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>Over a decade of development and an estimated budget between $1-2 Billion, I am okay with paying ten bucks more.

I don't balance my checkbook based on what other people spend, and presuming that those things have anything to do with perceived quality is a fools' errand with the multitude of counter examples one can bring up of AAA flops.

>lesser games

this thing isn't even out yet.

how many examples of over-produced and under-delivered expensive garbage in film, media, video games & art do we need to produce until people disconnect the two concepts of quality and cost ?

edit : I used cadre the wrong way

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It is Rockstar, they haven't missed in a couple of decades and this is their flagship product.

It's still possible they miss this time. Unlikely, but I rather wait for reviews before buying.

It will probably be an unoptimized hot mess for the first year. Same as the rest of the over hyped AAA titles. I'm sure devs are on a death match to hit the deadline.

> they haven't missed in a couple of decades

Depends on your gaming tastes. I haven't really enjoyed any of the GTAs for longer than 2 hours, while RDR2 I also stopped playing after about 3 hours out of boredom - and similar to the GTA series, general frustrations involving the controls. Rockstar just doesn't fit my tastes, which is certainly a problem that rests with me

> Depends on your gaming tastes.

It doesn't, if we're talking about consensus.

https://www.metacritic.com/company/rockstar-games/

That's a lot of green, and your or my opinion on any particular game isn't relevant to the assertion that Rockstar has a stellar track record in making games people seem to love.

Something being popular doesn't exclude it from not being to someones tastes. Fifa is popular but I don't think you would argue that means it's to everyone's taste.

RDR2 is very much a movie game so ofc it's popular when at this point most new "gamer" love playing cutscenes.

So then they haven't missed in a couple of decades, with the understanding that not everyone enjoys the game style.

I don’t like Taylor Swift music. My not liking it has no bearing on her obvious talent in the industry. I get people not liking GTA. Ignoring their obvious talent is silly.

RDR2 is highly rated as one of the greatest games of all time.

Rockstar hasn’t missed, you’re an outlier.

No, they missed. RDR2 was a significant step backwards from the first game. It just... wasn't fun. Rockstar forgot that they are making a game, not some interactive movie or a simulation.

You are the outlier of outliers by holding this opinion. You're certainly entitled to it, but RDR2 has numerous accolades and there is multitude of reasons why it was so widely praised.

Trying to act like Rockstar missed here is like sticking your head in the sand. It doesn't matter that you didn't like it, they accomplished every goal the game had.

The story is good, the amount of side quest story detail is pretty crazy, the resource collection part of the gameplay is a bit of a grind.

Flipping through each page of a book to find the item you want is developer self-pleasuring.

I think it's very telling that you mentioned the actual game part last and even then not positive.

People don't like RDR2 because of its gameplay but story, immersion and feeling. Which would be great for a movie but side dish for a game.

Is it easier for you if we talk about lifetime of the game, especially online ?

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