Recent reviews by Momo

Valve, if you wanna abandon TF2, fully commit to it. You either update it to fix the game and add more crates and content that will give you money or you *fully* abandon it. The current model of not doing anything support wise in terms of fighting cheaters or bringing new meaningful content and fixes to the game while adding new cosmetic cases and crates from time to time is what truly makes this situation awful. If the situations with Dota, CS2 and TF2 aren't enough of a warning to what's gonna eventually going to happen to Deadlock (as a multiplayer live service videogame) I don't know what else is.

Go ♥♥♥♥ yourself, Take-Two.

On the Microtrasanctions side of things: CAPCOM has been adding MTX to their singleplayer games for years now. When Resident Evil 4 Remake and DMC 5 came out, if you tried to point out the microtransactions everyone would look at you and say "game is perfect, mtx not necessary at all, stop hating" and the games would go on to have amazing reviews all around. Dragon's Dogma 2 is not that different. Literally everything that they try to sell you as MTX you can get in-game by just playing just like the other games, so no need to lie and spread misinformation (which, I know, it's literally imposible on the internet and even less so in this age of ADHD-drama-of-the-week seeking zoomers) but c'mon.

On the performance side of things: That's not me defending CAPCOM at all btw, the game runs like absolute trash and no matter how in-depth the character interactions are, it's no excuse to destroy CPU performance the way the game currently does. The game is fantastic though and I am having a blast with it, but it's sad that I need to cap my framerate to 30 fps on a Ryzen 5900x and a RTX 2080 Super just to not have variable framerate, stutters and framepacing issues. In that side of things the game ABSOLUTELY deserves to be blasted with negative reviews since the developers are straight up lying to you on the steam store page if you go to the "Minimum and Recommended PC requirements". Since it's a third person RPG type of game I don't mind having it capped to 30 FPS much but what I do mind is the random FPS drops that absolute tank performance bringing my game to the low 10s for 30 seconds at times (probably denuvo?). It's extremely sad because there's a very good game behind all of this trashfire and the developers need to fix it ASAP.

I *barely* give this game a positive review because of how fun and big the game actually is, but in this current state if you're not willing to play at 30 FPS with intermitent drops in performance and terrible frame pacing don't even think about getting it. Performance is hurting how much I want to play and the overall enjoyment of my first playthrough, so I will come back to edit this review after some more hours of playtime.

"Requires 3rd-Party Account: PlayStation Network (Supports Linking to Steam Account)"

Until that goes away and the game is restored so it can be bought again in all of the Sony blacklisted countries, my review stays negative.

Very beautiful, fun to play and relaxing open-world game. Tallnecks are best boys.

Step 1: flashbang the baby
Step 2: magdump the dog
Step 3: if it breathes, it's an active combatant and a threat

Bethesda's magnum opus. I can't get enough of this game, completely addicted. Thanks Todd.

Call of Duty but good and with more Space.

Edit after 7 more hours of playing: Still CoD but better and still with way more Space.

"Randy where's the funny thumbdrive?" edition™

Pros:

-The best animations, weapon designs and gunplay of the whole series.
-Good audio design, with reverb mechanics when you're on interiors and caves. Audio in general is a step-up from older games. (The music isn't, though)
-Much needed quality of life improvements and endgame balancing. New planets to visit and new gameplay mechanics and interesting classes to play with.
-The graphics are nice and clean, and while new graphic technologies are a nice addition to the borderlands series (PBR shading and materials, subsurface scattering...) it still maintains the trademark artstyle of Borderlands.
-Claptrap is still annoying (well done) but I still find his humor on point most of the time.

Cons:

-Terribly unoptimized. Stuttering is constant and a mess. Unless you have an extremely powerful and overkill CPU that can basically brute-force the poor optimization / denuvo mess, you're probably going to run against some heavy stuttering.
-The UI is way more cluttered than it really has to. I have trouble finding stuff on it. It also barely works on PC, since switching weapons from your inventory to your backpack is a mess (Double click to equip a weapon, really?) oh, and also, no stats comparison when hovering an item. You have for some reason to click it first.
-The music is nothing to write about. Borderlands 1 and 2 had much better music.
-The dynamic shadows casted by the sun Elpis are inclredibly blurry and low resolution even in Ultra, a problem that Borderlands, Borderlands 2 and the Pre-Sequel (all 3 running on Unreal Engine 3, a much older engine) didn't had. The shadows in those games are crisp and defined.
-The worst writting in the whole series, feels incredibly uninspired. Some of the worst (if not, the worst) characters also in the series.
-I can't stress it enough, the writting is HORRIBLE. Characters are unlikeable and anoying and they only spew outdated memes that were funny like 5 to 8 years ago, and the way most of the NPCs talk is just cringe and doesn't fit Borderlands at all. A straight up downgrade from past games in every aspect regarding writting.
-Most of the sidequests are tedious and feel uninspired. "Get me coffee because I am addicted to it and that's my whole personality"-levels of tedious.
-The villains of the game are the worst in all of the Borderlands games. They're literally twitch streamers / influencers that ask their viewers to trade Eridium for twitch chat emotes / subscriptions. And yes, they say "Like, Subscribe and Obey" as if that was cool.
-The DLCs of this game are a scam. 2 Season pases for some holy reason. One of them has the usual 4 "major" DLCs which in this case are low effort cashgrabs with some interesting moments except for the last DLC, Bounty for Blood, that one is just plain ass. Also, not only the 2nd season pass is a scam, it's full of cut content that is being sold for full price including a "Director's Cut" and a "Designer's Cut".

-I am still waiting for the "Writer's Cut" because that's the only DLC I would gladly pay.

Cons but with spoilers:

-Ava.
-No seriously, Ava. Just Ava. Everything that is wrong with this game can be summarized with that word, Ava. EVERYTHING about Ava is wrong.
-Maya's death is undeserved, cheap, stupid and it comes as stupid shock value that does nothing but degrade the quality of the story and give the middle finger to Borderlands fans.
-The Calypsos are trash and badly written.
-The ending is awful. That cheap Ava monologue exposed with 0 emotion, that frozen Lilith in the sky with no animations whatsoever that feels ultra cheap, and basically killing everyone on Elpis by turning the moon into a miniature sun with the Firehawk sign on it... sigh...
-Tannis should've not become a Siren.
-This game is a big "♥♥♥♥ YOU" to the fundamentals of how Sirens have worked since the beginning of the franchise.
-The final boss AKA Tyreen the Destroyer is bland. And yes, I very much prefer the Destroyer from Borderlands 1 to this.
-I am not forgiving this franchise for killing Maya.

TL;DR: Play this game with the dialogues completely muted (and probably the music now that you're on it) and skip all the cutscenes. This is best played as a no-story, simple looter shooter. Also, there's no Moxxi's Underdome in this game, so basically a 0/10.

PS: Randy, why did you block me on Twitter.

Spent the entire evening with 3 strangers pointing at a giant gold nugget while screaming "WE'RE RICH".

10/10