So, as I am playing this game again, after delaying the mission for so long, I finally have to encounter this shit again. There are narrative issues I have with this game and I'm fine with that, the game is very well written and overall I like where the game goes with it's stories and themes. I also have gripes with the gameplay, but a lot of that, other than outright bugs are just personal preferences.
HOWEVER, these Delamain missions get my gripe up like nothing else. I genuinely hate them and are a struggle to complete. Most of the gameplay is really tedious and annoying, some stupid variation of the ever infamous tail missions that have been maligned since the beginning of open world games. It tries to throw in some extra gameplay every so often to give some pretence of each mission being unique but its still all just a chore. Not to mention I have to actively drive around aimlessly like a moron trying to find the cars because they move.
But what really makes it unbearable for me is the writing. It is terrible. The humour is not funny at all. I get that they're supposed to be different neuroses and all that and every one is supposed to be exaggerated, but it's shoddy as hell. I have to wonder if one of the writers gave this mission to their son to write, but obviously not because one character is a lame and lazy reference, well more like straight rip off, of a character from a 15 year old video game. A real ham handed 'HEY REMEMBER THIS CHARACTER THAT WAS A MEME, BOY THAT WAS FUNNY RIGHT AND SO IS THIS WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE.' It's the Dane Cook school of comedy, beat your audience over the head and tell them it's funny type humour.
I know it leads up to a more conceptually interesting idea about AI personhood and all that, but it is obnoxious to me and makes me roll my eyes every time I have to hear all this UNSKIPPABLE dialogue.
Terrible, terrible, terrible.
HOWEVER, these Delamain missions get my gripe up like nothing else. I genuinely hate them and are a struggle to complete. Most of the gameplay is really tedious and annoying, some stupid variation of the ever infamous tail missions that have been maligned since the beginning of open world games. It tries to throw in some extra gameplay every so often to give some pretence of each mission being unique but its still all just a chore. Not to mention I have to actively drive around aimlessly like a moron trying to find the cars because they move.
But what really makes it unbearable for me is the writing. It is terrible. The humour is not funny at all. I get that they're supposed to be different neuroses and all that and every one is supposed to be exaggerated, but it's shoddy as hell. I have to wonder if one of the writers gave this mission to their son to write, but obviously not because one character is a lame and lazy reference, well more like straight rip off, of a character from a 15 year old video game. A real ham handed 'HEY REMEMBER THIS CHARACTER THAT WAS A MEME, BOY THAT WAS FUNNY RIGHT AND SO IS THIS WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE.' It's the Dane Cook school of comedy, beat your audience over the head and tell them it's funny type humour.
I know it leads up to a more conceptually interesting idea about AI personhood and all that, but it is obnoxious to me and makes me roll my eyes every time I have to hear all this UNSKIPPABLE dialogue.
Terrible, terrible, terrible.
