Recent reviews by cesa210

Yeah its good just buy it and play it.

It aged like fine wine and, sadly, no other zombie game has done any better on this particular genre.

State of Decay 2 its a grindy (and boring ) RPG/Survival.
Back 4 Blood its a weird FPS/RPG/Deck weirdness that it was an absolute mess at launch, also grindy as hell.
World War Z feels bland and uninspiring, just not good enough.
7 Days to Die is still an absolute mess that reinvents itself (for worse) with every update.
Project Zomboid its a good game but its in a different genre.

And for a 2009 game its sad that not a single dev, including Valve, has come out with a substantial upgrade over this game. All the games i mentioned does better on one or two aspects but then add all this extra stuff that makes it not fun.

And whats that extra stuff the stupid grind that people just can't get enough, for some weird reason.

Short Story:
Mediocre, yet enjoyable at moments.

Long Story:
Very hyped game that came out too soon for its own good, and after a couple of years of more development its still a very rough game.

The UI its convoluted with features hidden between several menus.

The performance it's lackluster even in high end systems, graphics are good tough.

The management part of the game it's absolute garbage, guest are f@ck1n horrible and make me wish that this was an FPS so i can shoot every single one in the f@ck1n face.

The simulation part its pretty good, the animals are enjoyable to watch, the genealogy its well represented, overall the care of the animals it's good, even better than ZT2/1.

In conclusion, if you like management games don't get this game is pure f@ck1ng torture. If you like simulation games, animals and building sh1t this game it's just fine only being held back by it's poorly design interface.

Cool Game

The Good parts:

• Great combat, lots of weapons and classes.
  
• Good co-op, you can also solo all the game if you want.
  
• Good enough main campaign to play trough.
  
• Lots of maps to play.
  
• Chaos Wastes Mode is fantastic, has lots of replay-ability, loots of fun with randoms or friends.

The Bad parts:

• Horrible loot system, the classic chest loot roulette, very annoying and tedious.
  
• Weapons level up system is bad once you get to orange, sometimes even blue, its pointless to upgrade.
  
• Mediocre bot AI, just learn how to solo it or find some good friends.
  
• "Premium content", DLC, microtransanctions or whatever you wanna call it, its just mediocre.

Final Thoughts.
Great at parts, mediocre at others. The dialogue is entertaining, the weapons are fun as hell and the enemies are always fun to kill, the bad thing its all the modern gaming aspects like the loot system that sucks b**t.

Difficulty is between Hardcore and Casual, its leans a bit towards Hardcore (especially if you solo it) but never to much since controls are extremely simple and easy to learn.

Good game.

Just one suggestion work on the villager AI they are dumb as a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ brick, they attack buildings when they are heavily outnumber, doggos do this as well. Or maybe give us an option to mark unsafe areas that they should not touch or walk in. This usually happens when you use fire pits to stop the advance of corruption but one building remains on the "SAFE" zone so they go an attack just because they feel that that's a great idea until they aggro a bunch of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ monsters and they died like the dumb ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ they are.

Also buildiers are just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ retarded and slow they take a whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ day to build a miserable piece of wall.

Aside from that the game is well balanced.

Great Remaster. But can you give us a sequel or a full blown remake now, after all AE2DE just release, also AGDE release last years (to a warmluke response due to the poor state of the game at launch) and AG4 its going to be release it next year.

On top of that the remake of Warcraft 3 its about to be release and i a am very excited about it ,sadly you have to use the crappy blizzard launcher to play it kind of like the new SW game its seems to be great but you have to install the ♥♥♥♥ of origin to be able to play it(the same reason i was so discourage to keep playing BF1 after the beta end, also the fact that i suck a competitive fps), i just wish that all games were to be release on a GOG kind of way, no offense to steam since it has a good drm that works well most of the time and a decent return policy(compared to GOG), i just prefer to buy a game and never have to worry about online activation and all the crap that comes with it.

All the above (minus the little rant) shows that there its interest for the genre, despite what some retarded game executives say about it, no matter if they are old games or new ones. So can you please develop a sequel or a ultra HD remake, i would love to see that.

