Recent reviews by RandalMcdaniel

No mans sky is not a good game. I feel like this should be called TELETUBBIES. The fov by default is like 10 and your body takes up 40% of the screen. Why is the camera so close to the player?? The map design seems like it is missing a nickelodeon logo at the top of the screen. The maps are designed for 3-4yr old children. Want to know what a space planet ACTUALLY looks like? You are on one now. earth.

I played this game 4 years ago and i made a base built into the side of a mountain and it got 5k likes on reddit. That is all i am interested in doing again. and NO i do not want to play on boring relaxed mode.

But playing it once before does not make it easier to play again. Nor does it feel like its been updated since the last time i played (in regards to the start of the game) i am having all the exact same hangups as 4yrs ago.

i dont want to convert ferrite into pure ferrite, and then into magnetized ferrite, anymore. That was cool in the infancy of building games. But today it just seems like a sick joke.

I no longer want to look for credit-tickets just to unlock a teleporter module. Maybe it was cool when building games were in their infancy. But now it just 100% sucks.

I hate buying a game like this then being asked what mode i want to play. Are you the developer or am i? Why cant you just have some relaxed planets and some challenging? Oh thats right because that would be too much work and the whole entire 19quintrillion planets are all controlled by a simple settings panel. Because every planet is the same. Just visually different.

If you were good developers you would start the player at a base already, with a great ship, generators in-place, everything working. Then you make quests that are close and easy, then you make quests further and further away. Then the player will naturally want to create a makeshift shelter

forcing the player to learn the whole entire game before you even give them a chance to kill something or explore, or swim, or do anything is just insane. How is it even possible to be that stupid? We dont even know wtf this is and you want us to learn TELEPORTERS AND POWER before even sampling the game?

The audacity of that is just incredible.

Nothing bothers me more than when a game has a tutorial before you can even get a chance to see if you enjoy it. The audacity of that. "oh hey before you even know if this is a good game, heres 8 hours of tutorial, oh and you are also dying instantly from radiation"

i still consider NMS the worst start of any game i ever experienced in 34 years of being alive

And the flying is awful, its like.. fake somehow?? I simply wanted to move my aircraft 10 feet closer to my base so i could transfer items to it. Lets just say i ended up 3 miles away from my base somehow. Worst flight controls i have ever experienced in 34 years of being alive. Its like flying a super unstable magnet or something

You cant just precisely fly around how you want to.. You have very little control over your aircraft. It has a mind of its own. Sometimes it wants to aim upwards at the heavens because it assumes you want to go to space

I thought for sure this game would have gotten at least slighly better in 4 years. Im sure all the new content is great but im having just as much trouble as getting into the game as i did 4 years ago

Im playing in third person mode because i binded C to cg_thirdperson 1 and i binded X to cg_thirdperson 0. Its amazing. Check out my youtube randalmcdaniel if you want to see it

Having to constantly back out to the main menu CONSTANTLY just to check your trap upgrade progress completely ruins this game.

i cant put my finger on it but something about the tempo of this game is just off. The runspeed is too slow. The vehicles are too slow. The map is too large. There are barely any trees so its very bland looking. Paired with the relaxing music. You get instantly bored of the game before even taking one single step somehow. Its kind of like talking to a person that looks super-normal, but then they say something weird, and you start to realize something is just off about them.. Thats deadside

Oh and TAA antialiasing so the game looks like 480p, upscaled, sharpened, blurred, filtered, sharpened and blurred again, then microwaved. Then put into an easy bake oven

This is a demake of IRON STORM, iron storm has more features, a third person mode, a flashlight, the ability to drop your weapons, quicksaving/quickloading.

Play iron storm instead (ON EASY DIFFICULTY THIS IS NOT A JOKE OR ELSE YOU WILL MAKE 700 QUICKSAVES) and understand that iron storm is a hybrid puzzle/shooter game. With the first two levels being standard shooter game levels. And the remainder of the game being a LONG journey of one very large level. Had i known this earlier i would have enjoyed it way easier. Its a weird masterpiece.

so world war zero.. yeah i beat it.. I wish i didnt lol.

