Recent reviews by Guuse

This game is honestly one of my favorite games to play with my friends. If you buy the GOTY edition, you have an opportunity to play 6 completely different characters and can build them however you want. You want a healer that uses only rocket launchers and snipers? hell yea! or a huge buff guy that just uses tiny pistols, the choices are yours. This is by far my favorite 2K games, and likely always will be unless borderlands 3 blows it out of the water. An overly solid first person shooter and tells a very good story along with it. This game deserves a solid 9/10 from me.

I began playing this game in the earlier stages of it in 2015 with some friends. When the game first came out it was one of the most addictive games i had played in years; the dungeons were original and the amount of biomes was the perfect amount between overwhelming and bland. The amount of characters you can choose from are quite spectacular with it and offer a wide range of gameplay within it. This was my initial feeling of the game, but has changed in the past year or so.

I will start off by saying that i do very much enjoy the game, and still continue to play it (100+ hours on steam as well as 400 hours on their own glyph launcher independant of steam), but with some of the things that happen in game makes me write a different review for it.

In the beginning of the game it was very easy to get started and straight forward, chat was calm, people were helpful (sometimes still are) and you could trade almost everything you had. Now, however, that is not the case; over the couple years (early to mid 2016 i believe) they released this update that adjusted the characters abilities, as in strengthening them and adding one of the most grindy things i have seen: gems. The game is very hard to start off as a beginner because it is so overwhelming to begin, everything is so confusing because the tutorial is still what it was in the early game (which means it misses a lot of content that is needed) and leveling up is the most painful thing to do then. You would really have to dedicate a ton of time to this game to actually get anywhere, because almost everything (75%) is based solely on RNG (Random Number Generation). This means that the chances of getting a GOOD gem for your character is quite low and will make you grind for tens of hundreds of hours just to get a few good gems (although just recently they are adding a feature to remove the bad stats on a gem). My girlfriend, one of my best friends, as well as me still continue to play this game is it gives us great enjoyment, but we are not able to help any of our friends because barely anything useful (aka gems) is able to be traded, so you could have an amazing gem for your friend, but you cant give it to them. in my personal opinion i would rate this game as a 7/10, but for the sake of beginning players and the challenges it brings, i would say this game is a 3/10.

EDIT: My previous statement of actually enjoying this game has been retracted; this update that just came out has completely ruined any enjoyment i once had for this game. Trion is basically making the game feel like its only about making money and not about their fanbase. They completely disregard their fanbase in their PTR and went along with it. One of the new bosses in Shadow Tower (just below DotM) is utterly broken and would need nearly max PR in game to even beat it (whereas DotM is an easy sweep despite it being higher up). I can no longer appreciate this game because there is grinding four a milenia to get nothing good, and will take another to just beat this new boss. Any respect i once had for Trion industries is now gone and all my friends that played alongside with me also believe that Trion is so money hungry that they can't even see how much they have ruined this once fun game. Limitations on upgrades for gems is atrocious; these new gem upgrades are complete garbage even though it will cost you a ton of valuable resources. These upgrades are limited to a certain amount per week because it uses the loot from shadow towers which is stupid af. They overhyped the re-rolling feature for gems so much and they really dissapointed many people by having to spend a week's resources to make one or two. To explain how bad the ST is now, my friends and i were able to solo all the hard tower, whereas now the three of us can't even beat the bloody new boss on hard. These developers deserve every ounce of critizism that comes their way.

In Short if you didn't want to read my rant: dev's became too hungry for many and created a monster that requires you to pay or grind for years.

It has been many years since this game was good. Just look at all these reviews claiming it to be so. I am also one of the "vets" that played this game in the early stages of when it was prime. The developers need to get their heads out of their asses and look at what the community is saying about their failure at a once successful game. 2/10 would never play again.

Despite the obsurd amount of negative reviews on this game, i would still consider this game to be very good for what it is without any modding.

I have played around 200 hours of GTA V, and have thoroughly enjoyed every moment; From the continuity of being ran over by friends to farming money in the game, it has been a game that i would not be able to replace, nor would i want to.
Much of the recent reviews relate to the modding situation where the owner of Rockstar (Take 2) removed a major modding group (mind you single player) saying that they want their game to stay as it is. It is likely that they were using this as a threat to the online modding that is currently happening and should really be removed as it is ridiculous. Despite this situation, there really should not be an insane amount of downvotes simply because a game does not want modding in their game, because adding its ability of allowing modding into a game should not effect the rating of the game itself; with me stating this, i do fall back on it slightly, with the reasoning that it is a good way to get the people's message out that this is unjustified, but what i originally said still stands.

Overall, the general gameplay, campaign, and the online experience is all excellent and would continue to play the game for another 200 hours so long as Rockstar stays active in their updates.

I purchased this game several days ago, while it was on sale, as the sale price seems to reflect the quality of the game more than the retail value. This game is overall very well made and very fun to play with friends. The storyline is closely accurate to the actual plot in the anime. The downside to this game is that the porting is very poor and some of the controls are a bit off, but other than that, an excellent game!

10/10 would rate again