Absolutely. In my case, I'm totally uninterested in the setting, so it's not for me. Unless there's a "Cowboys & Aliens" twist and the protagonist spends most of the game with a jet pack and a laser cannon. I could potentially be down for that.
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Absolutely. In my case, I'm totally uninterested in the setting, so it's not for me. Unless there's a "Cowboys & Aliens" twist and the protagonist spends most of the game with a jet pack and a laser cannon. I could potentially be down for that.
Pretty much my thoughts on the first RDR, game is overrated as fuck. had to force my way through the campaign and quickly traded it in
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I think everyone here knows that Gamestop employees aren't a hivemind and is also aware of the fact that it is blatant generalisation to assume that they all fucking suck. Around 90% of GS employees I personally met actually did fucking suck in one way or the other (being sexist assholes or blatantly incompetent e.g.) and I'm also aware that this is coincidental evidence. But it is a shit company with shit policies and of course this somehow waters down to the quality of their employees.
TLTR: GS employees are the worst and not trust worthy /end generalisation
I never played the first but LA Noire bored me and I had to force myself to finish it. Liked GTA V though.
The western genre is not for everyone. Namely people that expect action non-stop like a COD campaign. Serene and 'slow' moments are just as much a part of the genre as shootouts.
For all the "interesting" quotes, OP left out the key one that adds context:
After 3 days of key speakers and power points and then for someone who didn't know how to play the demo and wouldn't get into a firefight and trotting around the wilderness, shit I would of crashed too. lol
After 3 days of key speakers and power points and then for someone who didn't know how to play the demo and wouldn't get into a firefight and trotting around the wilderness, shit I would of crashed too. lol
Eh, if it's like the first one that's gonna be half the fun for me. Just roaming around the world, enjoying the scenary, the wildlife, the occasional events (random fights, chases, events, etc) and basically just soak it in.
Granted, that's not for everyone. If you're more action oriented, yeah, I can see how a demo of just wondering around would feel boring.
Granted, that's not for everyone. If you're more action oriented, yeah, I can see how a demo of just wondering around would feel boring.
Gamestop employs 53,000 people, and you just called all of them "the worst and not trust worthy." All based on a few less-than-stellar experiences that, considering your attitude, I doubt were all as bad as you suggest they were.
God damn this thread is embarrassing.
Yeah, exactly. A boring demo after a tiring day isn't going to go down well with some people. I know myself that I'm less likely to care as much for demos in Sony and Bethesda E3 conferences because they're usually shown at 3-4 in the morning when I'm tired af lol
Though, of course, it must have been some form of issue inherent to Gamestop employees. It's the only explanation!
I never even finished it because of how boring it got lol.
Thanks for calling me the worst and not trustworthy. I'm sure you're the best though.
Yes, conventional wisdom would agree with you, but it's Red Dead 2, every game moved out of the way for it, they're buying lots of stock regardless.
Please cut out the blanket inflammatory generalisations of people based on what video game store they work for.
Why would I want the game to fail? Makes zero sense. I wouldn't be in this thread if the game didn't interest me. I love videogames, the more the better. I even said in my post that Im sure the game will be great lol. I hope the game turns out to be fucking legendary. All I'm saying is that people ought to be cautious about the marketing promises made before a big game releases. We have seen time and time again how they can turn out to be false or undercooked when the game releases.
I think if you're gonna showcase a demo of an upcoming game to increase hype, you should show some of the action and more fast paced moments. Not something that may be considered boring.
Unless what they showed was, to rockstar, action oriented. In which case, no bueno.
Unless what they showed was, to rockstar, action oriented. In which case, no bueno.
Do people realize this was a private event and mostly corporate or store manager levels this isn't 18 year old part timers out of high school talking about this stuff .
I wouldn't get into it mate. You're arguing with a alt account of someone who has been banned a couple times already and goes off on these wild fanboyism tangents, especially for RDR2.
Couldn't agree more with you. I just recently finally played it a few months ago and was bored of it pretty much the whole time. There is no way that would have been my GOTY back in 2010. Repetitive mission design where you constantly rode somewhere while talking to someone, shoot some guys, and then ride all the way back to do another mission. The open world got boring quick too and don't even get me started on how bad the gunplay was especially while on the horse. Hell there was nothing even memorable about it unlike Mass Effect 2 that had tons of great moments. To each their own though.
The key note speaker and player didn't seem to know how to play based on those in attendance and for all the chances he had to get into a firefight, he chose to be passive and be more honorable resulting in little action until fleeing the bank robbery.
