First Review of ARA

[Sandro]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zUQ854139g&ab_channel=MoleUndermanagement

[Flickmann]

Explorminate do excellent reviews so I eagerly await their verdict. Professional reviewers are worth about as much as a dog turd stain on my shoe.

[TEKK3N]

I'll play it on Gamepass first. If I like it I will buy it on Steam.

[JDPUK]

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Escrito originalmente por Velimirius:

70 on pcgamer

you only get above a 7 if you are agenda driven at PC gamer.

I used to subscribe to PC Gamer in the 90s when it was a magazine with a CD-DVD demo disc, that company died a long time ago, I don't recognize them any longer...

[Ellye]

Ignoring the numerical scores because arbitrary numbers are basically meaningless, I like what I read so far.

Pretty much aligns with what I expected, a solid new foundation with some rough edges and some under-developed areas. Not surprising considering it's the studio first foray into this genre.

[Ba$ed]

Escrito originalmente por JDPUK:

Escrito originalmente por GuNNuP:

you only get above a 7 if you are agenda driven at PC gamer.

I used to subscribe to PC Gamer in the 90s when it was a magazine with a CD-DVD demo disc, that company died a long time ago, I don't recognize them any longer...

I have exactly the same opinion. Shills are everywhere in games media today, which is why mainstream games media is ignored by many. None are to be trusted.

[Octavus]

IGN gave it a 6. I'm kind of surprised by this.

https://www.ign.com/articles/ara-history-untold-review

[Sgt. Barnes]

Those numbers mean nothing here, you can't compare this game to basically anything but future civ 7. And the only thing it will be better than ARA if it will run smoothly 4k on let's say 2080ti while ARA will have little fps on 4080-4090. I am not even telling they probably didn't play few games with various setups until the end and compare that to let's say civ 6.

[FredDie]

Checked couple reviews, few mentioned poor AI, no go for me since im all about the challenge. Looks great tho visually.

[Spacemutiny]

I agree the poor AI has me concerned. I was going to buy this day one but I’m waiting. If the AI is not decent the game is pointless to play.

[Ellye]

Escrito originalmente por Octavus:

IGN gave it a 6. I'm kind of surprised by this.

https://www.ign.com/articles/ara-history-untold-review

Echoes the two main complaints that pretty much all other reviews have:

1. The game has UI issues to deal with the economy system on a larger scale, becoming a chore when you have many cities to manage. No notifications about idle specialists, unused slots, no good ledger-like list of your economy, etc.

2. The diplomacy is very barebones and the "knockout" mechanic that removes civilizations from the game makes diplomacy even less impactful as some of your allies might just disappear.

I don't mind the diplomacy being basic, to be honest, but I do hope UI improvements are something the devs work on the future.