Recent reviews by Sco10

Perfect

Really like the game - but I gotta give it a thumbs down
It runs fine - every update makes it better, but it should have had more time in the oven. Spider-Man 1 released for PC on steam on a sale for 50€ for a limited time. It ran perfectly, was a good deal and the game itself was well balanced, polished and unfolded naturally.
For this game, the feeling isn't quite there IMHO. It's good, but with Spider-Man 1 everything felt hand crafted and deliberate. As if every throwable, every stealth mission and encounter was refined and polished. With this game, a lot of encounters, areas and collectibles just feel more generic.
Also there is a noticable catering to the very casual player in the form of hand-holding, that's not possible to turn off.

As expected a perfect successor to It Takes Two

Gotta uninstall after my first playthrough to keep my real life in order...

I gave the game a positive review, and I still hold this. But an expansion pack used to cost 40 Euro. This is not an expansion pack. This is a DLC pack with 4 civs and 2 leaders. A civ and a leader used to cost around 5 Euro as stand alone DLC, averaged between Civ V and Civ VI. This time we get less play time with each Civ - if one is antiquity, one exploration and one is modern this means that there effectively is 1 and 1/3 civ, and 2 leaders. All this can be fully experienced in TWO playthroughs. For. Thirty. Euros.

Okay, I can understand and appreciate that way more work goes into each civ despite the less time we get to spend with them. But even if we don't take my 1 and 1/3 civ calculation into account, and just assume it's 4 civs and 2 leaders, that's still way overpriced. WAY overpriced.

*changed to negative due to overpriced DLCs that are also released unfinished*

The platform and core of this game fixes many of my gripes with Civ 6. I am so looking foward to mod support and new civs. 6 and 5 are still there and with mods and their dlc's they are more fleshed out - this has so much potential, and it will age like wine over time. Give it a few months.

Games shouldnt require 8+ gigs of VRAM for medium settings, but thankfully there was a good guide online on how to keep this at under 8 consistently for my 3070. I have no issues, but I feel like this one is pushing it too close for comfort. Unable-to-turn-off RT or TAA is a big minus.

The game outshines its technical issues by being interesting, fun and gorgeous though.

Edit after completion: There is a noticable amount of visual bugs relating to the map trackers you can unlock, and one blocking me from 100%. The game is a solid 9/10, gameplay and graphics are absolutely 10/10 and the collectibles work, but the gameplay loop for finishing up the collectibles could use some more months in the oven. Discovering all the little details in the first location was so immersive and I was absolutely sucked in, but when it basically repeats twice after that in the same exact flavor it loses one rating out of ten of magic.

After hearing so much about it I decided - eagerly - to try it out once it released on PC. I am 18 hours in, and I am entertained. I think this game is good. But it is nowhere near as good as reviews make it seem. This review is negative and I am nitpicking on stuff, but this game is wayyy overrated, so I'm trying to counterweigh that a bit.

This looks, feels and plays like a Ubisoft open world. There are a few very nice open world objectives, but they are just copy-pasted all over. It quickly becomes a chore.

Graphics are just average, even for its time and as a PS4 game. I see people praising the graphics all over, but there aren't anything of real graphical depth or technical boundaries being pushed. The colors are just bland and outside of a few colorful fields it's just... average. The height maps of the game are weird. And oh boy is it repetetive.

The cutscenes are cheap, jumping in and out of far shots that are clearly only there to save time and ressources on facial animation, and then suddenly the screen fades into a hand-animated cutscene with facial animations - then back out to the half-assed far shots.

The combat is awesome, i'll give them that - but I feel like i unlocked everything too fast. Like third mission I'm a ninja. Killing leaders as I come by randomly in the open world and I unlocked every stance. The skill tree is almost done now and I just arrived on the second island.

It's just a fine game. It's the most solid 7/10 I've ever played. It's not bad. It's a good core of a game which has been absolutely bloated with the same handful of objectives and chores over, and over again. I'll just finish the story - which again is good - and ignore side stuff.

The Assassin's Creed games, Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla are VERY comparable to this IMO. Origins did everything better, even graphics. Odyssey was also bloated but way more satisfying. Valhalla has a lot of the same problems as this (while still looking better than GoT).

Definitely at least on par with Jedi Fallen Order and better in many aspects. Heard it was fixed and bought it on sale. It runs very well with very few technical glitches. Im 10 hours in but Im hooked

Refreshing. Feels like how I'd imagine games to be like in the future when I was younger.
I honestly find Dark Souls too infruriating but I like the genre. This is very much in my alley difficulty wise. Gives me a gameplay-vibe like Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order and God of War