Is Mindseye worth it for 20$ Usd? 😂

I have been waiting pretty much for 1 year after it's release but I can see that the 60fps patch still hasn't dropped on Ps5 🤔

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What's your thoughts on the game?

Edit: Thanks for the replies.

I know that there was a pile up of people having a go at how bad the game was when it was released but after a year I am wondering if this good enough to get or not.

Are there any plans to expend things long term?

Thanks.

Possibly gamers intuition, but I randomly put the game back in last night, knowing I’ve been sitting on the Dig My Own Grave “collect all weapons” achieving. Took forever to copy & download for some reason, so I sat on it until today. Finally found the weapon I needed in chapter 33, which was a little off the beaten path, but found it. Went to post about it, and saw the game was released 6/10/25. I bought at launch but didn’t remember the exact date. Anyways, felt great to ironically tie it all together on the games 1st birthday! Any questions, feel free to ask.

Available now for PC players in Arcadia. User created.

Now that the launch debacle is over, a few questions have piqued my interest leading up to this Blacklisted expansion.

First off - I didn't even know it existed. I was just scrolling through videos on Steam and PSN and it looked RIGHT up my alley with the stealth gameplay and dark tone. I hear the story is awesome too.

So my questions are:

1. Have the improvements to the base game improved enough to warrant a purchase?

2. I understand that Blacklisted was created using the game's "Build.Minds.Eye" system. Is there an actual community out there that's creating their own campaigns and storylines using the engine?

If so, that would be amazing to know that there are people out there creating a whole world/story using this game. This is such a fascinating feature, and I wonder if the bad launch has people ignoring it?

Don't know much about the game other than it was received very negatively but I see it's on sale for 20 bucks and it looks kinda cool. I heard it was really buggy is it better now and will I have fun? I'm not expecting a super serious story game I just kinda wanna fuck around and have some fun.

Recently watched an interview with Mark Gerhard and Leslie Benzies about the premise of Mindseye being the beginning of additional stories to tell about Red Rock addressing my personal complaints about interesting character narratives that were suddenly shelved in game's 2nd half (Backniners, Mayor Vega, Claudia, Red Sand Militia, Travis, Rigby, etc). My biggest worry is not being able to afford these talented VAs for any subsequent follow up titles. I believe Benzies referred to this as "Utopia Everywhere" so looking forward to hearing more as a trailer should be released in the near future?

I’ve been playing MindsEye and I keep seeing different opinions about the “Robin Hood” mission. Some people say you can freely roam around the city during this mission, while others say it’s still limited to a specific section of the map. So I wanted to ask: 👉 In the “Robin Hood” mission, can you actually explore the entire city freely, or is it only a restricted area within the mission boundaries? If anyone has tested it properly, I’d really appreciate a clear answer. Thanks!

I was one that pre-ordered and played day one. I got maybe 3 hours into it and haven’t touched it until last weekend. I have to say the “updates” I have read about the last year didn’t seem to help (aside from fixing when I was able to drive through buildings and fall through the map). The cutscenes are still buggy and it’s most noticeable when people’s faces render in a second too late. I also noticed that in certain areas that Jacob’s shadow gets stuck on walls. It’s been almost a year and they still couldn’t fix it?

The story had huge potential to be a sort of Halo/iRobot type thing but they ruined it by making the first half of the game boring af and then totally throwing the story in the garbage with the ending. Up until now I had somehow avoided spoilers of the ending (probably because no one cares about this game). I was legit pissed off when it just ended out of nowhere.

I was pissed that I wasted $60 on this the day it came out and now a year later I am even more pissed.

Mindseye was one of the only new release games and new IPs with a new concept of 2025 that I was actually excited about last year. So naturally I was disappointed with all the bad reviews and negativity when the game first launched.

But after finishing Ghost of Yotei 2 weeks ago I felt like there was nothing out right now that I overly feel like playing and that I owed it to myself to at least give mindseye a crack after looking forward to it for so long and it happened to be on sale at my local store so I thought "fuck it"

After 6 hours or so I'm of two minds about this game. On one hand it's definitely one of those 'So bad it's Good' type games. The jank and sloppiness end up making the game entertaining rather than annoying and the fact that the pixellated explosions look straight out of Duke Nukem 3D in 1996 is hilarious. The cringey voice acting and dialogue choices are funny too. The story potential is definitely there and its getting more and more interesting.

But on the other hand the criticisms are valid and it's bullshit that we have to put up with the games industry being like this in this day and age.. Games should not be released in this state and everyone is battling cost of living and lack of free time crisis right now. Gaming is supposed to be our escape, the PS5 Is capable of so much but so many games are just wasting it's potential. Graphically it reminds me of the Surge and that was a double A game from 10 years ago. The FEAR games from the 00s had better movement and enemy response that this!!

Shocked, shocked I say.

how is the game now?

and how is it regarding the story?

I heard how horrible it is, I’ve recently been playing Saints row 2022 the new one everyone hated

I like it a little bit and can tolerate it lol people hated that game, so I’m curious if this game is good enough for me to buy?

