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  • I'm not allowed to let our son know we have an Xbox, so can only play once every few months when they're not around. Been playing Red Dead 2 for much of this year, and am still only 30-odd % in. Every time I get to turn it on, I've forgotten how the controls work, so end up shooting a civilian in the middle of town or riding off a cliff. Get the impression I'd be really enjoying it if I had the time to immerse...

  • The scale some games have grown to, most of their player base either has no job or no life, and that's not the most emotionally balanced crowd. The Assassin's Creed franchise went that way, and a large part of the player base (the ones talking online, at least) loudly and proudly say that they cannot understand anybody who wants a smaller game. "Why would you not want a game you can spend 3000 hours in?" and if you try to explain that if at least the core story could be finished in 20, other people could play and the no-lifers could still have their fun, they react as if you're speaking in an alien language while trying to kill their puppy.

    That said, RDR2 is a bit like Death Stranding in that the time put in, almost on a real-time scale, is intended to be part of the experience. If you wanted a Western game you could treat more like a casual game, RDR1 is what you should be playing.

  • Yeah, I rinsed RDR1 almost as many times as Skyrim before the child ruined my life. RDR2 is very much a slow game that I'm very awkwardly trying to cram into occasional rushed sessions every few months.

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