I don't get it, this game is apparently one of the best games ever but I've never been so fucking bored in my life playing this shit. I'm still at the camp in the snow, does it get better?
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you are right for the wrong reasons
I was told it was like witcher 3, but so far I've had zero interest in any of the plot or characters
Who the fuck told you that?
just play the stupid game and be bored for once in your life, learn to go slow you fucking piece of shit or i will get angry
it is like the witcher 3.
press right and left stick at the same time to activate the witcher senses.
you wouldnt get it... your pleasure craving brain needs action NOW or it will get bored. now back to playing genshin you go
what are some fine details that (mostly) autists will miss?
Even though I enjoyed RDR2, the intro is one of the worst intros in any modern game I've ever played. The shit goes on for way too long and all slow sludging through the snow is just tedious. Every game has that "area" you don't want to replay but for very few games is it the first fucking 2 hours of the game.
Does it get better?
I'm 30 fucking years old
It depends on what you mean by "better". The story and characters pick up. The game and missions become better for sure. You haven't even unlocked Free Roam or anything yet. You can't explore. You can't go into towns and buy anything yet. The intro is basically an on-rails experience. I would play until you get to the fishing mission with little Jack in Chapter 2. If you don't like the game by then, the game probably just isn't for you.
Boomers can't handle modern vidya, sorry
It's zoomers who can't get into RDR though. The game wants you to take it slow, enjoy the open world, immerse yourself etc. Zoomers want nonstop action, which is why they always get filtered by RDR1 and 2.
Show me any boomer game with this level of detail, all of your games are shooty shooty action trash. Your generation would just tell anyone who plays this shit to go outside
How so? They clearly love it
>They clearly love it
Show me the data.
Just from being a western alone zoomers are going to avoid it like the plague and doubly so with all the slow simulator elements.
RDR2 is literally a zoomer filter.
My buddy's boomer brother was filtered by it, both generations are retarded dopamine slaves.
skill issue
>Wellll Dutch, if a feller wants to put a cage on his pecker so he cant get wood why should we judge him? Whatever floats his boat is fine with me. And if he gives the key to the cage to a Black feller that's fine as well.
I can literally hear this
Why hasn't someone made an Arthur Morgan AI voice yet?
They have, it's pretty shit with accents.
Ganker arthur got the best voice. I've listened few of the AI ones and they're4 not nearly as good.
go play call of duty, zoomie
It gets better, took me two restarts before I clicked with the game. Controls are needlessly obtuse or suffer some variation of menu fuckery, such as how you equip permanent sidearms.
I suggest you play the story until your next game is a few missions in, then go out in to the local areas and hunt/interact with the stranger missions. There is genuinely a lot to see but you will have to learn the somewhat odd systems and get used to them.
*your next camp
RDR2 is simultaneously both the best and the worst game I've ever played. It has so many moments of brilliance, but then it also has so many moments where I genuinely hate the actual gameplay. The way Arthur controls, the constant, excessive animations he does with each and every action, it can get really annoying sometimes.
Also I fucking hate stranger missions. half the time it's just some random O'Driscol gank squad or other bullshit encounter that instantly kills you. Why is this game so obsessed with realism on one hand, but then it always overstays its welcome with extremely unrealistic enemy encounters? Why can't there just be 3 bandits to kill for once, why must there always be 10 or 20?
>Also I fucking hate stranger missions. half the time it's just some random O'Driscol gank squad or other bullshit encounter that instantly kills you
This was one of the reason I dropped my second playthrough a little after the first chapter.
Get into an ambush, jump off a horse and I turn out the fucking horse has my rifle because I didn't do some shit in a menu or remember to equip it AGAIN since the last time I got off the horse.
I took some adjusting to, but you do sort of start to think differently so that shit doesn't happen again. But I shouldn't have to.
>being this shit at one of the easiest games ever made
Literally go Deadeye and just snipe everyone. Also, those aren't Stranger Missions those are random encounters.
Wasn't unlocked and I was in the middle of nowhere when ambushed.
>wasn't unlocked
It's unlocked by default. You can literally use deadeye to tag the wolves and the deer when you go hunting in the intro and out to save John.
Sure thing samefag retard.
