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Post by andrewwerdna on Mar 4, 2024 10:55:01 GMT -5
I am playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on the PS4 since a few month. Don't want to finish it, so I keep myself busy with the challenges and sidequests 🙂 I remember I was looking forward to Red Dead Redemption 2 for years after all the hype, but was just waiting until graphics cards became available so that I could upgrade my pc. When I was finally able to, I just couldn't get into it at all for whatever reason, but I never made it past the initial snowy areas which I guess is sort of like the tutorial, so I don't think it gave it a proper chance. One of these days I think I will get really hooked on it. I liked the first one a lot and have liked all the GTA games.
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Post by ancientdread on Mar 4, 2024 13:26:20 GMT -5
I am playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on the PS4 since a few month. Don't want to finish it, so I keep myself busy with the challenges and sidequests 🙂 I remember I was looking forward to Red Dead Redemption 2 for years after all the hype, but was just waiting until graphics cards became available so that I could upgrade my pc. When I was finally able to, I just couldn't get into it at all for whatever reason, but I never made it past the initial snowy areas which I guess is sort of like the tutorial, so I don't think it gave it a proper chance. One of these days I think I will get really hooked on it. I liked the first one a lot and have liked all the GTA games. Yes, the snowy area in the beginning is really something like a tutorial. The later game is way different with all its missions and details to discover. In parallel I am playing RDR1 on my PS3 from time to time (found this for small money on a flee market). I think, its a cool game which defines the setting for RDR, but RDR2 puts much more on top. And if you like the GTA series, you will recognize some game elements in RDR2. So I would give it another chance
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Post by andrewwerdna on Mar 5, 2024 1:10:19 GMT -5
I definitely will give Red Dead 2 another chance eventually, but for the near future I'm kind of wanting to try out a bunch of small indie games I think. I just beat Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos, and wow, I don't even know where to begin. As a free mod (for Gothic II), it is a mindblowing experience, such a labor of love. I sank hundreds of hours into it and loved every minute, but I must say it did not have to be so damn long! But it's not like anything was rushed or padded, there is an insane amount of detail from beginning to end, and it ends in a very satisfying climactic way. Honestly it kind of blows Gothic I and II out of the water. I wouldn't say it'd be good for a beginner to start with necessarily though, because even I myself going way back with Piranha Bytes playing the first Gothic when it came out, found this to be overwhelming at times. I had to look up quest solutions fairly often, because this is definitely not a modern RPG with quest-markers and a mini-map and all that, and I honestly only have so much patience for that sort of old-school tedium. You have to pay attention to the dialogue a lot of the time, or else struggle to decipher the short cryptic journal entries, but that all contributes to the special hardscrabble immersive feeling that made the Gothic games so special. I feel like I could write a ten-page essay about it and still not do it justice. Perfect atmosphere, perfect difficulty progression, perfect combat mechanics, perfect beautiful environment design, and the Polish voice acting seemed excellent but I don't know the language so I can't say too much about that, but the recording quality and inflections all sounded consistent and professional to me. The story and characters I'd also say were good, but in that classic janky sort of Gothic way, warts and all (such as very few female characters). It seemed by the end cinematic that there were a lot of possibilities for changing the outcome of the story. The one thing I think it was lacking was more original music. I think most of the music was from Gothic II (I could be mistaken), and as great as that is and as well as it fits, it did get a bit repetitive after a while. My favorite moment, late in the game, you are at the monastery of the water mages and if you pick a certain overconfident dialogue option with a random mage you encounter, he does a spell that shrinks you to mouse size, and so then suddenly you're navigating these same spaces but with furnitures being the size of buildings and trying to avoid giant larvae and whatnot. That caught me completely by suprise and was such a creative way to use these same assets we've been seeing everywhere but in a fresh way. Anyways, sorry for this long rambling post. There are so many things I want to say about this game, but I am ready to move on to something else! But yeah, total masterpiece, and it's a shame that maybe only die-hard Gothic freaks will be able to properly appreciate it.
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Post by andrewwerdna on Mar 5, 2024 1:24:44 GMT -5
Also, about Archolos I forgot to mention: You can own your own home and decorate it in a variety of ways and store your stuff in a chest and bookshelf and use workbenches and teleport from there and have a dog who guards the door! I thought that was so damn cool and added quite a bit to the feeling of immersion, like properly living in this world. I wish every RPG did this, but even more in-depth. I wish every RPG had like a foundation of game mechanics like the Sims.
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