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DOOM (2016)
Created on 23 April, 2025 16:37
DOOM (2016)

For a 2014 old laptop (not a review)

For anyone interested to know if this will run on an old laptop. On my 11 year (as in 2025) old i7-4710HQ laptop with 16GB of RAM, SATA SSD, GTX 860M with 4GB of VRAM. The game runs and has at 900p and a mix of mid to high settings, framerate between high 30s to 60. For me it's perfectly playable. Not that I wouldn't like better, but it is perfectly doable. If you are one of those who has an allergic shock if it is under 120fps, then obviously not for you. Though if you lower the resolution and settings more, if might get much higher. This is not a review as I haven't played more than a couple of levels. Just thought to help anyone with a similar old device wondering if it would run.

14 gamers found this review helpful
ArcaniA
Created on 18 April, 2025 16:26
ArcaniA

First time player

Just yesterday I finished my twitch stream of my playthrough of this game for the first time. My experience with previous Gothic games was only a tiny bit of the first game when it was brand new. I stopped playing that game due to the awful controls. Many years later I played this now and I have to say it was a fun ride. I will start with the negatives. The mini radar/map rotates and I hate it when it happens in games. I have to constantly open the large map to try to get some directions. There were some graphical glitches, but they never affected the gameplay. Some faces appeared weird colors (green or red) and there were some see through textures in faces when in closeup for the dialogue. Annoying perhaps, but really did not change the game at all for me. The game doesn't have a "GPS" showing you the quest you have activated, which while normal for older titles, it can be annoying a handful of times. One in particular near the end of the game I couldn't find a way into the area I needed to be and I spent like 20 min or more. If it was something that happened several times I would have taken a star out of the game, but as is...it's acceptable. I wish the inventory had sorting and way to check your equipped items when trading. Positives, music, sound effects are awesome. The graphics are above average to very good. The speech is from average to good. The combat mechanics are solid. Not difficult to learn and not too complicated where you feel like you are fighting with the controls. More complicated than say Diablo, but not by much. I liked that. The story should make sense to anyway who knows the world of Gothic. It didn't do much to me. I still found it an easy ride story wise. Apart from the ending cutscene. Confused the heck out of me. I played the game as a melee fighter who rarely used a bow/crossbow for some weak attacks. I enjoyed it. Other than the first hour or so, I never used magic. Nothing wrong with it. I enjoyed it. 3.8/5

3 gamers found this review helpful
Wing Commander™ 1+2
Created on 13 March, 2025 13:29
Wing Commander™ 1+2

50% great

In short, I really liked the first and I consider the second hot garbage. Since I have to score both in one, I give it a 4/5 to be fair to the first game. Otherwise I would give WC1 a score of 4-5 stars (based on when it was released) and WC2 a 2 stars. WC1. The game is of course the known semi branching campaign of you playing as a pilot of the confederation against the Kilrathi cat like aliens. Most of the game is the actual flying and battles, while a small part is talking to your colleagues and attending the mission briefings. The actual fighting part is well done. One thing to remember, afterburner is your friend. It's totally worth playing for both the story and the actual gameplay. If you have a soft spot for the era's graphics and sound, even better. I used a joystick to play (Logitech Extreme 3D Pro), but you can play it completely with keyboard or keyboard and mouse too. The game is obviously not perfect, but it is really good for what it is and when it was released. The framerate can drop at times during intense actions, but that was always the case even back in the day. Completed it recently for my Twitch stream and I am glad I did. I played, and lost, the first expansion pack of WC1. Good fun, but fake branching. WC2. Different vibes from the first game. Slightly different setting at first, but soon you change to more familiar ground. The framerate is much improved with the game being much smoother, but also feeling like much faster. You can, as I did, reduce the dosbox cycles to say 6000, which will improve things. Main issues which made me rage quit around the 9th or so mission. Both friendly and enemy crafts keep ramming you. Friendly also keep getting in front of you when you are shooting the enemy. RUIN the game. Enemy crafts obey different laws of physic as they can fly away and shoot at you and zip around at impossible speeds. Horrible. HORRIBLE. I tolerated for ~9 missions, but no more.

5 gamers found this review helpful
Braveland Wizard
Created on 22 November, 2024 19:50
Braveland Wizard

Very good game

I remove one star for not having much of replayability. Technically there are a couple of different paths you can follow, but the difference is minimal. I completed this second game in the trilogy (and last game of the trilogy I played) just yesterday for my Twitch channel. It was a fun ride, as were the other two games. Perhaps the easiest of the three, or perhaps I have just become better by now. Either way, it was worth it. It took me a bit less than 7 hours total to finish it. The game is a linear strategy game, think of the battles in the HOMM series or King's Bounty, with smaller amount of battles and only one expansive map, of various different zones. The world map has you following paths to events or stores or battles, similar to a board game. You can go back to any previously point, but to proceed forward you need to explore/fight your way through. The battles have you choose your army of 5 different types of units, for the battles. Each type has certain leadership/star requirement, so very powerful unit has 5 stars, least powerful has 1 star, and you can only have up to 15 stars or so. This makes it so that you don't end up with an unbeatable army. Each unit has health and number of individuals in it. Different attacks, stats, etc. There is also a magic tree you can expand each time you level up, to a maximum of 10 levels. You unlock magic/abilities that you can use during a battle. The game is 99% about battles, and that is fine. The battles can be anything from very easy to hard, depending on how you deal with them. Also there are 2-3 events you can revisit for more random battles to gain experience and power, to make other battles easier. The game is really well made, with only a couple of music pieces, but very good ones at that. The gfx style is similar to the other 2 games, with a cute but not baby like style. I like it. If you like turn based strategy games and want something easier, go for it! The other 2 too.

