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One of the best remakes ever made; beat it six times. Buy it.

Campaign: Excellent
Multiplayer: Excellent
Warzone: Mediocre
Zombies: Mediocre
DMZ: Mediocre
Ranked: Atrocious

Cult of the Lamb is a roguelike survival game that allows you to grow and maintain your own cult of cute creatures and either raise them up into productive members or society or sacrifice them for their meat.

While the roguelike elements and survival elements are both core to this game, neither of them go too far in depth and I'm sure most players are used to more challenging experiences in other games. There really is no late-game, so once you complete the story, there's not much else to do. There is a lot of cult customization in terms of base building and follower traits, but besides that, once the credits role, you're pretty much done.

The story is told in a way similar to Hollow Knight, where you progress through the world and meet other creatures that help fill in the lore and further the plot. The campaign can be completed in around 10-12 hours and is rooted in dark themes of cults and elder gods but also coated in cuteness from its NPC's and art style.

This is a really fun game and I would recommend it for anyone.

After I watched Crowbcat's video on Back4Blood, I immediately stopped playing and uninstalled it.

Valve is on record for saying that they only make games to solve unique problems that they see in video games. After watching that video from Crowbcat, it is abundantly clear that Valve was the reason why Left4Dead was successful, not Turtlerock.

Left4Dead came out in 2008, 13 years before Back4Blood, and it does pretty much everything better. Do not waste your time with this lazy reboot when L4D and L4D2 are better in every possible way.

he chose violence, not me. i did it by the books.

watch your friends die while you laugh simulator

No Man's Sky has come a long way since it's horrendous and unfinished launch in 2016. 5 years later, almost all of the features that they initially promised are now in the game in some capacity on top of hundreds of other features that they never promised, all of which have been added free of charge. For being made by a small studio, No Man's Sky is a testament to how far a game can rise and how successful an initially poor product can come. I want to touch on a few things that stand out to me for the sake of this review, so I'm going to split it into positives and negatives.

Positives:
- The game let's you do whatever you want, you aren't locked into playing a certain way
- Expansive and dynamic solar systems, including rare resources, ecology and cross breeding/gene splicing
- Base building/exocraft construction
- Multiplayer nexus with daily missions for exclusive rewards
- Starship and multitool diversity and customization
- Consistent update cycle

Negatives:
- Very repetitive gameplay loop
> Get in ship, fly to planet, land, scan ecology, get in ship, fly to planet, etc
- Buggy
> Texture issues, saves being corrupted, random crashes are all still present after 5 years
- Not enough variation between planets
> After you visit about 8 solar systems, you've seen every planet type

I really enjoy the game, but I've seen many of my friends leave the game after playing for about 10-15 hours because they find it too repetitive. I completed the main story in about 30 hours and after that the rest of the side quests feel very trivial by comparison. The recent expedition update provides a good way to get people to come back and earn rewards through gameplay, but there is still a while to go before No Man's Sky can truely become a self-sustaining game. If you really enjoy space/adventure games, this is going to be a great purchase. If you dislike games that put you in a constant loop of grinding for materials, you may want to watch some videos on the game first before putting your money down, because even though the game is constantly getting updated with new things to do, the core gameplay loop has remained the same.

when you're minding your own business then every npc asks for your entire uranium stockpile

After nearly attaining 100% completion of the game (some achievements are glitched), I can confidently say that Cyberpunk is one of my favorite games I have played in a long time. It undoubtedly has many issues, such as no vehicle customization, clearly unfinished police/wanted system, and lack of gun customization and guns in general. The world feels quite large but also quite empty at the same time, with most buildings being there for aesthetic.

Another complaint I want to address that I have not seen enough people talk about is the lackluster romance system. NPC's are locked into a specific sexuality so you cannot romance them if you choose the opposite gender to play, which limits player choice and agency. Outside of story NPC's, there are only a couple of other instances where you can have an intimate encounter with someone, which, once again, makes the world feel more empty even though it is quite large. Also, driving sucks. It's just bad.

As far as what I enjoyed, the story and side quests are phenomenal; some of the best in any open world game that I have played. Even though the life path you choose has very little effect outside of the first hour, the variety of dialogue options is quite large in some cases and can vastly change the outcome of a scenario. Some of the side quests have an impact on the main quest and can "unlock" alternative ending choices that best suit the character you have crafted yourself to be. The gunplay takes a little time to adjust to, but once you learn it, it becomes quite fun. The amount of variety you have in terms of equipment such as gorilla fists/mantis blades or focusing on a tech build to hack every enemy in the area can keep combat fresh and fun. This game is also visually the best looking game I have ever played. I ran the game on Ultra with Ray Tracing and maintained a solid 50 fps, which made the experience far more enjoyable and life-like.

Oh, and Keanu is great as Silverhand.

All in all, Cyberpunk is a fantastic experience and I would recommend it to anyone that enjoys open world games that can keep you engaged for dozens of hours.

I hate to have to do this but the game isn't fun anymore solely because of matchmaking. 90% of the time I get paired with people that have never touched a computer game before and the other 10% of the time I get paired with salty players that are looking to pick a fight with you. Almost every other game I play, I get reported for intentionally feeding, even when I go positive. I get reported for harassment even when I never say a single thing in chat. Even when I give teammates commendations they still feel salty enough to report the entire team. This happens almost every single game.
Along with that, there's always one or two salty players that aren't looking to have a good time. The player base is so unbelievably toxic that the game is no longer fun. Every match, I get a teammate that harasses everyone or decides they want to intentionally feed because they don't care.
It says on steam I've played over 350 hours, but I've been playing since the beta back in 2012. I should not be getting paired with players like this with how much playtime I have, which tells me that the overall matchmaking experience is probably like this across the board. In order to have fun in this game now, you must play with friends. Period. I can almost guarantee you that you will not have a fun time playing by yourself because the matchmaking is so unbelievably terrible that I no longer find this game fun, and I've been playing for 9 years.

Edit: Every single Persephone player is toxic and looking to pick a fight with you. Literally every single one. If you get paired with a Persephone, do yourself a favor and just mute them.