Amazing Act 1 with all the exploration, story, collecting but getting a little burn out on second act

[Hoenir;]

For 40 hours I've been having a blast playing it, doing the missions, exploring, collecting skins and armors and even learning/grinding new skill. Problem that I am now facing is, it's getting a little boring for me on the second act. Besides colleting a few other skins and some (uninteresting armors to me) I don't wanna fight the same settlements and enemies over and over again, leaving only the story missions for me to complete...

Im just not having fun anymore since I grinded/ have my Armor / Katana max already and i love exploring just don't wanna have to deal with the same enemies and the "lack" of rewards again.

Does the story gets really good from the 2nd act and on ? And by doing / clearing the map do you get a different ending or something ?

[GAMING_Alligator]

I'm about to finish act 2 and so far I've got a little over 30 hours.

40 hours in act 1 seems way too long, given how repetitive a lot of the content is. No wonder you're bored of it. By now you must have upgraded every skill and weapon your character has.

I would say focus on the story now and only do side quests when they're convenient. They're all more or less the same anyway.

[Themightyred92]

Origineel geplaatst door GAMING_Alligator:

I'm about to finish act 2 and so far I've got a little over 30 hours.

40 hours in act 1 seems way too long, given how repetitive a lot of the content is. No wonder you're bored of it. By now you must have upgraded every skill and weapon your character has.

I would say focus on the story now and only do side quests when they're convenient. They're all more or less the same anyway.

Nah. 40 hours seem normal for act 1 if you explore the map to do all the fox dens and all that and all the tales..rushing through the story to not get bored is a bad excuse and just says the game has done a poor job.

[GAMING_Alligator]

Origineel geplaatst door Themightyred92:

Origineel geplaatst door GAMING_Alligator:

I'm about to finish act 2 and so far I've got a little over 30 hours.

40 hours in act 1 seems way too long, given how repetitive a lot of the content is. No wonder you're bored of it. By now you must have upgraded every skill and weapon your character has.

I would say focus on the story now and only do side quests when they're convenient. They're all more or less the same anyway.

Nah. 40 hours seem normal for act 1 if you explore the map to do all the fox dens and all that and all the tales..rushing through the story to not get bored is a bad excuse and just says the game has done a poor job.

Yeah, if you're a completionist who feels they have to 100% every area before moving onto the next, I can see the game getting quite repetitive after a while.

The side content hasn't got enough variety to warrant that sort of investment IMO.

[Alexoferith]

If you just want to see how the story goes, yes, don't bother with mongols and ronins that you have encountered while roaming around. But do do the fox dens, bamboo stands, shrines as these will increase your resolves. You didn't mention what difficulty you are playing. I am guessing Normal, right? If so, definitely skip those mongol and ronins encounter. Since the skins have no effect, just visual, don't bother with that if you just want the story.
At Act 2, you should have access to the DLC. Just to want you, the enemies there are harder to deal with. At normal difficulty, I think you can finish the DLC around 10 hrs.

[GoulactiX]

In Act 2 the story gets much much more interesting ..emotional as well , I say - be patient . I was surprised on how the story didn't end up average or safe (in my opinion that is )

[Hoenir;]

Origineel geplaatst door Alexoferith:

If you just want to see how the story goes, yes, don't bother with mongols and ronins that you have encountered while roaming around. But do do the fox dens, bamboo stands, shrines as these will increase your resolves. You didn't mention what difficulty you are playing. I am guessing Normal, right? If so, definitely skip those mongol and ronins encounter. Since the skins have no effect, just visual, don't bother with that if you just want the story.
At Act 2, you should have access to the DLC. Just to want you, the enemies there are harder to deal with. At normal difficulty, I think you can finish the DLC around 10 hrs.

Yea, playing on normal. Tried the lethal at the start, it was cool but not on my first playthrough. If i ever play again, will 100% play on the lethal hardest diff.

