Well I wouldn't. The Witch's House MV is a nice one.
Rockstar's obsession with "realistic" physics makes all their HD-era games just feel terrible to play. The games look great, the presentation is top-notch, and there's clearly a massive amount of work put into them - now just imagine how good they could be if the producers wanted to make a fun game rather than a simulation of being the world's clumsiest cowboy.
That's why I like the game but I also enjoyed the first for being a fun game that captured the cowboy flair while still being relatively easy to get into. Mostly.
I tend to keep my ear on the group for niche titles. Niche Gamer is a good website that highlights a lot of lesser known titles. It's also why I disagree that gaming is in a good spot. You have to hunt for quality and even then a lot of them are just smaller titles. Any big budget game is at best average and at worse fucking dog shit. I'd go as far and say (to add an Unpopular Opinion) that the best big budget games over the last 5 years have been gacha games.
Post gameplay footage of any gacha that you think is good.
I don't think "Yume Nikki", "Mad Father", "OFF", "Corpse Party", etc. was what he had in mind moreso something like this (I have no idea of the quality of this game, it looks better than the average JRPG released to steam, yet it is extremely unlikely to find a place in the market given that there is nearly a lifetime of critically acclaimed JRPGs one could play). With the games first mentioned (non-traditional RPGs/interactive art?), like 'em or not they certainly scratch a particular itch of which there aren't that many games which currently exist (at the very least in comparison to traditional, fantasy JRPGs). Also tfw troons have now infested yume nikki discussion
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Isn't that exactly what RDR is? The vast majority of criticisms I have of Red Dead Redemption 2 apply equally to GTA5.
That one is just bizarre. It's so unnecessary, has been done properly in every other game since forever, and would've been trivially fixable in a patch by even the lowliest junior programmer.
The second I booted up RDR2 and saw the Tarantino title card with the flowery cursive pontificating about the "end of the west" I knew I was in for some ridiculously pretentious bullshit.
I don't care for these too much, the main appeal is just seeing death animations. I will say since I won't see another opportunity Witch's House has a pretty decent manga.
I'd suggest the first Red Dead Redemption, then Revolver, then RDR2 in that order. I would suggest RDR2 for its multiplayer if you're into Western games if you can find it on sale.
Maybe this is my gaming unpopular opinion. But I hated RDR2's multiplayer, it's so laborious and grindy. I understand the fun of playing the role of a cowboy, but it was such a pain roaming on a slow starter horse, with weak starter guns, doing missions that only ever feel like I'm breaking even.
I won't lie. The learning curve for beginners is brutal if you're just going in blind. I expected to hate it based on how complex and cumbersome the mechanics of RDRII can be. Surprisingly, I have 300 hours logged into the multiplayer alone through PvE, daily challenge streaks, hardcore based PvP, material farming and endless bounty hunting. Granted, you DO need to go through external guides to get the most of your experience.
That seems like a commonality in newer Rockstar multiplayer games. GTAV has the same exact issue, there's so much content, all set at different times balanced for different times in the game's life cycle. So the average newbie has no idea that the default first missions make 10x less than other missions that you can also start as a level one.
