I finally finished this. I loved it the whole way through for the same reasons everyone else did.

One of the things I really liked was the balance of time between battles. There's actually quite a long time between shoot outs sometimes which is really quite refreshing. Just gives you time to enjoy the space. Unlike, say, Uncharted which are games I also enjoy but I tend to get tired of the constant battles before the game ends.

Also those glorious physics. Really makes pretty much every other game out there seem static. Hopefully other devs take note.

I feel like there's a bunch of secrets I missed too. I found a few walls I could break through but I reckon there's more.

Ah, well there's a couple of semi obvious ones where you can see through but it's not totally obvious you can chip away at the walls.

One is

Same!  And while I'll admit I had a bit of a wobble about 5 or 6 hours in, thankfully that's all over. I'm back to enjoying the hell out of it.

Yeah it could do more at times. But there’s cool stuff throughout. Towards the end of the game it gives you more side missions. I recommend doing all of those as there’s some fun weirdness in them

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I've just done a couple of bits that are more like it. The fridge thing, for example. It's getting quite tricky in places now too, which is good.

But then with more fast travel to revisit previous areas and more deaths, the loading times have now become a noticeable issue.

The fridge thing is amazing. I too suggest doing all the side missions as they’re terrific. I loved this game and wish I could go through it again but just don’t have the time vs a new title.

The Anchor proved to be a proper tough battle. Must've died half a dozen or so times trying to get it right.

I wish it had been just a little weirder, and it feels annoying that it succumbs to the whole "we built a world bible!" syndrome of only half explaining things because they want to carry on the universe later.

JonB wrote:

The Anchor proved to be a proper tough battle. Must've died half a dozen or so times trying to get it right.

Was trying that fight this evening and getting annoyed by it. Didn't crack it so will go back tomorrow for that one

Yup agreed. I done 3 now but all were interesting, different fights that I enjoyed. Don't think I'd have that much of the main story left so mopping up other bits before pressing on.

I like the way they've done it, but it would've helped to understand it better in advance. I think I would've focused on getting the main story done first, then gone for the other stuff.

But it is interesting the way it drip feeds all this information from the start which seems like nothing but background detail, but then some of it becomes pertinent later on.

Might as well get them!

Nice. I have a few more things to do before progressing the story. Next plot point is

Finished this myself. Agree about the end

I disliked this game fairly intently. I'm in the minority here. Part of the problem was the woeful performance on OG Xbox, it was just horrendous - borderline unplayable at times.

I thought this game would be right up my street but I found the combat scrappy and unpredictable, - you could die very easily in a couple of hits from something off screen, which then led to an agonizingly long load screen. Enemy design was uninspired and indistinct, and path finding and getting about the place was a chore. The map sucked. The mod system was completely pointless and totally unnecessary in this type of game. Having to scrap things in a menu became annoying. I found the general voice acting to be poor and the facial animations of Jesse and cast just creepy.

Yeah, biggest disappointment of the year for me.

I finished it and found it pretty satisfying tbh.  Certainly the best bigA game i played from last years releases. Uber pc means it ran perfectly and load times between deaths were sometimes so quick the loading bar didn’t even fill all the way up.  I was thinking whilst playing that if i were waiting for console length loading times between deaths - it’d probably mean i like it much much less tbh.