Recent reviews by Biggus Dickus

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the game I've played so much back then, that I would leave the Stalker's base with nothing but my knife, slay every hostile on the map, including mutants, on the highest difficulty, and return to the base with 100k worth of Artifacts and Guns, then put my things in a stash and leave the base with nothing but my knife again, looking for an adventure. When I took some of my upgraded custom guns with me, I remember using mods to spawn dozens (if not hundrends) of bandits and Monolith soldiers because otherwise it was too easy.

I played the hell out of this game.

Like the second games of many other game trilogies, Metro: Last Light is the most controversial one, and when you play it, you understand why.

The devs should not have pushed politics into the game, and made literally Nazis the most reasonable faction in the Moscow Metro. No, I will not perform non-lethal takedowns on people who mass execute others because of imperfect skull shapes to follow some morality system, thank you. I had a lot of fun killing every one of them with buckshots to their faces. Good thing, I still get the good ending.

But when the devs do not push politics, this game becomes enjoyable. This game is even darker than the previous one and has very emotional episodes in the Runied City. There is no post-apocalyptic humor like in Fallout, and the skeletons of people who died long ago are not there to make you laugh with their ridiculous poses, but rather to make you cry. The Metro makes you hate the nuclear war.

The supporting characters, like Pavel, are some of the best written I've seen in games. Anna hasn't turned into the best waifu yet (which will happen in the next game), but at least her romance arc with Artyom doesn't seem out of place. The Dark One kid is the only kid in games who didn't piss me off.

Solid game, also has sex.

More toilet humor than in Skibidi toilet series.

Some say GTA games are the best city destruction sims, but I play them because of the story. I did cosplay Rampage a couple of times though, and I confess I did some funny things to the corpses (in the game), but the rest of the time, I behaved like a decent citizen. The fifth GTA game was the most story-rich for me and the only game I completed more than once. Also I would like to thank this game for contributing to my music playlist, the radio here is just good.

https://youtu.be/7IsnF4WD6nw

This video is enough to tell you about the game's current technical state and its performance

Needs another two years of polishing before it's at least playable

The junkiest of all the Stalker games, and the only Stalker game I'm leaving a negative review for. I'd actually prefer to leave a neutral review if I could, but Steam doesn't allow neutral reviews, and I don't think Clear Sky is worth recommending on its own either, so here we go.

- The game's biggest feature, Faction Wars, doesn't work because it's bugged as hell. I remember the time when I had to clear the bandit base over and over because the stalkers didn't want to take it and win the war
- Some of the new features, like fast travel through Guides, crash the game frequently
- Broken economy, terrible rewards, terrible gear upgrade system. Pushed to the limits weapon failure system where NATO weapons would jam every third magazine fired, and guns generally break too fast. Aiming through ironsights on handguns were removed - why?
- The story just isn't that engaging, with too much emphasis on long runs between plot points and dead "sandbox" world where nothing happens, either because there are no scripted events or because they just didn't work due to bugs

As someone who's played through every Stalker game at least five times and played Stalker SoC the year it was released (in fact, Shadow of Chernobyl was the first videogame I played in my life), Clear Sky is only valuable as a transition between SoC and CoP, and after clearing the game once, makes you want to speedrun it as fast as possible.

The game is beautiful and has nice emotional story but you risk getting your first impression killed by horrible last segment of the game that is nothing but boring maze crowded with unnecessary encounters at every turn, after the main plot twist had already been revealed. It's like if a good movie kept going for another 2 hours after where it should have ended and all your emotion would have died out by the time you see the titles.

I don't know why some people say this game is like Bloodborne, when it's actually a Sekiro that happens to look like Bloodborne, as the game prioritizes parrying over dodging, doesn't have guns as dedicated parrying tools, and has straightforward storytelling. But, unlike Sekiro, it has a normal character and gear progression so at least you have motivation to explore the game world for the new gear. There are a few good bosses here, but there was no reason at all to give every single one of them two health bars.

With that being said, it's a very nice game, but it shouldn't have pushed some things to the limits in an attempt to stand out from other souls-likes, which outweighed the impression of the game's main assets, its world and its story.

As a modmaker for different games since ~2012, I would love to see an actual map/campaign editor among the mod tools.

The game is still pretty enjoyable to this day even after playing Vermintide 2. I miss some of the maps and character dialogue in sequel and wish more content was ported. Back to Ubersreik lacks at least 2 more maps from the first game to complete the story, and having only one Last Stand map in VT2 is lame. Too bad there is just too little players in VT1 to enjoy the game in coop unless you have friends who are fans of Warhammer Fantasy and Tide games.

This remake is fire! Makes me wish EA didn't kill Dead Space franchise in the first place

The graphics are great and framerate is pretty good and stable on my system (RTX3070 + i7 11700 + 32GB RAM) at the highest settings in 2K, except maybe for a couple of encounters in the entire game. Everything else is the same as in original Dead Space but much better.

Isaac finally got a personality in DS1 and even his completely new face didn't ruin the character. The gameplay part got many improvements and I am very glad that DS remake is not just a demo of next-gen graphics, but an actual, playable and enjoyable videogame.

I really hope that this will not be the last next-gen game in the Dead Space universe