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Meh, I don't have questions, except if they can be about The Outer World.

Reminds me a lot of Rage and Borderlands as of now.

https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/60735/Red-Dead-Online-Beta-Week-1-Update?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=reddeadonline-week1&utm_content=newswire First RDO patch is out. Not bad so far, but by now the game is plagued by something much more serious: Lots of people are using rubber bands and tape to make their characters move around in races and other game modes. This way they farm xp and money without actually doing anything. Apparently this stuff even worked back in GTAV online, lel.

I'm starting with Star Trek DS9 season 4 today. Is it just me or did Sisko's character change once he got a beard? I felt like he is kinda behaving different now. /Edit: Oh no, Sisko is with beard AND bald now. He became 100% evil from season 3 to 4.

**** Fortnite.

Yeah, anno 2070 was good, but also very simple. I had never much problems with anything. Also hated the enemy ai, especially the pirate attacks, which were always exactly the same. Never played the last title, because it didn't interest me at all.

So we are the KKK now. I lol'd. PS: Anno 1800 will be awesome. Played in the recent closed beta and it's shaping up great. Much closer to the older games (1404) again.

Reminds me of Risen, where the end battle was a stupid minigame. :>

Everyone's running to look under her skirt.

Almost got a heart attack in this scene. I love that you can equip a pocket watch and then use it for real. Well, sheet, online story mode does have some fun missions. This is how they apparently fight in Australia.

What did he do there anyway all these years.. certainly not working on a good rpg.

#JustSonicThings again. RDR2 is not an rpg and lots of its features have been done in other games before as well. Yes, I played RDR2. It's also a very linear game that expects you to play in the way the developers wanted. There is no choice&consequences in any kind of way, even though the game likes to make you believe so. /Edit: The most cringe example was a bounty mission where the character asks you to spare him. If you do so and go away, they say something like "he lets us go, quick, before he changes his mind!" ... then they run away... and you get the mission failed screen. No matter the dialog, you *have* to lasso that guy, because this is how the developers want you to play.

I don't mind paying for a service, just not for 10 of them.

Damn this is like a couple years back when everyone had to subscribe to channels on the regular tv. Now you just have to subscribe to all the streaming services and sometimes even add sub-channels to the bill. So annoying. I thought we made it past this with internet streaming, but it just started all over again.

Yes, you're not missing out, at least right now. I would love to just throw that stuff away, but in a weird way I'm still addicted to the game and can't stop playing. I fear that once more interesting content will hit the game, I'll be burned out from it forever.

So I've played Red Dead Online for two days now. Here's my current thought on it: RDO has so many items to unlock, but none of that matters to the player, as everything costs a fortune and thus can't be bought and used. PvP in free roam is dull, boring and has no point. It costs you money and morale and in return offers a tiny fraction of experience for another rank increase which unlocks items you can't buy. Due to the instant respawn right around the corner, it pretty much adds no value to the game. Participating in it just wastes anyone's time that - at this point - is probably better spend at grinding stupid pelts to get your $1.50 from the butcher... the only trader of value. The coop missions could be fun, but again, they offer no reward. In the last mission I've completed, they granted me a wooping $10... and I've used a couple healing items and about 100 bullets, which probably costs about $10 if you'd buy them at any trader. "Stranger missions" are some sort of open world PvP scenarios. Escorting a caravan, kidnapping people, etc. etc. Kinda fun, but again, reward is something between 2 to 5 dollars... so not worth the time. Deathmatch, team deathmatch, battle royale, etc.. are all dull and pointless, because of auto-aim and instant respawn. Also you have to bring your own weapons and ammo, thus it often costs you more to participate than you get as a reward out of them. I'm guessing all of this is why free roam is utter chaos at this point. Players are bored and start shooting each other, even though there is no point in any of this. You can't play any of the minigames from the singleplayer either, which disappointed plenty people. Me not so much, because I never play them anyway. HOWEVER. If you've finished the singleplayer and want to play more in the environment, but don't want to restart the campaign for whatever reason... RDO is not all that bad. Landscape is still beautiful and at least on PS4, most players in the wilderness don't seem to mind each other. Usually you can ride around, hunt some animals and stuff like that without anyone bothering you. If that's all you want to do, then yeah, it's not that bad. Feels like the endgame of the singleplayer mode, but you have the option to do some coop stuff or play with friends, if you feel the mood. The only thing you have to overcome first... is all the grind to get your basic gear back. Bow, binoculars, horse brush,... that stuff costs time, money and much dedication as of now. In the end, it pains me, because this thing could be great fun... with more attractive activities and a real reward system. Who knows, maybe Rockstar is going to deliver exactly that... but right now, I'm rather pessimistic here. Oh, there was some "money exploit". If you killed pigs in certain places to get their hides, you could make fancy $20 every 15 or so minutes. Of course Rockstar fixed this within a day. lol. Just shows once more that the whole RDO experience is made to extort money out of you to decrease the grind. If it stays like that, the game will probably lose most of its playerbase within the next weeks. /edit: Just had a story mission that was quite funny. The NPC said "take a bow with you", but all of us were around rank 6 or 7 and the bow is not unlocked before rank 12. We just killed everyone with normal guns and nobody cared.

Native 4k is a lot less blurry. What a surprise.

I have many small scars from girl scratches on my hands. Don't ask me why, she liked it. Teen years were weird.

Bloodborne is reduced on the playstation store right now, so I bought it, even though I likely won't play it for a while yet.

500 atoms are ~5 dollar.

I'll be very angry if this is not a mobile game.

I've put it on my wishlist for now, as I don't have time to concentrate on it right now anyway. Earlier today it had a very bad rating on Steam, though, not sure what's up with that one.

Honestly, I'm not even mad at whales spending the coin on micro-transactions. Hell, I'd do the same if the only alternative is to tediously grind the same mechanics for 50 hours. Doesn't change the fact that it's a distasteful game mechanic. It's lazy, uncreative, and unattractive. Really wish it'd be possible to punish such companies more, but sadly the majority will still give them money for the next game. Right now I'm just so very disappointed in the huge wasted potential of RDO. Instead of doing something new, they did what Rockstar always does-- take their old formula and reskin it with a new story. RDR2 got praised so hard for being slower and different than other games and then for the multiplayer they decide to make a copy of GTAV online with a different look? Seriously? Come on, how lazy is that.

Apparently the grind in Red Dead Online is very real. Everything is super expensive and you gain little cash. Also weapons, horses, etc. are all level locked. Pretty much the same as GTAV Online. Such a damn turn-off.

Bethesda owns Gamebryo. It's their engine since years.