Good game, why not awesome?

Mutant Year Zero General Discussion
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So, I am not completely through, but here are my thoughts on MYZ.

I have to say, that its tough for developers, to impress me in these days. I am gaming since my Schneider CPC and Amiga 500 and I am a storytelling based RPG player since 25 years, so I love immersion and I love details, which make things good.
Is MYZ an RPG? No, but it has elements. It is like XCOM? No, but it has elements.
It feels like its something on its own and thats really good. The map is outstandingly good. Feels very fine, but there I miss the point to put some small own notes there, to not forget something. First missing detail.
Dux and Bormin are awesome characters, Farrow later, too and I love the dialogs between them, from the start, which getting less and less and more less, after freeing Magnus. These Comiclike Cutscenes could be really more, because the fit the mood.
The Maps all are awesome. All. Wonderful designed, many details to discover. Impressive here.
But why no Map of the Arc? Why just PointnClick there? I want to see the Artifacts I discover doing something. I want to see how my actions are doing something there? Giving hope to the denizens, walking around, taking small sidequests, and so on. Sooooo damn much potential wasted to fill this game with life. I am mostly sad about this static arc. In the Bar more dialogs between the main chars, maybe…reflective what they see and what they doing. It starts really fast that Bormin and Dux are afraid of going farther than ever before and its very fast, too, that they just dont care anymore.
Speaking of feelable consequences…there arent any. Only the Elder sometimes reacts to my actions and then he is doing mostly random. Fits the character, but…there is this Grey Eminence, in the North, owning a War Robot and wants to wipe out the Arc. All know it, the cook in the lost bunker says it. I go there, kill all, nobody talks about that. Not the cook, not the Elder…Hej, I am searching for Hammon and just besides that I saved the whole arc from some powerful mutants and their genocidal War Machine. Noone cares.
That felt odd, really.
So, I am in Endgame now and reflecting and I know that I have seen everything and besides I love that world I know, that I have seen then all, which is sad, because its just being on the surface getting some glimpses on what lies deeper.
I seen all and the mechanics will stay the same: Sneaking to all areas, level up, stealth kill all what is possible, wipe out the others. Done.
Dont get me wrong, these are mostly fun mechanics, but there is/was SO DAMN MUCH potential for replaybility and now I know:“Maybe in a year or so.”
I said, that its tough to impress me and MYZ has all in hand, to do so.
But the unused potential makes me just sad. You did so much right. The dialogs, the artdesign, the voice actors…even the German translates is 95% on the point good.
And when I recap all this I think that its even a bit to expansive for what the game delivers. I have no big problems for the price, but even in an Amiga Game like Burntime I could sell items. In such a game selling or trading is impossible, in an Post Apo world, created 2018…but why? Next immersion breaker.
Fallout came 1997, so 21 years older and showed me how much potential Post Apo settings have, to tell great stories. And thats the point: For 35 bucks there must be a bit more. I was hyped for the game and a bit disappointed, but other folks wont be willing to pay the price.
I am not ranting, just my honest thoughts here. You will mostly do everything the same on every run, mechanics wont change much, not much replayability, and so on…I wrote all.
I wish the developers a big success, that the make a second game which isnt good, but awesome.
Thanks for the experience you gave me so far, but you had it all in hands to magically charm me away. I was very motivated the last days, now, in the end game, I think to myself:" Yeah, I have time to finish."

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I’m 13 hours in and I agree with most everything said here. I would like to add, since this is a feedback post, that I would have liked an easier mode or more opportunity to level up, as I can only play the game for about half an hour before I see another fight on the horizon and - knowing the enemies are going to be higher level, higher hp, and have better range and stats - just get weary of these long battles which can turn miserable and frustrating at a moment’s notice. I want to play the game in more than two-fight intervals.

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@jackoftears
I wonder if you’re rushing the game a bit more than I am. I’ve got a bit over 15 hours in Very Hard. But I take my time. I go to the higher level zones and sneak around, picking up scrap, gun parts and the occasional chest. There are chests that are unguarded, and there are chests that are guarded but by moving patrols so you can sneak in. I find all the patrols I can in all the areas to pick off so I can level up. I tend to have loooong times of exploration and stealth kills before I go and have a larger fight. And often it’s not even that large because I’ve stealthed everyone already. Like the boss fight at the House of Bones. I stealth killed every single person before killing Brother Skoog. even the two dudes who are right next to him.

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its not that long and you dont have any options in the storry, ex (Spoiler) when you gona go and get the key i hopes to have a talk whit the thefs first to deside what to do.

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I bought the game on an Impulse after watching some gameplay and now I feel kind of the same way.
The Ark It is nothing more than a fancy menu and this dissapointed me greatly. Without it (as I imagined it would be), the game is surprisingly shallow and linear.
The game just feels like it has at most half of the content it needed to have to be really entertaining.

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This post is a perfect description of my view as well.

I have NOTHING to complain about of every single things in the game.
But, why is it so tiny?

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15 hours in a RPG is barely starting it.

I take my time too when I play, but it was over in less then a week. All was great! But it was more like a movie then a game. No real challange either.

Its so wierd, because what they have in the game is awesome! Just need…10x more, at least.