To me right now is the first Red Dead Redemption. Finally I’m able to play it, I’ve wait for over a decade. No spoilers, zero youtube gameplay videos, zero questions about the game to my friends. It gotta be me, and the game, it happened, and I think it sucks.
Maybe you thinking in “well, you shouldn’t play the second first”. I did not. My first Red Dead game was Red Dead Revolver, I was able to play it a few years ago when I could buy a PS2, but I couldn’t get a PS3 nor a Xbox 360 to play RDR1. It grinded my gears because we got the prequel in PC. When RDR1 came to PC it was so freaking expensive, yet today, I think it is expensive. I was able to buy the game some weeks ago while there was a Steam Sale, and well, I regreat it now.
I don’t like its exploration, its missions, its characters, its world, its secondary missions. its wanted system, and nothing but less important: has a lot of bugs.
That’s my experience in a few words.
What’s the game that you wanted to play but it was a total mess?
Nier: Automata and Outer Wilds both lost me with their absurdly boring opening sequences.
It’s been a while since I played it, but doesn’t Automata open with you fighting a mecha kaiju oil rig?
It does, but that’s done using a combat system I can’t get into, and if you lose, you’re sent all the way back to the very start, which is like 3 genre shifts away from the furthest point reached.
Yeah it’s a 45-minute unbreakable opening tutorial sequence that is totally unskippable and totally unnecessary.
Oh Lord I hated everything about that game, but I don’t want to go off LOL
But the starting village in Outer Wilds is completely optional? You can just go straight to Hornfels, get the launch codes and leave for adventure.
Yeah, but you don’t know that when you first start paying. The village feels important.
Fair enough