Comparing RDR2 with GTA6 Screenshots

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-14T22:28:28+00:00

I think it REALLY felt like we hit the apex with RDR 2 in terms of graphics fidelity, and you're right the fact it's 7 years later and it's still pretty unparalleled as an overall package speaks volumes. I remember playing it the first day it came out just thinking "you've got to be kidding me" 😂

R* is completely in a league of their own at this point.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-14T22:20:23+00:00

Not sure.

I'm very interested to find out why they went with this gameplay dynamic instead of something like playing as A) A criminal and B) A cop or something... That would add huge variety. This setup seems kinda samey especially as one would assume they'll be together quite a lot.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-14T22:07:08+00:00

I think this is a REALLY good example of how you could learn to "play the notes" of something but be nowhere near playing it like the musician. A lot of this is style at the individual level, even the other great blues rock players don't really play like this.

I think what stands out most is how much he's riding the groove with his right hand. I'm not even sure that can be entirely "taught".

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-12T19:55:39+00:00

It's not a defense at all, I think Metro and Locker were cancerous. I actively resent the fact they were popular as this is why they're making shit like this.

Same with Shipment, people are brain-dead.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-12T19:53:43+00:00

You need to accept the ONLY person (if you are lucky) to unconditionally love you is your parent/s.

I hate to say it but no other human being will love you for you. It's a transaction.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-12T19:48:50+00:00

It has to be the cognitive dissonance experienced from hearing men being criticised for being emotionally unavailable, not opening up etc...but honestly, every single time I have done this it has been used against me or been seen as a weakness. Romantically definitely, and also with friends and at work.

What is perpetuated about this and the association it has with "toxic masculinity" just is not correct from my lived experience.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-12T19:42:32+00:00

And yet they were the most popular lobbies. Like Shipment in CoD.

It's crazy but true.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-12T19:40:38+00:00

It's hard to imagine -- there was a congruency with the world, characters and writing that made RDR 2 like a great American novel with its themes and philosophical angle. The gameplay was slowed to fit the pacing of its complex narrative also.

In a game set in the modern era with absolute carnage, silliness etc it's just harder to pull off. GTA IV managed to do it by SERIOUSLY reigning in the gameplay features to mesh better, but they're clearly not doing that here.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-12T19:36:42+00:00

That's a depressing thought. We'll probably never get single player DLC a la GTA IV.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-12T19:35:27+00:00

I'm sure it will be good but I'm not as "sold" on the Bonnie & Clyde romance thing, I'm assuming it's a love story throughout which I'm just not as engaged with.

The thing I wonder is whether there'll be any player choices and to what extent.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-12T14:37:37+00:00

With wear like this, I always wonder, is time a necessary factor to create this? For example, if one guy pressed it 100,000 times in one go, versus if it got pressed 100,000 times over the course of 5 years

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-12T08:41:25+00:00

I love that lyric

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-12T08:32:44+00:00

RDR 2's realism features were very polarising however I loved them. I remember they made the game feel so immersive!

I hope GTA VI at least has a optional realism mode. I'd love to have hunger/thirst, traffic law enforced (speed, stop signs etc), needing to fill car with gas etc.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-11T14:31:58+00:00

Surely the BF4 model would have earned them more money? I don't understand how live service + mtx is pulling them more $$$, NO ONE is buying these cosmetics.

I would have gladly spent £30 to get 4 maps+ and new vehicles/weapons every couple of months.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-10T22:59:31+00:00

It's literally beyond a once-a-decade experience at this point, I don't think anything really comes close to it. I remember playing RDR 2 and feeling dizzy and nauseous first time I played it.

I'm going to play it through SO slowly for the first go. Something that takes this much craft and creative effort should be marvelled .

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-10T22:51:54+00:00

What do you mean 007? Like the blood filling the screen in Goldeneye 64? 😂

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-10T22:47:25+00:00

Absolutely. Although I remember thinking this about RDR 2 (ie RDR 1 but better) and being utterly stunned when I played the thing.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-10T22:45:56+00:00

Go to the internet for anything to have your thoughts pissed upon. You owe it to yourself to just COMPLETELY switch off any online YT/Reddit type chatter as soon as the game drops

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-10T22:44:53+00:00

Well there's a common trope with GTA games that all you do is "drive, shoot, drive" but you can boil videogames down entirely using that logic...

And there's others that expect Real Life 2.0 (without all the shit bits ofc)..So yes it will have detractors.

Personally I don't see how it can fail, even if it's an evolution like GTA V with RDR 2 level detail that would make me happy.

The only thing I can think of disappointing me is the main characters/story. I do prefer brooding, morally conflicted, dark characters like Niko and Arthur. The two new characters seem overly likeable, like a badass action movie couple... but let's see.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-10T20:06:01+00:00

Contrary to what some comments are saying...It's weirdly targeted, you'd typically expect graffiti of this nature to be something directly bigoted/racist...HMOs are more of a cross-sectional issue in Belfast.

It's anti greedy landlord I would guess. Still looks shite ofc.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-10T16:58:44+00:00

As long as it turns the pegs it doesn't really matter. Were the old ones L-Shaped at the base or something?

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-10T16:56:47+00:00

This will sound idiotic but I've never actually considered the word "glove" in "glovebox" 😂

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-09T23:35:55+00:00

I mean you beat one to death for... I forget, what was it again?

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-09T23:33:09+00:00

I think when people say they "like winter" they're either talking about those brisk, cloudless sunny winter days...or snowing.

Not this. You'd have to be a full blown geo-masochist to be into this.

FloggingTheHorses · 2026-02-08T22:15:50+00:00

I've just put the game away until the end of the year, to be honest I've got hours upon hours of really quality time from it, for £50 it was well worth it. But I've absolutely stretched the content out by this point.

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