Slightly off topic but the level of technical and artistic detail in GTA5 never ceases to amaze me.
It's shame it's so muddled thematically but it's a tour de Force of game development
It's shame it's so muddled thematically but it's a tour de Force of game development
Very frustrating.
The brain needs it, and who knows, you might get inspired.
I know what you mean though, but I’ve been working hard to just let my brain rest at times. Games can be useful to turn off or tune down the machinery at times.
Akin Feynman's "Fun to imagine".
How marvelous the true nature of nature.
I thought I was alone.
I couldn't get into Horizon. The normal difficultly was just insanely hard. I think I got 4 ~ 5 hours in and never ended up finishing it :(
I think maybe this depends on your play style – I most often went for the strategy of divide and conquer, lure individual machines away from the pack and get them one by one from a distance, usually with a combination of hard point arrows and tear blast arrows to get rid of their most lethal weapons. Whenever I went for using the staff to kill a machine it was too hard, unless it was one of the smaller ones. Also, making use of different ammo to target weaknesses in the machines proved quite effective, and after a little while you just intuitively know which kinda of ammo works against which machines.
Hope you give it another go, I think the story really is worth it!
Edit: definitely second your feelings on RDR2. First rockstar game that had me hooked from start to finish, such a great story. I never played the first one, and I'm a little hesitant to try it because of how great and beautiful RDR2 is, and how well it plays, and I fear playing the previous game will feel too dated in comparison, regardless of how good the story seems to be.
RDR2 is mind-blowing. I've already finished the game, and am still playing it just to walk around and do silly stuff like fishing and hunting, which I would NEVER normally do in a game.
But I can't keep away from RDR2. It's by far the best game ever created IMHO.
I've never been so moved by an ending (I got the "high honor" ending in the main game).
Spoiler alert: https://youtu.be/jc8cWDHRncU?t=5
I hated every second of the main story. I would have been alright with starting at the epilogue and throwing out the entire story before that.
My friends are always trying to get me to enjoy and not skip cut scenes in games so I gave this one a try. NEVER AGAIN.
THAT! As a “filthy casual”, I have other things to do in life , some of which earn money to buy these games.
I appreciate it when games let you skip things you aren’t enjoying (duh!!!). It allows the game designers the freedom to throw in all kinds of crazy things, without worrying about losing the audience.
Not everybody is a completionist.
Back then, me and my friends in the building started the game at around the same time. We loved discussing the game every morning on the bus to school. Eventually we reached the RC helicopter mission and no one could complete it. After what seemed like forever, I managed to complete it first. Cue loads of awestruck friends and receiving "street cred". And then, I used to visit their homes and complete the mission for them :D
Now that I am nostalgic, I can't help but remember how much fun we had playing RuneScape.
For anyone interested, just install the quadcopter mod, add a trainer if you want to be able to set weather/time of day (Menyoo works for me). Then you're good to go.