Comments for Mana Pool http://www.manapool.co.uk Independent PC Game Reviews & Guides Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:28:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Comment on Evochron Mercenary Review by Mr Q http://www.manapool.co.uk/evochron-mercenary-review/comment-page-1/#comment-15712 Mr Q Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:28:50 +0000 http://www.manapool.co.uk/?p=1093#comment-15712 I downloaded the game for the 90 Min demo, fist looks: Nice GUI! Nice controls Q,W,E,A,S,D Duh! And the size of it all, wow! i mean it takes like 20 min to go to a planet you can see, i never seen this before. Tweaks in the controlls setting and done! game works great. Keyboard and mouse. did sale my first stuff :( but after a look in the controlls setting i found the controlls for the items i got :) Still 30 min left on the demo, but Overal tutorial is verry nice miss that in most games. GUI nice! Toke me some time to learn the controls but happy i can work with them now, ready miss then if i don't got them. Great planets enz., the way the gravity works is Ready cool, still crashed my ship first try :P overal for demo I rate is a 8,6! not 10.0:: No mouse tips in gui's not in depth tutorial about the small thinks. not mp demo :( still got some issues with sound. Please correct me if I'm wrong with this revieuw of the game. I downloaded the game for the 90 Min demo, fist looks:

Nice GUI!
Nice controls Q,W,E,A,S,D Duh!
And the size of it all, wow! i mean it takes like 20 min to go to a planet you can see, i never seen this before.
Tweaks in the controlls setting and done! game works great. Keyboard and mouse.
did sale my first stuff :( but after a look in the controlls setting i found the controlls for the items i got :)

Still 30 min left on the demo, but
Overal tutorial is verry nice miss that in most games.
GUI nice!
Toke me some time to learn the controls but happy i can work with them now, ready miss then if i don’t got them.
Great planets enz., the way the gravity works is Ready cool, still crashed my ship first try :P

overal for demo I rate is a 8,6!

not 10.0::
No mouse tips in gui’s
not in depth tutorial about the small thinks.
not mp demo :(
still got some issues with sound.

Please correct me if I’m wrong with this revieuw of the game.

]]> Comment on Terraria Review by guy http://www.manapool.co.uk/terraria-review/comment-page-1/#comment-15300 guy Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:52:52 +0000 http://www.manapool.co.uk/?p=2248#comment-15300 i dident enjoy the game, no hook to keep me entertained at the beginning. i dident enjoy the game, no hook to keep me entertained at the beginning.

]]> Comment on Divinity 2: The Dragon Knight Saga Review by Anwarunya http://www.manapool.co.uk/divinity-2-the-dragon-knight-saga-review/comment-page-1/#comment-15290 Anwarunya Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:42:59 +0000 http://www.manapool.co.uk/?p=1600#comment-15290 Don't ever get any Final Fantasy game.Those aren't RPGs, those are linear action games that happen to have a lot of numbers and are set in a fantasy world. Don’t ever get any Final Fantasy game.Those aren’t RPGs, those are linear action games that happen to have a lot of numbers and are set in a fantasy world.

]]> Comment on Civilization V: Civilizations & Leaders Guide by lisa http://www.manapool.co.uk/civilization-v-civilizations-leaders-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-15277 lisa Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:27:04 +0000 http://www.manapool.co.uk/?p=1153#comment-15277 This is a great guide, thank you. I still use it when starting a new game so i can look at all the leaders I haven't done yet. This is a great guide, thank you. I still use it when starting a new game so i can look at all the leaders I haven’t done yet.

