Parksey wrote:I don't think it's strawmanning if Mafro's just laughing at your post, Photek.
Anyway I'm baffled a bit by the hype for this. I played RDR, and really enjoyed it. It was a good open world game that had a great setting. However I can't help but think some people are a bit blinded by the Western theme. It didn't really do much different from other open world games. The missions were very similar to what was asked of is in GTA, the gunplay and character movement was very similar to GTA and the side quests and world events and whatnot were all quite similar to other open world games.
It was very good, but it wasn't a masterpiece in my eyes. So I find a lot of the unequivocal hype and fawning to be a bit much. Seems to happen every time we get a Rockstar game. It's probably not helped by the fact that, although I liked RDR, the past two GTAs have left me a little.cold. V was better, but we had this sort of hype for IV too, and how it would change open world games, and it just didn't.
I would actually argue that since the PlayStation 2 era ended, Rockstar's open world games havent been at the forefront of the genre.
I totally agree with you on the hype. Rockstar are masters at generating it and getting people all giddy on the Kool Aid with minimal effort. They always seem really controlling over the press with their previews and reviews as well so I don't even bother reading any of them. It's pretty obvious from the reactions when it was revealed that it's going to get 10s across the board.
GTA IV was decent. The open world was fun but the story was pretty crap and it was still filled with a bunch of problems form the previous gen's games (no mid-mission checkpoints, sluggish controls, crap shooting, annoying weapon selection, same boring tailing mission templates with invincible enemies until you reach a certain point etc.) The two single player DLCs (remember those?) were better than the main game.
RDR was all the worst parts of GTA IV in a more boring setting. Got bored after Mexico and didn't finish.
GTA V loved it for the most part. Story and characters were a lot more interesting than the previous game and some of the set pieces were great. Didn't put much time into the online stuff because it was a mess so I didn't get to try most of the heists.
RDR2 - not arsed and even more so now after that interview, Dan Houser always comes off as a dickhead with no sense of self-awareness in every interview I've read with him.
Personally I think Assassins Creed 2, Brotherhood and Revelations were better than any of Rockstar's stuff last gen and Witcher 3 is currently the best open world game out there, can't see that changing for a long time. I'd probably rate Watch Dogs 2 better than GTA V too.
Peter Crisp wrote:Tomous wrote:Just saw someone on ResetEra say "Over 7 days that's 14 hours per day, which isn't too insane". What.
Was the person by any chance American?
Asking any staff to do 100 hour weeks is bloody stupid as so many studies have shown that productivity falls off a cliff and would it really stop people buying the game if it was out a few months late so that the developers aren't worked into a state of deep depression?
That thread is full of idiots like that and people defending Rockstar, unsurprisingly.