Recent reviews by Jonuss

As someone who largely ignored Fo76 until now, and was only vaguely aware of the drama and issues the game has had up to this point, I'm impressed by how enjoyable it is. It's no RPG, but playing it as an extension of my favorite gameplay loop in Fo4, that is looting shooting and base building, Fo76 is absolutely worth playing.

Drones feel good to fly, missions are fun, would love for an increased variety of drones, perhaps even the ones that drop grenades. For $2 you can't go wrong.

DCS without the pain. Vague feelings of Ace Combat. Absolutely superb damage and flight models. Great fun singleplayer but made infinitely better with co-op or PvP multiplayer.

Writing that gives you the illusion of choice while actually offering you none. Dialogue that all ends in the same results no matter the options picked. No ability to play anything worse than a chaotic neutral character, no options to actually be an evil person. A NG+ that not only doesn't actually make the experience more challenging and rewarding but actively punishes you for engaging with it.

Somehow it ends up being several steps backwards from even previous Bethesda titles. The weapon and base crafting is markedly worse than Fo4/Fo76, the RPG elements are worse than Skyrim, the open world exploration simply doesn't exist. There's only a small smattering of hand crafted sites that are then spread across the 1000 planets. It's not uncommon to find the same site on the same planet within a few hundred meters of the previous one. The fast travel availability from Oblivion pales in comparison.

This isn't an RPG, nor is it a particularly compelling FPS. It's the absolute most barebones of what could've been the Mass Effect of its time. Instead it ended up being watered down and made into a bland, corporate approved world. There's still tiny slivers of what could've been an amazing new universe, but so much has been cut or poorly implemented that the game ends up being worse than the sum of all its parts.

Bethesda has previously relied on modders to improve and fix their games, but even the worst of them had a compelling core that you could build off of. Starfield is a barren soulless core. Time will tell if modders can do anything to fix the core issues present.

This is like if Terry Davis of TempleOS fame made an MMO. I'm intrigued and deeply, deeply unnerved by the whole affair. The music goes from appealing to creepy, the art style is weirdly uncomfortable, the UI and controls feel like they were designed for fans of VIM. This game is like the sort of game that'd be in the background of a movie, one where they don't want to show a real game so they have the art department whip up something that kind of looks like a game. This is that game.

There's everything you'd expect in a space MMO, combat, PvP, trading, exploration, even corporations, but all of it feels so weirdly implemented, like it was added without knowing *why* a game needs those things.

This game has a certain charm about it that keeps you playing, even though you don't know *why* you keep playing. It's lacking in any meaningful progression other than "number goes up", there's no ships to buy, no plot to follow, no reason to build stations, yet somehow you can't stop playing it.

The dev has been working on this game, or precursors to this game, for near as I can tell two decades. This is the cumulative result of two decades of work and whilst I applaud him for the effort and sheer stubbornness, I'm just not sure I understand how it is as it is before us today.

I wholeheartedly recommend you try this game, just to peer into the strange, unsettling, confusing world of what is by and far the weirdest MMO I've ever played.

This is by and far the best vehicle building game on the market. Having tried many others including Stormworks, Trailmakers, TerraTech, and Scrap Mechanics, this is by and far the best of them.

The level of polish is commendable, not just compared to other early access titles but full releases. There's enough missions, both procedurally generated and handcrafted, to keep you entertained almost indefinitely. The map is huge and with two dozen hours I still haven't explored it fully. The amount of parts is more than adequate for the objectives you'll face, and with some creativity you can build some amazingly complex vehicles, including flying machines.

Then there's the small details, the developers have clearly put a lot of love into the game, from the music, which has no right being as good as it is, to the fact that each time you really get moving on a trip, the music kicks in to accompany you. Or the whimsical inhabitants of Mars, astronauts, worms, turtles and fish, all equipped to handle the harsh planet.

Co-op is fantastic, and by and far the best way to play the game. In the time I've played co-op there's been more excitement and laughter than in the past few *years* of playing other games.

As an avid Destiny player (3,800 hours) I'm willing to put up with a lot of nonsense from Bungie. Lightfall is the first time I've ever deeply regretted buying a DLC for a game.

Plot wise, this was meant to be the beginning of the end, between Lightfall and the next DLC, Final Shape, this was meant to conclude the Light vs Dark saga that Bungie had built up over the past nine years. Instead of that though, it decides to veer hard to the side and take you on a rushed and crazy romp through a neon city we didn't know about until just now. Most of the campaign is a tutorial for strand, the new subclass, and the interactions with characters both old and new is cringy, painful, and tone deaf. This is the apocalypse but as a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Marvel movie.

Whatever writing team they had for the previous DLC Witch Queen is clearly gone and working on something else, this was some of the most poorly written world building, character development, motives, and overall plot.

The actual good plot takes place in the seasonal campaign, which you can buy for $10 separately from this steaming pile.

Strand as an ability is subpar at best. The strand you experience in the campaign is not the same as the one you get once it's over. Cooldown timers are so long they neuter the high speed, movement based class. Grappling is only possible once every couple of minutes, instead of every 5 seconds in the campaign, and in any content harder than base level, you'll 100% die if you're swinging around.

Please go buy literally anything else. Bungie has really dropped the ball.

With the disastrous launch of KSP 2 it feels right leaving a review for KSP 1. Don't waste your time or money or hardware getting the sequel, this is the definitive space game right here. Grab the complete edition for the same price, download the CKAN mod manager, and get cracking.

Others have tried but were always limited by being forced to conform to the plots of the movies they were released alongside. HL, with its own plot, allows the player to experience an RPG set in the gorgeous world the books and movies helped define. You can tell the game was made by people who truly understand the source material, little details and nods to other works in the franchise are great to see. By far GOTY material, even if you're not a previous HP fan the gameplay is enough to keep you playing.

Bought for $3.50, game blue screened PC every time I tried to launch, internet searches tell me this is just something that happens. Refunded.