The first game in my life that has ever given me Open World Fatigue, because the gameplay loop is TIRING.
I completed it to give it a fair shot, and the premise of the robots was interesting. WATCH THIS but DONT PLAY IT, the Netflix show could probably be better than the game.
The combat almost never changed. Different enemies generally attacked all the same way and could be disposed without ever requiring me to think. World was massive but constant enemy encounters with boring combat made this a downside. I eventually grinded out for unlimited fast travel and the invincibility armor after I got fed up with fighting during giant fetch quests and traveling.
For an open world action game, bad, repetitive, and annoying combat is a death sentence that makes me detest the largely adventure based gameplay as a "trek" to be avoided rather than a journey to be had.
I played this in 2024 as a free game from SONY Days of Play in 2020, in anticipation of playing forbidden west complete edition immediately after, and this genuinely has made me avoid forbidden west entirely and left a sour, boring taste in my mouth.
The only reason I finished it was because it took me 2/3 of the game to come to this conclusion but I wanted to see if I was just in a mid-game slump, but I was wrong. This felt like homework after the halfway point.
I completed it to give it a fair shot, and the premise of the robots was interesting. WATCH THIS but DONT PLAY IT, the Netflix show could probably be better than the game.
The combat almost never changed. Different enemies generally attacked all the same way and could be disposed without ever requiring me to think. World was massive but constant enemy encounters with boring combat made this a downside. I eventually grinded out for unlimited fast travel and the invincibility armor after I got fed up with fighting during giant fetch quests and traveling.
For an open world action game, bad, repetitive, and annoying combat is a death sentence that makes me detest the largely adventure based gameplay as a "trek" to be avoided rather than a journey to be had.
I played this in 2024 as a free game from SONY Days of Play in 2020, in anticipation of playing forbidden west complete edition immediately after, and this genuinely has made me avoid forbidden west entirely and left a sour, boring taste in my mouth.
The only reason I finished it was because it took me 2/3 of the game to come to this conclusion but I wanted to see if I was just in a mid-game slump, but I was wrong. This felt like homework after the halfway point.