Folks at the time thought it was too repetitive, the combat boring, etc. They complained about Obsidians writing and dialogue with the characters. I think to a degree, folks had a different expectation of what the game should have been. Obsidian was trying to blend 2 different genre's of gaming and unfortunately some just couldn't see it. The game has good bones and had a lot of promise. I've been playing it lately myself and enjoying it. While it could have used more support, a few tweaks, I think there are games out now that are far worse than this game ever was. If you haven't played, I would recommend giving it a try.
campaign missions are out of place leading to confusing dialogue and being introduced to characters late in the game who you have been fighting alongside a majority of the game. Story is barely there if at all, extremely repetitive with only two or three objectives over and over again, loot system was broken for a majority of the game and probably still is, hitboxes were broken, purposely locked half the game off behind an extremely long boring objective to pad the game time (more time spent farming an objective to open a door just to proceed with the campaign than actual play time of the campaign) RPG lite aspect made no sense with miscellaneous numbers and stats that served no actual purpose, world was actually pretty small with annoying boundaries, only like 4 enemy types, but the graphics and the flying were great!
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why is this game hated??
I can't say why. All I know is that EA gave up on it, and it's sad
Folks at the time thought it was too repetitive, the combat boring, etc. They complained about Obsidians writing and dialogue with the characters. I think to a degree, folks had a different expectation of what the game should have been. Obsidian was trying to blend 2 different genre's of gaming and unfortunately some just couldn't see it. The game has good bones and had a lot of promise. I've been playing it lately myself and enjoying it. While it could have used more support, a few tweaks, I think there are games out now that are far worse than this game ever was. If you haven't played, I would recommend giving it a try.
campaign missions are out of place leading to confusing dialogue and being introduced to characters late in the game who you have been fighting alongside a majority of the game. Story is barely there if at all, extremely repetitive with only two or three objectives over and over again, loot system was broken for a majority of the game and probably still is, hitboxes were broken, purposely locked half the game off behind an extremely long boring objective to pad the game time (more time spent farming an objective to open a door just to proceed with the campaign than actual play time of the campaign)
RPG lite aspect made no sense with miscellaneous numbers and stats that served no actual purpose, world was actually pretty small with annoying boundaries, only like 4 enemy types, but the graphics and the flying were great!