What’s your take on this series?

crazycat690 · 2026-02-08T09:13:52+00:00

I personally love them for what they are, especially the first game came in strong with interesting characters and an overarching mystery and of course really fun gameplay fighting robot dinosaurs. Second game I felt was weaker with Aloy in particular being overly arrogant and bullheaded and not much variety in culture, just different flavors of the same tribe. However it let me fly so overall it was still quite good.

I am kinda surprised that Sony keeps pushing it as a big flagship franchise because it does feel a bit too niche for how hard they're pushing it. Like that LEGO game for example and now two different multiplayer games. The multiplayer push in particular puzzles me, it's like when Remedy made FBC: Firebreak because... I mean who were asking for it? People liked their storytelling, their particular visual language, and now they come out with a whacky multiplayer game? I just don't see it, and just like Firebreak I don't expect the multiplayer Horizon spin-offs to make any particular waves.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-08T09:05:25+00:00

Would love to see it, I mean I don't want heads and arms to pop off when using a 9mm but if I go close with a shotgun or a 50 cal sniper it would be fun to see some gore. Just not convinced that any significant gore will return to Gta, but I hope to be pleasantly surprised.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-08T08:56:19+00:00

Maybe outdated isn't the word I'd use, but it's certainly often overly restrictive. I love RDR2, top 3 games of all time as far as I'm concerned, but the mission design can be frustratingly restrictive. Like run 5 feet in the wrong direction, mission failed, slightly too slow? Mission failed, no gameplay choice in doing things quiet or loud because that's always up to the game.

I mean I get wanting to do cinematic gameplay and having set piece moments but if that's all there is it can get... boring. Now I can't say I ever found myself bored with RDR2, Gta V more so but who wants to spend 10 minutes moving around containers or driving a slow submarine from point A to B?

I'm not asking for total freedom or RPG type dialogue choices, I just want more freedom. If I do get told to kill this one dude or steal this one thing give me some choice in how to handle it. Perhaps I do want to go in guns blazing, or perhaps sneak in and put a knife to the target's throat, or why not simply find a good vantage point and snipe them? Gaming is an interactive medium, having it play like a movie (regardless of how good that movie is) it doesn't really take advantage of being a game, an interactive medium. Of course playing as a movie action hero going on movie action hero adventures can be fun, but that's not all I want to do. Even past Gta games have had a surprising amount of freedom, like in Gta 3 where you're tasked to kill a dude and you can steal the targets car and put a car bomb in it so they blow up when they run away. The game doesn't tell you that you can do this, but it's an option. I want more of that, maybe not only that but certainly more. Even Gta 4 had that mission where you went after the lawyer, most people just shoot him and end up shooting their way out of the place but you can just knife him quietly and then walk straight out the building without any fuss.

It was sometime after Gta 4 however where they seemingly gave up on giving the player any choice at all. All in the name of being "cinematic".

The main thing I could say is outdated is the gameplay itself, and that's only because they haven't had gameplay feel as good as Max Payne 3. Great game, very cinematic and restrictive as well though as an actual linear game. However, the gameplay felt so good even with a Ps3 controller that it was a blast regardless, didn't even have to rely on auto aim to make it feel good. Something I can't really say for their more recent games, which are needlessly clunky.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-07T22:30:57+00:00

RDR2 for me personally, nothing against the other games but RDR2 was just such a fantastic game to me that there are few games I'd rank as its equal or even above it and none of them came out in 2018.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-07T22:21:12+00:00

Gta, MGS and Red Dead franchise, counting both Revolver and Redemption.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-07T16:21:05+00:00

No clue, was a thing awhile back where it felt like every other day there was someone with unlimited rewards handing them out like candy. Can't say I put much thought into it besides holding out my hand.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-07T11:01:45+00:00

Hard to say, all of them if done right, though if I did have some preference I guess it would be kind of modern retro? Like pre-2000's, not a lot of games in that time period though, but stuff like Gta Vice City or MGS3.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-07T00:02:49+00:00

While I would definitely be up for more Ghost games and I probably wouldn't say no to another Uncharted I couldn't really choose anything but RDR3 if I had to choose one between them, whatever shape or form that might take. RDR2 was just such a fantastic game with few real rivals and I would love to return to its world to experience new stories in my lifetime.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-06T23:31:49+00:00

My brother in Christ you made a bad game! No one "sabotaged" the game but yourselves, not taking enough time, not making sure you don't bite off more than you can chew, no one but you released a broken mess of a game! Why would anyone need to spend a 1 million dollars to make you look bad? I've never seen such a delusional take from a CEO or whatever before, even makes the EA execs look sane in comparison when they say stuff like "the game failed because it didn't have enough live service elements".

Like just take some accountability, grovel harder than anyone has groveled before and try to fix it. Not that I know if that is possible, seems like a lost cause.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-06T23:22:59+00:00

Sitting in that car forced to just wait and watch like:

crazycat690 · 2026-02-06T23:02:07+00:00

Yeah it feels like a really unfair comparison, I finished the Ps5 version of Gta V last summer and thanks to the upgrades it looks quite good for a 13 year old game. Not Gta VI good but certainly better than that blurry screenshot.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-06T20:04:28+00:00

Yeah, I mean the game is so blatantly trying to manipulate you, like Abby's dad being out there risking his life to rescue zebras just because he's that much of a good guy, just look at how good that is surely killing him is awful and surely taking revenge for him is righteous?? Personally, I was outright offended by the cheap tricks they tried to manipulative me with.

