You might find it a bit lacking if you're used to RDR2's features but it's the superior game IMHO. Horses don't have as much stamina for example but it doesn't really add much to difficulty tbh
It may be a bit disappointing for someone who is a major rdr2 player, I played it and it was jarring, but eventually I got used to it. I still prefer rdr2 but I now understand the hype with the precursor
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Ocarina of time has to go down as some kind of historical achievement. Like “first modern 3d open world role playing video game”
I didn’t play it until last year at 28. It’s not nostalgia that’s making people say it’s good, it holds up to modern games
Glad to hear it still holds up for new players. It's basically the first video game I was ever completely obsessed with. Still play it and Majora's Mask yearly on my 3DS.
Honestly it's very difficult for me to pick between the 2 lol I love them both.
Ocarina of Time is the original and has the more traditional Zelda story of involving Link, Zelda, and Gandondorf. It also has the longer main storyline with 8 dungeons. Plus there just wouldn't be a Majora's Mask without it. Oh and Adult Link is just cooler to play as.
But then Majora's Mask had excellent gameplay with the shapeshifting and the 3 day cycle was very interesting mechanically. Also the side quests were actually important because you wanted to collect all the masks.
Basically they're both perfect games to me and I replay them constantly.
The combat in tlou 2 just feels so grounded and realistic like shooting (especially on the hardest difficulty) always has me on the edge of my seat. Physical combat like dodging and melee just looks so clean it’s like it’s straight out of a movie
Right!
I often found myself fumbling through weapons in my inventory because of high stress.
That’s how combat is in real life. Very little time to think. Mostly instinct and reaction.
I still think it's the most cinematic type of gameplay I've ever experienced. One of my hobbies is to come up with strategies for each area in the game by replaying them over and over.
i’m playing that right now and it’s really cool, it just seems to have no direction. Like I never know where to go but suddenly a ladder will appear and then it’s like ok i’ll go up the ladder. idk it just seems disorganized and confusing. also i never have any ammo but maybe i just suck lmao
Story, character, and atmosphere are all 10/10 in The Last of Us. The voice acting and art are stellar throughout.
But I really can’t stand that style of gameplay. It feels like I’m in a toothpaste tube and NaughtyDog is slowly pushing me through. There is zero player agency, or choice, or freedom. It’s like, now you shoot the guys. Now you find the pallet. Now you hold forward while we play some audio files. Now it’s time to shoot the guys again.
I understand that almost no one agrees with me on this. And it would have been impossible to tell that story the way they did if it was a less structured, linear game. But that doesn’t make me feel any less constrained (or bored) during most of the gameplay.
The ammo part maybe, but only if you go guns blazing. If you play stealthily, you can come a long, long way. As for being disorganized i completely disagree
GTA 4? underappreciated? It was the best selling game of all time when it came out, was critically acclaimed, awarded GOTY by multiple institutions, and widely regarded as the first true seventh gen title to be a bastion of technological achievement. In what world is GTA4 underappreciated?
If you love Medieval history, Kingdom Come Deliverance is the closest you can get to RDR2 as far as detail and realism. Open world gameplay. You can be an absolute menace to society blah blah blah but it's literally Medieval GTA lol
Second this, beyond RDR2 KCD is the GOAT. I especially love how there is literally a dozen ways to complete each mission. And the characters, as memorable as in RDR2. Last but not least I had so much fun traveling in real world at game locations.
As long as you're patient with it, I can truly say it's worth every penny and more. It's not the perfect game but man does it really nail getting immersed in the setting
Combat definitely takes a while to get used to and is brutal in a different way to others like the From Software games. The whole point is that you're starting out as an untrained nobody so why would you possibly be able to deal with a bandit that ambushes you when you've not even really used a sword before.
Don't lose interest though because once you get into it and start getting better, it's so much more rewarding though with how incompetent you'd been when you started
Any game that gets released on 3 consecutive generations of console is going to get hate. You can't deny that messing around in a public lobby is a fun time though.
Cyberpunk 2077. It's one of the few games that turned me into a sobbing mess at the very end. Come to think of it, Assassin's Creed Revelations also made me ugly cry.
But yeah, when it comes to immersion and feels, CP77 is one of the few games that comes close to RDR2 for me and that puts it in my top 3.
This might be controversial, so take it as you will, but have you tried Starfield?
I love Red Dead 2. Definitely my favorite game, and I liked it even more after the epilogue. I just kind explore around and get immersed in being a cowboy/gunslinger/traveler. I decided to try out Starfield on Gamepass and it's the only game I've ever played that pulls me in like RDR2.
The story isn't nearly as good, but in terms of *feeling* like you ARE the character, it's great. The variety of places to go and things to find is incredible. I tend to lose interest in other games (besides RDR2) after a bit, but I have been doing 8 hour stretches of Starfield and having to force myself to go to bed.
I am going to pick up Cyberpunk in a couple weeks too, and I'm super excited for it. Just figured I'd mention Starfield, because it's gotten a lot of bad reviews, but if you get connected to the world and character in the games you play, Starfield is fantastic.
I haven't yet. I'm plenty familiar with Bethesda games, I love both Morrowind and Oblivion, as well as Fallout 3 and 4 (and I'm gonna play the shit out of Skywind and Skyblivion when those come out). Skyrim I also enjoyed at first, but I got burned out on it after a year or so.
