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Considering the praise, its frustratingly boring.
Considering all the praise being heaped on this game. I was very suprised at how unenjoyable an experince it has been. It has a lot of problems. The biggest is just being flat out boring. I've played 5 hours and there has been nothing to hook me in. Just boring, slow, emptiness. Now I thought that Octopath Traveler had a boring story (which it does) but there are other redemptive parts of that game like the combat. The gun play here is trash. Considering uncharted is 3rd person coverbased they should have just copied that and saved on the 100hr work weeks. This is being hailed as the next step forward. With that in mind I have to compare it to a game that was the next step forward The Witcher 3. Within 5 hours of starting The Witcher I was having a blast from the combat to a compelling story and world. Red Dead 2 has none of this and while there are many technically inferior games they have some redemptive quality. Red Dead has no redemption. I feel jipped by not only Rockstar but also by all the mainstream reviewers who have done nothing but heap praise on this heap of boring hyperbole.
October 2018 · Video Games · verified purchase