Recent reviews by Uberche

In terms of gameplay, it's like Skyrim, witcher, or Red Dead Redemption, except instead of a skilled fighter, you're Random Villager #312, now go and learn how to not be useless.

In terms of quality, it's more like the Stalker series. Tons of bugs including game and quest breaking ones , tons of "jank" with horse riding switching between fun and enjoyable, to a nightmare as your horse seems incapable of walking through many small bushes (in a game with lots of riding through forests...). You can jump them, but if you land on top of them with your horse's feet not on the ground, hope you saved recently.

But, like Stalker, you can feel the love they put into the game, it very much feels like a living world, you can stalk the NPCs and watch them go through their life, you can complete quests many ways (some quests will break though), you can ride all over and find all sorts of weird spots with little bits of lore or easter eggs. And your choices do matter and change how things go for you and your friends.

LOTS of emphasis on "realistic", but then certain functionality that would have made things a lot more interesting has clearly been cut. For example, they have a eating system in place but did not build out the cooking system to match it, even though they left all the supporting functionality. Instead you just eat from common pots, you can cook individual food items, but can't combine them to make stews or anything useful, cooked whole onion for supper? Yum!

When it's not glitching or making you want to shoot your horse in the face, it's a really great game which I hope gets a sequel that they put in the time to make it what this game could have been. Highly recommend unless you can't stand glitchy, janky games that you sort of have to "put up with" in order to enjoy.

Tips: If you want a dog, you need A Woman's Lot DLC. You can't feed or care for your horse (gamers want to pet dogs and horses!). Bow suck, or I suck at bows, either way, not a fan, mostly I use them for rabbits but everything else gets the mace to the face. Starting out, go VERY slow, you suck, you can't fight, everyone hates you, when you meet the fighting trainer, stop and train until you can beat him. Stick to the story to start with, there are a few timed quests and if you go running off like me, you will have a bad time. I have ignored pickpocketing, instead learn to knock people out from stealth and just steal everything that way, way less random luck involved. And yes, steal steal steal. as long as no one sees you, you should be rich soon.

Got through Humble Bundle

Update: I miss good Wrestling games so I wanted to at least give it a try, I switched to recommend because if you get it for ~$15, it's not a bad deal. I left it open a lot, so my hours are less than half that. I have not played any of the previous ones.

Some of my issues were that I sucked, the quick time nature of the game is annoying, and often steam rolls you while you sit bored watching, but I guess that's the game. crashes but not too often, lots of glitches (so much flying around the screen), etc.

Storylines - There's two and they're pretty silly, the characters are mostly unlikable, your dialogue options range "Crying child" to "Crying petulant child".

GM Mode - It's a decent GM sim except the quality of matches don't matter, which ruins some of the fun of trying to create a good match to help buoy the company's ratings. Instead the quality is decided by "Upgrades" they have locked behind play time, and "Rivalries" which means fighting the same people against each other repeatedly to build up the "rivalry" and then time it to finish on a Pay Per View. It ends up becoming more of a spreadsheet sim than an actual game.

Universe - Playing as a Superstar, it's just unending matches where you try to win or lose belts. Tag teams don't seem to work great here as you can't take over multiple people, and lots of times the tag matches get changed to singles because of a "rivalry".

Tag teams work when it's only you in control, but in places where you control only one of the wrestlers, which you control changes, sometimes it's neither, sometimes it's not the one you'd think, and trying to switch from one to another doesn't always work.

It's fun, but very flawed. i still say Wrestling Empire is more "fun".

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Pros

- It's VERY pretty.
- The announcers are good and make relevant comments
- The create a Wrestler (create everything) is varied and has lots of options
- When it works it works well
- GM and Career (Universe) are both pretty well developed

Cons

- Crashed 5 times in less than 10 hours.
- LOTS of weird glitches where people fly across the screen to hit you
- Half the match you're basically watching wrestling while trying to do quick time events to get some control back, gets a bit annoying
- The quick time events are at times absurdly fast, even the regular ones need you to be focused, which is hard when you've just spent 20 seconds watching someone beat your character and suddenly for no reason PRESS Y NOW!!!

Has all the functionality you want, just between the crashes, the glitches and the lacklustre quick time event game play, it just plays a bit flat. I think I'll stick with Wrestling Empire, it may look like it's still 1995, but at least it's fun.

Do you like designing patterns in the most efficient manner? Than boy have I got the game for you.

Decent game, very satisfying to play if you're into this sort of thing.

Get it on sale and it's amusing as heck if you like the old school arcade wrestling games.

LOTS of jank, the "holds" aspect is alright until they start locking you in a hold you can't reverse for two minutes straight. Oh and table matches are garbage, touch a table? Breaks and you lose. Jank.

The Career mode is lots of fun, other than the absurd "asks" they give or suddenly they want you to be called "Fleet McJim" for no apparent reason and there is no way to say no.

Basically it's like the old wrestling games, but made by one person who might not be that great at programming, art, game design, or anything games require, but somehow it's still a lot of fun.

Batman's got a tank!

The best of Arkham games.

Arkham Asylum was the tech demo, City is the full game, Origins is the glitchy DLC, and Arkham Knight gives you a tank, which is cool too.

recommend.

The worst of the Arkham games (so far). They went for "Cinematic feel" and instead just felt the need to grab control from you randomly,, sometimes making you do dumb things and then handing the reigns back like "here you go! You're welcome!". The new areas are poorly designed and there's at least two buildings where there are sections that are just unusable for no apparent reason. Everything feels slightly glitchy, with enemies sliding around the screen along with you as you jump away, to sometimes going to punch someone directly in front and for some reason the game understands that as you wanting to far away to hit someone in the other direction. All that said, it's still Arkham and if you ignore the annoyances, it's not terrible.

it's a money grab, but it's still a decent money grab if you get it cheap.

Superb game for punching LOTS of people in the face. Satisfying.

Rimworld's grandpappy, and it's age shows.

Pros:
- So much depth after the decades of development.
- finally graphics that actually lets new users see what's happening.

Cons:
- UI Is clunky to put it nicely. So much clicking around, and god help you if you mis-click.
- So much depth with a clunky UI means it's really hard to find things at times.

In dire need of a UX expert, but if you can put up with the UI, an amazingly fun game with tons to do and explore.

Is it "Great"? No, but it's really good. Took about 60 hours for the full story.

Crashed a half dozen times, jumped in the wrong direction for no reason many times, enemies warp across the screen sometimes to hit you, the collectables are pretty boring, the side missions are alright, though the DLC challenges focus a lot on one of the most annoying "villains". There's very little interaction you can do at street level with people, I could go on nitpicking, but you get the idea.

But it's Spiderman, and it has some of the best web slinging, swinging, smacking fun around.

still good, edited for task