Knoyleo wrote:Yeah, that was really unimpressive. The netrunner playstyle looked the most interesting, but it's basically just doing what Watch Dogs already does, and the hacking mini game looked seriously bad. Can't believe people still want to do those.
The shooting combat looks seriously bad. There's no weight to it, and that boss looked like a total bullet sponge, not even reacting to your shots at all.
It increasingly looks like a cross between GTA and Watch Dogs in first person, with all the worst Sci Fi tropes thrown in there. Are all the gangs going to be based around lazy racial stereotypes? Maybe some Jewish cyber finance criminal gang, or an Asian martial arts gang? Maybe this is all true to the source material, because I'm not familiar with it, but it's reminding me of a lot of things I don't like about Sci Fi.
What's really weird is that the Voodoo Boys in the original TTRPG were far more interesting than the one shown here: they were white-boy drug dealers who affected Haitian tropes to appear cool. They were intentionally ridiculous, a spotlight on meaningless cultural appropriation and super low level.
The Animals are completely new to the lore and you can 100% guarantee whoever thought that moniker was a good idea is white as strawberry float. It's potentially controversial from a racial point of view as well as just...lazy.