Recent reviews by humpers

By Golly, Todd, you've done it again.

It's a great game but its not for everyone. Its extremely similar to the first one for better or worse. The combat, exploration and character creation are some of the best I've ever seen, but the story is forgettable and a lot of the quests are unintuitive and often need a guide to complete to not fail or miss significant parts of the game. The game can have performance issues at times, but I don't necessarily think its bad optimization because the graphics are also extremely good so its more of a trade off.

It had frustrations at parts, but ultimately just leveling my character with the great and varied combat mechanics, interesting progression and fun exploration was far and away much better than all of the annoyances combined. 8/10

I don't even like souls-likes or metroidvanias but the world was so wild and interesting looking I couldn't help but keep exploring until the game was done. The punching and hits are very punchy and the ragdolls flying are very satisfying. Its just a really cool and unique game thats not really like anything else.

Its fun enough, but boy does it get repetitive and monotonous after 10 or so hours. It would probably be a lot more fun in coop. 6.5/10 only buy on sale.

Its like Turbo overkills little brother. Its a different take to the boomer shooter/ movement shooter hybrid, but frankly it falls a little short of its contemporaries. Its not bad by any means, and its still competent and fun, but I would suggest trying out turbo overkill or the doom reboots first. My only real criticism is the checkpoint system everything else is decent to great.

Recommend on sale 7/10

As someone playing the series for the first time, I'd say its an easy recommend. Even full price you'll most likely come out at 50 cents / hour, but at 5.99 its an absolute no brainer. My only real gripe is that the weapon variety is unacceptably poor for ME1 and especially ME2, but this can be fixed with mods. For ME1 i would recommend "Advanced Weapon Models" and for ME2 "Modern Weapon Pack".

I don't know if overwatch, tf2 and its clones are just really neglected and poorly managed or if Rivals is just very well made and managed, but its crazy to me a game could release in such a good state with so much content already well balanced and polished.

I genuinely thought this would be another concord, but they seem to have taken all that made overwatch great and added a bunch of new features like destruction and team ups around it with a whole new roster of mostly familiar characters. As the late great Todd Howard said, it just works.

A lot of classic games are classic games for a reason, but they become "obsolete" as newer games take those older once-groundbreaking ideas and integrate or improve on them. This isn't the case for half life 2 because no one has been able to improve or even replicate it. Half Life 2 was incredible when it came out and it is incredible now. To this day there is not really anything like it out there.

9.5/10 buy even at full price.

I'm genuinely surprised at how this game came out. Not only is it not console-ified or dumbed down to appeal to a more modern audience, but it may actually be MORE unforgiving and hardcore than the 2000s games. They even went the extra mile and added a bunch of jank to make it more authentic to the originals 10/10.

Its pretty neat. Don't expect Battlefield 1 style guns though. You get a bolt action rifle, a bayonet and an order to advance.