A game so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gorgeous that you want to clear up the pollution just to make the views better.
Genuinely makes you feel like you're exploring an alien world. I adore the dragon mount, I love that you can pet it until it basically falls asleep. I like that there's no towers to climb to clear the map. You just get on your dragon and fly around!
But boy do I have some gripes.
First off, the gathering just sucks. You have to gather things to make your own armor, which is nice, but they have rarities, which is ALSO nice, BUT, the only way to get specific rarities of plants is to go to certain places on the map for each individual item. Which means that instead of exploring the map and finding a place where your material grows, it becomes a spreadsheet hunt. 'I need to go to this specific spot on the map at this specific time of day while it's raining to get the best possible item'. Vomit. It takes the organic exploration of this alien world and throws it in the fire. There is no randomness! You can't just find the perfect plant while out wandering, you have to be in this one specific spot the game chose for you, at the right time, to get the best possible item.
And then there's the voice acting. Your character sounds too human. Weird observation, I know, but they sound like a voice actor hired from the suburbs. They make no attempt to sound [i]alien[/i]. And make no bones about it, you play as a na'vi raised amongst humans. You're not piloting a na'vi like in the movie. You should sound much more like Neytiri than Jake Sooly.
And it would be fine except as soon as you get your dragon, your character suddenly starts doing awful indian chirps, trills, and whoops. So you have this eight-foot-tall alien chick speaking perfect english suddenly start whooping and clicking and churring and I [i]hate it[/i].
The day/night cycle is an hour. Meaning you only get 15 minutes at night. I want the night to last an hour long on its own. I might try mod this game JUST to make the nights last longer, because, again, the game is GORGEOUS.
And my final gripe is the humies. I know several humans, I bet you do, too. And I'm willing to bet you don't know a single human as bloodthirsty and craven as the average grunt in this game, who waxes lyrical on the fact they can't be gunning down 'the blues' every single day. Hell, there's an announcement at oneof the bases that, I can't remember the exact wording, but said something to the effect of 'cheer yourself up, bag yourself a blue today!'
I'm sorry, what?
They're just cartoonishly evil for the sake of [i]being[/i] cartoonishly evil, and it feels so very manufactured and forced.
Other than those gripes though; I highly recommend it! Hell, this game would be worth playing if it was just a walking simulator, it's [i]that[/i] pretty.
