For anyone else that has played the game all the way through, do you feel like that posted list is really going to help the game much? While I do feel the game was too easy even on hard, nearly all the things they listed aren't going to fix the larger issues I had with the game.
- The world feels much less interactive than W3
- The quests outside of the main story line/major secondary character lines don't feel anywhere near as interesting as W3
- The quests for the major secondary characters don't have the depth that I feel they deserve
- The driving is soooo bad in this game that it makes it a chore instead of adding a layer of fun activity to the game
I do like the base game and feel it's worth the $30 I paid for it but revamping combat and combat difficulty isn't going to spur me on for a second play.
Those are all real problems for sure, but I'm not sure that overhauling the quest/story/NPC system was ever in the cards. Honestly, nearly all games with this stuff are pretty much bland or mediocre, or at least get that way halfway through. Every thing really becomes samey. Also, W3 was just uniquely brilliant in that way so even though it's the same studio, it is maybe unfair to compare--of course Witcher had all of the content to start and from what I understand, CP2077 was just a table role playing game?
But yes, the game is way too easy on the hardest difficulty (same with W3, tbh), and since most of the actual game time is combat and actual gameplay systems, I think it's best to focus on those things, anyway. It's going to have the bigger influence in what you think about the game over the longhaul, especially the stats system which are really just...bad.
but yeah the driving is the worst...the absolute worst. Shockingly bad. If they aren't fixing that and the zombie hoard street NPC effect, then I don't know why they are bothering. I was going to go a different route anyway--Corporate, probably, hoping that provides enough of a difference with the storyline--not that I remember much of it, more than 2? years later.
....but this brings up a point and a rant that I've been meaning to address here for a while now: That absolutely dreadful, completely unredeemable game of ~2 years ago: Gaurdians of the Galaxy. I mean...nearly everyone on here recommended it as a sleeper gem. The best game they've played in years! So I took this recommendation and purchased it, and played it, all the way through...but OMG was this a terrible thing that they called "A game" for some reason. I don't understand it. Yes, it's beautiful and well-scripted and well-acted. All of that is good....but then that isn't
the game part of it. It makes me wonder if those that recommend it actually played it, because I feel like they didn't. The combat is the worst ever. There is just no...feeling for what you or anyone on your team is doing. Just load some skills and push some buttons and do some combos. Nothing feels unique to anything else, there is no real impact from bullets or mele in that game, no reason that running through and button mashing or repeating a single combo over and over throughout is worse than any other way to play that game. Ragdall physics, horribly glitchy, no real itemization--QTE! WTF year was this, QTE? COme on....(I don't remember who all recommended and loved this turd, but it was a decent number of people and probably best to stay anonymous because I am sure you are all lovely people otherwise, and it would be terrible to let this objectionably horrible turn in simple taste ruin our otherwise pleasant interactions around here....)
Can we at least make a rule around here that no one is allowed to make a recommendation for a game that features QTE, or at least head every such post with a max font, all caps, bolded message to let us know that you will experience QTE in that game? I think that's totally fair.
...your comments remind me of this, because I feel like you're more interested in fixing the NPC and questing story branch, rather than actually make the bulk of the game (like 90% of one's playtime), better. Strikes me as a Guardians of the Galaxy fan.