Is the first RDR worth playing at all? It runs well on Xenia now.
I hated RDR2 btw, it put me to sleep.
No, not really, it’s not really good either.
Red Dead Redemption does some things better than this sequel, but just because it does them better doesn’t mean it does them well. Redemption is one of those kinds of game where you play it and you think: This has potential, I hope the sequel fleshes out this and that and actually makes them good in the next game. The problem is this game didn’t do that in many areas. That said though, the open world aspect of this game you can fuck around with when you’re not dealing with the on-rails bullshit story missions...that stuff is better than the first game.
As an example, there’s the Bounty Hunting missions in Red Dead Redemption. Now, these are better than the Bounty Hunting missions in RDR2, given there’s some gameplay to them, but they also aren’t good either. Ideally the Bounty jobs in a RDR2 would’ve been something like the average mission in MGSV, where you have to infiltrate some compound to get a target dead or alive. Because that’s what the Bounty missions in RDR want to be; it’s just they’re a super basic version of that, that just unfold as fairly boring cover shooter shooting gallery sections in some mostly uninteresting areas.
From a purely gameplay standpoint I’d say Red Dead Revolver is a better game than Red Dead Redemption. Shooting felt better in Revolver, and the quick draw system I want to say I remember thinking was better. It’s been a long time since I’ve played either, but I do still remember that at the time I thought the shooting felt worse from Revolver to Redemption. And Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare is a more fun game than normal default Red Dead Redemption since it doesn’t have all that fat that goes nowhere; it’s more a pure straightforward action from what I remember.
Revolver is also funny in that, that game has the best character designs of the whole series. That stuff was done while the game was still under Capcom, (as a successor to Gun.Smoke) and Capcom’s Akira “Akiman” Yasuda was the character designer on that game. Even all these years later in Red Dead Redemption 2 you can still see takes on Akiman’s Revolver character designs...you can really see it in the first Redemption game.
The actual shooting might also be better in Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s just Redemption 1 isn’t as fucking annoying about keeping you exactly in the specific place it wants you to be during missions. The first Redemption is also more video gamy in some fun way. Trains take so fucking long to come around in 2 you probably aren’t going to be roping people and leaving them on train tracks like people would do in the first game.