Recent reviews by Ursur1minor

Maybe this game will be good in the future, at the time of writing it's a disappointment.

Gunplay feels nice and gunning down hordes is fun, but this game is not ready for release.
Performance somehow got worse after the official launch and it contains cosmetic microtransactions that cost half as much as the game does while the free cosmetics you can unlock are boring in comparison.

The game is also structured so that you will see other players with those cosmetics wether you want to or not, the game has no offline function and to even do anything like selecting a mission or purchasing gear you need to walk through a public always online lobby seeded with other random people.

The always online part stretches into the missions as well, you cannot choose to play with only bots, the only times a bot will be on your team is if someone disconnects, which might happen quite often as crashes are pretty frequent.

That's not even mentioning that several features promised for launch, mainly the weapon crafting system and several weapons shown in promotional materials are at the time of writing not implemented in the game (The Ogryn Shock Maul prominent in the title art being an example of a weapon not available in game)

Wait a month or two to see how this game develops before considering buying it.

Rome total war with updated visuals and Steam Workshop support.

The Original Red Alert was the first game I ever remember playing, and getting to play it again with updated graphics has brought lots of nostalgia, here's hoping for Tiberium Sun and Red Alert 2.

Best dating simulator on steam.

At the time of writing this game is nearing ten years, and I won't lie, it shows.
Being forced to work with an engine that was old even before Fallout 3 tends to do that to you I suppose, but even so, with only one and a half years of development and internal strife they still made this masterpiece.
Is it wonky? Yes
Is it good? Yes
is it better than Fallout 4? Yes
Is it worth picking up today? Definitely

I spent more time modding this game than I ever did playing it.

Wait until they rework the mana system and make the game feel more like a game and less of a manaspending experience.

You can probably have some enjoyable experiences as it stands, but compared to what might be this is pretty dissapointing.

Do come back to this in a year or 2 and see if it's changed, Paradox does have a history of sticking with games even when the initial experience was dissapointing, see Hearts of Iron 4 and Stellaris for some examples.
You could call this a grand experiment on how abstract you could make the game mechanics in a grand strategy game if you want to have a optimistic view on this, in which case I hope the developers learn from it.
Meanwhile I just wish it was, well, more.

A well crafted and atmospheric dark souls like that isn't defined by Dark Souls.

A good start for people who are new to Paradox games in general, with enough depth to suck you in without leaving you stranded.
The price can understandably be a big turnoff for new players but you don't need all of them, buy the game on a sale and then pick up individual DLC on subsequent sales untill you feel you've got what you want, the only ones you "Need" are the Expansion DLCs, and some of them have higher priority than others, Art of War and Common Sense should be among the first you get.

Fallout 4 is by all accounts a very mediocre game.
Playing through the game for the first time you will be thrust into a interactive cutscene prewar were you run to the vault followed by a family you never got time to care about, seeing people you've never met argue on the road and watch a world you know nothing about blow up in the distance.

You are then cryogenically frozen for a undetermined amount of time, only to wake up long enough to see the baby you looked at once to be stolen in front of your eyes and the spouse you talked to twice get shot by the kidnapper.
You are then after getting refrozen and rethawed expected to be invested enough in the story to chase after the kidnapper and rescue your baby.
so you go out into the Commonwealth, a ruined city were the quests are all the same, the enemies don't matter and all the "Dungeons" were copypasted.
You will then go through dialogue wheel after dialogue wheel were every answer is the same, you will build a town that doesn't tie into the rest of the game (seriously, you don't get anything out of building a settlement, you might as well just put down a bedroll, crafting stations and then forget about it) using the first person camera to place structures with illogical collision boxes.

This game has a arena with a finished questline, voices that lets you bet on fights and even fight in the arena yourself. except it was cut for no reason and a modder had to bring it back in, if you go to the arena in the unmodded game you just get shot at by more raiders.
This seems to be a recurring theme in the places you go, there's a crashed ship with people seeming to be descended from norweghian sailors in a corner of the map; your only form of interaction with them is by shooting them all.
There is a area that's set up to looking like a racing arena, but the only interaction with it is to shoot all the raiders that live there.

There is a lot of things wrong about this game, the only thing good I can say about it is that the gunplay is somewhat better than Fallout 3, but that's not saying much.

And then ofcourse there is the reason I'm writing this review now, the Creation Club, paid mods, I'm not as opposed to this as many others, I feel that it is a opportunity for good modders to create expansion sized content for the games with backing from bethesda, but if bethesda can't even quality control its own game, which even to today have severe LOD bugs in some areas, then why am I to expect them to quality check the mods they sell?

Another thing to point out that every time the Creation Club updates all owners of Fallout 4 download all the mods, even if they don't buy them or ever intend to buy them, this breaks all the already existing mods and forces them to update, unless bethesda fixes this the modding community will have to rush a fix every time Creation Club forces bloatware down your router.