Recent reviews by Ragnar

The art and atmosphere is amazing. Gorgeously made, super gross and fun to explore. The puzzles are serviceable, but a lot of them feel completely out of place and remind me of flash puzzle games. But then the combat just ruins it. The monsters aren't scary, they're frustrating, and avoiding them isn't always an option. I get that combat is intentionally unfun to get you to avoid it, but again you can't always avoid them. Then when you do die, checkpoints can be super annoying. I wish I had found out an hour sooner so I could refund, since I have absolutely no interest in continuing it.

Anyway, I do hope they make more stuff like this, just with less lame puzzles and hopefully without combat.

hi dont support activision blizzard haha

do as i say not as i do :(

ye :) it was fun :)

I mean, it's Cyanide. I knew it was going to be bad but I'm a loser and I love me some Blood Bowl. So I got in with extremely low expectations, figuring the game was going to be ugly, janky and lacking in features, and hope with time it'd become decent or good.

But dang, yeah, it was so much worse than I expected.

Blood Bowl 3 is lazy and greedy. They don't care. I truly believe that. Do NOT buy this game. I encourage those who did to refund it if it's not too late. Maybe if BB3 dies, we can see an actually passionate company get their hands on the license.

It took 80+ hours to get sick of its drip-feeding of content, so uh. That's pretty good!! I enjoyed it until higher difficulties just turned the game into an unrewarding grind. So yeah, towards the end it became pretty bad for me, but the journey there was fantastic. Recommended.

Very low FOV and no FOV slider.

Very funny. Haha funny.

What's the point of peasant families earning money if they can't spend it without being expressly told to? They'll buy maintenance stuff such as food, clothes, tools and such. They'll also buy the materials required for any buildings and furniture you instruct them to. But a family can be filthy rich but still live in squalor because THE QUEEN hasn't arrived to personally command them to build a floor in their house, or turn their beds from straw to wood. So at that point, why even bother with money?? If there was no money in the game, nothing would really change.

In the end it feels like Rimworld with more pawns and more micromanagement. idk. pass.

Incredibly janky. When everything levels up with you, you never feel like you're really getting any more powerful. Killing things is easier at level 2 than it is at level 50+. Level 2, any weapon is deadly and you don't have to think at all about your build. Level 50, the same enemy vs the same type of weapon (but a level 50 variant) will do like no damage, unless you've built your character to focus exclusively on that kind of weapon.

Leveling up isn't about becoming stronger, it's about keeping up with the rest of the world. Eventually though (in the 50+) you'll have a build that's hyper focused, and then suddenly nothing in the world offers you a challenge, aside from end game group quest bosses.

Building mechanics are janky and imprecise. Some people can make amazing bases, but it doesn't seem worth putting all the effort into it. All the best looking stuff is obviously in the real money microtransaction store, but if you play the game regularly for a few weeks you can usually afford a package deal on wallpapers or building styles. There's some you can find or buy in game as well, but I've never found a set that came anywhere close to the MTX shop stuff.

Gunplay feels bad. Bullets don't care about where your gun is pointed, animation wise. If you take a shot, you suffer recoil and the gun lifts. If you take a shot before the gun drops again, the bullet doesn't actually leave the barrel in the direction the gun is pointing. It goes forward, towards the center of the screen but now with a larger cone of inaccuracy. It's fine once you get used to it, but if you're used to games with more realistic handling it's really jarring and weird.

Survival isn't a thing. It's never really been a thing in Fallout games really, I mean the originals didn't have hunger or thirst at all. The addition of it doesn't make the game deeper or scarier, it just a bit of carry weight at worst. Food, water, medicine and drugs are everywhere.

The game is ugly. The textures are low quality, the NPCs are the usual Bethesda type where they always stay two or three graphical generations behind, and the environments tend to feel fake and ugly. Climbing up high and looking around doesn't reward you with a gorgeous vista. It's hard to put my finger on it, but it just feels so unreal in the worst way. Even at maximum settings, the shadows are either wrong or just not there, the models are all such low quality, and everything stands out instead of blending together into a cohesive whole. You don't get a scene with a river, a forest and the mountains the distance. You get the river object, some tree objects and the mountain object. They don't feel like a part of the same world. I wish I could describe this better, it's just so weird.

Anyway it's a horrible game. I've played it a lot though, because I have a couple of friends who specifically love janky, bad, weird, crappy games and any game is good if you play it with your pals. Fallout 76 is the same, honestly. Play with a party (of no more than 4!! shame on you for having more than 3 friends!!!) and have fun! Just do so knowing that if you deserve friends with better taste in video games and grow bitter knowing you could be having so much more fun with them in an actually good game.

(shoutout to my awful terrible friends ilu)

Edit: oh yeah I forgot to mention that it's still a buggy, glitchy and often broken mess.

It's really good, I think, but I think I'm either too dumb or too ADHD to play it. Map 4 and onwards have left me constantly getting stuck, running in circles and spending half of my play time in it just trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing.

The fights are great though, every weapon feels awesome and I actually use different ones for different situations. Getting a new gun never makes a previous one obsolete. The monster variety isn't huge but they're always used well and in a variety of different ways. The maps are also really pretty and tend to feel real.

Still, if you have really bad ADHD or memory issues, I advise against the game. But otherwise, yeah, it kinda rules. Music's boss, too.