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Fun, Lightweight & Full of Character - The Dwarves Review - MMORPG.com
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Fun, Lightweight & Full of Character - The Dwarves Review - MMORPG.com
Everyone loves dwarves. They’re the lovable sidekick, the violent Scotsman with a heart of gold, and if you need beard advice, that’s pretty much their only hobby outside of mining and blacksmithing. In the world of fantasy fiction, they’re a race of compatriots, rarely ever starring in their own adventure. Until now, that is.
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None the less,the game does sound interesting enough that i might try it out.Not a fan of "stretching it" with terms like art style and weighty.
GREAT art style?Of course that is a biased remark,art style matters only to each individual ,so no way on earth does a developer aim for EACH individual,they simply go with what the license allowed them.
"survives on it's character"and they really nailed it,again this is stretching for positive terms to spin on this agenda.
Are we really helping the developer improve their game if everything is pretty much "nailed it"or would the dev be better suited with some truthful criticism?The only area mentioned are bugs,well seems a rather WEAK critic since pretty much every newly released game will have bugs.
Basically this review is saying ,remove the bugs and the game is a 10/10 ,hardly a trust worthy review with that kind of rating...right?
The positive spin of a game usually needs little introduction,as i said,it already sounds interesting enough to try out but the entire industry NEEDS criticism to improve gaming for all,the gamer and the developers.How is a dev suppose to know what part of it's game needs improving or is flat out bad if it is always praise praise?
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Is it that you're looking for total objectivity? A lack of praise and more of a report (because there is criticism here and only a decent score, which it deserves). A review is necessarily subjective. The character art is very charming. It's fine if you disagree, but since a game review is at its core an opinionated assessment, I stand by my judgment of the style and character work. Along with that, I do want to say that I rarely use descriptions like "it has character!" because that doesn't really mean anything in most games. Here, the character art, voice work/character building, and more linear narrative all add heartily to the enjoyability of the game so it warrants it. Now, I love dwarves, so I may be biased there, but I would expect anyone seriously considering this game probably would also. So does it matter? I also get extremely bored with rote epic fantasy stories that have been told a million times over, so that this game's story was able to work on me should tell you something about its surrounding elements.
I also believe that I criticized the game where it needed it: polish and bug squashing. If King Art fixes those things, yes, it would deserve a higher score (though not a 10/10). This isn't a deep game and wasn't trying to be, so when I look at what it attempts, I think it has a lot of good ideas held back by spotty execution.
Praise praise is not what I wrote or feel about this game.
거북이는 목을 내밀 때 안 움직입니다
Snow White's Dwarfs were pretty pimp unless I misunderstood what they meant by the hi ho song.
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
The same author also wrote 4 books about the Albae, which are close to the dwarfes' story. I find them even better.
I actually just picked up the audiobook for the first one. I have heard good things. I actually saw it at Barnes and Noble when it first came out, but they had it right next to Stan Nichols' Orcs book and figured it was one of those cheap cash in series.
This is LITERALLY the first on screen tip that appears!
"Pause the game by pressing space. Move the camera by using the middle mouse button and the mouse wheel".
Is it too much to ask for reviewers that can actually play games? It's getting as bad as most Twitch streamers...
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