Sam Foxall from VGU writes: '2015 has been the year of the great big sandbox. We’ve had The Witcher 3, Phantom Pain, Fallout 4, Mad Max, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and to round a year of fast travelling, endlessly repeating quests and universally weak plot lines, we have Just Cause 3. Just Cause 2 was held up as one of the best open-world experiences of last generation and Just Cause 3 tries to be that glowing example of the dick about game, by basically doing JC2 all over again.'
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.
Score is ridiculous, it's a very fun game..
What? This game is easily a 3/5 or 4/5, Awesome sandbox fun!
You can grapple a person to two different mountains and slingshot him across the map.
I don't see how that sounds like 2/5.
For me it's a 3/4. The overall performance issues are not as crippling as AC: Unity or Arkham Knight. I'm willing to give JC3's buggy state a pass simply because it is a grander game than the sequels and still run sufficiently compared to the other two aforementioned games that somehow still performed horribly even though their makers have been using the same game engines for years. In short the game is enjoyable with refine gameplay and graphic that is not pulled out of shelves for massive patching or have a wave of people clamoring for refunds.
However, I don't think it deserves a 4/5 or higher due to the obnoxious permanent online leaderboard system. Such a feature is becoming more and more prevalent in singleplayer games like in Sleeping Dogs, MGSV:TPP and now JC3. It's bad enough that devs are ditching singleplayer campaigns in their games like in Star War Battlefront but now singleplayer only sand box games have to be somehow a competitive experience. Let the leaderboard hunters have their fun but don't ruin the expereince for those who couldn't care less about it. Not to mentioned the stuttering the feature caused as it searched for online connection.