Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™

I picked this game up specifically because they added 3rd person mode, and in my mind it's the best way to play. You can spend hours just doing side quests and never get bored. Once you learn how to mod, it can add even more time to that. It definitely needs some beefy specs to run at top performance, but by god is it beautiful at max graphics. The three available DLC's are also so worth every penny, and add even more replay value to a game that honestly didn't need it for my homework's sake. From The Ashes is quite possibly the best DLC for any game I own. It completely revamps the combat system and makes it incredibly satisfying and smooth in a way I didn't think was possible. It is such an upgrade in every way, and swapping back to the main game after playing it was lowkey a little jarring. I really hope we continue to get new DLC's and upgrades for this game, and if they ever choose to add the FTA combat system + avatar senses to base game?? I will most likely die of joy. Two criticisms if I may, have to do with the FTA gear progression, and New Game +. Gear progression/stats in FTA are just a little odd. To go from my main save, where I have gear pieces upwards of 600 points, to FTA where my chest guard having like 20 points is good? It's a little weird. And upgrading the gear is also a bit odd. Collecting the required materials isn't an issue, but I find the menus a bit confusing when it comes to actually upgrading the gear (you don't craft it) and equipping it. New Game + is where my actual issues with this game lie. Because WTF is this. I absolutely understand that NG+ will be more difficult, sure. But it takes a full quiver and a half of arrows, with a kitted out heavy bow, at FULL DRAW to take down ONE amp suit. I hate this. I wanted to do a playthrough of NG+ to have all my little cosmetics and play through the story again. I wasn't happy that it was going to be more difficult but fine, I understood. But this is frankly ridiculous. Turns out it's not just me that's been having this issue, as a cursory look through of reddit forums will confirm that this has been a problem with NG+ since they added it, and most people that I can find are in my camp of firmly disliking it. Its borderline unplayable, and it's really frustrating. In the big picture though, NG+ is just one game mode in this otherwise impeccable project, and I doubt most casual players will be investing major amounts of time into it anyways. I cannot recommend this game enough to anyone considering it, as this is absolutely worth the money. And since AFOP regularly goes on sale? Even more so! Oel ngati kameie :)