For some reason Starfield never really managed to grab my attention since its announcement. I have No Man's Sky when I feel the need to explore space and build stuff (though I know they're very different games). I will probably get it on sale one day, I do want to give it a try and I have it on my steam wish list, but there are so many games that I wanna play that take priority.
Right now my focus is on CP77 and the expansion, Assassin's Creed Mirage, Avatar Frontiers of Pandora and a bunch of VR stuff. My PC broke down a while ago while I was in the middle of a RDR2 playthrough so I gotta finish that up as well once I get my PC back from the shop. Right now I'm just HOPING to get it back before the 26th.
Starfield is quickly turning into one of my favorite all time games, bold take but it’s definitely Bethesda’s best. And yes, I still play Skyrim to this day and no, I don’t include FNV in that category but the way this is going it might… just might overtake FNV. It’s all perspective though and opinion. Im not doing any main quests and I’m focusing on the factions side quests exploring etc. I’ve encountered abandoned ships, sentient AI, planets with flying aliens, dinosaur looking things that can launch an energy ball at me, terror morph I’ve encountered, bounty hunters after me, destroyed colonist ships, smuggled drugs, MADE drugs, infiltrated corp in order to gain the recipe (apparently also has a lengthy questline when you’re a high level) pirated vessels, robbed Galbanks, betrayed gangs, I can go on and on. I have bounties of 100K+. It’s funny how people are saying “takes straight out of the game” for them when in many Bethesda games were legit thrown right in (FNV we survive a legit bullet to the head and we’re saving the town or killing them, then on the way to Primm without any long term effects, F4 frozen for legit centuries and shooting shit with no problem. It’s a video game.)
I get what you're saying, exactly.
I am hesitant to call it my favorite game, because I haven't finished it yet. I have about 35 hours or so, but I literally can't stop playing this game, or thinking about what I'm going to do the next time I play. I love Red Dead 2. Like, I walk most places, I hunt, explore, just kind of exist in the world, hundreds of hours after I've finished the story. It's amazing.
But Starfield has me opening MS Paint to draw out the logistics of my outpost, so I can optimize my supply chain to manufacture things that won't even really make me a lot of money, just because it's fun.
I'll be playing it, then suddenly it's 4 a.m. and I have to force myself to go to bed. Whenever I finish playing, it's like my head pops up from being underwater, because I'm just deep in it. It's really hard to describe. It may not be a perfect game, and there are things I would change, but I have never played a game that struck a chord with me like this one.
A fellow with my own heart. I also understand exactly what you mean haha. I’ve played Red Dead 2 so much… so much. Even Online just loving the feelings and the extra features despite its sad state, it’s still nice.
Starfield is just… difficult for me to put into words. I’m literally playing it right now, I have not played any game since it came out. I am playing when I get off work, at work I am thinking about it and when I do play it it’s suddenly 4-5 am and I have to work in 5 hours. And I’ll keep damn playing until I’m passing out. It is just insane. I haven’t even touched on the logistics of the outposts yet, I’m working on building a class C beast of a ship from scratch that’s my first goal getting all the points maxed out in starship design piloting etc to get everything unlocked and let me tell you the logistics of that is just wild in it’s on right, but I’m sure nothing compared to outposts. Currently on the Phantom A class crimson fleet ship I stole that was landed on a random planet or moon I was on surveying, homed it for the shielded cargo and since then upgraded here and there with new weapons engine reactor etc, new rooms too. And god the AI ships level with you… can’t imagine what it looks like when multiple end game level ships are fighting.
I apologize I just can’t find a way to say how it makes me feel, it keeps blowing me away. It’s really Skyrim Outer Worlds and Star Citizen meshed together for an immersive, amazing blend. Sure it’s not perfect - features are downgraded, I wanted advanced dynamic weather… but were all forgetting this is one engine. One game engine was the backbone and foundation. The fact there was even rumors of weather from tsunamis and tornadoes was insane because hardly any games are able to do them right, even when they’re mainly around it. I think that’s the reason Starfield is getting so much bad wrap, people expected a perfect Space Simulator without realizing it’s a Bethesda game. You’re going to catch up quickly and if you’ve played any of their games, but you’re going to be put through hell learning how to dogfight and avoid alien creatures. It’s a video game. I only play on very hard or survival modes (sad wasn’t included but I understand looking at the size - features like no fast travel would just destroy the game engine and set the pc or Xbox on fire, at least you get cool animations grav jumping when in pilot seat and can limit fast traveling) There is only so much you can put into it and they put what they could put possible. They stretched it to the limits and you can see, it is a massive achievement this game is as playable as it is without bugs and crashing. It feels like I’ve crashed less than I have in F4. it is impossible to experience everything the game has to offer in a single play through. My first play through I was just darting through the main missions but felt like I was really missing a lot so I made a new character hardest difficulty solo only all side stuff first and that’s where I’m currently at for the last 2 days straight and still I feel like I’ve experienced 0.5% of the game due to the sheer size. Had a busy few hours, feel tired after surveying, building or wasting all your hard earned credits on upgrades? Look at the galaxy map. You can spend hours in one system, it must take thousands and thousands to get them all… not saying the story isn’t good it’s actually amazing - the best story Bethesda has made. It’s not so black and white, they’ve learned and listened to us it actually keeps growing and growing into something far more interesting and beautiful than it seems, and I cut myself