Recent reviews by dr pussy

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it's incredibly cliche, but ixion is the dark souls of city builders. the two problems people have with the game are that it's very difficult and that it's very linear.

the difficulty of the game is a intentional. ixion's design philosophy is that running a settlement in space is nigh impossible. the lows of failing are matched by the highs of succeeding. when one finally understands how to deal with a given situation, the difficulty curves back down.

the second issue is the game's tight narrative structure. i like this decision. ixion could very well have been a hugo award-winning book, if it wasn't a game. while there are 30ish hours of gameplay-- not the infinite time sink that other builders are-- the hours are quality. the biggest problem with conventional city builders is that once the initial scarcity of resources has been solved, the game becomes less engaging. ixion breaks that mold by throwing a radically different challenge at the player in every chapter. it's frustrating to die and have to reload because of unforeseeable twists, but this is something that players tolerate in games like dark souls. an unpredictable event spiraling the ship is practically the same as a new souls enemy hitting you with an attack you've never seen. this gets back to the problem of ixion's lack of replay-ability-- a souls game does not have infinite new enemies to surprise you, and ixion does not have infinite twists. ixion is a much more memorable experience than, say, anno 1800. for fans of hard sci-fi and city builders, this game is a special treat.

kicks ass! right now, it's playable and worth playing around with. the direction it's going, though, is truly spectacular; Blue Bottle has hit it out of the park before with Neo Scavenger, and Ostronauts is receiving the same inspired love and work. all it needs is time.

It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fantastic. There's a lot of stuff that's rough around the edges-- a few bugs, a slightly awkward AI, and a couple pieces of underwritten flavor text-- but Terra Invicta is already one of the best games to come out this year. Certainly the best strategy release.

One of the main complaints people are having is that the game is too complicated. To this, I say: obviously! Terra Invicta has the spirit of the Long War mods that cobbled Pavonis together in the first place. In case you forgot, the Long War ideal was to make the simplified, streamlined neo-XCOM games into long, brutal, cerebral slogs. I'm 18 hours in right now (10 years in-game) and I haven't built my first military ship-- and I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love it! I've been playing around with Earth politics while I tech up, and the game is very happy to let me do that.

rough around the edges but with a patch or two, GOTY material

lets me live out my postmodern fantasy of destroying western civilization. 10 dead romans out of 10.

I think it's really good. Ten of my friends have it and only one of us played the game on console or... any games in the Franchise. It's just a good game, there's no "fanboying" going on like people are insisting in the cursed steam forums for the game.

The game-consuming public is too negative towards Paradox, imho. I'm hardly the type to suck corporate dong but I actually like 2.0 and 2.1 changes. Stellaris is still good, and people telling you its not will eventually just come back after they calm down. When 3.0 comes out in two or three years and changes everything again, people will talk about how great 2,0 was.

It's very good! I haven't experienced any performance issues and most of the negative reviews I've seen reference crashing or lag and aside from some kind of long loading screens (roughly a minute or so to load a new mission) I haven't had anything effecting my experience negatively. Buying the game for the very long and interesting campaign is worth the 40-50 dollars, but the potential for the game to develop a multiplayer community is also pretty high. There's no guarantee that will happen, but if it does, this is easily a game with enough depth to keep me coming back for hundreds of hours.

Easily one of the best country-management simulators out in the world today. Diving into the game is extremely difficult, as everything is covered in a thick film of janky English (courtesy of the Russian-speaking developers) and Communistic rhetoric. That being said, for those familiar with the terminology employed and interested in the subject matter, this is no great barrier to entry. The game eventually becomes easy to control and that's when the true enjoyment begins. Making it past 1991 alive and in power is thrilling the first time it happens, but that's far from the end of the game. There are tons of different ways to play and enjoy Crisis in the Kremlin-- it is a very strong first showing from the developer Kremlingames.