Good game but gets repetitive and boring – Deer Hunter Classic Review

I like this game and have had it for years. Despite its age it is still updated quite often. I will say that it does get very repetitive at times. I’m even tired of listening to the same music because it has never changed for as long as I have played this game. I am currently in region 54 and it doesn’t take very long to realize that many of the guns, rifles in particular, look the same model wise. The only difference is the color. The whole tier system of guns is interesting but at the same time a waste of resources. It’s difficult to get blueprints to tier up a rifle and even though you can level a gun many times you still can’t use it for trophy hunts in the next region, even if meets every minimum requirement. This game used to let you use a lower region gun for a trophy hunt as long as it met the minimum requirements. So you can spend literally hundreds of millions upgrading a rifle, tiering it up - only to discover it’s not really useful in the next region. You have to start all over again with that region’s rifles. And don’t even waste your time on the bolt action rifle. Don’t waste gold on multi-region rifles either. I found out the hard way after saving up for one. They cost such an absurd amount of money to upgrade that they aren’t even practical. I don’t even understand why there are things like shotgun blueprints. I’ve never seen a single shotgun in this game that has multiple tiers. As such I have almost 600 shotgun blueprints that are useless. The elite events seem pointless in a way. The guns you win are often old hat being from past holiday events and no longer needed or guns you may already own. I can promise you that completing one without using a sports drink in near every hunt is impossible. Don’t bother trying to complete an elite event unless you have a lot of sports drinks. It would be nice if you could sell your guns too. I’ve won so many in elite events that I’ve never even had a reason to use. Being able to sell guns would be helpful for buying the next region’s rifle too. There really needs to be a quicker way to skip around through the dozens of regions in this game too. The scroll bar on the bottom was a much needed addition but doesn’t seem to work as well as it should. Same thing with the weapon shop and bounties. Is there not a way to arrange or categorize items so it is not such a tedious task to scroll through everything? Lastly, at what point in time did it become so difficult to kill anything in this game? I’m in region 54, using the region specific assault rifle and shotgun - both fully upgraded - and still have to shoot many animals at least 5 times in order to kill them. This is very annoying when your hunt is something like kill 9 of animal X. And it’s just as difficult using guns from a higher region too. Why is this? The gun I’m using much more than meets the minimum recommended power for the hunt
Review by TheGreatPaulG on Deer Hunter Classic.