@mrfluke said:
@metalthrashingmatt: the story, how is the story so far?, i honestly dont care about the gameplay, because the story or rather the concept they have been running shows so much potential.
and is Aiden Pearce a decent protagonist?
I'm through Act I and halfway into Act II and the story is, so far, abysmal. Pearce is a bland, boring, protagonist and I am completely apathetic towards him. I know I should feel bad for him based on what has happened in his life and feel like there's some anger behind his quest for revenge... but I don't. He just walks around with his dead eyes, plain white guy with stubble look, and his monotone voice.
The secondary characters aren't much better, as they're basically just thrown at the player with very little initial story or consequence. Like everything else in the campaign, their stories are told through very cliche flashbacks. To be fair, I have more interest in some of the secondary characters than I do in Aiden, but that isn't saying much.
The story is, without any shadow of a doubt, the worst element of the game, with hacking (which consists of little more than a single contextual button press and a series of few-and-far-between minigames) coming in a distant second. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy the game because it offers a lot of stuff to do but, at the end of the day, most people are probably going to look back at the game and think about all the cool side quests and "virtual" minigames more than the campaign... much as people fondly remember all the side distractions in GTA: San Andreas but barely remember a damn thing about CJ and why he was on his journey in the first place.
It's a series with a lot of untapped potential and the ability to span multiple cities over multiple years... but they really need to weave a tighter story in the next one.
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