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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 172.4 hrs on record (133.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: 17 Aug, 2021 @ 1:50pm
Updated: 18 Aug, 2021 @ 10:14am

You will love playing as your favorite hero. You'll love getting a new Avengers Story. No one can say this game isn't fun to actually play. It just becomes predatory and toxic once your reach the end game. I cannot stress enough how bad this game is for your collection because for the last year players have contended with:

-All game loot drops with randomized stats and perks
-There is no way to re-roll those perks, you can only do the mission again
-The highest tier end game loot can only be obtained once a week
-the highest tier loot can only be upgraded once a day
-Mission types repeat infinitely with very little variety in objectives
-graphical bugs present since console release
-Player complaints being virtually ignored
-predatory microtransactions becoming more and more prevalent to the point of becoming necessary to obtain most of the cosmetics in the game
-nerfing the drop rates of items that give cosmetics
-time-locking most of the player's progress

The entire strategy behind this game as a service is simply to engineer a near infinite grind. Every update. Every change that has been implemented in this game in it's year long lifecycle has been dedicated to two things:

*promote microtransactions
*slow player progression

I want to go play a game that views me as more than an ATM and concurrent player stat. I really want to change this review one day and even apologize for the harsh things I've said about this game. But after a year of Crystal Dynamics completely ignoring the largest complaints about their game. That communicates to me that they know what the issue is; we've been loud. they know how to fix it; there's many ways. And they simply do not care about the hours wasted playing their "end game content". Your time, that valuable thing you can't get back, means absolutely nothing to the Crystal Dynamics marketing team and it's not just my word proving this, it's their actions over the course of an entire year.

Buy at your own risk, you've been warned about the realities of pressing that purchase button, You've been told what awaits you. My recommendation is to find ANY other looter game besides this and Outriders because it's the same publisher and some overlapping teams with the same issues. I recommend you follow @playavengers on twitter and wait for them to announce a gear re-work. Other than that, it's just going to be another $60 you gambled on a great game being handled poorly.
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14 Comments
ZerooSkilTTV 9 Sep, 2021 @ 12:57pm 
well i at least dont think its predatory in terms of obtaining actual characters and progression for a looter itself, cosmetics are all recolors anyone no one really cares imo
Hamez 4 Sep, 2021 @ 3:52pm 
totally agree with the review tbh, played when the game came out and the story was great, playing as a super hero was great as well as the fighting but once you finish the story you just repeat the same mission over and over with no variations what so ever.
Devour My Ass 3 Sep, 2021 @ 6:40am 
Like this game is weak as hell truthfully but those first 3 points, you ever play a looter before my dude?
MartineXIII 31 Aug, 2021 @ 10:15am 
-All game loot drops with randomized stats and perks
-There is no way to re-roll those perks, you can only do the mission again
-The highest tier end game loot can only be obtained once a week

1) It's a looter and this sort of thing is normal.

2) Rerolling isn't the genre norm, but I would welcome it.

3) The highest tier loot isn't always the best and really depends on the builds you're going for. That said, we should be allowed to farm now than just the Hive Exotics infinitely.

All in all, I can either agree with or understand your complaints.
NERDMAN 30 Aug, 2021 @ 1:45pm 
Thanks for the review. Ignore the fanboys. They'll buy a poop if it's from a Marvel character. We'll continue to get bad Marvel games if people just mindlessly buy everything Marvel.
Orums 27 Aug, 2021 @ 6:36pm 
HOLD UP!!!! What would you have said if I had only 5 hours in the game :steamfacepalm: I swear ya'll don't think before you comment. You just wanna say sumn so bad, don't even think if it makes sense to say it.
Orums 27 Aug, 2021 @ 6:33pm 
Plus WfW dropped a week ago. I wasn't gonna post a review without getting the new content.
Orums 27 Aug, 2021 @ 6:32pm 
I put the time in to form my opinion. Why did you waste yours?
MikethyKing 27 Aug, 2021 @ 6:30pm 
133 hrs on record (22 in the past week) but you hate this game...okay
Zack 25 Aug, 2021 @ 3:23am 
There's virtually no comparison between this and Outriders.