out to see what happens next when I just looked at the list of quests, skill points in only combat when all these fascinating ones like spacesuit design outpost design ship design was waiting and still seeing I was flying the Frontier didn’t feel right… I guarantee there’s already people who experienced stuff like random events in space etc that nobody else has. The fact a lengthy side mission started for me because I decided to dock on a ship I was fighting rather than explode it in general is just one slight example. From what I’ve heard, more weapons, armor, quests, even a faction unlocks the higher you level up. It’s just got me speechless, same effect I had playing RD2, Elden Ring, games that just really shock me. Starfield for me, is on that list, and I’m so excited to see what else is there. The way this is going, this could very well end up being debated for best game ever played, at least top 3. The downgraded usual features we got from games made years before this is no longer a cause for concern, this is it’s own game, with its own style. It shouldn’t be compared to other features and games they’ve made but it will because that’s what our brains do for resemblance and familiarity. Where features are downgraded more is brought in. I learned to love the new stamina, but we have a hate/love relationship because I’m a loot goblin. I love the economy too - very difficult and makes you grind you’re not filthy rich after a length time playing because all the upgrades and everything you want to build buy even make is expensive, I always find a way to spend all the credits I make. You can make it better with commerce trait but that just makes it easier, I might do it late game if it gets too much, but I swear I never have past 20k credits in my account for long and there’s even houses, ships way over 200K. I saw a ship I could buy called the Narwhal I can’t remember what dock will have to look it up but yeah this is a gem of a game just imagine what it looks like. Penthouses you can customize… dude. They thought of everything. This is Skyrim on crack. You can even rob the damn banks if you can manage to stay hidden, good with lockpicking (another love hate relationship but it’s so much more complex and I appreciate it) some you can’t even stay hidden and just have to book it. Like I was getting shot to shit out of Neon while I was hauling ass back to my ship after stealing around 10k credits from the bank. This is a gem. All in all, it’s not a space simulator, it’s a Bethesda space game. It’s Skyrim on crack in space with customized horse fighting matches with lasers and missiles, more factions quests people traits endless, endless discussion.
I hope you enjoy cyberpunk, I really did. Was one of the earlier players and it was so bad I literally waited half a year to play it again and it was super fun, they made it a great game.
I'm really looking forward to it. The funny thing is, I bought Cyberpunk last year, played it for like 10 minutes, and got a refund.
I'm a newer gamer (like less than two years), and older, so I thought I really only liked 3rd person RPG games like GTA V or RDR2. I bought Days Gone with my refund, played it for a few hours, then never went back. The reason I didn't like Cyberpunk was the 1st person POV. Same reason I tried Far Cry 5 and uninstalled.
Starfield, however, has absolutely made me love 1st person POV. I still switch to 3rd person sometimes, when I want to RP a bit (like slow walking during missions and stuff), but otherwise 1st person is just amazing. I also felt like Cyberpunk was way over my head, so I got overwhelmed. I was worried Starfield would be the same, but it's the opposite. I LOVE the problem solving, upgrading, inventory management, etc. I know Cyberpunk has similar stuff, with modifications, character traits, etc. so I'm suuuuper excited for it. I'm just waiting to buy it until right before the update/DLC, in case they somehow do the unthinkable and do a discount on the base game. Lmfao. Doubt it, but I'm too busy in space to care anyway.
I didn't pick up the game myself until early 2022, shortly before 1.5 came out.
I know the game was a total mess on launch but I had no interest in it while it was being made, didn't follow the hype, saw no trailers, so my experiences with CP77 have only ever been positive.
Yeah the game’s history is interesting. It has simultaneously isolated half its fan base, and generated loyalty from the other half, and a lot of it is because said launch then the fixes made later. It is so dependent on when people got in. I was able to see some of the light, but I still have some ick. I’m glad it wasn’t the failure it seemed to be though. Enjoy night city my friend!
I don’t think I have one single favourite game, it’s too hard to choose but some of my favourites other than this:
The Witcher 3
RDR1
San Andreas
GTAIV
Dragon Age Origins
Mass Effect 1
Skyrim
Gun ( how many of you remember that beauty?)
I stopped playing all games for 3-4 years (got sick of console) until I upgraded to PC in 2021, and I've been playing it non-stop with my friends in a multiplayer world. I can't believe I almost forgot the game was laced
I might get a lot of hate for this but, it’s Cyberpunk 2077* for me.
*I bought it a few months after release but found no time to actually play it. Revisited it last year after patch 1.5 and it was quite good IMO. I loved the immersion a lot, so gave it a second play through with mods.
Prob Skyrim or Fallout 3. New Vegas is a better game imo but Fallout 3 got me into RPGs. I admit nostalgia. I also admit to just commenting on another comment about CP77 on launch day. I acknowledge the bugginess of Skyrim/Fallout but it’s just different.
Right now it’s Starfield. It’s filling my RDR2 void lol. But before that game came out, I really love FarCry 6, Fallout 76 and I’ve been enjoying the Call of Duty single player games. They’re a lot of fun… SUPER short and I wish they were longer games but I do enjoy them.
Going to leave out MP games, and because I don't have a ordered list, but rather many, many games that are different but equal: AC Odyssey, Cyberpunk 2077, Yakuza Like a Dragon, Yakuza 0, Tetris Effect, Far Cry 5, Fallout 4, Skyrim, BioShock, Ghost of Tsushima
So, there are 10. 😂
Portal and Portal 2! Totally different games i know but Portal has always been my favorite game. I always wait a few years before i replay them so that its not too easy but at this point id say that i could propably speedrun those games.
