Not bait. First thought anyone playing this game is "This shit plays and looks like a crappy Half-Life 2 mod", which we all later found out it was. Overlooking the fact that it completely breaks in the later chapters, your journey is extremely linear, you are given the illusion of choice all the time but you rarely get to do anything outside of quests, which themselves are really linear. All major quests are extremely long, boring and uninteresting, artifical difficulty is applied by just throwing hordes of braindead uninteresting npcs at you. Sidequests are literally just "run across the hub 4 times then speak to me again, perhaps kill a guy or two aswell". I could go on but this absolute piece of shit is the most overrated garbage I have ever had the misfortune of playing, and the fact that Yea Forums sucks it's DOA cock is fucking atrocious.
Could this, quite literally be the worst fucking "game" on the planet?
This is one of the first times I disagreed with Yea Forums's tastes. The writing is excellent as is the quest design, but pretty much everything is mediocre to bad
Oh, and the voice acting is really good too. Doesn't save the rest of the game though.
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I'm just going to agree with you. No one ever tries to seriously debate with me or discuss with me why they love this game so much beyond just its atmosphere.
The combat is garbage, notoriously so and everyone seems to agree with that. But the dialogue and writing isn't that great, the story is largely forgettable with the only meme being that you shouldn't open the sarcophagus because lol twist (no seriously, how the fuck did he get the guy out and no one noticed). There is a literal 'pick-an-ending' scenario with the cab driver. The RPG elements are very shallow and amount to little in terms of role playing because you basically just choose one or two ways of completing quests (hacking/lockpicking) and you can do fuck all with the rest of your build because again, combat is boring as shit. There are no interesting items to pick up. Quest design is all over the place ranging from passable with some non-linear choices to absolutely awful garbage like the zombie defense or surviving the werewolf. I get that's its unfinished but usually with these types of games, where there are such huge flaws, there are gems to be uncovered. But there just aren't any. One of the highlights of the game is apparently the ghost mansion and it's just full of cliches.
ghost hotel**
>(no seriously, how the fuck did he get the guy out and no one noticed)
Jack swapped the body with the funtimes while it was still on the ship. He's the one who killed all those sailors.
Better combat than Drakengard and Yakuza 1
More onions with your order?
Why does Jack even interfere with the newcomer when he could've just had the camarilla take the sarcophagus?