Recent reviews by Inanimate Carbon Rod

Well the summer event wants me to review something!

SotA was advertised as a singleplayer rpg, focusing on story with the option of multiplayer. Sign me the hell up! So I did sign up and what I got was not another game like Ultima VII, but this horrible "mmo" that cant hold an inch to its predecessors.

The game just sucks as an mmo with the little player base, horrible content, travel, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ combat, and massive RMT. Even as a free to play game I cannot recommend SotA as it just plain blows. There are just much better options out there, from live games to emulators and player hosted servers.

Though I think the worst of SotA is Portalarium. What game has to do streams to beg its players for money to continue running and make content? SotA does. Forsaken Virtues is right! The Avatar would weep seeing LB become the sworn thing he once ran away from, greed...

I have been looking for a successor to Ultima VII and there are many games out there but Divinity: Original Sin 2 was the crpg Ive been looking for.

Divinity 2 takes the original game and doubles the experience, theres more rping, a longer campaign, more companions to join you, new lands, new skills, the same damn satisfying combat, and most of all a interesting story. Did I say I loved the combat? Well I do! The game has one very enjoyable turn based combat system and its just really fun.

The only negative parts of the game I can think of are skill and weapon balance, visual problems, some bugs, several dialogue choices not mattering, and the dreaded npcs repeating their dialogue forever (And I thought Cyseal was bad...). Perhaps those will be addressed at some point.

So thats what I have to say about Divinity 2. Many thanks to Larian and the many people who pledged to make this experience possible. Now c'mon future expansion!

Grimoire : Heralds of the Winged Exemplar is playable and fun but there are flaws. The game currently has many bugs, repetitive and annoying sounds, hard to read text, one horrible cramped interface, bad inventory, no manual (atleast for now), and lastly a steep price.

Why do I recommend Grimoire : HotWE? Because its basically Wizardry/Might&Magic plus more and just as good as the games it draws it's inspiration from.

So if you're like me and was dying for a fresh new Wizadry-like experience this is it, Grimoire will fill that void.

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TDH is a mix of turnbased rpg, platormer, and crazy minigame management. It has some unique pre rendered visuals and characters with great music as well. I enjoyed the game yet I havent gotten far into it due to me screwing up on a certain maze of a level. I should really beat the game to finish this review but for now gimme my badge please.

Its short, its simple, and a bit spooky. Play it.

Factorio is a game about automation and factories. You start out small from wood and minerals with coal powered devices then move onto electricity. Soon your tiny automated workshop slowly becomes a massive factory and all the problems of keeping it powered and supplied come with it. Eventually you advance in technology, gaining weapons and vehicles to laser powered turrets. The game is just one big puzzle to be figured out by you, whether you abide by efficiency or just placing anywhere you desire.

If you like building, resource management and bit of tower defense you should love Factorio. Oh and watch the time while you play the game can be addicting...

Now stand-alone, Sven Co-op is even better and available to everyone. Enjoy time honored frustation, teamwork and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of player collision with battle cries of "Take Cover!".

Go download, change your model, playername, and go to a 32 player server with the toonrun map running then witness the chaos.