4 ms·
Red Dead Redemption 2 — but where there is no overarching story but you create your own character, and can go off and do what you like, affecting the world. Sta
by imdsm 4y ago
Red Dead Redemption 2 — but where there is no overarching story but you create your own character, and can go off and do what you like, affecting the world. Start a trading business, buy a saloon, be a bandit, a sheriff, you name it. It's such a masterpiece of a world, but replayability is reduced by having to follow the same story lines and play the same person every time.
Imagine RDR2 but with the replayability of Skyrim. There is a reason why Skyrim is still such a popular game and why most of us have purchased it more than once (which is weird, right?): because it is the ultimate example of a replayable game.
The focus on RDO takes the game a little bit in this direction, but the multiplayer aspect takes away from the immersion, and the fact that you can't have character names like Old Bill and instead see people called xX_SUICIDE69_Xx running around really spoils it.
I want to go fishing, put my fish in a cart, take them to market, sell them, then go play some poker with a beer, before returning home to my small shack that I'm slowly decorating.
Is that so much to ask for?
- lelandfe 4y agoThis is such a stupid comparison that I can't believe I'm making it but Puzzle Pirates actually did a lot of this. You'd sail around on ships for the navy, "fighting" pirates (via competitive puzzles) to earn a wage. You start with a tiny, default shack and a cot, but could buy larger properties and better furniture. If you saved up enough, you could buy your own ship, and become a pirate yourself – or go straight and buy actual in-game businesses to start selling wares: https://yppedia.puzzlepirates.com/Shoppe_management https://yppedia.puzzlepirates.com/Shoppe_management It lacked every ounce of the beautiful simulated West I love in Red Dead, but the core gameplay mechanics you're talking about are all there. ...I'm speaking in past tense but apparently it's still around? https://store.steampowered.com/app/99910/Puzzle_Pirates https://store.steampowered.com/app/99910/Puzzle_Pirates
- ajmurmann 4y agoI want this but with the Yakuza series.
- jonwinstanley 4y agoOr Cyberpunk
- jonwinstanley 4y agoYes, love this. I tried to explain to someone why I disliked the missions on RDR2 and they didn’t get it. The missions reminded me that I was playing a game, I just wanted to explore and hunt.
- imdsm 4y agoAbsolutely. Same as with the train — I don't buy a ticket, because that enables fast travel. I just climb aboard and travel. I remember the first time I stayed on the train for the whole journey, it was a whole experience. Such an impressive world. Rockstar could do so much with it, but they just focus on making it into GTA of the Wild West, sadly.
- jonwinstanley 4y agoYes the train was great. I also liked to set a waypoint get the horse going then switch to cinematic mode. Nice way to see the game too.
- cindypsych 4y agoI started playing RDR2 but stopped before I got too far in the game. It drove me absolutely nuts that speaking with an NPC that had a side-quest threw me immediately into that side-quest without any option to do it later. I guess I wasn't supposed to talk to them if I didn't want to do the side-quest, but how was I supposed to know if I wanted to do the side-quest or not without talking to them? I couldn't get past it.