Skip to main content

Blog entry by Nancy Langlais

Red Dead Online Players Are Not Happy About Latest Update

Red Dead Online Players Are Not Happy About Latest Update

This is where it will be interesting to see if Rockstar has learned from games like The Witcher. RDRII could showcase mature tales that not only make for interesting stories but also allow the player to forget they are doing a side-quest, instead getting lost in the game's world. This doesn’t look to be a problem though, with heavy emphasis on the wide range of a cast seen throughout the trailer even if just the tip of the iceberg. Like GTAV, RDRII is giving its audience a living breathing world, that famous — when this is off the world keeps going — mentality.

Playing in first-person means experiencing the world as it is happening because it's happening with only what can be seen wherever one may be looking. It’s easy to imagine the multiple scenarios that might be brought to life even more just from playing RDR2 in first-person. Horseback shootouts can have more feeling. Bar brawls will feel that true punch. Being chased down by whatever local law enforcement comprised of sheriff and deputy could feel palpably tense. While Rockstar has yet to show how first-person will function, hopefully they’ve taken some lessons out of their own book with GTAV. First-person has come a ways in games with titles such as Dishonored, Prey, Call of Duty and the like. While first-person might not be the main focus, Rockstar has an opportunity to appease players that will want to see through the eyes of Arthur Morgan.

The push to microtransactions could have something to do with recent reports that Red Dead Online is hemorrhaging money month after month. Whether it's the period setting with lack of exciting weaponry and vehicles or extended wait between updates that's putting gamers off, there's something clearly wrong with Red Dead Online . Another huge problem is the wait fans have experienced to even get to this update. Even in beta, three months is a long time to wait for fixes. Sadly, it could be a case of too little, too late for **Red Dead Online

Some of the entries may not change people's minds on certain issues, and that's okay. At the end of the day, mostly everybody is here because they love Red Dead Redemption enough to scrutinize it so deeply with an intense critical lens. After all, people wouldn't spend more than 80 hours of their life beating two mammoth-sized games if they weren't fans. So, get ready to walk unreasonably slow through the gang hideout, because here are 20 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Red Dead Redempt

For those of you addicted to running through Free Roam mode in Red dead redemption 2 horses|Https://reddeadstation.com/ Dead Redemption with your buddies, you're in luck because that experience is about to get enhanced. In the third DLC pack, titled the Free Roam Pack, new action spots will be added in addition to posse scoring, leader-boards, more challenges and more gang hideouts. There will even be a new way to prevent "griefing" when Free Roam Pack releases. The price and date of this DLC have yet to be determi

Whether you want to focus on the main missions, exploring, building settlements, farming-specific resources, take care of your spaceship, complete odd jobs for money, and so on. It's a giant sandbox that is constantly surprising you, and constantly wanting you to play more. When No Man's Sky first released, it didn't do very well, but the amount of work the developers have put in has made it one of the most addicting open world games to date. Just be prepared to f

Following in its predecessor's steps, Red Dead Redemption 2 concludes with an emotional epilogue. Unlike the first title, this part rivals the length of an average video game. Gamers have since bemoaned the number of missions in this concluding chapter, especially the slower ones detailing everyday frontier l

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a fantastic game, one of the better ones in the franchise, but it's also the entry that made Ubisoft known as the developer that adds way too much bloat to their games. The map of Odssey is absolutely massive, filled with various points of interest, characters to meet, side quests, forts to clear out, bounties to complete, and much, much more. It's a game that is so filled to the brim with content that it can sometimes feel overwhelming, to the point of exhaustion. However, it's a game that players can always return if they're bored for more hours of play, which is always great to h

I will immediately state that I'm not pointing a finger at Rockstar saying they copied another game. In this industry, like any art, learning from others goes a long way. Rockstar has always been able to craft exceptional games -- just look at the most recent years of success with GTAV Online or any of the GTAs. What has Rockstar learned? From the looks of it, that it’s possible to create epic playscapes representative of our real world that will be fun to play in without fantasy or sci-fi. It has gotten a bit tedious that every game that’s willing to put out these massive sandboxes restricts it to stories of fiction, except Rockstar of course. Covering a bit more ground, the upcoming Assassin’s Creed is also helping fill this much-needed role for games.

  • Share

Reviews