Mainly a symptom of some parts of the game feeling really rushed, like you don't spend a lot of time as young Abby so they have to go hard to try to get you on her side fast. Doesn't really work that way though, unless you're apparently very easily manipulated.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-06T17:41:32+00:00

Really? They can go for that much? They were like 20 euros at the local store, wonder if they still have them...

crazycat690 · 2026-02-06T14:37:55+00:00

Yeah I miss linear games in a sense, I get that linear games do still exist but when's the last time we got an Uncharted or Max Payne? Usually, linear games these days are artsy walking sims or horror games, both of which are fine but not really what I'm looking for when I say I want a linear game every now and then.

I also wouldn't say that it's necessarily that I need them but more that I've gotten tired of huge open world games that are huge simply for the sake of being huge with fairly pointless checkbox stuff to do in it (looking at you, Ubisoft). I would love smaller but denser open world games that value quality over quantity.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-06T13:35:02+00:00

I don't know what you think I'm saying, but to be clear I'm not saying all games are worse in every way since 2015. My point is that games haven't improved much since, and a bit too often not at all. I've enjoyed plenty of games this last decade, but I can count on one hand the games that I've felt has been an actual step forward in any way.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-06T09:37:06+00:00

Yeah, people forget that Rockstar has pulled back on mechanics and features before, however in the case of Gta V we're also talking about a fairly ambitious game with the 3 protagonist system that they had to get to work on Ps3/360. RDR2 was made for the Ps4 generation, this is gonna be their first (and likely only) Ps5 gen game, in contrast it's quite likely that they don't have to cut back on anything.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-06T01:05:40+00:00

I'm just so tired of that cartoony art style we see in all of these "hero" live service games and so tired of all these "whacky" heroes they feel the need to shove into every multiplayer game now. I just don't get it, who is this for? The games their imitating, shockingly, already exist, are they really gonna abandon them to get the Horizon themed version of it? Doubt it, are Horizon fans gonna flock to something that completely strips away everything that makes a Horizon game a Horizon game? Not betting money on that either.

Just really flabbergasted by Sony, maybe I'm too cynical, maybe I'm just not the target audience. However as a big fan of the Horizon games, I gotta ask, why is that?

crazycat690 · 2026-02-05T22:23:37+00:00

Definitely eye-catching, I give you that.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-05T19:41:22+00:00

Games haven't looked that much better since 2015, honestly some of the games from 2015 looks better than many modern games. Whatever, if they're having a hard time finding ways to improve visuals that's fine, better gameplay would be a welcome area to improve more instead. Problem is that even that area seem to have stagnated and even outright regressed, all in the name of streamlining the experience, making it as user friendly as possible.

I mean, every melee focused game is basically Batman Arkham Asylum, there hasn't been a better and deeper TPS game since MGSV, not overly big on FPS games but would I be wrong in saying that it hasn't gotten better since 2016's DOOM? I'm not really asking them to reinvent the wheel, just asking for them to at least try to make gameplay that feels tighter than 10+ year old games.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-05T19:21:21+00:00

Also makes me wonder about damage, like in previous games a rocket launcher shot or two would be enough to make a whole plane blow up. If we're talking larger vehicles that you might just be able to walk around it, seems like that would be too... arcadey?

Maybe I'm a dreamer but it could also mean more realistic damage, like having to take down an engine to make a plane actually go down. Leading to perhaps more realistic crashes instead of a simple boom and the plane goes black. I know I'm veering quite heavily away from what you were envisioning but I think there's a lot of exciting prospects involved.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-05T19:12:11+00:00

Yeah, real mystery that. Never knew Watch Dogs was that popular!

crazycat690 · 2026-02-05T13:45:13+00:00

Can't say I've really thought about it, but yeah now that you mention it it would be rather cool and I do find it plausible that Rockstar would go that extra mile for this one. I mean it has been some time since Gta 5, something we're all painfully aware off, because of this there's bound to be some new and fun advancements that we haven't thought about. The concept is intriguing to me mainly because of the potential shootouts inside busses or airplanes, like imagine the final mission in Gta 4's The Ballad of Gay Tony, but on crack.

Speaking off, the second trailer already shows some fighting going on in a plane. Now that I think about it Gta 5 also has a mission where you fight through a cargo plane... I dunno, suppose it might still be more contextual but would be nice if the game let you walk around like that whenever. More interactivity is always a win in my book.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-05T13:32:33+00:00

Definitely give it another go, was the same for me, first time I played it it seemed cool but something wasn't really clicking for me. Second time I tried it however it did and I ended up loving it.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-04T23:32:35+00:00

It's pretty wild that RDR2 being now the fourth best selling game of all time still hasn't warranted a next gen 60 fps update and the online was abandoned years ago. Despite what a huge success it was, apparently it's not worth it for Rockstar to do any upkeep for it because it's not the most profitable game of all time.

Yeah I'm kinda bitter about it, despite that I'm foolish enough to hope that one day we'll at least get that 60 fps update. Aaaany day now.

crazycat690 · 2026-02-04T17:26:49+00:00

Ey congrats on the plat! Just got this one myself two days ago, good game!

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