]]> Comment on Evochron Mercenary Review by deMangler http://www.manapool.co.uk/evochron-mercenary-review/comment-page-1/#comment-15217 deMangler Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:13:45 +0000 http://www.manapool.co.uk/?p=1093#comment-15217 Luckily I read this review after buying the game. It doesn't take much to put me off spending what little money I have and I would have missed out on this great game. I am a veteran of Space Sims, I bought the original Elite for the BBC and have tried almost every one since. Of course they have all been disappointing to some degree, and all for different reasons. If I had to say Evochron Mercenary disappoints in any way at all, it would be in simply still not being the perfect space sim I want. But it does come the closest yet. Closer than Eve, X3, Frontier, Privateer, Vega-Strike, Orbiter-sim, erm... memory fails me... It is almost perfect. Certainly worth the time taken to learn it and the money spent on buying it. From what I have read on the forums, the specific little details that interfere with it's perfection for me are also on the to-do list for updates, like more convincing living world stuff (economy, other NPC ship activity) and the scaling of planets being noticeably small and not orbiting. But this is just really nit-picky stuff, personal to me, to be honest, the existing gameplay is so enjoyable and immersive it almost makes up for it. There is nothing at all wrong with the game as it stands, and this review, as another poster pointed out. Is Bogus. tl;dr - This review is NOT actually worth the electricity it takes to display the pixels. Luckily I read this review after buying the game. It doesn’t take much to put me off spending what little money I have and I would have missed out on this great game.
I am a veteran of Space Sims, I bought the original Elite for the BBC and have tried almost every one since. Of course they have all been disappointing to some degree, and all for different reasons.
If I had to say Evochron Mercenary disappoints in any way at all, it would be in simply still not being the perfect space sim I want. But it does come the closest yet. Closer than Eve, X3, Frontier, Privateer, Vega-Strike, Orbiter-sim, erm… memory fails me…
It is almost perfect.
Certainly worth the time taken to learn it and the money spent on buying it.
From what I have read on the forums, the specific little details that interfere with it’s perfection for me are also on the to-do list for updates, like more convincing living world stuff (economy, other NPC ship activity) and the scaling of planets being noticeably small and not orbiting. But this is just really nit-picky stuff, personal to me, to be honest, the existing gameplay is so enjoyable and immersive it almost makes up for it.
There is nothing at all wrong with the game as it stands, and this review, as another poster pointed out. Is Bogus.

tl;dr – This review is NOT actually worth the electricity it takes to display the pixels.

]]> Comment on Evochron Mercenary Review by Maarschalk http://www.manapool.co.uk/evochron-mercenary-review/comment-page-1/#comment-15126 Maarschalk Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:19:40 +0000 http://www.manapool.co.uk/?p=1093#comment-15126 This Review is bogus and totally unfair and biased. I'm very upset and angry at the reviewer! Yes, you have the right to your opinion but to base it on 2-3 hours of game play is absurd! Does the reviewer really expect to jump in a complicated spacecraft and expect to do and know everything in 2 to 3 hours while ignoring the manual and instructions? While it takes an Astronaut or a Pilot years to decades to become one? This is a Space Simulation Game bordering on the realistic physics side and with a good balance of learning curve and discovery of how things work! You need training and instructions like any good Flight SimuIator! For example you would not be able to fly an F-16 like in the Falcon Allied Force realistic Flight Simulator without reading the instructions and doing the training! I have been playing these games for 3 years and still discover new things!....I give this game Evochron Mercenary 10 stars over and beyond that of 5! This Review is bogus and totally unfair and biased. I’m very upset and angry at the reviewer! Yes, you have the right to your opinion but to base it on 2-3 hours of game play is absurd! Does the reviewer really expect to jump in a complicated spacecraft and expect to do and know everything in 2 to 3 hours while ignoring the manual and instructions?
While it takes an Astronaut or a Pilot years to decades to become one? This is a Space Simulation Game bordering on the realistic physics side and with a good balance of learning curve and discovery of how things work! You need training and instructions like any good Flight SimuIator! For example you would not be able to fly an F-16 like in the Falcon Allied Force realistic Flight Simulator without reading the instructions and doing the training! I have been playing these games for 3 years and still discover new things!….I give this game Evochron Mercenary 10 stars over and beyond that of 5!

