Recent reviews by dasfrodo

Dead Space 2023 is pretty much how the original looks in your memories. I think there is not much reason to play the original anymore.

It's a really faithful remake with changes that make tons of sense, modernized gameplay and an insanely dense atmosphere. Though you need a rather powerful PC to run it well.

There IS the issue of constant traversal stuttering. It might be a dealbreaker for you, and there is no way to get rid of it. It does ruin the atmosphere quite a bit. Personally I didn't find it too distracting. According to Digital Foundry this is not something that can ever be fixed by more powerful hardware, it's just the game. The developers or rather EA have shown no interest in fixing this and at this point I wouldn't expect a patch anymore.

I still recommend it, especially on sale. I bought it full price and don't regret it.

Game is still awesome.

For a game that came out in 2011, it still looks great but has the hallmark muddy textures of that console generation. Sound design is still amazing and the atmosphere is great.

There are also mouse input issues, but those can (mostly) be fixed with a patch that you can find on pcgamingwiki. Apparently the game has issues at higher framerates, but I played at 120FPS locked and just had one instance in the game where the physics bugged out and softlocked me, but that is a known issue and easily circumvented. If you don't die at this particular checkpoint you might not even get this issue.

Yes, it is as good as the ratings suggest. Go play it, stop wasting your time here.

I've played for about 65h ingame time and I haven't even finished Act 2.
I am not an RPG player, and certainly not a fan of turn-based combat. But this game is just SO good, it seems to just ignore your preferences and you're having fun anyways. I haven't had this much fun with a game since I was a teenager. I just cannot stop playing. Send help.

UPDATE: Finished the game. Although Act 3 is much weaker than the others, and also obviously missing a lot of cut content (let's hope we get it with the inevitable "Enhanced Edition"), it is still an extremely ambitious and well made game that I would recommend to anyone.

There might be a good game in there somewhere, but I just cannot get around the everpresent clunkiness and how incredibly ugly the game is.

It's very clear that the team who made this has no artist background. The game is just ugly as sin and full of visual issues that can be easily avoided if you ask someone for help that knows this stuff. As it is, it visually has strong "babies first Unity game" vibes.

If you're looking for a blazingly fast retro-style shooter, you will like this game.

Leveldesign is generally really creative and cool, with tons of variety. However, there's also some stinkers, both in episode 1 and 2. Episode 2 especially suffers from some horribly unbalanced encounter design. You can pretty much breeze through the game up until a couple of levels into episode 2, where you will hit a massive difficulty wall. The game just throws you into tiny arenas with a ton of enemies. It's not just hard, it's frustrating.
While I didn't mind the vehilce levels like many other people, the game would be better if they were replaced with something else. The vehicle section in episode 2 was definitely better than the section in episode 1, but still.

The game suffers from some massive feature bloat. There's tons of stuff in the game that is only used once or very rarely, like certain pickups. The game is cleary... inspired by Doom Eternal. Half of the small features, like the body upgrade system, could probably be scrapped and the game would be better for it. Looking through your augmentations for minor upgrades just kills the pacing.

The guns have creative visual design, but there's mostly nothing too special. Expect standard oldskool shooter archetypes with some quirks. This is not bad at all, but probably good to know.

Story is... there. I like it as a backdrop, and each level has a cool introduction animation. Nothing to complain here.

Visuals are great and the game runs like butter. However, the bright neon colors everywhere are an issue if you're playing on higher difficulties. It's really hard to make out projectiles and silhouttes sometimes, which makes it hard to dodge stuff. Some of these effects can be disabled though, which helps a ton if you need it.

Sounddesign is great, though nothing special. It does it's job. Some weapons could use a little more punch (looking at you double barrel shotgun).

Soundtrack is fantastic. Fits the game and action very well.

All in all, Turbo Overkill is a great game, plagued by some minor, fixable issues. Nevertheless, I loved almost every second of it.

Give me a Blood Cultist sound mod and I will even recommend this to my grandpa.

UPDATE: My prayers have been heard, lol:
https://www.nexusmods.com/cultic/mods/1

It hurts to give this a thumbs down, because the team clearly put a lot of love into this. However, in the end I would not recommend this to anyone. The entire thing just has so many baffling design decisions that I do not understand how they released it like this. Some decisions they made just ... don't make any sense combined with the others.

First of all, the mod is dark. Very dark. I generally don't have an issue with that, but they replaced the default flashlight with a "night vision" that smears a refraction filter all over your screen, making the game blurry and noisy. You pretty much have this thing on constantly since it's so dark everywhere. The default flashlight would have worked perfectly here. Feels like it's been replaced just for the sake of it.

Weapon spray is increased massively, which makes sense, you're not Gordon Freeman. But at the same time they increased damage a lot, so you're fighting against hitscanners that deal a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of damage while you have to burst to hit anything.

And the worst part... the last chapter. The last chapter feels like they just rushed to finish it, because oh boy... I didn't have to look up ANYTHING for all the other chapters, but the last had several instances where I was just running around with no clue waht to do, so I had to look stuff up. The game straight up does not communicate even remotely well enough what it wants you to do. On top of that, they decided to add two bossfights into the last chapter. The first one isn't too bad, albeit very boring. But the second one is a confusing mess with tons of unavoidable damage. The entire chapter straight up feels like it's been made by somebody else or wasn't tested remotely enough.

So the last chapter was pretty much annoying from start to end and ruined the entire game for me. The first half of the mod was good enough, albeit with some problems, but the second half was just a frustrating, unintuitive mess.

At this point I don't think there's much left to say anymore.

Halo Infinite is everything I've wanted from a modern Halo Game. The multiplayer is fantastic. It's just the right blend between oldskool Halo and modern mechanics. The weapons are (for the most part) fun and useful while all filling their own niches. Play with a group of friends and you're going to cry from laughing at some point since the "Halo Jank / Chaos" is there.

That said, the progression and cosmetics system is horrendeus. I will not explain this in detail since a million other reviews did this already. 343 needs to fix this before full release or people will be running around with all the same armors for months.

If you don't care about cosmetics I cannot recommend this game enough.