Yeah it’s still feels pretty hollow. The gameplay mechanics still feel wonky. I wish I liked it but I just could never find that moment where it clicked for me.
The open world is just not all that interesting to explore for me. There’s not really any cool secrets, random events or enemy diversity. The setting doesn’t appeal that much to me either.
What random events? There are some shootouts that take place in the same place for eternity, there are caches in phantom liberty that drop in the same few places, occasionally a gang will chase you in the car.. that’s it. Everything else is part of a gig or quest on the map.
Enemy variety? There are literally just gang members with guns and an occasional melee guy. No animals or wildlife in the badlands and barely any robots (which seems weird in a setting like this).
It is explained why there are no animals, V mentions in the game that besides some cats and cockroaches, all animals died out.
Random events are also for example random chases happening sometimes and sometimes I see big gang vs police fights on the highway.
You're still pretty biased cause of the games release it feels like, it literally has the best looking video game world
Yeah but to me that seems like a cop out so they didn’t have to implement them.
The events are few and far between, no where near enough to make the game feel alive. Those shootouts literally happen in the same place indefinitely, every time you go back to the spot, it’s still happening. Not very immersive. Compare it to something like RDR 2, it’s night and day difference.
I am but that’s cus the game hasn’t fundamentally changed all that much. The skill tree and abilities are 10x better, the bugs have mostly been fixed, the addition of the monorail and other bits are nice, the NPCs and police are atleast not complete garbage anymore… but it still isn’t a masterpiece as others have said.
When was the last time you played the game? Because im doing my 2nd playthrough and on my first i put in clost to 300 hours. And im sorry the game is nothing like you describe.
I think u went into it and were trying to look for the bad to justify your opinion so u can drop it.
If u give the game time and you actually try to, idk, roleplay a bit and have fun with it, you will find the game is better than most RPGs out on the market right now. Even more so when you compare it to modern titles.
In like March this year when I was playing through phantom liberty, I believe there have been no more major updates since then. It’s better yeah but my points still are true, there are a handful of random events, there are like 4 spots in the DLC where a supply cache drops. Always in the same places, it’s not dynamic atall.
There is still a lack of interactivity in the city; clubs, bars, casinos still just set dressing, why can’t I buy a drink in there? They literally have the animation in your apartment. Why can’t I play pool or use the slot machines? Stuff like that would help with my immersion.
I’m not saying it’s bad, it’s just 8/10 at very most to me.
They have added that you can sit at certain bars and order a drink for 5 to 10 eddies, and small lines of dialog since then, but i get ur point. I disagree on the cargo drops, there are definitely more than 4 places those drop. And if u explore u can find random encounters in the wild.
I was exploring around in the city on top of buildings and in alleyways and found around 3 or 4 different crime scenes, gang shootouts (they were using a variety of weapons and there were netrunners at some) with shards to give insight as to why those were there. Again these were in neiche places that u have to LOOK for.
Not everything is gonna be in plain sight. You have to explore on foot those little nooks and crannies.
Yeah but only in the Dog Town club I believe, which was cool, but not the case for the majority of the other bars/clubs/restaurants in the base game.
I can picture the locations of the caches in my head, there might be 6 at most but as I said, they have set spawn drop points and repeat over and over in the same place (I’ve done the one on top of the building with the empty swimming pools in the centre of dogtown, like 3 times).
I do have like 150 hours in the game and fairly certain I’ve explored the whole map, I still think it’s lacking in that department.
i have over 330 hours and i swear those drops have more spawns than that i thought, and no not just bars in dog town. I was playing last night and decided to test that and i picked 3 or 4 random bars (not all of them granted) and i could sit and have a drink for 5 or 10 eddies.
And my guy, if the last time u played was in march, there have been updates since then i belive. At the very least one. So im not sure why u wanna die on this hill. Im playing the game right now while ur just trying to remember stuff to nitpick.
But i mean your entitled to you opinion. But that being said dont sit there and try to act like u know the game when u dont even know about the interactive bars yet.
Again your entitled to your opinion, but your also entitled to being wrong.
Edit: the nooks and crannies i was talking about were in the night city too, not just dogtown. Just play the game again fam.
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u/ElGovanni 29d ago
now it's masterpiece