Recent reviews by Justus Bladetooth

If you're looking for a four player, co-op focused, absolute rollercoster of a game with a pounding soundtrack, and copious beard physics? Look no further. This game is fun, and awesome.

I waited a literal freaking year, A YEAR to play this game. What do I get for my effort, a game that refuses to run at all. I have actually seen the menu cutscene once at which point trying to actually use the menu crashed the game. Then, I spent time trying every single fix, work around, and tweak to try and get the game to launch. Safe mode, or no it never loaded again. Black screen or crash to desktop instantly. If this is the quality of product they give us after a year of being on the EGS, they don't deserve my money.

This is the single best way to enjoy the classic Borderlands, it still has a few issues due to not being a complete rework but it's still good fun, especially with friends.

I've tried to play this, heck I tried to like this game before Hearts of Iron IV was even a thing but it's held back by three major and massive issues that pretty much sour the game to it's core;

First. The fact it's an unstable buggy piece of junk that will crash whenever it likes, and in different ways. From the UI completely breaking after twenty minutes, to a black screen, to crashing when a war starts. All loads of fun you can have with this game.

Second. The game is completely and utterly predictable because the AI is hard coded to do specific actions on each playthrough, no randomizations and no unpredictability. The United Kingdom will ALWAYS go to war with Germany, even if you as Germany have done nothing during the entire game to spark anyone's ire.

Third. The game is unplayable to anyone without a degree in how to operate a nuclear reactor, the UI is completely useless. The tutorial even moreso; and all of the actions done in the game require you to futz about with finicky sliders that may or may not do what you want.

In short, while everyone might complain that the AI in Hearts of Iron IV is broken, the DLC is overpriced, and that it's a shallow piece of crap; at least I can play it and have fun with that shallow piece of crap. Don't buy this mess, just get Hearts of Iron IV and have fun with the silliness.

Ah New Vegas, a game I've sunk plenty of hours into, enjoyed thoroughly, and yet I can't help but harbor some sort of deep dislike for it. Don't get me wrong, I think people should get this, play it, and enjoy what it has to offer. Yet, people really need to give up the prodigal son routine on this game. So sit down, grab a drink, and let me explain.

Fallout: New Vegas is a game full of brilliance and failure, a magnificent train wreck of a game. On the one hand, it has genuinely enjoyable if dark writing, full of characters who are flawed and human in all the right ways. Yet they're let down by quest chains that can be easily shattered by simply playing in an unexpected way, or other NPCs who're at best charmingly bad and at worst downright annoying.

It's a tried and true RPG game, with interesting character perks, skills, all piled around the design that allows you to tackle a particular challenge in multiple ways. Yet it's shackled to combat that...well, I'll be entirely honest about my bias, is clunky as all hell. Enemies are damage sponges who react to being shot with a high caliber rifle as if it were a squirt gun until it 'cripples' a body part, or they are dead. What makes it worse is if you're trying to do a non-combat character, you will inevitably be forced into incredibly difficult fights with little warning in several sections; which means there's less freedom than you would think.

A lot of these issues could be put down to Obsidian being on a rushed time frame, and the rather dated engine but at the same time excuses don't change the reality of what is. New Vegas isn't the perfect game, the ultimate Fallout that everyone claims it to be; in all entire honesty I'll outright state there are some parts I hate. Prime example being a particular mission set in one of the casinos, which has a really really high propensity to just shatter utterly.

Still, like I said. Buy it, try it, decide for yourself how good, bad, or ugly it really can be.