MavericK
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Just finished the game. Overall, super good plot and game, but the last mission was HUGELY disappointing to me.
Apparently you can't ever max out on followers/research points as well, because I never did complete the whole tree and it stopped giving me research points for followers. I don't think there are enough Research Points around in the world left to max me out at this point, either.
I also don't understand how you are ever supposed to get enough cash to buy the top-end performance car, or really most of the cars/weapons in general. I think it's somewhere around $1.5 million and throughout the course of the game I think I barely got that in total, and I never even bought most of the guns or ANY other vehicles other than the Lamborghini (~$360k I think). I ended the game with around $600k, so overall I MIGHT have made 1.5 million, but I would have had to never buy anything else. And that was with a ton of hacking random people for maximum cash, and doing a large number of the racing/drone/whatever missions.
It's a shame because up until the end this was probably an 8.5/10 game for me. Now it's probably closer to a 7-7.5/10, because of the disappointing ending and essentially non-existent motivation to keep playing beyond the last story mission.
Oh, and:
First off, getting to play as other characters was kind of cool, even though it was basically just a gimped version of your normal character.
The part with Wrench was absurdly stupid. It really highlights how awful the combat is in this game. It's played up as though it expects you to go in guns blazing, but if you do that more than likely you will die within 30 seconds or so. Armored enemies, EVEN with the full damage upgrades for weapons, still take multiple headshots depending on the weapon, whereas you take like 3 shots from them and you are dead. Half the time when you take cover, you just get shot through it anyway. You have no real way other than a vague notion of how much damage you've taken and how much you have left before you die, so half the time you take cover a split second too late and end up dying again. I think I ended up doing the Wrench mission like 20 times before I was able to complete it.
The Marcus part in Blume wasn't much better - again, they just give you the finger and throw a dozen or so armored guys at you at once. Sadly enough, the upgraded stun gun really shines here because pretty much no other weapon will one-shot the armored guys, even with a headshot, and the stun gun does it regardless of where you hit them.
In the end, you don't really even get anything cool other than some clothing items. Would have liked to have seen some special weapons, maybe some cool vehicles for freeplay. But nope, appears to be nothing really.
The part with Wrench was absurdly stupid. It really highlights how awful the combat is in this game. It's played up as though it expects you to go in guns blazing, but if you do that more than likely you will die within 30 seconds or so. Armored enemies, EVEN with the full damage upgrades for weapons, still take multiple headshots depending on the weapon, whereas you take like 3 shots from them and you are dead. Half the time when you take cover, you just get shot through it anyway. You have no real way other than a vague notion of how much damage you've taken and how much you have left before you die, so half the time you take cover a split second too late and end up dying again. I think I ended up doing the Wrench mission like 20 times before I was able to complete it.
The Marcus part in Blume wasn't much better - again, they just give you the finger and throw a dozen or so armored guys at you at once. Sadly enough, the upgraded stun gun really shines here because pretty much no other weapon will one-shot the armored guys, even with a headshot, and the stun gun does it regardless of where you hit them.
In the end, you don't really even get anything cool other than some clothing items. Would have liked to have seen some special weapons, maybe some cool vehicles for freeplay. But nope, appears to be nothing really.
Apparently you can't ever max out on followers/research points as well, because I never did complete the whole tree and it stopped giving me research points for followers. I don't think there are enough Research Points around in the world left to max me out at this point, either.
I also don't understand how you are ever supposed to get enough cash to buy the top-end performance car, or really most of the cars/weapons in general. I think it's somewhere around $1.5 million and throughout the course of the game I think I barely got that in total, and I never even bought most of the guns or ANY other vehicles other than the Lamborghini (~$360k I think). I ended the game with around $600k, so overall I MIGHT have made 1.5 million, but I would have had to never buy anything else. And that was with a ton of hacking random people for maximum cash, and doing a large number of the racing/drone/whatever missions.
It's a shame because up until the end this was probably an 8.5/10 game for me. Now it's probably closer to a 7-7.5/10, because of the disappointing ending and essentially non-existent motivation to keep playing beyond the last story mission.
Oh, and:
Horatio's death felt pretty meaningless. He was the least-used character (you almost never even saw him until the Nudle mission) and then immediately after they throw his death at you like it's some big emotional thing. Didn't really affect me at all because he barely had a role in the plot. That whole thing felt like a fail on the part of the story writers.
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