Lexx

Not Rockstar is charging for online, it is Sony with that stupid PS-Plus subscription which you need to play online in the first place. RDR2 Online itself is free and will have micro-transactions to pay for itself. The micro-transactions are a different issue entirely. This PS-Plus bottleneck is completely unnecessary and just a cash grab. Steam doesn't want you to pay for an online mode either, nor any other such (PC) platform.

So what? I don't care. If I feel like the price isn't worth the experience, then I will complain and probably not buy it. It's not my fault that game deving is expensive. I never forced anyone to make new assets for every single game, yadda-yadda. Not sure where we're heading with this conversation right now, though, because I find it all to be kinda captain-obvious level stuff. I'm likely going to try at least one month of RDR2 online, no matter the costs. After that... no idea. I know how much I play online games, so it'll probably end with it then.

I have about 20k right now, as I've already finished the game. The money is going down pretty quick, though, as I have to pay bounties and stuff all the time when I did some experiments. That new horse was 900 or so as well. Not my first one. Pains me a lot when I have to "start a new one". Couldn't revive the last one, because I died when it was down... and after respawn, I had one of my other horses from the stables. If I hadn't died, I could have saved it.

I want to pay the price once, not every month.

I want to buy a game and then it's mine and I can play it whenever I want. About them servers, just allow people to host their own dedicated servers. It's really not that hard. Works on PC as well. Now if I would feel the mood to play some online game, I'd have to pay for a month. If my motivation is gone already tomorrow or in two hours... I've wasted 30 days. And yeah, I have no interest in most of these games, so it'd be a waste of money either way.

So my fancy horse just died, because of these stupid challenges. "Shoot 5 birds from a moving train" .. sounds easy, except for the fact that the people don't like you shooting from the roof of the train and soon you are getting swarmed by hordes of people trying to shoot you dead. Tried to outrun them, because my bounty climbed to $50 just from existing, and every kill will crank it up even harder. Anyway.. failed, died, my horse died and my last good savegame was from yesterday. Bought one of em elite arabian whatever horses. It has really good stats, but.... it's small. Hell, I want a big horse, not a pony. Also it takes lots of time to get the bonding level back up again. So annoying. Wanted to kill all the people but then didn't do it after all, because the bounty system feels so unreliable. Even if I change my clothes and everything, it takes just a couple minutes till they know it's me and the bounty goes sky high...

Sadly I don't play enough (console) games for that. Hell, I rarely play games anyway. Usually I'm just working on my projects and then won't have time to do anything else.

So I just found out that playing multiplayer on PS4 costs money. You have to spend like 8€ / month for a PS-Plus membership. Damn, console peasants are getting milked like crazy. Everything costs muchos monetos.

Still doing RDR2. Just randomly walking through the world, making photos of cool scenes, collecting perfect animal pelts to get funny stuff like badger hats. Waiting for the online mode now, but Rockstar is releasing like zero information about it and it was supposed to come out at the end of this month. Now I'm curious if that's still going to happen.

I think even if Diablo 4 would be like D2 again, at highest I would play through it only once... just like D3. I've grown out of that gameplay and it isn't as much fun to me anymore as 15 or what years ago.

True, but I also mean mundane things like factory work, etc. Loading / unloading trains and stuff. :> Oh, such things are partly animated too already-- in Annesburg, for example, you can watch trains getting loaded with coal. That's a pretty cool detail.

