Strange business. Yesterday was the kids' first day back to school. My daughter (entering kindergarten) only had half a day, so I took off from work. I drop them off, and decide to take a nap, before I had to head back out to get her. Wake up from the nap with a gut wrenching feeling that I need to play the Mad Max game, and that I need to play the PC version. ??? I don't know if I had a dream, or schizophrenia, or what the funk, yo. So, with little time to spare before heading out the door I just bought and started downloading the Steam version EVEN THOUGH I OWN THE PS4 VERSION. Get back from teacher orientation and the game is downloaded. I'm now thinking what the hell did I do that for. Research the internet and see that it has a few decent SweetFX presets. Load it up, and WOW, those screen shot comparisons between console and PC don't take into account all the extra dust and dirt, and environmental bells & whistles that Ultra (Extra?) High settings deliver. Throw on the SweetFX and that game is 58% better looking. It also helps because it pops yellow a bit more and climbable objects have yellow paint around them. So, this is all well, and good, but graphics don't really change the issue I had with my first play through. So, I pondered greatly and vastly for a handful of microseconds and decided to try a trainer. I'm not doing all this scavenging bullshit the PS4 version was making me do, but with bonus chunks of material (money) upgrading things (that need to be unlocked regardless) became a more streamlined and faster affair. This I liked. I'm not one for cheating, and a trainer is just as low down as a GameShark/Game Genie is, but a major grievance was just eliminated from a game I wanted to like. I didn't plan on touching the other trainer options, but for one silly moment I turned on infinite ammo...
..and just like that the game turned hella awesome and hella fun. Max's reload is so slow that I can't just run around shooting up the join, and pre-cheat ammo capacity was so low that I almost never remember to use it. This is just fucking fun. Shooting at cars is the best. The Harpoon was fun, but this rules.
Mad Max is essentially a movie tie in, I don't care what anyone says. Movie tie ins that aren't the usual abominations should be a 5 or 6 out of 10 maximum. Mad Max developers over achieved, kind of like Chronicles of Riddick, and turned itself into a 7 or an 8 out of 10. Unfortunately, I think the developers saw this then they got full of themselves and Max became bloated and padded like it was the next GTA, and in an attempt to achieve stardom, blows out it's knees and falls back down into a 6 or 7 out of 10. The Bill's Mad Max: Ammo & Cash Road Fuck You Edition is a 9 out of 10.
Cool encounter and how I stumbled into it.
