How much were Team Folon paid for this? NOTHING. How much did you pay for this? NOTHING. How much of a right do you have to whinge like a spoiled, entitled 10 year old because everything doesn't play nice with YOUR system and it may not be as easy to run as a commercial release? NONE. Odds of any of you meathbags creating something better as an alternative? ZERO. Whining because "I need to buy the base game!", (duhhhhh), or that Steam(ing pile) makes it nigh impossible to play this? That's YOUR fault for buying from Valve. In closing: Shut. Your. Whiny. Entitled. Pie Holes.
I waited till 2022 to buy the Deluxe Edition on Xbox One (for $27.00) and it was SO worth the wait. I've been a gamer since 1977 and owned too many consoles and spent WAY too many hours gaming. I've read the posts here and too many seem to be from people who want COD while others don't appreciate the attention to detail in the world, the stories and the main characters. You DEF need the DLCs and they're worth it. The game isn't complete without them. The writing and the interaction between the 3 characters you play over the course of the game is an interesting story telling device – having multiple perspectives helps to flesh out the world and it's dangers and features. Each character has their own motivations and approaches that change the game and game play. For many who have the shortened attention span that Holy Devices of the last 20 years have imparted, you may find the pace isn't fast enough for you. That is unfortunate for you but doesn't apply to those of us that enjoy intrigue, good writing and a bit of Monty Pythonesque/dark shaded humour. Not many games of the 1,000 or so I've played have made me laugh, smirk a-n-d feel crushed. If you're not aware, or too young to have learned in detail about WW2, this alternate reality in 1960s UK, post WW2 and the Nazi victory, might not be as compelling but the part of the story regarding the missing children is damn prescient considering what Putin is doing with Ukrainian children now. To close: If you rob yourself of the chance to play this game based solely on the comments here, or based on the 'professional' reviews that (rightly) slagged this title when it was shipped broken and have therefore dragged down the average review score: Your loss. I WILL agree that the regular price is ludicrous when you consider older console games always cost far more than on PC and this game is the outlier being SO much more than its console counterparts: $108.00 CDN for the (must have) Deluxe Version is L-U-D-I-C-R-O-U-S for a 6 year old title. But as of this writing it's currently $27.00 CDN and even though I own it on Xbone, I'm picking it up now so I can play it again on my hep'd up PC and be able to in the future should my console ever brick. This game is that good.
