when characters eat a meal they actually cut up their food and eat it, not just a few motions on loop. Lots of love and detail in this game

also the horses balls go up when you ride into cold water

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".

Absolutely loved rdr2. It’s a gem. I played story mode three times and I love it to death.

If only rdr2 online wasn’t the pvp obnoxious pay-to-win microtransaction-riddled cesspit that it is, I’d still be playing that now.

If you don't disable TAA RDR2 actually does look quite blurry, especially the vegetation looks terrible. I found the best results from using DLDSR as anti-aliasing, but it does take a heavier performance toll.

Also I should get around to finishing RDR2 some day.

Oh so I'm not a crazy old man? I always thought UE5 games had that weird motion blur I just thought it was my computer/eyes.

I mean, it's a very nice looking game, which may have something to do with it having about ten times the budget of your average game from a major publisher (the term AAA is now entirely meaningless and I refuse to use it without clarification). Guessing that helps.

I'm not sure "clean and sharp" is a positive value, though. This becomes a problem because I don't know what people mean, and people often don't know what they mean, either. Good picture quality doesn't need to be "sharp". Things that are in focus realistically aren't impossibly pin-sharp, that's a videogamey thing. Shadows definitely aren't ever sharp. And of course the picture you presented is anything but sharp, since it's... well, a pretty low-quality 1080p image, so the trees are blobs, the hair is a grainy mess and distant models are blobby.

OK, here's a true fact I would think is common knowledge but it may not be: A slightly older game on higher settings often looks better than a newer game on lower settings. Remedial performance options are often very compromised and not really meant to be used. Expensive features can look bad on minimum settings and newer games can be built around more expensive stuff and look off when those settings are toggled off. Lower resolution rendering of a better looking image can produce worse results than higher res output for a worse looking image for a number of reasons.

That doesn't mean newer games look worse, though. It's just the nature of the beast in PC gaming and it has been for forty years. That's why it's always been cool to go back to old games when you update your hardware.

Are you describing Motion Blur by chance? A very common graphical effect used in AAA games these days that try to mimic how objects look blurry when moving quickly in real life. I hate it and always turn it off when I'm able to.

First thing to do when starting a new game. Go to visual settings and turn off motion blur, depth of field, chromatic aberration, vignette, film grain, and depending on the game, anti-aliasing, ambient occlusion, and texture filtering.

Maybe it's just because I'm stuck in 1997, idk, but all that stuff just looks bad to me.

I just watched a good Any Austin video on RDR2, he studies the power line infrastructure on the map. Makes me want to play again.

I played it a little after release. Yeah, no. I needed an upgrade for it, but I played it anyway, and it was blurry as shit. Worse than modern games. Their version of TAA was so much worse than the modern DLSS/FSR TAA we have today. It was purely a temporal blur, adding previous frame data to new frames. It still looked good, but it was blurry. I should try it again now that I've upgraded...

I was looking forward to play it once it was on GOG. I had avoided all spoilers for years. Only for Lemmy to spoil the apparently unavoidable ending via a meme on All...

Does anyone know how it plays on the switch?

I'm playing it for the first time at the moment as well! But on ps4.

It took me a little bit to get used to the slow pace in parts - almost closer to a sim. I'd just finished Horizon: FW, so the speed of movement was a big change. Now I enjoy the extra time to smoke weed and head-cannon my character.

The writing and plotting are the real treasure of the game so far. I've enjoyed the scenery and the views well enough, but I rarely find myself impressed by graphics.

So glad it’s finally like this because this game was rough at launch (on PC)

On a GTX1080, I played the entirety of it at 50% of my native resolution (3840x1440) with a lot of settings turned down. I could barely maintain 60fps, with stuttering / dips to as low as 16fps and random crashes.

Since they patched it up, I got a 3080 but have only played the endgame content. Really ought to do another playthrough and experience it properly.

Haven't got far into the story just yet but I completed chapter 1 and so far so good, gameplay is tight and of course being a RS game the writing is excellent no complain from me

I refunded it when I found out I had to create a rockstar account. I would like to play it though. Maybe in 20 years when it's on gog 🤣

Damn those trees are low poly. I know you said its a low end laptop but still.