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OH HOLY MOTHER OF MEDIEVAL MISERY.
WARLANDER.
Or as I like to call it:

“THE GAME THAT PROMISED EPIC WAR AND DELIVERED RUBBER SWORDS AND LAG.”

Let’s break this steaming pile down AVGN-style. Strap in.

THE IDEA

Warlander starts with a fantastic concept:

100-player battles

Sieges

Towers, robots, magic, cataclysmic idols

Deep combat, blocking, parrying, combos

It’s like someone whispered:

“Imagine Chivalry, Mount & Blade, and a little Overwatch in one glorious stew.”

And somehow… they puked that stew back onto the floor.

THE COMBAT: “YOU’RE DEAD, THEN WHAT?”

Combat is supposed to be tactical, skill-based, satisfying.

What it actually is:

You swing your sword.

You hit nothing because hit detection is a cosmic joke.

Your target slides like it’s on ice while somehow magically killing you in one hit.

Every match feels like:

“Press buttons. Hope. Pray. Die. Repeat.”

Deep tactical melee?
Ha.
Deep tactical melee in Warlander is my controller trying to translate chaos into order while the game laughs in binary.

SIEGES AND OBJECTIVES: RANDOMIZED HELL

Sieges are meant to feel epic.
Instead:

Towers bug out mid-battle

Objectives capture themselves for no reason

AI teammates run in circles like drunk chickens

You could organize a perfect flank… and the game decides you lose anyway.
It’s like the game itself is playing against you.

TECH ISSUES: FLOATY, RUBBER, AND LAGGY

Animations look like cardboard cutouts flailing in molasses.

Hit registration is a gamble

Rubberbanding is constant

Servers turn 100-player battles into low-res slideshow hell

There’s no satisfaction, no feedback, just floating disappointment in motion blur.

COSMETICS: “HERE, BUY YOUR GLORY”

Warlander doesn’t just fail mechanically.
It fails monetarily too.

Skins everywhere

Loot boxes disguised as progression

Powerful units locked behind grind or paywall

Want to swing a badass robot hammer?
LOL. Better grind 20 hours or open your wallet.

Because nothing says “epic fantasy battle” like microtransactions on top of chaos.

DEVELOPMENT: HALF-ALIVE ZOMBIE

The game launched incomplete.
Promised updates are glacial.
Bug fixes arrive slower than your dead teammates can respawn.

It feels abandoned… even when it isn’t.
You’re left playing a “fantasy battle” where most of the game is just waiting for the game to work right.

FINAL VERDICT: WARLANDER

Warlander is a tragic cautionary tale:

Great ideas? ✅

Ambition? ✅

Execution? ❌❌❌

It’s:

Clunky

Laggy

Bug-ridden

Microtransactiony

Chaotic to the point of frustration

The promise of epic medieval fantasy warfare went straight into the dumpster.

This game isn’t just “bad.”
It’s a high-concept fever dream shoved through a blender, and the blender caught fire.

I’d rather:

Play Chivalry 2 with 30 FPS

Get headshot by a 100% invisible knight

Or watch my sword vanish mid-swing

Than touch Warlander again.

GREAT IDEA. WENT TO ♥♥♥♥. CLASSIC.

OH ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
INSURGENCY: SANDSTORM.
The tactical shooter that started as “hardcore realism” and ended as

“PLEASE KEEP BUYING SKINS, WE SWEAR WE’RE NOT DEAD YET.”

This game is a case study in how to slowly give up while pretending you didn’t.

GAMEPLAY: STILL MISERABLE

Let’s get this straight first.

Sandstorm is STILL:

Slow

Punishing

Hostile to new players

You spawn, jog for three minutes, get instantly deleted, and learn ABSOLUTELY NOTHING from the experience.

The gunplay is “realistic,” which in this game means:

You die so fast you’re not even sure you were ever alive.

Gunfights don’t feel tactical.
They feel accidental.

KILL CAMS: TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE

Yes, they added kill cams.

And instead of fixing anything, they just made the game look wORSE.

