350 hours in.. 10/10, favorite game of all time. I can see myself just playing this & some sports games for the next 10 years.
Combat, the way I play, makes this the most enjoyable video game combat experience I've ever had. The minimal & non-forced cover mechanic mixed with the 1st person, the different mobility perks and the way the environment is setup just let's me flow so effortlessly through an area.
I hate when games force cover, because I'm not trying to be hugging cover in every scenario. I don't want my mobility to be limited, there's not a squad of shooters around me, no overwatch, it's just me; so being forced to hug cover as a lone operator in a firefight with a half dozen or more dudes is not the scenario I want to be in. Those type of games make it a lot more difficult to reposition yourself..
With this game, like the other day I happened upon some unsavory individuals taking part in a truck hijacking out in the Badlands.. I creep up, bring the car sideways, hop out & get low, I'm behind the truck on the other side of them, sitting parallel to the truck about 8 feet off it, I'm running a power assault rifle with the 15% suppressor, I move behind the engine block & get a count on these guys, the locations, the possible cover they could take around them, the possible routes they could funnel through if they reacted differently.. So it's like 3 seconds... I wanna use a grenade to push them where I want them but they have a civilian, I don't get down like that... I gotta move fast they about to kill the civilian... I rip it over to this concrete railing or whatever, I hug cover & send a few rounds through the potential killer's head to save the civilian. Sure enough, the wraiths do exactly what I expected. I quickly move back around to my vehicle, I'm a few feet off the block.. 1 guy comes around the back of the truck, I hit him then jet around to where he was and hit another, now I turn around and there's a guy moving between the vehicles, I sprint & slide behind my car, staying low, I run around the front and hit him quick from behind. I turn around and enter the cover mechanic by the truck's engine block and send 2 grenades at this other guy who's now behind the barrier.. I want to run him the other direction up out of his cover, by the time he hits the asphalt to grab a new cover, I'll have ran behind the back of the truck and around, I'll clock him right in the face and then send rounds through center mass.
It happened exactly that way, I took no damage and saved the civilian. Then I ran around and punched everyone in the nuts. Whole scene played out in about 45 seconds. But it was so enjoyable.
All the combat is fun like this, sadly, I actually get shot up some, I made a very poor error in that Gimme Danger mission.. I had snuck all the way into the middle of the damn warehouse, cooler than the other side of the pillow, I take out the sniper... Yo, I missed 1 dude. He just so happened to be 3 feet in front of me when I sent a round through the sniper's head. Now it's on. I only took out 2 other guys on the way in, I thought I was slick, just gonna roll up in here, get it done & move out undetected.. Na, now I was wishing I took out them other guys.. Came close to dying. Similar experience doing the hostage rescue at the wraith camp... Then I've also been killed on a handful of occasions, usually by explosives.
It's very enjoyable, I feel bad for those that approach it differently and don't get the same joy.
The story is incredible, I feel extremely attached to Valerie. Her story feels very real and relatable. I wanna go above and beyond for her & her friends. I find it a very emotional story and it's brought up my pain water at times. I say female V is the one true canon V, change my mind. The character development is done really well. A lot of characters are shaped with very little but it's done perfectly, it actually surprised me with how some characters were developed so heavily with so little. You don't really ever see this done correctly and only a small percentage of players will even be capable of appreciating it. Then there are characters that are developed through a longer process and they're also done perfectly. Another thing that surprised me was a handful of characters being developed in death rather than life which was done beautifully.
There are some characters that aren't really developed, they kinda remain mysterious; but as I learn more about the lore, this seems to be an aspect that started with the original pen & paper game... Kinda like the Russian in the Pine Barrens episode of Sopranos... Who really knows?
In that regard, I appreciate the handling of these characters as well.
The city is incredible, the cars are neat.. There's nothing I dislike. But, there are things I wish were added or altered, but there's still a long way go before we see what the final version of the game really looks like...
