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Saints Row 2.

If anyone has trouble of launching this on Game Pass PC - launcher, try other launchers. My GPL shows that game needs update, but wont launch said update or the game (even if it can launch other games and their updates). I can however launch the game trough Geforce Experience.

Finished it off on Heroic and I am not ever going to play this on Legendary like I have done with Bungee 's Halos.

Campaign is OK, mostly because the game play holds up. However, I feel like that would have been better if dash-function would been assigned to B-button and enhanced scanner would use the normal scanner's d-pad down. Ended up using the dash-thing only once, enhanced scanner was useful at later part of the game where enemies tend to hide quite a lot during the combat. Shield got lots of use during the later 2/3 of the game where it almost felt essential.

Open world did not feel like it offered anything new and felt small. However it took away the variety of the biomes. No more is there snow, beaches or deserts. Just woods, mountains and hexagons that weirdly floaty vehicles like to get stuck on or flip off.

Story was weirdly boring and felt like it was structured just wrong. Near the end it got somewhat interesting but it definitely felt that it would have been better if you knew somethings at the beginning. Now the beginning 2/3 of the game is just boring exposition and main antagonist taunting you. The later part is just somewhat interesting exposition.

Last thing that stood out was difficulty wall that some bosses had. There was 3 bosses that I basically only seemed to beat when the lady luck shined her favor upon me. This game loves to throw at you bullet spongy bosses that rush towards you and have attacks with large area of effect and high damage. This forces you play the role of the Spider-Man in desperate seek of more ammo.

Overall, it felt like average shooter and weak compared to the Bungie's Halo games.

Well, sometimes your avatar is wearing a shirt but it is always pantless... So, it is still there.

Blueprints vanishing from the shops bug is still there, NPC cars driving into certain barriers is still there, your avatar floating instead of walking/running is still there... So if someone is waiting for patch that fixes most issues, they need to wait longer.

I don't know about the sexual aspect because I am familiar only with the translated stuff and looking at the english source book that comes with the game, the images are more pin up like then what I remember (either forgot about those or my country got censored version), so you might be right about the sexual roots of the material...

However problem is what the game shows and tells you and there is disconnect there.

I hate the porny ads and the hundreds of sex shops because they don't fit to the game world. You really can't have dirty sex and the game world is far from misogynist in practice for those ads to make sense. Like sure, there are some rapey things that activated enemies yell, but most power figures in the game are women. You like kill hundreds of people without anyone blinking an eye, shouldn't those adds be about guns and violence?

One of the weirdest things was that one mission with the mayor candidate. At the end of it some one hacks you, makes you blind and tells you to drop to whole thing. It is clear that there should be some consequences going against their will but there are none. Not even a text message that says "u f'd it up". It is something that was clearly cut from the game.

@efesell:

My character can only take one hit and next is a knock out (lvl 40 - body 12 - legendary gorilla arms). Opponents take about 50 - 100 charged punches. Only way I have managed to win some of the is by throwing legendary baseball bat into the ring and picking that up once the match starts. Still, opponents take something like 30+ hits. As a comparison normal enemies take like one or two weak blows from that bat. The final opponent seems impossible because the ring is too small to jump avoid the hits and blocking does nothing.

There is one mission where you deliver a guy to place (the one who is The Office reference). Quest giver at the end gives usual speech but the final line is clearly not the voice actor's. It is like some place holder line.

Speaking of weird lines. One entire cutscene switched the my characters female voice to male, it was kind of confusing.

Minor spoilers:

The bug is still there with 1.05 patch.

(Side note: capturing half frame rate from variable fresh rate monitor and running RTX results in kind of choppy video...)