Monaco: What's yours is mine - First impression

Why yes, that is my steam name in the lower left corner. Why yes, I'd love it if you wanted to add me.

Alright! Monaco is a single player or co-op heist game. It's a top-down view, you're controlling a person with a class of your choice (locksmith, lookout, something and something) and you're trying to pull off a heist.

Steam: Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.

Now, here's my very first impressions as I started the game and tried two rounds of the first ... heist thingy.

The music is awesome, I love thief-ish music! The menues and everything looks cool, I like the glow of the colors and such, yet I am a little confused too. I might be stupid, but I'm not sure what I'm doing. Somehow I've managed to find my way to the actual game, alright, alright OH IT'S ONLINE! Ok ... fine, fine. Running around like crazy with some guy, can't see shit because my screen brightness it too damn low. Collecting some yellow coin things, still can't see shit, this guy probably thinks I'm an idiot. Guard! Stressing, rushing through the whole thing like crazy, OH THERE'S A VAN! I think I might have left the other guy behind ... I escaped, did it all work out?

SO! That's my first round of the game. I did go back to redo that same heist again by myself, brightness turned up and stress level lowered a lot. I saw more.
The game is interessting. Obviously I haven't played much, but I will give it some more playtime before I do a review. I will have to say that there's a lot of colors and stuff happening at once though, like at that one point when we were outside and it was raining, there were lights and arrows everywhere, I just ... hrrrr. But all in all, it's an interessting little thing that I think can be A LOT of fun. I'd recoment trying it, at the very least.

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The Elder Scrolls Online Beta - First Impression

I was lucky enough to be part of the beta this weekend, and I'm definetley going to make a proper review as soon as I get a better look at the recorded files (yep, it was parcially frapsed).

Let me just start with this statement: I would rather have them actually makinh a new Elder Scrolls Game, single player RPG.

I am aware that it was a beta and that the social features, as well as the pvp and such aren't fully functional until the actual lauch. I am also aware of the fact that they simply mash all the beta players into the same server and thus, it was overcrowded like helllllllll. Even so, I enjoyed the world and quests as if they were normal single player. Tried to play with a friend of mine, but that just ... eh ... nah.

Key impressions:
Should have just made a normal Elder Scrolls game. 
There's something very wrong with the system of working with other players.
BEAUTIFUL surroundings, holy damn. 
Kajiit's hands look really odd and fucked up.
The character customisation looks a lot like sims. It's alright tho, I only fix what I care about and stop when I think it looks alright.
The quests, storylines and characters are all fine.
I sorta like the crafting system, even thought it might be a bit much.
Skillsystem works pretty much like in skyrim (you upgrade either health, mana or stamina and then use a skillpoint), where you can spend skillpoints on either class trees, race, crafting, guild (fighters and mage as I saw, possibly more), weapon and armour.

And that's pretty much it for the first impression. I only played this weekend, as that was my beta period, but I really did like it and I am very much looking forward to the release! Also got 3 day early game acsess! EXCITED.

Keep an eye up for the review coming up soon!

~K

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