Intrinsic said:
So you level up, you craft weapons and items, you can take on fully optional side quests that has nothing to do with the story. You can customize you weapons and amor and get different strenght versions of those two respectively...... yet its not an RPG? What exactly is an RPG then? And I have an issue with destructoids review.... not just that it contradicts with a lot of what other have said (like its talk of the story and the uniteresting side quests and characters is a contradiction to the vast majority of reviewers out there) but also cause of the things its actually complaining about. Looting? and even more looting rare items? Thats the kinda stuff that makes a lot of other games great whgen down right and he says its tedious? Then he complains about the difficulty, then complains about the open world narrowing into some dungeons here or there (so now its a bad thing to have dungeons n an open world game)...... I could go on. The only thing I would give him credit for is the human AI.... which from previews we have all kinda figured that its not the core focus of the game but thats still a legitimate knock.... everything else though..... Personally, I hate it when a reviewer says you are doing or seeingnothing new (then goes onto write three paragrapghs of excatly what is new and diferent about the game) cause to me, if that were the case.... then what is new anymore as far as gaming goes? |
No, it's not really - it's this fairly new hybrid of action-adventure and action-RPG. From everything I've read and seen it seems to me it's more similar to Far Cry 3/4 then to Witcher 3 (not that latter really shines with action-RPG mechanisms) - nothing wrong per se with that, I just don't like that action-RPGs genre is being watered down in favour of hybrids like this...but to each its own, I understand why GG made it that way, they're trying to reach as much audience as they can...just not my cup of tea.
As for reviews - I tend to read few of the good ones and few of the bad ones - that way I have much better understanding of what the game actually is...coupled with few gameplay videos it's more often then not enough to make educated desicion of whether or not the game is worth my time and money. In this case I find both of those reviews quite helpful.
