Recent reviews by MJ

peak

Nevermind. The game still lags sometimes but this dlc slaps.

best game ever made

don't add footsteps this game is perfect <3

The soundtrack is top notch and the characters are very memorable. The art style is gorgeous and it was also the key factor that got me into drawing and digital art.

11/10 game

I've been playing this game for a few years now, and I'm just tired of pretending this game is good.
The concept itself is great, however the vanilla EU4 experience is dogwater even when you have all the DLCs.
Like most of the paradox games, the expansion packs for the base game itself are overpriced and bring nothing to the table, as most of the mods for EU4 offer more variety and flavor than any EU4 DLCs.

I've wasted quite a lot of time playing this game and from my experience, unless you are playing a very overpowered nation, the beginning of the game is almost 99% rng. You want to play Spain? Oh, you can't because France took 3 provinces in Catalonia, which prevents you from progressing your mission tree as Castille, and additionally you have two disasters, that can (with bad rng) game ruin you. The Mamluks at the start are one of the top 5 great powers, too bad they don't have any flavor. Ottomans sounds fun, too bad the game blocks you from expanding after 2–3 wars because of AE.

When it comes to historical accuracy of EU4, it is no better. The game seems to be the least railroaded out of all the other paradox games, which definitely offers more variety and has more replayability value for the player. but at this point just make an alt history game set in the late medieval to early modern era's. To me, it makes the game worse and more frustrating, as the player has to deal with the most retarded AI ever created for a game. The AI is not coded to do what certain nations did historically and will often do random stuff, usually resulting in abominations like "Danish Russia" or "French Brazil" popping out. In short, EU4 is a sandbox game disguising itself as a historical game.

The war and combat part of EU4 sucks. If you want to make a historical game at least do the combat mechanics some justice. The total war genre did it quite well, where they have actual meaningful battles, where a skilled player can win by having a strategical advantage, despite being outnumbered and outgunned. In EU4, battles are pure maths and statistics, with no regard for realism and historical accuracy. For instance, during the Hundred Years War, in the famous battle of Crecy, an outnumbered but better trained English army, defeated the much larger French army, which comprised at the time of the best cavalry in Europe. Try replicating that in EU4.

Now, the map of EU4. The map is just not good. There are numerous historical inaccuracies, which I presume were done for balance or gameplay reasons. I understand, that making a historically accurate rendition of the HRE in 1444 will make anyone's PC burn, however there are plenty of mods for the game, for example Veritas et Fortitudo or Victorum Universalis, both of which had found a fine balance between historical accuracy and game stability. The EU4 vanilla map is simply too self limiting.

The mods are what saves the base game from being completely worthless. Whatever vanilla version of the mod does wrong, there is a mod that fixes it. It just shows how lazy PDX are with their games. All their games revolve around the same strategy of making a half finished product, releasing it and afterwards they proceed to create a billion DLC's for the game, and having the audacity of charging criminal prices for what should have been in the base game at launch.

TL;DR Base game sucks, historically inaccurate, stupid features, no flavor, overpriced dlc's, literally a mod for the game is better than vanilla.

The ost is just classic at this point

The game has a really high skill ceiling and despite it, it is very enjoyable indeed. If you like WW2 simulator games, you'll definitely love War Thunder.
Game itself has a lot of bugs though, and the richochets can sometimes be annoying, but it is still fun nonthenless

The game itself is the same Assassin's Creed III but with better textures, movement animations itp.
If you played ACIII before then I suppose not to buy it.

One of the best Assassin's Creed games.