General gaming discussion

Bet a grand it's going to be a modern vice city. I was playing battlefield hardline recently, which is also set in miami, and you can just see how good an updated vice city layout could be. Hardline even had everglades levels - which I remember reading back in the day rockstar wanted to do for vice city (according to a gaming mag)

I think the problem will be that they made V with single player as the focus, with intent of online afterwards. Then online exploded, so now I reckon they'll be making VI with a focus on that rather than single player, and as a result the SP will be lacking, or pushing heavily towards MTs.

They burned me with the lack of SP support on V, and then the crapshow that was the "remastered" trilogy, I don't have much faith anymore.

Would say RDR2s online was a pretty big disappointment for them, they've even reduced the weekly stuff now to monthly and the updates are very lacking. That long beta probably and lack of content probably was the first couple of nails in the coffin.

GTA online wasn't too different from RD at the start they just didn't call it a beta, it'd loads of bugs and character wipes and little content but it was new. RD wasn't given the same benefit, and neither will a new GTA online. They'll be compared to themselves.

Maybe it needed another year or two of dev.

Visuals, sound, voice acting, story, characters, world was great.

I can't understand how the controls are so bad.

I'm referring to RDR2. It's so easy to shoot someone instead of talk to them, which makes basic interactions stressful. Then selecting a weapon is oh so confusing. I remember trying to get a weapon from my horse early on as instructed by Dutch, and I couldn't figure it out, and he gets impatient. Then it too an age to figure out how to access items in my inventory. Everything is styled mono colour too, so that makes things even harder to decern. An dead eye ... Eventually you get it, but ... ! And then everything slows down in the camp ...

AC Odyssey was a piece of cake in comparison. Ditto for BOTW, Skyrim ...

There was so much needless stuff you had to do in RDR2 to make it "realistic" that it greatly convoluted the controls system to try facilitate it. That and providing too many needless options in foods/items with minimal difference between them making it more difficult and convoluted to just pick a simple option.

I find posts like this impossible to take seriously as anything but being "try hard". Especially considering some of the games I've seen you lauding as incredible etc.