Poll of the Day > Bought RDR2 UE on sale, played it a couple hours, now I don't want to.

(+) Yeah! (+)

3rd game I've done like this in a year. Wtf is wrong with me? I can't pick games I wanna play anymore.

Do you guys have this problem?

Occasionally when I'm getting a great deal on a game (usually if it's part of a bundle deal like 4 for $20) I'll fail to ask myself if I really actually want it.

Having played RDR2, I can't really blame you for that one.

keyblader1985 posted...

Occasionally when I'm getting a great deal on a game (usually if it's part of a bundle deal like 4 for $20) I'll fail to ask myself if I really actually want it.

I mean, I watched people play it years ago and played the first one. I know there's been a mood to play it. But I finished about 3 missions and blah.

Oddly enough I've been having fun platinuming games like Odin Sphere and River City Girls. It's like my brain was quick mashing action. Yet mentally I think I was some epic journey.

Yeah well I bought the game and never played it ever!

Mensis posted...

Yeah well I bought the game and never played it ever!

I've done that before too. I'm not proud of it. Lol

I think its just part of getting older

sometimes it takes patience to learn and get comfortable with a new game and its easier to play something more familiar

VampireCoyote posted...

I think its just part of getting older

sometimes it takes patience to learn and get comfortable with a new game and its easier to play something more familiar

Could be right. Sometimes I tell myself to just keep playing.

I'm playing Mittelborg and Bee Simulator atm. It's like my mind wants simple shit.

RDR2 is very slow and somewhat repetitive, I think it takes a certain kind of person to really get into it.

As you get older I think you become less willing to put a lot of time into things that you aren't getting much out of. Because you have other shit to do.

Blightzkrieg posted...

RDR2 is very slow and somewhat repetitive, I think it takes a certain kind of person to really get into it.

I actually enjoyed the game...as long as I wasn't anywhere near the storyline. The story was like being forced to play out a very slow but inevitable train wreck.

The only thing I didnt like about RDR2 was that it was practically impossible to get away with any crime even if you wore a disguise and had your face covered

the only way you could do a train heist without getting an insane bounty was to trap a train in the tunnel up north where supercops couldnt teleport

Man this whole time I thought you guys were talking about some R2D2 game I hadn't heard of

Metalsonic66 posted...

Man this whole time I thought you guys were talking about some R2D2 game I hadn't heard of

https://preview.redd.it/iqgyw43x3mu11.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=b25648e6e37841a38ab77137e05fcc0a8aa2cbef

I was thinking like a game where you go around repairing ships and occasionally tasing a dude in the bum

I would totally play an astromech droid game

Blightzkrieg posted...

As you get older I think you become less willing to put a lot of time into things that you aren't getting much out of. Because you have other shit to do.

This is a huge part of it. But I've been pointing out for years now that the other half of the problem is that the explosive growth of media means there's always far more out there than any single human can ever experience in a single lifetime. So it forces people to prioritize their time far more than they ever used to need to.

If I start playing a game and it doesn't wow me right from the start, I'm always aware on some level that there are far better games out there just waiting for me to find them. And movies and shows worth watching. And books worth reading. Music worth listening to. And Internet forums to shit-post on. Every second I waste not having fun is a second I could have spent doing something far more interesting or entertaining.

Games have to earn my attention now. Because if they don't, there is always something else competing for my time that I can happily switch off to.

And that's without even taking into account my willingness to go back and replay old games like Stardew Valley or Minecraft, which can eat dozens of hours on their own.



Blightzkrieg posted...

RDR2 is very slow and somewhat repetitive, I think it takes a certain kind of person to really get into it.

For me it wasn't even that, more that I kind of hated the narrative.

The first Red Dead Redemption won me over quickly by making me like John Marston, giving him an interesting quest, having him meet interesting and likeable characters, and the tragic ending hits harder because I actually cared about these people. It was a well-told story, even if it was ultimately an unavoidable tragedy (and a metaphor about the death of the Old West).

Conversely, RDR2 feels like they spent way too much time focused on aspects of the game (like the more simulation-style mechanics) I didn't give a shit about, and bolted it onto a story that was frustrating as fuck. I never really cared about Arthur. Most of the crew were either somewhat generic or outright annoying. Arthur was given the illusion of making choices, but I was never really given choices I wanted to make. And the story was spread out over a longer period, because the larger map and more busywork makes it harder to just steamroll through the plot.

And the TB element of the storyline pissed me off hugely, because I knew 5 seconds into that first scene exactly what was going to happen (and Arthur as a character absolutely should have known as well - it wasn't an unknown disease at the time), yet in a game where they pretend I get to make meaningful choices, I have absolutely no choice to do anything to prevent it. Even worse because, in the context of the scene, it should have been possible to either forgive the dude's debt or outright pay it yourself (because you're constantly being forced to raise money in other ways anyway).

It would have been more palatable to me if the infection scene had happened off-camera (where I had no control), or even if the scene in question had been even remotely subtle (so it could be argued that Arthur wouldn't have noticed until it was too late), but they basically chose the single most annoying way to hammer that bullshit home, and it drastically took me out of the story after that point.

Beyond that, the fact that the story as presented sort of ruins the implications of the backstory of RDR1 makes me hate it even more.

I probably could have plodded my way through slow and boring gameplay if I was super into the story, but instead I hated the story which made the slow and boring parts feel even more soul-crushing.

At a certain point, I basically had to step back and say "You know, I'm not enjoying this at all. Why am I playing it?" ...and that's the point where I stopped playing it. And never looked back.

story would have been better if it wasn't on rails because it was a prequel.

never understood the complaints about survival stuff.... eating to refill cores is all you need

Krazy_Kirby posted...

never understood the complaints about survival stuff.... eating to refill cores is all you need

It's still a monotonous chore that you're being forced to do instead of more interesting things. It's a waste of time that adds up as you go to become a cumulative annoyance.

Most people who want to play a game like RDR want to do it for the fun shooting and horse riding, or even for the hunting (or maybe for the tying people up and leaving them on the railroad tracks part), not because they want to be forced to maintain their stats like in a survival game.

Basically, people go into RDR wanting to play a cowboy action movie, and Rockstar decided to try and make RDR more like a cowboy documentary instead.

rdr had eating for health and deadeye.... people didn't bitch about that.

eating for health =/= survival

Krazy_Kirby posted...

rdr had eating for health and deadeye.... people didn't bitch about that.

eating for health =/= survival

That's because "eating" in RDR was more like how restorative potions work in most video games. But that's not how eating worked in RDR2.

Being forced to eat on a regular basis or suffer a penalty IS survival mechanics.

If eating in RDR2 had been exactly the same as it was in RDR1, no one would complain about it. But it isn't, so that's in no way a valid defense.