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  • Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Revisited

    From Rin Stowleigh@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 5 20:47:34 2025
    I bought this game about 5.5 years ago direct from Ubi (I don't recall
    why, maybe it wasn't available on Steam at release, since right now
    Steam shows a 2023 release date.... I guess that's a way the marketing
    cunts can defer "new release" product buzz into multiple phases).

    Just recently loaded it back up because the visual quality of the open
    world always struck me as something to come back to, so I did at a
    higher resolution (1440p).

    It really is quite a visual treat, and a great game overall I'd say.
    The pvp is a bit hindered by the fact it's a third person with 1st
    person aiming.. Because of this "consolitis" syndrome, the camera the
    game wants to present the viewer is not always what a competitive
    player wants.

    The overall user interface, as it relates to simple stuff like skill
    points, perks (ugh) and all of that is probably one of the biggest
    trainwrecks in gaming history, but is easily mastered after you get
    used to it over the course of an hour or so. Look up YT vids if you
    don't know how to do something.

    Anyway yeah 6 years later visually impressive and holds up with the
    best of anything. Game play definitely shares some things with the
    FarCry franchise, which could use some infusion of creative ideas that
    would allow taking away x-ray vision, marking all enemies from a
    distance with binoculars, etc. But yeah it kind of works in a
    different way in this game so while I wouldn't pay full price for it,
    it's a nice game that focuses on mechanics instead of some shitty woke
    story Kim Belair wants to sell you.

    They did add AI teammates since I last loaded it up. Not perfect by
    any means, but interesting.

    Again though, the open world engine / visuals. Impressive, immersive,
    and for that it's definitely a recommend if you like this kind of
    game, just never pay full price.

    Supposedly the next Ghost Recon game will return to first person.
    Thank God!

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  • From rms@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 6 20:56:58 2025
    I recall reading reviews on this, that as you say, it was very pretty with
    many good points, but that the campaign missions lacked something, and
    having become burnt out on the farcry shooter formula I shrugged and forgot about it. It is on sale now for $6 for the base game: https://store.ubisoft.com/us/tom-clancys-ghost-recon-breakpoint/5cc81f5f6b54a4cd3c0e9cfd.html

    (I'm looking at getting back to Hellblade2 and South of Midnight on
    gamepass)

    rms

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  • From Rin Stowleigh@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 7 10:27:37 2025
    On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 20:56:58 -0600, "rms" <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net>
    wrote:

    I recall reading reviews on this, that as you say, it was very pretty with >many good points, but that the campaign missions lacked something, and
    having become burnt out on the farcry shooter formula I shrugged and forgot >about it. It is on sale now for $6 for the base game: >https://store.ubisoft.com/us/tom-clancys-ghost-recon-breakpoint/5cc81f5f6b54a4cd3c0e9cfd.html

    (I'm looking at getting back to Hellblade2 and South of Midnight on
    gamepass)

    rms

    It's definitely not a perfect game. But when it was released there
    were some annoyances that they addressed later (I was mostly unaware
    of the changes because I had already stopped playing by then).

    A common complaint when it first came out was that enemy drones,
    planes and choppers were so frequent such that they wrecked immersion
    and were just a pain in the ass in general. Now there are different
    settings that let you adjust that aspect of the world if you want, or
    play it as it was released, etc.

    It's definitely worth $6. I'd probably still recommend it even at the
    $20+ mark for anyone who has ever enjoyed anything about the Tom
    Clancy branded games.

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