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Finally I got a chance to play Red Dead Redemption 2 for the very first time, and the graphic is clean sharp and none of that blurry mess most of the AAA games have nowadays. (lemmy.ca)
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Even though I play it on my old low end laptop, I still able to get a stable 60fps on medium settings at 1080p (Linux) and the game is still gorgeous looking probably looks better than most if not all UE5 games released in the past 3 years.

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[–] 82 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I really wanted to like this game. I wanted to so bad. I can acknowledge many of its pros, and I can understand why many people like it.

But everything is so. Fucking. Slow. And every mission is "hold A to ride your horse for a long time and then do a small amount of actual action, if you're lucky".

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, when i played through it i quickly discovered that I'd have to set aside a few hours at a time in order to actually let myself enjoy it.

    Luckily, this was mid 2020 and i had just gotten laid off, so i had time.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I agree with you that it's slow -- and yet, it is one of the very few games I actually finished. That's highly unusual for me. And then I went back and played it again.

    It's a game designed to be sipped, not gulped.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Say what you will about Rockstar, but they make games that 20 years later you still want to return to them (I guess just about 8 years later in this case).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't think this holds up anymore. RDR2 was supposed to be a lot more, but GTAO really derailed the company. I expect GTA6 to be worse than GTA5 and 5's endgame was anemic and boring.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Can't speak for you, but I'm still playing both pretty regularly. I still play GTA IV quite a bit too, and return to San Andreas often enough. Vice city is still a classic, but those older ones are just getting a bit janky, which is ok considering they are 20+ years old. All of these games were ahead of their time.

    Definitely sets the bar pretty high, maybe impossibly high, for GTA 6

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I'm kinda with you. I played a lot of it, in the tens of hours, but I didn't finish it. It may be at the peak of self-indulgent simulation for simulation's sake in open world games.

    I think I'm glad it exists. Somebody had to do this, like somebody had to do CJ getting fat when he eats and slim when he runs, right? That's a fun thing for someone to have done in a successful mainstream game release.

    But there's a reason that didn't show up elsewhere, and that's also a good thing.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    It's really slow for about 1/3 of the way through, and then you get to Saint Denis and it starts taking off a lot harder.

    It's a masterpiece, but definitely a slow burn. It's a top 3 game for me for sure.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I’m with you. I loved the first RDR, one of my favorite games of all time. Fun interesting characters, the side quest plots all went a little sideways, which was refreshing. I really wanted to like RDR2 but it ended up feeling tedious. Lots to love in the game so I understand why so many people said it was an amazing game.

    I feel like Rockstar did the same thing with the GTA games. GTA3, VC, and SA were somewhat realistic games set in a goofy world with strange characters and interactions. By GTA4, all the interesting plots were replaced by pointless minigames and going bowling with cousin Roman. That’s basically the same way I felt about the jump between RDR and RDR2.

    I never played Red Dead Revolver so I don’t know how that fits in with the rest.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    A game for everybody is a game for nobody.

    I like the fact that everybody seemed to be expecting Grand Theft Horsey, and got a slow paced Wild West sim.

    I actually played Assassin's Creed Origins right after playing this for like two months straight, and it just felt so "gamey" in comparison.

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