>samefag
>It's unlocked by default. You can literally use deadeye to tag the wolves and the deer when you go hunting in the intro and out to save John.
incorrect, deadeye is unlocked during the "Old Friends", which is unlocked after the rescue John mission
>incorrect, deadeye is unlocked during the "Old Friends", which is unlocked after the rescue John mission
I may be incorrect but there is literally nowhere for you to get ambushed before Chapter 2 lmao either way he's still lying about Deadeye not being unlocked by the time random ambush encounters are unlocked.
Wasn't charged, I mean.
No one cares about your anecdotes, shill.
But that's what I'm saying. The game is so obsessed with realism in everything, except in combat encounters. You aren't actually meant to ever have a realistic shoot-out, you are always meant to go into the Matrix and headshot 10 bandits in a row in 2 seconds. And if your deadeye meter happens to be empty because you forgot to use a consumable, you're just dead because the combat encounters outside of the actual story missions simply aren't designed to be fun or doable without deadeye.
Except that isn't the case. You can have those shitty realistic shootouts that you want just don't use deadeye and use a normal repeater where you have to shoot someone 2-3 times for them to die. I mean I guess that's more realistic right? Shooting someone 4 times just to down them in a day and age with no body armor and when bros were dying of diarrhea.
Whats more realistic is them shooting your horse but they never do.
I don't think most bandits are going to waste shots shooting at your horse when there is a whole human being with a loaded gun firing at them.
Then they're retarded because take down the horse and the guy is fucked.
>Then they're retarded
Yes, they are because they're bandits. I really don't get what you're arguing here. Cops aren't going or bike tires or car tires lmao they're going to mag dump your retarded ass because you have a loaded gun pointed at them. You're talking shit about going Matrix mode but random bandits aren't going full 007 and headshotting a horse so you can Christopher Reeves yourself. They're just going to shoot at the bro with the fucking gun like bandits do.
>You're talking shit about going Matrix mode
I am? I haven't even mentioned it
>ignore big target, shoot small target
Low effort
Please understand I must defend all elements of this game at all times
no, that too is part of what I hate about the gameplay, thanks for mentioning it. Bullet spongy, unarmored human enemies in a "realistic" game with guns is utterly retarded.
What are you even blathering about you braindead retard, enemies take 3-4 shots to kill, tops.
Just imagine you're in a 70's western. The wildlife and injins are a constant threat and oppressive, stepping foot out of town scares even the locals. Stepping into town is also a gamble, what with the drifters, the grifters, the hotshots, and the cowboys getting their first drink after 2 months on the cattle train. Shootouts can happen at any moment when the tempers and the whiskey are high, and everyone knows to clear the streets for the duel. The sheriff is always just around the corner, and hes either a bumbling doofus, corrupt, or the best fucking shot in the tristate area. Everyone is a crack shot when the story needs it, and the bad guys suck except for the "dangerous" one. It's just a 70's western movie so treat it with the same logic.
70s western movies don't have to go to a gunshop book to ensure they have a repeater on their back without menu access.
70's westerns also weren't interactive media.
Then don't make the comparison
once you unlock the hunting, real game starts. that shit is more fun than the actual game.
also one underrated detail about this game: it is very comfy. go in first person and start playing poker. you will lose the sense of time. random events like parties are also incredibly immersive and comfortable. it has so much work put into it, all the songs you hear, all the dialogue. it sometimes feels like home. most of the time i played it it felt like real life
>hunting
I am unironically embarrassed at the sheer amount of hours I put in at Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 this last playthrough strictly just hunting. If Rockstar put out a hunting game I would buy that shit so fast. The ONLY knock I have on it...there really should be a "skip skinning" animation. I like how each animal have unique skinning animations but watching that shit after hunting 12 wolves and 6 deer is fucking annoying as fuck.
2 solutions. Either 1. add a skip skinning button during it so we can skip it. Or 2. have it unlocked after skinning a certain amount of animals. Like skin 10 deer to unlock the skip skinning animation for deer or x animal. It is a god send when an animal was at a weird angle or hill in RDR1/RDR2 and you just run your knife along it and glitch the pelt into your hand. I know they were going for full immersion but the skinning animation can become tedious as fuck. I would have loved this for when I was going for perfect alligator pelts and being worried one was going to spawn on my asshole while in the skinning animation.