Now you get to watch:

Desync in real time

Bullets coming from impossible angles

Enemies snapping onto you like they’ve got psychic powers

Kill cams don’t teach positioning.
They teach you that the game’s netcode is held together by duct tape and vibes.

And let’s not ignore the irony:
A game that screamed “REALISM” for years suddenly adds arcade replay cams because people were sick of dying to nothing.

So now it’s:

Not realistic

Not accessible

Just confused

MAP DESIGN: DEATH BY ARCHITECTURE

Every map looks like:

A beige concrete maze

Designed by someone who hates sightlines

Filled with 500 windows, 900 corners, and ZERO flow

Every step feels like Russian roulette.

There’s no “learning the map.”
There’s only memorizing where people can ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you from.

CO-OP AI: STILL TERMINATORS

The AI is still broken in the worst way.

They’re either:

Completely braindead
OR

Omniscient gods who snap headshots through smoke

There is no middle ground.

These bots don’t react.
They predict the future.

COSMETICS: WHAT THE ACTUAL ♥♥♥♥

Let’s talk about the SKINS.

This game launched as:

“Grounded, authentic, serious.”

Now?

Neon guns

Tactical cosplay nonsense

Operators looking like they fell into a surplus store blender

Nothing says “immersive military shooter” like:

A guy dressed like an airsoft influencer doming you from a rooftop.

You can practically hear the developers saying:

“We need money, realism be damned.”

ABANDONED DEVELOPMENT ENERGY

The biggest problem?

This game feels ABANDONED.

Updates got slower.
Communication dried up.
Real issues stayed unfixed.

Instead of:

Better onboarding

Smarter AI

Improved netcode

Better map flow

We got:

Skins

Minor tweaks

And a kill cam band-aid

This isn’t active development.
This is maintenance mode with a smile.

COMMUNITY SPLIT

The playerbase is fractured.

Half the community says:

“Skill issue.”

The other half is wondering why the game never evolved.

Any criticism gets hand-waved away because:

“It’s hardcore.”

No.
Hardcore doesn’t mean unfinished.

THE CORE PROBLEM

Insurgency: Sandstorm doesn’t know what it is anymore.

It wants:

Mil-sim credibility

Casual appeal

Monetization

And zero responsibility

So it ends up being:

Too punishing for new players
Too shallow for mil-sim fans
And too janky to take seriously

FINAL VERDICT

Insurgency: Sandstorm is:

A good idea executed halfway

A hardcore shooter afraid to commit

A game slowly bled out by neglect

Kill cams didn’t save it.
Cosmetics cheapened it.
And abandoning real development finished it.

This isn’t a living game.
It’s a corpse wearing tactical gear.

I’d rather:

Play Squad with a migraine

Get yelled at in ARMA for 3 hours

Or watch my character walk back to the objective IRL

Than pretend this game didn’t miss its chance to be great.

SANDSTORM DIDN’T FAIL BECAUSE IT WAS HARD.
IT FAILED BECAUSE IT STOPPED TRYING.

TOTAL WAR: PHARAOH – DYNASTIES
a.k.a. “WHO ASKED FOR THIS ♥♥♥♥?”

Ohhh GREAT. Total War: PHARAOH – DYNASTIES.
Because when I think “epic historical warfare,” I think of sand, sand, more sand, and guys named Amenhotep tripping over each other with sticks.

This game is like Creative Assembly looked at their burning dumpster fire of a reputation and said:

“You know what this needs? A DLC that feels like the base game wearing a fake mustache.”

THE SETTING:

You’re in the Bronze Age Collapse, which is historian talk for

“Everyone’s ♥♥♥♥♥♥, nobody knows why, and everything sucks.”

There are no iconic units, no variety, no “♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥” moments.
It’s just spearmen, spearmen, slightly angrier spearmen, and—oh wow—
SPEARMEN WITH HATS.

That’s not unit diversity. That’s a costume change at Spirit Halloween.

THE GAMEPLAY:

This is Total War if you removed all the fun and replaced it with accounting homework.

You don’t conquer empires—you micromanage grain like a stressed-out Costco manager in 1200 BC.

