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Easily one of the best games ever made, incredible. 10/10. Took everything that was great about KCD1 and made it even better!

Simple fun, those are both its strengths and weaknesses as a game. Personally I crave a 40k game with real depth and longevity, but they decided to make something with mass, mainstream, casual/console appeal. Not a bad game by any means, and a cool little action title in the 40k universe, but it doesn't innovate or do anything special, and it's not really bringing anything new or really exciting to the scene.

An almost perfect successor to the SWAT series in every sense. 4/5 but could be 5 if they make the changes needed to suspect AI, skill, and behaviour. The positives of the game have already been covered extensively, so I'll focus on what needs fixing. The thing that made the suspect AI great in SWAT 4, is that it was varied and realistic in terms of the mission. Amateur criminals would be far more likely to surrender, or run, and the hardened terrorists more likely to fight to the death. In Ready or Not, however, most if not all fight like former special forces, and the immersion is harmed by a few standout failings: - The AI suspects have no sense of self preservation, far too many of them will fight to the death even when it's clear they don't stand a chance, or surrender, and then choose to draw a pistol even when surrounded by 5 SWAT officers, which is just silly. - They never flee, they just find different ways to fight you, when really many of them should be trying to escape the mission area as they would do irl. - They don't panic or act confused, they are always ready to fight, and their morale is that of jihadis - they never fear death. - They don't use language to bargain, negotiate, or buy time, they just use their weapons. - They don't react to others dying around them. They see all of their friends die, and they decide 'yeah I want that too'. - They have laser/xray vision, and can see you through things that you can't clearly see through, and they always know you are a swat officer and shoot at you, regardless of how little they can see. They have no fog of war in other words, as soon as they detect you, they know your exact location and will shoot you through walls and objects. If they can fix these issues, then not every mission will feel like a military operation instead of a police operation, and the game will easily be a 5/5.

It's not a very good game by modern standards, because Todd Howard and Bethesda executives didn't want to make a good game, they just wanted your money. The reasons why it isn't very good have already been exhaustively discussed, so I'm not here to repeat them. But I will say that I wouldn't have come here to post a negative review had Bethesda not tried gaslighting their unsatisfied customers by having the tenacity to reply to negative reviews telling them that they are wrong. That just showed how completely out of touch with the modern gamer they are. Just like Blizzard-Activision, Bethesda are going the way of the Dodo, and it's entirely the fault of the businessmen who failed to understand what gamers want, don't listen to their actual talented developers and artists, and instead design games for investors, informed by the accounts department. They deserve to fall.

Without a doubt, the greatest fishing game and simulator ever made. It makes every other option (fishing planet, I'm looking at you), look like mindless kiddy mobile games. If you like fishing games, you'll never be able to play another one again after trying RF4. It's the dream fishing game/simulator that I always wanted, even before it existed. Criticisms: high grind and bad economy from predatory free to play model that exists to milk as much money as possible from players, at the expense of gameplay. Devs are hostile towards anyone who acknowledges this simple truth. But then again, they are russian, and as we all know, russians are infamous for lying and not being able to face simple truths. That's why they are stuck with Putin.

It's a masterpiece, really. It will be considered one of the all time greats, and it's hilarious to see all the pearl clutching and coping from far bigger, richer, parasitic publishers who are incapable of making great games simply because of their chosen business models. Well done Larian, a developer that actually stands with gamers.