@baral-o: The main story is not very long and playing single player only can be done but it may be more difficult than it needs to be if you only play on hard mode missions. There is different difficulties from missions ranging from normal to challenge mode and challenge mode is impossible to solo and hard will be difficult but if you play smart can be soloed. Normal is obviously normal.
Dark zone does not have to be about PVP considering its a PVPVPVE zone where the possiblity of PVP is there if you want it. In the Dark zone you need to be wary of other players because as said before they can either help or kill you and take some of your items (Nothing you have equipped only items that you found in the DZ). Honestly if all you want is to play alone then i would say pass but if you are open to playing with others (if only just at level 30 which is current cap) and don't mind working together for harder missions then i say definitely get it.
Also i may get shot for this but if you liked Destiny then you will probably like this as well. Also you will probably need PS plus.
@reduc_ab_: Honestly nobody even really wanted this game to begin with.
People were clamoring for Fable 4 and then when they announced this it was literally everything Fable was not and so people had no interest in it and it showed during the beta with games taking upwards of 20-30 minutes to find and people leaving after a few minutes of gameplay constantly.
@lrdfancypants: Destiny when it was released only had about 23-25 story missiosns but then they also had a few side missions onto that so its not uncommon. According to the reddit post and the mission list it looks story missions but i can't really tell if it mentions the encounters and side missions as the download messed up for me. But I am thinking Destiny and Division have a similar range of missions but mission times may vary.
@dyshonest: I don't know if you knew this but DS piracy began on the PC until someone developed a way for you to actually do it on your DS. Literally almost all video game piracy begins with people using programs made on PC to bypass most console securities to play pirated games.
As for the Used game comment there are some people out there who have alot of responsibilities I.E bills etc and sometimes they want a game but cant afford it brand new so they wait until its on sale at a decent price used. If it wasn't for that i guarantee you there would be alot less overall sales of Video games because people wouldn't risk buying games they may not enjoy or hell may not even work properly.
It may not have been great when it was released by by god they have made the game incredible and they are really bringing the heat. Soon Dark brotherhood is coming and we just got thieves guild. There is talk of them eventually (Maybe) bringing tiber into the fold somehow which would be huge lorewise.
@hystavito: Yes its based on Martial combat with Swords and other weapons. No ranged weapons i am afraid and honestly its better that way.
However the Warriors you use (The Warden who is the knight with the long sword and the Oni is the Samurai with the Katana) do have skills such as a calling in a catapult strike or rallying the NPC's to push harder. The Oni if i am not mistaken had an arrow storm type ability and also a throwing knife.
The Oni played VASTLY different from the warden where the Warden had solid defense and offense the Oni was all about offense and couldn't block attacks like the Warden could. The Oni had a reactive defense system where they had to flick the stick in the direction right before the attack hits to block it where as the warden could flick the stick and hold that defensive side for as long as he wanted until he switched which side he was defending and he could do this rapidly and for as long as he wanted.
@NTenseify: The problem with the 2v1 situations during the Alpha was that 2 players would gang up on a single player and then just swing the sword willy nilly.
It created a situation where the game quickly lost the skill factor and very quickly became about 2 people spamming the attack button to see who could get the kill except when they were doing this they were also damaging eachother. I remember one instance i got double man ganked on top of the bridge. I managed to block all their attacks and shoulder check one of the guys off the bridge and he died then i had an amazing 1v1 duel with the remaining guy until I won.
Thats how it should work where skill factor determines whether you win or not. However thats not how 90 percent of them went down. Another example is i got attacked in the tower and 2 people ganged up on me. Literally all they did was spam guard break and then mash the attack button until i was dead and since they were guard breaking me i was literally chain stunned for nearly 30 seconds. Thats how most of them went down if not pretty much all of them.
A 3v1 should be pretty much impossible to win but a 2v1 should have a chance if the player is skilled and patient enough but the reality was 2 people gang up and guardbreak spam into a chain stun for 10-15 seconds and there was literally nothing you could do about it.
@dexda: I enjoyed the story but i can't say it was anything amazing.
The hacking while playing for example driving and getting chased by cops and popping that traffic light and causing a mass accident and losing the cops was alot of fun.
The game could have been better but it also could have been much MUCH worse.
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