Recent reviews by Emperor of Man

After 180+ hours of playing Horizon: Zero Dawn I'm telling you, this is a fantastic game.

Pros:
- Great gameplay that will stick you to the game until the last moment and doesn't get boring after a while.
- Graphics are excellent. Aloy, her enemies, the environment, nature, and even the fruits. :))
- Good music and sounds.
- A lot of thought and effort has been used on machines' design. They are good, and fighting them is fun.
- The story is good, both main, and side quests. Storytelling, even better.
- Aloy is a likable character.

Cons:
- By far the biggest negative of the game is the disgusting type of feminism that the game suffers from. When feminism is about strong women I like it (as I said I like Aloy). But the thing that makes me want to throw up is the way men are being pictured in the game. Almost every man in this game is either evil, weak or stupid. Even when the game surprises you with a good man, he starts to apologize to Aloy for stupid reasons, so that you understand he's only good because he's the apologetic "I'm sorry" type of man that is being advertised in the modern world! Sometimes this simple factor makes playing the game a torture, and it almost convinced me to give it a negative review. Please guys, stop receiving funds from the groups that do this to your game in exchange for money...

- Other than that, the game is almost perfect. No big complaints, I only liked it more if the gameplay was a bit less focused on Aloy's bow, and other weapons were also useful in different conditions.

Great game, which is very, very similar to the studio's previous games, Shadow Tactics.

Pros:
- This genre is amusing as hell, once you get to know how to play it. It's a bit hard, but you have big problems and strong tools in your hand to solve those problems. The way I like a hard game to be. :)
- Good enough graphics, very good art, extremely good sound and music. As mimimi games are known for.
- The game catches the atmosphere of the wild west well.
- Characters are likable, as always. They start off as ordinary people, but once you get to know them, WOW!
- I really liked the story, and also the awesome storytelling.
- The save system works well, and doesn't let you lose your progress.
- Game is long enough. :)

Cons:
- Maybe gameplay is a bit too much similar to Shadow Tactics. They aren't messing with the winning formula. ;)
- Can their engine get upgraded, with state of the art technical graphics? If possible, it would be great.
-Small bugs, here and there.

All in all, a very good game. More Desperados, and maybe even more Shadow Tactics. If you liked the previous games, definitely get it. :)

This expansion is every bit as good as the original Shadow Tactics, and everything that made that game a masterpiece is here too.

Pros:
Fun gameplay, strong characters, great (albeit sad) story, good music and sounds, and all in all a very polished game.

Cons:
Shorter than the original game (it's an expansion after all). Not much improvements over the original game; you can consider it more of the same (which is great if you ask me).

Hitman 2 was a very good game, and every bit as good as the first game was. It's basically more missions for the same game with the same engine, which is fine by me.
I liked the story, the maps and the gameplay. It's as fine as it has always been, and as polished as we know IOI makes their games to be.
I specially like Hitman 1 and 2 for some of the ideas they give you. The organizations which are being discussed, the world problems, the strange acts of a criminal mind, the horrible things that the world elite does to ensure their survival if everything goes south, and so on... These have always been special in hitman series, but very notable in the recent games.
I don't think there's anything to dislike here. Maybe the biggest negative for me was the occasional server problems, which makes you wait for them to come back online, or play offline (which isn't as good).
All in all, I highly recommend it. If the price is right for you get it, you won't regret.

I remember how surprised I was, when TWD became the Game of the Year 2012. I was like, what the hell? This game? How? And don't blame me, it's not my favorite genre, and so it took years for me to buy and play it.
Now that I've done it, I see what's so great about it. It's a game that deeply involves you with the story. The characters are well written, and the choices you can make are sometimes so hard, with such drastic results that create a unique kind of gameplay for TWD.
I've had my first playthrough, but I'll probably have more. And yes, I definitely recommend this game. :)

A masterpiece of a game. I played once in the old times and bought it in steam to play it again in 2020. It was the first fallout by bethesda, back when they weren't the greedy jerks they are today.
I remember people used to call it "oblivion with guns", and it's a correct name (:D). Same engine, same graphics and many similarities, and almost as good as oblivion.
Graphics are a bit outdated for today, but gameplay is more than a makeup for that. I also like the story a lot, and sound and music are good too.
These were the games that made bethesda famous, and then they went ahead and betrayed people's trust with microtransactions and subscriptions and crap like that...
One last thing: I played it on windows 10 with a few tweaks I learned from searching google. Wasn't such a big deal for me.
So, get it and enjoy. :)

I must say, at first it was a gameplay video of Dying Light 2 that attracted me to this gem. The idea of being through hell at day, only to face even worse at night looked very cool to me. 😘
I saw its screenshots, its videos and its 95% positive rate, drooled over it, bought it, and played 76 hours of this masterpiece. I've played hundreds of games and I've built a special place in my mind for my most memorable games. Dying Light earned a well-deserved position there.


