LogFAQs > #943236388

Alright, after a weekend off I got back in the saddle with RDR and crossed off a few of Seth's and Irish's missions. I'm knocking on the door of the Ft. Mercer assault now, but it won't be the first thing I do when I play tomorrow. I did Seth's mission where you finally track down the treasure he's been looking for all this time, which predictably turns out to be something with very little value (a glass eye, in this case.) With Irish, I did the mission where you pick up a gatling gun. Both scenarios involve a whole lot of shooting. I find the cover mechanics less restrictive in this game than in Mass Effect, at least. I usually waddle around outside of cover just shooting people when they pop up in this one. The Irish mission turns into a mine cart level where you're pushing the cart and shooting at the same time, but in practice that's kind of just an easier version of the horseback shoot-outs.

I'm starting to feel the same shooting fatigue I experienced with ME2. This game's engine actually can do a lot of things that aren't shooting, but the missions still resort to it most of the time. It feels a little odd because something like a treasure hunt doesn't really need killing to spice it up in my opinion. I also think there's a bit of a weakness in the writing in that killing a bunch of minors to suit John's ends undermines the "redemption" aspect of the story a little.

I didn't finish any stranger missions, but I just need one more red sage to knock off one of them, so I'll be searching high and low for that tomorrow.

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I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 6/129
Currently Playing: Red Dead Redemption