RogueSix wrote on Oct 8, 2024, 13:36:

LurkerLito wrote on Oct 8, 2024, 12:58:
Probably requires that social club nonsense too I reckon.

It will but the hypocrites don't care. Requiring an account or launcher is only wrong when Sony, Epic, Ubi or EA do it. When Rockstar or Blizzard require an account it is (mostly*) fine.


* yes, I have seen a few complaints about the Battle.net account linking on Steam but nothing major and by far none of the cry baby temper tantrum muppet shows we are always getting with other games these days (especially Sony as of late which really triggers the cry baby whiners super-hard for some reason). No review bombing either. Rockstar and Blizzard are immune to that thanks to their armies of cultist fanbois.

It probably has to do with the fact that people generally have less technical problems with Steam or Bnet. Not that I am a fan of linking those either and I haven't linked them. I already run bnet so it makes little sense to run one of their games thru steam and bnet. Rockstar's launcher is generally junk and I don't have that linked either because the games/codes I bought were cheaper for the Rockstar only version or only available on Epic/Rockstar for a month before the Steam version (RDR2 on PC launch).

Yep. The first half of RDR 2 is simply: Yo, the gang need mo' money (Dutch verbatim). This turns the game into a predictable slog. You already know before conducting any heist that it ain't gonna work out because if it did then the gang would ride happily off into the sunset and game over.

The story became slightly better in the second half with the actual redemption part but it also seemed a little far-fetched and weird sometimes. The game allows a lot of freedom so it could even become contradictory in case you did any of the side quests that require "evil" acts in the late game when Arthur was already supposed to be on his path to become an angel. That's when the story almost fell apart sometimes because it made absolutely no sense.

I really loved the world in RDR 2 and it is probably the best recreation of real North American locations in any game to date. The simulation was amazing including the wildlife, weather system, everything.

The home stretch of the story was decent but the 80% to 90% before that were not. Definitely a far cry from "fantastically written". It makes me wonder what the point of reference for that statement is? Yes. Compared to Counter-Strike 2 it was fantastically written. Compared to any other decent story game not so much. It took way too long to get to the good part of the story at the very end.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Oct 8, 2024, 13:18:
Is this one less tiresome than the sequel? Because in the second, these motherfuckers couldn't shut up to save their lives.

By that do you mean that the cutscenes and story bits went on too long, or that the NPC's kept barking at you about this or that?

Beamer wrote on Oct 8, 2024, 13:50:
Yes, but also, no. I thought both were fantastically written.

Different strokes and all that. I found the second to be mind numbingly dull and felt railroaded through choices.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Oct 8, 2024, 13:18:
Is this one less tiresome than the sequel? Because in the second, these motherfuckers couldn't shut up to save their lives.

Yes, but also, no. I thought both were fantastically written.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Oct 8, 2024, 13:18:
Is this one less tiresome than the sequel? Because in the second, these motherfuckers couldn't shut up to save their lives.

I finished the first one, but the second one, as you said, became too tiresome for me. The first one has a much shorter campaign than the second one, which certainly helps.

The zombie dlc on the other hand, felt like they were doing a quick cash in on the popularity of zombies at the time. I think I played it an hour or two before giving up on it.

LurkerLito wrote on Oct 8, 2024, 12:58:
Probably requires that social club nonsense too I reckon.

It will but the hypocrites don't care. Requiring an account or launcher is only wrong when Sony, Epic, Ubi or EA do it. When Rockstar or Blizzard require an account it is (mostly*) fine.


* yes, I have seen a few complaints about the Battle.net account linking on Steam but nothing major and by far none of the cry baby temper tantrum muppet shows we are always getting with other games these days (especially Sony as of late which really triggers the cry baby whiners super-hard for some reason). No review bombing either. Rockstar and Blizzard are immune to that thanks to their armies of cultist fanbois.

Looks dated as fuck. This better not cost more than $/€9.99 after 14 years.

Definitely a rush job.

Is this one less tiresome than the sequel? Because in the second, these motherfuckers couldn't shut up to save their lives.

Probably requires that social club nonsense too I reckon.

I'm sure the horse armor will be amazing.