Just Cause 4

Understood. I’m in the same boat (no kids) but I have a game backlog a mile long. A new JC title should be cause for holiday celebration (while burning up unused vacation,) instead it is a yawn and wait for a sale kind of feeling. I’m under no pretense that I’ll push this off until never, it’s Just Cause. It’s not if I’ll own it, but when.

Data point - the game looks good and runs great on Xbox One X.

What’s so awful about the progression?

The missions are kinda cool, if a little repetitive with the ‘free/escort captives’ and ‘protect this point for x minutes’. But there’s some decent stuff in there and the actual minute-to-minute play is consistently entertaining.

Are you refering to stunts? They’re not that bad, and are tied to unlocking vehicles and one of the three grapple upgrades. None of which you need to progress.

Once I realized how minimal the grapple mods were, the side progression seemed pretty pointless. These kinds of stunts and challenges were obstacle in Just Cause 3. But in Just Cause 4, they’re side activities with minimal rewards, easy enough to do and even easier to just ignore.

-Tom

Agreed. The only reward that I’ve gotten so far - and for the life of me I have no idea how I got it - was an extra boost for the wingsuit. I mean, you can get along with 1 boost just fine - but having the second one is nice. No idea how I ‘earned’ it tho. I didn’t have, then I noticed I did.

The more I play it, the only real issue I have with the game is that, along with the stunts/challenges being pretty meaningless, so is chaos.

I think that’s part of my problem having not played it. I’m only referencing the, “more of JC 3,” in some of the reviews linked from here. There, progression wasn’t as fun, not at all.

You guys quit saying nice things or I’ll … I’ll buy it. I swear to god I’ll buy this game, and blow everything all to hell. You’ll have blood and physics on your hands.

If it deters you at all, from what I’ve seen there is less stuff to blow up in Just Cause 4.

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Damn , what the hell is going on.

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And JC3 was the one with the horrible upgrade system!

People with fond memories of JC2 convincing themselves JC3 has still got what counts.

People burned by JC3 taking it out on JC4.

Doesn’t look that way though. The current top Steam reviews all say they loved JC3, and are comparing JC4 to it.

Maybe it’s people obsessing over the water effects being better in JC3 over JC4?

Well the water is also better in Just Cause 2 apparently.

Watch the boat segments, hell everything looks better in JC2.

D:

Well, JC2 was better than JC3 too, so that’s not really a fair comparison.

I stopped trusting user reviews on Steam. They are as worthless as Metacritic ones.

I’m coming up on the end of it now, and I would probably rate it as a $40 game (if $60 is day-one new). I think it’s actually pretty close to being a day-one purchase - they just needed to tie in chaos a bit more than they do (it’s all but optional now). The only upgrades are related to different effects you can tie to the grapple - such has how much lifting power the balloons have you can tie to something. Two sets of those are tied to side missions. Only one set is tied to ‘challenges’, but they’re nowhere near as frustrating as in JC3. I think it’s more fun to play than JC3 was. What I do find interesting is that they say it’s the largest world they’ve ever had - but it seems a lot smaller than JC2 did. So while it may actually be a bigger map, I think it plays smaller.

Well - they’re definitely setting up JC5. And I could potentially see it being a series-ending game.

If they’re going to end the series at some point, they’d better bring back Bolo Santosi.

Based on the obvious setup, I doubt it. But it wouldn’t be impossible.

2000 players 24 hour peak, with all time peak 9000…seems another game to bomb.

GMG has it at 40% off with their VIP voucher, if anyone is tempted.