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xrnzaaas
Member
*2018 
Some of the parts of the game were incredible, but others felt poor and outdated. The mission system is a great example, they shouldn't be so separate from the rest of the game and you shouldn't get a game over screen when you don't follow the route the devs planned for you (like leave the designated mission area). The shooting mechanics were also deeply flawed at least on the consoles.
Some of the parts of the game were incredible, but others felt poor and outdated. The mission system is a great example, they shouldn't be so separate from the rest of the game and you shouldn't get a game over screen when you don't follow the route the devs planned for you (like leave the designated mission area). The shooting mechanics were also deeply flawed at least on the consoles.
dispensergoinup
Gold Member
I love RDR2 even with its controls, I'm like 85% done with story mode but dipping into Online and yeah while the controls take a bit of getting used to the whole game as a package is still excellent for me. Bought it twice on PS4 and PC as well, and having a great time.
mcjmetroid
Member
Possibly the most critically overated game since Bioshock infinite for sure.
It cemented my distrust of reviews.
Opinions are opinions but this game was never a 10/10 and never will be.a 10/10 game doesn't control like shit.
It cemented my distrust of reviews.
Opinions are opinions but this game was never a 10/10 and never will be.a 10/10 game doesn't control like shit.
mcjmetroid
Member
See your next sentence after the bolded.
What you pass off as nothing is a bigger deal than your positives.
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The Bloody-Nine
Member
I agree with the OP. Great production values, dreadful game.
hollowcupra
Member
Well it came out on 2018 so it was the dissapointment of that year, 2019 has Death Stranding for that.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
I've finished both and Death Stranding was much more enjoyable to me. Story was more interesting and the gameplay too.
RDR2 is just mostly the same boring mission design and forced slow walking. The best thing about RDR2 was Arthur Morgan and few other characters.
Ixiah
Banned
Story sucks
Laced with sjw history revisionism
Slow and boring "immersive" Gameplay
Rigid Mission structure that punishes out of the box problem solving,
Controlls that have been done better in the 90´s
Yeah its amazingly Detailed, but so what ?
They forgot to spend some Millions on Fun.
Laced with sjw history revisionism
Slow and boring "immersive" Gameplay
Rigid Mission structure that punishes out of the box problem solving,
Controlls that have been done better in the 90´s
Yeah its amazingly Detailed, but so what ?
They forgot to spend some Millions on Fun.
Panaphonics
Banned
No, it was death stranding.
Also, tue only disappointing thing was, that it was not even native 4K on PS4 PRO.
Well, at least it was native 4K on Xbox one X
Also, tue only disappointing thing was, that it was not even native 4K on PS4 PRO.
Well, at least it was native 4K on Xbox one X
Dr. Claus
Banned
Fun is subjective. Given how well the game sold and the praises it has gotten since its initial release, millions of people clearly enjoy the game. Also, what "SJW History Revisionism"? I am all for calling out regressive mindsets, but you are reaching if you are trying to suggest RDR2 is "laced" with it.
"Slow and boring 'immersive' gameplay", "rigid missions structure that punishes out of the box problem solving", "stiff controls" - that is Rockstar's MO since GTA IV.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Yeah, exactly, I wanted more balls to the wall blistering gameplay and rocket jumping in my cowboy sim. My favourite cowboy films consist of fast paced action and parkour..
The fuck am I reading here? "It was boring walking and talking"? Come the fuck on.. What else did cowboys do then? What in your mind do they do?
The game was great, a brilliant cowboy sim. I actually tire of reading this hot take shit.
It's fine if you dont like a game but to say the game is boring when it's pretty much a cowboy sim is just talking bollocks no matter how you say it.
Elektro Demon
Banned
Thank god I don't have an attention span of a 15 year old teenager. I really enjoyed the game, and the story is awesome. I liked the slower pace.
GamingKaiju
Member
To me no.
The controls are hideous, honestly mario 64 controlled better with no one analogue stick. The mission structure is rubbish, you have a massive open world where you can approach any free roam object anyway you wish but a mission structure that makes uncharted feel like an open world RPG. An honour rating that shouldn’t be there, you are an outlaw FFS! A camp system that is completely useless after the 2nd chapter and an upgrade structure that felt like a last minute addition.
But the world, graphics the atmosphere and the story are amazing not many games are as immersive as RDR2 it is a rollercoaster of a game and shouldn’t be missed.
The controls are hideous, honestly mario 64 controlled better with no one analogue stick. The mission structure is rubbish, you have a massive open world where you can approach any free roam object anyway you wish but a mission structure that makes uncharted feel like an open world RPG. An honour rating that shouldn’t be there, you are an outlaw FFS! A camp system that is completely useless after the 2nd chapter and an upgrade structure that felt like a last minute addition.
