Recent reviews by Mengy

I've spent over 80+ hours in ONE week playing this game, so yeah I think I like it! I wasn't even planning to play it before 1.0 releases in September but I made the "mistake" of trying it out. You know, just for a bit to see what its like. Man I didn't expect it to be this good!

One of the most fun, beautiful, engaging, entertaining, and thought provoking games I've ever played. Its incredible and wonderful.

Do NOT buy this game. Came out broken for $50, super slow progress afterwards, and now it seems Intercept has fired the entire dev team as of May 1?!?!? What a ripoff, I wish I'd refunded it within the two hour window when I bought it.

Only buy KSP2 if you feel like throwing $50 away like I did.

EDIT: Okay, I originally gave Helldivers 2 a thumbs down simply because of the server issues preventing people from playing it. And the server capacity is still too low as we are seeing long queues every night (2-22-24).

HOWEVER, the CEO himself is advising people to NOT buy the game and wait until the server issues are sorted out if they want to have a seamless experience. I've never seen a game dev CEO so down to Earth (Super Earth?) and candid, and even considerate, even at the expense of his own game sales.

For this reason, I'm changing my review to a thumbs up even though the server is so overloaded I can't even play it right now.

HD2 a fantastic game, it may be the best co-op game I've ever played. It's simple yet complex, repetitive yet pure randomized chaos. It's cinematic, inspiring, and patriotic. Like playing in the world of Starship Troopers mixed with a bit of Terminator 2. In short it's incredibly FUN. Great gunplay, great maps, great game design, even the monetization is great and considerate. You don't need to spend any money on cosmetics if you don't want to, it can all be earned by playing the game if you want to grind it out. The only real problem I have with the game AT ALL is the server capacity is just not enough to accommodate everyone who wants to play, not yet anyway.

It's the best co-op online game I've played since Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast back in the day. And that is very high praise coming from me.

I never thought I'd be glad to pay $30 to add mouse support to a free game I've been playing for over a decade, but I was wrong. THIS version is SO much nicer to play than the free one. Easy to play, incredible difficult to master, tons of depth, oodles upon oodles of unpredictable stories and events coupled with accidents.

It's time to Strike the Earth again!

NMS has become my favorite space game. So much fun to explore, so many things to do, so much freedom to play in a variety of ways, and often so beautiful to look at. And regular awesome free updates to boot, the updates even add in fun meaningful content no less!

Hello Games has polished this original stinker into one of the brightest gems I've ever played. Well done HG, very well done.

Best city builder ever. RIP Simcity.

Great game. Very difficult yet balanced well enough to not be soul crushingly difficult. I'll never see the end levels though, lol.

DiRT 4 isn’t perfect, but it is a whole lot of fun. As of today on Steam it’s rated as “mixed” by the player reviews, and that seems way too harsh to me, it’s a great game and it should be higher than that IMHO. I own all of the DiRT games, so to give you a scale how I value them I rate them like this:

DiRT Rally > DiRT 2 > DiRT1 > DiRT 3.

Now, where does DiRT 4 place on that scale? It’s tough, but it falls on either side of DiRT Rally, so top two DiRT games ever for me, but I’m not sure yet WHICH side it falls on.

PROS:
- Presentation (UI and menus)
- Car handling & physics
- Career mode is well done
- Music, some really catchy tunes
- Car customizing, best of any DiRT series?
- Replays (thank you for sky view)
- Accessibility (both gamer and simulation mode)
- Stage generator means lots of replayability
- Weather effects are great

CONS:
- Stage detailing could use more diversity (early impressions though, might just need more time with it?)
- No hill climbs!!!!!!!
- Overall graphical quality seems less than I expected
- Rallycross and Landrush (if you like them then cool, both are worthless to me!)

It’s fun and well done, and I’m glad I bought it. Not sure yet if it can replace DiRT Rally for me though, I’ll probably end up playing both from time to time.

Just one more turn....

Civ 5 plus both expansions is the best Civilization to date in my opinion. Great user interface, best tactical combat of the series, fantastic looking graphics wise, and most importantly very fun and addicting. All eras now seem wonderfully fleshed out (thanks to the expansions) and the game now feels as complete as Civ 4 did wth Beyond the Sword.

This game is far more fun than it should be. It's relaxing, driving around in your big rig to music from the many online radio stations from around the world. It's challenging, trying to park your rig to earn that extra money and XP. It's got a very nice progression system, earning experience to improve your skills. Customizing your trucks with better equipment and paint styles. It's deep, in that you can buy your own garages, hire drivers, buy trucks for them to drive and grow your business. It's beautiful, the scenery is sometimes breathtaking as you drive across farming fields, through cities, over mountain roads, through the rain and fog and night time. It's one of my favorite games of the year, and although I find that surprising to say out loud, it honestly is. It's like the Elite or Privateer of driving simulation games. Very much recommended if you want a relaxing but fun and challenging driving game.