Recent reviews by CMDR Nova

They removed support for Proton/Linux because of some hackers, so punish everyone who isn't using the spyware OS. Big thumbs down, go join the rest of the trash competitive shooters.

Banned seemingly indefinitely with no cause listed pretty much directly after the release of the DLC, which I don't even own. My only guess is that FromSoftware has a personal grudge against Linux users. Am contemplating seeking a refund and playing games with better devs who will at least give you a reason for their suspensions!

I have something like 3000 or 4000 hours on Origin, and now I'm converted over to Steam, so I can finally give my two cents and set them in stone!

First and foremost, this is absolutely a Sims game. There is a very tiny minority that shouts all the time about how this should be more like Sims 3, because they wear rose colored glasses and apparently haven't played Sims 3 since a Pentium 2 was the newest hardware. Not only would an open world in a more intensive Sims melt your PC, but it would be even laggier than Sims 3 currently is.

That aside, Sims 4 is nearly everything good about the franchise, packed into one game--If you want to buy expansions, game packs and stuff packs. Which isn't actually that hard, because they're almost always on-sale, and some of them are much cheaper than Sims 3 DLC.

I would also mention that I've been asking them for years for story progression, and now it's finally being implemented in stages, which is literally a dream come true.

When I try and think of negatives, I only really think it could use more smaller interactions to liven things up, and a little more emotional depth to the sims themselves. Make the ways they feel about the world around them have a lasting and more serious impact. Tweak the bugs, such as how ghosts and babies will call you to congratulate you on your new girlfriend, and put cars in the game so that section of the playerbase will stop asking.

I've been playing Sims games since I started rebuilding the Goth home in Sims 1, way back in the year 2000, and I'm still here, killing the Landgraabs in my basement, terrorizing the neighborhood with vampires, making my own version of Jim Pickens, serving up deadly fish in my restaurant, setting people on fire, having 47 babies under one sim, redecorating people's homes in the worst ways possible and so much more.

If they ever replaced Sims 4 with a sequel I think I would go through a period of grief, because Sims 4 has taken up almost a decade of my life and I don't think I could let it go. Buy The Sims 4, then buy vampires, get to work and seasons, and don't look back.

Pretty sweet so far! If you remember Ultima Online, it pretty much feels exactly the same. No themepark, no hands-held, just logging in and doing what you will. There's not even a global channel that you have to turn off immediately (and that's a huge plus).

So far, I'd say this is what I was hoping Albion would be, and I'm seeing people getting mad in their pants but it mostly has something to do with not being able to kill players in certain areas (which is a non-issue).

If my opinion changes, I'll change this review but I'm enjoying it thus far!

This game has an amazing character creator and the content isn't even bad. But! Because it's not very well optimized people have been jumping left and right and there are player rumors that the game is going to die and shutdown just like it has everywhere else. If I knew for a fact this game would be alive a month, or six months from now, I might actually play it. But I've been with MMOs since 2003 and becoming invested in a game that is about to maybe get shutdown is just not fun.

Wildstar was one of the best MMOs I've ever played, and it was super polished and had all kinds of content, you could even build your own house and a skatepark in your own little area. It was really great but people refused to play because it had a kinda rocky start. And then it got shutdown permanently last year and no. Nope. I can't do that again, and I don't blame anyone else.

Unless a dev can concretely tell me that this game is not going anywhere I refuse to get involved lol

I come from a long line of trying MMOs, or playing MMOs and trying to find something that just basically has content, is fun and doesn't feel like a job. Unfortunately, that is the consesus of most MMOs nowadays, because a lot of dev studios are still trying to imitate World of Warcraft (which boggles my mind).

Star Trek Online is not one of them (or at least not entirely).

If you're a fan of Star Trek, or scifi in-general, I don't know why you aren't playing this game. I don't know why you aren't playing this game when literally the only other scifi MMO (that I can think of), that being SWTOR, is also free to play, but hugely gated with paid content to the point where playing free is just absolutely pointless. That is absolutely not the case here (although I did drop 5 dollars on that liberated Borg)

It's true there's a bit more combat and running and gunning than you'd probably expect from a game that exists in the ST universe, but that's just it. It's a MMO, and they have to fill that gap with something. If it was more a space exploration game, heck I mean, I'd play that too, but that'd be more along the lines of Elite Dangerous, the Star Trek Files.

You can customize your captain, customize your bridge crew, upgrade and customize your ships, add more people to your crew, explore your ship, roleplay, do space missions, ground missions (although the melee combat sort of leaves something to desire), daily passive missions for your officers, research and craft things, do a dungeon-like sort of deal, PVP, and you can even create your own missions, or play missions other people created. And that's just a bit of a margin of stuff I've discovered only up to like level 30 at this point.

The game does feel a bit dated but being an MMO that actually has content and doesn't suck, I can deal with it.

