Casual Achievement Hunter Zeruel’s profile
I’m a gamer that has a backlog of a few hundred games. I might be a passive player, but trust me, I’ll be working on my backlog slowly, but surely! :)
Current PC:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
RTX 3070Ti
16GB RAM DDR4, 3200MHz
Upgraded version of previous PC:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
GTX 1060 6GB
16GB RAM DDR4, 3200MHz
My previous PC:
AMD Ryzen 5 1400 (Quad-Core, 8 threads) 3.20GHz
Zotac’s Geforce GTX 1060 6GB, “AMP!” Edition
16GB RAM DDR4, 2400MHz
My old PC:
AMD FX-4100 (Quad-Core) 3.60 GHz
Geforce GT 640 (1GB)
12GB RAM DDR3
Casual achievement hunter’s progress log #78
Completed
Fallout 3 - The Pitt
0 hours, 0 of 0 achievements
Reviewed on Youtube
Been a slow month. Busy with university, busy with Youtube and so on.
Regardless, two DLCs of Fallout 3 got done from me. The Pitt's the first one. Honestly, it's not a bad DLC at all, but it isn't great either. The world presented is dull and it's just not very captivating.
Fallout 3 - Broken Steel
0 hours, 0 of 0 achievements
Reviewed on Youtube
Broken Steel might as well be called "Fallout 3 - BoS Mission Pack #1". It's basically just very basic missions lined up with a BoS theme. It's just pointless and frankly, uninteresting. It doesn't have an independent story really and it most certainly has no real connection to the original story.
The only reason to get this one would be to get an increased level cap and an ability to continue playing after the game ended.
23,603 achievements (+16) | 87 perfect games (+1) | 43% avg. game completion (+0%) |
1,507 games (+9) | 1,799 DLC owned (+31) | 172 reviews (+0) | 967 wishlisted (+48) |
Casual achievement hunter’s progress log #77
Beaten
Basically a parody game that became the game it made fun of. But it is what it is, I guess. For a free game, it's totally serviceable.
Not the most reviewable game, but literally all games I've been playing are for reviews.
Completed
It's as unremarkable as it gets. That's me saying it, knowing that it's free as well, so I'm even more lenient than with other games. It's like 15 minutes. But honestly, unless you're achievement hunting, you can have a way better time with other games.
Honestly… Fallout 3 is a total disappointment for me. On surface it looks like an amazing RPG experience, but almost every aspect of the game is either lacking or straight up bad. In its time it made a big splash, but we have way too many alternatives that are just infinitely better.
While I heavily disliked Fallout 3's base game and how borderline illegal it is for it literally saying that they don't even give a basic guarantee that their software works, I actually liked Operation Anchorage. Some missed opportunities, but overall we're dealing with a good DLC!
23,587 achievements (+21) | 86 perfect games (+0) | 43% avg. game completion (+0%) |
1,498 games (+16) | 1,768 DLC owned (+15) | 172 reviews (+2) | 919 wishlisted (+10) |
Casual achievement hunter’s progress log #76
The month when I was mainly playing games for my first month of Youtube reviews. Doesn't really help my backlog stats...
Beaten
Hitman was a fun ride, honestly. High production values, amazing level design and robust gameplay. But I'm not a huge fan of stealth games and unfortunately the social stealth system's a bit barebones for me.
I also made a review for it on Youtube. Spoiler-free, if you're interested.
An fairly unknown rough gem. It's visually pretty great and the gameplay's really unique.
Last Light compared to 2033 has less focused design, a more simple story, but also higher production values. I'm not sure which game I like more, but overall they're both really great.
Completed
A total classic in the open-world games. But also a horrible port. It's barely playable. But I used Gentlemen of the Row, so the 25fps on average turned into 40fps average. Below standards still, but at least playable.
The longest and most elaborate review I've made so far. Really proud of this one!.
23,566 achievements (+45) | 86 perfect games (+0) | 43% avg. game completion (+0%) |
1,482 games (+12) | 1,753 DLC owned (+8) | 170 reviews (+7) | 909 wishlisted (+19) |
Casual achievement hunter’s progress log #75
The month when I was always playing games. And when I started a Youtube channel for video game reviews. Ah the cringe!