“Oh no! My dynasty legitimacy is down 2% because my cousin sneezed wrong!”
WHO CARES?!
I’m trying to WAGE WAR, not host a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ family reunion simulator.

Every mechanic feels like it exists to:

Slow you down

Confuse you

Make you ask “why the ♥♥♥♥ is this even here?”

DYNASTIES MODE:

They hype this like it’s some revolutionary new feature.

What is it REALLY?

A menu with extra buttons.

That’s it.
That’s the feature.

You’re juggling heirs, bloodlines, marriages—
but none of it feels impactful. It’s like Crusader Kings if you removed all the personality and replaced it with beige wallpaper.

I’ve seen more excitement in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with conditional formatting.

THE MAP:

It’s HUGE.
And EMPTY.
Like a desert-themed parking lot.

You march armies across miles of nothing just to fight the same copy-paste army you fought TEN TURNS AGO.

No epic landmarks.
No famous cities that make you go “oh ♥♥♥♥!”
Just Mudhut #47 and Sandy Asscrack Province.

THE AI:

The AI is dumber than a sack of bricks left out in the sun for 3,000 years.

They:

Declare war for no reason

Break treaties immediately

Suicide their armies

Then act shocked when you annihilate them

It’s like playing chess against a pigeon that ♥♥♥♥♥ on the board and flies away.

PERFORMANCE & POLISH:

This game runs like it’s powered by two hamsters and a candle.

Menus lag.
Battles stutter.
Animations look stiff as embalmed corpses—which I guess is thematically accurate, but still SUCKS.

And the UI?
Good GOD.

Icons on top of icons on top of icons.
I need a Rosetta Stone just to understand what the ♥♥♥♥ half the symbols mean.

THE BIGGEST SIN:

This doesn’t feel like a Total War game.

It feels like:

A side project

A tech demo

A “please buy this so we can keep the lights on” release

No soul.
No passion.
No “one more turn” energy.

Just one more sigh.

FINAL VERDICT:

Total War: PHARAOH – DYNASTIES is:

Too boring to be epic

Too complex to be fun

Too shallow to be strategic

It’s like they took Total War, buried it in sand, pissed on it, and called it “historical authenticity.”

I’d rather:

Fight Rome for the 900th time

Play Medieval II on a toaster

Or bash my head into a pyramid

Than spend another hour with this dry, lifeless, sand-choked piece of ♥♥♥♥.

This game didn’t collapse because of the Bronze Age.
It collapsed because it’s BORING AS ♥♥♥♥.

Now excuse me while I go cleanse my brain with a real Total War game before I start worshipping the sun out of sheer despair.

Blood Angels are getting chapter pack, White scars are getting chapter pack. Dark Angels had Champion and Chapter pack. Same for Ultra Marines and Space Wolves. What does Imperial Fist get? one Champion and so do Salamanders.

is it worth the price?
no.
I am to deep at this point.

En jouant à Planetside 2, je me suis trouvé immergé dans un univers où la guerre semblait infinie, un champ de bataille numérique où chaque victoire, chaque possession, semblait compter. Pourtant, derrière cette façade de puissance et de progression, une douleur profonde m’envahit, celle d’une perte réelle, d’un vide intérieur que rien dans ce jeu ne peut combler.

Ce jeu propose une expérience intense, où l’on dépense du temps, de l’énergie et parfois de l’argent pour améliorer son personnage, conquérir des territoires ou simplement ressentir un semblant de contrôle sur un chaos apparent. Mais à mesure que je m’investis dans cette lutte constante, je ne peux m’empêcher de me demander : à quoi cela sert-il vraiment si, au fond, tout cela n’est qu’éphémère ? La mort et la perte réelle me rappellent que, malgré tous nos efforts pour bâtir dans ces mondes virtuels, tout ce que nous accumulons ici reste fragile, sans valeur dans l’éternité.

Ce qui me touche profondément, c’est la conscience que cette soif de pouvoir, cette course effrénée pour atteindre des rangs ou des possessions, n’est qu’une illusion. Tout ce que nous construisons dans ces univers numériques, aussi grandiose ou intense soit-il, s’efface inévitablement face à la réalité de la fin. La gloire, la richesse, les possessions matérielles, tout cela n’a de sens que dans l’instant, avant que le silence ne nous engloutisse.