I originally started as a human, but then I made an alien under the Romulan empire and I have to say being something other than human is a little bit more fun. Besides, who doesn't want to be their own custom alien species?

I mean, I guess anyone who'd rather be Vulcan ... thinking.jpg

Anyway, PW or Cryptic, whoever's managing this game, I think they're doing a pretty decent job if you compare this to literally almost every other MMO out there, especially F2P mmos. This isn't a fantasy, anime girls with boob jobs and eight hundred thousand fetch-quests type of MMO (thank heck).

It's a scifi MMO, with meaning and more depth than you can shake your phaser at.

Edit: YOU CAN BREED TRIBBLES

Outstanding!

So here we have the direct sequel to New Order, that takes place at the very last second of the end of New Order, and it's freakin great. Wolf 2 puts white supremacy and Nazis front and center (as it should, since it's a game about killing Nazis), and it shows you the full brutal honesty of what these toxic ideologies really are, and what they can lead to. And then you kill a whole truckload of Nazis, and then you kill them some more.

The game has its ridiculous over-the-top moments, but I won't spoil anything. Some sensitive Nazis got mad about this game too (okay, maybe all Nazis are sensitive). They don't like that Machinegames made another game about killing Nazis and showing people that white supremacy is bad. They don't like that Hitler is depicted as a bumbling old man who vomits on himself. They don't like that a game, where you kill Nazis to put an end to their regime, is fronted entirely by the people who Nazis target (which isn't even any different from New Order).

Too bad, though, Nazis. Get used to it.

Other reviews talk about how the game is buggy and it has been, although MG seems to be ironing them out. Some say it's way too short but my played time for New Order and this game are pretty much exactly the same, start to finish (except I have content left to do in Wolf 2). In that respect, I think it's important to remember that this is a singleplayer FPS game and not an open world RPG that most people are probably used to at this point.

But I should also mention that I absolutely loved Dishonored 2, which is not exactly a long game either.

So, pros:

• Wolf 2 makes real life Nazis extremely mad and the tears are sweet
  
• Freakin epic as hell, from Earth to Venus and back again
  
• Gunplay feels even better than New Order
  
• A hatchet is way more fun than throwing knives (chop, chop, Nazis)
  
• The ending is sweet, sweet justice and absolutely perfect
  
• You can keep playing and doing stuff even after you finish the game
  
• Soundtrack is great as usual, but that's a given, since most of us know who composed it
  
• Did I mention Nazi killing?

Cons:

• The game should have launched real life Nazis into the sun
  
• There were some bugs
  
• I didn't get to kill Hitler with a hatchet

99/10 would kill Nazis and watch real life Nazis cry about it again

Yeah, yeah, I've only played for 9 hours so far, as of writing this. But in those 9 hours I've experienced things in this particular battleground game that I haven't ever even come close to in King of the Kill or The Culling.

Now, it's early access. There are bugs, memory leaks, lag, but the gunplay is solid. The best I've seen in this type of game yet.

But that's not even what I want to say in this review, aside from the fact that the devs seem to be really on-top of things.

This game is extremely DYNAMIC. And when I say dynamic, I mean...

In one game with a friend as a duo, I was forced to make a split-second decision while we were both stuck in the blue field of death and on the brink of both of us dying. I had to decide if I was going to die right there trying to help her up, or bust ass 10 feet in front of me for the safe zone. Albeit, I got blasted in the face by a shotgun about five minutes later, but WOW lol I felt kinda like a jerk after that.

In another game, the final battleground area was being constricted to a completely open field. If you've played this for more than three seconds, you know that open fields are probably the worst place to be. So I'm crawling through the grass like a snake only getting up every once in a little bit to get to the next safe zone. I come up to the FINAL area and some dude is rushing a shed 50 feet in front of me. The wood of the door blasts out and someone inside murders this dude right there. He's DEAD. So I'm crawling through the grass like, "I'm gonna get there and I'm gonna shoot that guy and win this!" There's 4 of us left. But out of completely nowhere this woman in a trench coat literally steps on me, and then she STOPS. And we get stuck in a three second stand-off where we BOTH die right next to each other lol

And then I had this OTHER game where I'm watching a house cause I thought I saw someone in a window. Sure enough, some dude runs past one of the openings inside the house. I'm open to rush this place and put this guy down so I can loot what I need. But THEN a yellow car comes out of NOWHERE and this guy goes in and takes this guy out just like I was planning. ARGH. Although, sitting there in the grass like the snake I am, I notice he's taking longer than I expect. So I'm checking the windows and moving real slow. I hear him screwing around inside the house still, so I STEAL HIS CAR.

This is such a good game! Oh my god.

Devs are incompetent, and in-turn the game keeps getting worse. There's no playerbase and I also think there's like...one map? Save your money and go for any other game in this genre.

Game is extremely lacking customization features, which is really weird for something like this. Will come back in 5 years once they've implimented basic character body sliders and such.