Recent reviews by gabunne

The Realm of Shadow is an awesome location, the bosses are tough as nails but awesome, and the new gear is fun as hell. It's just more Elden Ring, and it slaps.

Tip: PLEASE upgrade your scadutree blessings - they make a difference.

A beautiful masterpiece of a game with a hard hitting, stunningly beautiful yet terrifying story. I'd love to talk about the plot in detail here, but SIGNALIS is best experienced blind - so hurry up and play this incredible, weird, mind bending game and it's magnificent, bewitching story.

TL;DR: A fun, yet hollow game that does not respect it's players and wishes to draw as much cash as possible out of you - it is merely a shadow of what the game used to be.

Overwatch 2 is nothing but a shell of the fantastic game it once was. All game features were, once, provided to a player right off the bat, alongside a forgiving and (mostly) entirely free cosmetic system. Overwatch 2 was introduced as a replacement, or "upgrade" to the original game, and though some arguments can be made that this was the case there also many features which are objective downgrades.

It is upsetting to see a game I was a huge fan of, even back in it's beta in 2016, turn into a shameless front designed to pillage as much money from it's players as possible. Story content, practically all cosmetics, even heroes - compounded around the most parasitic and vile form of monetisation in the industry: the battle pass, which is in of itself packed with filler garbage that is worth next to nothing to the majority of players.

If you wish to play a fun team-based hero shooter: be my guest. Despite the game's flaws and clear inferiority to it's predecessor, Overwatch 2 still contains the gameplay that made it initially stand out many years ago. But do stay aware that the game you are playing is utterly inferior in nearly all ways to it's previous incarnation.

Thank you. Now, please re-open the store page for this game. It needs new players.

Oh, Destiny 2. This game has consumed quite a sizeable portion of my life, often invading my thoughts and whatnot throughout my days. But, maybe that isn't the greatest thing.

To preface this review, I will first like to say that I LOVE this game. It's lore is fantastic, with extremely satisfying gun play, unique weapons and many fun activities in a bright and wonderful universe.

On the steam page (which you're likely on right now), the game's description states that this game is "Absolutely free". Although not entirely true, you may notice the many DLC's being sold for this game at very high prices, some even rivalling AAA titles, at least with some of the deluxe editions. Not to mention the seasonal model that the game follows, with purchasable season passes every few months. Because of these, Destiny 2 is a game which is incredibly difficult to get in to without dishing out a potentially large sum of money. If you were to buy every yearly DLC, plus the 4 seasons of that year, you will be spending roughly $80+ on having access to the content in this "Free" game, not to mention the exorbitant pricing of micro-transactions, making it an expensive game to play which many people simply cannot afford. If you don't buy the DLCs or the seasons, there is simply very little content available.

With the release of the Beyond Light DLC in 2020, Bungie introduced what they referred to as the DCV, or Destiny Content Vault. Pieces of the game's content were essentially removed from the game, and a large amount of this content was what was free to players, enhancing the issues I previously mentioned. With the lack of campaigns, proper story missions or any kind of proper levelling system, for new players the game completely lacks any direction. Without asking other people or consulting the internet, many players will simply be lost for what to do, after playing for merely a few hours. Due to removal of story missions the game's lore and overarching story is extremely messy and fragmented, being extremely difficult for people to properly understand at first glance. Questions like "Who is this person that just started talking to me in this mission?" and "What is going on?" are horrifyingly commonplace amongst new lights.

On top of this, the seasonal model (which dictates both loot, and activities/story) creates a large amount of FOMO (Fear of missing out). If you don't complete a seasons pass, you miss out on exclusive cosmetics and other goods. If you don't own the pass, you can't complete its story or access many of the activities which are then REMOVED after the season ends. This game removes content that you pay for.

Destiny 2 is a good game. As previously mentioned, it is fun and interesting and you can sink a ton of time due to it's ever evolving world and drip feed of content. However, it is logistically faulty - draining your funds so you can access content which will eventually be removed without any form of reimbursement, and generating an insane amount of FOMO in the process of it.

Overall, if you have the time and the money, Destiny 2 is a fantastic game which I wholeheartedly recommend. But if you don't, then this game simply is likely not for you.

One of the most fun free to play games in the entire world, tarnished completely by a lack of management, a lack of effort, and utter apathy on Valve's part. TF2 is an integral part of Valve's history, as much as their other titles, and this mistreatment cannot continue. The game is nigh unplayable because of this 5 year long plague of bots and cheating. Update the damn anti cheat.

I want to be able to play and enjoy this game again. As of now, it's near impossible. No more empty promises.

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