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

Re:How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’... by haberman on Saturday December 01, 2018 @10:02AM (#18577028)

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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Re:How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’... by fabian2k on Saturday December 01, 2018 @11:24AM (#18577381)

The story picks up a lot in the later chapters, it starts out very slow. Chapter 2 is essentially still a tutorial, with some stories woven in. And at 8 hours you're barely out of chapter 1.

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Re:How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’... by Fricken on Saturday December 01, 2018 @10:23AM (#18577124)

I felt the same way. While RDR2's scale and attention to detail is unprecedented, the style of play and mechanics were just too much of the same, I wasn't about to cancel my social life to play more GTA but with horses, I've had enough of that.

I've sunk hundreds of hours into Breath of the Wild.

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