I just have this little voice in the back of my head (that may or may not sound a bit like Todd) that begs the question, where are they going with it. With how much everyone just keeps fucking up space sandboxes; what will Bethesda's spin be, and how hard could they fuck it up?
I'm so skeptical of any game now, especially a high price AAA game. They've just all gotten so much worse. I mentioned Red Dead Redemption 2 in here, because that was a big turning point for me. That was the last AAA game I bought full price at launch. It was also the last straw, I just didn't like it. The list of AAA games I would recommend others play since then is tiny even though I have eventually played a decent amount (heavily discounted).
I might break my rule in a few weeks with The Crew: Motorfest. That's a bit of a special case as I play those type games with a young family member and I will pay more for relationship building. Still, they are doing something really interesting. They are offering 5 hours of unrestricted gameplay for free on launch weekend. Ballsy move if you ask me.
What was wrong with RDR 2? I had a good time with it on PS4. Did it have a scummy PC port I missed? Though it did seem to drag on and on. I mean Christ, you kill what feels to be the population of a small city by the end of it. It played well though and the characters where great. Incredibly faithful to their counterparts in RDR 1. Really makes playing 1 after 2 feel so much more melancholy, knowing who your targets are all now.
Just something about it. I got bored. The world was great. I explored all around, did all of that part. It wasn't long into it I was just doing missions as chores. I quit around the point where you were burning a farm, a big plantation house, I remember something like that. I'd have much preferred to just shoot Dutch in the head a couple hours in and live as a fugitive. Just something about the first game, I felt like I was the main character in a old western movie. The second game I felt like I was in a soap opera in a western style.
It wasn't bugs or anything. I played it on Xbox, I still had my original early model. I don't remember any issues except it was the first game to make that thing crazy loud, but that's trivial and expected.
I just have this little voice in the back of my head (that may or may not sound a bit like Todd) that begs the question, where are they going with it. With how much everyone just keeps fucking up space sandboxes; what will Bethesda's spin be, and how hard could they fuck it up?
I'm so skeptical of any game now, especially a high price AAA game. They've just all gotten so much worse. I mentioned Red Dead Redemption 2 in here, because that was a big turning point for me. That was the last AAA game I bought full price at launch. It was also the last straw, I just didn't like it. The list of AAA games I would recommend others play since then is tiny even though I have eventually played a decent amount (heavily discounted).
I might break my rule in a few weeks with The Crew: Motorfest. That's a bit of a special case as I play those type games with a young family member and I will pay more for relationship building. Still, they are doing something really interesting. They are offering 5 hours of unrestricted gameplay for free on launch weekend. Ballsy move if you ask me.
What was wrong with RDR 2? I had a good time with it on PS4. Did it have a scummy PC port I missed? Though it did seem to drag on and on. I mean Christ, you kill what feels to be the population of a small city by the end of it. It played well though and the characters where great. Incredibly faithful to their counterparts in RDR 1. Really makes playing 1 after 2 feel so much more melancholy, knowing who your targets are all now.
Just something about it. I got bored. The world was great. I explored all around, did all of that part. It wasn't long into it I was just doing missions as chores. I quit around the point where you were burning a farm, a big plantation house, I remember something like that. I'd have much preferred to just shoot Dutch in the head a couple hours in and live as a fugitive. Just something about the first game, I felt like I was the main character in a old western movie. The second game I felt like I was in a soap opera in a western style.
It wasn't bugs or anything. I played it on Xbox, I still had my original early model. I don't remember any issues except it was the first game to make that thing crazy loud, but that's trivial and expected.