Except Far Cry 5 is such a slog to play through the intended way (to fuck around), you'd better stop having fun before it becomes the antithesis to fun and finish it with optimally leveled leveled up machine gun, helicopter and a dog.
B-b-but all life is precious, doood. Your shoehorned by awful script friends' life that is, not yours. Learn to humble your ass next time, dickhead! It's like those companion quests in Mass Effect series where your companions die in selected moments if you wrong them except you can't do a thing to prevent avocado assholes from dying like flies in most idiotic situations or even off screen by better planning.Giving the game another go and... what a waste.
I got the impression that some writers, because it can't be all of them as there's an obvious disconnect and lack of management, really pushed for an aesop of mortality and how "you should savor every moment of life because it's limited and precious" at every opportunity. All endings point at that. Even the lack of free play after the main story points at that. Of course people just expect fREe pLAy afTEr the MAin qUEst to geT the acHIevements.
Consider the contrast between ambitious V in the prologue and the terminally ill V.
Consider real Johnny and Alt, and their virtual counterparts. Johnny in V's head has the "accurate" personality traits and the attitude, but is he real at that point? And that's without getting to Alt.
Consider Ozob with the literal constant reminder of death at any moment on his face.
Consider living in a rancid fuckhole like Night City and using distractions to just momentarily forget about how much life sucks. Consider being so desperate for distractions that all the excess isn't enough and you come up with braindances.
I don't know, man. Whatever content they'll add to the game, it better be fucking good considering the mad money they made.
If they mod in an option to hide undiscovered map markers I could try replaying it and finishing it this time.
The game is not designed with organic exploration in mind, there's only like two quests that start with you talking to an NPC in the street, all the others are calls. No markers would virtually make no difference
Have I got a treat for you...
lost opportunity given that the city looks so nice
No, this was intentional. Disney wants to sell more books, comics, SW:BF2017 skins and more and more along with the movies because they sank too much money into the franchise already and these money never coming back since each movie returns less money due to budget overbloat.
What. Code bloating makes programs stronger? If so, then Javascript codemonkeys should be the most powerful wizards, yet it doesn't happen. Are we sure the script is not written by a girl or Adam Badowski itself or any other humanitarian at the studio in exchange for a rice bowl paid by their current chinese overlords?
Ideally you'd want a mix of obvious, deliberate choices and obscure ones, with unexpected ramifications. Like in DX, for example, telling Reyes to either skedaddle or stay on as a spy pays some significant dividends much later on. But it does seem like CDPR might've leaned a little too hard into the "butterfly effect" sort of player agency, and that's where they built player agency to begin with.
They didn't really "lean into" it. They were all in on it since their first game. One would think that with foreknowledge of having played through the game you could make the right choice leading to a desired outcome, but in the Witcher games reality would seemingly alter itself to have your choice give a "bad' result, regardless of which one you make.
Yeah, I don't think combat performance is what most people were ragging on the AI for... Which is concerning, 'cause that means either these guys were deliberately arguing against a strawman, or they're just not in the loop with their own feedback.
I felt ripped off that my decision to have Viktor the ripper deal with Jackie's bloody corpse rather than deposit it at his mother's home resulted in its interception by Arasaka and only a passing appearance of his engram at the end (in the Arasaka route), whereas I would have experienced extensive character interactions with either of the other two options. Though the differences are cosmetic either way.
It's close to 8 months since the game came out.
