Genre: Action
Platform: PS4
Released Date: 2018
What is it about?
The year is 1899 and outlaws are a dying breed. You play as Arthur Morgan as you try to salvage what it's left of your gang and your outlaw life.
- beautiful to look at. At the first start of the game you can see the physics of the snow and everything has minute details all over it. This game is really a testament of what you can do with the time and resources given.
- Everything you see in the world you can interact with. Everything has it's own animation to skinning an animal, shooting a gun or riding your hours. Everything must be done as realistically as possible.
- Is not a game but more of an art piece on how to make an immersive western simulator.
- Not fun at all... The reasons are stated as below
Why is it not fun
- Everything moves at a snails pace from opening the drawer taking something from the shelf. Every is animated perfectly and Rockstar wants you to see him opening a drawer with 6 second animations
- The controls are not responsive and cluttered. There are a lot of button inputs you need to memorize which doesn't help since there are no tutorials or button prompts on what you are supposed to do. This game except you to understand the mechanic of the game but the slow animation provides complicated controls which makes you accidentally press the wrong button. That in turn will cause you Wanted meter to rise and everything will just be a not fun mess
- Unlike GTA 5 which has fun objectives to do, their objectives seems more like a chore than something you really want to do. I didn't want to spend a good 40 minutes to travel from point A to point B only to fetch someone back to camp.
- Speaking travelling, a horse is fickle to control and you need to be in range of your whistle. If your horse die you need to steal or walk to camp which is miles away. Man its not fun at all
- Shooting involves you cleaning a gun for better aims. Some bad guys takes 5-6 hits before going down.
- Movement is slow and clunky
Rockstar forgot what makes an open world game fun. Sure there are some realism involve but it doesn't need to be to real. Breath of Wild has the same mechanics as Red Dead but it makes it fun when you don't need to worry about the horse kick you in the nuts. Going from place to place needs to be fun and not like a chore. The funny thing is this game gets 10/10 and 97 on metacritic.
Status: Played around 10 plus hours in chapter 2. Decided this is not worth my time
Fun Factor: If you want the real cowboy experience I say go for it. If not there are other ways to spend your tine. This is not one of them
Status: Played around 10 plus hours in chapter 2. Decided this is not worth my time
Fun Factor: If you want the real cowboy experience I say go for it. If not there are other ways to spend your tine. This is not one of them
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