But the world, graphics the atmosphere and the story are amazing not many games are as immersive as RDR2 it is a rollercoaster of a game and shouldn’t be missed.
OneShotThrill
Member
I wanna know too..what SJW history revisionism?
Aion002
Member
I bought day one on PS4.... I finished the whole game quite fast and quitted.
After the PC version was released it crossed my mind to buy it for PC.... But before buying, I decided to reinstall the PS4 version, to make sure I would replay it on PC..... yeah... I gave up quickly.... turns out I only cared to finish it once because of the story.... the gameplay was really boring.
After the PC version was released it crossed my mind to buy it for PC.... But before buying, I decided to reinstall the PS4 version, to make sure I would replay it on PC..... yeah... I gave up quickly.... turns out I only cared to finish it once because of the story.... the gameplay was really boring.
bhunachicken
Member
I pre-ordered the game on PS4 two full years before release.
I played it for 3 weeks and then took it to CEX, exchanged for cash. Cost me £46 new, got £40 from the store for it.
Very disappointed, as RDR1 was one of my favourite games of the previous generation. I asked on here if I was just seeing it through rose-tinted glasses, but plenty said that RDR1 > RDR2.
I played it for 3 weeks and then took it to CEX, exchanged for cash. Cost me £46 new, got £40 from the store for it.
Very disappointed, as RDR1 was one of my favourite games of the previous generation. I asked on here if I was just seeing it through rose-tinted glasses, but plenty said that RDR1 > RDR2.
dDoc
Member
Think there was a mission with women protesting about something. Dont think it makes RDR2 SJW in my book.
Agree with most of this, just the it shouldnt be missed bit. It can be missed tbh. R needs to up their gameplay stakes in their games.
MaKTaiL
Member
For you maybe but for many others, including me, it was GOTY.
XBlackCavendishX
Member
I laughed when Rockstar was sweeping the 2018 VGA's and managed to lose out to God of War for Game of The Year. It was just a huge upset that I wasn't expecting. That being said Rockstar had made promises prior to the initial release that they wouldn't put such a heavy emphasis on monetizing the multiplayer, and that they would support single player post-launch due to the overwhelming backlash from lack of post-launch support for single player in GTA5. They almost instantly broke their promise and we've not seen nor even heard rumor of single player DLC, but multiplayer continues to grow. So to get to my point and make a short answer longer than necessary, yes... RDR2 was a massive disappointment in 2019.
Ulysses 31
Member
Youtube removed the video, here's the bitchute version
888
Member
I don’t mind a slower burn of a story. We have games that are non stop go go go. The controls are tied to the animations which are purposely sluggish. This was my major complaint playing on Xbox. On PC it is a lot better and aiming is a lot easier.
But from a tech standpoint and story the game is phenomenal and far from a disappointment.
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OneShotThrill
Member
Think there was a mission with women protesting about something. Dont think it makes RDR2 SJW in my book.
I agree ..thats not sjw worthy. The late 1890s was filled with womens rights movements. The politics that get thrown around these days...
I agree ..thats not sjw worthy. The late 1890s was filled with womens rights movements. The politics that get thrown around these days...
Ulysses 31
Member
The game does leave out "interesting" details like that why there where no black suffragettes and that some suffragettes were not above using violence.Think there was a mission with women protesting about something. Dont think it makes RDR2 SJW in my book.
I agree ..thats not sjw worthy. The late 1890s was filled with womens rights movements. The politics that get thrown around these days...
CatLady
Selfishly plays on Xbox Purr-ies X
When I was buying my 1X in addition to extra trade-in value on my OG One and PS4, Gamestop had a deal where you got $100 off a 1X if you bought RDR2 so in essence I got paid $45 to take it. I never would have even considered buying the game if they hadn't paid me to take it, I hate Rockstar games.
Was it a disappointment for me? No, it was just as boring, tedious & repetitious as I thought it would be, but in native 4k on the X it sure made a beautiful introduction to 4K gaming and as an animal lover I thought the horses were great.
Was it a disappointment for me? No, it was just as boring, tedious & repetitious as I thought it would be, but in native 4k on the X it sure made a beautiful introduction to 4K gaming and as an animal lover I thought the horses were great.
GlassAwful
Member
There's people that find it slow, cumbersome, and not enough shooty to talky ratio and dislike it for that.
There's people that say the slowness and clunkiness doesn't bother them so they find it good because they like the scenario, the characters, and and have an affinity for high production visuals in Rockstar open world games.
