I played through the first 7 hours or so on PC, and, meh, the bugs aren't that bad. The performance is fine, but I'm on a RTX 3080 so that's to be expected.
What gets me is how utterly boring games have become. There's not really much of a game to even be played here. There's lots of talking, lots of sections where the characters are doing things and you end up pressing F to engage some action that continues the, erm, "action" to the next section. There are parts where you press W to get out of a pile of rubble (which engages the prescripted animation of your character getting out of the rubble) or "W or S to crawl", where S doesn't do anything and W makes your character continue his prescripted crawling animation. Press F to take your pills and watch your character perform his prescripted pill-taking action, etc etc etc.
The actual gameplay is very nearly nonexistent in the first 7 hours. It's just about 98% thinly-veiled cutscenes, where the only say you have in the "action" is pressing a button to make the characters continue to do the thing they're already going to do. Or picking dialog and listening to dialog. With maybe 5 minutes of really mediocre gunplay mixed in.
I don't really see how people have the patience for this. None of this is fun, none of this is engaging. None of this is high-quality enough storytelling to be as good as even the worst B-movie dialog and exposition. If I want to watch scenes where characters act out dialog and action happens, literally any movie would be better than this. I play games because I want to take part in what's going on. I don't want to watch someone else do it.
But, I recognize that I'm in the minority here, and most people would rank this game 10/10 if they had the right frame rate and didn't have any bugs. Because I guess people like this sort of thing now. Meanwhile I think modern gaming has just about lost me for good.
(Until I remember that Doom Eternal came out this year and that it's hands down one of the best games I've ever played, and I remember there's still hope for gaming.)
What gets me is how utterly boring games have become. There's not really much of a game to even be played here. There's lots of talking, lots of sections where the characters are doing things and you end up pressing F to engage some action that continues the, erm, "action" to the next section. There are parts where you press W to get out of a pile of rubble (which engages the prescripted animation of your character getting out of the rubble) or "W or S to crawl", where S doesn't do anything and W makes your character continue his prescripted crawling animation. Press F to take your pills and watch your character perform his prescripted pill-taking action, etc etc etc.
The actual gameplay is very nearly nonexistent in the first 7 hours. It's just about 98% thinly-veiled cutscenes, where the only say you have in the "action" is pressing a button to make the characters continue to do the thing they're already going to do. Or picking dialog and listening to dialog. With maybe 5 minutes of really mediocre gunplay mixed in.
I don't really see how people have the patience for this. None of this is fun, none of this is engaging. None of this is high-quality enough storytelling to be as good as even the worst B-movie dialog and exposition. If I want to watch scenes where characters act out dialog and action happens, literally any movie would be better than this. I play games because I want to take part in what's going on. I don't want to watch someone else do it.
But, I recognize that I'm in the minority here, and most people would rank this game 10/10 if they had the right frame rate and didn't have any bugs. Because I guess people like this sort of thing now. Meanwhile I think modern gaming has just about lost me for good.
(Until I remember that Doom Eternal came out this year and that it's hands down one of the best games I've ever played, and I remember there's still hope for gaming.)