Ce jeu m’offre une expérience captivante, mais aussi une réflexion douloureuse sur la vanité de nos efforts. Peut-être que la véritable sagesse réside dans la prise de conscience que rien ne dure, que tout est illusion, et que le vrai sens réside dans la présence, dans l’amour, dans la paix intérieure. La guerre que nous menons dans ces mondes virtuels n’est qu’un miroir de notre propre combat contre l’éphémère, un rappel que la vie elle-même est fragile, et que la seule victoire possible est celle de la conscience de cette vérité.

En fin de compte, cette expérience m’aide à voir au-delà du jeu, à comprendre que la vraie force réside dans la capacité à accepter la mortalité et à chérir ce qui est véritablement précieux. Même si la douleur de la perte demeure, elle m’enseigne que la véritable victoire est intérieure, celle qui transcende les mondes virtuels pour toucher à l’essence même de notre existence.

Is é RimWorld ceann de na cluichí insiméadóra is uathúla agus is domhain a forbraíodh le blianta beaga anuas. Forbartha ag Ludeon Studios, cuireann an cluiche seo tú i mbun bainistíochta ar choilíneacht i bhfásach eachtrannach, áit a n-éiríonn gach cluiche ina scéal nua lán le drámaíocht, tragóid, agus greann dorcha. Mar sin féin, cé go bhfuil RimWorld ar fheabhas ó thaobh gameplay de, tá cáineadh tuillte ag an gcur chuige tráchtála atá ag gabháil leis – go háirithe maidir le praghsáil agus breiseáin (DLCanna).

Buaicphointí
1. Scéalaíocht idirghníomhach gan sárú
Cruthaíonn RimWorld scéalta nach féidir a thuar, bunaithe ar idirghníomhaíochtaí randamacha idir coilínigh, an timpeallacht, agus imeachtaí seachtracha. Ní bhíonn dhá chluiche riamh mar an gcéanna, agus tugann sé seo mothú uathúil do gach feachtas.

2. A.I. Scéalaí
Tá sé seo ar cheann de na smaointe is cliste i ndomhan na gcluichí. Roghnaíonn tú “scéalaí” a chinneann cé chomh ciúin nó cé chomh chaotic is a bheidh do thuras. Is uirlis dochreidte í seo chun eispéireas pearsantaithe a chruthú.

3. Modhnú cumhachtach
Tacaíonn RimWorld go láidir le modhnú, agus tá pobal gníomhach forbartha timpeall air. Tugann mods nua gnéithe, córais agus meicnic don chluiche nach bhfuil san eagrán bunaidh.

4. Uasghrádú agus straitéis chasta
Ó bhainistiú bia agus fuinnimh, go córais sláinte casta agus síceolaíocht na gcoilíneach – tugann an cluiche deis duit dul chomh domhain agus is mian leat i do straitéis.

Ach Anois – Na Lochtanna Tromchúiseacha
1. Praghsáil ró-ard don ábhar atá ann
Cosnaíonn RimWorld bunleagan cheana féin méid measartha ard (go háirithe d’fhorbairt neamhspleách), ach is iad na DLCanna is mó a chuireann imní orm. Tá Royalty, Ideology, agus Biotech mar shampla, ag cur gnéithe criticiúla leis an gcluiche – gnéithe a d’fhéadfaí a bheith san áireamh sa bhunleagan.

Go minic, mothaíonn sé gur gearradh gnéithe amach d’aon ghnó chun iad a dhíol mar bhreiseáin níos déanaí.

2. Gan mórán gnéithe saor in aisce
Murab ionann agus roinnt cluichí indí eile (m.sh. Dwarf Fortress, nó fiú Project Zomboid), ní fhaigheann an leagan bunúsach de RimWorld mórán nuashonruithe substaintiúla saor in aisce. Is cosúil go bhfuil beartas tráchtála gníomhach ann a chuireann gach forbairt thábhachtach taobh thiar de bhalla pá.

