I'd been sort of playing and sort of not playing this because my gf loves SR so we started the game together and we're like "lets play this together when we hang at my place sometimes", but that's happened like twice because it logistically hasn't been working out. So in the meantime I've been doing side activities, collecting clusters and just messing around while not advancing the story (still in TUTORIAL MISSIONS). Well my gf was like "dude, just go ahead and play it" and so ok, I'm now good to play SRIV and I'm pretty stoked! Now that I've gotten a few hundred clusters and upgraded my running/jumping a ton + weapons and other abilities, gameplay is pretty darn fun again like SR3 was after a while (I hate how weak your characters are at the start of these games). The only thing so far I don't like is the side activities seem...worse than 3. Like UFO mayhem is less fun than just running around with infinite rocket launcher mayhem and that assassination thing where you chase and kill the "?" icon which has grindy HP is kind of zzz. But I like things like climbing the tower.
The game does give a pretty good crackdown vibe, but the jumping is really non-intuitive in this game. Man, if someone mods the jumping to just work like a platformer where you simply hit the button and jump instantly, holding it down as you jump for bigger distances...controls would be perfect. I like the glide though. Reminds me of Super Mario World cape.
Not sure where I'm going here, just excited to finally start playing the game for reals because by the end of SR3 I loved the shit out of it. Gonna play some tonight, hell yeah!