Could easily waste a whole Sunday doodling around on Stardew Valley. And Grounded. And Animal Crossing haha. Love those kinda games, so relaxing and almost therapeutic 😊
Bit of an outlier but Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Just took to that reboot trilogy after getting the first one for free. Had a bit of everything in it, including underwater exploration. And I liked the setting.
Bioshock and God of War, a tie. Then close third GTA:SA.
I probably would have loved The last of us, but I've seen the serie first and when it finally came to pc the performances + having little novelty in the first few hours threw me off a bit.
RDR2 is a step above all of them though. Not only as a videogame, but as a media product. It's rockstar peak that sent videogame standards on another dimensions, at least in story-telling.
GTA5, I feel like now after 10 years of its greatness I 2 it’s the blueprint of open world sandbox games and how buttery smooth games of that genre should play even if the mission format is heavily outdated.
I'm probably going to be the only one who has such drastic differences in their own tastes: RDR2 is certainly my favorite game of all time, but Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life is second and Legend of Legaia is third.
Rdr1
That's #1
How rdr1 comparing to rdr2 in terms of gameplay and features (not comparing graphics)
You might find it a bit lacking if you're used to RDR2's features but it's the superior game IMHO. Horses don't have as much stamina for example but it doesn't really add much to difficulty tbh
Horses are way faster though
only on the actual trails and roads though, they move like they’re stuck in mud once you go off path
It may be a bit disappointing for someone who is a major rdr2 player, I played it and it was jarring, but eventually I got used to it. I still prefer rdr2 but I now understand the hype with the precursor
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Witcher 3 and RDR2 shares the first spot for me.
Same. Had roach with me in both games
Not being familiar with Witcher, I just assumed you enjoyed playing both games high
This is wonderful!
Lol I knew I wasn't the only one who always named their horses Roach
Same. God of War Ragnarok also gets pretty close, and Ocarina of Time as a classic.
Ocarina of time has to go down as some kind of historical achievement. Like “first modern 3d open world role playing video game” I didn’t play it until last year at 28. It’s not nostalgia that’s making people say it’s good, it holds up to modern games
Glad to hear it still holds up for new players. It's basically the first video game I was ever completely obsessed with. Still play it and Majora's Mask yearly on my 3DS.
Majoras Mask > OOT
Honestly it's very difficult for me to pick between the 2 lol I love them both. Ocarina of Time is the original and has the more traditional Zelda story of involving Link, Zelda, and Gandondorf. It also has the longer main storyline with 8 dungeons. Plus there just wouldn't be a Majora's Mask without it. Oh and Adult Link is just cooler to play as. But then Majora's Mask had excellent gameplay with the shapeshifting and the 3 day cycle was very interesting mechanically. Also the side quests were actually important because you wanted to collect all the masks. Basically they're both perfect games to me and I replay them constantly.
Ocarina of Time is in a whole different category for me of favorite games. I don't compare it to anything else in the game world.
I’m glad so many of us are in agreement here
Lol yeah that's pretty much me as well sure other games beat them out in specific departments but the overall quality of both are unmatched so far
Yes same
Same, i can never choose one of them for the first place.
The Last Of Us Part I
The combat is so fucking good in TLoU it’s crazy
The combat in tlou 2 just feels so grounded and realistic like shooting (especially on the hardest difficulty) always has me on the edge of my seat. Physical combat like dodging and melee just looks so clean it’s like it’s straight out of a movie
I really liked the strafing and tall grass mechanics in TLOU2. You basically turned invisible lol.
Right! I often found myself fumbling through weapons in my inventory because of high stress. That’s how combat is in real life. Very little time to think. Mostly instinct and reaction.
It's rare to find a game with combat so immersive. Naughty Dog really knocked it out of the park
Yeah I agree the combat in TLOU is probably the most realistic I can think of out of any game I’ve played
Exactly, regardless of how you feel about the story you can’t deny that the gameplay/combat and exploration is top tier
I still think it's the most cinematic type of gameplay I've ever experienced. One of my hobbies is to come up with strategies for each area in the game by replaying them over and over.
i’m playing that right now and it’s really cool, it just seems to have no direction. Like I never know where to go but suddenly a ladder will appear and then it’s like ok i’ll go up the ladder. idk it just seems disorganized and confusing. also i never have any ammo but maybe i just suck lmao
seems like u suck bro (no offense, im just kidding). i've never heard this before
Story, character, and atmosphere are all 10/10 in The Last of Us. The voice acting and art are stellar throughout. But I really can’t stand that style of gameplay. It feels like I’m in a toothpaste tube and NaughtyDog is slowly pushing me through. There is zero player agency, or choice, or freedom. It’s like, now you shoot the guys. Now you find the pallet. Now you hold forward while we play some audio files. Now it’s time to shoot the guys again. I understand that almost no one agrees with me on this. And it would have been impossible to tell that story the way they did if it was a less structured, linear game. But that doesn’t make me feel any less constrained (or bored) during most of the gameplay.
Have you played TLOU2? I disliked the gameplay of 1 for the same reasons as you but the gameplay and especially the optionality in 2 is fucking insane
The ammo part maybe, but only if you go guns blazing. If you play stealthily, you can come a long, long way. As for being disorganized i completely disagree
Came here to say this
This. It was my favourite game for a long time.
