It's impossible to be enthused about Just Cause 3. Everything about it has been done, to death, by myriad other games, not just over the past decade but this year. Developer Avalanche's other sandbox effort from September, Mad Max, was a lot drier and duller but was built on the same standard, open-world model – go here, find these things, bring them back, tick another box. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate is a similar kind of game, so is Metal Gear Solid 5, Batman: Arkham Knight, Dying Light, and so on.
Some games make up for a lackluster story with excellent gameplay. These are some games with average storylines but great gameplay.
Who decides if a games story is average idefinitely ain't listening to no reviewers. I don't agree with most of then anyway. I think alot of them are to harsh on games so they can get clicks
zelda has a story line? Actually do any nintendo 1st party games have decent (not even good) storylines?
Zelda average story line!? Zelda Story sucks, most time It comes to "save the princess", Nintendo sucks at story outside Fire Emblem and perhaps 1-2 other IPs.
Actually the Souls games and Zelda games share something in common, which is that they reward gamers for seeking out the story rather than thrusting it in their faces. Not saying this is better or worse, but it's unfair to say they don't have them.
People will be surprised to learn that if you dig a bit deeper into Zelda games, there's a whole lot of really dark and crazy stuff happening.
@DOMination
Thrust in your face??? I assume by that you mean basic story-telling 101? Lol.
I platinumed both Niohs but for the life of me, couldn’t tell you what happened in the story lol! I can namedrop Nobunaga, but that’s about it.
The pinnacle of bad story but great gameplay is Destiny and Destiny 2. What is the Traveler? What is the Darkness? What the heck is happening? No one knew. But shooting the aliens and robots felt so good.
Article os about "average" story. But If you wanna talk about bad story but great gameplay you need to look at Nintendo, they are the masters at making poor shirt story on great gameplay.
@deus. If you want more of the story fleshed out in detail I'd recommend the destiny grimoire anthology 1-6 25 bucks each. It's really good I loved the backstory on the guns.
"I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain."
Is my favorite line from Destiny's "story" lol
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Overpowered guns can often ruin the balance of a game but they can also be a ton of fun. Unless you're on the receiving end, of course.
You're not doing it right. You're supposed to play around with the physics and have fun. Try again.
There are NO games doing what Just Cause does.
"Eventually the dust settles and the real reviews come in." Said a user on here who thought FO4's reviews were too high. Well, I'm sayin it about JC3. >:o)
I am having a ton of fun with it...
Sure, everything it does has been done before. (Well, almost... the flight suit really is impressive.) But the point is, JC3 does what it does *right*. It's not philosophically profound, it's not intended to push back the frontiers of gaming... it's intended to be *fun*.
You can ding off a point or two for not innovating, if you choose. Knock off another point for still needing some patch polish. (Though I've got a 970 and an SSD, which helps a lot.)
But that still only gets you into the 6-7 out of 10 range. 4/10 is just clickbait.