Recent reviews by Hollowsong

This is hands down the greatest ARPG of all time and it's not even cooked yet.

I cannot stress enough how amazing and impactful every skill feels.

The boss fights are mindblowing. It puts Diablo 4 bullet-sponge combat to shame.

It has the same sprawling POE skill tree but all the drops and nonsense has been toned down and streamlined to be more meaningful and you spend less time sorting through trash.

Probably the best game of its genre.
(Though I really do have a soft spot for Persona 5.)

This game started up, fresh install, updated graphics drivers on a 4090 RTX card and a 13900KF CPU at... 5 fps.

It actually delays the game when hovering over the settings options in the menu.

Something is seriously broken with this game, graphically.

Of the 10 minutes I was actually able to try building a city, with everything turned off in graphics, it was absolutely a nightmare trying to connect power, water, and sewage pipes with the poor isometric snapping angle.

Tutorial got stuck a few times. Had to bulldoze and redo to get it to proceed. Radio tells me there's a city shortage on water and power 5 minutes after I connect all the service lines (there isn't)

So far this is a hard no, for me.

An RPG masterpiece.

Please keep the same engine and just roll out more content! (and up to level 20!)

This is what Diablo 3 and 4 should have been.

Ever since Blizzard went into the abyss with game design, PoE has kept its strong following of people who enjoy the myriad of options and grit and fine tuning that makes the game so enjoyable.

Hear that, action-RPG devs? A lot of people LIKE crunch.

Hard to put down.

On an RTX3090, the raytracing is mindblowing.

Great dialog and story. Smooth mechanics and few bugs.

I could go for more level-up mechanics and collectibles, but it's enough to make it through the main story.

Reminds me of Superhot, but cardgame format.

By far, this is the best factory simulator ever created and it's not even done yet (Update 5)

I loved Factorio, and this is basically 3D Factorio.

Let me just say that I've purchased every single Bethesda game since Elder Scrolls Arena, so it is with a heavy heart I say that the VR edition of Skyrim is utter trash.

I'm not talking about with or without mods. I just mean the implementation of VR in this game is so unintuitive and awful I literally lost all interest in playing after the intro.

If you could write down a bunch of things NOT to do in a Skyrim VR game it would be:

- You can't swing your swords freely?
- You can't pick up and move things with your hands like you can on non-VR Skyrim by pressing Z?
- You have to navigate Skyrim's totally sh*t inventory system with trigger buttons?
- The LT/RT to change categories doesn't even work
- The graphics still look like it's from 2002.
- No interaction with your hands in the environment, your VR controller is just a mouse replacement.
- All camera shake and effects are disabled, which makes most encounters anti-climactic
- No potion-drinking gesture or anything of the sort
- The bow feels awful and not even half as polished as indy VR games

I mean... it's neat. Maybe not $20 neat. There are some decent QOL improvemnts and graphics hold up well. I really like the mechanics and hunker/aim aspects.

Content-wise, it seems severely lacking. I've seen more distinct items in 5 minutes of playing Nethack than all my playthroughs in Jupiter Hell combined.

Your options are "basic version of gun"... or "upgraded version of same gun". Maybe I just need to play more, but thematically there could be way more variety in items, even if they're functionally identical.