Friday, August 18, 2017

Agents of Meh-ham



AS SOON AS I OPENED THIS BLANK PAGE TO WRITE, my wife walks in and starts talking to me.  Being married is constantly getting interrupted and trying to remember what you saying.  Having kids is like writing and someone bumps your elbow and fucks up whatever you were writing.  Over and over and over and over.

'Wonder Boy and the Dragon's Trap' physical copy came today.  'Sine Mora EX' came the other day.  'No Man's Sky' received a huge update yesterday and it's been kinda sounding good again lately.  I'm going to play a bit more 'Agents of Mayhem' though because it is not kid-safe and they are asleep.  AOM is already kinda getting stale.  There is a lot to do, but its all the same thing. Over and over and over and over. (*cough*)  The LEGION Lair's are almost all literally the same.  They look identical and half the rooms just say 'exit to next room' or whatever.  Boring grind.  Crackdown 3 was just pushed back six months and it feels like AOM has lots of room to rule that arena in the meantime.  How many people are going to sit through the grind though?  I have 9 of the 12 agents unlocked as playable characters.  So far, the only interesting stories are the agent stories, but even the missions are kinda dull.  How did they go from Saint's Row 2 that was BURSTING with so many different sidemissions and playstyles and distractions, to this?  I'm guessing building the new engine took more time than they expected and they weren't able to flesh out the missions/modes as much?  Each of the 12 agents (14 with DLC) has full dialogue in all the story missions.  That's a lot of time spent writing text and recording.  I guess that's where they focused their time.  Who wants to play through the game once though, nevertheless FOURTEEN TIMES doing the same boring missions over and over.

Maybe they'll do some 'quality of life'-type patches to make things a little smoother (you can't fast travel or even select a custom waypoint.  You also cannot shoot your weapon while driving, but other vehicles can only be hurt by ramming them so I guess it doesn't matter?), and it'll breathe a little life into it?  Will I have moved on by then though?

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