Recent reviews by aShotOfDaniels

I have no idea where this game is getting such positive reviews from; I couldn't last two hours of it. The controls are down-right unusuable, the direction is confusing. I spent an hour of the game wandering a mine full of spiders till my back-pack was full, I then proceeded to exit the cave to find a place to sell the ♥♥♥♥ in my ol' inventory. I got directions from a tavern telling me to go south in order to find NPC's will to buy this crap, and after entering several farmsteads and estates, I gave up.

This is not fun. Bogging new players down in a badly designed tutorial area, only for them to escape into the first zone and then proceed to run over barren-fields and through ugly deserted houses just to sell their crap is a ♥♥♥♥ intro to a game that's supposed to keep players entertained for hundreds of hours.

I understand this game is early-access, but when I'm walking on a sea-bed while breathing fine, and suffering absolutely abhorrent FPS drops if I dare turn around to quickly, it does not give me the will to explore what's on the next horizen. This is like some Aeria MMO quality bad.

I get what the devs are trying to do, and that's to make a quirky and different MMO that breaks the usual trend of the big boys; but that doesn't mean you make it look and feel like a 15 year old game.

Making your controls garbage, your graphics and optimisation awful, and making a huge map filled with ♥♥♥♥-all but mobs and a few buildings does not make your game hard-core, not matter what the masochistic prats keep garbling on about in the positive reviews.

This ♥♥♥♥ is not worth 30 quid, and for the first time ever in over 200 owned games, I've actually asked for a refund. You seriously need to have suffered brain-damage to think this game is worth the asking price.

Great multi-player game, unless you happen to play with your weeb mate, who immediately makes a empire called, and I kid you not, The Unified Tentacle Federation of Hentai. I enjoyed destroying it.

It's on sale for the price of an expensive ale at a festival.

It's got amazing graphics, is extremely well optimized, and the mechanics are solid.

There may not be a wide variety of enemies to murder, but the vehicle combat more than makes up for it. There's something exhilarating about slamming into the side of a convoy at 90mph and unleashing hell, especially as it feels impactful.

Seriously. Buy it. It's on friggin' sale and I don't regret buying it on release for full price.

Get a high-level Strength character and build yourself a fort out of barrels and crates. Great building mechanics.

In all seriousness. This a great update to the original release, and unlike From's Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, I was given the Enhanced Edition for free, instead of having to buy what is essentially an updated and greatly improved game.

Combat is incredibly fun and versatile. The many different approaches you can take via builds/consumables/strategies can make each battle varied. One group of skele-wobbles and their pet zomboids can give you no troubles at all, but the next encounter can see two boars bum-rush your mage while the enemy spell-caster freezes your tank and/or turns the ground into a molten lake.

Humour is excellent. The story is a little slow to start, and may require you to pay a fair cold glass of attention for you to really comprehend what's going on, but it can be built upon depending on your actions. Keep in mind that what you do really counts. This isn't Skyrim where killing a few guards nets you a little bounty that can even be forgotten if you licked the Jarl's scrotum, you don't want to go around town killing your merchants or quest-givers as you'll find yourself devoid of merchants, services and valuable experience.

With the sequel being planned, I highly recommend you attain this game and experience it for your-self.

I spent nearly 2 hours trying to get into this game via skirmish. All I could think while I was playing was, "I could continue being bored ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, or I could go play Heroes 3: Horn of the Abyss and play a huge ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ XXXL randomly generated map and enjoy attempting to take the entire map."

I may not of given it much of a chance, but Heroes 3 has taken more hours of my life than all other Heroes games for a reason. It is still the best. Go buy GoG. com's complete Heroes Edition, download Horn of the Abyss mod, enjoy random maps for-ever.

Spent 20 minutes clearing an underground bunker full of Radroaches and window-licking Raiders. Spent two hours designing my bridge gate-house to Sanctuary. If you like the property show Grand Designs, you'll wank yourself dry over this and dream of moving to a Place in the Sun.

Oh and consistent FPS, no crashes, very few minor bugs found.

Edit: I was wrong about the bugs. However, the worst seem to occur simply by trying to load the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ launcher.

Very fun and addictive game for its meager price-tag.



Pros:

+ Addictive top-down (and usually frantic) combat mechanics.

+ Looting system that always has you drooling in excitement when an orange/purple drops.

+ Explorative game-play with multiple side-quests/areas to venture, usually resulting in a mini-boss.

+ VARIED enemies, and plenty of them. Even the basic walkers have different variations.

+ Slightly repetitive but over-all beautiful sound-track that doesn't intrude too much into the game-sounds.

+ Relatively stable game; I've only had one crash so far and that was spamming the flame-thrower in a sub-way.


Cons:

- Story started to get a bit lack-luster after a while; the usual 'catch up with the plot that's a couple of days in-front.'

- Friendly AI can suck a hard-on sometimes. Mechanics in place to control distance/aggro, but they'll still run off a mile for a single walker, usually ignoring the LMG I gave them to favour a damaged combat knife.

- Visual obstruction; actually consider this as game-mechanic. Lighting is poor at night, but you have flares/torch, though they kind'a suck and it's far better to head to a safe-zone and rest till day-light.
During a zombie-cluster-bum-fun you'll lose yourself among the walkers and your window-licker companions while corpses turn into offensively large clouds of red mist, being in-doors can make this extremely irritating.





Over-all, I highly recommend this game if you're a fan of titles like Diablo and Dungeon Siege (just not DS3...) and if you fancy a try at the respective game-play but with GUNS... And more importantly, a FLAME-THROWER. Dine away.