Khellendros, on 17 October 2019 - 11:31 AM, said:
Mentalist, on 17 October 2019 - 11:13 AM, said:
I wanted to like RDR2, so badly. I mean, the amount of detail in the game world is astonishing, an incredible achievement. And then it also has the most infuriating, aggravating control scheme and some baffling gameplay design decisions. After about 15 hours of playing, I still hadn't managed to 'get into it' in a way I had with the first game. It's quite an overwhelming game, yes, but I don't think that's the reason I stopped playing. There was just something about it that just didn't engage me. Technically, it's incredible. But I never became passionate about playing it.
That having been said, I do want to give it another go at some point.
I totally get the criticism around this, and it's quite possible the controls may turn me off (I dunno, I haven't played a Rockstar game since GTA 2. I tried 3 waaay back, but my PC at the time was crap, so I didn't get far into it before relapsing into RTSs again).
One thing I'm getting from it though is a sense of place that's giving me strong S.T.A.L.K.E.R. vibes. And that's one of my favourite games ever, even though when you aren't following the story, for the most part it's a meandering mess where stuff doesn't really happen unless you start messing with the world. But I still loved that sense of loneliness and "being lost in a harsh uncaring world" to death. If RDR2's frontier can recreate that sense of relief getting back to civilization, than it's be worth it.
Plus, y'know, controls can be fixed with mods'n'shit