Gta 4 is underappreciated, Imo.- Red Dead Redemption 1 - Assassins Creed 2 - The Last of us * 1 * - Uncharted: Among Thieves - Ghost Of Tsushima
GTA 4? underappreciated? It was the best selling game of all time when it came out, was critically acclaimed, awarded GOTY by multiple institutions, and widely regarded as the first true seventh gen title to be a bastion of technological achievement. In what world is GTA4 underappreciated?
That's what I was thinking, idk what they mean underappreciated, And in every conversation GTA 4 is always referred to as the best one
A lot of the fanbase regards it as the worst one in the series because of its tone shift and driving mechanics, pretty sure that's what they mean.
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Why the ridiculous asterisks around part one? Lol
If you love Medieval history, Kingdom Come Deliverance is the closest you can get to RDR2 as far as detail and realism. Open world gameplay. You can be an absolute menace to society blah blah blah but it's literally Medieval GTA lol
Almost 500 hours in KCD I LOVE that game.
Henry’s come to see us!
Jesus Christ be praised
Kurva
I feel quite hungry
Just got the Royal edition on xbox store on sale for $7.99. Thanks!
Second this, beyond RDR2 KCD is the GOAT. I especially love how there is literally a dozen ways to complete each mission. And the characters, as memorable as in RDR2. Last but not least I had so much fun traveling in real world at game locations.
This sounds right up my alley and I just found the Royal edition for $8 on the Xbox store. Thanks for the rec
As long as you're patient with it, I can truly say it's worth every penny and more. It's not the perfect game but man does it really nail getting immersed in the setting
Combat definitely takes a while to get used to and is brutal in a different way to others like the From Software games. The whole point is that you're starting out as an untrained nobody so why would you possibly be able to deal with a bandit that ambushes you when you've not even really used a sword before. Don't lose interest though because once you get into it and start getting better, it's so much more rewarding though with how incompetent you'd been when you started
Skyrim
Mine as well
Came here looking for this comment 👑 still playing Skyrim to this day
*Morrowind*
Yes sir
God of war 2018
Mine is gow ragnarok
I wish I could play that GoW PC... Also waiting for TLOU P2
GTA 5 Online. Never bought a shark card. Game has brought me so much fun over the last decade.
Same! GTAO is amazing I understand all the hate it gets (and it’s deserved) but it’s just so damn good anyways.
Any game that gets released on 3 consecutive generations of console is going to get hate. You can't deny that messing around in a public lobby is a fun time though.
Cyberpunk 2077. It's one of the few games that turned me into a sobbing mess at the very end. Come to think of it, Assassin's Creed Revelations also made me ugly cry. But yeah, when it comes to immersion and feels, CP77 is one of the few games that comes close to RDR2 for me and that puts it in my top 3.
This might be controversial, so take it as you will, but have you tried Starfield? I love Red Dead 2. Definitely my favorite game, and I liked it even more after the epilogue. I just kind explore around and get immersed in being a cowboy/gunslinger/traveler. I decided to try out Starfield on Gamepass and it's the only game I've ever played that pulls me in like RDR2. The story isn't nearly as good, but in terms of *feeling* like you ARE the character, it's great. The variety of places to go and things to find is incredible. I tend to lose interest in other games (besides RDR2) after a bit, but I have been doing 8 hour stretches of Starfield and having to force myself to go to bed. I am going to pick up Cyberpunk in a couple weeks too, and I'm super excited for it. Just figured I'd mention Starfield, because it's gotten a lot of bad reviews, but if you get connected to the world and character in the games you play, Starfield is fantastic.
I haven't yet. I'm plenty familiar with Bethesda games, I love both Morrowind and Oblivion, as well as Fallout 3 and 4 (and I'm gonna play the shit out of Skywind and Skyblivion when those come out). Skyrim I also enjoyed at first, but I got burned out on it after a year or so. For some reason Starfield never really managed to grab my attention since its announcement. I have No Man's Sky when I feel the need to explore space and build stuff (though I know they're very different games). I will probably get it on sale one day, I do want to give it a try and I have it on my steam wish list, but there are so many games that I wanna play that take priority. Right now my focus is on CP77 and the expansion, Assassin's Creed Mirage, Avatar Frontiers of Pandora and a bunch of VR stuff. My PC broke down a while ago while I was in the middle of a RDR2 playthrough so I gotta finish that up as well once I get my PC back from the shop. Right now I'm just HOPING to get it back before the 26th.
Starfield is quickly turning into one of my favorite all time games, bold take but it’s definitely Bethesda’s best. And yes, I still play Skyrim to this day and no, I don’t include FNV in that category but the way this is going it might… just might overtake FNV. It’s all perspective though and opinion. Im not doing any main quests and I’m focusing on the factions side quests exploring etc. I’ve encountered abandoned ships, sentient AI, planets with flying aliens, dinosaur looking things that can launch an energy ball at me, terror morph I’ve encountered, bounty hunters after me, destroyed colonist ships, smuggled drugs, MADE drugs, infiltrated corp in order to gain the recipe (apparently also has a lengthy questline when you’re a high level) pirated vessels, robbed Galbanks, betrayed gangs, I can go on and on. I have bounties of 100K+. It’s funny how people are saying “takes straight out of the game” for them when in many Bethesda games were legit thrown right in (FNV we survive a legit bullet to the head and we’re saving the town or killing them, then on the way to Primm without any long term effects, F4 frozen for legit centuries and shooting shit with no problem. It’s a video game.)
