Scruffy18
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Hi there! My name is Scruffy and I play games! I also write about them too - and while I like to spend my time digging into the nitty gritty of games that I've played on my website and beyond - I also like just throwing out shorter form reviews! Feel free to stick around - I hope my writing is entertaining enough to make you want to check out more!
Hi there! My name is Scruffy and I play games! I also write about them too - and while I like to spend my time digging into the nitty gritty of games that I've played on my website and beyond - I also like just throwing out shorter form reviews! Feel free to stick around - I hope my writing is entertaining enough to make you want to check out more!
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For what its worth - I went into Helldivers 2 with an open mind, happy to experience what the game had in store as someone who doesn't typically play a lot of online PvE games. I avoided the game until at least a month in because of the horrific server infrastructure and the mess of issues the game had.
And over 2 months after buying the game I can finally say that I never actually managed to add one of my friends on PC due to a completely non-functional social system. While I do appreciate that the game has surpassed its internal goals by an incredible margin, the amount of time that it has taken to fix a fundamental problem with the game is astonishing and frankly isn't really acceptable in my mind's eye.
Helldivers 2 exists on a tide of goodwill and exceptionally talented community managers who have managed to kindle that goodwill to try and salvage it. While I will give props to the story of Helldivers 2 actively playing to the actions of the players, this isn't the first time that this concept has been done. Despite that, I enjoy the interplay.
In terms of the game itself - when I was actually able to play a round - I found it to be clunky, poorly realised and generally really not anything that special underneath the hood. The particle effects and general look of the game is visceral and appropriately grimy but my god there was nothing more to it than that.
When the game I finally managed to play turned out to be nothing other than a bog-standard PvE shooter, I was even more stung. While my rating might come as really low - I don't feel like the issues I've raised are unfair. If I'm being asked to pay for a game - that is STILL receiving cosmetic updates - I expect for a core aspect of the game to function. And it simply didn't function.
And over 2 months after buying the game I can finally say that I never actually managed to add one of my friends on PC due to a completely non-functional social system. While I do appreciate that the game has surpassed its internal goals by an incredible margin, the amount of time that it has taken to fix a fundamental problem with the game is astonishing and frankly isn't really acceptable in my mind's eye.
Helldivers 2 exists on a tide of goodwill and exceptionally talented community managers who have managed to kindle that goodwill to try and salvage it. While I will give props to the story of Helldivers 2 actively playing to the actions of the players, this isn't the first time that this concept has been done. Despite that, I enjoy the interplay.
In terms of the game itself - when I was actually able to play a round - I found it to be clunky, poorly realised and generally really not anything that special underneath the hood. The particle effects and general look of the game is visceral and appropriately grimy but my god there was nothing more to it than that.
When the game I finally managed to play turned out to be nothing other than a bog-standard PvE shooter, I was even more stung. While my rating might come as really low - I don't feel like the issues I've raised are unfair. If I'm being asked to pay for a game - that is STILL receiving cosmetic updates - I expect for a core aspect of the game to function. And it simply didn't function.