I'm finally playing the game on xbox. The animations are great, graphics are good too. I didn't had any bugs until exactly 4 hours in. One npc disappeared in front of my eyes after asking me to leave a review to some store. Also while driving the game just stopped rendering and i was stuck there without being able to move on my car for like 30 seconds, then the engine decided it had enough of a break and continued working. This has happened twice while just exploring outside missions.
So i took a break and shut down the game. And half hour later i launched the game and all seemed fine. but i couldn't use any weapon, like they were missing completely. I was really confused, i thought i lost them and i was genuinely asking myself how that happened, then my after like 5 minutes they just came back. I noticed my character was holding and invisible assault, so they were sort of there... And slowly one by one started being rendered in game. It was so weird!
Another issue i been getting is that sometimes sound effects just stop working, like i can't hear my weapons when they fire, or when doing one of those finishers moves, they are completely silent. And it's so random, but happens often.
The game it's not as bad as i thought tho, but still i can't connect to these characters, I've never feelt so disconnected from a character in a video game. It's like they literally hate gen-x , making shitty commets how shitty the 80's were... Ugh it's really rough in that regard. Totally not a fan of the story.
For the moment i am avoiding the main missions, just sticking to exploring and finding those stashes of drug or whatever they are while taking photos of the areas and finding thrash dive-ins. It's fun there.
Regarding the combat and weapons, the new melee system feels slow and very very different. The guns have quite a big area of "spray", of every 10 bullets i shot only like 3 or 4 are actually hitting enemies. Kinda wierd, but not quite bad either it's just very different. I remember doing headshot like 80-90 % of the time in SR2 and SR3.
So I'm kinda liking the game, it sort of feels like SR2 and the same time SR4. The city is not as empty as i seen in gameplay videos, i have seen npc's all over the map doing all kinds of stuff and minding their business. It really feels ALIVE, But the AI on the other side, it's incredibly stupid. Like seriously! They just blindly run indefinitely... For a 2022 title, the AI is not on par with other games and overall extremely dumb. Heck even Oblivion had smarter npc's doing all kinds of unpredictable wacky shit. After RDR2 i been spoiled, I need npc's to at least react at on par with GTA4, as i remember seeing driving npc's dropping garbage from their window into the street, comenting on all the stuff Niko was doing or police chasing criminals on the streets and if they catch them, they would call for a backup unit and drive off with the criminal, or even firemen taking out fires or medics acutally helping down civilians and taking them on the ambulance. These completely devoid of ai npc's just running away don't cut it for me anymore.
