On 26/07/2024 18:19, Justisaur wrote:
It's was certainly somewhat unpolished, to say the least, although the
compliant about the AI kinda passed by my at the time as I wasn't, and
still aren't, really into following games news. If I had to pick one
thing that was the most negative it would be the 'aggressive'
re-spawns. I still have nightmares over the rail yard acting as a
transition point between areas. Did no one think is it really a good
idea to make the player fight a hard battle every single time.
I don't remember anything about the AI either. I liked the rail yard. I thought it was genius so you really had to think about if you wanted to
go back or not. (All assuming I'm remembering correctly, it's been
awhile.)
The rail yard is one that just stuck in my mind. The first time through
I very much enjoyed it but after that it just felt like the game was
punishing you for no good reason. Generally I'm not a fan of enemy
respawns as they quickly become a chore to me. Far Cry 2 and Borderlands
2 come to mind.
Overall though, I very much enjoyed it with the combat being more than
just run in guns blazing and how it captured a feeling of exploring a
desolate, almost alien, wasteland with an RPG like feel to the whole
experience.
So I'll definitely take a look at 2 but a lot of that will be
dependent on reviews and also a bit of a dabble with let's play videos
just to try and confirm it's a game for me. Alternatively, I may just
buy it and rely on Steams two hour rule!
I probably won't buy it. I was never really into FPSs (though I liked
it better than most) and what I heard about the following games/dlcs/remasters or whatever they were never struck me as anything warrenting a play enough to a actually do so, though I thought I would
at some point it's been a long time and I think the time has passed.
If somehow it turns out to be an amazing highly rated game I may try it.
I'll certainly take a look at it as I very much enjoyed the original.
Whether the game is still to my tastes I'm not sure. FPSes where one of
my favourite genres but I can't think of the last one I bought. Part of
that I think is because they seemed to have moved towards open world,
grind infested, MTX laden games - can't I just shoot some things! I did
have a quick shimmy through my Steam library and I think the last one I
bought was either Crysis Warhead or Prey both quite a few years ago.
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