Recent reviews by matsku84

• Released on April Fool's Day, 2014? Yeah, this game is a terrible joke alright.
  
• Worst! Boss fights! EVER! In anything I've ever played! And they even saved the worst fight for the final boss! You will experience a strong urge to find whoever designed them and do unspeakable things to them. I thought I'd seen bad boss fights before, but Blackgate's boss fights makes them look like masterpieces in comparison.
  
• The combat system inherited from the other Arkham games does not work properly in "2.5D". If you target is even slightly off the 2-directional plane that Batman moves on, you will miss or hit the wrong target and screw up your combo and probably also get hit.
  
• Most keyboard and mouse controls can't be remapped, but the options menu makes it looks like you can. Only when you try to change one, it tells you this control can't be remapped. Basically you can only change keys that are used by your right hand if you go for a two-handed keyboard layout.
  
• I can't even find this game in my Steam activation or purchase history, which may be for the better, so I don't have to know how much money I wasted on it.

What a piece of flaming hot garbage!

Space age is such a breathtakingly awesome addition to an already amazing game like Factorio! Well worth the wait and price. This and Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC make me wish the Steam Awards had a "best DLC" category.

It's the least buggy Bethesda game ever at launch and the active modding community can and already has fixed a lot of the issues. I'm still having lots of fun (the most important thing for any game) after 223 hours having completed less than half of the story and side missions. So despite all its flaws, Starfield gets my recommendation.

The game froze several times when playing this DLC, the end boss glitched out, and in some situations melee weapons are quite overpowered. but overall this was a very fun 7½ hour extra adventure worth buying on sale. Sadly the infuriating combo of insanely fast, epilepsy-inducing sniper turrets and artillery turrets from the base game is repeated at the end of this DLC as well.

An underrated gem with a killer soundtrack to set the mood to splatter you enemies into tiny bits with a variety of inventive, bad-ass weapons as you explore your way through a beautiful cyberpunk world teeming with life and insane amounts of detail! Looks amazing even without ray-tracing and ultra settings. Can be a bit repetitive at times due to re-spawning enemies, and the 4 player co-op mode is prone to glitching, but single player is stable and just as fun and engaging.

A great spaceship colony sim that gets better with every update. Can't wait to see what gets added next. Love the retro style graphics and smooth soundtrack. Very zen-like experience once you get a proper ship or two up and running and a good stockpile of all the necessary resources, but can also get heart-poundingly stressful and exciting when fighting aliens or pirates. Suomi perkele! Torille!

I love good survival horror games even though they rarely scare me, make my heart pound faster, raise stress or cause nightmares, but Alien: Isolation did 3 of those 4 things, yet still kept me in its tight grasp for long sessions wanting to come back as soon as possible to see what horrors await in the next area.

It re-creates the Alien film's look, feel, atmosphere, lore, sounds and music pretty much perfectly. Getting to visit certain places from the film and experience similar events were definitely the highlights of the story. Even using some areas multiple times to advance the story was done in a way that did not make it feel like cheap level design at all.

Unfortunately the perfect organism's AI has been perfected a bit too much with unfair/unrealistic senses at some parts of the game, especially on higher difficulty levels. It seems to know your general location even without any clues and keeps coming back to check the same rooms around you so quickly that you don't have enough time to safely move from one hiding spot to the next, so you end up either getting bored while waiting 10 to 15 minutes for it to finally move on or frustrated by constantly dying to this unrealistic advantage instead of to mistakes you made. Pro tip: Don't be stingy with using flares, noisemakers and other distractions. They are your best friend... until you get the flamethrower!

Thankfully the PC master race has come to the rescue to resolve this over-perfection issue of the Alien AI with the Unpredictable Alien mod. I highly recommend installing it, especially if playing on higher difficulty levels or going for the no deaths achievement. It makes the Alien look for you in a much more realistic way, widening the search area and not constantly checking the same rooms right next to you magically knowing you are in the general area. As the name suggests, it also makes the AI more unpredictable, making each encounter feel more thrilling and suspenseful instead of like a punishment or boring repetitive task.

Even with the unrealistic AI issue, Alien: Isolation in my mind is the best way to experience the Alien franchise in game form. I would also rank it in the top 5 movie license based games ever made. Plus, with some modding you can even get it to work in VR, where crapping your pants is almost guaranteed.

Please, Creative Assembly, stop constantly releasing new Total War games and make more games like Alien: Isolation!

Under construction for 8 years already and still in Early Access, but if I could, I would nominate Factorio for a Game of the Decade award! It's the gift that keeps on giving... just be prepared to say goodbye to your sleep cycle in return.

Edit: Being under construction for 8 years and 10 months slowly but surely molded Factorio into one of, if not the best factory game out there! Even after final release, it still has so much to offer thanks to the active modding community.

Edit 2: 2.0 and the Space Age DLC are now out and both are wonderful additions. I've nominated Factorio once again for the "Labor of Love" Steam Award, but posting a review for the Space Age DLC didn't count for the badge's "Review a game you've nominated" task for some reason, so I'm updating this review to also recommend the Space Age DLC.

If you like games like System Shock, BioShock and Dead Space, then Prey will not disappoint! Prey has it all: Great story and characters, cool environments, enemies and weapons plus a killer soundtrack!

Sure, the framerate can be atrocious in certain areas...
Sure, there's no karma system anymore...
Sure, another settlement needs my help...
But darn if this isn't the best Fallout game ever!

666 hours in and I haven't even finished the last DLC yet! So much to do, so much to build, so many settlements to help (or raid), so little time! War. War never changes, but Fallout sure does.

10/10 Wouldbecome younger than my own sonagain.