Beaten
Focus and Spiders both are known for clunky RPGs. This is probably one of the most polished game they've released though, which is nice.
As a sequel of Mars: War Logs, you play as a dude from the opposite faction.
Look, honestly, I find it hard to describe most things about this game, but here's what I can say.
The game's beautiful. It's jank that you can adapt to. I had a fair bit of fun, but the game has a lot of filler as well. It's a 18 hour game that has 9 hours of filler (approximately).
The folks are hidden and finding them is not always as fun as you might think.
Hidden Folks takes the "Where's Waldo" concept and slightly expands on it by making larger areas and making them interactable. The real issue however comes in with the visuals being monotone and everything being so cluttered. I had a headache twice during the 3 hours that I played. It kind of just abuses your eyes a lot and I just can't approve of it.
Also, the way you find some people is a bit annoying. Sometimes you have to find insanely small details hidden underneath a random cluster of same-looking clutter. So for example, you need to interact with like 20 clouds in the same place just to find some small item. It's no longer that fun type of "Do you notice the detail", instead it's more of a "Can you be bothered to click on 50 items to search them to find whatever you need."
The images are cute however and I don't regret my time with this.
Also, you need a DLC to get all of the achievements, which is genuinely just malicious business practice.
Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition
7.9 hours, 19 of 60 achievements
Beaten as part of the August Monthly Theme
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I'm surprised how great this game looks.
The gameplay's definitely a bit simple and repetitive, but I enjoyed the game regardless.
A total fucking banger of a game, honestly. Arkane's done it again! I beat the game twice, thinking I got all the content out of it, only to find out that there's a fair few things I could've also done.
Prey's totally worth it if you're like me and want an experience where you're dropped in a new setting and make you try and figure things out, turning from prey to predator in the hostile environment.
Another Tropico game. Yeah, the story's solid, but it's nowhere near as fun as Tropico 4. Regardless, it's done and I don't regret my time with it.
A great walking simulator with a decent story. Sadly, the posed mystery isn't really answered satisfyingly and so it can leave you unsatisfied. Regardless, I still recommend this game.
Finally finished it! It was a lot of fun, played through it twice, in fact.
The game's ridiculously gorgeous, which makes me confused as to why games often can't reach this level still.
Yeah… I liked Metro 2033 a lot… I beat this one twice as well. :)
Though, visually it's a bit underwhelming, yet still beautiful.
Once again, 2 playthroughs. Yeah, I love Metro a lot! Basically 6 playthroughs of Metro in a month. A bit of a more simplistic entry this time. The gameplay barely evolves and the story's a total step down. Just overall, Last Light is definitely weaker than 2033. It's less interesting and compelling.
This one got me thinking enough to make me want to make a video review as well. As of now, there's 40 minutes of audio and 4000 words in the script. Even then, I held back a lot. The original plans would've made the script around 7000 words long…
Wanted to get another Steamgifts win finished. This time, it was a short one. Ferrum's Secrets is a pretty weak Point and Click game with HOG minigames. The story's really boring and uninteresting and the gameplay's pretty weak as well. I don't recommend this game almost at all.
Was gifted this a while back when I gifted the same game to my friend. But unlike him, I actually didn't really want it. So I'll be honest, I was a bit bitter about getting a gift like this. I bought it for him because he wanted it and he obviously bought it so he'd have someone to play with, not because I would be happy to get it. Regardless, a gift's a gift and I can't complain. I didn't expect anything in return, but it just didn't feel like a gift for me, instead a gift for him again.
We played the multiplayer and it was pretty boring. But I saw a story mode, so I didn't uninstall. So I finally went into it (8 months later) and I expected basically just bot matches with some basic story stuff added. Instead, it was a really fun and funny experience. An hour and a half of a legit story. No multiplayer garbage and instead this was a totally new part of the game.