2 gamers found this review helpful
Brigador: Up-Armored Edition
Created on 17 October, 2024 02:22
Brigador: Up-Armored Edition

It depends

I just rage quit playing the final campaign mission on my twitch stream. I won't spoil it here. My score for the game is a 3, but if you don't have a problem with BS, then it is a 4 out of 5. There are two main ways of playing the game, one is the campaign in a series of missions and another mode which I didn't touch. Is it fair to review the game having played only one of the modes? That's up to you. The game is a birds eye view of you controlling a single vehicle which changes depending on the mission. For each mission after the first few, you have a choice of 4 different vehicles with different types, hovercraft, small agile, fast wheeled, huge wheeled, huge mech, etc. Each of them comes with a set pair of weapons and special ability. For each campaign mission you have to pick only from the 4 given to you for it, even if another vehicle you have already played with would be a far better vehicle. Artificial difficulty? Maybe. There are several ways to control your vehicle and in the settings you can pick your favorite. None of them felt perfect for me, but apparently I am alone in this. If you find one to suit you, great. If not, you are going to fight the enemies and the controls for the duration of the game. Each mission has destroy X targets (specific or not) and exit the map. The destruction and shooting is great fun, though the handling of the aiming is tiresome, especially for small targets. Also the long range weapons like mortar and howitzer are about half the screen, shorter than direct fire weapons...yeah. The gfx & sfx & music are fantastic. The whole atmosphere is very good even though there are no cutscenes. When everything (controls and missions) align, this is one of the best action games ever made with almost full environmental destruction. When. Changes I would make, better aiming system/reticule. No BS spawning enemies at certain missions. Better controls. Freedom to choose any vehicle for campaign missions.

2 gamers found this review helpful
Demonicon
Created on 24 September, 2024 01:44
Demonicon

A Fun Ride

I was not expecting much when I decided to stream this game for my Twitch channel. I really didn't. I just wanted to play an action RPG, relatively modern which wasn't too demanding on the hardware as I have 10+ year old laptops. I got more than I asked for. The game is basically an action RPG, reminds me of the games from Spiders, though with far far less pointless walking and visually at times similar and at times worse than their games. Of course one needs to remember this is an old game by now. There are plenty of things to spend your skill points and your magic points on, giving you the option to develop your character in multiple ways in how you deal with the threats and the exploring. You can't unlock everything. I just finished the game, yes for my same name stream channel, and I unlocked about 1/4 of the special fighting skills, 1/4 of the magic skills. They are "trees" and you don't have enough points to unlock everything. So you better specialize in weapon type and in magic type. This on its own gives you enough reason to replay the game. But wait, there is more. The story is about your character, a man or a woman who gets into a long mysterious and potentially sick story. Yet, things are both better and worse. The dialogue system reminds of 3D Fallouts, with more options available depending on skills. Also the story can develop at some points depending on your choices. The story is good, though it does forces you a couple of times with nonsensical decisions for you. The combat is competent and fun. I don't know what people complain about. Sound is very good, graphics are average to very good. Voice acting is mostly great. There is a lot of reading if you want to read all the notes/entries in your journal. Which alter depending on new info you acquire. I liked this game. It's a shame the developer did not make more of them. 100% worth playing if you are into dark (story) action RPGs. 3.5 out of 5.

6 gamers found this review helpful
Star Trek™: Away Team
Created on 10 July, 2024 20:50
Star Trek™: Away Team

I wish it was better

I played for my twitch stream (same name as here) up to mission 9. I think that is about half way through. I quit at mission 9 for one issue that bothered me since the very beginning. The controls. Mind you, I never liked the Commandos series, but that was mostly due to the stealth mechanics and bored me to death. Gameplay wise you do a series of story missions with main objectives and secondary objectives. Objectives which can be altered during a mission. No problem with that. The game is in real time and NOT turn based as the tag in the store says. You can pause the game (Enter key) and issue commands, but that is clearly not making the game turn based. There is a nice variety of missions on objectives and locations from the TNG universe. The graphics are good though a bit tiny for my taste. You can zoom in, but the game pixelates too much for my taste to make it run like this all the time. The sounds are fine and the voice is mostly good with a couple of bad ones, but thankfully very rare. The problem with the controls is difficult to explain. Before each mission (apart from the first IIRC) you get to choose your members. Each member can use a phase and some other tools, with some members having access to special tools you might need in a mission. The mission tells you what you 100% will need and what would be nice to have. The 100% you need to do, the others not. The way the GUI is, there is a list of icons on the bottom of the screen which lets you select tool depending on the character selected. So if one doesn't have a hypospray (partially recover health), then if you pick that member alone the icon for it won't appear. Easy enough. The problem is mostly in combat. There are times when you need to have all your members together to use their weapons at the same time as some enemies take more than one hit to neutralize. But if 1 or more have different weapon, only those with it can shoot when selected all!!!! Word limit. :( 2/5