They remade the exact same game on a worse game engine while removing almost every single feature from the original. I wish this was sarcasm. The only thing better about it is that its VASTLY easier and you dont need to quicksave 700 times to beat it. However they also removed all the video game aspects from the game as well. For example you no longer need to find hidden buttons, you no longer need to find power switches to remove dangerous electricity in the water, you now just run through the game and hold down the shoot button lol. Its like they call of dutified a once sophisticated shooter game.

-You quite literally can not equip or experience the machine pistol in this remastered game because the developers removed the ability to drop weapons.. So you cant drop the worthless silenced pistol at all. In 34 years of gaming this might be the dumbest thing ive ever witnessed in gaming history

-Removed the ability to change weapons by pressing number keys?????

-Removed flashlight???

-Removed third person mode???

-Removed the ability to drop weapons???

-You have to quit the game back to the main menu to access the LOAD GAME page

-Removed the ability to change graphics while in-game (you must quit out to main menu)

-Removed the brightness and gamma slider?? There no way to change brightness. What??

How is it even legal to release something like this?

its just absolutely worse in every way, even the graphics are now lower resolution textures.

I reccomend playing through the original (on easy difficulty as every other difficulty makes the game nearly impossible where you have to make 700 quicksaves just to beat it). There is a lot of stupidity in that game as well (like the developers just not being smart enough to put health packs around) but its actually a really great journey overall

World war zero just remakes a mediocre game to be even worse

Whoa i was not expecting a BEEFY 3D rpg. This is like a bethesda-tier rpg folks. Ive been to like five HUGE different open world zones so far and each are jaw droppingly gorgeous, and dozens of smaller areas as well for story purposes and stuff. What an incredible game!

60fps butter smooth, controller support (you gotta switch to it in the settings tho)

really cool weapon change system where it changes your weapon category

the first 4 quickslots change depending on whatever weapon category you have equipped. Its hard to describe but really simple and amazing once you realize how it works. Basically you choose your 4 fav weapons and it will always swap to those, regardless of how many random lesser weapons you are carrying. Its cool.

Only thing thats lame is she cant jump and they put invisible walls everywhere.. BUT SHE CAN SWIM??? so random. The different colored lanterns are amazing! And some bosses drop infinite lantern fuel things which also change the color of your lantern. The king boss whatever gives a permanent blue light lantern. And it gives back the other fuel if you drag manually (DONT QUICKSLOT-USE THE PERMANENT LANTERN FUEL ITEMS OR ELSE THEY WONT APPEAR BACK IN YOUR BAG WHEN YOU SWAP IN NEW COLORS)

i reccomend using cheat engine (64bit) client while running this game. I have my C key tied to toggle speedhack in cheat engine. I like to x3 the gamerate to speed through boring segments and run faster. I dont really consider it cheating because if i have it enabled near enemies im DEAD. So i always turn it off before fights. Lately in my life ive been enjoying doing this with cheat engine with many different games. Its dope. I like doing it.

also im playing the gog version which is why my hour count is only 3 hours on steam. On the gog version you can use 4gb patcher on the exe without the gog-client making a fuss (steam wont let you edit the exe of games you purchase or else you will get an error like 1:0000048 or something like that, so basically steam wont let you fix old games by removing their 2gb ram ceiling because of their DRM) and yes its true that most old games are capped to 2gb ram ceiling, 4gb patcher fixes that in one click. It was pretty interesting to learn i suggest looking it up for yourself its quite interesting

paste this into launch parameters for just cause for the highest quality experience in my opinion

/windowed /width=1280 /height=960

windowed because the game will be stretched and ugly if fullscreen

the 1280 x 960 part is to correct the developers oversight. Old games are 4:3 which is why they only have 4:3 resolutions to choose from. However there is one 5:4 resolution listed inside this games options that is 1280x1024. this might be a mistake because 1280x1024 is a 5:4 aspect ratio and will slightly stretch your game (you can test it with screenshots, with any proper 4:3 resolution your minimap circles will be perfect circles, but if you choose 1280x1024 they become slightly oblate, because the game is being slightly warped to fit the abnormal 5:4 aspect ratio)

i googled it, the only reason 1280x1024 exists is because they were common in tv's in the early 2000s

look on the wikipedia of screen resolutions, 1280x1024 is listed ALONE in the 5:4 category with no other resolutions, interesting.

