Not such a bad game, I personally enjoyed playing it. There are no glitches, there are certain decisions that are simply not suitable for the general franchise. But it's still fun and interesting.

Honestly it was a really fun game imo. Good combat and Arkane's level design is good as always.

this game is so much better than the reviews make it out to be. its great as a singleplayer game

From what I've understood to be the game's biggest issues:

1. AI partner breaks stealth and is all-around poorly coded, being just a tacked-in fill in for the intended co-op.
2. The Co-op is broken and doesn't work for anyone.

There's a lot of subjective points on top of that they may or may not be based in some objective considerations (it's hard to tell, since they don't really come up off of Steam reviews, and the Steam reviews are.. what they are..), but the two points above seem to form the crux of why the game is so poorly considered.

If those two points ever get addressed, perhaps we could get a clearer view of any other issues the game may have (aside from, y'know, being "jewish propaganda", having "too many women", not having Billy as the MC, or other clearly subjective and likely also batshit insane justifications that seem to form the bulk of Steam's other negative reviews). As-is, the game's largely considered unplayable, due to the two issues "covering the bases", but those I know that've played it seem to consider it fairly well as a game otherwise (even if not necessarily being as favorable to them as the preceding games).

I haven't followed the game recently, so it's entirely possible those issues have been addressed. But Steam reviews continue to list those two issues even into the current month, so it certainly wouldn't seem as though they have been, and that despite the game having been out since mid-2019.

Really, rather than comparing to Cyberpunk- which mostly just let down certain gameplay expectations, lacked an epilepsy warning, and had a massively botched console release (do let me know if there were issues I wasn't aware of, on top of those!)- I feel a comparison to Arkham Knight may be better, in that criticisms are based more on significant technical issues. Though Arkham Knight did receive steady bug fixes from the start, so that's not really fair to it, either. Rather, a lot of consideration has been given in reviews and articles to the fact that Bethesda is the publisher of Youngblood, and.. well, rather infamous for their inattention to quality control or to consumer care.

So, yeah.. ultimately, the poor review score is quite warranted, while also at the same time not being representative of the agreeability of the core gameplay. It's a bit of an awkward situation, but we're still tentatively hopeful for an eventual patch to fix at least the co-op functionality. Though, being that it's Bethesda, it does kind of feel as though if a fan doesn't create the patch for them, they won't release it until they re-release the game in a remastered version..

enjoy )