There are important, classic skills locked deep into the skill tree. How much more do you need to know? I mean, it's great for newbies I guess, but if it's really about teaching newbies how to play then it should be an option to disable for everyone else.
Expert mode: check! All parkour moves unlocked!
Again: do we know what other skills are in fact locked? I think that would help the discussion a great deal. Coiling is a pretty advanced move.
If rolling, and swinging from poles, and 90-degree-turns, are locked behind XP upgrades, I am pissed. Scitek had implied they were, but I hadn't realized he was joking.
I mean, I'd still prefer if there wasn't any XP, but it's not as bad if the basic moves are available.
This way, people don't get to write off the game as shallow because they never bothered to look up the advanced moves or be bowled over by a lot of little abilities.
There's a very easy way to get the best of both worlds. Make all moves unlocked from the start, but teach them to players at set points in the story.
That logic works if the game was completely linear. Since it's open world, assuming there are side missions of varying difficulties all over the place, the game has to allow players to learn skills that the player thinks is necessary or important for them.
But I don't want to be locked out of a side mission, or have to remember to return to it later, or have an unusually difficult time, because I chose to spend my XP on the wrong ability. And furthermore, I don't think I'm smart enough to know ahead of time what skill will be the most helpful to me in a certain area. And I don't think that's unique to me, either.