Ok, played through RDR2 completely now. As a Rockstar game, I was surprised how there was no racing mission. Usually Rockstar likes to put at least one crappy racing mission into all of their games (that I have played). More random thoughts: - Prologue was nice and much longer than the prologue in RDR1. - Near the end of the game I had a couple cutscene bugs that required me to restart the game, but other than that didn't noticed any issues. - Most of the time the controls are ok. Once you get used to it, there was no problem for me anymore... most of the time. Occasionally they completely failed and I was unable to interact with certain objects or the player character made dumb crap, I couldn't get correctly into cover, etc. This was annoying, but not sure if I would blame the controls per se for this. - Especially later missions are way, way, way too heavily scripted. More than once I was riding to a position, got off the horse, then got yelled at by everyone to get back on the horse, just so I would be riding another half a meter to trigger a cutscene with me getting off the horse. - I must have killed thousands of men. - Story was good, but the middle part was too long. Should have cut some stuff out of it, imo. Just thinking about these parts makes me not want to replay the game... - ... but eh, not much replay value anyway. There are no choices or anything like that. Also I think you can replay any mission from within your current game, as there are also medals / ranks to achieve. Haven't tried it, though. - Stealth missions are weird. You can try, or you just start shooting right away. Usually they just end in all out gunfights anyway. - I HATE how the game forced weapons on me. In some of the later missions you won't be able to get weapons from your horse, sometimes a cutscene will replace my rifle with another rifle, and sometimes when I died and had to replay a checkpoint, I had a different loadout entirely. I even lost my first Mauser pistol due to this... and later my sniper rifle. Didn't bothered with buying a new sniper rifle, though, as I luckily had the unique variant already. - Not sure how the hat system works. Apparently you keep certain hats that you find, but not just any. If you pick up the hat of a random guy, it likely won't be saved. But then occasionally you have a random guy in a mission who loses his hat, which then will be saved in your inventory. Why can't I just collect any hat that I have with me? There's a crapton of annoying stuff to collect anyway... so why not do that collectible thing with something that is actually kinda fun? I guess they could get this game so big, because of its linearity. Obviously it's a big difference if you're writing e.g. The Witcher 3 / Fallout New Vegas due to their complex dialogue trees. RDR2 doesn't care about any of this, so the time was spend on expanding the scope. The endgame alone is pretty nice. Damn, just imagine New Vegas getting such an endgame treatment... Despite its flaws, all in all the game is pretty good. I enjoyed it a lot and likely will continue playing for a while. Also gonna check out that online mode at the end of the month. For now, I'd give it a solid 8/10. However, if I would not rate it as an action / shooter game, but as an RPG like SonicMage does, it probably would get a 4/10 or worse. It's just not an RPG, just because there are NPC schedules and simulation elements in it.

Game looks much better on my TV than on the (screenshots on the) PC. Especially the industrial areas are awesome looking. Really makes me wish for more interactivity in the environment.

Finished RDR2. The later missions were quite dragging and tiresome, because it was always exactly the same. Go somewhere, try to sneak, shoot lots of people, run away to some place. Rinse and repeat. Yawn. I'm in the epilog now and it's pretty nice. Was very confused and surprised to see that

Never liked the Fo3 game world and everyone who says Bethesda is good at world building... well, they can go F themselves for all I care.

It says "sold more physical copies", which kinda means nothing.

So I just played through RDR2 chapter 5 yesterday and...

Because they can.

It's as much work as you put into. You can easily ignore all the hunting, etc. and just do the story missions.

Zeno Clash 1 was awesome. Played the hell out of it. Hated the second game, though. It looked bad, played bad and just all in all was badly designed. The devs obviously tried to do something they didn't had the money for.

Can't stop playing RDR2. It looks so damn nice. When it comes to the world, they did everything right. Mission design is as already stated, which sometimes annoys me quite a lot. Finally figured out how the "perfect pelt" system works... I have to sell my stuff to the trapper and then I can get some unique clothes out of it. Now I just have to start some serious hunting... need a cow and a bull. And a stupid badger. Bought the semi-automatic pistol now. Could have done it much earlier, but I always felt it not being worth the money. As far as I've spoiled myself, I should be able to get the Mauser in the next chapter. Really wish I could stash some weapons somewhere else, though. It's annoying to switch through them every time on the horse (but unlike other folks, I actually like how the weapons stay on the horse after riding. I wouldn't want to see this removed). I'm curious how the online mode will play like later. The hyped part of me is quite interested, but the realistic part is telling me it'll just be the same boring player vs player slaughter that you see in any other online game.

That new Witcher is some digital card game, right? No interest from me. Like, at all. No matter if GoG or not.

Looks like Xbox pad, lel. If it ain't too expensive, I would consider buying it. It says "pre order now" ... but where? /edit: $200 no thanks.

It does. I just tried it and it looks horrible.