I'm about halfway through the game now, perhaps a little less.
My enjoyment of the game is not decreasing one bit. On the contrary, it's getting more and more entertaining as I unlock new combat moves and beef up my ride.
While it's unmistakable that it's a wasteland, each new area feels different and has a lot of variation that make you feel like you're somewhere else, so it doesn't all look same-y.
I know a lot of critics say the game gets repetitive fast, but I honestly don't know what the hell they're talking about. I've played a metric ton of open-world games and while there is certainly repetition in ALL OF THEM, at least in Mad Max I'm always having a good time and the difficulty seems to be keeping up with my upgrades quite well.
Getting more and more scrap has become an obsession! I love that you can do projects in the strongholds to unlock stuff like scrap while you're offline, refill your ammo and even an automatic scrap collector when you destroy vehicles so you don't always have to get out and pick it all up.
Brilliant game. I cannot fathom how it's sitting at a 70 average right now. It just doesn't make sense. The hand-to-hand combat, the vehicle combat, the excellent graphics, even just the sound of the cars... It's all top quality, and I KNEW it would be coming from Avalanche.
Even if you can forgive the way the slightest bump sending you careening off-course, there will be frequent situations your stack of spikes and wheels will just go sideways for no apparent reason. Race activities, scientifically proven to be the worst side missions in the whole of open-world games, can be next to impossible under Max's unwieldy helming. And while you can supposedly upgrade the base vehicle's traction, I never felt a worthwhile difference from the tech tree's mid-tier enhancements.
Thinking of doing the same thing with my copy of the Witcher 3. Good game but not really into it, not unlike the others I've bought and returned. Will I ever learn? lolYep. I feel like a lot of these reviewers popped in the game for a few hours, reviewed it without really understanding it and playing it properly and promptly went back to MGS:V.
I'm starting to lose hope in game journalism. Same thing happened with Dying Light, which is one of my favourite titles of the year.
Meanwhile, I thought Witcher 3 was not that great of a game (gameplay wise). I didn't even finish it, yet all the critics love it. I know a lot of players did too, and likely most of this community but I actually traded it in towards Mad Max and I've now played (and enjoyed) MM way more than W3 so far.
Does anyone else play in first person more than third? So much more immersive and visceral smashing into cars etc. I also enjoy when someone leaps onto the hood of your car in fps and shotgun them off lol
Sounds awesome, I'll have to give it a try. I've barely used it so far.
This is a serious contender for GOTY for me. It's got a lot of competition coming in the next few months, but this game will definitely be on the short list.
What are your specs?Got the game on PC.
Averaging over 180 fps @ 1o80p and 80fps @ 4k.
Hell of an optimization job and kudos to Avalanche.
Game is also really fun. Enjoying it.
What are your specs?
i7 4790k @ 4.6ghz
GTX Zotac AMPED EXTREME EDITION gtx 980ti 25% oc'd over the reference (about 10% faster than a Titan X)
ASUS 1440p monitor
500gb Samsung EVO SSD
EVGA 850 Gold rated PSU
Corsair H100 AIO liquid CPU cooler
Gigabyte MOBO
2 Tb HDD
Do you have a text file saved for when you need to say that or do you just know what everything is all the time?
I picked this up on sale for X1. At first I didn't like the car handling but after a few upgrades its much better. The graphics are excellent and really pull you into the Mad Max wasteland. Melee combat is simple but fun with a nice heavy/crunchy feel to it. And there are some cool characters in this game world. I have to say I'm really enjoying this game.
it was the opposite for me, it got worse and worse with every repetitive taskUnderrated game that gets better and better.
it was the opposite for me, it got worse and worse with every repetitive task
but for the amount of time i played it it was awesome, amazing atmosphere