TLDR. Same old same old, the game mechanics lets you down, the performance lets you down but hey now it looks prettier on its full PBR glory.

I am going divide the issues in two parts, first the things that matter to all players like performance and then the things that probably just bother me.

Performance. My rig is and ancient FX 6300 with 8 GB of ram and a RX 470 to tag along the journey and the game performance its bad, super bad. When i look into the distance the game starts changing into stop motion mode, when the zeds start destroying walls it goes into super laggy mode, when i destroy a structure it goes into 1 fps mode. Anyway i'm pretty sure is my CPU (although alpha 17 seems to run smother) so i may update to a Ryzen 2700, 2600 or 2200/3200G this xmas along with a bump to 16 GB of ram and if the game stills run like ♥♥♥♥ i completely blame the developers and they complete lack of interest in optimizing this game.

Game mechanics. Boring and frustrating that's the only way to describe it. They din't listen last time complains about the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ melee combat or the trash of a stamina system they implement or the fact that you have to repair your weapons/tools like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiot every two hits, who finds this kind of ♥♥♥♥ entertaining. An i know it's an RPG and you can make your character better but 1100 hits for a top of the line tool that is garbage that iss poor game design, even AAA developers make this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ mistake i don't know why this kind of mechanic became popular it just frustrates players, its not fun or realistic.

Meele. My god melee combat it's horrible, i am really sorry for the developers they seem to be trying but it just crap, just copy Skyrim or L4D, even Oblivion, just look a Dying Light for a fun melee combat for zeds. I play 1000 hrs of Dead Island and State of Decay, those are good melee systems and they are zed games i don't get why its so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard to just copy that kind of gameplay. Currently the melee combat feels almost the same as in alpha 9 or earlier, in other words its crap.

Now for my personal issues with the game that i don't think many people care or even notice, the gun play feels anemic, i feels like i am shooting a bb gun at a rhino. I fire a full m 60 mag at crow zombies just wake up like nothing happen. An i know that you do more damage if you upgrade you character but it just feels cheap, i hate when games lock ranged damage behind perks and other crap its just silly makes guns feels like toys. Also you haven polish the appearance of the guns and its painfully obvious, metal does not look like metal, plastic does not look like plastic and and everything looks dirty and broken like nobody has ever clean the poor thing. Also you have random normals problems in guns like the SMG that are very obvious(the handle thing on the model its blocky like somebody forgot to smooth the normals). And the textures in most guns does not look like they have been updated to properly work with PBR.

As of now Alpha 18 its more of the same old problems: poor optimization, poorly tough game mechanics, uneven look on the 3d models(some look like the would be on a AAA game other like they belong in Minecraft).

Its' a bear shooting at womens clothes so they end up naked it, i mean what else i have to say that will make you buy this game? Just buy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!!!

....also the music kick ass.

The current gameplay is too frustrating, having to star over and over again just to find the right strategie is not fun anymore maybe 3 years ago but right now is just dumb, is just a quick and dumb way to make it hard for old players.

Maybe is more realistic, but is just not interstig, the last update (1.23.2) raise the bar to much for me, i have to search the right startegie again and again, this time is not challenging is just plain boredom.

The only way to make it work is to start really easy, lots of money lots of research points, but later on the game it becomes to easy and not intersting anymore. As a player that has keep coming bakc for the last 3-4 years this is the wrose version of the game to date, ai dificulty balance been the mayor culprit.

So no the game as it is right now is bad, is poorly balance to new players and to players that are coming back.

Noy my favourite in the series, the RTS part is good(especially the naval battles) but the turnbased empire management part of the game is pretty boring. I don't know why but is pretty shallow compared to ROME, MEDIEVAL II or even SHOUGUN 2, is way to simple to be any fun.

Anyway, if you are new to the series don't bother with this one, get SHOGUN 2 or ROME 2/ATILA, unless you are really into naval battles (Master and Commander syle) and you don't mind a pretty basic resource managment this is your game.

On the other hand if you are a veteran of ROME and MEDIEVAL II, this is a pretty horrible game to play.