Poll of the Day > PSA: Agents of Mayhem is frustrating when it's not boring :(

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I played to 27% completion today... The G.I. Joe / A-Team theme is great, and it has tons of personality. The problem is the game itself is boring (mostly due to repetition) 75% of the time, with frustration rounding out the rest. It's a huge letdown, as I loved the SR games, and wanted to live this too. Alas, it's just not great. Mafia III suffered for similar reasons, but I liked that more.

The worst incident, and what was probably a bug, involved me going to a mission waypoint and getting a failure, requiring I restart at the last checkpoint and find my way back. After trying many things and getting the same result, I quit. I followed the game's instructions, but it still failed me for no reason I could identify.
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repetitive like mafia 3?
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vhiran posted...

repetitive like mafia 3?

Worse :/
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Is there any sort of customization? Like not just the characters, but the cars as well?
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Krow_Incarnate posted...

Is there any sort of customization? Like not just the characters, but the cars as well?

There are unlockable skins for characters, cars, and weapons. Nothing like what SR had. I think in its present state, it needed online co-op to stave off the repetition. The world itself is also very bland.
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That's lame and disappointing.
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Krow_Incarnate posted...

That's lame and disappointing.

Very. I returned it and got MS wallet money. Apparently lots of people have complained about it to the employees...
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I want so badly to love it, but literally every single thing I've heard about it or seen of it tells me that I will never, ever buy it or play it.


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For $10, I'd say feed your curiosity. I'd probably put it alongside Homefront: TR in that regard.
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The fact that it has no co-op is a big deal breaker for me, how do you make Saints Row which are great co-op games and then make a similar game without it? It's all kinds of dumb.
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Cruddy_horse posted...

The fact that it has no co-op is a big deal breaker for me, how do you make Saints Row which are great co-op games and then make a similar game without it? It's all kinds of dumb.

I loved SR by myself, but this is just too dry. I think co-op could have gone a long way to salvaging it. Any game like this is less boring when you're not alone.
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They should just retcon the silly parts of 3 and all of 4 as the saints in movies and do Saints Row 5.
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dragon504 posted...

They should just retcon the silly parts of 3 and all of 4 as the saints in movies and do Saints Row 5.

The whole logic behind Agents of Mayhem is that the ending of Gat Out of Hell where all of reality is changed is canon. So you're basically in a parallel timeline where the Saints never existed and Gat was a cop and not a gang member.

That being said, they could always do a Saints Row 5 (if they wanted to) which is a spin-off of one of the other endings, where the Saints are either colonizing a new homeworld in space or become time traveling adventurers. But they've kind of made it pretty clear that they don't want to do another game (which was the entire point of Agents of Mayhem).

I probably wouldn't have cared if they'd kept the mechanics closer to what they are in the Saints Row games and let you make your own main character rather than apparently just making single-player Overwatch, but as is I find myself not caring at all.

Which is a shame, because Saints Row was one of my favorite series.


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