Honestly looking at streams of it I can't help but notice it's all a certain... demographic. Leftists, weebs, women, and low testosterone males playing it.
I even noticed a few even banning anyone who expressed criticism of the game, for some reason. I wonder if these people compartmentalize, like they don't want to admit its shit, and if someone points out flaws, they take it personally because it reflects bad on their tastes???
Kinda disgusting to imagine that mentality, if you know you have shit taste, just get better taste, or otherwise just be fine with others criticizing?? I can only assume they feel deeply insecure from it, because thinking of games I like (noita, og xcom modded, ect) id never feel a need to ban over someone expressing criticism over it, but for them it seems like criticizing it is basically ALSO calling them stupid, because they secretly know it's garbage, but are in denial, and hate you pointing it out.
I don't like souls games, but elden ring was essentially just another souls game and still played today plenty. This game looks like it might have under 10 people playing in 2 years.
I mean honestly yes. Looking through its like 40% women, and another 40% being numale types usually with lgbt ally tags, limited facial hair and high octave voices, and perhaps the remaining bit being vtubers. Very, very similar to demographics I saw with veilguard.
If you like the game, more power to you. From what I've seen on my own, it's not for me. The Hitman esque segments look limiting in practice. The character models look unappealing as hell. The characterization of James Bond is too "modern" for my liking.
If given the choice to buy a new game, I'd sooner choose Mouse: PI for Hire or the new Lego Batman title.
This is kinda moot when there's so many similarities, and systems used. Yes its not hitman, but if its using Hitman systems, from CREATORS of hitman, you kinda expect them to be roughly onpar. Especially when these aren't big floof things, but ai. They had good ai down pat in hitman years ago, so why did it degrade??
Its like if valve made another game that uses tons of physics puzzles and shooting like HALFLIFE, but it wasn't HALFLIFE, but also the guns and physics were worse broken dogshit. Its kinda impossible to justify when they did great decades ago, especially when you'd think you could just import them code wise.
Feel like this is ANOTHER game which is forgotten in 2 years tops. Honestly this NEEDS to be a metric for people, for how likely someone would feel like going back to something a few years later. Its why I basically don't buy shit early on now because hype and figuring out something is mediocre rarely lasts over a a year, but anything good will still be recommended later.
I dropped the game during the anartica mission near the end, I couldnt take the braindead AI and walking sections anymore. I feel zero desire to ever play that shitgame again.
