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"Triple-A is in crisis" and games "don't have staying power because they're bad," says ex Gears of War director and Painkiller creator (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[โ€“] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think RDR2 was so memorable because the Western genre is so underrepresented these days. Sure it was such a popular genre with ton of movies and books for a while decades ago before video games were really a thing, but what was the most recent Western movie or TV show any of us have seen? I think the newest one I've seen was 1999's Wild Wild West. Maybe 2004's Home on the Range if that counts?

If we were getting 3 AAA titles released each year that fall in the Wild West genre RDR2 would just fade into the noise. Its a brilliant game but the only thing it notably did differently from any other open world RPG was unabashedly be a Wild West game that hit every possible trope of the genre including the silly ones like dueling quick draws

[โ€“] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I disagree, it's not just the setting. I've played about 50 hours of it in the last couple weeks and like 250 total, and the entire time I've felt its level of polish and detail is unmatched in any game.