Back_Stabbath posted...
I'm bummed that the alternate NG+ starts are just random chance. If they were sequential and expanded on the plot each time that would have been sick.
It also sounds like
only the setting of the Lodge and the people within actually changes, everything else is the same... I wish they had opted to make the universe a little smaller and instead put more time into giving us something more like Sliders.
chaos_knight posted...
Was tempted to get PC game pass to try it for $1 but it sounds so mediocre
It does... well, shooting really well. Compared to any other Bethesda game and even some other first person shooter x RPGs, this is a really solid experience. It is almost as clean as Cyberpunk imo, though melee combat leaves a lot to be desired and you don't get cyberhacking/magic like in Cyberpunk so combat remains pretty one dimensional.
The rest of it is just ... lame. Like there's this MASSIVE fucking universe they built but if you stick to the main story content and faction quests you will only ever really visit maybe... seven or so different star systems and within those even just one or two planets or moons.
And there's a ton of shit they just barely even touch on. Maybe with some exploration there's more to be discovered, but for instance there's this House Va'Ruun, a group of humans who left the rest of humanity for distant star systems, and they are portrayed as these sort of cold-blooded "giant snake worshipers". You encounter them like once or twice in the main game but there's barely any lore to it and it's mostly a short two minute dialogue. You get more exposure when you do one of the faction questlines but even then it's limited to one of the central plot planets... Like I wanted to know more about them, maybe even join them, but I don't even know where to begin and I'm not about to visit a gazillion different systems just to figure it out.
Also so many damned copy-pasted assets. There is No Man's Sky-style exploration where you're scanning resources, plants and animal life on planets. There's not a big amount of variation between the shit though so have fun scanning the same "herding four-legged thing" five hundred times if you want to fully survey out a star system. Most of the "unknown" locations on each planet are just copy-pasted research outposts and mining outposts, too, without much unique loot to uncover (most unique thing you tend to find is a skill magazine, even those start to repeat after a while).
And so much fast travel. Everywhere. I am spoiled by Freelancer 2 and the X games but there's no reason at all to fly your ship between locations, it's all empty and takes forever. So you end up just fast traveling everywhere.