Recent reviews by pimaf

The Governor of scam. Play it if you're not a poker fan and just want to play a few games to pass the time. Don't ever think this is poker. If you spend real money on it, you're the Governator of idiots.

After an exciting start, exploring the game's vast scope and seeing its enormous potential, I'm revising my review. The game is extremely complex, and the countless mechanisms interacting with its myriad parameters require meticulous balancing. While for other titles this might be a minor adjustment, in this case, balancing the interaction of the various parameters is the very essence of the game.
The game has a unique problem, which creates an almost innate slowness: the timescale ticks hour by hour, and the game will last 500 years. That's over 4 million hours (time spent in the game, not hours played). This means that, once you reach 1650, restarting a game in 1337 will be like repeating elementary school. Therefore, many will tend to play a single game and continue it. The problem is that updates require starting a new game. In short: the game needs fixing because the economy crashed after a couple of centuries, and the implementation of the latest patch added some nice dynamics, but it also led the game to go where the developers didn't want to go: the market fossilized, and in some cases, you find yourself back in the 1800s with the world still divided into hundreds of small states with an area smaller than your own little garden.
The game is too slow to experiment with, and the desire to start over is not too much.
This game will certainly be included in the pantheon of real-time strategy games, but not yet.

There's still a lot to do, a lot to add, a lot to optimize, but now that you can play multiplayer you must have it. I want to say that it is already worth buying from now on. Love it.

I think I subconsciously decided to buy it so I could write a review to advise against it.

In short the reasons:

1. early access still immature, even if the latest updates have fixed many problems.
   
2. few cars
   
3. few tracks
   
4. paid DLC for more cars and tracks
   
5. if you want to race in the seasonal championship you have to pay
   
6. you can't play special events because of your low skill and safety index and for the same reason you can't play weekly race. Ok, there are daily races to increase my index. No, you need DLC to play daily race too. So if the race requires DLC that you don't have you can race alone or play against AI in single player with a few cars on a few tracks. You think you paid for dinner but you only eat the appetizer.

The force feedback is nice, but everyone has raved about it so much that I set expectations higher than reality. Yes, it is perhaps better, but it must also be said that if you use a low-end belt-driven steering wheel you are less equipped to truly enjoy this much vaunted force feedback. I have to say that the sensation of the front wheels locking up in corners felt familiar to me. Mind you, I said familiar and not realistic, because like most of you I have never sat in a 600 horsepower race car. So I only have my Peugeot 206 to compare it to and it felt more or less the same, but without me making my pooh into my pants.

Avevo scritto un sacco ma in questo momento dello sviluppo c'è poco da dire: stimola i moti peristaltici dell'intestino e di conseguenza la defecazione.

Passatempo immortale.

It's a totally arcade FPS, but in the latest update it has slightly veered towards more typical dynamics of a tactical FPS.
The pace of the game is very fast and the respawn time is set at 3 seconds. Infantry only, no vehicles.

PROS:
Free
No pay to win, just cosmetics
Good weapon feeling
Fast learning times
Good diversification of weapons
Well balanced weapons, considering the time to kill index.

CONS:
Only three maps
Really very small maps
Only two guns to choose from
Gameplay not always balanced, with some matches ending with a spawnkill wave, especially when the subjugated team lacks players capable of changing weapons, engagement style and who know how to fend off enemies.

Personal considerations:
The short-term longevity is very low, in the sense that it is a game that can be played for several months or years, but in individual sessions I feel tired after half an hour and I can't always play beyond the hour. On other frenetic titles like this I suffer from the same problem, so I could admit that it could be a personal psychophysical limitation.
In general, the title is quite captivating, especially when you understand which type of weapon you feel most confident with and how to modify it with the unlockable additions: sights, grips, flash muzzle brakes and various cosmetics.
It would be very convenient to be able to change the mouse sensitivity settings according to the various levels of magnification of the scope, while for now you can only choose one level of aiming sensitivity and if you switch from the 8x scope of a sniper rifle to the proximity red dot on a machine gun you find that you have to choose which of the two modes to focus on, since the optimal sensitivity for the red dot will always be too high when you switch to the 8x finder and vice versa, the optimal sensitivity for the 8x finder will be too low if you switch to a red dot (1x) and you will be left with a feeling of paralysis every time you aim your weapon.

In general it's a game that I recommend, but in my opinion it needs at least a couple of maps and a couple of guns to keep it afloat, since it's fun but doesn't make you fall in love.
There is a lack of a collection of decent guides that explain the ballistics of weapons and the differences related to the various accessories.

P.S.: it doesn't hold the comparison with Battlebit Remastered for the simple fact that the two titles have different vocations: Polygon is a pure Arcede with a frenetic pace and more than acceptable ballistics, while Battlebit is decidedly more tactical, with servers of 256 players divided in squadrons and classes, with the possibility of moving and reviving the wounded, with very refined shooting ballistics and total environmental destructibility that makes any hiding place or cover temporary.
On Polygon you can't even climb up the ladders leaning against the outer walls, you'll understand this after being shot while trying to climb them. After a while you get tired of always hiding behind the same stone. The feeling of static that remains is given by the fact that the most congenial hiding places become your point of reference and this will push you to play on an even smaller portion of already very small maps.
However, it remains an above average fun pastime for free games.

Mad Games Tycoon 1 e 2, Game Dev Tycoon, più cloni e controcloni vari, ne ho provato e visto diversi, ma nessuno vale la profondità di questo gioco. Ha una curva di apprendimento sicuramente più ripida, però ormai si trovano tutorial in italiano su youtube ed esiste la traduzione in italiano del gioco stesso.
Gli altri titoli del genere sono più superficiali, è più semplice capire come ottenere dei giochi best seller, in questo caso invece si può produrre qualsiasi tipo di software, o hardware, con vasta scelta e Workshop ricco di mod. Insomma, gli altri titoli non gli si avvicinano nemmeno.

Rispetto a Mad Games Tycoon 1 e 2, questo titolo, anche grazie al Workshop, riesce a raggiungere una profondità maggiore, ma molte mod sono state abbandonate e molti giocatori come me avranno perso la possibilità di continuare partite lunghe in end game. Tutto sommato è un gioco che non riesce a catturarmi e le decine di mod lo migliorano ma non lo fanno diventare un must have. Esiste anche un titolo nuovo con grafica migliore e con le stesse meccaniche, praticamente un clone, ma nessuno di tutti questi vale mezz'ora su Software Inc.