Completed
A Z-tier CoD wannabe. It's clunky, but it was decent enough to not make me want to die during those 6 hours.
Tropico 3: Absolute Power
52.6 hours, no achievements
Completed as part of the August Monthly Theme
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GOOOOOOOOD MORNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNG TROPICOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Basically this is the less flexible father of Tropico 4. No real imports, no quick builds, no convenience. But it's still a really fun game.
It's a pretty decent Assassin's Creed IV expansion. Basically just a more compact version of the original.
Basically a GTA game without the character around it. So, the story's very threadbare and also a bit uneventful. Yet, the game's still fun and entertaining.
My 2 minute long video review (I'm aware of the audio edit issue :D)
100%d!!!!!!! This marks another Bethesda game that I've 100%d! So far, I've got Fallout: New Vegas, Skyrim, Skyrim SE and now this. Sadly I don't have VR and Fallout 3 doesn't have actual achievements. Though, Fallout 3's been 100%d in-game as well.
Fallout 4 definitely made it the hardest to 100%.
Answer Knot was a fun ride. 45 minutes to tell a quick story.
23,521 achievements (+195) | 86 perfect games (+1) | 43% avg. game completion (+1%) |
1,470 games (+11) | 1,745 DLC owned (+26) | 163 reviews (+3) | 890 wishlisted (+17) |
50% never played (-1%) |
18% unfinished (-1%) |
16% beaten (+1%) |
15% completed (+1%) |
1% won’t play (+0%) |
Casual achievement hunter’s progress log #74
Beaten
Well, people recommend the third game, but I always want to start from the beginning, so I went for the first game (plus it was way cheaper as well).
It's definitely one of those "Easy to learn, hard to master" games, with simple mechanics, but also any harder mission will definitely make you think for a bit. Overall, the story didn't really capture my attention too much since nothing really happened. But I've heard it gets better as games go on, so I still cared enough to keep an eye on it. If you crave a game like this, then even paying the full price would be worth it since it's only 5€.
Happened to get two games that are similar, it seems. Not in terms of gameplay mechanics, but the general feel and structure of the game. A swarm comes in, you push it back in a war of attrition. Infested Planet's definitely the more "gamey" one of the two though, with Creeper World being more mechanical in nature.
Regardless, I really liked Infested Planet. Impressive stuff.
A fascinating horror-suspense game that blows its load in the first 40 minutes and then quickly runs away and flashes the credits. This is a good Act I for a horror game. But you can't get away with making an incomplete game by saying it's "experimental" or whatever else. It's disappointing, since this actually would have a lot of potential. But I guess it's easier to just not work on it as much and say it's intentional and charge 5€ for it.
I don't want to give this shit more of my energy. It's badly made and it's a wide puddle that's extremely shallow.
Completed
You know what it is and you know if you'd like it or not.
I'll tell you this much, I played it as a kid and loved it. I played it now as an adult and while I still enjoyed it, I enjoyed the gameplay itself much less. Radiator Springs looks lovely and it's still fun to play.
If you want a more in-depth review, then I recommend this video.
For a PC port, Liberation HD is underwhelming. Though I don't know if it deserves "Mostly negative" recent reviews. Regardless, the story was decent, the gameplay was a bit more robust than AC3 and when taken in context of what it actually is, a handheld game, it's pretty impressive. Would I have it on a handheld system, I'd be way more impressed, but since I'm on PC, I'm not happy with this one. I'm glad I got it done with.
Yeah, I personally really like Watch_Dogs 2. It's a visual marvel, the world's one of the best ones created, from what I've experienced. The gameplay's really robust and all the story elements (including characters) are really charming and fun. There's a fair amount of ludo-narrative dissonance, but it's mainly only created by the player if they choose to and also the story's not very focused. But that doesn't mean the story's bad. All the aspects are great.
Third Ubisoft game in a month. Yeah, kinda on a kick on AAA, high fidelity games.
I never played the multiplayer since it's not really for me and I've heard the community's such garbage that it frightened me off even more.
