The Game of Missed Opportunities...
There are many disappointing, small things, that this game is missing, or did in a way that was unsatisfactory that could have been done better. It's so painful sometimes to play the game, when your mind is always saying "Why didn't they do this, or Why did they do this like that?" it takes away from the overall enjoyment and immersion.
1. V's Closet
-Now I understand that there is a weapons cache in the back room of your apartment that you can put anything into, but this small attention to detail would have been great. A spot to place your clothes and your clothes alone, and maybe even visual feedback like a big changing mirror or 3rd person just to see the outfits (see gta5). As of right now its a useless space that fills up with random clothing and there is no purpose to it. Its a shallow space that has no purpose.
2. Vending Machines/Joytoys
-In V's apartment there is a vending machine, and on that vending machine there are actually different categories on the textures for food, or drink, or even joytoys. YES Joytoys, so why was there no ability to order joytoys as room service?
-Why are there only 4 joytoys in the entire game, when there are plenty on the streets that you cannot interact with? I doubt it would be hard to add the code to them since they pretty much all use the same models, and teleport to a specific scripted spot.
3. ARCADE MACHINES/Mini-games
-This may be one of the biggest disappointments with this game, the fact that there are arcade machines everywhere but you cannot play a game on a single one of them. Grand theft auto san andreas did this in 2004 on archaic hardware. Yakuza games still do this for every installment. It's not something impossible to do. Even a simple shitty html5 or flash game would have sufficed and brought so much more immersion to the game. maybe we want to play Roach Race or the Spaceship game or the Tetris. I'm pretty sure with the working TV screens this is not a hard concept to do.
-Not only this but there are a severe lack of mini games in general, all of the racing you do for Claire, the shooting range for Wilson, the boxing for Coach, is NON-REPEATABLE, once you finish these things, you can never do them again in that playthrough.
It makes the game boring and fall flat and lose immersion. In fact NOTHING is REPEATABLE. Once you clear the assault in progress markers on the map. Those enemies are gone forever, they never respawn and that part of the city is forever empty now... you can never go back and farm that area for fun when the game is over.
4. Police
-This has been beat to death already but i'll state it once more. Why couldn't maxtac pursue you like in the opening sequence with Jackie with the hovership? Why couldn't cops pursue you in the various cars they have around the city? Why can you drive a few blocks away and lose the cops completely? Why when you do get police do they just teleport behind you and you can easily outrun them? THIS NEEDS FIXED
5. Barbershops/Plastic Surgeons
-Why can't you change your appearance? Plain and simple this is something that should never have been left out of the game no matter what. You never get to alter your appearance after leaving character select. Infact you barely ever get to see your character ever. In the trailers it was teased that you could replace almost every part of your body at a ripperdoc, while this is true somewhat with cyberware, the original purpose of a ripperdoc included complete reconstruction of the face and hair and everything. Look at the quest for Pepe's wife, it is indicated here that this was possible at some point.
6. Third Person
-This is going to be controversial, but I don't care. Yes there are people who would argue the first person is immersive, but there are many reasons the game should have third person IN ADDITION TO first person.
a. Make it a toggle, its really not hard to do, and infact modders have already done it. There is no reason the option should not be there in addition to the first person as just about every other roleplaying game does this, and in grand theft auto (which this game emulates heavily) 3rd person is the default.
b. YOU CANNOT SEE THE CHARACTER YOU HAVE CREATED IN ACTION, this defeats the entire purpose of creating a character if for 90% of the game you can only see their hands, chest and pants.
c. There are people with motion sickness who cannot stand playing in first person. Yes this is actually true, the option needs to be there to accommodate the people who need third person to enjoy the experience.
d. Half, if not all of the animations for 3rd person, are already in the files. Before patch 1.04 you could enter a console command that would switch to the 3rd person animations, now while they were janky and had a crouching bug, it is a fact that they were there, and originally planned to be in the game. Don't buy into the bullshit that this was for all for "immersion". This was a planned mode that was scrapped, probably due to time constraints.
7. Flying Vehicles
-This is something that is already in the game but for some reason inaccessible to V outside of the first corpo intro sequence or one of the endings. Why in the name of holy hell can you not steal a trauma team hovercraft, or any of the numerous other flying vehicles you see flying in the sky? What happened to "verticality"? You never even see the planned upper areas of the city even though there are plenty of areas you can tell that used to be there to explore.
This is just very disappointing, disheartening and saddening as a whole, I hate to be negative, but these things alone could have made the game so much better and complete, an 11/10 experience for everyone. These things are very achievable as well, and it was apparent that they were either cut, or just not done on purpose for some reason. This is not a game I can be happy with, it will always be mediocre unless it includes the above things.