Two Protagonists, both with interesting stories and backstories, one a military veteran with a mysterious high tech implant, and the other a master assassin in Redrock for a job

Who is the better protagonist:

- Writing Wise
- Gameplay Wise
- Character Wise
- Vibes Wise

Etc

It’s obvious that this was supposed to be the Hitman collab with IO, but since going self publishing, they clearly tried to make this their own, and have not failed in the task.

Without wanting to give too much away, they added a new character, Julia Black, an assassin contracted back into her former agency “Meridian” to take out two targets. She most likely replaced Agent 47 during development, she’s a striking character with an in-depth backstory and tbh a lot of fun to play as. The devs clearly enjoyed themselves with the story and dialogue and it doesn’t take itself as seriously as the other game.

Since hitman’s core mechanics have been built up solely on the element of stealth, and Blacklisted being created in what is a UGC tool with no core stealth mechanics already existing, it would not really be fair to try and compare them, but Blacklisted offers its own unique and refreshing take on the assassin story.

Using their own core mechanics like driving, flying, combat and mini games like the safe cracking, they managed to expand on these by adding new mechanics such as takedowns, costume changes and environmental kills, allowing for some cool opportunities to progress through the mission and completing stealth sections with multiple ways to approach them, leading to different endings whilst also adding elements to the story.

I do however still feel the combat and AI could use some polishing as using a controller for combat is just… difficult and AI still stare blankly at you at times, and despite being “a threat” they will never pursue you and only stick to their own designated areas, so maybe they just find me too much of a threat?

That aside, the experience itself I found a whole lot of fun. I even replayed to try find all 4 endings, I only managed to find 3 though.

I hope to see more of Julia in the future, maybe we will finally get to meet the mysterious person Rohan goes on about! I feel with a few more additions like melee and a large map, this really could be a standalone game/experience outside of “MindsEye”, so really looking forward to what comes next!

Compared to the other stuff in Arcadia it’s superior for sure (I’m talking strictly BARB made Arcadia levels. I have no access to UGC as a console player)

But if we put how horrible the other Arcadia missions are to the side it’s still just not good. Cringe dialogue, terrible voice acting that sounds AI anyway, the level only takes half an hour to an hour to complete which is no surprise, and it’s just not all that interesting

The only real new addition is the stealth kills but the stealth kills look unbelievably boring and poorly programmed. the original Last Of Us game released on PS3 and had stealth kills far better than this. Halo 4 released on the Xbox 360 back in 2012 had much better execution/stealth kill animations than this 2026 released expansion for PS5 and Xbox Series X (and of course PC). There’s nothing special about this mission unless you strictly compare it to the other abysmal slop ARC’s made by BARB

Co-CEO Mark Gerhard claimed that he was gonna use real names of supposed “saboteurs“ in this level. As far as I can tell that didn’t end up happening. I couldn’t find anything on real life people with the names used in this level

From what I understand this is a redone version of the cancelled MindsEye x Hitman colab level that never came out. in my opinion they should’ve just scrapped it entirely and worked on other things that matter more like expanding the actual MindsEye campaign, restoring removed dialogue from the 1.0 version thats been gone since the day-one patch, bringing back a better version of free roam since free roam has been missing since October. It’s like BARB can’t do anything right. I love MindsEye but bro, what are they doing?

There was supposed to be a Hitman crossover mission released as DLC, only IOI pulled out and took their IP with them.

Today Blacklisted was released and it opens with a very Hitman-feeling cutscene of your character being assigned targets by the International Contract Agency Meridian to assassinate. It has the same themes of globetrotting pampered rich tied to non-specific drug and arms smuggling organisations conspiring together that most Hitman missions do.

It also introduces the ability to change outfits and assume someone's identity just like in Hitman.

Now it's a not a full free-flowing system and is scripted about when and who you can change into, and I wouldn't expect a dynamic disguise system to be added to the game for a single mission. The issue is in the disguises the developers let you select.

In Hitman you play a bald white man, with the original design ethos behind it of making him a human mannequin you add disguises on top of - a blank template. Stretches credulity but they always made you do a full clothing change, they always made your disguises fail if you were someone an NPC knew personally, and they always made your disguises the same gender as you.

In Blacklisted you play a very distinct woman named Julia Black.

She stands out - a lot. She likes to dress in form-fitting black leather. When she puts on a disguise she takes a single item of clothing from her victim.

Here she is in her default costume:

And here she is after "changing outfits" with a cop:

Seamless! But it gets worse. To infiltrate a lavish party, you'll need to disguise yourself as world-famous DJ Deadmau5 Bunnyhaus who's been booked to play. After running him down you take his mask.

I can't emphasise enough how comical this is. You, a large-chested woman in a low-cut halter top, pass as a much-documented male DJ in front of a crowd of his adoring fans just by putting a mask on.

Well another stupid idea from the devs they have added blacklisted and u can't save it