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@Macutchi: yeah I'm well aware of Ubisoft open world fomula, but yeah it does seem like a wait and see approach

Now I know that this game is made by Ubisoft and they are a bit anti-consumer with the micro transactions, but its better than EA. That’s why I never bought Anthem.

I never really played the first Division before besides the Open Beta.

So should I buy The Division 2 or not ? Is it a fun game?

@SoNin360: Yeah, because if 2k and EA make money off of these(lets be honest they are) then that just makes it so they'll implent these shady micro-transactions in the larger franchises.

I just watched a segment of Angry Joe's top 10 worst games of 2018, and I fully agree with his number 10 pick.

Skipped to part where he rants.

Like I don't get it. We don't give games like Battlefront 2 get away with this, and we turn around and buy Madden or Fifa every year. IGN and Gamespot give the games free 9's and 10's each year which is absurd. I think they even have a new review for each game so they can't compare it to the previous year's sport game to bring the rating down.

This is even where all those stupid micro-transactions originated from to. In 2k18 its literally Pay to Win, and you have to even pay for haircuts. We as gamers need to step back and say no to 2K and EA, so we don't get anymore of these Same recycled, grindy, buggy, infested micro-transaction crap every year. If you let them get away with all of this they'll keep on doing it.

But unfortunately I don't think this post will do anything, because the main audience for sport games are the casual gamers. I just don't get how we've been letting greedy publishers get away with this for years. If the publishers did this type of stuff to any other franchises then they would get huge backlash, and somehow gamers let sport games slide. I haven't even bought a sports game in my whole life time.

You know I'm kind of confused a tad. When you look at a game like Red Dead 2 with such high praise the actual missions are pretty linear. But then when you look at missions from Metal Gear : Phantom Pain with completely open-ended mission structure, people say that all the missions are too similar. Just seems like it's tough for developers to make missions too open-ended, with no narrative in them. If your missions are too open-ended then you'll have too many missions saying (Go to point B, Kill a bunch of people there, retrieve reward and return to point A) seem like a pretty average mission structure. But then if the game has too many structured missions then it falls apart. So I'm guessing a balance of both mission types would be best.

Again samething, that the missions are too open-ended killing any narrative or motivations. But to me in Red Dead 2 the game sort of needs the structured missions since the game is so narrative based. If the missions are to open-ended then it kills off any sort of narrative. Plus in Red Dead 2 it feels like there's a reason for lots of the missions. I'm not sure how mission-design should be to be honest. If there are open-ended missions then they are considered as filler missions.

It's tough to design missions to have a narrative, and include features from the open world. I guess in Rockstar's mind their intention for missions is that players want a decent storyline/narrative so their missions reflect that. Then in Just Cause 4 the missions are pretty open-ended, so the story ends up not mattering to the core game much.

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Yeah I heard that Metal Gear : Phantom Pain is notorious for focusing too much on gameplay and not story. No one in the character looks too interesting. They even made that "Quiet" character wearing only a bikini to make people get horny while playing the game. But on a serious note I also know about some of the rinse and repeat missions, but I think every game has that to some degree.

Sold for me. Just because it's only $20 nowadays

My friend texted me a few hours ago, asking if he should get Metal Gear : Phantom Pain. He likes stealth games, and has a PS4.

The only thing I know about this game is that Hideo Kojima left the company during the developement of this game, so the story suffered from that. But I was wondering if I should recommend the game to him or not.

For me the graphics don't matter too much especially since they remastered the games pretty well, but I might get Resident of Evil 4 since the first Resident of Evil has those fixed camera angles. I know it might not affect the core gameplay, but mechanics in games just don't age well.

I play on Xbox One and I've thought of which Resident of Evil I should get. Pretty much all the games cost $20 except for Resident of Evil 7. Please share your opinion on which you think I should get.