Red Dead Redemption 2 - now available on PC

[DalekFlay]

Most open world games have been "choose your linear quest marker chain" for many years now. I would never expect anything else from this.

 

[Lyric Suite]

What a disaster of a port.

Is this game even that good? I tried both GTA 4 & 5 and they were complete garbage, but it seems the Codex approves of this thing, and i'm not sure why. Did Rockstar learn how to do good writing and quest design all of a sudden? The GTA formula always seemed pretty shallow to me anyway, so you can't tell me it's just the gameplay.

 

[Chaosdwarft]

So will I be able to run this game with my GTX970 or is it time I get a new graphics card?

My "graphics whore" friend keeps telling me I should upgrade. I have had my graphics card for now 5 years, and I am still very happy with it. I just play in 1080p resolution.

Cheers!

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Most open world games have been "choose your linear quest marker chain" for many years now. I would never expect anything else from this.

Uh, Breath of the Wild, Kingdom Come: Deliverance (on hardcore mode), and ELEX would like a word with you.

It's mostly the shitty ones that have that (e.g. Ubisoft games)

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

What a disaster of a port.

Is this game even that good? I tried both GTA 4 & 5 and they were complete garbage

Depends what aspects of GTA 5 you found to be garbage. But the writing and most of the characters are fine. Regarding the game in general, I’d say the Witcher 3 is the best comparison in most respects.

The port is also ok, I’m playing with medium/high with ultra textures and some of the most demanding settings like water physics down and it’s fluent. Not 60 FPS but almost no game is for me.

 

[Lyric Suite]

I'm not seeing anything in the way the game looks that even remotely justifies this abominable performance.

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

What abominable performance?

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Regarding the game in general, I’d say the Witcher 3 is the best comparison in most respects.

Yeah, definitely agree. RDR2 takes over from Witcher 3 as the most impressive game in terms of technology, and is similar in that both emphasize storytelling and set pieces over gameplay.

The differences are, RDR2 has better exploration by far (less obvious map markers, more open terrain), but Witcher 3 has better combat and writing.

 

[Ivan]

 

[Ivan]

I'm not seeing anything in the way the game looks that even remotely justifies this abominable performance.

lighting is incredible, as is the draw distance. I'm not surprised

 

[Mortmal]

So will I be able to run this game with my GTX970 or is it time I get a new graphics card?

My "graphics whore" friend keeps telling me I should upgrade. I have had my graphics card for now 5 years, and I am still very happy with it. I just play in 1080p resolution.

Cheers!

It should be enough since it works on my 380, steady 30-60 fps with most stuff on medium and some on ultra , on 1080p of course. But as i said its probably not much better than running it on consoles. I am tempted to go for a ryzen 3700 and some radeon 5700 next .

 

[Mortmal]

What a disaster of a port.

Is this game even that good? I tried both GTA 4 & 5 and they were complete garbage, but it seems the Codex approves of this thing, and i'm not sure why. Did Rockstar learn how to do good writing and quest design all of a sudden? The GTA formula always seemed pretty shallow to me anyway, so you can't tell me it's just the gameplay.

Port is shit yes, but game is really that good, if you liked GTA5 you will most likely like it, its same spirit.

 

[ScrotumBroth]

Yeah, definitely agree. RDR2 takes over from Witcher 3 as the most impressive game in terms of technology, and is similar in that both emphasize storytelling and set pieces over gameplay.

The differences are, RDR2 has better exploration by far (less obvious map markers, more open terrain), but Witcher 3 has better combat and writing.

I'd say RDR1 and 2 are better by far in all of those, but opinions right?

 

[aweigh]

funny video, made me chuckle when he transformed into the giant crocodile and started rampaging in town. Wolf ordering a beer at the bar also made me smile.

I gotta say this may be the most impressive RDR2 video yet; yes, the lighting, the graphics, etc... but It is really impressive how well-detailed every single character and animal model in the game is and how incredibly well they're all animated. It's a staggering amount of work and attention to detail.

Is it bad to hope CP2077 will be optimized to run on decent machines?

Dude, haven't you seen the leaks? Or even the last official footage? CP 2077 graphics got hit with the console downgrade hard. It looks like shit with shitty textures and everything is low-rez. It will probably run on a toaster when it comes out.

 

[RNGsus]

The larping in rdr2 is aggravating. I don't want to play a game where I have to brush my pony.

 

[DalekFlay]

Most open world games have been "choose your linear quest marker chain" for many years now. I would never expect anything else from this.

Uh, Breath of the Wild, Kingdom Come: Deliverance (on hardcore mode), and ELEX would like a word with you.

Holy shit, it's almost like I said "most" and a few examples don't contradict me! It's also almost like Zelda is a cool outlier, and the other two are Eurojank RPGs and not insanely mainstream open world action games!

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

"Eurojank" is a stupid invention by gaming media that has no reflection on reality. For instance, if you think KCD combat is janky because it's not super smooth, guess what, real life combat looks a lot more like KCD than something more smooth and gamey. And while ELEX might not have the greatest combat system, it's still way better than say Skyrim, which for some reason never gets called janky.

 

[RNGsus]

This game does not respect my time. I'm spending more time in menus, holding buttons, and watching animations than playing. I hope the rest of the game lets Arthur leave the gang and its just him following his own leads, because I don't like any of them or the big fucking anchor they represent.

 

[vonAchdorf]

"The game doesn't let me run while in camp".

 

[Lyric Suite]

I'm not seeing anything in the way the game looks that even remotely justifies this abominable performance.

lighting is incredible, as is the draw distance. I'm not surprised

Lighting is not even raytrasced, and the performance hit is actually worse than raytracing.

60 FPS, on 1080p, on a fucking 2080ti.

Nothing in this game justifies that. Nothing. It's obvious there's no optimization to this port whatsoever. I vaguely remember the GTA 4 port was also similarly shit, but i don't remember anyone acting as if that was normal or expected.

I don't even know why they even bothered porting this to PC if they had no intention to optimize it. I said that as a joke but i gotta wonder if they didn't actually emulate certain things in the game just because they were too lazy to re-code it.

 

[cvv]

guise stop complaining about performance next week it comes out on Stadia you can play in 4K ultra settings 120 FPS stop being grouches and embrace the future ok

 

[Gerrard]

Yeah guys RDR2 is the first game to have large view distance.

This is your brain on consoles.

 

[RNGsus]

Is that a reshaded Outer Worlds?

"The game fits my pussy just perfect."

The game doesn't let me run outside of camp either. It does have its strengths, like one being the only cowboy game for pc, which is only really held back by no optimizing, a story, diversity quota, and hopefully a UI modders can fix.

 

[Ivan]

Experienced this last night :D

 

[Sentinel]

Yeah guys RDR2 is the first game to have large view distance.

This is your brain on consoles.

pretty sure people are praising the lighting more than the draw distance itself