1280x960 is a correct 4:3 resolution and im shocked its not included in the options.

oh and did you know "just cause" does not mean just because?

"She stopped traffic to save four puppies, i would say that was a just cause"

I have been alive for 35 years, i played every game under the sun delta force 1, mario 64, uniracers, plok, battletoads, far cry, halo, you name it. I played it. Even weird games like boiling point, xenus 2, project eden

I can safely without a doubt say just cause 3 and 4 are the worst two games i ever played in my life

Ive played non-open world games that let you grapplehook further than this

they decorate 1000km of gameworld with the same 3-4 buildings.. Its flat out embarrasing. Ive never seen an open world this shamelessly artificial before.

Not one indoor place in the whole game not even a bathroom you can run inside

enemies always know where you are. Just the worst of all worst things are in this game



Music? No
Clothing and customization? No
House to store weapons and cars? Nope. Just a garage for a stupid drop delivery system.

You can tell how the map was designed, some dude just dragging mountains up out of the ocean in the map editor. Profoundly uninteresting

you open a wingsuit and your player careens downward into the ground, you need like 3 football fields of clearance just to get yourself airborn. Its so horrible it actually baffles me that none of the developers noticed this.

Every cutscenes, 50 cutscenes in a row, all start with the scientist woman holding a tablet in her hands.. you cant make this stuff up. Thats all they can think of?

And even the main quests feel generic, protect a train, protect your teammates, always protecting something absolutely pointless just because the developers dont really have.. well.. a brain.

Id rather do nothing than play just cause, because at least nothing doesnt insult my intelligence

who was this made for? seriously? 9 year olds? Even when you think of some fun idea with the grappling hook the devs make sure to not allow it because that might be fun

the worst game i ever played in my entire life, i even beat JC3 and all its DLC and i still never got good at it. The second half of the game you cant use vehicles to take down bases anymore. And a single enemy soldier can defeat me? HOW?

The health system is so lazy and shallow

its the embodiment of everything shallow and unvaluable to real gamers

i changed my review on this game like 3 different times. But I cant ignore how awful this video game is.

the 3 headshot or 3 knife idea is a really bad idea, then you are focusing on getting 3x headshots before the timer runs out, completely ignoring how much HP you have left. This got me killed many times.

the developers really enjoy insta-killing the player for no reason, thats a big part of this game. And the loading screens are LONG for an old game.

you cant fire your gun if your finger is holding down the right mouse button, i never realized how often i do that until i played this game.. You had one job to make a gun game and the gun cant even shoot?

when you press 1, 2, 3, or 4 to swap weapons, pressing the number isnt enough, you have to confirm the weapon switch as well by clicking left mouse. Horrible. Who is going to accidentally hit 1,2,3,4 on their keyboard??? Literally one of the stupidest thing ive ever seen make its way into a PC shooter game

the game is just overall very.. stupid. Imagine a game where the fake doors, that you know are fake doors, because you attempted to open them 1000 times and now you know are FAKE doors. Well guess what? In one of the main quests you need to open one of them... But not just regularly, You have to look inside a window and shoot a red barrel nearby to destroy said door. HOW ON EARTH DO YOU EXPECT A PLAYER TO BE ABLE TO KNOW THAT?

worst case ive ever seen of expecting the player to be psychic

these developers should make a whole standalone game based on the turret defense segment, that was almost as fun as cod:waw zombies.. But instead of zombies you are running around a boat to different turrets, shooting torpedos and planes as they pass overhead. That was an incredible segment of gaming. Good job on that part.

