but I love the western setting, is it worth getting this?
Sadly yes, if you played all other games there is.
Sadly I am coming to that conclusion.
Manjuice Nutella has given me hope that it might be more entertaining that GTA though. When I posted about GTAV being shit, all I got was retards telling me to play tennis or yoga or some bollocks. The thing is, all of those felt completely pointless. At least Manjuice has intimated there is a worthwhile reward for doing the side activities in this game.
I think deep in out heart we know that they are both shit. But at the end of the day I played over 1000 hours GTA Online and actually had fun and made some cool friends along the way.
He is also not correct in some ays, that GTA has no real side activities. for example the car collecting aspect alone is pretty much something that you can take very serious. Again: it's shit, but addictive. You can pimp up your cars and then meet with friends and race them or just take pictures from the mountain tops.
You are talking about GTA Online, since by "meet with friends" you cannot mean going drunk with Lamar or bowling with Roman. Which actually just reminded me that there technically were such side activities, just not memorable enough that I couldn't recall them when pressed as above lol.
I didn't play GTA Online, just the "Story Mode", which probably makes our experiences way different. Actually there was no "car collecting aspect" in Story Mode, since you could buy only 1 garage per protagonist fitting only 4 cars. I even wanted to drive around in and each of them had a shitty "personal car", like Trevor's shitty pickup, the game basically forced you to use by spawning it everywhere and any pimped car was constantly "impounded" to either retrieve it or lose it. From what I've seen, V and Online seem like 2 different games, and from what that Rockstar Social Club ads are showing, they get further and further apart, also due to how increasingly zanier those additions are (when I preordered RDR2, the app showed me they added laser guns right now).
I didn't play Red Dead Online, but I am planning to.
We often jump from the mountains and paraglide or fly with a floatplane over the coast and go Scuba diving afterwards, there are various wrecks and spaceships etc. Afterwards we go to the pier and club people to death with baseball bats and then escape in our scuba gear. It's all pretty lame gameplay wise but since the technology underneath is so good, the hours go by and you have memorable fun with friends.
I'd say that is the main difference between why I found GTAV boring, but loved RDR2, which is some actual interactivity. You can technically go "sightseeing" in GTA V but you can't do anything with this shit; whereas in RDR2 there's much more interactivity involved.
I.e: There were some animals in GTA V, that's technically true. You cannot do anything with them, they are not involved in a game in any way (aside from Trevor hunting deers, which novelty lasts for exactly 1 Stranger mission it is introduced in and then you can repeat it ad nauseam), and they do not even impact gameplay in any way since when I encountered a cougar on Mount Chilliad it was just running away and died in one shot. Aren't cougars supposed to be some fearsome predators? I've read on the internet that you can kill all of the 16 species and take their photos and then you get some achievement. Who the fuck would do that? What's even the point?
In RDR2 there are animals, sure, fucking
200 OF THEM, each of them getting upon interaction a "compendium" entry where you can read more about them, with different behaviors impacting hunting, you can skin their hides for money, new clothes, bags, ammunition mods or gameplay-impacting talismans, you can resupply your camp with their meat or just cook it yourself (you also have to eat in this game to maintain your health), preferably with some herbs found in the world for combat bonuses, you can damage the quality of their hides & meat if you don't use proper weapons, and that's all from the top of my head. By contrast GTA V animals simply existed and that's it. I'm not saying it's a perfect or anything, but the difference
is like between Heaven and Earth.
Same thing with basically everything else, you can talk to pedestrians and Arthur can make some funny jokes, you can enter buildings out in the wilderness and interact with photos or diaries there, there are Fallout-style random encounters, shit can happen to you when you're camping out on some sadistic gang's territory, Arthur is noting and drawing some landmarks, objects, etc. in his journal, there are several crafting systems as mentioned, challenges are way more fun and "tangible" and yield rewards like bigger ammo bandoliers or satchels, instead of doing them just for the sake of doung them, etc, etc...
If Rockstar would ever make a real game with their technology, it could be the one game that we are all waiting for, but that's not gonna happen. The consoles are completely dominating their ideas of fun, and GTA V is basically just a shitty movie with open world sequences in between
I concur, that railroading scripted sequencing of everything is not doing this game a favor, as mentioned oftentimes.
even the online part works after this formula.
Oh no.
