Starpoint Gemini 2

Maybe my expectations ruin the game before I even play it? Nah! This game had all the check marks for being an awesome game. I just don't know how they managed to wreck it. Well, I do, I'm just so sick of regurgitating the same ♥♥♥♥ for every crappy game. I should have listened to my inner critic which is affected by my trusty board of reviewers. Sorry I didn't listen to you guys this time! So many glitches that it's not glitches, it's a broken game they couldn't be bothered to fix. The "Go To" command is worse than useless. Click a place, click the "Go To" and sit back and watch as the AI turns in the general direction, you know cause you only need to eyeball it in space, and sets the engines to full, which if you need to go anywhere close will take you forever so plan a meal in between close locales, then watch as your ship plows through any and everything to get maybe near your destination only to keep going forever. It won't stop at your destination. It may explode into a fiery ball if the AI somehow managed to actually lock on to where you want to go. Otherwise have a nice trip into the bleak oblivion that is the void of space. I came back after nukin some leftover wings to find myself on the other side of the galaxy. The ship controls suck. It's a freaking game. Dev's shouldn't limit themselves to 1950's Flash Gordon idiot tech. Come up with some proper ♥♥♥♥ that allows one to control their ship. Does anyone that play games actually make them anymore!? Or is just a bunch of money hungry, greedy corporate bastards that are making this ♥♥♥♥!? Come up with some warp speed somewhere. The tutorial is crap. Too much obvious and useless info and nothing helpful to actually playing the game. I don't need info on what a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trader is or what a mercenary is and how to use them. Seriously a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of useless information. WTF??? Nothing about the game is cohesive. There's no direction or support, nothing to make one feel immersed in any kind of reality. I felt only frustration and I didn't have any fun. I can't say enough about this bloody "Go To" button. You can click on it and each time it seems to turn about halfway to your destination. Click on it the first time, halfway, click on it again and another halfway closer. Anyone with a basic understanding of math will realize you will never get there, only close if you keep trying. The ♥♥♥♥♥♥ part is when your ship turns and lines up with another random location and you think, "Oh, cool it worked, that's where I need to go. WRONG!!! You stupid idiot! Didn't I say it will never line up with where you want to go? That's just the game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with you, just what every gamer wants. Right? Thought I would give it some more chances and it failed miserably. I went into a wormhole and now I'm stuck in an infinite loop of travelling back and forth between these two wormholes. These wormholes are vortexes that will suck you up and fling you (instantaneously, no. OMG longest friggin wormholes ever) across to where ever (♥♥♥♥♥♥ long loading screen with crappy effects). Then when you arrive get sucked back up and do it all over again and now decide to self mutilate, why not, better than this game. The interminable mini side quests have you forever running around. I've done about 50 sides of assassination, repair, escort, and smuggle and they seem to never end. Procedurally generated? Horror for the completionist. I have no idea what the main mission is or even the plot. I'm in space doing what again? The lock on feature apparently works ok but not really. The space bar toggles between mouse and button guidance. If you lock on to a locale and try to go there with mouse guidance on it won't work properly and you might not even know. The go to option should automatically turn off mouse guidance but it doesn't. There are numerous instances where this is a problem. Multiple windows open and mouse control for all depending on where the mouse is located. Now back to some more self torture with this game. The voice acting is atrocious and there is no option to skip cutscenes, you are forced to sit through these excruciatingly terrible conversations. Any parent that has read to their kids has better character voice acting. It sounds like they were too cheap to ask an uncle, sister, or cousin to help out on their little game. They got some cheap bot to do all the voices. No acting because there are no actors. The voices, there are 2, one voice bot for every non-accent voice and the same voice bot set to really bad accent (though to be fair maybe aliens have really bad human region accents). It's usually a conversation between one accent character and a non-accent character because you can't tell who's speaking when it's 2 non-accent voices speaking. The voices are the same. You don't know what the F U C K is being said or who is saying it and will simply turn the volume down when there is any talking whatsoever. And if these are actual people making these wordlike sounds, bravo to y.....♥♥♥♥ it there's no way these are people. Space is not flat. To make the star map flat is yet another mind bogglingly stupid idea. Nothing else in the game take away from the immersivity than the flat star map. Bubbles (spheres) you fools. Space is not 2 dimensional and that's the way they make it feel. The star chart should have been bubble levels with full 3D control and maneuverability. Galaxy or solar system or whatever is the biggest bubble and you can zoom into small bubble sections. That's another thing, WTF is this jumble of space objects? It's way too small to be a galaxy. It seems to be some kind of binary system but most of the planets are in the same orbit. I can't express enough how seriously flawed this game is with the start chart expressed in 2 dimensions. Worse than the "voice acting". Did I mention how bad the "voice acting" is? I almost want to recommend this game so others can experience how terrible and annoying the "voice acting" is in this steaming pile of a game. There are no units on speed or distance. Actually I don't remember any speed or velocity in this game. Distance is unitless. I'm 24000 away from them. WTF!? The scale is so messed up there is a massive disconnect where your brain is highly aware of the scale and distances but you're trying to make the game fun so you can still play it. Again, another instance where you would have to play it to feel how wrong it is. A star map fog of war !? Another WTF! This isn't the undiscovered frontier. The setting presupposes that this is a heavily charted and well known region of space. Just another element that makes no sense. Maybe they thought it would add some kind of depth to the game, which it sorely needs. Poor control of vehicles. Devs need to get their heads out of their asses. Buck Rogers style rocket ships. Very limited imagination. No reverse or strafing. Like a simple WWII fighter, fly straight, turn, slow down to make tighter turns. Frustrating and boring dog fights. The weapons as well suffer from this lack of imagination. Power energy consumption and accuracy all traded yet balanced depending on play preferences. Beam is more accurate with average energy consumption and less damage. Rail gun has more damage but is less accurate. All weapons do damage. Every weapon follows this formula but there's no innovation. No weapons with special characteristics such as time manipulation or DOTs effects or teleportation or anything that requires using ones imagination just a little! Terrible save system. Exit game should always have a check. You know, Are You Sure? Y/N. I already brainfarted that one once. The auto-save feature is situational not timed and I'm not sure of the specific situations. But if you like to play baked or just forget to save for whatever reason then this game will leave you angry. I lost hours of gameplay because I forgot to save when I last could because you can't save anywhere. I have to wrap this up cause it's all the spac