There's a lot that needs work, but, again, there's nothing I dislike.
Combat, the way I play, makes this the most enjoyable video game combat experience I've ever had. The minimal & non-forced cover mechanic mixed with the 1st person, the different mobility perks and the way the environment is setup just let's me flow so effortlessly through an area.
I hate when games force cover, because I'm not trying to be hugging cover in every scenario. I don't want my mobility to be limited, there's not a squad of shooters around me, no overwatch, it's just me; so being forced to hug cover as a lone operator in a firefight with a half dozen or more dudes is not the scenario I want to be in. Those type of games make it a lot more difficult to reposition yourself..
With this game, like the other day I happened upon some unsavory individuals taking part in a truck hijacking out in the Badlands.. I creep up, bring the car sideways, hop out & get low, I'm behind the truck on the other side of them, sitting parallel to the truck about 8 feet off it, I'm running a power assault rifle with the 15% suppressor, I move behind the engine block & get a count on these guys, the locations, the possible cover they could take around them, the possible routes they could funnel through if they reacted differently.. So it's like 3 seconds... I wanna use a grenade to push them where I want them but they have a civilian, I don't get down like that... I gotta move fast they about to kill the civilian... I rip it over to this concrete railing or whatever, I hug cover & send a few rounds through the potential killer's head to save the civilian. Sure enough, the wraiths do exactly what I expected. I quickly move back around to my vehicle, I'm a few feet off the block.. 1 guy comes around the back of the truck, I hit him then jet around to where he was and hit another, now I turn around and there's a guy moving between the vehicles, I sprint & slide behind my car, staying low, I run around the front and hit him quick from behind. I turn around and enter the cover mechanic by the truck's engine block and send 2 grenades at this other guy who's now behind the barrier.. I want to run him the other direction up out of his cover, by the time he hits the asphalt to grab a new cover, I'll have ran behind the back of the truck and around, I'll clock him right in the face and then send rounds through center mass.
It happened exactly that way, I took no damage and saved the civilian. Then I ran around and punched everyone in the nuts. Whole scene played out in about 45 seconds. But it was so enjoyable.
All the combat is fun like this, sadly, I actually get shot up some, I made a very poor error in that Gimme Danger mission.. I had snuck all the way into the middle of the damn warehouse, cooler than the other side of the pillow, I take out the sniper... Yo, I missed 1 dude. He just so happened to be 3 feet in front of me when I sent a round through the sniper's head. Now it's on. I only took out 2 other guys on the way in, I thought I was slick, just gonna roll up in here, get it done & move out undetected.. Na, now I was wishing I took out them other guys.. Came close to dying. Similar experience doing the hostage rescue at the wraith camp... Then I've also been killed on a handful of occasions, usually by explosives.
It's very enjoyable, I feel bad for those that approach it differently and don't get the same joy.
The story is incredible, I feel extremely attached to Valerie. Her story feels very real and relatable. I wanna go above and beyond for her & her friends. I find it a very emotional story and it's brought up my pain water at times. I say female V is the one true canon V, change my mind. The character development is done really well. A lot of characters are shaped with very little but it's done perfectly, it actually surprised me with how some characters were developed so heavily with so little. You don't really ever see this done correctly and only a small percentage of players will even be capable of appreciating it. Then there are characters that are developed through a longer process and they're also done perfectly. Another thing that surprised me was a handful of characters being developed in death rather than life which was done beautifully.
There are some characters that aren't really developed, they kinda remain mysterious; but as I learn more about the lore, this seems to be an aspect that started with the original pen & paper game... Kinda like the Russian in the Pine Barrens episode of Sopranos... Who really knows?
In that regard, I appreciate the handling of these characters as well.
The city is incredible, the cars are neat.. There's nothing I dislike. But, there are things I wish were added or altered, but there's still a long way go before we see what the final version of the game really looks like...
There's a lot that needs work, but, again, there's nothing I dislike.