The point is even a action filled demo wouldn't of helped much because this was a surprise demo at the end of the last day where folks had already been spending 3 days and countless hours just sitting there listening to PR reps hype their shit and showing off demos rather than playing games on the show floor.
If the demo was truly as described then it seems like it was just not a very smart section to pick for a 20 minute demo. Like walking around the wilderness is cool and part of most open world games but I dunno if it needs to the first half of a 20 minute demo.
Eh, maybe the demo should have forced you to play it out a certain way. To get the proper feel and experience.
I don't believe that's a good excuse in any case. If a game is good, you can be dead tired but still have a good time trying it out for 20 mins. But it's just one perspective, I hope Rockstar releases a trailer or footage of a couple of missions playing out so we can make our own conclusion of it. It's silly that the game is a month out and we've seen so little.
That might happen with DLC, like the Undead Nightmare for RDR.
Exact same for me. Never got the overwhelming love for this game.
Oh absolutely, but nobody there did try it out nor was it playable. Attendees just had to spend the last 20 minutes of a 3 day key note presentation watching someone play who apparently wasn't very good at it and wouldn't get into any fire fights. lol
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Yeah because game-stop workers, have the best sense of what makes a game good.
Lol yeah, this.
It largely is a simulation game. Nothing wrong with that. Looks incredible.
And "Resetera forum posters" do? You realize that simply working for GameStop (or posting on a forum or whatever) has absolutely zero bearing on a person's tastes in games, right?
You've also got to remember that they were watching instead of playing and the demo itself came after 3 days full of (generally) boring conferences. Without a personality backing it up simply watching a game being played is likely to be met by boredom by people who can't participate themselves. I'd say that holds true for pretty much any game out there. I posted this before but the DOOM E3 2015 demo is a perfect example of how an incredibly non-boring game can be made to look dull by way of a poor presentation:
This is how I felt for RDR originally. Lots of horse riding into nothing and talk/follow with someone. It's why I didn't feel any hype for the latest RDR and when they said they didn't expect RDR to blow up like GTA, it's understandable. You can only do so much with a take on western style game.
I mean I loaded up RDR 1 on the PS4 earlier (psnow) at the very beginning, got on a horse in the night, started a mission, didn't bother to complete it, dicked around on my horse for like 12 mins solid, got off then walked around, got back on horse, couldn't remember what I was doing spent 10-15 more mins leaping over fences, oh then I got to the rabbits part and the Coyotes I think, uhhhhh the first guys you see fighting I shot instead of arrested them, that was the most exciting part I did.
Hmmmm that was about it, if I had shown anyone who had never played it before my footage, I gaurantee not only would the people had gone to sleep, they would have cancelled their pre-orders and said it was the worst game of all time.
We all know how awesome RD1 is, yet I played it today on a lazy Sunday afternoon and I just literally went round in Circles on my horse, kinda to re-get used to controls, kind of just cos I like dicking around in these games not doing much spectacular for a while.
In GTA I have been known to spend 30misn to 1hour driving the cars round the map up n down the same streets even, just to chillax.
What I am saying is it's all in how much you show off and how you play it.
Hmmmm that was about it, if I had shown anyone who had never played it before my footage, I gaurantee not only would the people had gone to sleep, they would have cancelled their pre-orders and said it was the worst game of all time.
We all know how awesome RD1 is, yet I played it today on a lazy Sunday afternoon and I just literally went round in Circles on my horse, kinda to re-get used to controls, kind of just cos I like dicking around in these games not doing much spectacular for a while.
In GTA I have been known to spend 30misn to 1hour driving the cars round the map up n down the same streets even, just to chillax.
What I am saying is it's all in how much you show off and how you play it.
RDR 1 had a super slow start, plus they were watching and not playing. Doesn't bother me at all.
Read about this last night. It comes down to two things. RDR 2 was shown after ten hours of people sitting watching other stuff and it was simply a badly paced demo with a bad player and narrator. The narrator was dull and boring while the person playing didn't run or do any action type stuff until later on. With that all said, it was simply bad timing all around. Game itself is still going to be great but I can understand the other perspective because as someone who rarely fast travels in open world games and likes to walk a lot, if I was playing a game and people were watching me play, they would get bored too because im not doing anything that's action based.
Yeah, doesn't sound like Rockstar made the right choice here.
No one says they like their games boring.
But almost everyone that loves RDR will tell you that the best moments of that game come from riding across the desert, taking in the ambience, the atmosphere. The serenity of it all. It's a western afterall...
so you can trivialize it as "holding forward" all you want, because mechanically it might not be the most complex thing, but there's a lot more happening on screen than that.
