Eviscer8 Wendigo

Do not buy Dragon's Dogma 2. Look, the game itself is okay. I mean, the combat can feel a little repetitive and performance isn't the greatest, but overall I think it's a good experience. The real problem comes with Capcom's business strategy. They're already making you pay $70 for a single player game (which like I said, it's decent), but they also want you to pay 1$ microtransactions to edit your character, teleport across the world map, and resurrect dead pawns (which are basically NPCs that follow you around and fight alongside you). Also, you can buy packs of in-game currency with real money because why not, right? With all that in mind, I can't advise someone to purchase DD2. This is a paid single player game, not a free to play multiplayer game. It's just completely unacceptable to treat consumers this way.

Great game hampered by horrible optimization. Even with a 7900 XTX, the game has horrible frame drops and lag at 1440p. I'd wait until they improve the performance before jumping in.

This game features the worst aspects of modern MMOs: Heavy monetization, lack of adequate socialization features, gacha, excessive and unnecessary censorship, and an extremely flat gameplay loop that prioritizes grind over the player's satisfaction. Avoid at all costs.

The first line should say it all: This was not what I was expecting. Honestly, for a game marketed as "capable of redefining and revolutionizing the open-world RPG genre," it's not really living up to its name. I preordered before launch, got the game downloaded, and booted it up for the first mere hours after it came out. It started fine, I never experienced a crash throughout the game (which is apparently quite lucky), and the intro was smooth. Everything after that, though, was just... I guess "meh" is the best way to put it. Look, I'm not one of the people who believed this game would solve all their worldly problems, and I didn't worship CDPR or Cyberpunk 2077 before it came out, either. I was a skeptical buyer, and up until the release, I was decently sated with the stuff we had been shown. I didn't preorder the game until a week before the release. I wasn't as invested as some people were. However, even then I was still disappointed. This game was supposed to "revolutionize open-world games" and all they gave us was a FO4-reskin looter-shooter that was half-broken and buggy as hell. Even the story was a bit "meh" to me. I enjoyed Keanu Reeve's inclusion into the story and such, and both Judy and Panam are very well-executed characters, but past that, the game's story doesn't feel alive or rewarding, and neither does the world its set in, either. I'm sorry, but good graphics don't make a city come to life. NPCs disappearing in the blink of an eye, cars vanishing out of existence, and two of the same exact NPCs standing right next to each other doing the same exact thing isn't exactly... how do I put it? Lively-looking? It reflects very poorly on the world, and makes you feel much less engaged with what you're playing through. Oh, and understand that I could go on and on about what's wrong with this game, from bugs to AI, to glitchy mechanics and extremely basic dialogue, but I don't nearly have the time to read out the list in full detail. This game is literally the definition of "death by a thousand cuts," as there's no singular problem that can be directly attributed to the reason for the mediocre-ness of this game (aside from poor decisions on CDPR's part, but I'm mainly talking about the game itself anyways). At least for me, this game was a bunch of unfulfilled promises from CDPR, and I had waited to post this review in the hopes that CDPR would do something beneficial for the game besides bug fixes, but it has been months since release and I'm getting tired of waiting. I'm not pissed or anything, I'm just very, very disappointed with the way this game turned out. CDPR should've waited a few more years.

There are a lot of issues in War Thunder, but the one that bothers me the most personally is aircraft in Realistic Ground Battles. I'm sick and tired of being revenge-bombed by a Stuka after I kill them for the fourth time in their pretty little Panzer IVs and Stug IIIs. I have a row of sticky notes next to my desk covered in tallies that count the number of times I've been revenge bombed or destroyed by an aircraft, and within my +500 hours of playing War Thunder, we're already on 681. All I want from this game is tanks versus tanks. Literally, my biggest issue with War Thunder could be solved by adding in a new game mode where only tanks fight tanks. That's it. Now we all know why Gaijin won't do this, and it comes down to one thing only: Money. Gaijin needs player frustration to fuel itself, as it's what gives them the most money. Out of all the tactics Gaijin uses to frustrate players, aircraft in Ground Battles happens to be my biggest irritation. A Side Note: Gaijin presents the image of an incompetent company, as when they attempt to fix an issue, they only give it a half fix. If the community recieved compensation every time Gaijin says, "Just increase repair cost, lol." as a solution to a major issue, the community would bankrupt Gaijin and permanently put them out of business.