@LN78 It was so much better than I was expecting to be honest. I beat the Modern Warfare 2 remaster last week and that’s a game I’m more familiar with, but I think I prefer the first one.
@RogerRoger Heh, alright, that statement just sounded a bit funny.
Inflation is causing a lot of us to have to pinch our pennies where we can. Although everything else seems to be piling on as well. I don't know how it is in the UK, but the price of eggs is insane in the US atm thanks to the bird flu ripping through commercial hatcheries since last year. I think I read that it has killed off 10% or so of the hens driving this industry? Tens of millions. It's nuts.
@RogerRoger “It's abundantly clear that the infrastructure of the modern world was only designed to withstand one or two problems at a time. Pile on three or four, and the whole system starts to collapse.”
Boy, that does ring true, doesn’t it? The news cycles seem to latch on to a couple big stories for a few days to weeks and then completely forget about them. Which is the opposite of what you’d think would happen in an ‘Information Age.’ I suppose the saturated content of the internet makes it easy enough to look up anything about anything, but important things are surprisingly hidden and ignored by the collective consciousness while the stupidest mundane happenings are viral. I gradually feel more and more like a visiting stranger on this planet.
What topic am in…? Oh yeah, uh — can’t wait to hear about Metal Gear Survive! And all your other Metal Gear escapades. You’ll probably beat me to the end of MGS2 (if you haven’t already), but I’ll get there eventually (damn that Dark Souls bug I’ve caught!)
Edit: oops… just read on the other topic about your completion of your MGS2 replay. I’ll comment over yonder about it.
@Zuljaras Just to reiterate what @Thrillho said, you’ll need to give RDR2 a little time to warm up. A lot of players get put off by the pacing, which is at its worst in the opening section. I can’t remember for sure, but probably at least a 5 hour ramp up before things get going. And even then, the entire game is best approached as the cowpoke, moseying through a surprisingly intricate world and an excellent storyline. The technical accomplishment of the game by Rockstar is almost unrivaled on PS4. And the voice acting performance is amongst my favorite of all time.
I have the first one but I have not played it yet. I know that this is a prequel so I would be cool to play it first. The one concern I have is that it is a HUGE game.
@Zuljaras Yes, RDR2 is a direct prequel to RDR, and so could be played first, but the gameplay and graphics will be a step backward when you get to RDR so it could affect your enjoyment. To me it was more interesting to see some of the characters from the first game in their earlier years and know which way they were going to end up; if you play the prequel first then you’ll not really understand the importance of some of those characters and so some story beats (especially those toward the end) won’t hit as hard. Plus you won’t get to experience the amazement when you see some of the locations from the first game reoccur in the prequel. Nevertheless, if time is limited and you don’t have a love for retro titles, RDR2 is probably the one you don’t want to miss, if you can only get around to one of them.
The first game is quite a bit shorter though, so if time allows, you could knock it out in a couple weeks, or even one dedicated week. And honestly, not accounting for rose-colored nostalgia misleading me, I think I consider the first game the better experience as far as fondness of memory. RDR2 is objectively a better game, no doubt, but the first game’s narrative was special to me back when I played it. The second game’s story is no slouch though. Among PS4’s best.
In the end, you can’t go wrong either way, imo. Whichever you play first, just so long as you play them. 😄
@Zuljaras Yes, to answer that question about just mainlining the story, it could be done. Neither game is particularly difficult from a combat perspective. I like the gunplay, but it’s fairly barebones and can be arranged to auto-aim. I think there’s difficulty sliders if you want more challenge, but I can’t remember.
But part of enjoyment (of especially RDR2 at least) is the unscripted moments, the exploration and getting distracted for hours in between story points, all the life sim elements like growing cool beards and hairstyles and decking Arthur out in different clothes and such. Not to mention upgrading your horse, etc, etc. I spent about 80 hrs and I did very little hunting or fishing and didn’t collect all dinosaur fossil sites, hidden treasures, etc, etc. Just loads to do and the game is probably one that you’ll just get a fraction of the experience if you mainline it. The first game has a lot less of that, as I recall. There’s a few little collectathon activities and there’s side quests and poker and side games, but not as much as the second game. You can more easily trim out the extraneous side content in the first game and still not miss out too much.
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@Zuljaras I completely forgot about the FPS mode. I’m partial to third person so I didn’t dabble in it. I think it was added in patch after launch. And yeah, it’s likely to be one of the more demanding games for your PS4 Pro fan. 😄
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