Recent reviews by Mormacil

The extensive support of this game has been amazing. Well deserved thumbs up.

Let me start by saying the game doesn't deserve the hate it gets. It's a fine F2P game, it's a pretty fun Halo MP game. But it's dead, the population isn't there. Which is kinda important for a MP game...

Yes if you want to play regular ranked and get beaten by the veteran players or if you play Firefight versus AI the game has plenty of players. Every other playlist though times out most of the time for insufficient players. For context I'm a player in the EU, it's not even a small population like Oceania.

I enjoyed the game for as long as it lasted and it's pretty okay but with it taking 5-15 minutes to find a match I spend more time waiting than playing.

It's a good but not a great game. I'd say that you get at best 5 hours out of the campaign that's partially a tutorial. The combat is a little clunky in a similar way to the first Age of Empires game. Given that wa a major inspiration that's not a huge shock but still enough of a letdown to inhibit the desire to do to many combat related scenarios.

The vibe is immaculate but the combat drags it down. Get it on a discount for a few hours of Mesopotamian fun. This is a perfect first game, begging for a bigger and improved sequel. This is the kind of game that makes me look forward to where they could take it.

I went into this sort of expecting to hate it. But in the end I really enjoyed my second campaign after giving up on my first. They really managed to hit that same sweet spot as Shogun 2. The game oozes atmosphere and has a bunch of interesting mechanics.

While I haven't been back for another playthrough I do feel it's been worth my money so far. The systems just work really well together even if the DLC is a bit of a mess.

This is a fun little game. You chain together spell components to create monstrous battlefield wiping spells. In all honesty I almost exclusively played this in 4 player coop and it's really fun that way.

Till you hit that point you basically outlevel the enemies and it becomes a cakewalk. Still that's a few hours of fun each session.

The game both receives a trickle of patches that really do improve the game and suffer from weird bugs at times. There disconnects, crashes, etc but rarely is it a total showstopper.

I recommend this as a nice little coop game with your friends. Get together and blow up some monsters while you show off your ridiculous spell combinations.

What can I say that others haven't said before? Supergiant Games always struggled a bit with the combat but compensated with atmosphere and storytelling. Now they perfected combat and kept the rest on par.

It's an exceptional roguelite that rewards you with snippets of story between your runs with a fantastically adaptive dialogue system.

Not much to say what hasn't been said. This game has utterly gone viral, good chance you know what it is already.

Does it have flaws? Yes. Is it worth 40 dollars? Yeah to me it is. It's fun, it's silly and a little grindy.

For Dom4 and Dom5 owners:
Should you get it? Yes. If you have the budget to spend 40,- on the game it's absolutely worth the upgrade. The interface is better, there's more content, the AI makes smarter plays and overal the game plays just better to me. It's one of those games I can't see myself going back to the old ones.

For those unfamiliar with the series:
Is the game worth the price? Yes. The sheer amount of content in this game is staggering. 4000 units, 1000 spells, hundreds of items, over a 100 factions. The sheer amount of content is a selling point all by itself. This does come with some caveats. For one the AI is only on the level of say Total War. And like Total War it struggles with all the systems found in the game. Exploring every faction once against the AI however is hundreds of hours of content and if you forego guides on how to beat the AI than that's a good deal to me.

Secondly it means that not every unit is going to be equally viable. But every faction is unique with their own quirks. It's not 20 identical factions with a different color or something. There three Japanese factions, one centers around Oni being in power, thrives on chaos and summons spirits from the underworld. This is quite different from the one centered around goblins with human slaves. Their larger kin is significantly stronger than a human and their smallest kin is fast and stealthy. The last one is a successor of human samurai, about what you can expect with that. They're human samurai with a lot of magical summons to aid them in battle. They even have a good chance of courting the favor of the dragon kings underwater.

And all three of those are different from the philistine horned giants of the Old Testament, the Basque cave men allied with cyclopes, the lizards who raise the dead along the great Nile river or the flying Persians who wield the power of ice magic. And then we have the Greek beast men who attracted wild naked women to their cause, the Deep Ones who wield crystal magic and wage a war against mind controlling monsters of the deep as well as the towering ice giants of Niefelheim who bring cold and death wherever they go. Did I mention the zombie Romans who failed to resurrect Jesus?

Again there is so much content. As for the gameplay, it's a fantasy wargame with some 4x elements. But at it's core you recruit units, form armies and smash them together. You don't directly control them, you script orders and watch the battle unfold. There is no traditional tech tree either, instead you have nine paths of magic and spells divided over several schools. What you research when is essentially your tech tree as you unlock more and more devastating spells. You start with mundane stuff, some skeletons, a fireball, maybe a storm that covers the battlefield. But in the end you end with apocalyptic spells. Maybe you lock the sun away underground, leaving only darkness. Or the speed of the passage of time so horses die of old age before the enemy can even march on your capital. Or you freeze over the oceans, trapping any armies underwater. Or you break the seal that imprisoned the gods of old and they now wander the world, mad and destroying all in their path.

It's not the greatest looking game but far from the worst. If anything the 2D units allow the game to be easily modded. And there is a thriving modding scene already.

A cute and fun little puzzle game. Not sure it's worth the default asking price for the limited content it offers. But at the same time part of your playtime is your own desire to explore. So your mileage may vary a lot depending on how much fun you can make for yourself.

Game isn't particularly hard but some puzzles have very very specific solutions. Admit I haven't found all the stickers yet but did the rest in a little over three hours. I don't feel cheated at all, it was a fun time.

Minor complaint, the volume of this game is insane, I had to manually scale it down compared to my other software. It simply shrieks at max volume deafening my neighbors.

There thousands upon thousands of other reviews on why you need to play this game. I'll start by stating the obvious, it's not perfect. The perfect game doesn't exist and this game will not appeal to every single gamer in the world. But within it's genre it's really really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good.

So some remarks on things I've seen frequently listed as supposed problems with the game. It's the third official Baldur's Gate game that significantly deviates from the older games. The reason for that is twofold. First it's based on the latest official DnD ruleset which has changed a lot over the decades. As an official DnD game that adheres to the current system it can't be anything but a deviation from the old games.

Secondly it goes from real time with pause to turn based. And honestly it's for the better in my opinion. Again DnD itself is turn based. This is one of the most faithful DnD adoptions ever and certainly the most faithful one that's officially licensed. Solasta despite it's roughness is a little closer to the tabletop but not an official title and in my opinion not as good. It's closer to a bunch of teenagers playing DnD an afternoon but it's far removed from the cinematic experience BG3 provides.

Another common complaint is the sex. Does this game handle it perfectly? Not at all but at the same time I never stumbled into it. There's a genuine effort involved to trigger a romance with companions. Can you avoid all mention of sex? No not really, it's a pretty horny game. People have sex, including NPCs and the game isn't toned down for children at all. But at the same time I was never forced into a same sex interaction against my will. I was never forced to ♥♥♥♥ an animal or any of the other wild claims I've seen out here.

Larian was best known for their Divinity Original Sin games and this game wears it's ancestry on it's sleeve. But I don't see this as a bad thing, it's not DOS 2.5 or something. It's build on DnD 5E with all the baggage that comes with it. People are right that Pathfinder 2.0 is closer to the DnD 3.5 ruleset but that's not the current ruleset that's licensed to Larian. You get what it says on the tin, a really really solid turn based RPG based on the DnD 5E rules set in the region of Baldur's Gate. Plotwise it's pretty much it's own thing and IMO that's fine. The story of the Bhaalspawn of BG1 and BG2 has ended.

So should you get this? Yes, 9/10. And like DnD, it's better with friends.