Recent reviews by Sasscha

I'm recommending this, but not.

But why, you may ask? You have so much time in it, surely it's got something going for it?

It does. Thing is, the game is pretty much an excersize in unrealized potential. The environments look samey, until you go out of your way and find lovingly crafted areas people will never bother with.

The combat is clunky, if functional, and regularly gets screwed with by poor skill and item balancing.

The setting is actually surprisingly good, and there actually is an underlying story that you can play through at your own pace that is, shock and awe, actually pretty genuinely interesting, especially for your average scifi buff.

Noticing a theme? There are some wonderful ideas, but for whatever reason, they just never quite pushed them far enough. The game is sandbox-y enough to be impressively wide open, but they didn't quite cut away from MMO Theme Park syndrome.

The crafting system is amazingly wide, allowing you to make damn near everything in the game just from things you can get yourself, except for the necessary endgame things that require asinine boss grinding or broken pvp point grind.

Honestly it's getting depressing to talk about. It's one of those things that could have been flat out amazing, and for whatever reason, it just falls short. Still, it's the only modern MMO I've been able to stomach for any length of time, so there's that.

This is certainly a thing. Bad acid dream story line, hypnotic 80's themed music and serious, unadulterated ultraviolence. There's more to it than that, but it's definitely worth the time.

IMPERIAL GUARD. Except the campaign also shoehorns you into playing Eldar if you're going the 'light' route. IG segments 10/10, glory to the first man to die. Eldar segments 2/10 who wants to be a spehss elf? Other stuff ??/10 who cares tank is fight.

It's Morrowind. Seriously, just get it. I'm not kidding. Play it now.