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12 people found this review helpful
3 people found this review funny
5,795.4 hrs on record (3,801.0 hrs at review time)
Garry's mod is a unique kind of game. You will enjoy this a lot and invest all the time you can spend on this game; your grades will drop because you will be too focused on what to do on Garry's Mod and such. This is a great game to socialise with - to make friends, to meet new people - and to actually broaden your perspective about a few things. I learned how basic space ships work, how to build them, how to set up planes, how to fly and drive decently with various vehicles (which in turn helped me get a better understanding of flying/driving in other much harder games). I used to be a kid who wrote with bad grammar and in some indirect way this game helped me master the English language; due to serious roleplaying I also learned how to be creative, how to write a backstory and perhaps even a small book. It also taught me to dislike Russian people (but I suppose cs:go helped me with that).

Why do I rate this game as a negative one?

Because it ruins the way how you look and play other games. Before I played GMod I played other games at the same time. When I felt like shooting people up I either went to CoD, CSS or BF or when I felt like playing a simulator I went over to another (simulating) game. Perhaps this is my fault but I mostly blame the people and the game itself for ruining every other game for me.

The community
Whether you're a TTT fanatic, a DarkRP money printing twerp or a serious roleplaying elitist... It all comes down to one point: the community. You have to play with other people in order to make this game enjoyable to the fullest. It's great in the beginning because you get to meet a lot of new people but don't be fooled. The people within the garry's mod community are top notch two faced people. I haven't seen it like this within other games and I sincerely hope its entirely me just meeting the wrong kind of people but when I ask a lot of my friends this question Do you like most of the people you meet on all of the different kind of servers you have played on? they usually answer me with a straight up no and a gif of them shaking their heads like that one fat kid from Willy Wonka's chocolate factory when Willy Wonka asked the fatty if he ate the chocolate. Of course you will meet a lot of negative people on every single game you play but it's just a lot worse on this game.

The updates
Don't let me get started on this one. Okay, let me get started... Every single time you see on the newsboard of this game that there's a major update going to happen next week or this weekend, well, prepare for a lot of moaning because it probably broke every single gamemode or even your game itself. Every single time this happened I either had to wait a few days before they would launch a second update fixing what they broke or I just had to fix it myself which is really lame.

The workshop
So far this is the only game I've had this problem with. With every game that I have and that supports the workshop it's straight forward; you subscribe to an addon and the addon gets installed into your game from either the game client or the steam workshop installing client (or what ever it's called). With Garry's Mod this is not the case. With most (and with most I mean all unless it's a vanilla sandbox server which you're probably never gonna join anyway) servers, there's a content pack linked to it which fully works on the workshop system. You search the content pack or get directed to it - doesn't matter - and you click "subscribe all" so that you get all the necessary addons. Well, just sit tight in your chair and get ready to restart garry's mod or sometimes your Steam client in general because the workshop is so messed up when it comes down to GMod that it crashes everything. The downloading part of the addon goes great but the moment it finishes up installing the addon it just crashes all together. It doesn't happen always but let's just say that it happens 75% of the time.

Admins
I suppose this belongs to the "community" paragraph but I deem it necessary to give it its own paragraph. I've only met a handful of admins in my five years of playing this game that were actually mature, decend and performed their job well without being power hungry. Seriously, all admins on this game suck. In darkrp, the admins are kids. In seriousrp, the admins are those who hide in observer (noclip) and metagame/asspull the ♥♥♥♥ out of their server, and in other servers the admins are straight out douchebags. Pardon me for my language.

You have invested almost 4000 hours in this game and yet you make it a negative review. Why did you not stop playing earlier, then?
The game is an addictive one, I admit. You only realise how ♥♥♥♥ it truly is after it's too late and you've invested almost five years in this game. I hope this helps you and makes you realise that it's ♥♥♥♥.
Posted 9 October, 2015.
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1 person found this review helpful
2.2 hrs on record (2.1 hrs at review time)
to all those frozen wannabe fans that never quit singing that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ song in the midst of spring when this movie released; told you it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks
Posted 21 September, 2015.
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1 person found this review funny
6.6 hrs on record
I managed to make "catch the clown," so that means I succeeded into finishing the first tutorial. Would "play" again?
Posted 26 December, 2014.
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1 person found this review helpful
3.5 hrs on record (1.0 hrs at review time)
An immersive and a really beautiful piece of work. This game is one of the few that had moments where my jaw dropped open from being amazed, had me sitting on the edge of my chair due to excitement and check my pants from the frightening moments. If you don't have this game - go get it. I don't have anything else to say apart from this game being really amazing and you'll have more fun with this piece of work than any of the CoD series.
Posted 7 November, 2014.
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6.4 hrs on record (4.5 hrs at review time)
Do you know the kind of games that, when you start playing it, you just want to continue until the end, where the slightest feeling of sattisfaction isn't just enough, you just want to knock your way through until the bitter end? I think if I say this, a lot of people would agree with me. The Binding of Isaac is one of those games. When I first saw this game, I wasn't too sure about it. It looked boring, repetative and grey (meaning that it just looked like one of those handmade, with cartboard, indie games). Then one time it was on a sale and I just couldn't help myself from buying it as it was on a very low price. When I played the game for my first time, I grew fond of it. Then I died and I just couldn't live with myself, I just wanted to get to mom and finish her off! In the game you will encounter many things, extraordinary creatures which you would never think of by yourself, items that will either grant you power and help you finish the game or just simply decrease your stats and make sure you'll die faster in the game then you're supposed to. This is one of the small catagorized games that I truely enjoyed and put my time into as I couldn't get enough.
Posted 17 May, 2014.
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1 person found this review helpful
19.4 hrs on record (2.7 hrs at review time)
A truely fun to play game. Whilst playing it I got reminded of the old GTA style but then without the freedom to go and walk wherever you want. You follow the missions and that's it (when it comes down to freedom). Unlock masks, weaponry and more. However I must say that this game's violence is sometimes overpowering. There isn't really a storyline, atleast not for the amount of time that I've played the game. I would not recommend this game to the pacifists, I would suggest the game to the ones that love butchering, breaking (skulls), hitting men with bats, shooting limbs off and knocking foes over by the use of doors.
Posted 17 May, 2014.
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1 person found this review helpful
3.7 hrs on record (1.3 hrs at review time)
A beautiful looking game and astonishing. It's thé perfect game for those who want to burn down things you wouldn't be able to burn down in real life. It doesn't get boring after a while as you're appointed of finding a lot of combinations to burn whilst talking to a girl, recieving weather news and acquiring new catalogs spread out over time. I must recommend this game for all the indie lovers and pyromaniacs.
Posted 16 May, 2014.
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1 person found this review helpful
18.0 hrs on record (7.1 hrs at review time)
Terraria is a fun to play sandbox game, it allows you to collect, craft, build, gather and fight. However I must add that after a while it gets boring. As you've collected most of the items, slaughtered all bosses and discovered all dungeons, there is nothing more to do. The point of this game is to never finish it entirely but in the end, if you've collected everything and such, the game is pretty much finished. So if you wanna have a fun time with your friends for the time being, this game is the game you want.
Posted 15 May, 2014.
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