]]> Comment on Evochron Mercenary Review by Milk http://www.manapool.co.uk/evochron-mercenary-review/comment-page-1/#comment-15056 Milk Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:03:27 +0000 http://www.manapool.co.uk/?p=1093#comment-15056 @ Andrew Except Infinity will never happen. At least I don't believe in it. I've been following this "game"/vaporware for like 5 years and I've kinda lost hope, it IS too bad cause the tech demos make me salivate. As i mentioned, personally i tried the X games and couldn't get into it at all. I hated the way systems were set up for one. I could never get immersed, could never get a sense of the huge vast loneliness of space. I have to say i'm more interested in being a pilot than building an empire. I don't think it's even necessarily fair to compare these games though because their ultimate goal isn't the same. And comparing it to privateer is silly if only because Freelancer is basically the unofficial sequel to Privateer (same game designer, Chris Roberts, though he left before FL was finished), so it should be compared to Freelancer if nothing else. To me, Freelancer is the standard. Or was anyway. I'm not sure anymore between it and EM. Freelancer does things that i wish EM did, but the opposite is also true. The perfect space game is probably somewhere between FL, EM and the X series. I found FL most immersive, EM the best in terms of control and combat, and X, well, has the best realisation and also strategy game elements for people who are interested in this sort of thing (which i am not really that much but i suppose it' always good to have that option) Oh and just to be anal, Privateer is 1993, not the 80's. @ Andrew

Except Infinity will never happen. At least I don’t believe in it. I’ve been following this “game”/vaporware for like 5 years and I’ve kinda lost hope, it IS too bad cause the tech demos make me salivate.

As i mentioned, personally i tried the X games and couldn’t get into it at all. I hated the way systems were set up for one. I could never get immersed, could never get a sense of the huge vast loneliness of space. I have to say i’m more interested in being a pilot than building an empire. I don’t think it’s even necessarily fair to compare these games though because their ultimate goal isn’t the same.

And comparing it to privateer is silly if only because Freelancer is basically the unofficial sequel to Privateer (same game designer, Chris Roberts, though he left before FL was finished), so it should be compared to Freelancer if nothing else. To me, Freelancer is the standard. Or was anyway. I’m not sure anymore between it and EM. Freelancer does things that i wish EM did, but the opposite is also true. The perfect space game is probably somewhere between FL, EM and the X series. I found FL most immersive, EM the best in terms of control and combat, and X, well, has the best realisation and also strategy game elements for people who are interested in this sort of thing (which i am not really that much but i suppose it’ always good to have that option)

Oh and just to be anal, Privateer is 1993, not the 80′s.

]]> Comment on Evochron Mercenary Review by danskmacabre http://www.manapool.co.uk/evochron-mercenary-review/comment-page-1/#comment-14859 danskmacabre Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:39:50 +0000 http://www.manapool.co.uk/?p=1093#comment-14859 I must say I was very disappointed with this review. You went to all the trouble of writing it and then never really played it and said yourself the worth of the review is voided as you gave up. If I were you, once I realised I couldn't be bothered actually playing it a bit I would have not bothered reviewing it. I must say I was very disappointed with this review. You went to all the trouble of writing it and then never really played it and said yourself the worth of the review is voided as you gave up.

If I were you, once I realised I couldn’t be bothered actually playing it a bit I would have not bothered reviewing it.

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]]> Comment on Evochron Mercenary Review by Galdis http://www.manapool.co.uk/evochron-mercenary-review/comment-page-1/#comment-13722 Galdis Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:04:39 +0000 http://www.manapool.co.uk/?p=1093#comment-13722 The fact that you, a "video game reviewer", could not learn the controls or put the time in to play the tutorials is more telling about you than the game. You should be ashamed of such an awful review. The fact that you, a “video game reviewer”, could not learn the controls or put the time in to play the tutorials is more telling about you than the game.

You should be ashamed of such an awful review.

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