PC must have a mod to skip, sur
Every playthrough I've done was on PS4 but that's based if someone had a mod for that. Shit should be in the game. It was tedious in RDR1 but the glitch happened more often in that game vs RDR2. Arthur will even pick the animal up and flip and shit so he can do that long-ass skinning animation vs just glitching it.
Last I played on PC there wasn't a mod to skip it, but there was a mod to speed the animations up to 16x. The problem was it also sped the in-game clock up, so if you had bounty hunters moving in from half a mile out, they'd be directly on top of you opening fire by the time you finished skinning an animal. Still neat though.
filtered by good game design lmao just stop posting
I want to mulch gotta go go go gays like you into fertilizer
i remember being able to skip certain skinning animations, but i forgot how
In the first game if your horse was ontop of the corpse it would skip the skinning animation.
You'll be crying like a bitch by the end
In the off chance this just isn't bait and you're actually wanting to know. Play till you get to the second camp near Valentine. If after you do some missions there and aren't hooked by the game play loop or story then you should cut your losses.
It's the most immersive game ever made
No.
Post your top 3.
It's an absolute triumph and the only game that feels like actual wizardry
It depends on what you are looking for. It's a good hunting/mountain man simulator with detailed unskippable animations for literally every action in the game. The combat and story are pretty mediocre.
Yes it gets immensely better after the snow camp. It is a very good game to play through once. It’s not really a multi-play though or a 100% type game but the story is worth it one time.
I didn't like the game but OP obviously hasn't played much of it. Opinion discarded
That's the tutorial, fucknuts. Game opens up after that camp. You're free to travel the whole map if you want afterwards
It has less content than Skyrim in a map that's larger than Skyrim. It's a perfect example of a failed attempt at making a Bethesda quality open world. The people that praised it mostly praised the story and nothing more
Lmao utterly fucking mentally ill. Skyrim isn't even in the same world-system as the craft that went into Red Dead's world. You're just a goblin who loves bing bing wahoo and fantasy make believe fairy dust bullshit. That's why high fidelity realism of real historical settings makes you seethe
Thanks for confirming what I said with your sheer retardation
>Bethesda quality open world
Lmao, Bethesda are still making games that are inferior to Gothic 1 in terms of open world design. RDR2 isn't filled with uninspired, literally AI generated radiant quests and procedurally generated dungeons like Skyrim is, I give you that, but that hardly makes it worse. The open world in RDR2 feels alive particularly because there isn't some random video game shit happening every 5 seconds.
bro, gothic 1 and 2 are the pinnacle of rpg and world design.
games being inferior to it isn't an insult by any means.
lmao Beth wish they could make a game one tenth as good as rdr
No. It’s boring. The plot just repeats itself over and over. Rockstar games actually have shit writing and everyone pretends it’s good. It took me forever just to finish gtav because it’s actually fucking boring.
>boring
There's a quite a lot to criticize, but boring it certainly isn't.
If Ganker likes a game it's usually shit
Pretty much but it's not absolute. The more buzz a game gets the more casual trash it's going to be these days, but this is more a symptom of the dead gaming industry
it's considered great because of the movie part
Rockstar feels that the game part of the movie game gets in the way
you'll have to make your own fun if you want to get anything out of it
I beat the game using only tomahawks and my hunting knife whenever possible
It’s good, just don’t rush the story missions or you’ll hate it, they’re the worst part
You're supposed to roleplay as the unusually progressive turn of the century mass-murdering cowboy, anon.
I tried RDR2 twice and both times I dropped it around the Braithwaites missions. It's just too fucking boring. And I'm not talking about the lengthy animations, I actually liked those, but the basic Rockstar gameplay of "ride to place - listen to dialogue - shoot - ride back - listen to dialogue" was so mind numbingly boring that I can't fanthom how anyone could finish the entire game. The story kept me going for a while, but eventually, I just couldn't stomach another mission of braindead horse riding and shitty point and click gunplay.
That said, it was a nice cowboy simulator outside of the main story, with the animations really adding to the immersion.
You need an IQ of 90 to be engaged by this game.
so you have a sub-90 IQ? good to know
Explain to me why your brain finds 10 hour long animations and repetitive gameplay involving endless horse riding without any variation rewarding.
