Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4, Xbox and PC Hopefully)

I'm on to ep 2 myself. Got no credits after ch 6. Feels like a bit of a slap in the face for that part of the game.
 
It's an interesting case study in terms of the pursuit of realism in games. The fact is realism can be boring and I can only assume real life cowboys/outlaws weren't always having a rooting tooting good time! I went back to AC odyssey and definitely noticed the difference in the game worlds, RD2 has absolutely nailed the natural organic feel whereas AC feels like copy paste in a lot of parts but with AC I feel more free to do what I want and also to jump into a bit of action/fun fairly quickly whereas I feel outside of robbing some innocent person in RD2 I'm always searching quite hard to find the action (Yes I know you can play poker, fish, hunt but none of those are particularly complex or fun for me).

My issues:

- Gameplay is far more linear than the open world would have you believe.
- Controls and gunplay are distinctly average (though weapons have nice meat to them)
- The storyline...meh
- Far too much watching my horse go from a to b in cinematic mode.
- In the pursuit of realism they have forgotten that games still need to be fun. Basic QOL aspects have been completely neglected (e.g. randomly not saving your weapon loadouts when getting off a horse if it happened to be holstered or you start another mission???!)


Positives
- The world genuinely feels organic and alive and a far more natural experience than any other open-world game out there.
- The visuals are great (except the lacklustre hdr implementation)
- Some of the missions are genuinely good fun and interesting.

It's a 7.5-8/10 for me at most, I do feel like the press have ignored some major points in their reviews and got swept up in the hype of the game but I guess nothing new there. I've enjoyed my time so far but unlike GTA 5 I don't think this is a game I'd want to play again once complete. Interested to see how the online portion turns out but suspect it will be the same ****show as GTA 5.
 
Pighardia said:
I've down a hour of the epilogue. I feel like this whole thing should just be a cutscene. I am literally playing it without even looking at the screen. A prompt says hit x and the game just hangs until you do.
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I would have been so much happier if the epilogue played out as one long cut scene. It all feels needlessly tacked on, to extend gameplay. :/
 
the_chicco said:
Right, because you can work out exactly what happens from my line of non descript text.

There's more spoilers in the game ad for god's sake. Grow up.
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Nice response. How is it childish? I'm just saying, knowing something bad, something sad, something shocking anything is not what I want. I asked in a very polite manner, why such the aggressive response?
 
I can't remember the last time I was so bored and frustrated by a game. I'm no where near the hours most of you have played but every time I start to play it it feels like a chore. Long slow horse rides listening to some drawn out dialogue, lots of bugs etc.

I don't understand all the 10/10 scores it's got, the reviewers must have been overwhelmed by the game and though that = good. Rockstar have managed to make a game that is zero fun and should have called it simulator. 5/10 for me, it would score less but looks good.
 
Oh my god!


Don't read this if you haven't done chapter 6-

I am playing months after the main game ends, as a completely different character, I was riding through Blackwater for the first time, when suddenly I hear a strained voice shout "has anybody seen Gavin"

So he wasn't in strawberry, he wasn't in Rhodes and he wasn't in Saint Denis... Now 6 months later he is tyring Blackwater!

I'm gonna find Gavin and I'm gonna get him!
 
I haven't barely started chapter 2 lol.

I brought back a boar and alligator hide yesterday, Only had one horse so had to jog from the north bayou right into Saint Denis to the trapper, took a while but was worth the 5 dollars.
 
I'm having my first play since a couple hours play after buying it (away with work :() and I love it.

Went to do a debt mission, got caught up rescuing some random bloke from bandits, got the debt, decided to go for the second, got waylaid by a load of o'Driscolls who blocked the road with a carriage and ended up in a huge shootout on horseback. Got them dealt with and went on my way to get the second debt before finding some woman who had been tossed from her horse so rescued her (great cinematic ride and got her backstory) before dropping her off and it was night. Heading back to camp got jumped by a wolf who I had to take out before eventually making it back part mauled :p

I understand people's frustrations if they've went on expecting GTA on horseback but it isn't that game. You get them moments and they are fun but the look and feel of the game are just awesome.

Hopefully get on tonight a little more!
 
Just started chapter 4 and played it for hours today, not boring in the slightest. A few of you just seem to have played it way too much and sound burnt out. One of my favourite Rockstar games tbh.
 
I suppose it depends what type of games you like in the end.

I prefer slow, linear story driven games set in a well crafted realistic world like RDR2. I don't need constant action to keep my attention. I like the long rides between/during missions where you get to hear the back story, and conversations between characters. I enjoy just watching the world carry on while I just sit there and watch NPC's talk, argue and fight between themselves, watching animals go about drinking, feeding and hunting their prey etc. It's great that the world doesn't revolve around your character. I also like that the main character isn't some young parkour expert with expert ninja skills or superpowers. He's an old cowboy past his prime, which gives credence to his slower paced animations and movement style.

It's hard to explain, but it doesn't feel like the world was crafted specifically for your character either. It feels the most organic world I've come across in a game so far. I've played HZD, All the AC games bar Odyssey which feel like the worlds simply there to serve a gameplay purpose (i.e. that towers there so you can climb up to get the map revealed etc)
 
This is kind of a spoiler maybe, but not really. In a mission just now I had to milk a cow. The game told me to press up on the left stick for one udder and up on the right stick for the other. I'm not making this up. It is 2018!

I thought I would test out this groundbreaking gameplay by seeing how you could mess it up... You can't. I bashed every button and did them out of sequence. Nothing happens.
 
None.

But if I had to, Bill, Sadie, Charles. The rest are useless spongers. Except for Micah, but I don't think leaving him out needs justification.
 
Tibbz2 said:
So many people throwing their toys out of the pram over people enjoying a game, love the internet.
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I've seen posts where you're throwing your toys out of the pram over people not enjoying the game. Has the opposite happened? I can't see any posts here calling people out for having the cheek to enjoy the game. Just people voicing their own complaints.
 
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