So I played the campaign and I must say that while the story itself is garbage, everything else was really fun for me. Its beautiful scenery, great animations, satisfying gameplay and a cool world have convinced me to want more single-player content for the game.
Plus, the game's perfect for screenshots. I'd check them out if you're interested.
It's an endless building game, but I felt like I got all I could out of it in that 0.8 hours.
I don't know… it's pretty and it will bring a lot of fun for a lot of people, but I think it's really niche and that it's lacking in customizability. The grid for placing items is really rigid and all the parts are really mismatched, so you can never great something truly awesome. When you look at the game's screenshots, you'll see nice things, but having played it, I can already see how shallow it really is if you move the camera even a little bit. It's just too shallow for me.
It'll get a full release in 20th of September 2019. Their last update was a hotfix for the entire month of June. If they're just fixing bugs at this moment, then it just won't improve in the ways I want it to.
23,326 achievements (+86) | 85 perfect games (+0) | 42% avg. game completion (-1%) |
1,459 games (+9) | 1,719 DLC owned (+2) | 160 reviews (+5) | 873 wishlisted (+6) |
51% never played (+0%) |
19% unfinished (+0%) |
15% beaten (+0%) |
14% completed (+0%) |
1% won’t play (+0%) |
Casual achievement hunter’s progress log #73
Beaten
I played it right after I got it from the free promotion, which is pretty rare.
Regardless, the game's pretty dope. Loved it for the 30 minutes or so I played it. Got a bit frustrated and decided to call it quits. Haven't felt the urge to play it since.
Basically a mobile version of Animal Crossing. I had fun with it, but it's pretty rough around the edges. Though I can see that some people might get almost addicted to it.
A fun spectacle. Overall, I'm not going to play any more of it after beating all the songs, but it was fun while it lasted.
Completed
This is one of those games I won when I didn't actually enter in giveaways for games only on my wishlist, instead entering randomly.
Anyways, it's 3 years later. Finally started playing it and honestly, it's decent. It's not amazing, but it's decent. It's a bit of a visual clusterfuck, but it's not like it looks ugly either. Other than the minigames, the gameplay's alright as well.
It's 3.79€ on sale. I personally still don't recommend the game. Instead, get it from a bundle or somewhere for cheap.
A really good walking sim. Visually gorgeous, an intriguing story and overall pretty great gameplay, though the mines are a bit iffy thanks to a single part of the game. Regardless, I had fun and I would recommend the game to anyone who's interested in a walking sim. Though, as with basically any game, I recommend getting it on sale.
Yeah boy, this one's awesome. Another walking sim, in this case. The game's gorgeous. So gorgeous in fact that I made one of my screenshots into my wallpaper.
It's a very short game, but it's also very cheap. 1.19€. I'd say it's worth that money.
A timeless classic, it seems. Well, as timeless as Windows 7 will be since the game doesn't run well on Win 10, needing you to use the compatibility mode. Regardless, on my fourth replay, the game's still as great as it was when I played it first.
Too bad the pricing's total garbage on CoD games. Get it from anywhere but Steam, I'd say.
Game'i sú. Haywa am shancha. Palhu goali. Mu shwada sa sú ayshta ta way am hesti gwéru shnar. Waka.
I wouldn't recommend it. The jokes can be entertaining, but the game's too weak overall. Review
Another game I don't recommend. It's simplistic and overall just really boring. Review
23,240 achievements (+184) | 85 perfect games (+4) | 43% avg. game completion (+1%) |
1,450 games (+16) | 1,717 DLC owned (+14) | 155 reviews (+3) | 867 wishlisted (+41) |
51% never played (+0%) |
19% unfinished (+0%) |
15% beaten (+0%) |
14% completed (+0%) |
1% won’t play (+0%) |
Casual achievement hunter’s progress log #72
Beaten
I've beaten the game once before and I personally really disliked it. But I was tempted to give it another shot, so I bought the Season Pass for like 13€ and gave it another shot and I must say I liked it. Most likely because I didn't treat this as a Fallout game. Instead I treated this as a post-apocalyptic open-world FPS game.
