It's a good game but also terribly overrated. It's not god's gift to video games or media in general.
The hyperfocus on realism makes doing simple actions annoying and honestly immersion breaking. That's not something I really care about, but having Arthur slide over the floor to get into the proper position to grab a can of beans on the shelf is just bad.
The controls are weird and dumb (why do I have to mash X to run/ride faster?). The gameplay is bland and uninteresting for how long the game is. I can stomach the mediocre Uncharted, Tomb Raider 2013, etc etc, third person cover shooter gameplay for only so long.
The open world is boring and uninteresting. The map is pockmarked with interesting things to do but in between that is nothing other than nice looking environments.
The missions are connected very poorly and the disconnect between the mission format and the open world gameplay is very apparent and jarring.
One of the first missions of Chapter 2 has you drive Uncle and the women into town to do things and pick up info, some dude recognizes you as someone from blackwater so you chase him, then you finish the mission. You come back to town and see that Uncle, the women, and the carriage you drove had left, leaving you stranded. Why does this happen so often?
The game should've been an on-rails story focused game rather than an open-world game, it would've worked better for the story they're trying to tell.
HOWEVER, voice acting is probably the best I've heard in a video game, each character's voice is unique and performed so well (except jack). The characters are great. The story is good but I feel like I didn't get the most out of it because I ONLY spent 88 hours in the game and didn't do all the missable side missions with every single character so the character development was a bit awkward, making it frustrating.
The hyperfocus on realism makes doing simple actions annoying and honestly immersion breaking. That's not something I really care about, but having Arthur slide over the floor to get into the proper position to grab a can of beans on the shelf is just bad.
The controls are weird and dumb (why do I have to mash X to run/ride faster?). The gameplay is bland and uninteresting for how long the game is. I can stomach the mediocre Uncharted, Tomb Raider 2013, etc etc, third person cover shooter gameplay for only so long.
The open world is boring and uninteresting. The map is pockmarked with interesting things to do but in between that is nothing other than nice looking environments.
The missions are connected very poorly and the disconnect between the mission format and the open world gameplay is very apparent and jarring.
One of the first missions of Chapter 2 has you drive Uncle and the women into town to do things and pick up info, some dude recognizes you as someone from blackwater so you chase him, then you finish the mission. You come back to town and see that Uncle, the women, and the carriage you drove had left, leaving you stranded. Why does this happen so often?
The game should've been an on-rails story focused game rather than an open-world game, it would've worked better for the story they're trying to tell.
HOWEVER, voice acting is probably the best I've heard in a video game, each character's voice is unique and performed so well (except jack). The characters are great. The story is good but I feel like I didn't get the most out of it because I ONLY spent 88 hours in the game and didn't do all the missable side missions with every single character so the character development was a bit awkward, making it frustrating.