[GoulactiX]

Origineel geplaatst door Hoenir:

Origineel geplaatst door Alexoferith:

If you just want to see how the story goes, yes, don't bother with mongols and ronins that you have encountered while roaming around. But do do the fox dens, bamboo stands, shrines as these will increase your resolves. You didn't mention what difficulty you are playing. I am guessing Normal, right? If so, definitely skip those mongol and ronins encounter. Since the skins have no effect, just visual, don't bother with that if you just want the story.
At Act 2, you should have access to the DLC. Just to want you, the enemies there are harder to deal with. At normal difficulty, I think you can finish the DLC around 10 hrs.

Yea, playing on normal. Tried the lethal at the start, it was cool but not on my first playthrough. If i ever play again, will 100% play on the lethal hardest diff.

Lethal is great - you use everything to your disposal ...charms make a difference , ghost weapons are helpful and so is switching stances and learning enemy movesets ...highly recommand it ...the duals however are the toughest part and would test your patience

[metal_hamster]

Im hitting the end of the game, have explored thoroughly and haven't hit 40 yrs yet. What have you been doing?

[rservello]

Origineel geplaatst door GoulactiX:

Origineel geplaatst door Hoenir:

Yea, playing on normal. Tried the lethal at the start, it was cool but not on my first playthrough. If i ever play again, will 100% play on the lethal hardest diff.

Lethal is great - you use everything to your disposal ...charms make a difference , ghost weapons are helpful and so is switching stances and learning enemy movesets ...highly recommand it ...the duals however are the toughest part and would test your patience

I'm playing on Hard and it's not really that hard, you recommend Lethal? So far the only somewhat challenges has been bosses that I've had to fight 2 or 3 times. Don't get me wrong it's fun and having 6 enemies circling you and keeping track of who to parry and who to dodge can get intense, but I haven't had a place yet that felt impossible.

[s0d0]

This game isn't designed so that you explore 100% of the map before progressing.
Of course it will get boring, that's the way in every of these type of games.
I finished the entire game in 50 hours which is absolutely average.
You're simply playing the game wrong.

[Gekko]

Origineel geplaatst door s0d0:

This game isn't designed so that you explore 100% of the map before progressing.
Of course it will get boring, that's the way in every of these type of games.
I finished the entire game in 50 hours which is absolutely average.
You're simply playing the game wrong.

hmm i kinda agree and disagree with you.

ive also read multiple people saying that you should NOT do all the side content at once as you could easily get a burnout from it.

they should change some things up in GoT2 as many players had issues with it.

[s0d0]

Origineel geplaatst door Gekko:

Origineel geplaatst door s0d0:

This game isn't designed so that you explore 100% of the map before progressing.
Of course it will get boring, that's the way in every of these type of games.
I finished the entire game in 50 hours which is absolutely average.
You're simply playing the game wrong.

hmm i kinda agree and disagree with you.

ive also read multiple people saying that you should NOT do all the side content at once as you could easily get a burnout from it.

they should change some things up in GoT2 as many players had issues with it.

It's pretty hard to do this. The main idea in every one of these games that are like this is, that you have always some sidecontent whereever you go.
On your way to the next mission you could ride somewhat different paths, but all of these paths provide you with about the same amount of content you can use to level up etc.
Especially in games like this, where the setting somewhat limits the enemy variety, you can't really do much about it. The only way would be to take stuff out, but then it would force you to fully explore the map, which is not everyones cup of tea.
Hard to balance this to everyones liking.

[GoulactiX]

Origineel geplaatst door rservello:

Origineel geplaatst door GoulactiX:

Lethal is great - you use everything to your disposal ...charms make a difference , ghost weapons are helpful and so is switching stances and learning enemy movesets ...highly recommand it ...the duals however are the toughest part and would test your patience

I'm playing on Hard and it's not really that hard, you recommend Lethal? So far the only somewhat challenges has been bosses that I've had to fight 2 or 3 times. Don't get me wrong it's fun and having 6 enemies circling you and keeping track of who to parry and who to dodge can get intense, but I haven't had a place yet that felt impossible.

If you make a mistake ...you could lose the fight entirely - basically you learn from your mistakes much more frequently since you can die quicker , but so do the enemies ...some of the bosses for me took around 10 or more tries to kill . However I can't imagine playing this game any other way ..anything less than lethal becomes too easy