The expansions were pretty decent with me going against the grain and saying that Nuka-World was better than Far Harbor by a lot.
Far Harbor had the potential to be Point Lookout Redux, where everything's just improved. But alas, the strong start ended in a shallow experience that just wasn't interesting at all.
Nuka-World however… To start off, listen to this DLC's theme… yeah, a theme. No spoilers, 1 minute 18 seconds long. Legit good stuff. So now that you've listened to this, I'm guessing you already understand why this stands out. It's perfect to the Fallout world, it's appropriate to what it is (an advertisement to an amusement park). It teases all of its content. It makes jabs at real life equivalent parks and it shills itself to its parent company. It's legitimately a perfect theme for this DLC.
Visually it's colourful, yet also post-apocalyptic. It has distinct worlds, which allowed the level designers unleash their creativity. The story's solid as well and it's obvious there was a lot of love put into this. But with all this praise, there are issues. The management aspect the game introduces is inconsequential and makes the story accidentally very predictable. The impact the DLC has to the main world is really clumsy and it just doesn't fit into the world unless you specifically go out of your way to play as a raider, but then the main game doesn't support your existence. This DLC would be perfect in a true Fallout game. But in here, it's basically too innovative and too ambitious for its own good.
I played through this while streaming it to 2 of my friends. We had enough fun with it.
You're basically investigating an event in an open world. In the first hour the weirdness factor is increased a fair bit and then the middle 2.5 hours is spent in a way where you basically don't even acknowledge anything, with the last 30 minutes being a sudden climax which isn't very interesting.
Some of the progression was pretty weird and I had to look up at a guide to figure out what I was supposed to do. The answer wasn't too logical either, so me and my friends were left kinda shittalking the game for 15 minutes because of it.
Overall it got our imaginations flowing and got us to speculate a fair bit and if a game can pull that off, then it's inevitably good enough to recommend.
The game's not too great. I'll just leave my Steam review here.
Total popcorn entertainment. Did I enjoy it? Yeah. Was it memorable? Barely. Was it visually nice? Yup.
I was positively surprised since I didn't think the game could handle hordes of enemies thanks to its originally slow and methodical gameplay. It mostly adapted well. Though I'll warn you, the bosses are a waste of time and ammo and they're just awfully boring to fight.
The game's adorable. It's like if you let a kid design a game that they'd just love. Obviously, the kid took inspiration from Call of Duty.
It's a mess, but definitely a fun mess. With the 3.5 hour campaign, I'll say that I don't regret spending my time or money. But don't expect anything amazing. It's definitely a "so bad it's good" type of game.
23,056 achievements (+185) | 81 perfect games (+1) | 42% avg. game completion (+0%) |
1,434 games (+12) | 1,703 DLC owned (+20) | 152 reviews (+1) | 826 wishlisted (+32) |
51% never played (-1%) |
19% unfinished (+1%) |
15% beaten (+0%) |
14% completed (+0%) |
1% won’t play (+0%) |
Casual achievement hunter’s progress log #71
Beaten
"I am back to reclaim what's mine" - That's pretty much the entire game summed up.
If you don't know what Dishonored is, then odds are you're not into this type of game anyways. Though, if that's not the case, then Dishonored is a first person stealth-action game with insanely good level design and very good environmental storytelling. The gameplay's smooth and the visuals are nice. Well, that's the first game.
As for the second game, this one's not as good as the first one. The visuals are less stylized, it doesn't even look better in any way, other than some textures. While it looks as good or worse, it also runs pretty badly, with small hitches and low framerates.
The new infection is formulaic, uninspired (since it's just like the first game, just a different creature) and the bloodflies are so boring.
The gameplay's not an improvement, but it's not worse either. Though this time the abilities are so boring that it unreasonably bothers me.
If you're desperate to play more Dishonored, then this will do.
Eh, it's another 12LoH game.
Dear Esther has a bad reputation for being the first and also worst walking sim. The game that started the trend.
Personally, for me, it was engaging thanks to its short length and good visuals. Though, the story was purposefully vague and felt quite pretentious, so I didn't enjoy that aspect. It was worth my time.
