I am perfectly fine with it, could it have been better? Sure, but learning to live with disappointment is the new norm. And it's worth it for Volition at this point since Epic has created a system where games can be deem potential flops yet be bailed out as a loss header since 2 million sales is effectively 500ish spread across plattforms.
For you. I can handle disappointment as well, but I wasn't expecting much from this, because the writing was already all over the wall.
Basically what you described makes me think I might as well just replay Mafia 3 before ever touching this.
Mafia 3 is the best choice....if you're my older brother. Granted, he likes that game for the right and wrong reasons.
You obviously do not know my brother. I will tell you that it's not exactly gameplay related. I won't go any further than that. Thank you for the support though; much appreciated.
Is is because you spend the game as a Black Vietnam war vet killing KKK members, out of curiosity? Because the killing KKK dudes is right below killing Nazis on the "Guilt-free murder spree" list. Killing that one racist jerk in St. Denis in RDR2 over and over again is also high on that list.
The story was done incredibly well, but it really needed more attention fleshing out the game design and some of the mechanics. It had a solid foundation but needed more time to get everything firing on all cylinders. At least the driving and melee/gun combat was a step above anything in GTA, at least aside from the physics.
Honestly, do gamers even need AJ at this point to know when a game is bad? Rhetorical question, because I dropped his sorry ass years ago. Not trying to offend or upset you FS, but there is a reason why I unsubscribed from him in 2016. I know he's gotten better over the years, but I find other reviewers much more engaging, interesting, or pleasant.
I think his skits are still funny.
That makes me want to watch him even less. The people I watch have the decency to thank their Patreon supporters at the end of the video and properly give credit. Even the ones that don't, never pull that shit off at all.
Very subjective. Other than Wanna Play Zombie Game gag, his skits became one note or dragged on for way too long. Even if I found them funny, they're not the other 97% of the crappy review.
Part of the reason why I dropped AJ's sorry ass. This has actually been a problem with him since 2015 (though actually since 2009, but I was not subscribed to him until 2013, and actually tried to not go overboard too much) going in to 2016. Him brining on opinionated asshole "friends" (Other Joe is still a cool guy) of them constantly stating the obvious like they're geniuses or acting like their opinions the right answer, did nothing to help. Though went it got to that point, I had already dropped him long ago. Him changing the scripted format did not bother me, but once again, dropped before he started doing the change. It was constant, know-nothing-know-it-all constant confrontational attitude, and being a genuine dumb ass that got me less invested. A problem I noticed with a lot of reviewers from the AVGN clone days, or those who broke off from Channel Awesome. Most of them can't take criticism for shit and are jerks of different calibers. Some changed for the better, others didn't, but most of them I have no interests seeing ever again, even before the fallout.
No. All I did was give a reason why I dropped him. A good reason.
More power to you. While it can be fun seeing somebody lose their minds a little time, but it's pretty blase and I've seen it done more than the times at this point. Takes more than that for me.
Thank you. While he might not be as bad as he used to be, the damage was already done for me before he got better. It took a long while to get better. And like I said before, there are others I find either better, more engaging and insightful, or just has something of actual importance to say.
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