Recent reviews by DeganGreasel

Got defeated in battle, was sleepy so decided to exit to main menu. Now save game is gone.

Enjoyed it. A little short, seems to end abruptly, or maybe it's just me wanting more.

Imagine dating a pretty lady and every time you get close to kissing her, she kicks you in the nuts. But, each time you try again you get a little closer and in the end, the kiss is totally worth it. That's this game!

Usual stuff goes here. Graphics aren't everything. Looks simple, but it isn't really. Easy to learn hard to master, blah blah, blah.

Get this, you can kill invaders by opening the airlocks and sufocating them!

Buy it!

Take the combat from the Batman "Arkham" series, mix in Assassin's Creed parkour and stealth, add some Middle Earth lore, and you have Shadow of Mordor.

I can't really say anything else, if you played those games, you know what to expect. If you liked those games, you will like this. I haven't put enought time in to say the story is good or not, as running around slaying orc is just too much fun. The nemesis system is interesting too. Unique orcs that get promoted if they manage to kill you.

I should have bought it a lot sooner, but I was worried I wouldn't like the combat. Now, to be honest, I played the Batman games for Batman, and I never really liked the combat, but in this game it feels more refined and flows so naturally. I really am enjoying it.

Let me start by saying that having played MMOs since they were a "thing", I HATE free to play games. They have single handedly ruined the MMO genre. Instead of buying the game like Guild Wars 1&2, or paying a monthly fee like WoW, it's considered totally normal now to be nickel and dimed to death while you play a shoddy bug ridden game until the developer abandons it to go make another WoW clone and start the process over again. It's even leached into the single player market with needign day one DLCs to play the damn games. All these free to plays should have stayed sub based with unending trials, free accounts limited in level and gear, or should have gone the buy to play route. Thats said, nothing I can do about it, the market is what it is, here is my review of STO:

I've played this game off and on since launch, before it was on Steam and went free to play. It's gotten quite grindy at endgame, but what MMO isn't. You'll probably love this game if you like Star Trek. Ground game is decent, ship combat is a lot of fun. Character creation is very good also, as per any Cryptic game, play as any of the iconic races or an alien of your own creation.

Very fair free to play model also, imho one of the fairest. Expansions are all free. Everything in the cash shop can be earned ingame with time. The cash shop consists of mostly cosmetic items, along with ships for every tier, and quality of life upgrades, such as inventory and bank space. The only must buy item would probably be a tier 6 ship for endgame. Up until then, you get a free ship every ten levels. I only say must buy because you will hit max level long before you have saved up enough to buy it for free.

They do go on sale, and the in cash shop currecy "ZEN" will go on sale once in a while also. But, you can wait and save dilithium, the main ingame currency, for a few months and trade it for ZEN to buy a ship. Why not wait til a sale, drop 20 on the game, and buy a ship and a costume? You've paid more for games that only provided 20 hours of gameplay I'm sure, and the developers really do deserve money for their work.

Now, about the pay to win calls claims from people..

Yes, it works the other way and you can also trade ZEN for dilitium, which is used in upgrading your gear. It's less "buying" gear, and more about speeding up the upgrade process. The thing is, it's not required. You can do all endgame with the highest available MK gear without upgrading it. It makes it so you can do daily mission and reputation grinds a little faster on alts and it makes your wee-wee feel bigger. But really, why spend real money so you can upgrade all your gear to max, skipping most of the game, to then cry you have nothing to do in game? The grind is there for a reason. Don't like the grind? Maybe you should rethink playing MMOs.

Call it pay to win if you want, To me, pay to win is paying cash to obtain items that can't be earned in game, or buyign gear that is locked behind raid progression. That's not the case here, but whatever. If you think speeding up what is basicly crafting pay to win, I will never be able to change your mind. Stay away from the game.

I think there should always be something you have to pay for in a free to play game. See the games that try to be super fair and only put comsmetic stuff in thier cash shops? They are either suffering from no income or already dead, because if people don't have to pay, most will not pay. Since when does free to play mean free to access all content anyway? Why would a company make a game and then expect nothign in return? Yet, when they do want something in return of thier product, they are villianized by cheap spoiled children. If that offends you, stay away from the game.

8/10, Probably a 7/10 for non Trek fans, but it's free, so at least try it. Only game I know with ship to ship space combat that isn't Eve.