There are many disappointing, small things, that this game is missing, or did in a way that was unsatisfactory that could have been done better. It's so painful sometimes to play the game, when your mind is always saying "Why didn't they do this, or Why did they do this like that?" it takes away from the overall enjoyment and immersion.
1. V's Closet
-Now I understand that there is a weapons cache in the back room of your apartment that you can put anything into, but this small attention to detail would have been great. A spot to place your clothes and your clothes alone, and maybe even visual feedback like a big changing mirror or 3rd person just to see the outfits (see gta5). As of right now its a useless space that fills up with random clothing and there is no purpose to it. Its a shallow space that has no purpose.
2. Vending Machines/Joytoys
-In V's apartment there is a vending machine, and on that vending machine there are actually different categories on the textures for food, or drink, or even joytoys. YES Joytoys, so why was there no ability to order joytoys as room service?
-Why are there only 4 joytoys in the entire game, when there are plenty on the streets that you cannot interact with? I doubt it would be hard to add the code to them since they pretty much all use the same models, and teleport to a specific scripted spot.
3. ARCADE MACHINES/Mini-games
-This may be one of the biggest disappointments with this game, the fact that there are arcade machines everywhere but you cannot play a game on a single one of them. Grand theft auto san andreas did this in 2004 on archaic hardware. Yakuza games still do this for every installment. It's not something impossible to do. Even a simple shitty html5 or flash game would have sufficed and brought so much more immersion to the game. maybe we want to play Roach Race or the Spaceship game or the Tetris. I'm pretty sure with the working TV screens this is not a hard concept to do.
-Not only this but there are a severe lack of mini games in general, all of the racing you do for Claire, the shooting range for Wilson, the boxing for Coach, is NON-REPEATABLE, once you finish these things, you can never do them again in that playthrough.
It makes the game boring and fall flat and lose immersion. In fact NOTHING is REPEATABLE. Once you clear the assault in progress markers on the map. Those enemies are gone forever, they never respawn and that part of the city is forever empty now... you can never go back and farm that area for fun when the game is over.
4. Police
-This has been beat to death already but i'll state it once more. Why couldn't maxtac pursue you like in the opening sequence with Jackie with the hovership? Why couldn't cops pursue you in the various cars they have around the city? Why can you drive a few blocks away and lose the cops completely? Why when you do get police do they just teleport behind you and you can easily outrun them? THIS NEEDS FIXED
5. Barbershops/Plastic Surgeons
-Why can't you change your appearance? Plain and simple this is something that should never have been left out of the game no matter what. You never get to alter your appearance after leaving character select. Infact you barely ever get to see your character ever. In the trailers it was teased that you could replace almost every part of your body at a ripperdoc, while this is true somewhat with cyberware, the original purpose of a ripperdoc included complete reconstruction of the face and hair and everything. Look at the quest for Pepe's wife, it is indicated here that this was possible at some point.
6. Third Person
-This is going to be controversial, but I don't care. Yes there are people who would argue the first person is immersive, but there are many reasons the game should have third person IN ADDITION TO first person.
a. Make it a toggle, its really not hard to do, and infact modders have already done it. There is no reason the option should not be there in addition to the first person as just about every other roleplaying game does this, and in grand theft auto (which this game emulates heavily) 3rd person is the default.
b. YOU CANNOT SEE THE CHARACTER YOU HAVE CREATED IN ACTION, this defeats the entire purpose of creating a character if for 90% of the game you can only see their hands, chest and pants.
c. There are people with motion sickness who cannot stand playing in first person. Yes this is actually true, the option needs to be there to accommodate the people who need third person to enjoy the experience.
d. Half, if not all of the animations for 3rd person, are already in the files. Before patch 1.04 you could enter a console command that would switch to the 3rd person animations, now while they were janky and had a crouching bug, it is a fact that they were there, and originally planned to be in the game. Don't buy into the bullshit that this was for all for "immersion". This was a planned mode that was scrapped, probably due to time constraints.
7. Flying Vehicles
-This is something that is already in the game but for some reason inaccessible to V outside of the first corpo intro sequence or one of the endings. Why in the name of holy hell can you not steal a trauma team hovercraft, or any of the numerous other flying vehicles you see flying in the sky? What happened to "verticality"? You never even see the planned upper areas of the city even though there are plenty of areas you can tell that used to be there to explore.
This is just very disappointing, disheartening and saddening as a whole, I hate to be negative, but these things alone could have made the game so much better and complete, an 11/10 experience for everyone. These things are very achievable as well, and it was apparent that they were either cut, or just not done on purpose for some reason. This is not a game I can be happy with, it will always be mediocre unless it includes the above things.
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