Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Whereas Rockstar, with their famously tight budgets and strict production schedules, are of course constantly having conversations where they go “well, we know this isn’t fun, but we’re just gonna have to ship it. Sorry guys. Try harder next time.”
Well they certainly push releases back I'll give you that, but given the incredible culture of crunch, pressure and burnout that we know RDR2 was made under, I'd suspect there's an element of it being delayed until it was good enough to ship, rather than as good as it could be.
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(a) people love these games (b) if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
But that's all I've been saying all along, (or at least, I think it is), I simply don't have the time, patience or inclination to wade through Rockstar's 'not broken' game model any longer. I get that the game reviewed incredibly well, I get that millions of people love it (despite the flaws it seems everyone agrees it has), but for the flaws are now,
for me personally, too big of a problem to look past. They get in the way of the actual game too much, and I won't put up with, as a single example, the dire gunplay that Rockstar still seem to think is OK.
(Or for example, the astonishing amount of just riding around on a horse that
everyone agrees RDR2 has in it. Not interested, that's not 'game' as far as I'm concerned. To give you an idea, having to drive to events in Forza Horizon 4 (on a relatively small map in incredibly fast cars) was absolutely at the limit of my tolerance for what I'd describe as 'travelling to the game' as opposed to 'actually playing the game'. I'm just like, 'Why can't I click on the event and start it? Why are you making me drive to the event? This is not fun and I don't want to do it, it's not game, this is bad design'.)
I started a second playthrough of GTA5 when I got my new PC last year, excitedly looking forward to maxing it all out and playing it through a second time, I got a reasonable way in and then just stopped, because I wasn't having fun, because of all the standard Rockstar problems.