Definitely the best of the three visual novel/walking sim styled games I played this month. (I got all three of them from a single trade)
While The Novelist focused on the story and Dear Esther focused on the visuals, Subsurface Circular hits a great balance between the two. It's a great visual novel that feels more dynamic than that. You're on a subway train as a robot and you question the robots who come on the train. They all have interesting writing behind them and it's fun to be a detective in such a setting. The game revolves around a single case you're given by another robot.
It's not some deep story like Dear Esther and it doesn't have consequences like in The Novelist, but damn is this game a good time. Highly recommend it!
It's a mediocre racing game that I played through solely to play Dirt Rally. Ironic that I haven't actually started playing Dirt Rally yet.
Skip Showdown unless you're like me and feel the need to play through games linearly in the franchise.
The game croaked. It's dead.
Kinda sucks since I won it back when I didn't care what I won and only cared about the fact that I did, indeed, win. I gave it a shot, I guess.
So I won it on SG when it still cost money. Now it's F2P. It's a bit buggy and like half the achievements don't seem to work. I had some fun, but I'll be honest, this game's not very good. The combat's quite bad and the visuals are crisp, but pretty dated overall. It was fun to play it for that 40-50 minutes, but since it's an endless game, I called it quits after the shine wore off.
Such a good game! Definitely my favourite Max Payne game. It would be Max Payne 2 if it didn't have any of the Mona gameplay sections, since those involved escort sections and losing your entire arsenal multiple times.
That happens in Max Payne 3 as well (Losing weapons, not escorting), but it makes sense here. People say Max was too bleak, but I think it was the perfect amount. He was so over the top that it made sense. Max is a broken man by this point. Depression and superhuman abilities will present this result. Not sure what people expected.
The soundtrack was good as well (Especially TEARS by HEALTH) and the visuals are top notch. I would totally love to play a game that looks like the past Max sections (a.k.a. the snow and the gritty visuals). It's still gorgeous. It feels insane that a 256MB GPU could produce that quality. Currently we need 6GB for Kingdom Come: Deliverance (beautiful game, but definitely not 24x more beautiful).
This game's a fucking marvel.
Completed
It's quite interesting overall. You're some ghost/spirit thing and you spend a summer with a small family, with the emphasis being on "The Novelist". You basically walk around the house, gather clues about the current situation and tell the Novelist who he should focus on (himself, his wife or his son) and once you decide, you skip some time, you find out what happened, see the reactions of those people, see some slight changes to the house and do it all again 3-4 times. It was an interesting experience. Luckily it was short as well. Had it been longer, I would've been more critical.
22,871 achievements (+105) | 80 perfect games (+0) | 42% avg. game completion (+0%) |
1,422 games (+2) | 1,683 DLC owned (+10) | 151 reviews (+0) | 794 wishlisted (-2) |
52% never played (+0%) |
18% unfinished (+0%) |
15% beaten (+1%) |
14% completed (+0%) |
1% won’t play (+0%) |
Casual achievement hunter’s progress log #70
Sorry for the irregular formatting. Every game has something. Was in a rush and didn’t have the time to fix the button/bar issue. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Beaten
So I actually separately bought an Expansion Pass… Shows how much I loved the original game. Going back to the game was awesome and I personally just loved it. Top tier stuff!
Unlike Shadow of War's Expansions, the Layers of Fear DLC is a pile of shit. I hate it. It's so pretentious, it's badly designed and it's just unlikable.
Late Shift
1.6 hours, 4 of 20 achievements
A really fun movie that has a great illusion of choice. After finishing it, I kept thinking "What if I had done this or that differently…"
It's just really well made. Highly recommend it if you are interested in games like this.
DiRT 3 Complete Edition
18.5 hours, 17 of 60 achievements
What a great racing game. Started playing it to curb my desire for Dirt Rally. Was surprised at how awesome it is. The gameplay's top notch and the graphics were surprisingly awesome and they'd still hold up if released today.
