I'm gonna disagree with you that Mad Max (2015) is purely ok. I think it's one of the few games of the PS4 era that is amazing.
It was how I love open world games to be. Had some of the best combat I've played (It's arkham style combat, but it feels even more brutal and impactful) and when you pull out the shotgun in the middle of combat it feels so good, cause it hits so hard and the shotgun needs to be reserved for when you really want to use it. It makes you feel like you're this legend of the wasteland, which Mad Max is supposed to be. It basically took all the testosterone that was missing from Mad Max Fury Road (the action scenes were great but it was a feminist movie where Mad Max was a damsel in distress more than an action hero with furiosa being the true protagonist) and pumped it into that game.
I also will never not find it funny that the villains name in the Mad Max game is "Scrotus". Funniest sounding villain name of all time.
But yeah, everything in that game just feels great.
I love open world games where you feel like Alexander the Great, going forth and conquering where the meta is you're growing your legend. I have no idea what the actual story of the game is as I skip the cutscenes like most games. The game in my head is, "here's an apocalyspe, you're Mad Max, make people fear and respect you as you tame the apocalypse in whatever way you can).
I wouldn't say it's a top ten game for me, but it'd probably crack my top 30. If I made a top ten open world games of all time, it'd certainly be on there.
Having "Platinum'd" Mad Max, I'd still insist it's average. The repetition wears you down, in particular. Some of the challenges or whatever they are called (especially the one to kill something like 8-10 enemies in a few seconds) were a real nuisance, and finishing all of them is required for one of the trophies. I think the last trophy that I got, however, was the one for finding all scrap in all camps.
The game does have its moments (e.g. blowing enemies to pieces with the thrown explosive, some of the combat finishing moves), and there is a certain kind of unexpected picturesque beauty to certain areas where I felt like a screenshot was necessary.
'Growing your legend', incidentally, is a lot of MGS:V, which does that far better than Mad Max. Right down to the specific usage of the term 'legend' in the game's copious dialogue.
I'm gonna disagree with you that Mad Max (2015) is purely ok. I think it's one of the few games of the PS4 era that is amazing.
It was how I love open world games to be. Had some of the best combat I've played (It's arkham style combat, but it feels even more brutal and impactful) and when you pull out the shotgun in the middle of combat it feels so good, cause it hits so hard and the shotgun needs to be reserved for when you really want to use it. It makes you feel like you're this legend of the wasteland, which Mad Max is supposed to be. It basically took all the testosterone that was missing from Mad Max Fury Road (the action scenes were great but it was a feminist movie where Mad Max was a damsel in distress more than an action hero with furiosa being the true protagonist) and pumped it into that game.
I also will never not find it funny that the villains name in the Mad Max game is "Scrotus". Funniest sounding villain name of all time.
But yeah, everything in that game just feels great.
I love open world games where you feel like Alexander the Great, going forth and conquering where the meta is you're growing your legend. I have no idea what the actual story of the game is as I skip the cutscenes like most games. The game in my head is, "here's an apocalyspe, you're Mad Max, make people fear and respect you as you tame the apocalypse in whatever way you can).
I wouldn't say it's a top ten game for me, but it'd probably crack my top 30. If I made a top ten open world games of all time, it'd certainly be on there.
Having "Platinum'd" Mad Max, I'd still insist it's average. The repetition wears you down, in particular. Some of the challenges or whatever they are called (especially the one to kill something like 8-10 enemies in a few seconds) were a real nuisance, and finishing all of them is required for one of the trophies. I think the last trophy that I got, however, was the one for finding all scrap in all camps.
The game does have its moments (e.g. blowing enemies to pieces with the thrown explosive, some of the combat finishing moves), and there is a certain kind of unexpected picturesque beauty to certain areas where I felt like a screenshot was necessary.
'Growing your legend', incidentally, is a lot of MGS:V, which does that far better than Mad Max. Right down to the specific usage of the term 'legend' in the game's copious dialogue.