Calypso 最近的评测

A unique extraction shooter with social aspect.

On the good round, you get friendly, share the loot pool, chill cozy vibe.

On (many) bad round. You better be ready for a fight. Rats, Crooks, Campers. Expect the worst.

it does the impossible by making extraction shooter accessible to casual and people with a job. Haven't seen anything that revamping genre like this since OW1 did to hero shooter in 2016. Easily multiplayer GOTY. Way more deserved than Marvel Rivals.

We have Witcher 3 in 2015.

Now Warhorse filled their shoes and take the crown.

I'm not gonna lie. COD and Overwatch is way more fun for my taste. Every fight in the Finals is sweaty and overwhelming. If you don't learn the mechanic fast, people will chew you up. The learning curve is insane compare to those games.

But what gives The Finals an edge above them both?

Embark. Here's why

- They listen to the community feedback and actively acted on it. The game practically updated every week along with new balance that can shake up the meta. No need to wait every mid season for that kinda stuff. New content appear almost on regular basis on top of new Season that took player's feedback and expand it. For example,
1. sponsor system which has been community request since Season 2. Finally implemented in Season 4. And it's everything fans have been hoping for and more. New progression, Cool skins and new ways to grind and have fun.
2. Unranked Tournament which has been removed in Season 2. Come back in Season 3 as World Tour. It's essentially unranked tournament BUT with new improvement like weekly rule set changes shaking up your average game. actually have progression system and will reward you with premium currency. It's fun.

Neither Blizzard or Activision care about their community. The balance is wack every season. I don't think they even play their game. New content is just the same. New heroes, new skins. New ways to bleed player's wallet. It's just not very exciting half the time.

- So much free content like skin that actually look good and feel rewarding to have. Recently in Season 4 they decided to redone all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you can earn in-game. Now they actually look badass. They also didn't remove the old skin which mean everyone who played the first 3 Seasons get them for free forever. Crazy in this day and age and getting a pass from Nexon of all the publisher.

Blizzard would charge these at 24$ minimum. You literally have to beg them for a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Which probably look awful designed by an intern. And there's no way they will give you a progression with skin reward. You can have the profile pic and calling card and you will like it.

- And while obviously their premium skin will always look better. They actually feels like putting a serious effort into them. Some skin change how the gun reload, The sound, The reactivity. Even something other games considered as filler like charms may have unexpected interactivity like a heart charm that actually match player's HP. Do you ever see any game putting so much care into filler content like that? I highly doubt it will comes without 40$ price tag and not in the Battle Pass.

Battle Pass skin in Overwatch are rarely good. Most of the time it's dogwater. You want a good skin? I hope you have 40$ minimum.

This is a rare company making live-service F2P game and not looking for nickle and dime every chance they get. In the sea of mediocre AAA company looking to bleed your wallet dry. Somehow this game is being unfairly overlooked.

If you're here and enjoy Overwatch, BR setting games and arcade movement in COD. Might as well download and try it out. I quit daily Overwatch for this game and haven't regret a single second since. I might go back to Overwatch now and then. But a week without The Finals is the week i died. That's my review.

Put in FPS mod and play on advance difficulty.

Don't thank me.

50 Vigor is pretty much essential if you are scrub like me. Even the zombie hit me like a truck carrying 20 tons of steel driving at 180km/h.

Stealth? Don't be lame. It's a game about vigilate on a path of revenge!

Pick the 'True' difficulty, Embrace the John Wick, take a silencer and kill everything. You gonna love this.

The art was really cool. But if you played one turn-based strategy game about exploration and capturing region. You've played this game.

My biggest issue with the game is the lack of innovation. We played hundred of turn-based strategy game. What make this game interesting beyond cool art? Unfortunately this game cannot answer that question. 30 min is more than enough for me to try it out and realized i already played this game in a different skin.

The game lack something that really get people going. And that's a shame.

EDIT : it has since been 2 years after my review. The creator, SteelRaven7. Has decided to cancelled Campaign and go back to finishing 1.0 and focusing on the Sandbox again. It's the one thing he should've done 2 years ago. But atleast he didn't burnt out from making such content and leave the game to die. This is great news for the game and for that, i can finally say that i wholeheartly recommended this game once again. Looking forward for 1.0 in 2026!

ORIGINAL REVIEW IN 2023 :

A fun sandbox game that unfortunately about to lose its steam. Largely due to the developer lost the core focus of the game. And failed to understand the whole point of the game and reason why people love this game so much.

Ravenfield, to me. is the ultimate single-player sandbox FPS where you can create anything out of it. An ultimate framework for tactical-theme arcade shooter and the ultimate toy box you can have fun however you wish. The real fun is coming from your own creation. Modded weapon and assort of maps from different era that doesn't really fitting together but fun to experience nonetheless. It's one of those game you came back every couple of months to check out the mod scene and have some light-hearted fun.

So imagine my surprise when instead of keep their focused commitment and working hard to bringing more fun ways to play and expanding the framework. They... spend entire year working on a linear campaign. Instead of keep working on Conquest, a unique mode that no game has done it since 2004 Battlefront 2. Or finishing up the game and do this whole campaign thing elsewhere. They decided that it's too difficult and instead spending their entire year working on a fan-fiction of their own fantasy military LARP. And you can tell this game was never build to be that kind of game. The update was out a few days ago. I tried it. And as i expected, It was full of jank mostly coming from its own sandbox nature.

I will never understand what drove the creator to shift their own vision toward something else. This is something noone ask from this game. They want more toys to play around. Not your fan-fiction. And i wish he did that to something else and leave this game the way it is. To me, this is like that time when Midnight Animal turn itself from becoming a bad-ass Hotline Miami spinoff to Persona-lite rip off about 'love and lost' or whatever. You are killing your own fanbase by attempting something that work against the game itself. And for that, i decided that the creator has lost his own vision and thus, it is no longer worth a recommendation from me.

It remains to be seen what lies ahead of this game. But the way i see it. Unfortunately this is where i leave the negative review and decided that the vision of this game and what i wanted from it is no longer aligned. Thus prompting me to move on from the game itself. And that is a shame.

Highly recommended if what you like about Fallout 4 is Gunplay, Sandbox nature of the gameplay and Bethesda style faction quest. Crimson Fleet is easily among the best of faction quest Bethesda has to offer (easily rival Dark Brotherhood faction questline in Skyrim/Obilivion imo.)

None of that fit your bill? Maybe get on the discount, Wait for some cool mods, or try out on Gamepass. Or just don't bother and buy Baldur's Gate 3 because that's proper RPG if you really want to play one great RPG this year.

This is still Bethesda RPG through and through. Nothing really revolutionary. It's their take on Mass Effect and nothing more. It's not even close to GOTY material thanks to Baldur's Gate 3 setting the bar up so damn high. (Sure feel like it's 2015 and it's Fallout 4 vs Witcher 3 all over again lol) And it's sad because Fantasy is not my favorite setting. But Baldur's Gate 3 really is something else.

That being said, Starfield still is one hell of a good time well worth the price for me. Coming from someone who ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love space and always wanted Mass Effect to be more 'open' so to speak. This is everything i always wanted in my 20 years of gaming. And Bethesda definititely fulfill my dream of RPG in space. It may not be my GOTY this year. But it sure as hell always be one of my personal favorite RPG among some of the best for that fact alone. And to me? That's the highest honor any RPG can ever achieved.

If you wish to romance Magik and get yourself some hot goth girl. I highly recommended Baldur's Gate 3.

Shadowheart for life.