Is Red Dead Redemption 2 any good?

I like it a lot. The slow weightiness of the controls are easy to adapt to, ppl just love to cry.
The combat is simple but it's just fun, there aren't a ton of 3rd person "realistic'' violent shooters, I wish there were more. I want to walk around looking kino and brutally killing bad guys with my trusty pistol.

Far from a perfect game, but there's so much to admire. Make sure you have a decent PC because the graphics are part of the package.
If you're on PC, consider getting the pedestrian damage overhaul and removing the gay hitmarkers and cartoonish bullet trails. Makes seeing the enemies get shot more satifying and less obstructed

caring about video game awards

Is it a good game to play if I'm bored of all the multiplayer shooter shit and gachas?

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Well as a fucking myth hunter, I lovely much agree with you

Yes. I like immersion, thanks. Hunting wouldn't be so fun if animals were static and simple.

for me RDR2 is a lot like the The Witcher 3 in that I've tried several times for the better part of a decade to get into it and it's fucking boring.

Yeah.
Just go in knowing the first chapter is a slog. Just power through the missions until you unlock the camp donation box, then pretty much avoid the story missions and explore, try to upgrade the camp.
One of the upgrades will be fast travel from arthur's tent, and the chicken coop will make the camp stew give you gold cores for a day. Doing chores gets your dead eye experience, and it also improves moral and you'll get to see ambient shit around the camp that fleshes out the gang.
Spend time in the camp at different periods of the day.
I mostly did the story missions when I got bored of wandering around being a mountain man and wanted a consequence free shooting gallery.
I also think its quite funny that my arthur ends up having like 10 grand in cash with as much in gold bars and valuables with a few thousand in the camp box and dutch is still talking about needing money.

Shoot some guy out in the middle of nowhere with no witnesses

Lawmen immediately are alerted and laser lock on to your exact position

So heckin immersive

just play it, it's fun just to me not really a masterpiece at all

I make sure to always keep Fat Arthur going, which requires quite a bit of food, most of which I buy in stores. It helps explain why the gang is broke. Fat Arthur needs his candies.

What’s the boring part? If you don’t like hunting? Don’t hunt don’t like the story? Ignore it Go hold people up and rob people on trains or something it’s an open world game

...I'll pirate it a bit

Yeah, I mean its a game about stopping to smell the roses and if that's not hooking you then yeah.
I think my problem with witcher 3 is when I tried to play it I had just finished RDR2, and after a couple hours of exploring large maps of wilderness with a horse I told myself I couldn't do this for another 60 hours. Nothing against the game itself, I just couldn't fucking do it.

horses are hardcoded to 'correct' your inputs which is why they brain themselves on trees so much

3rd person hardcoded to always sway your aim and be inaccurate even w/weapon familiarity maxed and arthur pre-TB and at perfect weight + every other cope (first person gunplay does not have any of these issues, even if you're an emaciated arthur getting lit up by multiple people as you shoot)

honour + law are arbitrary systems where self defence and other acts relating to morality and crime are only recognised by the game inside random events and missions, making the sandbox and "all the little details" worthless in the end

You have more free will in RDR2 meanwhile TW3 follows a strict script and is centered around quest lines. I can see why it's not up in some people's valleys.

You have more free will in RDR2

someone post the webm of arthur taking a literal 3 steps away from the designated walk behind NPC section of a mission and getting a fail screen

playing rdr2 the first time

get to valentine

eat 2 picked eggs

tool tip says "Whoa! Slow down fatty!"

arthur gets fat shamed and only eats once every couple of days

grow a big bushy beard and wear heavy coats

get to the mission where you have to get a shave and haircut for the riverboat heist

get clean shaven

the hungriest skeleton is staring back at me

Every since then I tried my best to keep arthur right at the perfect weight.

you do 1 playthrough and then realize, like all rockstar games, how empty the open world is and then you play something else.

imagine being such a brainlet you think the game is sprinting from one quest marker to another

Of course not, it's riding your horse from one quest marker to another.

The actual story missions are like 1% of the game.

Both games would become playable if you had a bike from days gone instead of a shitty horse.

If you weren’t a literal brainlet you’d know the games more of shooting gallery than horse riding simulator

ride horse to shooting gallery

ride to next shooting gallery

ride to camp for mission where you ride to town and ride horse to chase a guy

ride across map to shooting gallery

ride back to town to pay off bounty from mission

ride to camp

Literally the exact format for red dead 1 and that goes doubly so for all the gta games? What’s your point exactly?

The shooting galleries are not very good because of forced aim sway mechanics

Lmao still filtered by goat gtav police mechanics

Its the best open world game if you dont have ADHD

it's 10/10 simulator which story ruined everything
it's somehow even more retarded than tlou2

Its wild how hard it is to just stay a normal weight even before the tb. Like you need to eat multiple things everyday, but its rare for your cores to even deplete that fast.

Just go in knowing the first chapter is a slog.

I just replayed it recently and theres really only like 4 or 5 missions in Colter. I never understood why everyone hates the intro chapter so much. I think yall just wanted free roam right off the bat.

lol

Just go threaten them and theyll forget about it. That or just shoot them

Good sandbox bad game.

This is not a game, mind you. It's a long HBO TV series, and a pretty politically correct one at that. Sex, historical racism, and white slaves on plantations are forbidden in the game. You'll also be cleaning up horse shit and playing as the dumbest video game characters ever, so you'll probably be dumber by the end of the game.