Recent reviews by silver "silber" silver64

Contender for my favorite Half-Life title, as the guns and enemies feel more diverse than HL2 and even the episodes. My opinion is that this is the best of all the HL1 campaigns, including Opposing Force, which I also enjoy quite a bit.

What would be my definitive favorite Half Life game no asterisk if it had a bit of fat trimmed off it.
Still is up there as long as you go in knowing it's a game made by a completely different team, with new weapons, enemies, and progression from HL1.

Skyrim is a game that Bri'ish Youtubers will cut a promo on thinking that they're giving a review to Citizen Kane so that they can pretend they and king of takes, Opinion-Oh, but don't realize they're just complaining about stuff a 12 year old would pick on playing.
Basically, the combat (while interesting in some aspects) is very much lacking in a lotta ways, and there's a lot of quests (and even whole factions) that feel like root canal playing through; most darning of all being the main quest where you are stuck between two rival retirement homes that want your Dragonborn bussy for themselves. Many systems have been downgraded from the previous games: no attributes, no attacking in water (which is both a confounding and annoying change), movement (imo), and less skills to spec into.

However, to give it it's credit; Skyrim still has quite a bit of charm. The world scales better here than in Morrowind or 'blivion, making you feel your character become a truly powerful sicko, and the combat, when it comes to having action RPG esque combat, is the best in the series, bar none. For me, I think Skyrim is a more fully fleshed out take on the direction they wanted Oblivion to go, and while I think I like Oblivion's system of character creation better (as long as you patch it's horrible, horrible issues), I find myself coming back to Skyrim a lot more, which confounded me for a while, since I was Oblivion's strongest warrior. This was until I realized that Skyrim is a very pick up n' play RPG, and when you add that with the QoL and specialization of your experience modding this game (which is quite easy if you know what's up) this game after a while becomes quite cozy.

I have over 1k hours in this god forsaken game, and at most only 3 of it is Vanilla, and while vanilla has qualities I like, you can expand on them quite well in whatever way you like downloading mods, or even less just downloading xEdit.


Tl;dr Skyrim is alright and made extremely replayable through modding. Don't let white people call you cringe for playing it, lol

Buying this game alone technically gives you "Anniversary Edition" which is both an upgrade to old Skyrim (LE), and even to the previous versions of Skyrim Special Edition if you plan on modding, as it actually handles custom scripting better than before.
I.e. if you want new skyrim, just buy this, and as for Skyrim as a game, I've put way too many hours into it, but the modding in robust enough you can turn this game into basically anything you wish it to be.

I wish steam had an ambivalent option for their reviews because honestly, the Anniversary Upgrade is 90% content rushed out as the program used for people to make money off the quality, or particularly the bulk of content, but more of how many things you submitted that could be packaged as individual microtransactions.
tl:dr You're buying a whole lot of hot air, and it makes the game feel somewhat bloated at times.

That all being said, I don't mind some of the new additions, like more diverse armor, and some of the new dungeons.
However, a lot of the new content ranges from kinda mid to arguably mating pressing the lore and setting the game take place in so they can add thing from previous game that makes you pog and go "DUDE, I PLAY EDER SCROLL REDGUARD!!!!" and cream your pants like you left a tub of ice cream in your car on a hot summer day.
Aka it stinks. Also if you're a modder and your stinky mod makes it where the moment I spawn in to the game map and you immediately have a courier run up and deliver me a slip of paper saying I should go down to The Velvet Pickle in Riften to get a quest to get the Nutbuster Dragon Sword of Tags:Nakadashi, then I hate you.

A game that I've shadow put a gorillion hours into but primarily the 40d version, and I have to say, this version is very good. DF's learning cure before was already quite exaggerated, and with this version, if you just look up a guide, or even less just someone playing the game itself, it's very easy to play and do well (and more importantly have fun in).

As a returning player I admittedly do get somewhat frustrated at a handful of changes, as it makes my intuition on how to play change dramatically from previous versions, but the more I play the more I get use to the changes and fin useful ways to use them in stead of how I use to do things, as well as usually finding many other QoL improvements that make this version much more worth playing over 40d.

Dripless on the surface, but is incredibly fun. It has a pretty manageable learning curve and the class customization allows for a lot of interesting and entertaining synergy. Also has the best implementation of Battlefield-esque destructible environments I've seen before. In it's current state there's only a few minor complaints I have with very specific balance decisions which will change over time as the game gets updated and I get less skill issued.

One of my favorite rouelikes ever.
This game gives you so much flexibility in how you can play, and has so much diversity in it's characters and items.

This game is the only real time "fun with math" can ever be true.

As the game stands now, it's waay too bare bones for my liking

One of the most unintentionally funny games ever made; has aged visually like milk, and I love it.

Oblivion was a game that exploded child me's brain as a kid, and I've put an unspeakable amount of time into it (mostly back on 360)

Going back to it as an actual human being though makes you realized just how incredibly messed up this game is in many aspects. I WOULD NOT PLAY THIS GAME UNMODDED. The combat is a pool noodle fighting simulator with some basic rps sometimes, the world scales like a shonen manga that's way past its prime and sucks at power scaling, and the worst yet, the leveling system that promotes playing like you have paranoid schizophrenia or just accepting you can never sleep again or risk waking up in a world where everything is the same but the local cancer ridden mutts down the street can now mating press your mom and steal your lunch money in front of you and you can't do a thing to stop them.

What I'm saying is, not even counting bugs, the game's basic systems are broken in game ruining ways.
However, it you're not a coward and just mod the game, stuff can get wacky and extremely fun. Curing Oblivion of its many plagues unlocks a silly little dungeon crawler that has a lot of charm and great character expression. The main story and factions are generally quite good, and when dungeons aren't just walk in straight line and turn around, feel quite good.

For the DLC, Shivering Isles is basically Oblivion Pokemon Platinum where you get to go the the based realm to crazyland where the Little Caesars only sell 'Normal' Bread. It's fantastic,
Knights of the Nine is just a really cool faction quest added in, also very very good.
Everything else can familiarize themselves with the wrinkles of my nether region.

I remember only having SI and KotN on X Box 306, so I never had any of these honkey DLCs like horse armor or the DLC houses that make it where you can instantly become a gorillionaire demigod.
I hate in mods where you spawn in and instantly you're the heir of Versailles and Epstein Island, but I never realized the origin of this annoying trope would be Bethesda themselves.

Tl:dr:tl:dr Oblivion is the weird middle child between Morrowind and Skyrim, but I think it's quite fun and interesting as long as you mod it to not be CBT.