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The (+):

- I really loved the story. It's not like the average zombie game where some scientific research went wrong and now everybody except you and your hot gf are zombies! It's realistic (it actually reminded me of this covid-19 apocalypse). 😁
- The characters are strong and memorable. Just look at Rahim, Jade or Rais. Good or evil, they are all awesome.
- Gameplay is good with a lot of different enemy classes and the tactics you need to learn to fight them. IMHO it's a bit hard, specially before you get your hands on the firearms (I like hard games).
- Graphics are great, both from the technical and art viewpoints.
- Music and sound effects are good.
- The excitement and fear. The way the game makes you **** your pants when you understand your quest has taken long and it's 8:45 PM now, and your wisest choice is to say to hell with it and run to the closest safe house before the night starts.
- The following DLC is even better than the game itself.
- I didn't find many bugs. A few minor ones here and there, nothing important.
- Volatiles. You ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ respectable enemies! Hell, I Can't believe I'm listing you as a pro! 😁

The (-):
Hard to find them, but I managed to find a few just because it's you:

- Dialogues are sometimes a bit cliche. I don't like the "no! You shouldn't die! I should die instead" thingy games sometimes have.
- The game became too much difficult for me at the middle, before you acquire your first firearm. You must know that your desperation is a part of gameplay and the skill tree doesn't make you a huge badass like it does in some other games.
- After you're done you will suffer from the Dying Light withdrawal syndrome, and they keep postponing the Dying Light 2 release date. 😬

The last expansion of the first DoW game by Relic. It's old, but I still enjoy playing it a lot.

After reading lots of recommendations from friends and good reviews from the community I got this game and played it, and I liked it a lot. To sum it up, simply buy it if you liked the Commandos series. The game devs mentioned that it's heavily inspired by Commandos, and it really is. I liked them both, Commandos series and this.

The positive:
- Good enjoyable gameplay. Hard puzzles, different characters, powerful abilities to use. Choose well, and be rewarded.
- Really, really lovely characters. It has been years since I liked a character as much as I liked Oshiro Mugen. You will always be remembered master samurai.
- The game is well polished. A few bugs here and there, but that's all and it's mostly great.
- Very good save system, that helps you through the difficult gameplay. You have very fast normal saves and quicksaves as much as you like, and the game automatically keeps a few of the last quicksaves, so that if a quicksave was done in a bad time you can load the one before that.
- Suitable length. Not too short, not very long.
- Good story.

The negative:
Kind of hard to find a negative (LoL), but here's a few I managed to find)
- Some gameplay elements (like indoor gameplay and item pickup from bodies) existed in Commandos series, but not here. It attracts attention (it's nothing big, and this game has its own unique features too).
- Story could have a better ending (right now it's very realistic though).
- How about a great intro movie in Shadow Tactics 2? :D

All in all, you will love the game like everybody else did. Get it. :)

I've played this masterpiece of a game since 1999, and always enjoyed it. What hours I have here is nothing compared to how much I played it before I got the steam version.

Pros:
- It has great single/multi player gameplay.
- The technology (graphics/sound/animations/...) were cutting edge in 1999, and It never looked bad to me until this day (to each his own of course). :)
- Decent game mods. It has everything a multiplayer FPS game was supposed to offer in those golden days.
- Runs smooth in every windows or graphic card I tried it.
- Extremely polished game.
- Sometimes in a game everything gets messed up in a section of the map, and everybody is shooting others, with 10 different types of bullets flying in the air! These chaos moments of UT was one of the best things in the history of gaming! lol
- Multiplayer still has players after 17 years!
- Better than Quake III! lol

Cons:
- It's not the GotY edition that Epic released back then (with all the extra maps and weapons and farts and the lolz).

All in all, gold never gets outdated, does it? <3