Recent reviews by nayjay

I want to play a game, not watch a movie while occasionally needing to push a button.

Glorious slavjank.

One year later and the game is still missing integral features that were literally promised in the promotional material. The economy still doesn't actually function, meaning you will not see goods from your industries travel across your town; everything just teleports as needed.

Your finances make no sense because somehow you just get more money but cannot figure out where it is coming from, resulting in there being no way to fail. It's also great to see their CEO literally _lie_ about features of the game before release, and then _blame the customers_ when the reception to their half-baked pile of ♥♥♥♥ is poor.

This game is not only bad, it's literal consumer fraud. Colossal Order have burned to ashes whatever positive sentiment I once held for them.

Oh my God.

This is not a shooter. If you're going into this game with the plan to kill and loot everything you see (because Tarkov) you are going to have a bad time. This is a stealth game with guns as a last resort - you are not the big bad space marine, you're the old bum stealing shiny things off of corpses.

It's unfortunate that the game gives off the vibe that the point is to shoot everything (including in the tutorial), but I imagine the reviews would be a lot better if the expectations were that this game prioritises stealth.

As for the game, it's amazing - incredible idea very well executed, amazing sound, brilliant ambience and environmental storytelling, and a great game play loop. I hope they make some changes to the water mechanic to allow for more casual play, but I can't fault the game for trying something new.

This is the scariest video game ever made. It is also perfect. Go play it right now.

I don't understand the bad reviews on this game. Many of them seem to be people not having played through the tutorials, and then complaining about a feature missing, despite simply not knowing how to use it:

* "my trains choose the wrong tracks!"
- You can set waypoints on each line to ensure a train follows a given track

* "my trains use the wrong station tracks"
- You can edit the line to define which station tracks it uses

* "I can't choose which resource to load"
- Yes you can, edit the line and set priorities for which resource you want to collect

* "the game says two stations aren't connected"
- You probably didn't place a station grid iron, or set the path directions on the rails correctly.

And many, many more.

So far I've loved the game; it removes all the excessive tedium with the laying of tracks and signals. And while I can understand the concern of limited control coming from lack of signalling, so far I've had no issues.

In my opinion, the game is well worth it; the maps are huge and the gameplay is fun. I can only feel bad for the developers for receiving so many bad reviews from players simply because the players can't be bothered to learn how to play the game.

This game is great fun, but it takes some getting used to, and it takes some time to understand the concepts behind how everything works. If you're willing to put in that time, this is definitely the game for you.

I cannot stop playing please send help my family is starving.

Nod.

The campaign is maybe 8 hours total, so if you're in it for the campaign, reconsider. Multiplayer is good though.

DMZ is actually amazing. Don't listen to the mouthbreathers.