Recent reviews by reluctantNovelist

A beautiful game, with a rich and deep backstory. With inconsistant writing, watered down mechanics, entire skill trees that are utterly worthless, and poorly done perk system, useless magic, anticlimactic battles, huge streches of nothing, and so many fetch quests. There is one reason you'd ever bother, and that's mods. Unfourtunantly mods cannot fix what is a fundementally dull and unintersting game, that might as well not even have a leveling system.

I have never played the older Elder Scrolls games, but lemme tell you, this game will make you wary of them. I can honestly say that the hundreds of hours I put into the ps3 version were entirely wasted. If you must have this game, go to the Nexus site, and download as many dencent mods as possible. The game is far better when it spends more time crashed than letting you play this shallow pool of a game.

Hat Simulator 2: Hat harder, what can I say about it that hasn't been said already? It's fun, it's free, it's got cool stuff that is seriously underplayed, and the classes and asthetic are nearly timeless. But, you've heard that a thousand times. What of the meat and bones? The mechanics that everything is built on? Gotta say, hella good. The interplay of a lot of slightly different weapons and the drastically different classes combines well with the objective focus, but more importantly it makes you ask yourself silly questions. Like, "what if I ran a melee medic?" "or a melee heavy?" "What could make this more fun to play?" It is a great game, with great appeal, but most importantly the mechanics are fun. Plus who could argue with the price?

Now if they would just do more with the magic spells, and medieval mode, and the bosses, then I would have no complaints.