The person you're talking to probably hasn't even played the game
>endless horse riding without any variation
The variation happens in the landscape, and sky, the beautifully realized natural setting you ultimately bought the game for. If you want to just blam blam wahoo go play CoD. Fucking gremlin
>the gameplay is actually the empty game
wow thanks
Watch a netflix show or go hiking
Go shoot a real gun then, gay
It's empty because you are
>it's not the game that doesn't have any content, you jsut don't have any content to put in the game
I think you have me confused with a pajeet rockstar developer
>the game should just jack me off or else it's a bad game
Shit eating goblin
>if you want games to have content I'm going to get angry
what sort of autism is this
If you're that bored by nature, even a gamified representation of it, you're probably a soulless goblin. Get more vitamin D and stop masturbating. I'm serious
Looking at trees isn't content
>I must be stimulated at all times or I might have to be alone with my thoughts for a second!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shut the FUCK up nerd
trees aren't content you shit eating goblin
>N-nature isn't content!!
What am I even reading? How many Japanese games are in your Steam library? Fucking clown mutt
trees aren't content you shit eating goblin
okay go post another thread on Ganker crying about it
>haha I love staring at trees
congratulations on being the target audience of modern games
I also like running around with a high bounty so I can shoot bros 🙂
yes it is, and the shading on the grass looks great. No one does nature like rockstar
>at all times
>for a second
You spend a quarter of the 60 hours long game riding from point a to point b. The railroading missions force you to take the same routes over and over again. Lookind at the landscape is fun in the beggining, or when you get to new places, but like everything in this game, it gets old fast.
I'm 40 hours into the game and nothing is old yet, sounds like a you problem you dopamine slave chud goblin moron. It's called moderation. You gays live and breathe this medium but you still don't know how to properly enjoy it lmao
didn't ask
yes it is, you just don't appreciate graphics. Anyway it sounds like your biggest problem with the game is that you didn't run around with a high bounty
Be honest, you want to LARP as the protag because he's le alpha male Chad.
I am bored by digital representations of vast nature lacking interesting interactions. The only thing you're getting is a minimally interactable visual representation of landscapes akin to google street view.
There's interesting interactions going on all over the place, it's rockstar's best sandbox
poor piggie 🙁
Use street view on google maps and set your location to Montana
Epic burn bro, you must write for Cracked or something. gay
That's because you don't know how to savor serotonergic entertainment that cares more about making your engagement with the world feel weighted, real, instead of just jacking you off with ephemeral dopamine bursts. I bet you marathon this game and then blame it for not being able to stimulate you anymore
Because you're a non-human who needs to kill or fuck to feel alive. I hope this helps
Not to mention the variety between different horse breeds and the expansive weapon selection. What really makes the game for me is how it manages to let you flip between first and third person and neither mode feels compromised. And running around with a high bounty is peak ludo.
>expansive weapon selection
there's like 5 pistols in the game
Admiring the pretty nature is nice, but it gets boring real fucking fast when you're 10 hours in and youre riding from Valentine to camp for the twentieth time
Yeah, If i were retarded enough to enjoy staring at a blank wall, i could probably enjoy this game too.
see your problem is you're playing a controller game, a SP shooter at that, with KBM... dummy.
>ride behind some gay as he keeps droning on and on and on, then go through a railroaded shooting gallery and ride back
Fantastic movie
I guarantee you consume Japanese media.
>consume
Go back
>nier: automata... is peak fiction.. the existentialist themes, I just can't... masterpiece!!!
This is you
Us nihilists right?
I consume Japanese media just as a I consume American, Russian, British, Czech and fuck knows what else. You don't?
sorry i got principles
sounds like part video part game aka video game 🙂
You don't have to like the game, but why do you get so buttflustered over it?
What are some good western/cowboy games apart from RDR1?
Gun
Call of Juarez 2 and Gunslinger
The old Lucasarts game Outlaws
RDR1 obviously
That is literally it.
Outlaws
I am a fatherless zoomer and the RDR2 protag is my substitute paternal role model, which is why I like this game. I was raised by a single mother and feel homoerotic sentiments about him, I wish he's caress me tenderly and enter my ass.
nah zoomies hate RDR2 because it doesn't zoom like fortnite
Only zoomers and 92 IQ proles without a university education can appreciate this disgusting piece of trash netflix show.
whatever helps you cope 🙂
Bros what the fuck was the ring ding zoo? Some kind of animal?