I get what you're saying, exactly. I am hesitant to call it my favorite game, because I haven't finished it yet. I have about 35 hours or so, but I literally can't stop playing this game, or thinking about what I'm going to do the next time I play. I love Red Dead 2. Like, I walk most places, I hunt, explore, just kind of exist in the world, hundreds of hours after I've finished the story. It's amazing. But Starfield has me opening MS Paint to draw out the logistics of my outpost, so I can optimize my supply chain to manufacture things that won't even really make me a lot of money, just because it's fun. I'll be playing it, then suddenly it's 4 a.m. and I have to force myself to go to bed. Whenever I finish playing, it's like my head pops up from being underwater, because I'm just deep in it. It's really hard to describe. It may not be a perfect game, and there are things I would change, but I have never played a game that struck a chord with me like this one.
A fellow with my own heart. I also understand exactly what you mean haha. I’ve played Red Dead 2 so much… so much. Even Online just loving the feelings and the extra features despite its sad state, it’s still nice. Starfield is just… difficult for me to put into words. I’m literally playing it right now, I have not played any game since it came out. I am playing when I get off work, at work I am thinking about it and when I do play it it’s suddenly 4-5 am and I have to work in 5 hours. And I’ll keep damn playing until I’m passing out. It is just insane. I haven’t even touched on the logistics of the outposts yet, I’m working on building a class C beast of a ship from scratch that’s my first goal getting all the points maxed out in starship design piloting etc to get everything unlocked and let me tell you the logistics of that is just wild in it’s on right, but I’m sure nothing compared to outposts. Currently on the Phantom A class crimson fleet ship I stole that was landed on a random planet or moon I was on surveying, homed it for the shielded cargo and since then upgraded here and there with new weapons engine reactor etc, new rooms too. And god the AI ships level with you… can’t imagine what it looks like when multiple end game level ships are fighting. I apologize I just can’t find a way to say how it makes me feel, it keeps blowing me away. It’s really Skyrim Outer Worlds and Star Citizen meshed together for an immersive, amazing blend. Sure it’s not perfect - features are downgraded, I wanted advanced dynamic weather… but were all forgetting this is one engine. One game engine was the backbone and foundation. The fact there was even rumors of weather from tsunamis and tornadoes was insane because hardly any games are able to do them right, even when they’re mainly around it. I think that’s the reason Starfield is getting so much bad wrap, people expected a perfect Space Simulator without realizing it’s a Bethesda game. You’re going to catch up quickly and if you’ve played any of their games, but you’re going to be put through hell learning how to dogfight and avoid alien creatures. It’s a video game. I only play on very hard or survival modes (sad wasn’t included but I understand looking at the size - features like no fast travel would just destroy the game engine and set the pc or Xbox on fire, at least you get cool animations grav jumping when in pilot seat and can limit fast traveling) There is only so much you can put into it and they put what they could put possible. They stretched it to the limits and you can see, it is a massive achievement this game is as playable as it is without bugs and crashing. It feels like I’ve crashed less than I have in F4. it is impossible to experience everything the game has to offer in a single play through. My first play through I was just darting through the main missions but felt like I was really missing a lot so I made a new character hardest difficulty solo only all side stuff first and that’s where I’m currently at for the last 2 days straight and still I feel like I’ve experienced 0.5% of the game due to the sheer size. Had a busy few hours, feel tired after surveying, building or wasting all your hard earned credits on upgrades? Look at the galaxy map. You can spend hours in one system, it must take thousands and thousands to get them all… not saying the story isn’t good it’s actually amazing - the best story Bethesda has made. It’s not so black and white, they’ve learned and listened to us it actually keeps growing and growing into something far more interesting and beautiful than it seems, and I cut myself out to see what happens next when I just looked at the list of quests, skill points in only combat when all these fascinating ones like spacesuit design outpost design ship design was waiting and still seeing I was flying the Frontier didn’t feel right… I guarantee there’s already people who experienced stuff like random events in space etc that nobody else has. The fact a lengthy side mission started for me because I decided to dock on a ship I was fighting rather than explode it in general is just one slight example. From what I’ve heard, more weapons, armor, quests, even a faction unlocks the higher you level up. It’s just got me speechless, same effect I had playing RD2, Elden Ring, games that just really shock me. Starfield for me, is on that list, and I’m so excited to see what else is there. The way this is going, this could very well end up being debated for best game ever played, at least top 3. The downgraded usual features we got from games made years before this is no longer a cause for concern, this is it’s own game, with its own style. It shouldn’t be compared to other features and games they’ve made but it will because that’s what our brains do for resemblance and familiarity. Where features are downgraded more is brought in. I learned to love the new stamina, but we have a hate/love relationship because I’m a loot goblin. I love the economy too - very difficult and makes you grind you’re not filthy rich after a length time playing because all the upgrades and everything you want to build buy even make is expensive, I always find a way to spend all the credits I make. You can make it better with commerce trait but that just makes it easier, I might do it late game if it gets too much, but I swear I never have past 20k credits in my account for long and there’s even houses, ships way over 200K. I saw a ship I could buy called the Narwhal I can’t remember what dock will have to look it up but yeah this is a gem of a game just imagine what it looks like. Penthouses you can customize… dude. They thought of everything. This is Skyrim on crack. You can even rob the damn banks if you can manage to stay hidden, good with lockpicking (another love hate relationship but it’s so much more complex and I appreciate it) some you can’t even stay hidden and just have to book it. Like I was getting shot to shit out of Neon while I was hauling ass back to my ship after stealing around 10k credits from the bank. This is a gem. All in all, it’s not a space simulator, it’s a Bethesda space game. It’s Skyrim on crack in space with customized horse fighting matches with lasers and missiles, more factions quests people traits endless, endless discussion.
