Exoprimal

Eh, kinda yes at a deep discount and if you, like me, enjoy dumb games. The game itself is fun, but it's limited by the "always online". The game will become unplayable any day now. The story and mission variey are padded, and you may be waiting for a match when there's barely anyone playing. Why not just let me play with bots and be done with it? Matches are filled with them anyway.

A potentially dumb fun game weighed down by questionable design choices to try and shoehorn in assymmetrical gameplay into a game that didn't need it, presumably to try and create a live service e-sport out of it. This could have been a fun free-roaming or randomly generated PvE game in the vein of helldivers about being a superhero that wears power armor to fight dinosaurs, and story and missions build off of that: Save civilians and get them to safety Defend monuments and citizen safe zones from dinosaur hordes Cull invading dinos Instead the game boils down to two repetitive modes: Move between pre-set arenas within an arena where dinosaurs will spawn to kill, repeat weird assymetrical e-sports mode that nobody plays because it requires too many players where you escort a target and try to sabotage the enemy by becoming a dino instead of just attacking them directly Also the story is very predictable and kind of pointless, and revolves around some nonsense involving alternate realities and time travel for some reason. Didn't need a multiverse, could have just said some time travel experiment messed up the space-time continuum, fight dinos and maybe fix the problem. That would have even opened up potential for fighting things other than just dinos. Creatures from the ice age, or the Cambrian explosion, maybe even humans from different time periods if you're willing to risk the increased age rating. Instead its some trite about a rogue AI wants to experiment on humans by making them groundhog day in battles with dinosaurs for some reason. In a game where you use power armor to punch a t-rex, that's somehow the dumbest thing.

This game is odd, but amazingly fun! I can understand why people don't hang around because the first part of the game takes a LONG time to really get into it, BUT once you do it's AWESOME! Highly recommend if you're into hoard shooters and light PVP and mostly PVE gameplay.

Nothing beats getting a legendary skin for a cash-only character out of chests

Fun and carefree, something that feels rare in today's multiplayer shooter landscape. People still occasionally play it and while you may run into a lot of bots, the PvE is still very fun on it's own. Hopefully one day they iterate on this and double down on the PvE systems especially the 10 man boss fights with Rathalos and Yellow Devil as they are incredible.

Made me have to make a Capcom account.

三日で飽きる　大小の敵が突撃してくるだけで目的もレベル上げ以外無い 平等ではなく弱いキャラを使い続けなくちゃいけないのでEーsportsとも言えない 斬撃キャラはどう動いても必ず反撃されるのでプレイできない カウンターキャラは敵操作クリーチャーの一撃でキャパーオーバーで崩壊 回避距離も極めて短く敵の大きさなど配慮されていない上連続で出せない 強制的にボス戦になるうえムービースキップ出来ないのもストレスが溜まる シーズンチケットも買ったがゴールドは一切出ず衣装系アイテムのみずっと金欠だった

I feel like I have to write a review just to combat some of the misinformation i'm seeing down here... The biggest complaint I see is people saying they "waited 10, 20, 30+ minutes and couldn't find a game!". These are just not true. The absolute longest you will wait to find a game will be 5 minutes, because after that, you'll be thrown in a lobby with people with anyone it had been trying to match you with, and bots for the rest of the slots. The one major issue, which I can't think of a good solution for, is that if you are playing in a pre-made party with someone who is further behind in the story than you, you won't be able to play missions beyond that persons progression. You will still be able to gain progress toward your next story mission / cutscene / database drop, however in a few limited situations (I think only 3, if my memory of the campaign isn't too foggy) when you are lined up to do a critical story mission for your next mission, you will not progress until you do that (you'll notice your progress bar stalled at 1 pip away from next cutscene after 2+ games). In this case though, you're totally able to drop party, play a solo game to do your story mission, and party back up with your friend who is further behind again, and continue collecting progress while playing together. When I got the game originally (on sale) I got it because I was interested enough in the game play and the story to say $40CAD was worth it even if I only got the campaign and a bit of play afterwards. I finished the campaign in 13.5 hours (by the in-game metrics) which I'm 99% sure only counts in-mission time, not time spent in cutscenes and piecing the story together in the Database Menu. Based on my steam metrics at the time I was in the high 30's of hours played, bringing the cost/hr below $2/hr, well worth it for the enjoyable wild ride this game took me on (+banger soundtrack). Flash forward to today, with new maps and missions, and variant exosuits still being added after the game was panned by reviewers and declared dead on arrival, I'm more confident than ever that even though it's clearly not going to be some massive success rivalling live-service giants like Fortnite and Apex, the game has enough community and developer support to be going for a while for me to enjoy as well. Edit: One note I forgot when originally writing this, when I got the game originally it happened to be during a double xp event, which DID massively accelerate the unlocking of the 3 locked exosuits / alpha variants for all of the base suits. If at all possible I'd recommend taking advantage of one of these weekends when you're a new player as well to boost ahead. They seem to be relatively common, around once a month from what I've seen so far.