Recent reviews by mongonerd

A quick fun little point and click with the adorable/creepy you can expect if you have read the comics.

A bit of constructive criticism, the finding of environmental interactions could use some updating, as the only indicator is the ol 90s "Hey this rock is drawn differently" piece, rather than a more tangible piece to find.

By far one of the most fleshed out one offs for portal. the puzzles are good the atmosphere is great. Overall excellent

Wonderful game, Cyan! While I loved the game, beautiful and rich in lore, there are a few gripes I have with the game.

1) Free roam mode does on occasion get stuck on terrain, forcing you to switch to point and click mode.
2) Loading times. While I am running this on a WD black, it still has loading times just long enough to break the immersion on where you put them.
3) While the transitioning I realize is hiding a loading time, it makes certain puzzles almost unbearably monotonous, having to switch nearly constantly back and forth. Otherwise the puzzles were well crafted, with plenty of clues to find the solution.

With all these gripes, I still recommend the title partly from the nostalgia factor (I played all of the Myst games), but mostly because it is a gorgeous and well crafted title

Bought this on sale, thought I could have fun shenanigans, turned out that it is impossible to play with purely keyboard and mouse. This is the method I prefer to play any sort of shooter, and without a controller, the cars are finicky at best and making tracks nearly impossible at worst. The online best way to earn money is races, and shooting matches do not earn all that much, no matter what the lobby size. The online load times are abysmal, and anything even remotely decent costs a fair amount of money, and almost forces you to buy shark cards to be competitive with players who've been playing for a while.

The concept of the game is sound, the implementation for PC is poor. Not recommended, and if you do want to play this, probably better on console. It's ports like this that manage to piss off the PC community about console ports.

PLEASE NOTE
This is a generally good review, however I am not recommending it for the following reasons:
- Poor Matchmaking
- Inability to report potentially toxic players
- Once a player leaves/is disconnected from a game, you are permanantly short a player leaving for an unenjoyable experience

While not a bad game, it's multiplayer seems lacking. I am NOT referring to the lack of maps/characters. The in game "plan" has stated that more are in the works. I'm referring to the fact that the above flaws are in other games. Just about every MOBA-esque game has some form of proper weighted matchmaking, not allowing full 5 man premades to go up against a full squad of randoms just because a couple of people grouped up. Same could be applied to the reporting system, as it regulates the level of salt and vitriol in the community. The ability to add players mid match was done by this game's predecessor, Monday Night Combat. The joining players would simply get a credit/xp boost accordingly to the time into the match.

Given these downsides, If the most egregous error of matchmaking was fixed, potentially with the adding of people. I would whole heartedly recommend this game. If fixed while I am active in it's community, I will edit the review to reflect.

The Positives include:
- A phenomenal campaign, fully voice acted, quirky sense of humor, and decently written.
- Rock solid net code, making a smooth experience.
- Good in game voice comms, along with text chat, making it easy to communicate with your group.
- Good lore for each character that you unlock while playing each character


While the PvP is horrendous with the community/matchmaking, the single player shines out, like the last star! It's funny challenging, and provides significant rewards with the credits and unboxing. I consider this game decently bought if it was slightly cheaper ($40-$50) for the singleplayer/co-op alone. For those who like a good cheesy story and great characters, pick it up, maybe on sale, if only for the chuckles and laughs you will get from characters responses in the story to their lore and voice clips. I will continue to jump on for the single player, just to learn the lore of all these characters. Sadly a fair portion of these challenges are linked to the multiplayer. I suppose I could try to use bots for that, but those games feel almost grindy.


TL;DR

Multiplayer matchmaking = Crap, Single player and lore = Awesome

Pros:
Mechanics: Solid combat, nemesis system keeps you engaged on a target
Story/voicing: Well voiced and well written

Cons:
Mechanics: occasional bug through the terrain at characters, nominal other quirks
Story/voicing: Ambient voices refer to events that havent happened yet.