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I've been playing Diablo since D2. Whilst I don't outright hate Diablo 4, it's just not it. It has dozens of premium currencies and it just hands you rare loot constantly. The storyline is extremely generic and Lord of Hatred literally relies on a PLOT McGuffin.

The NPC's incessantly interrupt gameplay with boring story and endless exposition. This is an ARPG for gods sake. I do not want to be spoon-fed a story that's generic. Give me a quest, let me go do it in the world. Tell the story with the environment.

The scaling combat is absolutely awful as well. Although combat itself flows reasonably well, there is no sense of accomplishment. No sense of skill and no real sense of progress.

The only thing the game gets right are the environments. It's a great looking game. However, they break immersion by having pretty much every mob type in every game zone. You'll be fighting hell demons in regular fields in the game world. There's no sense of localized trouble. In Diablo 2, the desert zone had desert themed monsters. In D4, every monster appears everywhere and it takes away from the environmental story telling that made older games better.

The game itself, is fairly average. You can burn some time and it's okay, but honestly, it isn't worth investing significant time into. It's the type of ARPG that you play once, set down and never play again. I don't want to ever have to endure the storyline more than once. It genuinely spews mindless story with generic characters constantly.

If you want a better ARPG, play D2: Resurrected or POE1 or POE2. This one, only pick it up if you can get the entire collection for like $20.

Played for maybe 15 minutes. Garbage graphics, poor animations, no end goal. Seems like the kind of trash not worth bothering with.

Inzoi may have had promise but the whole experience has been soured by extremely poor Valve steam support. I want a refund because of excessive stuttering, gameplay bugs and issues and Valve absolutely categorically refuse to issue one because the play time is over two hours. I'll probably charge this back.

The game itself seemed interesting but its largely hot garbage with tons of game breaking bugs and performance issues. If you buy this, create a character quickly and use a prebuilt house so you can test the gameplay and refund it within the two hour window. Also, Valve WILL NOT have your back.

This game gave me PTSD. 11/10. Would recommend.

Satisfactory is pretty much what this game is, a tired old cliche now for sure.

Satisfactory has some great building mechanics and overall is really enjoyable. It gives you large maps to play around on, all the resources you could possibly want and room to expand and grow your base.

There aren't too many threats to worry about in the game world, or at least not on the green fields map. I haven't tried the other maps yet as I've been so engrossed in the building mechanics. There are a lot of options when it comes to base building.

The obvious comparison to make with this game is to Factorio. There are similarities but they are very different games when it comes down to it. Overall, this game has great graphics, runs smoothly and offers a great deal of freedom.

As to whether you should get it? Absolutely! I suspect this game could easily suck another hundred hours of my life away, and I'm glad to give it. It's really fun!

Kane Lives!

This demo is fantastic!

The classic Resident Evil games were always my favourite. This captures the atmosphere of the original Resident Evil 2 and does away with the cheesy bad acting and tank controls of the original.

The Raccoon City Police Department looks fantastic and the game has some really excellent combat mechanics. When wandering the halls of the police department you can see the desparate attempts the police made to fortify the station.

There are chairs, barbed wire and other environmental hazards piled high in a haphazard way in an attempt to seal off the overrun portions of the station. As you search through the detritus you'll find police reports and notes detailing the final days of the police department. You can even see the desparation in the living arrangements were officers attempted to live in the main entrance hall of the police department.

If you keep your eyes open you'll notice the very first reports of incidents that occurred pinned to the walls, along with missing persons reports and so forth.

And then there's the zombies. The zombies hold true to the original resident evil 2, only now they are in full visceral detail. The game is action packed, beautiful and runs extremely well.

This isn't just a tribute act, this is a whole new ball game.

Let me put it this way. I've watched Star Trek since I was a kid. I aspired to be something better because of the inspiration TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise instilled in me. I dreamt of being on a crew on a star ship when I was a young teenager. Hell, I became a software engineer in part because of Star Trek.

To strap on my HMD and join my first game, I was excited. I straight up shed a tear whilst playing. It feels like that time has finally come. It feels like I'm home. Playing with other strangers, all taking it seriously, that was a defining moment in gaming for me.

Something I've never really felt before. If you have WMR, an Oculus or Vive and you love Trek, you have to buy this game.

It's everything you imagined a Trek game could be.

So, this game has been in development since 2013 and graphically, it looks wonderful and the audio is quite good too.

There's a lot of attention to detail in the environments and it's mostly quite a fun game. You can play as rioters or as the police. There's a system in place where dependent on your and the other faction actions during the course of the riot or protest you can gain bonuses for the next mission.

Sadly however I completed the Italy campaign in a little under 20 minutes. There are a few other campaigns, but it seems a little too short of a game to be worth buying at this point.

The game it self is fun. It crashes to desktop constantly however. In its current state it's unplayable. Avoid.