Game of the Month #114 (July 2024) - Sunset Overdrive - Forum | HowLongToBeat (2024)

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2027. Sunset City. A contaminated energy drink has transformed most of the population into toxic mutants. For many it's the end of the world, but for you it's a dream come true. Your old boss? Dead. Your boring job? Gone. Transform the open world into your tactical playground by grinding, vaulting and wall-running across the city while using a deva ...Read More
How long is Sunset Overdrive?
When focusing on the main objectives, Sunset Overdrive is about 10 Hours in length. If you're a gamer that strives to see all aspects of the game, you are likely to spend around 34½ Hours to obtain 100% completion.
Platforms:PC, Xbox One
Genres:Third-Person, Action, Shooter
Developer:Insomniac Games
Publisher:Microsoft Studios
NA:October 28, 2014
EU:October 31, 2014

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This is one of my favorite open world games and one of my favorite games of all time. This among many other reasons is why Insomniac is my favorite developer. They just know how to make pick and play games with good gameplay down.

All though it sucks that it seems that all they will be doing is making Marvel games now, that seems no different of a fate than Raven Software and High Moon Studios being a CoD support studio. Sucks but sh*t like this is why I don't ever want to be a AAA game dev.

Still, I love Sunset Overdrive, it came out the same year as Infamous Second Son and ended up being way better than SS in terms of gameplay. The game also pre dated Doom 2016 as far as being an "anti" cover based shooter. My only gripe with the game is that there seems to be no hard mode or higher difficutly options, Spider-Man 2 benefitted greatly from having higher difficulty options and it's weird how Sunset Overdrive omits it. Still, wish there was a sequel or another game doing what this did but Insomniac is just going to Marvel games now.

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Edit: Have solved the corrupted save issues via following fix:
1. Disable Cloud Save
2. Open cloudsave vdf file, delete all contents, save, and then set to 'read only'

Hmm Steam version seems to be having issues.

I'm running a 3080 and it says my GPU doesn't meet the minimum requirements, I ignore the warning and the game loads fine.

However every time I touch the save/load feature the game crashes to desktop. Also I keep getting a corrupted save file warning in game.

I'll have a tinker for a solution, will update this post.

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First session only played about 30 minutes as I spent a lot of time troubleshooting to get the game running.

Really enjoyable initial impressions. Game doesn't take itself too seriously, some humorous moments, and straight into the action.

Looking forward to completing this!

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— 07/03/2024 10:09 PM
Made it to the preppy kids

the fluid combat is really getting good for me however it's annoying how slow you are on the floor. I know there trying to get me constantly moving but certain locations don't seem that well suited to movement
— 07/04/2024 10:03 PM
Got the bottled water and helped the hobo move the train. Mainly going around collecting collectibles. Bit of a bad habit but decided to only go for them if they appear on the mini map instead of the full game
— 07/05/2024 11:02 PM
Had a failed escaped attempted using a glider walter made. Now off to find brycllcream in the second island in little toyko
— 07/06/2024 11:02 PM
So made to norton and faced off against the giant fizzy balloon. Did the side quest after which is fairly funny outcome at least
— 07/07/2024 11:20 PM
Made it to the third island with the LARPers

So played the Sunset Overdrive for a week now and yeah the traversal and combat based around has really grown on me. still not happy about areas where it's hard to bounce and grind especially as it is very punishing when your not moving. The humour is pretty cringe tbh and it's tries a bit too hard and kinda wounding the game a bit. I've had a few chuckles but nothing that truly hits. The level design is also rather weak and realing too much on fetch quests and tower defense from what I've played

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I played the DLC, and tbh I kinda wish I hadn't spent $20 on it. Both were kinda boring overall, the Robot Factory DLC gives you a bunch of new weapons which are pretty fun and the boss was pretty clever. The oil rig DLC was kinda pointless. It's main gimmick is giving you water traversal mechanics which are kinda whatever honestly. I felt pretty bored with both of them though.

If you had to pick one DLC, go for the robot factory one. The oil rig DLC only really gives you one new weapon and it's pretty bad working only at close range.

I give the robot DLC a 5/10, the oil rig DLC a 4/10.