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The coming new "game" isn't a new game, it's an expansion pack for SS4!

Let me be blunt - the game does have performance issues. On a modest i5-8300 and 1050Ti, I had to turn the graphics almost as low as possible on the vast majority of levels in order to never drop below 60. However, if you can live with ugly graphics and/or you have a good PC, Serious Sam 4 does a great job taking the Serious Sam formula and bringing it into the modern era, kinda like Doom 2016 did. Sam is more mobile than ever before, the gunplay is better than in previous games, the levels are HUGE and the combat design is as much as ever. The story and characters are very peculiar. I personally enjoyed it and was entertained by the dialogs but I can definitely imagine some people will find it cringe. Oh, and the soundtrack pleasantly surprised me. It's actually pretty good.

Formerly standalone game, now a part of Epic's sellout pen. Was decent while it lasted, now uninstall and forget.

A shallow experience with very little content. Puzzles consist of walking and occasionaly left clicking, but mainly walking. If Portal is 10/10, this is 4/10. Not worth your money.

Great game, great devs. PRAVDA VÍTĚZÍ

I've got to F1 through the 2017 game. The game was fun but the career mode was a bit bare bones and, more importantly, I was ultimately held back by my gamepad. It wasn't responsive enough and not wanting to invest in a wheel, I was left frustrated.
Fast forward to 2019 and I picked up this game during the free weekend trial. The experience was night and day. First the graphics. The game looks stunning and the drivers finally look like people and not monsters. But the controls was what cemented this for me. Suddenly, I felt in control, even on a pad. The career mode got needed polish, with the press, driver transfers and unique research trees. There's a lot of content here which can last you a long time and I haven't even tried the multiplayer yet. I was hooked and had to buy the game immediately and I can recommend you do the same if you like racing games and especially if you're a fan of Formula 1.

I played a lot of Paradox games. I played HoI2, HoI3, EU3, Victoria 2, CK2, EU4 and HoI4. And Stellaris might be the best of them yet.

First, the superficial stuff. The game looks great. The galaxy map is nice and clean but when you zoom in to a star or a space battle, you got some nice visuals. It's not RTX Battlefield 5 but it's pleasant to look at and there are mods to turn it up a notch.

Now onto the important stuff. Gameplay. Unlike other Paradox games, Stellaris is not confined to the box of real-life history. It's a sci-fi space that takes place in the future. This means YOU build the gameworld. Not only can you design your own empire to play as, you can design the AI empires as well. The possiblities for roleplay are vast and the game supports this.

Stellaris also might be the best balanced game from Paradox. First of all, playing tall (as opposed to typical wide - conquer all you see) is a legitimate strategy. The combat is deep, revolving around this rock-paper-scissors system. You choose your fleet composition from four types of combat ships (from small corvettes to large battleships) and upon these ships you can put four types of defense (base hull hit points, armor, shield and evasion) and three-plus-some-extras types of weapons and other equipment. This means there is no "best" army composition. One thing counters the other and you need to change and adapt your fleets depending on who you face. Throw in the need to micro and the multi-tiered technology system and you got the deepest combat system in a Paradox game yet (yes, even deeper than Hearts of Iron).

But to be honest, all of this is secondary compared to the main reason Stellaris is my favorite Paradox game - the DLCs. Whereas Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis are bloated with broken DLCs and Hearts of Iron is greedy because it puts diplomacy buttons which should have been in the main game, Stellaris is both fair and generous. The DLCs are thematic and they never contain a random QoL improvement to force you buy the whole package (unlike for example Art of War or Rights of Man for EU4, Legacy of Rome, Sons of Abraham or Customization Pack for CK2 or every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DLC for HoI4). This means you are never "forced" to buy a DLC, you can easily decide based on what extra content you would like. Wanna play as robots? Get Synthetic Dawn. Wanna build a Death Star? Get Apocalypse. The game doesn't feel hollow without these, they are truly optional. I, for example, have made the decision to not buy Apocalypse because I DON'T like destroying planets and the game doesn't fell half-baked because I didn't get the DLC.

And this ties in nicely to the second part of this. Stellaris is the first Paradox game to do something the other games or starting to do only slowly if at all - reworking core parts of the game. The development team is brave and not tied by doing things like the previous game (because there is none) and so they aren't afraid to rework mechanics they weren't entirely happy with. It started with interstellar travel, then the border system and in the next update (as of 30th August) a rework of resources and planet development is coming. Of course, EU4, for example, reworked its province development. But you couldn't interact with unless you bought Common Sense. In Stellaris, these large reworks ARE PART OF THE FREE UPDATES. In fact, during the border rework, they even made something that was part of a DLC available to everyone to make the game experience coherent and to allow themselves more design space. This is the CORE reason why the base game alone is a full experience. You will never play the game only to find a button you can't click because you haven't spend 20 more bucks on the game. This is in vast contrast to CK2 where YOU CAN'T EVEN PLAY AS TWO THIRDS OF THE MAP BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T SPEND 100 EUROS ON 7 OTHER DLCS.

And these are the reasons why Stellaris is a great game. I honestly can't believe the same company that charges 15 euros for Together for Victory made a game so friendyl to its consumers. So go ahead and support it. You're gonna have a good time.

Miyazaki je zpět, aby vám vykopl zuby v nejnovějším vydání hry, která způsobila víc sebevražd než komenty peasantů na PCMR stránkách. Pan Miyazaki, po zkušenostech z Bloodbornu, rozjíždí kolotoč zcela novým směrem. Hra je rychlejší, krvavější a nesmlouvavější. Pryč jsou koridory z dvojky a zpět jsou otevřené lokace. Hra běží na Bloodborne enginu a vypadá lépe než kdy dřív. HUD je nově vyleštěný, zbraně dostaly nové pohyby a hra se na klávesnici s myší ovládá tak plynule, že až vám někdo řekne, že bez gamepadu je to sebevražda, nacpěte mu jeho PeasantDevice hluboko do prdele. Samozřejmě hra není bez chyb. Občas doskakujou objekty, poise tak nějak nefunguje, invaze jsou vesměs gangbangy a From se pořád nenaučili na PC změnit nápovědy Xboxových tlačítek na tlačítka na klávesnici. Ale to nic nemění na tom, že pokud jste hráli jedničku a dvojku a stále jste naživu, není důvod vynechat další kolo.

10/10 - Vyrazil jsem si z klávesnice tlačítka Alt a F4, ale jsem duševně naplněn (Special thanks to Nameless King).

I uninstalled the game twice during my first playthrough. Each time only to install it back after a couple of hours. If that's not a sign of a great game I don't know what is.

10/10 - I hate my life and I hate you but would play again.

This is the Steam of games. A money printer.

11/10 Would spend 250$ for in-game hats again.

Not bad but the graphics aren't that great and there IS a lot of content missing compared to the original. The only thing here that the original didn't have is the Co-op, so unless you want to play with a buddy get the original.