Recent reviews by Quil

Everywhere in Valheim feels like home. PSX graphics with a veneer of modern shaders and post-processing that makes you nostalgic for a past life where things were slower and mosquitos were the size of a bird.

I haven't played a sequel this disappointing since Payday 3 so you would think my expectations would be lower, but..

Splitgate 2 plays fine, which is to say it is its best feature. The original balance of equal "halo with portals" combat now has hero elements so your dudes have abilities now so you don't have to be good!! That aside some of the guns are fun but if you screw up a RL or sniper rifle after you already copied halo which copied quake, then what's new?

Nothing. The lead dev may be passionate but he's a delusional dingus who can't read a room and thinks a BR is a fresh idea. Now with the crawl back to beta, what's the point? Re-re-release your game with an even worse statement on video games with even LESS developers than which you started with?

Bold strategy, ian. We'll see if it pays off for you.

Perfect blend of magical fantasy and otherworldly futurism with an ever-present creeping dread of eldritch horror. If you like getting the getting LOST and READING part of RPGs, then this game is absolutely for you. You can absolutely miss the compass or completely ignore it, and you have to find designated locations to fill in parts of the map, you can't just buy a region map. Tingle can't save you now.

One more thing, something I noticed on second playthroughs, a lot of the choices (not all mind you) revolve around the two conflicting factions in the game, the Wikkans and Apostatic Union. The more you learn about both factions the more you learn your choices are trolley problems on steroids and can't be solved with a quick fix and you're left wondering if you had any impact at all. It doesn't feel like the illusion of choice rather a resignation that your choices ultimately matter most to you.

While I don't think you should have to REINSTALL the entire dang game just to activate a premium account,
Legendary status was activated as soon as I did a fresh install.

Imagine pouring yourself into a project and it's successful, only to be met with an immediate boot out the door.
That's what working at NetEase gets you, apparently.

Uninspired. Which is weird for a game that has casual stealth, action, and RPG elements touted as its experience.
Stealth ALWAYS boils down to "Alright guys, this is the big salami, we're gonna get in there and skedaddle around and maybe the cameras are looking the opposite way this time." If you want a stealth game, Payday 3 feels like it's always seconds away from bursting at the seams and a guard sees you through the back of his skull.

On the flip, combat is just shoot the man and they fall down. Zappers are a joke, Cloakers are either dead on the ground or already downing you because they spawned on top of you. If a perk is good, it's necessary in PD3. There's a reason why Ammo funnel was so valuable and it's because the core loop of ammo pickup isn't fun. So it got nerfed because it was too useful? Perks are like bad Yugioh cards in which they have a LOT of clauses to give you a SOMEWHAT useful effect for too much effort. There's a reason why the simpler the text, the more powerful the perk in most cases because you don't have to jump through ten hoops to get 1 stack of salami token.

Fun game! It's not L4D3 but it found its niche.
Here's the problem: Turtle Rock. They abandon everything they touch, and yes the "Creators of L4D" abandoned their Left 4 Dead successor. Did they overhype the game? Yes. Was it stolen laurels? Yesn't? The game was fun with friends, but had no chance to ever take off with no mod support and zero faith from Turtle Rock.

I'M A FOOL - I KNOW NOTHING

Sony bad, Arrowhead good, Helldivers gooder

Okay, I'll catch you later then