I just started playing Mechwarrior 5, and if it wasn't for my love for the setting I'd put it squarely in the 'Meh' - category. The missions feel small and uninspired so far, and the graphics could as well have been from a game published in 2014. I got some visual and environmental mods, but it's still a far shot away from some of the immersive environments that titles like Fallout New Vegas have been using for half a decade or longer by now. Enemy mechs more often than not have really dark color schemes that make them all homogenous, and at least so far I haven't really seen any distinct color schemes that vary between factions. What little I've done from the campaign also is decidedly uninspired. Worse, I think if it wasn't for the mods on Nexus I probably would have uninstalled the game after less than 4 hours playtime. Definately not something to buy at full price.
Even with mods the game, while having somewhat addictive combat - is so damn uninspired its nigh painful.
Even with mods the game, while having somewhat addictive combat - is so damn uninspired its nigh painful.
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