Well, I got sick of Mass Effect Andromeda.. The combat is really fun, played a ton of online.. but the quests are a prime example of lazy AAA padding bullshit and often have little to no reward. Driving the car thing was fine but they made very little attempt to add anything to the fetchy nature of the objectives, so they quickly became tedious. It got to the point where I'd get to a new planet and dread getting the same task of driving to 5 locations across the map to scan some rock or satellite.. Sometimes your character even has the same dialogue line!
They have a quest where you have to pick up a bunch of memory triggers.. think BOTW, except instead of a puzzle to solve and a rewarding scene you just have a marker on your map you need to walk to. Every time you get it your character says "Another memory trigger SAM?" in the exact same way, then you have to travel to a certain planet if you want watch the clips! It's such bs. Fun combat, great environments, good music and sound effects; AAA wank story/quests/characters. Definitely would wait for a sale if you're not a die hard Mass Effect fan like me.
Been playing the new Bethesda game Prey recently; what a breath of fresh air coming from mass effect! This is how AAA games by big studios should be. Ran fine on my PC on high settings, no weird bethesda glitches or broken quests (yet); it did crash to desktop twice but it doesn't have any performance issues on my system so far.
The game plays like Bethesda took their hand at making their own Bioshock game, in space! If you were a fan of the Bioshock series you'll love this game. Excellent story, open progression with choices that actually matter!!, some quests but not a ridiculous amount like Skyrim, fantastic sound and level design.. It's all around a great game that you can tell some real effort went into.
My favourite thing about it (without spoilers anyway) is they really streamlined how you open containers or interact with terminals/screens, very seemless. The screens are all big enough that your character just needs to walk up to them, there's no sit down transition or screen loading. The loot inventory just opens if you look at a box and with 1 button you collect it; just perfect. It's surprising how much little things like that can reduce tedium in games.
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I also have my eye on FFXIV's new update. Haven't played in a few years but I'm feeling the MMO itch..