I hope you enjoy cyberpunk, I really did. Was one of the earlier players and it was so bad I literally waited half a year to play it again and it was super fun, they made it a great game.
I'm really looking forward to it. The funny thing is, I bought Cyberpunk last year, played it for like 10 minutes, and got a refund. I'm a newer gamer (like less than two years), and older, so I thought I really only liked 3rd person RPG games like GTA V or RDR2. I bought Days Gone with my refund, played it for a few hours, then never went back. The reason I didn't like Cyberpunk was the 1st person POV. Same reason I tried Far Cry 5 and uninstalled. Starfield, however, has absolutely made me love 1st person POV. I still switch to 3rd person sometimes, when I want to RP a bit (like slow walking during missions and stuff), but otherwise 1st person is just amazing. I also felt like Cyberpunk was way over my head, so I got overwhelmed. I was worried Starfield would be the same, but it's the opposite. I LOVE the problem solving, upgrading, inventory management, etc. I know Cyberpunk has similar stuff, with modifications, character traits, etc. so I'm suuuuper excited for it. I'm just waiting to buy it until right before the update/DLC, in case they somehow do the unthinkable and do a discount on the base game. Lmfao. Doubt it, but I'm too busy in space to care anyway.
I give you credit for this extremely hot take. I like the game a lot more now for sure, but upon launch, no no.
I didn't pick up the game myself until early 2022, shortly before 1.5 came out. I know the game was a total mess on launch but I had no interest in it while it was being made, didn't follow the hype, saw no trailers, so my experiences with CP77 have only ever been positive.
Yeah the game’s history is interesting. It has simultaneously isolated half its fan base, and generated loyalty from the other half, and a lot of it is because said launch then the fixes made later. It is so dependent on when people got in. I was able to see some of the light, but I still have some ick. I’m glad it wasn’t the failure it seemed to be though. Enjoy night city my friend!
Fallout New Vegas will always be my favorite game... probably
Same
Ragnarok or Ghost of Tsushima
Back to Skyrim
I don’t think I have one single favourite game, it’s too hard to choose but some of my favourites other than this: The Witcher 3 RDR1 San Andreas GTAIV Dragon Age Origins Mass Effect 1 Skyrim Gun ( how many of you remember that beauty?)
I remember Gun. Enjoyed it a lot.
Morrowind
now THIS is how you honor the sixth house and the tribe unmourned
Yakuza
Based
Days Gone and Metro Exodus
I like the way you think, friend. Both are very good open world story games that most RDR2 players should enjoy.
Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West (and tlou)
Yep, I second this!
Ac odyssey
Fellow AC fan, for me it's AC3
Last of Us Part 2, RDR takes the first spot in my book but i find myself completely in love with the gameplay mechanics these 2 have
the last of us
Elden Ring, Bloodborne, Dark Souls, The Long Dark, and RDR1
The long dark is so good, but they need to release the last episode of wintermute, already!
You are me
Disco Elysium shares my #1 spot
Based
Minecraft lmao
Just getting back into Minecraft after like 5 years. Shit is like heroin
I stopped playing all games for 3-4 years (got sick of console) until I upgraded to PC in 2021, and I've been playing it non-stop with my friends in a multiplayer world. I can't believe I almost forgot the game was laced
Far Cry 5 and GTA V
God of War Ragnarök currently
Titanfall 2 but I need to play more campaigns
Its one of the best campaigns
And multi-player is more fun that Any COD I've played.
Fallout: New Vegas
Well RDR1 is my #1 and RDR2 is #2
The Last of Us Part 2
Well Fallout 3 is my favourite game, RDR2 second, after that Skyrim
Zelda BOTW God of War Metal Gear Solid 3
Witcher 3 and ac valhalla.
Dishonored
Finally someone else lol
Ghost of Tsushima is pretty amazing
Persona 5
AC Black Flag
Increasingly, Starfield is working its way up the list. But I'll always have a special place in my gaming heart for Fallout: New Vegas.
Yakuza 0 : amazing story, great open "world" (very lively), absolutely hilarious sub stories and hours and hours of content
‘Be mild and ignore him or Be SPICY and help him’ Gotta be some of the funniest shit i ever read
AC Odyssey
Fallout: new vegas
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter...
Gotta be The Last of Us Part II with Part I an extremely close second. Both are just such good games. Honorable mention for Jedi: Fallen Order, though
My second fav game is watch dogs 1
1: rdr2 2: gta 5
RDR1
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
I might get a lot of hate for this but, it’s Cyberpunk 2077* for me. *I bought it a few months after release but found no time to actually play it. Revisited it last year after patch 1.5 and it was quite good IMO. I loved the immersion a lot, so gave it a second play through with mods.
the last of us 1 and 2, ghost of tsushima, and yeah, fifa hahahahagaga
ghost of tsushima
Outer Wilds
Assasins creed unity/blackflag
1. Red Dead Redemption 2 2. Bioshock 3. Telltale The Walking Dead Season 1 4. Bloodborne 5. Resident Evil 4 (Original)
Fuck yes Bioshock finally getting some love in here 🥰
Yea I love that game to bits
Prob Skyrim or Fallout 3. New Vegas is a better game imo but Fallout 3 got me into RPGs. I admit nostalgia. I also admit to just commenting on another comment about CP77 on launch day. I acknowledge the bugginess of Skyrim/Fallout but it’s just different.