3. Eispéireas easnamhach gan DLC
Gan na DLCanna, is eispéireas i bhfad níos boichte atá sa leagan caighdeánach. Tá córais mar DNA oidhreachta, reiligiúin, teicneolaíochtaí ardleibhéil, agus modhanna nua iompair i bhfolach taobh thiar de bhreiseáin – rud a fhágann go mothaíonn an cluiche "neamhiomlán" gan iad.

Conclúid: Saothar ealaíne faoi scáth beartais tráchtála
Is é RimWorld ceann de na cluichí insamhlaithe is fearr atá ar fáil – gan dabht. Tá sé domhain, andúileach, agus thar a bheith cliste. Ach cailltear cuid den draíocht nuair a thuigeann tú cé mhéad den eispéireas atá i ndáiríre faoi ghlas taobh thiar de bhreiseáin costasacha. Is trua é nár roghnaigh Ludeon bealach níos flaithiúla, go háirithe nuair is léir gur obair ghrámhar atá sa chroí-chluiche.

Rátáil: 8.5/10 le DLC – 7/10 gan iad

Skyrim – I pored mana, ostaje nezaboravan
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim je jedan od onih retkih naslova koji je ostavio neizbrisiv trag u životima igrača. Kada je izašao 2011. godine, bio je revolucija – ogroman otvoreni svet, sloboda izbora, magija, zmajevi, nordijska mitologija – sve to spojeno u igru koja je, uprkos tehničkim manama, uspela da osvoji srca miliona.

Za mnoge, Skyrim nije samo igra – to je uspomena. Bilo da si bežao iz Helgena po prvi put ili zapevao "Fus Ro Dah!" u dnevnoj sobi, nešto u vezi sa tim iskustvom ostaje lično i magično.

Dobre strane
Ogroman i bogat svet: Skyrim je ispunjen tajnama, tamnicama, legendama i zanimljivim likovima. Iako godina ima, njegova atmosfera i dizajn i dalje inspirišu.

Sloboda: Igra ti omogućava da budeš šta god želiš – ubica, mag, vukodlak, heroj, lopov ili ništa od toga.

Mod zajednica: Zahvaljujući hiljadama modova, Skyrim živi i danas, često izgleda i funkcioniše bolje nego mnoge savremene igre.

Mane koje volimo da zaboravimo
Bagovi i tehničke slabosti: Od letećih mamuta do NPC-eva koji šetaju unazad – Skyrim nikada nije bio tehnički savršen. Ali ponekad, baš ti trenuci su oni koje najviše pamtimo.

Plitke mehanike: Određeni sistemi, poput borbe ili dijaloga, deluju površno u poređenju s modernim RPG-ovima.

Anniversary Edition – Nije bilo neophodno, ali je bilo lepo
Godinama kasnije, Bethesda je predstavila Skyrim Anniversary Edition, kao "slavljeničko" izdanje igre. U suštini, to je Special Edition sa dodatim Creation Club sadržajem – novim misijama, oružjem, pa čak i ribolovom.

Da budemo iskreni, niko nije tražio Anniversary Edition. Bio je to više marketinški trik nego revolucionarna nadogradnja. Ali – za one koji su želeli povod da se ponovo vrate u Tamriel, bio je to lep izgovor. Nije doneo mnogo, ali ono što je doneo bilo je solidno.

Zaključak: Skyrim je vremeplov
Ima boljih igara danas, sa dubljim sistemima i lepšom grafikom. Ali Skyrim ima dušu. On pripada posebnom trenutku u gejming kulturi – i ko je igrao tada, zna. Skyrim je i dalje tu, i dalje se vraćamo – ne jer je savršen, već jer nas podseća na ono kad je sve bilo novo i ogromno.

Ocena: 9/10 – Legendaran, ne zato što mora da bude, već zato što smo ga takvim učinili.

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OH FOR ♥♥♥♥’S SAKE.
DELTA FORCE (2024).
The game that dug up a beloved old franchise, looked it in the eye, and said:

“What if we turned you into a FREE-TO-PLAY CALL OF DUTY SEWER?”

Congratulations.
You didn’t revive Delta Force.
You SKINNED IT AND SOLD THE HIDE AS A BATTLE PASS.