And then there's people like me who don't mind slowness and don't mind clunkiness to some degree but recognize the game to be the worst collection of terrible gameplay mechanics implemented in a modern high production game.
There isn't a single feature I couldn't pick apart in paragraphs for how amateurish and badly it is executed. That's how bad the game is. No one who has ever said the gameplay in RDR2 is good could ever explain why they think that while many have laid bare the games faults in almost every conceivable area in thread after thread.
Which is why for me it is the biggest disappointment of 2018, 2019, 2020 and so on until we can forget it happened. Unfortunately it was lauded with praise from critics and big sales so Rockstar will change nothing and probably triple down on gameplay implemented by unpaid interns as an afterthought to their stories and high production visuals.
There's people that say the slowness and clunkiness doesn't bother them so they find it good because they like the scenario, the characters, and and have an affinity for high production visuals in Rockstar open world games.
And then there's people like me who don't mind slowness and don't mind clunkiness to some degree but recognize the game to be the worst collection of terrible gameplay mechanics implemented in a modern high production game.
There isn't a single feature I couldn't pick apart in paragraphs for how amateurish and badly it is executed. That's how bad the game is. No one who has ever said the gameplay in RDR2 is good could ever explain why they think that while many have laid bare the games faults in almost every conceivable area in thread after thread.
Which is why for me it is the biggest disappointment of 2018, 2019, 2020 and so on until we can forget it happened. Unfortunately it was lauded with praise from critics and big sales so Rockstar will change nothing and probably triple down on gameplay implemented by unpaid interns as an afterthought to their stories and high production visuals.
888
Member
Think there was a mission with women protesting about something. Dont think it makes RDR2 SJW in my book.
I agree ..thats not sjw worthy. The late 1890s was filled with womens rights movements. The politics that get thrown around these days...
There was also a mission about a man dressed as a woman with a donkey made up to look like a zebra. I cracked up a few times at that mission.
anthraticus
Banned
Needs an increased bullet damage mod to make shootouts actually deadly & not as boring.
This is the biggest problem for me in recent R* games and really brings them down BIG TIME. I enjoy being able to think about and come up with different approaches, otherwise I feel like I'm just 'going through the motions' and lose interest.
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Kadayi
Banned
Playing it at the moment. Deep into chapter 2. For the most part, I'm enjoying it (production valves are fantastic), but there's an inordinate amount of low tier busywork in the game and getting jumped by about 5 O'Driscolls seemingly every time I leave the camp is getting increasingly tedious (out in the open with nowhere to find cover generally results in a quick death and a reload back to the camp). I'm always of the view that Developers need to respect players time as free time is a commodity for all of us, and unfortunately, Rockstar is poor at understanding that (ironic really given all the rumours circulating around their alleged slave labour work practices). It's fine to have the mission introduction take place at the camp, but the mission proper should start at the first objective. Not require me to shlep for 5 - 10 minutes across the map every time if I fail it. Yeah I know get gud, but whatever.
Derktron
Banned
I know people will get their panties in a bunch but yes to me the game was boring in terms of how slow the story felt, everything else is perfect, the world is amazing, it felt real and that's what Rockstar excels at, but the game also felt empty too. I couldn't finish it. I'm still on Chapter 2. (The starting point)
What do you think about Zelda botw and its 97 metacritics?
Fox Mulder
Member
It’s a gorgeous game with a great open world. The deliberately slow pace and clunky controls is unsurprisingly a turn off for some people.
I got 100% in RDR but fell off RDR2 in a week or so. Every time I think about going back, I remember that I’ve likely forgot the controls and don’t want to even consider starting again to restart the story.
I got 100% in RDR but fell off RDR2 in a week or so. Every time I think about going back, I remember that I’ve likely forgot the controls and don’t want to even consider starting again to restart the story.
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Just like you
nani17
are in a big trouble
I did play it and didn't like it one bit but I may return to it. Also didn't like control which many people said it was great
Ixiah
Banned
Helping faminists, Helping native americans to fight back European invaders, listening to woman saying they want to vote, listening to a black guy saying Dutch treats him nice.
Go on a moral rampage for a black Merchant, who you dont know at all, because he gets robbed, deliver Gunman Justice.
And the next Second ?
Kill People by the dozend, Rob Trains, Caravans, Banks.
Sadie Adler, the Mary Sue who becomes a Killermachine in 4 Weeks, shits on everything a Man does, but when she uses Violence its Empowering.
Yeah, i said Laced, not Full of it, but its one of the Reasons im not gonna play that Game.