Open world games are getting stale? Say it ain't so! Feels as if this games suffers the same problem that other notable open world games have, repetition. To be fair, repetitive objectives peppered throughout the game is understandable considering how ambitious this world is. Thing is, keeping the experience fresh must be a serious challenge. I guess open world game design needs to change.
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Just Cause 3 Review Thread
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Vire
Member
The man gave Assassins Creed 2 a 4.5. He just doesn't give a shit, and whatever, more power to him. He likes what he likes and doesn't try and review things from an objective standpoint.
derExperte
Member
RPS (John Walker) likes it: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/12/01/just-cause-3-review/
Captain Bluey
Member
Same. Already pre-ordered digitally on the Bone. Hopefully framerate and loading issues will be addressed with patches. Know that I will still have a lot of fun with the game.
Me either. It's exactly what I expected, and exactly what I wanted.
I've saved my open world binge for this too. Skipped plenty this year including FO4.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
His thoughts on Dying Light are actually similar to what he said of JC3:
He seemed to think it spent too much time trying to tick all the "open-world/popular game" boxes. So I don't think it's that he hates open worlds, he seems to be sick of a particular type of open world...
Yes.
GavinUK86
Member
So it is Roger Craig Smith? Oh, that's disappointing.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Yup!
I don't like to shitsling at individual critics, but I lost a lot of respect for him as a reviewer after his abomination of a review for King's Quest. Can't imagine using his opinion to gauge a game
Jawbreaker
Member
Sounds about right based on the footage I've seen. I wasn't the biggest fan of JC2, but I saw room for improvement in what could be a fantastic title. It's too bad this seems to be more of the same.
Comrade Crunch
Member
Looks like the game is exactly what I expected, Just Cause 2 with improvements to make it more fun and destructive. Definitely picking it up when the majority of the technical kinks are ironed out.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
Mad Max had the same thing happen in regard to reviews, but I found it to be highly enjoyable. I think some reviewers just have genre fatigue. Dying Light is another example of mixed critical reviews where gamers enjoyed it far more than the critics.
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Deleted member 325805
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Well it definitely impressed me. At that time I was falling out of gaming, I hadn't enjoyed or finished anything for a long time but Dying Light changed all that. I have 80 hours into it, I've done every quest and I'm so ready for the expansion. It just did everything well and above all else it was so fun to play.
While I really (want to) like this game, it was very hard to. I only played the game on PlayStation 4 and experienced many issues with it. It comes cautiously recommended. There's a lot of fun things to do, but it all comes at a cost in performance.
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Vire
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I think that's the kinda biggest dissapointment. Just Cause 2 seemed like a game that showed a studio with promise, a studio that was ready to jump to the next level kind of thing.
Here you have this amazingly fun and silly mechanic but nothing was really built upon that other than the incredibly obvious for the sequel.
Roddslayer
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SlasherJPC
Banned
I loved Dying Light and Mad Max, but I feel both those feel better to actually play then JC3, which is a shame. Everytime I'm doing something that's amazing, something pulls me out later.
JonnyWeedShoes
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orthodoxy1095
Banned
This made me realize that my favorite novelty account ItsGWC hasn't put up a vid for JC3. Very disappointed
Karak
Member
Though this made me laugh I realized with all games that channel floods the review channel sometimes with 3-4 videos all labled review lol. Gopher, alt, other, random.
LOL its just odd.
User 479360
Banned
Dying Light was a good game, but it didn't turn out to be as good as I was hoping. I was perhaps a bit hard on it, but I had high expectations going in.
Mad Max...I still don't know what to think of it to be frank. It had its moments and some good content, but it was such a grind and so repetitive. There wasn't a lot to it despite its length, and you had to scavenge far too much.
Just Cause 3 is hands down better than Mad Max.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
This game never looked great. Not sure why it was being hyped up so much.
AgentOtaku
Member
The Mighty Centaur hath spoken and I shall wait
Hopefully then can patch the PS4 version some more. Seems it's almost close to being solid.... XB1... not so much
Karak
Member
Well Just Cause 2 was pretty damn enjoyable to a large number of gamers and had a good amount of fan support as well as playground availability and a large world. its not that hard to get it.
WickedLaharl
Member
The only review that matters is biogamergirl's
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
This is almost convincing me to go get Dying Light right now instead of JC3- I want both but it's quite cheap and I also loved Mad Max.
Karak
Member
Dying Light is an amazingly fun game. Perfect? No. Fun as hell? Ya. And as someone who rated Mad Max a Buy on day one I think we probably see things somewhat alike in what we are looking for.
Are people being paid to say this lately in review threads?
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Nice. I adored Mad Max. I found it incredibly relaxing and atmospheric to play. I'm super busy with work lately and those games are such a great de-stress (something tells me the zombie game will be the opposite) but I'm drawn in by the open world / leveling / crafting. I'm a sucker for that stuff! Knowing me I'll walk out with a copy of JC3 too. Haha.
bobawesome
Member
I guess some posters think it's still clever.
User 479360
Banned
I agree with Karak. That's exactly why I was hyped for Just Cause 3, and others were/are too.
Just Cause 2 was a great surprise. It was a ton of fun.
plumpblumpkin
Member
What I find really weird is that the game has improved on JC2 in almost every way...yet it's getting lower scores... Steam reviews aren't looking so good either..
I guess I just don't understand the joke! (I'm guessing it's a joke?)
grandwizard
Member
Did JC2 have performance issues?
SRTtoZ
Member
Yep. Games like these are why I'm having so much fun playing the Nathan Drake Collection.
Hoho for breakfast
Member
I'll wait until they acknowledge and fix the console issues before thinking about buying it.
maquiladora
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It's a gaf meme from this thread. People were amused because they never heard of these sites before.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=902831
Karak
Member
Pretty normal with games that are fairly redundant. I expected this to be more JC2 but shiner and better, but I also expected review scores like this.
User 479360
Banned
Just Cause 2 came out several years ago and was more fun than this one is.
Just Cause 3 feels dated, and its objectives are repetitive, also in a way that doesn't show much outside of the box thinking or improvement from JC2. It's also technically flawed, which lowers review scores. So it's not a surprise it's getting lower scores.
It's not a bad game and is pretty fun, but it's flawed and not as good as JC2.
Just Cause has a surprising fanbase. I'm confused, too. It's not a fun game to play mechanic wise and I guess it offers a lot of freedom to make your own fun after you get over the shitty combat, driving, story, missions, etc.
I am curious to know, what makes you think JC2 is the better game? Besides it being a little more impactful at release? From what I've seen this just seems like JC2 but more.
WaterAstro
Member
JC2 is overhyped as all hell.
It was a fun game but people were lenient with it because it was sort of an up and coming title.
AgentP
Thinks mods influence posters politics. Promoted to QAnon Editor.
JC2 was just as dull and lifeless. The story was dumb and only the open world playground was the appeal, kind if like this game. Problem is we played that game already, they need to innovate and grow.