| themanwithnoname said: Red Dead Redemption. I'm sorry, I love a lot of Westerns, mainly spaghetti Westerns, which this game cleverly nods to a few times, but I can't for the life of me figure out why people think this game is so good. The world is so huge, but there is by and largely a whole lot of nothing to do outside of the main story. My options for minigames are herding cattle, playing poker, and throwing horseshoes (which is actually pretty fun). That's about all I found worth doing outside of the main storyline. Hunting challenges are too boring, and I didn't really feel like finding a guide to look up where to find them. The plant collecting challenges are hysterically awful. Who's terrible idea was this? How is collecting plants fun in the slightest? I'd also like to point out how the middle of the story is complete, 100% filler. The entire Mexico plotline is pointless until the last mission where you find who you came down there for. Since Rockstar prides itself on making these huge sandboxes, how about making a game where half the story isn't an utter waste of time? I'm not saying it's a bad game, but Rockstar remain in my eyes, the single most overrated developers of this generation. Nothing they've done now is worth even putting in the same sentence as San Andreas in my opinion. |
What this man said...whatever his name is
I've never been a fan of GTA, but I have a massive hard-on for Gun. And that was an open world western game just like RDR... It was the perfect match for my hype meter. The gaming journalist were doing their hype bullshit saying it had a deep ecosystem mechanic with the animals and the open world was huge with a fuckload of exploration. Western guns, a bunch of unique towns, Clint Eastwood movie in game form... Not only that but the reviews were raving. I read from the New York Times or some other big publication that ''Red Dead Redemption is a Tour-de-force of the human condition'' Holy shit indeed.
Instead, I got one of the weakest open worlds with practically zero exploration. Literally, if you look at the landscape it's just a flat slab. You can't climb, there are no tunnels to explore (exept for one which rips off a shootout scene from Gun), no caves to explore, the nooks and crannys a la canyons and plateaus are weak and act more as routs of easy transportation rather than actual landscape to explore and enjoy. Plus, the graphics killed my boner. It was seriously hyped how good this game looked... yeah, no it doesn't. Pop in central, low resolution, just looked really rough around the edges. Then again I played the ps3 version and the 360 one is regarded as being vastly superior. So take that for what it's worth...
Towns... oh god. After all the FF13 bitching and moaning, I completely said "fuck that". I don't want towns in FF13 if they turn out like RDR and nor should anyone else. Each one is nothing more than a copy pasta of "gamblin' house, gun shop, merchant, and cloths store and..." oh wait, that's it. Seriously, I really wanted it to feel like a lively 1800s setting but all it has is 4 locations of interest and mindless npcs roaming around. Rockstar didn't even have to release a Halloween edition considering the towns were already filled with zombies. (BTW, Gun had the same setup... just saying)
Early on, the player receives the Evans Repeater. It's a 22 shot gun and is honestly the most useful item in the game. Why? Because each gun is practically identical except for the clip size. Other issues I had was that the story was good and I enjoyed it, except the storytelling is atrocious. Treking 10 minutes through the desert as important information is being dumped on me every half hour or so is bad, It's just horrendous storytelling and very lazy. Plus all the challenges are ripped straight from that one western game I continually keep mentioning. And in some cases, they didn't even rip off correctly. The hunting in Gun is awesome where you have to hunt actually interesting animals and they could seriously fuck you up. Like hunting the great white buffalo for example. That was actually a fun challenge.
I was not happy with this Gun 1.5
Honestly, I have no idea what other people see in this game to say it was GOTY. If anything, I was pissed off and wanted to punch someone when I finished the main story and it was time to ride home. Some music started playing as I drove home on my mechanical horse and that anger turned into sever facepalm. Just a horribly overrated game from an even more overrated company.
