aayl1 wrote:Zilnad wrote:I bought this in the recent sale but I think I'm losing interest now.. My completion percentage is about 40 but all the little gameplay niggles have taken their toll on me now. A lot of the time, it feels horrible to control and a lot of its mechanics are so obtuse.
I loved GTA V but RDR2 is closer to GTA IV.
I think I'm done with Rockstar now. Their style of open world game has been surpassed in every way by better developers. It feels like Rockstar are still stuck in the 2000s and haven't progressed in any way other than making things look prettier and prettier.
I'm going to try and push through to see the story but my concern is I'll give to anyway and end up resenting the game. It's been my biggest disappointment in recent times.
I agree with this, also this video essay is very on point and explains all my gripes with the game extremely well:
EDIT: jump in at 2.40 for some truth bombs
I've saved the rest of that video for later but 13 minutes in and he's absolutely bang on.
Example: I was on a mission with Bill to rob a wagon. We arrived at the ambush spot and held up the wagon. The NPCs all started pleading with us and Bill got angry and I thought "strawberry float this, let's just shoot them, take everything and get out".
I shot them both using dead eye and got an instant "mission failed".
Retried the checkpoint and the strawberry floating mission ends in a shoot out anyway, in the same spot, in which you kill absolutely everyone before robbing the wagon.
What the strawberry float?!
I'm a strawberry floating arsehole bandit and I failed a mission because I shot the guy I was robbing before he pulled his gun on me?! And it's not even a one off case. Every single mission is so linear; ride here, watch a cutscene, do exactly as we say, shoot people, run away.
strawberry float off Rockstar! Coming into this game immediately after finishing BotW only makes its flaws even more unbearable.
The video has really made me want to replay MGSV though. Now that's an amazing sandbox.