The Fury said:
So, spent a long time just playing games recently, Slay the Spire, Helldiver's Apex but between them I legit tried to do another run on Baldur's Gate 3. Well, I did. Nearly all the way through but didn't finish it because honestly, by Act 3, I'm spent and getting into the ending fights is just tiresome. So I stopped and played Red Dead Redemption 2 instead. Started off slow but that's the point of the game, found the controls generally terrible, like why is speak to people so close to shoot them in the face? I basically ignored hunting after Chapter 1. I struggled for income at first but guess that is the point. Found it odd how lawmen would show up to mission story locations where enemies were hidden as soon as I had killed them but not before giving me no time to loot. Anyway, getting through that I carried on with the story. Now, I'm f***ing depressed. I had no idea how long it was, whatever needed to be done but the game kept telling me "one last score/get the money". There were masterful hints at the main character's thinking early on in the game that came full force later and in finishing the main story, I... I dunno. Felt happy to have played this but sad to as well. Emotions through story telling can be a big thing and this was a right kicker. And here I was thinking it was just GTA but wild west. Masterful work by all involved. |
Everyone gets depressed finishing that game, if it weren't for the prologue and good honour ending it'd severally fuck with your head. Did you get the cutscene where Arthur talks with the Nun for the last time, it's those touches that make it all so much more rough. Not to mention you get attached to the character like in no other media apart maybe books and to see it play out and leave the world is a bitch. I wanted to play recently again but it's way to heavy for me to handle right now so I watched Act man on Youtube play through it. Such a masterpiece and people seem to have forgiven it's faults as time as time has gone on. The bar for quality is still exceeding games coming out now and it's damn near the length of a console generation old.
