Ostatnie recenzje napisane przez użytkownika Talamioros

I play to enjoy slow, strategic empire building and management, but it turns out this game is more like a sudden death Mini Metro type of game (make sure your passengers flow! Make sure you don't run out of time! Keep adding complexity!) rather than a strategic, business building game--which is both too casual and also too stressful for me for not much emotional returns. It's not the kind of genre I particularly enjoy so I'm refunding it.

Disclaimer: I am reviewing this as a purely single-player AOE2 gamer who enjoys campaigns and storytelling and at most a random map or two.

For my style of play, Chronicles is a FANTASTIC idea. More history, more story, no need to deal with other people just to have fun. I am deeply enjoying myself playing through real historical stories imagined in creative ways, and I really hope that this won't be the only Chronicles--I would buy the hell out of every single epic long singleplayer historical campaign they create.

Wow, where did the time go? I was skeptical about this game, but it's just been so absorbing. I'm only a small time business owner at the moment, but it's incredible how invested I am in my little network of businesses. It's visually a bit rough of course, but I think these are very good bones to build on. It was fun not buying stuff from a menu, but literally roaming the aisles of an IKEA lookalike (complete with arrows on the ground) and physically picking items of furniture and other appliances from other stores as well. I love how you can be as physical or as remote as you want too, as a boss.

Just the right level of involvement for me to stay engaged, keep it on in the background, and use it as an integral part of my work-from-home experience. Also the spirit companions are SO CUTE.

This is abandonware--only the vanilla game is here, not any of the DLCs. There will never be any updates to this game anymore as the studio that made the game has already been bought over and after that closed down.

Not worth the price I paid for it, since I've already played the Android version with all the DLCs end to end many times for less than this price. Thank goodness I bought it on discount.

This has come a LONG way since the early days. I have already played through several 1861 campaigns, and I can say this is the Civil War game I always hoped we could have. Having come from Total War, played Ultimate General, and read much about the history and conditions of the Civil War, I can safely say this is probably the most realistic and total Civil War game available in the market thus far.

I really like the realism injected into the gameplay through things like feuds, order delays and supply issues. I also love the fact that I can actually play out the battles instead of auto-resolving. Most of all, I LOVE THE AESTHETICS, especially the old-school battle maps (almost all of them familiar battlefields).

EDIT: The AI has improved a lot since my last review, and it has been some time since I saw major gamebreaking oddities like Grant retreating through the South to Mobile from Tennessee instead of back towards Kentucky (and disintegrating as a result along the way), but I still get some odd small tics here and there.

All in all though, this is THE Civil War game. Ultimate General gives you a much more intimate, dramatic view of historic battles, but this is a whole different level not only with the fact it has a full strategic dimension, but also the amount of room for manoeuvre you have in any given battle.

I just hope for more, more, more varied battlemaps based on real battlefields, beyond the ones already designed thus far. Minor battlefields, local non-battlefields as well as major ones, please. I know it's coming but do keep it coming. It's really boring after awhile to fight the 18th Battle of Missionary Ridge even if the conditions for engagement are always different every time, this isn't World War 1.

This game was good once, but it's clearly going to be one of those games that had so much promise but it was squandered. My old review no longer stands--it's way worse than that now.

MY OLD REVIEW FROM 2020: This game is fantastic, with great graphics and a great concept. A very unique and therapeutic genre that feels like work but isn't, especially when you're on Open Shift, which I prefer because I play to relax not to feel stressed like being at work all over again.

HOWEVER. This game does not have a save function yet. Ending your shift is not a save state, it only pauses the instance. If you quit to menu or quit the game, the ship you were working on halfway will be GONE. Which, to me, is a dealbreaker, especially when you've got young kids and have no way to play for protracted periods of time. Early ships are small enough that I can salvage them within a game session of a couple hours (I like taking my time and relaxing). But I can already see that just one more difficulty level and I won't be able to, and it'll piss me off since my goal for myself is to salvage the "whole buffalo".

At this stage, I wouldn't recommend the game SOLELY because of the lack of a save function. The rest of the game is actually perfect for me. The devs have said they are working on the save function, and the moment that is patched in, I'm playing the hell out of it and I will be changing this review to a recommendation.

I strongly recommend this game to you if:

1) You are not a Paradox fanatic. If you are, you've possibly already left a negative review or been sold on other Paradox fanatics' negative reviews. You are a master of min-maxing and whatever, and can win any given war easily. In which case I won't waste your time further as I'm not qualified to comment on the finer points of EU4 or CK2 or what have you.
2) You are relatively new to Paradox. I've logged a week or two in EU4 as a beginner and found it kinda understandable but also incredibly complex and slightly frustrating. My main gaming experience has always been in the Total War franchise. I found Imperator Rome the perfect middle ground that I always wished EU4 was, and even better because...
3) Rome is a super fascinating period. I just love all the names and places that were so familiar before reappearing again and ready for me to conquer.
4) You like map painting. Oh yes, I like map painting. So people grumbling it's a map painting game? Whatever. That's exactly what I wanted. And it's not like MS Paint or something, because you actually do have to work for it. See 1).

All these things considered, I do love Imperator Rome. It's just lacking on the tactical aspect that Total War has, but it more than makes up for it with lovely maps, real-time fighting, more complex diplomacy, etc. I'm sure it will get better with DLC, and while I kinda resent the fact I need to buy them to get more features, but the base game itself scratches my itch sufficiently as is. It'll very much do.

It's probably better to stick to the original. I don't like the new "mistier" lighting, it looks largely the same, just with added lag. It makes a big difference for me because I'm using an older computer that can still handle Skyrim on Ultra, but can't even do Special Edition on High. It's nice that it came free, but it value-subtracts from the original, to me.

Since I wrote a terrible review for this game back when it started up, it's only fair that I now edit my review to reflect its current situation. After numerous patches, this is finally the game NMS should have been before. I can finally recommend it, after enjoying it for some time myself.

However, I still maintain it isn't worth its full price, and bought it only because the Christmas sale dropped it to $20+.

Nevertheless, if you love endless wanderings and exploration with a little excitement and discovery from time to time, then this is the game for you. But if you seek novelty and find the constant harvesting of minerals etc tiresome, then you'd need to look elsewhere.