2 gamers found this review helpful
Haven Park
Created on 29 April, 2024 01:26
Haven Park

Good non violent game

A very light on story game, but still has some. I won't say much about that as I don't want to spoil anything. I had an idea what I was getting into (story) and that wasn't letting me to fully relax and enjoy the very relaxing gameplay. You are more or less in control of your huge park and you actively go out and explore this park/island, find resources and then repair items (bridges, lampposts etc. ) while also finding campsites (only way to unhide the overall map) and upgrading them with campfires (make sure to light them), benches etc etc. There are some tourists you can have short interaction with and there are even a couple of mini stories/quests to do. I know people say you can finish it in a couple of hours and perhaps you can if you have played the game before and you know what you are into, but it took me about five hours to complete it and I didn't do many of the tiny little quests available. Not the first time it is taking me far more time to finish a game than what people in reviews or how long to beat claim, but I have long decided they are full of it so take that as you wish. Is the game worth playing? Gameplay is simple and a small child or someone who is new to games should be able to play it after a while. If you are a heavy gamer, like I am who plays games since the early 80s, there isn't much to see here, but still is worth playing if you want something simple and non violent. Presentation wise, it has some cool music pieces here and there, good sound effects and background noise, and the graphics are quite gorgeous as long as you are fine with the art style. I experienced only one puzzle in the game which as soon as you figure out what you are supposed to do to get hints, isn't really difficult. There is one more thing I want to say and I usually don't say these things as I hate spoilers. So if you don't want a major spoiler, stop reading here. = = = = = = = = The ending has something to do with loss/death. Well done, yes.

1 gamers found this review helpful
Alpha Protocol
Created on 20 March, 2024 16:55
Alpha Protocol

5 times in a week

I got the game when it was brand new for PC back then. I played it to completion 5 times in a week. I liked it that much. The game is a third person action adventure, think of James Bond combined with Tomb Raider, with action and stealth combined to the levels you want to. You can be as gang ho or as stealth as you want as you can play the missions in multiple ways. You can upgrade your character the same way as you can in RPGs and focus on lethal ways or non lethal, to how to handle situations. The dialogue and story is also branching and can have quite different playthroughs depending on your choices and dialogues. The one thing that many misunderstood when the game was new, was the way combat was done. Due to the way the game looked, people thought it was in terms of how weapon and combat handles, a very poor third person shooter. But the thing they missed or chose to ignore was that the game combat mechanics are based on RPG elements, not that dissimilar to say Morrowind or other RPGs The aiming, weapon handling, accuracy etc, are all as in RPGs, not as in pure action games. Once you know this or understand this, you can have the time of your life in this awesome awesome game. I don't have the GOG version as I simply can't afford it nowdays, so I can't comment on any additions or extras this specific version has. The game was AWESOME when it was released and I couldn't recommend it enough. As long as you realize it is an RPG in third person shooter clothing. Be the best or worst agent you can be. :) 6 out of 5 stars.

325 gamers found this review helpful
Gunship + Gunship 2000
Created on 15 February, 2024 19:17
Gunship + Gunship 2000

The Silent Service of Attack Helicopters

In more ways than one. In the first game you have access only to the Apache (A) I believe, where in 2000 you have several options depending on your rank. I haven't bought this bundle yet, so what I am writing here is about my experience with the games on the Atari ST, Amiga 1200 and PC when I used to have them. If you want to play only one, then obviously go for 2000 which is the superior game in all technical terms. Better in every aspect, flight model, graphics, missions, everything. As usual with flight simulators you have a variety of missions and campaigns to play. From training to more difficult campaigns. Very similar to the F-19/F-117A games and F-15 Strike Eagle series (which I hope one day to see here). Variety of missions, enemies, maps, it has it all. You can choose weapon loadout, targets to hit, how to proceed to your objectives, any targets of opportunity, etc etc. Both games are very similar in this and this is why as I said if you are going to play only one, you will be better off with Gunship 2000. BUT, and this is why I mentioned Silent Service in the title, for me the most enjoyable title is the first, Gunship. As with Silent Service, the more simple graphics, the slightly less complex mechanics (though you can change options in each game), and even nostalgia as I played the first game...first, make the first Gunship game my favorite to play from the two. As with other simulators from this era and mostly from Microprose, you get the perfect balance (for me) of simulation and simplicity. Something which unfortunately from the early 2000s just disappeared and now the rare time we have new flight sim game it is either too serious and detailed, or completely arcade. Meh. Get these games instead, use a joystick if you can, and read the manuals so that you can quickly go out and win the conflict. Great games both.

10 gamers found this review helpful