Among the Sleep
2.0 hours, 1 of 10 achievements
Won on Steamgifts
A cute horror game with a realistic message. Happy to have won it.
Rytmik Lite Chiptune Synthesizer
0.5 hours, 8 of 11 achievements
Won on Steamgifts
It's a low-rate music kit. Got as many achievements as I could and quit because I just couldn't get the hang of the program.
Superflight
1.5 hours, 20 of 24 achievements
It's cheap, but it's polished. This definitely isn't a game for me, but at the same time, I can see many people just chilling out while playing this. I appreciate that this game exists and I appreciate its cheap price.
Prototype 2
18.3 hours, 39 of 43 achievements
Played right after I finished Prototype 1. Definitely a good game. Just not too sure if it's a good Prototype game.
I have such insane love for this insane game. The presentation is flawless, the soundtrack's so amazing that all of it is in my active playlist! The gameplay's hectic enough to be exciting and clear enough to never overwhelm you. A total masterpiece of gaming. Highly recommended!
Completed
People love this game. They love the combat and everything around it. Personally, for me, the combat was almost completely broken. Enemies barely reacted to you and the hitboxes were pretty unreliable. The platforming didn't always work like it should and the level design… fuck, it's bad.
I went back to the review that got me to play the game by MandaloreGaming (recommend his stuff btw) and the only thing that I saw I missed out on was the magic. The only thing about the magic was the ice and using it to slip enemies. Sure, it's nifty, but it's not enough to carry a whole game.
Funnily enough, my other favourite reviewer SsethTzeentach also made a review on it around a week I finished the game, which was the weirdest coincidence (Also recommend him). Well, he didn't really add much to what I might've missed, so it's obvious that the game just didn't click for me and that's it.
This game's bad. It doesn't even deserve the time it takes to describe why it sucks.
It lacks in any content and it's basically a just a tech demo.
Two steps forward and one step back.
Better graphics and better gameplay overall.
But also, you have escort quests.
It's an improvement overall still. This time around I also cared about the story, which definitely surprised me looking back at it.
The worst AC game I've played for sure. It's still really buggy. Looks great, but the world's uselessly massive and it's just frustrating to play.
Oh, also the DLCs were total garbage. Funny thing is that I was the last person to review all of AC3 Tyranny of George Washington DLC's episodes before they were recently taken down for the re-release. So, I guess there's that.
Ayyy, Stalker! Play my shitty game! Remember our adventures in Shadow of Chernobyl, comrade? Well, play this piece of shit too! You'll be surprised how a franchise can collapse like the Soviet Union!
The game's pretty damn bad.
Fake Colours
2.0 hours, 7 of 7 achievements
Won on Steamgifts
I'm too dumb for this game. I did beat it, but I think the clunkiness and my own lack of skills at puzzles made this a frustrating experience for me.
The game's really fun! Had a lot of fun playing this :)
Also, the first game I've beaten on the PC while playing only with a controller. It's great for controllers and truly the first game that's way worse on the keyboard.
Another DLC I specifically bought. Definitely scratched my itch for Just Cause gameplay. Everything it adds is pretty useless or too clunky to be fun to use. The stories all three DLCs add are fine overall. Luckily they add new areas and two of them are also quite unique, so they were fun to do, though they weren't too well thought out.
Cheap, gorgeous and just a nice experience. Plus, the free soundtrack is very good.
A fun, satirical game. It's pretty shallow overall, but it was an entertaining romp while it lasted.
22,766 achievements (+259) | 80 perfect games (+2) | 42% avg. game completion (+0%) |
1,420 games (+27) | 1,673 DLC owned (+168) | 151 reviews (+13) | 796 wishlisted (-67) |
52% never played (+0%) |
18% unfinished (-1%) |
14% beaten (+0%) |
14% completed (+1%) |
1% won’t play (-1%) |
Casual achievement hunter’s progress log #69
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Beaten
Black Mesa
9.1 hours, 9 of 25 achievements
I played the whole game across the span of multiple months. Personally, I didn't enjoy it. The environments were confusing a lot of the time and it was overall a very unpolished experience. It tried to expand itself to be like a Half-Life Remastered. It ended up being a Half-Life Student Project.
