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How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2

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Re: How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2

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Lots of respect for Rockstar but... Add FL I alone on that I thought GTAV was at best soulless and at worst terrible. I almost stopped playing when Trevor became available.

Whereas GTA4 was genuine satire (Republican space rangers anyone?) the sequel had poor characters and I honestly have never gone back to it since finishing the main storyline, the first time this was true in the series.

Anyway RDR2 Looks amazing. I bought an Xbox just to play it. Who knows how long it'll take to get to PC but I'll buy it again when it does.

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too bad the game is not good, mundane and boring :(

Are you kidding me? My sister just about lost her boyfriend to that game.

nope. poor mission structure, boring characters, annoying controls rockstar have not really implemented anything new with this game that was not in the first game. it looks great tho!

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Are you kidding me? My sister just about lost her boyfriend to that game.

nope. poor mission structure, boring characters, annoying controls rockstar have not really implemented anything new with this game that was not in the first game. it looks great tho!

To each his own I guess, but it’s being universally acknowledged as GOTY.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

nope. poor mission structure, boring characters, annoying controls rockstar have not really implemented anything new with this game that was not in the first game. it looks great tho!

To each his own I guess, but it’s being universally acknowledged as GOTY.

its the gaming press lol i wouldn't trust them as far as i could throw them

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too bad the game is not good, mundane and boring :(

Are you kidding me? My sister just about lost her boyfriend to that game.

I loved RDRI and was eagerly awaiting the second installment all year. I fully expected to get sucked in.

I played it for at least eight hours and just couldn't get into it. There's nothing driving the narrative. It's an outlaw gang doing mundane robberies and trying to avoid the law. I kept waiting for the story to draw me in and it never did.

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too bad the game is not good, mundane and boring :(

Are you kidding me? My sister just about lost her boyfriend to that game.

The world is enormous and a huge simulation and really fun to explore. After you do that, you realize missions are repetitive (ride a horse here, we promise there won't be trouble, oops there's trouble, shoot everyone Orthur), the main story is frustratingly dumb (how many times will these morons I'm supposed to empathize with ride into a town, act smarter than everyone, and then get taken advantage of?). I absolutely loved this game for the first three weeks, but after the sheen wore off, it was pretty disappointingly hollow. It was really hard for me to push the story forward in this game, whereas with RDR1 and GTA V and GTA IV, I felt like I beat the game way sooner than I wanted.

And while the character animations are gorgeous and amazing, it makes for a tedious gameplay experience when you have to walk around in circles in front of a can of beans before your character targets the item you want him to pick up.

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