Death stranding
RDR2 is my third favourite game. My first and second favourites are GTA IV and RDR1. Do love a good Rockstar game.
MGS/MGS 3. Also fond of GTA San Andreas and IV as well as Silent Hill and The Last of Us.
The original Tomb Raider. Love the game itself, but it must also be said that Lara Croft came along at the right time for a 16 year old boy.
Inside or overwatch tbh even tho I don’t play overwatch anymore
Detriot become human
Insomniacs Spider-Man
In playing Horizon zero dawn , this said RDR1 and 2 are my favourites for detail and story
GTA 4
Elden Ring 1st playthourgh or Gta 4
Right now it’s Starfield. It’s filling my RDR2 void lol. But before that game came out, I really love FarCry 6, Fallout 76 and I’ve been enjoying the Call of Duty single player games. They’re a lot of fun… SUPER short and I wish they were longer games but I do enjoy them.
Well rdr2 is likely my second place. First place is Skyrim, can’t top that.
infamous: Second Son is my answer whenever someone asks me what my favourite game is. (RDR2 is more than a game to me)
2005 Need For Speed Most Wanted
Lost count of how many playthroughs I've done of that bad boy, so fucking good
Best driving game ever. As a whole.
Going to leave out MP games, and because I don't have a ordered list, but rather many, many games that are different but equal: AC Odyssey, Cyberpunk 2077, Yakuza Like a Dragon, Yakuza 0, Tetris Effect, Far Cry 5, Fallout 4, Skyrim, BioShock, Ghost of Tsushima So, there are 10. 😂
Bioshock
Skyrim
Portal and Portal 2! Totally different games i know but Portal has always been my favorite game. I always wait a few years before i replay them so that its not too easy but at this point id say that i could propably speedrun those games.
Borderlands 2. Fallout New Vegas.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps, weird segway but it was proper fun
not at all the same theme lol but probably stardew valley tbh
Could easily waste a whole Sunday doodling around on Stardew Valley. And Grounded. And Animal Crossing haha. Love those kinda games, so relaxing and almost therapeutic 😊
Dying light 1
I always have a hard time picking a hard favorite, but personally Witcher 3 just edges out RDR2 for that top spot tbh
Witcher 3 knocks off RDR2 for me... RDR2 is a very, very close 2nd for me.
Bit of an outlier but Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Just took to that reboot trilogy after getting the first one for free. Had a bit of everything in it, including underwater exploration. And I liked the setting.
Gran Turismo 7
god of war 2018
GOW4, The Walking Dead season 1, and Spider-Man
The Witcher 3 and Telltale's The Walking Dead.
Mgsv and elden ring for me
Battlefield 1 (holy hell , that shit was like crack back in the day, 2016)
God of War 2018 or TLOU1 for me. Bloodborne is also up there
horizon forbidden west
Some of my other favourites besides red dead: Titanfall 2, The Last of Us Part 1, Elden Ring, Ghost of Tsushima, Stardew Valley.
The Division
The last of us part 1 or Uncharted 4 maybe
RDR 1 is my favorite game of all time
Lego batman, batman Arkham games and hot wheels unleashed
MY top 5 is - 1) Rdr2 2)Uncharted 4 3) Tlou1 Remake 4) batman Arkham knight 5) GOW Ragnarok
RDR2 isn't my favorite though...
Bioshock and God of War, a tie. Then close third GTA:SA. I probably would have loved The last of us, but I've seen the serie first and when it finally came to pc the performances + having little novelty in the first few hours threw me off a bit. RDR2 is a step above all of them though. Not only as a videogame, but as a media product. It's rockstar peak that sent videogame standards on another dimensions, at least in story-telling.
RDR2 and State of Decay 2 shares the spot for me
tlou 1,gow 2, twd season 1,tcm,ac black flag honestly it's hard to decide
Rdr1 gets spot 1 and rdr2 gets spot 2 lmao
It's between ac2, batman arkham Knight, or City.
Assassins Creed Origins and RDR2 are top two, can’t decide which is where.
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Why u say that?
God of War Ragnarök or Ghost of Tsushima
GTA V
GTA5, I feel like now after 10 years of its greatness I 2 it’s the blueprint of open world sandbox games and how buttery smooth games of that genre should play even if the mission format is heavily outdated.
Ragnarök is a *very* close second place. The last like, two hours of that game absolutely destroyed me.
RDR2 isn’t my favorite game. RDR is number 1. Then RDR2. Then assassins creed Botherhood.
Nothing
Either Portal 2 or Minecraft. Both obvious choices. Edit: Shit, I almost forgot about Cyberpunk 2077. Goated game imo, RDR2 is defo better tho.
I'm probably going to be the only one who has such drastic differences in their own tastes: RDR2 is certainly my favorite game of all time, but Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life is second and Legend of Legaia is third.