Recent reviews by DAD

If you played and loved Mercenaries on the PS2 or Mercenaries 2 on the PS3 this is the game for you. It is just like Mercenaries 2 except the world is larger. What you lose from Mercenaries 2 is the different factions. In Just Cause 3 it's just the Dictator and the Rebels, but you still get supply drops etc. What you gain in Just Cause 3 is a grappling hook, parachute and a wing suit, as well as every vehicle and aircraft in the game is player usable. Can't recommend this enough. Totally gives me my Mercenaries fix. :)

Great game. Assassin's Creed style game play in a Tolkien setting. Good graphics, great skill tree with lots of abilities. Unique bosses with different strengths and weaknesses, (and this is my favorite part) that level up if they kill you! Continuing to make it harder to kill them in the future. I definitely recommend this to everyone.

Fun

AoW3 is a great fantasy turn based strategy. A nice selection of races to choose from along with heroes that level up and can be equipped with magical items. Units upgrade "veteran" status through surviving battles and a large selection of units to produce for each race. Non player races can be either conquered or negotiated with to join you, allowing for production of units you can't normally produce. Global and combat magic that can be researched, makes for a twist to game play as well. Auto or manual combat to suit your style. This is one of my favorite games and I would definitely recommend it to everyone. I started with Age of Wonders and have enjoyed the entire franchise.

I'm addicted. I don't know if that makes this good or bad.

JUST STARTED PLAYING THIS, BUT IT IS ALREADY A LOT OF FUN. I LOVE THAT THERE IS A SOLO AI OPTION. I LIKE BATTLE ROYALE GAMES BUT I AM FAIRLY NEW TO THEM. THIS GIVES ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRACTICE BEFORE FACING OTHER PLAYERS. GREAT JOB!

Great crafting/survival game. Lots of fun!

Conan Exiles is a great game. I have been a huge Conan fan for 30 years and I am a big fan of crafting survival games. Exiles has done a great job of combining these two things for me. The devs have been faithful to continually updating the game and this last major update with changes to combat is excellent. Here are some of the pros to the game and some of the things I would still like to see.

Pros:
Incredible graphics (though still a few bugs in there).
Large selection of craftable items and buildings.
Crafted items range from base to multi layers of crafting required.
Enemies and summoned creatures are awesome.
Nudity shut off! This is by far my greatest pro for the game. While I am fully aware of what the world of Conan is like and
that he is quite a womanizer, I don't want nudity in my games. I was so excited when Age of Conan MMO came out
and then I played it. The game play and graphics were great until i ran into topless characters as well as other players
acting out sexual acts with thought bubbles displaying all of their graphic conversation while they were doing it. I
immediately deleted the game from my computer and haven't played it again. I was disappointed for just a moment
when Exiles came out and I saw that there was nudity, then I realized you could not just shut it off on your solo game
but even if you are playing on someone elses server you can still set it so that you see no nudity. A big shout out and
thanks to the devs for putting this in. I am so excited about be able to play this game and have recommended it to all
of my friends.

Things I would like to see added or improved:

The story feels like the only story line there is bits and pieces of journals that don't necessarily have anything to do with
each other and the tablets with the voice of the ancient ones that again don't always connect with each other. It feels
less like a story line and just fragments of a history book. This may be the intentions of the devs but I am not a big fan
of it.
It would be nice to see more NPC interaction, including quests etc that would add a bit of an RPG feel in. I think this would
fit nicely with the feel of Conan. I will grant it is better than it was in the earlier release but I still would like to see it go
further. Also I think a great addition to the game would be that if you run into tribes of your own race that they could
friendly and you could trade with them or even hire "thralls" from them.
I don't really know if this is possible but I would like to see the creature spawn points continually change in the game.
Keep the same types of creatures in the general area, but it would be nice other than nest animals that the same
creature doen't always spawn next to the same rock every time. It would make resource gathering more interesting
since you wouldn't find the same animal resources in the exact same place all the time and tougher creatures
wouldn't always be blocking the same resources you are trying to get to.

All in all I would give this game an 8 or 9 out of 10. Great job guys I love playing it. Thank you.

I think this game is fantastic, but let me be up front about it. If you only like visually stunning graphics, this is not for you. If you are a fan of content then keep reading. I am an old school gamer that started with pong. I have been through most of the systems over the years and RPG's are my favorite genre. It has never been about the graphics in an RPG though, it's about the content. I like to be able to equip several things on my character, have a multitude of magical variations, crafting, skills and a large selection of stats with a leveling system. This game has all of that. Graphics, it does not. It is a very cartoonish overview world map with point and click to travel to each destination. The graphics in town are even worse. The dungeons and battles are very similar to the original Final Fantasy.

You play a ruler of a kingdom that must hire adventurers to defeat an evil wizard. You can hire a multitude of adventurers but must use them in parties of 4 to battle. There is an auto adventure option which is what makes the sim aspect of the game, but you do not have to do this. You must build repore with other races and gain quests from them. You are able to perform quests over and over and this allows for grinding levels, money and crafting materials. There is also a lot of humor in the game. The bio's on you adventures are set up in a "mad-libs" sort of fashion with a basic background with random words inserted. There is a fun basic crafting system for any of the items you can eqiup. This game is not as in depth with story line and content that you would find in Skyrim for example, but it is a very fun game that you can walk away from and come back to over and over again.

This is a fantastic game. I would recommend it to anybody!