GAMER LOUNGE 20XX (NO CASUALS!!)

[Tellis]

Yo, it's not that there are a bunch of dumb glitches and tiny errors and whatnot, it's that ALL of this shit wound up in a game with a friggin 6.8 billion dollar budget. There's no excuse for this kind of shit to get through product testing, especially how much they hyped it up and that it's been in development for 5 years (and then delayed for a better part of a year to make sure it didn't have to compete with GTAV). Sure, a lot of stuff seems inconsequential but there are some straight up lazy graphics stuff (the optimization for UMD cards is a big deal, too for like roughly half of the PC gaming community) and if you're going for an "immersive sprawling sandbox world" (which this game OBVIOUSLY was) stuff like "only one person per car" and "five minute wide map" and "the PS3 and 360 games are ghost towns with no cars" are just plain ridiculous when similar games of the past (even on the PS2) don't have these issues at all. It's just embarrassing. And in a game about hacking, why is the best solution to just brutally and mindlessly beat the hell out of everything in the mission without using any of the fancy mechanics that are supposed to be the crux of the gameplay?

And keep in mind that the video is supposed to be a humorous video and not a super serious critique. It's just a good thing to point and laugh at, and a succinct way of showing off how many issues it has.

And that video barely touches on just how bland the story is: Angry asshole white dude in a baseball cap and trench coat does some morally dubious things, has a bunch of women close to him die as a result (the very definition of fridging) and is out for revenge without once questioning how all this shit could possibly be his fault or how any of the stuff he's doing make him a bad person. And then it turns into some bullshit superhero origin story in the end (regardless of really any choices in the "morality system") and it fails to say ANYTHING interesting about privacy and surveillance which is its central theme for crying out loud. All the side-missions and activities are totally banal and incongruous to the rest of the game's world most of the time. Some of the stuff placed under the profiling thing when you scan people is downright offensive (oh yeah let's make it a "personality quirk" that someone's transgender, real fuckin neato) and a lot of it seems like it's trying to justify the horrible violence you're doing to everyone.The thing is a steaming pile, don't play it. Mystie is right that it really shouldn't matter WHEN it launches, it'll probably do terrible anyway (and should, honestly).

(meant to keep this short but I just had to lay out every bad thing. and this for sure ain't all of it)