DOOM 2016 was also hailed as one of the best games ever but it's just mediocre tbqh.
Yes, give it time. It's a bit of a slow start. Not everyone will enjoy or appreciate the game.
I LOVE riding my horse doing nothing and i tend to get bored of open world games with nothing to do but fuck do i love this game , its supposed to be like when you go hiking , "relaxing" its def not made for those who want instant action. In rd1 i killed every npc i encountered but in this game i almost never did any crime , it makes you take its world seriously and enjoy it with slow and calm gameplay for those who want something dif from the typical action game
I like this game because staring at trees is my idea of fun and fulfillment. I also like it because I self insert as the alpha male Chad protag and walking slowly through the forest is very manly and stoical.
you like video games because it's the only source of achievement in your sad life
correct
>makes it about his own inadequacies as a male
>appreciating and enjoying a high fidelity simulation of nature means like you didn't get pussy in high school or something
Lmao just stop posting already cringe clown car mutt
I legitimately think the people who like this game appreciate its pacing because riding a horse stoically in the mountains at a turtle's pace is manly and helps them self insert as le cowboy chad
"VGH I wish I was Arthur"
It adds to the Chad LARP immersion
>can't stop projecting his own fembrained insecurities on people who just happen to enjoy calm, naturalistic gameplay
Brokebrained chud mutt.
>trannoid zoomer is so brainwashed against strong white male protagonists he starts having a melty
it's fun but they locked some weapons and robberies to online only.
there are no more randos wanting to duel you. only a random event in valentine and a quest line.
there is no longed a suit that allows you to cheat in poker as well.
fucking gays at cuck* removing the fun stuff.
only thing left is hunting but even then they restricted the cool outfits with animals that are in the area you can't enter until you finish the game.
FUCK KEK*
Watching the old choo choo train go by in this game gave me more joy than 100+ hours of Elden Ring.
It's difficult to enjoy RDR2 if you're autistic. Not your fault really. The game can't decide what it wants to be. At one moment it is a quiet, relaxing game that wants you to act slowly and take in the world around you, the next it's a linear mission where they throw 100 enemies at you which you need to execute in the blink of a second. Basically, if you have in either extremes of the attention span spectrum, you're gonna find something to dislike.
>AAAAAAAAAAAAA THERE ARE GUNS... IN THE WEST? AND I CAN FIRE THEM?? UNDER AN OPEN SKY????????????? AAAAAAAA TONAL WHIPLASH
Dude what the fuck is wrong with Americans lmao
I don't mind the action stuff. The dead eye gimmick is pretty stupid though and because of it the volumes of enemies you have to fight brakes any semblance of immersion.
skill issue
>Come on Arthur, this is gonna be the last time, just one more time Arthur and we're gonna be over and FREE.
how did no one notice Dutch's wackiness is beyond me, chapter 6 was the highest point of the game, if only the previous segments were better written it could have been a great game.
yeah you were filtered
>I'm still at the camp in the snow
literally the tutorial
once you set up the next camp and access freeroam you'll start feeling it
This and god of war are made from the same Netflix cloth
nah RDR2 is a sandbox with some linear missions whereas GoW is largely just those linear missions
>sandbox
RDR2 wishes it was a sandbox
uh huh
uh huh, let me guess... "fishing" makes the game a sandbox?
You're a grown man who still wants to play in a virtual sandbox. Let it go.
Thanks for admitting the game isn't a sandbox immediately after saying it was guy who thinks staring at trees is content
>how can one thing... be two things!?!?!?!
Tomorrow's class: object permanence
you may proceed with your mental breakdown
I'm good chud, wait til the lights go out and we'll see how you fare.
>but mooooooom, growing my own food isn't content
gay
and all the other sandboxy elements yes
>muh sandbox
It isn't, Rockstar still knows how to respect a time and place that is long gone, nothing in RDR2 feels like a theme park of the dying West even if it has just a tincture of California pozz. Ragnarok is much more obviously a product of wacky MCU quip culture. It is the inferior game and already forgotten.
The opening is cool and immersive but also a bit too long and boring. The game only really gets going once you're out of the snow and you can roam freely.
This is my second favorite game after among us, why does Ganker hate it?
we just hate you