Recent reviews by Hextorio

Timeless classic. One of those must play titles. Also it's one of the best games to play on Steam Deck, superb level of optimization.

This game has wasted potential, much like the situation with Cyberpunk 2077. It requires extensive patching to address the numerous problems and quirks it currently has. I can't recommend the game in its current state. Give it at least a year to be ironed out.

I just completed 100% of the game for the second time (the first time was on Playstation 5 on its release). The game feels like it belongs to PC platform. The controls are super comfortable on PC. Thanks to involvement of Nixxes in porting process the game is perfectly optimized and has plenty of settings that you can adjust to your liking. It looks much better than on Playstation 5 hardware and thanks to Nvidia DLSS and FG technologies it can be easily enjoyed at 4K 120 FPS on RTX 4090. The game is a blast on OLED screen thanks to its perfect HDR support. There's not much to say other than that to grab the game and enjoy it to the fullest if you have capable hardware!

After all the patches the game is running fine (however I get the feeling that the performance could be better taking into consideration fact that the game is 10 years old already - the lifting it received does not justify requirements increase as the original game was running on Playstation 3 hardware). The Last of Us on PC is much better experience than on Playstation hardware. Playing with mouse and keyboard makes it much more enjoyable experience. There's plenty of options to choose from when it comes to adjusting the graphics, controls, sound to your personal preference. I wish the port was handled by Nixxes but after all the extensive patching the game can be easily recommended.

Wasted potential. Festival of loading screens, very poor performance, bad writing, okayish gunplay, mediocre graphics (some places look fine while the others look like 2010 game). Even UI and UX is a letdown. History repeats itself, all the bad things that this game has in itself are derived from Skyrim and Fallout 4. How come Bethesda is not learning on its own mistakes is beyond me.

In general I get the feeling it was marketed as totally different game than what we got in the end. I had no expecations and I am still left disappointed.

Great setting, beautiful design, wise gameplay ideas overshadowed by lot of glitches and very poor story execution. Dialogues, plot twists and characters are written very poorly. Also the game is not so open world as it was initially advertised. I would describe the world as semi-open. I was expecting different. On top of the linear levels like testing grounds and other underground facilities in which you are pushing story forward there's not so much to do in the open world. The gameplay is getting pretty repetitive quite fast as there's no big variety of enemies and arsenal you can use. On top it's worth to mention lots of glitches that were forcing me to reload the game very often - also a lot of achievements are glitched and they didn't unlock for me at all.

My recommendation is to grab this game at heavily discounted price just to enjoy its retrofuturistic art style.

Ohhh Elden Ring

Quite a surprise but definitely a welcome one. The game indeed has really awesome story and way of story telling. Gameplay lacks variety in combat mechanics but other than that the game is definitely enjoyable and I totally recommend it if you are looking for solid story driven single player experience.

Greatest failure of all time

After the extensive effort the game is finally in quite playable state. The game has much less bugs than it had on the release date, however they are still reoccuring from time to time. The biggest change worth to mention is the evolution of gameplay mechanics and additional things that didn't make it to the game on its release. Finally the whole gameplay system is easier to understand and finally you get a feeling of levelling up and creating your own variant of V accordingly to your playstyle. I really enjoyed replaying the game from scratch as the experience was totally different than it was on release. I'd like to highlight the graphics upgrade - especially ray tracing, path tracing and DLSS. The implementation in this game is superb and drastically improves on the visuals of the game. Story and story telling didn't change as there are only few changes to the base game and maybe few additional quests - Cyberpunk is still a great story. Phantom Liberty for me personally feels like an expansion comparable to Blood and Wine for Witcher 3. After all those years, rought start and hard love with Cyberpunk I can finally recommend it.