| John2290 said: How about finishing a game before rating a game or at least get more than 10 percent onto it. :P |
Well, first of all, i did not rate the game, i only said the game is still good despite its flaws and perfectly has a chance for me to being a 9 in the end. Second, despite most people not liking the first chapter, in my case I did. I'm a sucker for games that put good presentation and cinematic values first. I'm the kind of person that don't value "gameplay" as necessary for a game to be considered great. I will always prefer a game like Journey more than a Super Mario, or The Witcher III more than Zelda Breath of the Wild. But when a person like me still feels the gameplay affects the joy of the game, despite all the other strenghts, there's a problem. And talking about The Witcher III, you made a comparison with the beginning of that game and RDR2. In the prologue of the Witcher III, you already do all the things you're going to do in the rest of the game, so if you like or don't like that part you'll get a good impresion for the the rest of the game. In the Witcher III you notice early on in the game the average or mediocre combat too. The clunky gameplay was reflected as a criticism in the reviews back then. With RDR 2 it's the same, in chapter 2 the game opens and it's where the open nature of the game clashes with some game design choices and you start noticing how badly the gunplay works, but only this time no reviews stated those things because coming from a Rockstar game those are taken from granted, and it's not fair.
I can't guarantee nothing, because i did not finished the game yet obviously, but i'm sure the things i don't like will still be there 10, 20 or 30 hours later. Those problems are an important part of the game and that's why i'm calling the game "overrated" because a 97 rating mean it's something historical, a true revolution or evolution for a genre or saga and I don't feel RDR 2 that way. But that doesn't mean that is a bad game either...., just not as unanimously good as the press says. I only demand from the press the same criteria and criticism that they have with other games. My original post was more a rant against the press than against the game itself.
