Did about 4 hours this evening and I am genuinely loving this game. I don't understand where the hate is coming from. I think I am on chapter 5 or 6.
I am pretty deep or almost finished with the first open area and I am having a blast.
Like seriously... I am not projecting here. The game is really good. It's like a mix of crackdown and infamous 2nd son.,
-The game is BEUTIFUL and has fantastic HDR. It is much more monotone in screenshots than it is when I play it. I play on lg c1, so HDR is really good of course. But the vibrancy and detail of the world is great.
-Why is the game so heavy? What about volumetric fog and cloud shadowing? or very highly detailed models? or long view distance? The weather changes dynamically as fog sweeps in or out. It is really impressive. I am constantly stopping to take screenshots.
-The combat is pretty engaging and very cool looking. Some enemies can be challenging. But so far I am mostly using the machine gun spell and support spells.
-I don't mind the banter. It's actually pretty fun to have some comments in open world. I like the dynamic.
-The movement is great. Parkour is just very satisfyng
-Music is so good. The safe house theme, the exploration music especially in first open world area. Love it.
-The characters are very well voiced and acted. Story and cutscenes are engaging.
People are way to harsh on it. The game has about the right amount of stuff to do in the open world, graphics are good, audio is good, plays good. I can see it getting repetitive sure. And the performance is CRAP with a lot of slowdowns (quality 40mode)
Remember the screenshots with terrible looking kids and npcs?! Yeah, right.... Look at these random NPCs.
One thing to note - the screenshots are much less saturated and dynamic range is compressed compared to playing with HDR... and ps5 compresses 4k shots to 1mb if you play with HDR too.
Ok, other shots:
Seriously. This game might be one of best HDR showcases yet. I will try to take some shots of the tv maybe lol