TheHunter: Call of the Wild Review (Krittol)
I want to love this game, I really do. Graphics and scenery are just amazing. Its fun to go out for a random hunt every now and then, but this is where the problems start. If you can't invest a HUGE chunk of time into this game (i'm not even remotely exaggerating here), then just don't bother. This is not a game for casual players, or people with a 9 to 5 and a family to spend time with. Progression in this game feels slower than waiting for your internet to load up in the 90s. 200 hours and many, varying kills in and I'm not even half way through a single character progression, or even laid eyes on anything better than a gold. Its said the fastest way to get experience is to do missions, and yet you can spend a 4 hour gaming session just looking for the animal they want you to kill, and simply find nothing. I've lost count of the amount of sessions I have played where I haven't even fired a single shot. I've just been looking for that one deer that the game seems to have forgotten to spawn in today.
Now don't get me started on how unrealistically timid the animals are. Its like they know exactly what you are, that you are a threat, and that you can kill them from where you are, despite being 200+ meters away. I have some hunting experience and can tell you it is much easier to get close enough to an animal to shoot it in real life than what this game makes out, even as an amateur hunter. This leads me to how unrealistic their senses are. I don't know how many times I've written to the devs telling them about an animal that has detected me from the other side of a hill, with no line of sight, when I am laid in the grass inching forward at the slowest imaginable pace, sound and sight meter completely flat, and yet they get spooked. Spending 2 hours tracking this one animal, because that is your target, to finally get a big F**K YOU like that really just makes your entire game play experience feel like a waste of your day. The devs are more interested in adding new areas and new equipment rather than fixing the annoying issues that plague this game.