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Was good enough that I bothered getting platinum for it. The seque was fun too but I actually liked the Festival of Blood dlc more. Haven’t finished Second Son yet but I think it’s because the gameplay loop feels like mostly repetitive filler. It’s fun to get back into here and there but earlier games did the concept better. Photo mode is oddly enough one of its most redeeming features.
I'm afraid to watch and yet I really want to. It sounds awful just from the title alone.
Update: Okay, I listened and man....that was something. There's a lot to unpack there but just the wierd tone death souless "best diversity" algorithm is just so indicitive of a corporate mindset...and of course.....the union busting shit.
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So after watching his LONG Essay on the Dark Souls Trilogy I decided to take another go and watch his take on the Red Dead games and it was very much worth the 4 hours invested. To be fair he actually spends a fairly decent amount of time talking about Gun(which I've heard of but never played) for the sake of contrast with Red Dead Revolver and Red Dead Redemption but it is worth listening to all the same. I also don't feel bad at all about not having played Red Dead Revovler considering it pretty much doesn't have much to do with either RDR or RDR2 from what I've heard(yes, there are easter Eggs about it in RDR1/2 but that doesn't mean a direct connection or that Uncle is Red Harlow).
And oh man did it want to make me want to play RDR and RDR2 again. Especially RDR2
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Oh yeah, Gun was probably the first western style game I ever played (even before Call of Juarez) and I loved it. It was like a precursor to RDR and nailed the scope and tone of what a western should be. It’s on GOG and Steam for $20 which is kinda steep for a 17 year old game now, but with Activison publishing I guess age doesn’t matter. I’d wish list it and wait for a sale but even at $20 worst case it’s worth playing.
I started Revolver and there’s an infamous bridge section I stopped at. Some rainy day I can see picking it back up but fuck that game clearly wasn’t tuned well for difficulty. It’s literally like the toughest part of any Rockstar game.
Did you originally play RDR2 on PC? I’m dabbling in it here and there for kicks and vastly prefer it to console.
@Dalisclock, here's another long one from Noah you probably never seen before. He uploaded this in 2019.
I played it on PS4 because the PC version wasn't announced yet, but I wouldn't mind having it on PC as well.
I haven't play Gun but I played CoJ: Bound in Blood and I kinda liked the whole thing where the characters start out as having somewhat good intentions, to get their home back, but slowly they just become outright villains with very little in the way of redeeming characteristics. The only reason I don't really like it is the BS mandatory Quickdraw duels that become insanely difficult and there's no story reason for it because of the aforementioned fact the characters abandon the pretense of being honorable in any way. If they don't care about being good people anymore, why the formality of "honorable" duels?
Also I have CoJ: Gunslinger and I need to boot it up because I've heard it's pretty fun.
That's the next one on my list. I'm curious to hear his thoughts on the GOW series.
Update: That was pretty interesting. Not as good as the Souls and RDR ones but those have more narrative to chew though so tis fair.
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I never played any of the PS1 ports of all the Capcom VS games. So I would not know much about them, other than reception.
I agree that the combination of (below average) life simulator and dungeon crawler is what make the modern persona work, because it gives meaning to the action you do on one side to help you on the other side. But that's also part of the reason I didn't like P5 while really linking P3/4, both sides of P5 are so insanely easy that they can kinda beak down the virtuous cycle. I don't care about finishing the heist in one day because maxing out relationship and social stats is so easy I don't need the extra time and I don't care about getting better gear/persona from social activity because I can clear trough dungeon like hot knife trough butter even undergear.
Also its Futaba, she's literally the only good thing about P5 character/story
"The days of Metacritic determining how well a game sells are long gone” says Saber boss
After finding success with both Evil Dead: The Game and World War Z, Saber CEO Matt Karch says games can look beyond Metacritic for success
www.vg247.com
Good to see EGS exclusivity making it easier to make the games devs want without public opinion influencing it anymore imo