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AusERA |OT| For We Are One and Free
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100% agree.
I'm ready to argue it has the best audio design in a game ever. Absolutely blown away in that regard. Makes games that label themselves immersive seem like a joke.
Yeah that's a pretty good summary. A few things I'd add:
- Actually GTA V was super-polished at launch too, and most Rockstar games have been. Their QA guys must work their absolute arses off trying to find everything.
- Controls seem fine to me. I needed to disable the deadzone, and max acceleration and sensitivity, but with that change they were very comfortable for me.
- I was worried about the resource management too, because the game seemed to be hinting at it, but it turns out that that's absolutely not an issue, at least as of chapter 3.
- It definitely has a slower, more laidback pace. I love that.
- Menu design is indeed poor.
- It feels more like a world, as opposed to a video game approximation of a world, than anything I've ever played.
Does Red Dead Redemption 2 get away from being a totally stereotypical Western like the first game was? As great as the open world was in that game, the thing that actually took me out was how derivative the story was to anyone well versed in the Western genre. I would actually go "huh, that scene is literally taken straight from X film" and "geez, this theme is something I've seen discussed a million times before" in the middle of playing, they weren't exactly careful about hiding their "influences".
That's Rockstar games in a nutshell. There are even some fourth wall breaking references to that in GTA V.
Degradation in RDR2 would make Far Cry 2 blush.
Meter and degradation for health.
Meter and degradation for stamina.
Meter and degradation for bullet time.
Meter and degradation for horse health.
Meter and degradation for horse stamina.
Not even taking into account individual weapon degradation. Phew.
Mini games are insanely slow. Game of dominos took nearly an hour, animations and controls are sooooooo slow.
Meter and degradation for health.
Meter and degradation for stamina.
Meter and degradation for bullet time.
Meter and degradation for horse health.
Meter and degradation for horse stamina.
Not even taking into account individual weapon degradation. Phew.
Mini games are insanely slow. Game of dominos took nearly an hour, animations and controls are sooooooo slow.
I can't imagine how reviewers attempting to blast through this quickly in order to review the game didn't mark it down as a result.
I would absolutely hate reviewing RDR 2; having to blow through the meat of it without having the chance to let it sit and breathe, and take your time with it surely diminishes the experience.
Sleeping and hitching your horse resets all of that stuff, and for weapons you just highlight it and press R3 followed by square (I think?) to return the gun to max, so it's pretty straightforward.
For me, the most annoying things are not having a way to fast travel to camp, the fact that you can carry bugger all animal carcasses and they decay rapidly, and the overweight/underweight system.
I never eat anything or feed my horse anything (don't need to, just sleep and hitch when returning to camp), so we're both permanently underweight, and it will be that way for the entire playthrough. Makes you wonder what the point of that system even is.
I keep trying to use gun oil but the square 'clean' option is greyed out despite having like 10% condition.
Also when I made camp in the middle of nowhere my horse disappeared back to home base :(
Also when I made camp in the middle of nowhere my horse disappeared back to home base :(
Is... that not an accurate simulation of typical equine behaviour?
Sounds like another Witcher 3 on console to me, I'll pass for now. Those controls are so important and hearing about resource management = snoozefest.
That's weird, you're the first person I've heard having that bug. That really sucks, I'd be raising that with Rockstar support.
The Witcher 3 is the best game of this generation IMHO, so we must see games quite differently. But I will say that even for ADHD-type gamers who don't want that slower, more immersive type of experience, the combat itself is still a heap of fun:
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I went with "Cankles McGraw" for my Ardennes Warhorse, and "SPF50+" for my white Arabian :)
I was really getting into W3 on xbox during the first act (small map), after that amount of time with the janky movement and poor combat controls I saw the full map and menu items to manage...noped the fuck out of that game. Too much for me TBH. Loved the atmosphere, details, story, art, characters but the sheer annoyance of the controls and resource management put me off.
Many people say they don't like the W3 controls. On foot movement was sort of twitchy, but being an RPG it never really bothered me, because it didn't really require super-precise on foot walking controls. Combat felt good to me though, it's no Dragon's Dogma but I still had a lot of fun with it. This was a super OP end game build, but it's the only real footage I have:
I had a great time just carving bandits up, and even after I finished the game and all of the DLC, I still went around attacking bandit camps just for the fun of it :)
Its too hot in Sydney. Walking back from the bus stop felt like a Herculaneum task.
Witcher 3 is my favorite game ever, but I concur it can be overwhelming when it comes to massive amount of tasks and the fucking inventory system which was awful. Carry limits in games should be a crime
Witcher 3 is my favorite game ever, but I concur it can be overwhelming when it comes to massive amount of tasks and the fucking inventory system which was awful. Carry limits in games should be a crime
It felt like you were in the middle of a volcanic eruption? Damn, that's hot.
There's a pun in there about Seneca, Vergil, classical poetry, burning volcanic rocks and sick rhymes in there but buggered if I can find it.
Realistically, if you're not naming your horse "My Lovely Horse", you're not doing it right.
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Target have the Starlink starter packs for $89. I'm trying to decide if it's worth it, because the digital edition gets more gameplay stuff, but, you know, toy Arwing.
I just walked into Roger David, spent $110 and walked out with like $700 worth of gear. It's absolutely crazy.
Sold my old Xbox One S to a neighbour shouting over the fence whilst sitting on the balcony having a beer yesterday arvo.
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the only way you could have been more aussie if is either of you were in a ute or you were selling a ute, although tbh i think a used xbox one s is also a very australian thing to sell
Some cool clips in there but I can't un-see the amount of 360 attack and "hitting blank" space while enemies die or move etc. It look like your build just accounts for killing anything within a wide radius and direction be damned. I guess that would alleviate the need for direction combat :)
Mostly I found the controls around pickups and gathering a total pain, once the inventory list exploded so did the gathering or combining requirements. It just got too repetitive to slightly run past or misalign an enemy then wait for animation to finish or circle around to pickup a flower etc.
Rep, are you unable to feed or groom your horse either? Someone in the OT is reporting that they can't do those three things too (clean gun, feed horse, groom horse).
All good, worked eventually. No idea what the issue was. Game has tons of control flag issues like that.
If the 'no gun cleaning' thing happens to you again, if you take a weapon to a gunsmith and try to customise it, you can buy a clean for it there (it won't let you customise it until you've done that).
Yeah I've been doing that whenever I hit town since it's so cheap
My internet keeps cutting out in this heatwave, it's intermittent so I can't work out where the fault is. So I just sit here and curse Malcolm instead.
Is that for the super-dooper geewhiz edition? I pre-ordered the Poorman Edition.
There are a few videos on youtube which have reccomendations for changing the control settings in RDR2. Definitely take a look because the default controls in this game are feel very sluggish.
i will beggar myself to assassinate people very slightly early and the video game industry is counting on this fact
The OP of the RDR2 OT has a controls suggestion too, complete with screenshots.
Basically, zero deadzone, max acceleration, and really high sensitivity. On top of that, I recommend the Standard FPS layout, with toggle to run turned on, but that's personal preference.