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Re: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order Gets Its First DLC Pack And A Free Update

NullSaint

@Bizzyb Yep, played them (been gaming since the days you had to load them from cassette tapes). The main problems with MUA 3 in my opinion are:
1. I never feel like you are playing a specific hero. Maybe due to the size of the screen, I feel like I'm just button mashing. To compare with Diablo, each class feels distinct, and even each specialization within a class feels distinct. In MUA3, not only do the characters feel the same, even when you "power them up" it doesn't really seem to make a difference
2. The heroes are vastly underpowered. When you trigger the 4-character synergy, it should clear the screen, not cause a few low-level characters to stumble for a moment. Even pumping ISO8, xp cubes and everything else into characters never seems to move their attacks beyond the "wet noodle" phase.
3. The synergies are astoundingly poorly exposed. Considering how important the synergies are to gameplay, there should be simple, obvious ways to see which ones are on your team, or who to add to get specific ones. A team composition to get a 1% boost? That is plainly and easily available. The most important interaction in the entire game? Nah, you don't need to see that. It seems very clear that (like the difficulty) this is an attempt to obfuscate the game in order to stretch out the very limited gameplay.
4. To continue on with the previous point, there is very little guidance as to what a player is expected to do. To my mind, one of the clearest is the Dormammu "break the seal" fight, where there are a few directions shouted at you in the middle of combat with a dozen creatures. That is ridiculous.
It's like the team that made this game normally makes mobile games, heard someone talking about MUA and said, "Hey! Let's make that game!". The first game had the extra comic missions with backgrounds, the trivia quizzes, extra costumes, collectable hunts, PLUS the core store which was huge. To see the difference between these games, go play the MODOK fight from MUA and compare it to the MODOK fight in MUA3.
All in all, I'd get my money back if I could. One of my biggest switch regrets.