#vc77

((No spoilers - and please don't spoil me, but I talk about the game below!))

I'm still in the very early stages of this game, but I'm already having A LOT of fun. It's giving me that nostalgic feeling I get when I think about the first time I played Mass Effect 1, and also reminds me a bit of Watchdogs.

So far, the gameplay has been completely on par with any other game I've played on my Xbox One S, and I really don't understand why there's so much hate going for this game - but please DON'T SPOIL ME if something completely awful happens later.

I have a feeling that this is going to be a similar situation (for me) like what happened when Mass Effect: Andromeda came out and everyone IMMEDIATELY started spewing hate for no reason? When I had a really awesome time playing it?

Like, I don't know who needs to tell you this, but you are allowed to enjoy a game AND critique it!!!! C77 (so far, for me) doesn't have revolutionary gameplay - but that is completely fine! It doesn't need to for be to have fun exploring, enjoy the character banter, and just play something for the sake of playing a game!!!! So far, it really is right on par with any of the games I've played recently.

Please, if you're going to try the game, have realistic expectations. The year is 2020, not 2077, so no, you're not going to be full on in a 4K HD 120FPS 4D game!!!! You don't need a $5000 computer in order to have fun playing a game. It's unrealistic to expect a game that JUST launched to be completely bug-free. Which, I went into this game a couple days late because of my bad internet, and I was expecting it to be unplayable, judging by the headlines I kept seeing. The very minimal amount of bugs I've seen have been things that already happen in every game I've ever played (whether it's a new release game, or a game that's been out for years, every game has the potential to bug out at some point!), and they didn't interfere with the gameplay.

The only things I wish were better are the in-world ads and vending machine screens that show up as lower-resolution until you press your face on it. But this is also a problem I have with Borderlands 3, a game that's been out for a year and a half now, and is likely never going to be "fixed" because that's just how games work - you can't have every element on a very large map be high-resolution all at once.