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i'm going to come out and say it officially, i think.

i am really, really, really struggling to play this game. i don't know if i am going to continue playing - if i am, i don't know when i'll pick it up again. i made it less than 20 minutes today. it's painful. i'm not having fun. i find myself rolling my eyes at the the dialogue more often than not. i hate the combat. i don't like the art direction. i don't find myself enjoying any of the music that has played. nothing about it speaks to me or makes me want to engage with the content beyond what lies at surface level. i cannot force myself to sit through another 50 or more hours of this. there is no drive to do side quests or look further into things. there is no love for any of the companions (as a matter of fact, there's more loathing than anything). everything has felt wrong. the facial animations are stiff, the voice-acting so far has come across as stunted and cold. it is unappealing to me. i would be more inclined to give it more of a chance, but act 1 has been grating. i felt like i was dragging a burlap sack of lead weights behind me the entire time i was playing. they did not do a good job of setting up act 2 for success with this.

this has been an indescribable disappointment for me; i knew back when the teaser trailer dropped that i wasn't going to be happy, and here i am, months later, proving myself right. i should have stuck by my decision to not purchase the game and forgo playing, but i so desperately wanted to see what the hell bioware had been doing for ten years. i wanted to see the grand masterpiece they were finally coming out with, the capstone of their franchise. and... it blows. i'm sad. i feel like i have wasted my money and my time. i want to like this game, i really, really do, but the longer i play the more i realise that that may not be achievable.

i'm at a loss. i don't know how to proceed with this game. maybe it gets better - like, blow you out of the water better - but i simply don't know if i can stomach it. i don't know if i can push through another 5, 10, 15 hours before i start having fun. i have heard that if you don't do pretty much all of the side quests, you'll might get a 'bad' ending. it makes sense, yes, but when i'm already struggling with MAIN quests, why the hell would i want to do side content? i don't want to only do the main content and then find myself with everyone ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dead and thedas in flames. i'm torn. this feels like a chore.

wish a slime would just swallow me up and let me suffocate inside of them

10/10 would gladly get my ankles broken by a dozer again

Tried everything I could to get this game to work, I cannot start a new game without it crashing. Waste of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ money.

give buck an RCMP elite skin or else

the better battlefront 2

didn't even know not being a stealth archer was an option

the forest is one of the best survival/horror games i've ever played.

TL;DR: 10/10

right now, as we all know, it's still in development, but it still leaves plenty for one to do - whether it's fighting for your life, exploring, building, or hyposthesizing over what the potential plot is.

because of it being in an developmental stage there are bits and pieces of the game that are not yet complete, which is perfectly fine, and if i'm completely honest i enjoy that a lot (ESPECIALLY how the plot is still vague). being able to sit with your friends while playing the game and talk about what is going on with the island and the weird things you've found is extremely enjoyable.

the exploration aspect of the game does not tire me, as the in-game scenery is beautiful. the greenery is lush and the wildlife is fairly realistic as well. even though i've delved into the caves dozens of times, the fear i feel when i creep into them at the beginning of a new game is still there - hell, it's still there even though sometimes i have a full inventory and shouldn't be fearing anything!

it's also extremely cool to watch the cannibals stalk around the island in their different manners. the screams they make don't scare me any more (except for one and hoo, it's chilling). there are a few things that could be changed with the cannibals to make them a little more scary for veterans, but for the most part it's good. the mutants, however, are solid in my opinion and will never cease to give me a fright if i encounter one prepared or unprepared (albeit momentarily if i'm prepared :) )

i hope that when this game is 100% finished, i will still get plenty of enjoyment out of it because i can discover what's behind that big metal door , where the cannibals and mutants came from, and what's happened to every other person that's encountered the forest in all of its beauty .

10/10 would cry in frustration again (also 10/10 would cry during the beginning and ending dialogue parallels).