Ignore the hour count i played 100 hours on epic games store. Then bought it on steam because it was so cheap to get the GOLD edition with all the dlc

now its probably been like 130 hours and im still busy as HECK! I still have so much to do!

In a sea of games trying to LOOK like a real game rather than be a real game, saints row 2022 is soo refreshing.. Dudes i dont think you all realize just how many things are inside of this game..

you can winglide through railing rails if you are precise enough
you can ride a magic witch broom across the ocean
you get ropes you can tow vehicles, or carry vehicles with your helicopter if you purchase the rope cable attatchment for 7500
you can install a towing cable on any vehicle including the hoverboard skateboard lol
you can shoot a dumbbell gun with a rope attatched to the dumbbell which pulls you into the air for hilarious ragdolls or activating your wingsuit
the game has a cheat menu, with one tab for safe cheats that dont effect your saves or achievments, and another tab for dirty cheats, this is cool because its safe to change the time of day any time you please

ONE OF THE EMOTES IS A VEHICLE! An emote version of the witches broom (different than the real one) which makes your character move about 2-3x faster than full sprinting. This allowed me to beat a fleeing npc to a door they tried to close on me in one quest!

Every single quest i hilariously broke, you can literally spawn a car anywhere the devs dont care you can spawn it inside a wall! Yet despite all this i never crashed the game once or broke a quest

one of the vehicle skills is called "jump" that allows you to straight up leap over houses and small buildings

one random vehicle has a DUNE worm on the top of it and it can AOE scream and kill people with sound

Literally not one pixel in this game looks lazy, the materials are all such high quality!

And the gameworld is mega authentic, i seriously dont think they copy/pasted a single house or building in this entire gameworld. Its kind of crazy actually. And the lighting at night time wow.. Thats an evolution of gaming i was not prepared for. I dont think ive ever wanted to visit a distant town before just based on the lights it cast.. I havent had a feeling like that since fallout new vegas. Never realized how mesmerizing dynamic lighting could be

and you can easily make the game like the best game you ever played just by changing the notoriety difficulty slider from 5 to 10. Then the game turns into an EPIC battle simulator where 20 people are fighting over here, 20 people fighting over there, and HUNDREDS of cars! Its like the evolution of games being able to use more ram. I love it.

and you can turn off the aggresive follow camera so the camera works IDENTICAL to the camera in sr2

you can change the crosshair to a bold white dot just like gta5, which made the game 1000x better imo because this game actually has quite accurate weapons if you try them all

i was worried the guns would be like arcadey and samey but thats not the case at all.. Try the long wooden elephant rifle LOL!

and i got the game running flawlessly with vulkan (gtx1080)
collect over 20 exotic materials and make your helicopter or guns or clothes be made out of actual lava crust..
Hundreds of car models all with their own perk to unlock
Tons of guns all with their own perk to unlock
a gun that shoots a dumbell hooked to a rope so you get pulled into the sky (allows you to begin wingliding from anywhere)

im not even joking i always said saints row 2 is the best open world game in existence.. But after playing all saints row games (including sr1 on xemu emulator). I just gotta say i really appreciate the BIZZARRE amount of vehicles and guns in the newest title. SR3 and SR4 combined would still feel like a game demo compared to all of the stuff that is packed inside SR2022

and you can skip cutscenes, you can disable taa, the game actually inverts only my controller and not my mouse as well, they hide the UI when you open the graphics menu so you can see the graphics actually change.

omg and all the clothing.. Bros this feels like an mmorpg that has been out for 20+ years or something. SO MUCH MEAT AND BONES for a real gamer to work on.. and i dont play games slowly. I sometimes use cheat engine to x2 the speed of games.. And im still playing this like 13 days later! Crazy!

All the guns are like metro-exodus quality of graphics and detail.. actually the whole game is gorgeous. Do me a favor and just observe all the textures in sr2022. Sr2022 might be the pinnacle of texture design in our whole entire human existence. And im 34 and ive played everything check out my youtube channel randalmcdaniel if you dont believe me

this game is not lazy, not generic, i think in my whole entire life this is the most WRONG gamers have ever been about a video game