It’s just atrocious that you still can’t play it 60 fps on consoles, while even RDR1 received a 60 fps patch
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latenightnoir@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Easy, you start hanging out, gather a crew of like-minded cowpokes, set yourself up with a Posse, and LAN Party your collective way to Legendary status!
As a side note, RDR2 deserves a ‘GTA VI’ more than GTA does, such an underappreciated game (and social commentary!)
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Im not sure if you are joking right now but RDR2 IS the ‘GTA VI’ to RDR1, a game well deserved of its sequel. Underappreciated? Are you mad?
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can’t speak about the mad part, but what I meant about RDR2 is that it obviously got less love from the community than GTA V, which is why it’s essentially been shuttered in terms of any expansions/online components - while GTAO keeps receiving new mini-expansions even with GTA VI around the corner.
Not to mention there are no talks about furthering the series…
That’s why I consider it underappreciated.
Saleh@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I think not having an online component is a feature there.
GTA lives of the story and dense world. Online is just mayhem, which is fun for a bit, but gets bland quickly.
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If we’re talking about GTAO, I agree. However I have a different opinion about RDO, it had the potential to be less of a griefer cesspool than GTAO, but Rockstar had even less motivation to prevent cheating than they did in GTAO, so…
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Only in terms of graphics and world size. I found GTA V to be worse on net than GTA IV:
I found it an extremely disappointing return to Los Santos, whereas I found GTA IV to be an interesting return to Liberty City.
Yes, GTA V is gorgeous, but it was a slog to play IMO. Once it’s replaced by newer, prettier GTA, will you want to replay V? That’s certainly true for me for SA and IV, but not for V. The only reason it’s somewhat interesting is because it’s the latest entry.
RDR2 is to RDR1 as GTA IV is to GTA III: same setting, different story, and much much prettier.
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In terms of story complexity and depth, I completely agree with you. RDR2 is even better than GTA IV, and that was a pretty hard act to pull to begin with!
As an overall game, though, I do see it somewhat on par with GTA V overall.
Sure, the story’s nowhere near as gripping or even smart necessarily, but the characters do have depth, the narrative content makes sense, and i does have some interesting interactions between the characters which humanise them just enough for me to want to see the story through. It kinda’ feels like someone tried to pull off Seinfeld in the world of GTA and sort of succeeded in creating a game about nothing much as far as the themes are concerned.
This is compensated a lot by the Online component, which seems to be the second half of the story - there are a lot of returning characters, we get to see the evolution of some favourites, the missions and objectives themselves pretty much go nuts way more frequently than the single-player ones. It’s clear that Rockstar focused a lot more on the online component that time, but the story content’s still good and even more interesting overall.
Now, credit where it’s due, RDO does a lot more to keep the multiplayer in the sandbox, with far fewer activities being relegated to dedicated lobbies, and has a lot more NPC interactions as well, but it still feels relatively barebones when compared to GTAO (this loops back to my first point about it receiving less love, thus less development post-launch).
But, yeah, again, GTA IV (especially when including TBoGT and TLaD) and RDR2 are THE epitome of Rockstar storytelling.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
…is my math fucked up or are two and six the same thing these days? Seems they’d need a few more before they get to “VI.”
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ohh no. This guy doesn’t know about the new math. Should we tell him?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Ah this is that Commoncore Math I’ve been hearing about? Thought a supergroup of Dillinger Escape Plan and Converge made a new genre.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Im so confused 😭😭