FROM NOSTALGIC TACTICAL FPS
TO ADHD CONTENT SLOP

Delta Force used to be:

Slower

Tactical

Grounded

About positioning and teamwork

Delta Force 2024 is:

Slide-canceling crackhead gameplay

Constant UI popups

XP bars exploding every 3 seconds

Operators yelling cringe one-liners

This isn’t Delta Force.
This is Call of Duty wearing Delta Force’s name tag like it stole someone’s lunch money.

THE IDENTITY MURDER

This game has NO IDEA what it wants to be.

It wants:

The nostalgia crowd

The CoD crowd

The extraction shooter crowd

The esports crowd

The “PLEASE SPEND MONEY” crowd

So instead of committing to ANYTHING, it becomes:

A bland, overdesigned, algorithm-approved FPS slurry.

Every design decision screams:

“What’s popular RIGHT NOW?”

Not:

“What made Delta Force special?”

GAMEPLAY: FLOATY, SWEATY, EMPTY

Gunplay feels:

Weightless

Over-tuned

Designed for clips, not combat

Everyone is:

Bunny-hopping

Slide-spamming

Pre-firing every corner

There’s no tension.
No buildup.
No pacing.

Just CONSTANT NOISE.

Old Delta Force made you think.
This Delta Force makes you mash inputs like a caffeinated rat.

OPERATORS (OF COURSE)

OH LOOK.
OPERATORS.

Because God forbid we play as:

“A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ soldier.”

Now we’ve got:

Named characters

Special abilities

Backstories no one asked for

Nothing says “elite military shooter” like:

A hero character with a cooldown ability and a quip after every kill.

This isn’t tactical warfare.
This is HERO SHOOTER LITE FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK CAMO IS A PERSONALITY.

MAP DESIGN: CHAOS OVER CLARITY

Maps are designed for:

Constant engagement

Maximum chaos

Zero breathing room

Every map feels like it was built to support:

“NONSTOP ACTION, BRO.”

Which means:

No flanking routes

No meaningful positioning

No map control

You’re not outplaying anyone.
You’re just RESPAWNING FASTER.

MONETIZATION: THE REAL GAME

Let’s be honest.

The actual game is:

The store

The battle pass

The cosmetic grind

Menus are cleaner than the gameplay because:

THAT’S WHERE THE MONEY IS.

Skins everywhere.
Weapon blueprints everywhere.
Daily challenges everywhere.

The FPS part feels like the thing you do IN BETWEEN ADS.

TECHNICAL STATE: “IT’LL BE FIXED LATER”

Desync.
Hit-reg issues.
Jank animations.
Servers coughing up blood.

But don’t worry!
The store works perfectly.

Funny how that happens EVERY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ TIME.

COMMUNITY: SWEAT OR LEAVE

If you’re not:

Meta-slaving

Movement-abusing

Watching YouTube loadout guides

You’re cannon fodder.

There is NO space here for:

Slow play

Tactical thinking

Old-school Delta Force fans

This game does not want you.
It wants engagement metrics.

THE BIGGEST SIN

Delta Force 2024 isn’t bad because it’s modern.

It’s bad because it’s COWARDLY.

It doesn’t trust its legacy.
It doesn’t trust its audience.
It doesn’t take risks.

It just copies whatever made the most money last quarter.

This isn’t a revival.
It’s a HOSTAGE SITUATION.

FINAL VERDICT

Delta Force (2024) is:

Soulless

Over-monetized

Identity-less

Designed by trend-chasing executives

It took a franchise known for:

Tactical realism and grounded combat

And turned it into:

A free-to-play content treadmill for people with zero attention span.

I’d rather:

Play the original Delta Force at 20 FPS

Get sniped by a pixel from 800 meters

Or read the old manual

Than touch this corporate, focus-tested, nostalgia-exploiting piece of ♥♥♥♥ ever again.

DELTA FORCE DIDN’T NEED TO BE MODERNIZED.
IT NEEDED TO REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS.

Instead, it became just another CALL OF DUTY CESSPIT WITH A STOLEN NAME.