AgentOtaku
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Some example small clips from the 1st mission I captured:
Gameplay One
Gameplay Two - Pretty sure they spotted my team here, hence shit went south real fast
Gameplay Three - Cutscene
Let me be clear, I was pretty turned the hell off after playing the Open Beta....
It was bland, too easy and the writing/overall tone was FUCKING AWFUL
...That being said, I still thought the premise/setup was awesome. I genuinely WANTED Wildlands to be Narcos - The Game™
So, it was on-sale this weekend via PSN and I said, eh, why not?
I started reading more impressions of things to try (as well as threads here on GAF) and I think I've found a pretty awesome, easy solution to this game's inconsistencies:
Audio Language - Latin American/Spanish
Difficutly - "Extreme"
That's it.
This brings about two things that fundamentally changes the game for the better, IMHO:
1st - The tone in general is now locked-in to what it should be (or what I feel at least), which is consistent and fairly serious. The VA is pretty great actually and whereas the English VA was overwrought with Uber-Broness and horrid jokes. The Spanish dialog has seemingly none of this.
Everyone in the narrative sounds like they presumably should (not to mention, you're in rural Bolivia, so yeah, people would probably mostly speak only Spanish anyway), which is inline with the context that they're in and from my observations thus far, the actual plot always has subtitles... you just sometimes miss ambient dialog and the radio stations... which, sucked anyways in english
2nd - On Extreme Difficutly, you're no longer John Matrix laying waste to everything in your path with little resistance.
Instead, you're forced to constantly be aware of your surroundings (the orange glow of general enemies locations is entirely gone), lest you quickly become overwhelmed by roaming Narcos.
Actual strongholds/emplacements now become a situation where you have to leverage your drone/reconnaissance and methodically take them apart, otherwise you'll get reinforcements called in on you and, once again, you'll become quickly overwhelmed and outgunned.... which, is honestly what would kind of happen with just 4 guys infiltrating a Narcos State
Mind you i'm playing this entirely on Solo and I'm honestly having a blast. There's even moments where I feel like I'm playing the original Ghost Recon, back on PC, where the stakes where very much high and you had to constantly stay frosty