the prison editor could be better, which doesn't bode well for longevity.

Overall, as a prison escape simulator, It's fine. Could be better in-regards to item farming dependency and some of the overly punitive mechanics that make rewarding your time feel more like a chore. Even if mutliplayer isn't the main selling point for you, theres a decent amount of context for singleplayer. Although, it would need to be expanded to warrant purchasing for such at 20$, wait for a discount.

The developer team has a history of releasing updates that don't properly maintain balance from previous ones. I've been playing semi-casually for a couple of years, and some of my favorite builds are now unusable due to new additions. While this may be an unintended side effect of any game that updates, how the developers respond to such issues is a red flag, and I wouldn't recommend supporting this project. I only own Search and Destroy, which, in fairness, was a decent addition to the game I would recommend when on sale. The new additions don't add much and wouldn't be worth it even as free updates.

Multiplayer has been subpar as an experience and the developers have done little to actually address its short-comings, which is were more than half my hours come from. Not helped by the subpar community, which from my personal experience was rather surfaceable if you can tolerate the LARPy individuals, this was intentionally kept distant from official servers and just through individual hookups with others. And most of the time this was with 2-3 players, what a joke.

Good luck as a new person, the content in this game is needlessly complex for "content" that could be done without. I never intended to learn ship building myself, only the basics which is easy to learn. But times have changed when I first played, and stuff just requires more effort now for no real reason. Wanting to do anything other than beginner level ship building requires an exponentially steep learning-curve, not because the actual content is has merit, its complex for the sake of complexity. You could do without some of it, and the experience would be better without losing much. Which is made worse by the lack of optimization and clunky UI.

If you were a long-term player of the game who has been mislead by the developers, you're better of not bothering. There's no long-term plan for this game. The game had promise a while ago, but now is all but dead. If you want watch a sink ship, you'd be better of watching the actual community and the game's development overtime to now.

10/10 would clap some monster cheeks for spööktube views again

I got the game the game for free on a promotion, which is why I even own this in the first place, If it hadn't gone free and discounted DLC's, I wouldn't have considered touching it because I've never been interested in Warhammer. But as an introduction into the Warhammer series, this was alright. Relatively easy to learn makes casual play fun, which is what I was looking for. No immediate issues on the surface upon playing for my expectations, but the main issue is that I had buy around 30$~ (all discounted) in DLC so crucial in-game content like army units and such wouldn't be missing, which even then doesn't unlock the full experience, just considers crucial content that would be necessary for having a good experience playing as a base experience. Considering all of this, I recommend this only in the circumstances I bought the game and its contents, with additional quality of life mods that that further improve upon the lack of content for the base game (even with the DLC's considered crucial), but under normal circumstances mostly no unless you are deeply invested into this series, which I am not and never have been.

I feel bad for anyone that got shafted by Epic Scams that bought this before it went F2P. I hardly played this myself, but the fact I paid for this for it to go free then to be given little in compensation is an insult in of itself, but the recent updates this game has received has made Fall guys Fall from grace. I've lost all respect for the developers for selling out to such a garbage publisher. Rest in peace, the game I once knew as Fall Guys will be missed, this will not.

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This game is apart of my childhood, and I cherish it deeply. I originally got GTA 5 on the Xbox One a couple days after its release in 2014, I 100%'d the main story and additional content on both PC and the Xbox One. 10 year old me definitely shouldn't have been playing this or saying some of the stuff said over GTA Online, but it did influence who I am today, so It's nostalgic to look back upon. Most of my hours are on singleplayer, so that's the only reason why this review is positive.

GTA Online is abysmal, filled to the brim with hackers that can leak your private information and get you banned on the whim while actual players get punished and hundreds of hours of legitimate progress wiped just because someone decided it would be funny to distribute modded money. I only played it to unlock the achievements, and I have more than enough experiences with power tripping modders to say that it's not worth trying. Rockstar only enforce punishments when it actually hurts their bottom line, being shark cards, and modders take advantage of this. Majority of FiveM servers are filled with obnoxious children and garbage moderators, most roleplay servers being trash pay 2 win garbage that try to milk anything it can out of you with equally bad players. The community should be avoided. Having memories of the issues experienced like the long loading times back in the day, hardly anything has changed in-practice and GTA online should be disregarded as effectively malware.

I had originally bought this game for 7$ when it was on humble bundle and had been a veteran within the community, even if I had long since disassociated from it and my opinion on the community from my last participation has been mixed, the game itself is still relatively fun to this day as a role-playing tool and has a come a long way since I had played it.