Rogue Legacy
17.5 hours, 14 of 29 achievements
I remember when this game was really interesting to me. Gradual progression across deaths, parts of castles, rising above the game's systems and so on. So when I played it now… it didn't hold up. The controls were a bit loose and it felt like the monsters became a bit too unfair in some room layouts. Sometimes I couldn't even get to them because they were literally in walls. Overall, I beat it, but if I wasn't watching TV shows during it, I wouldn't have even gotten halfway through it.
PAYDAY 2
573.7 hours, 873 of 1130 achievements
It's finally finished. The story's wrapped and updates are basically done. Payday 2 is finally over. Good riddance. Mind you, I love this game. There's a reason I've got 873 achievements and 573 hours on it. But the Diesel engine just couldn't keep up with the advancements with technology. Anything more complicated than a basic level with a small amount of clutter would slow the game down and mess with it a lot. Well, I returned to the game to see how bad it really got. I'll be honest, it was better than I thought it'd be. I played a load of new heists, met people, listened to the soundtrack and just spent a lot of time.
Play Payday 2. It's worth a try.
I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling GOTY Edition
9.1 hours, 25 of 29 achievements
It's a dumb joke that I thought would be more interesting. It wasn't. Don't get it. It's shallow and repetitive. Some might say that that's the point of it. I'd say that it's a cop out answer. If you make trite, then you make trite. You're not better than them if you make self-aware garbage. Garbage is garbage after all.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
89.2 hours, 22 of 71 achievements
Words will never do this game justice. I'm obsessed with this game. It's amazing and fucking great. It's also way too glitchy. But damn is it good. I love this game so much. I'm writing in short and simple sentences because otherwise I'd create extremely long, incoherent run-on sentences that last for 15 lines because I genuinely find it hard to put my love for this game into words.
It's just good. Probably my favourite RPG now. I'm excited to see what the next 2 games in this trilogy will hold. And for the first time in a while, I'm actually really excited to buy DLC for this game.
If you like RPGs, you need to have a look at this game to see if you'd maybe like this.
Mafia III
37.0 hours, 38 of 85 achievements
I'm conflicted on this game. On one hand, this game's genuinely great and I had a load of fun with it. On the other, this is not as good as some parts to Mafia II.
If you're interested in getting more info, check out the review I wrote for Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/id/zeruel132/recommended/360430
Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide
8.7 hours, 28 of 108 achievements
I pushed my way through the story for this game to prepare myself for Vermintide 2. This game isn't that great though. Especially alone. It's got great aspects to it like the visuals and the setting, but it doesn't really capitalize on either. Haven't played Vermintide 2 yet, but I do hope it gets better.
Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
73.4 hours, 25 of 188 achievements
It's a Total War game. It's the same game over and over again with new historical settings, visual updates and rosters that'll make you switch up your battle strategies. But overall it's the same game once again. I like the Total War franchise. I might play another one in around 6-12 months.
Duke Nukem Forever
8.4 hours, 29 of 62 achievements
Literally finished this one up around 40 minutes ago.
It's alright. It really is. The hate behind it was overblown. Shocker, I know. If you own it, give it a shot. Just don't expect a great game.
Completed
Fallout: New Vegas RU
162.3 hours, 75 of 75 achievements
I finally 100%d it. I pulled myself together, did an NCR run, found all the nukes in Lonesome Road and played Caravan. I definitely forced this run. But I couldn't stand seeing the 69/75 achievements on this masterpiece.
22,507 achievements (+410) | 78 perfect games (+1) | 42% avg. game completion (+0%) |
1,393 games (+25) | 1,505 DLC owned (+85) | 138 reviews (+4) | 863 wishlisted (-172) |
52% never played (+0%) |
19% unfinished (+0%) |
14% beaten (+0%) |
13% completed (+0%) |
2% won’t play (+0%) |
3061 | games |
49% | never played |
13% | unfinished |
18% | beaten |
15% | completed |
5% | won't play |