Sinistkir13
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I never even got to GTA V, but how you describe it reminds me of this somewhat lengthy video that resonates with Rockstar's increasing prioritization of a movie-like experience over sandbox experiences and player freedom in their missions.
Gutting the emergent gameplay element to missions that allowed you to utilize the open world sandbox in favor of whatever the script dictates was disappointing to hear because the story was never why I got into the games in the first place, it was just a bonus.
The final nail in the coffin for my interest in Rockstar's games is their outdated controls, because without fail they manage to make their games feel terrible to play, as though each game's controls were untouched for a generation.
Rockstar games have always been clunky, but going for realism in recent titles can't help because their own balancing favors realistic, highly (arguably overly) animations that look good over what plays well, and RDR2 was supposedly even worse than anything they've made prior.
Obviously it's too early to tell going off of cinematic trailers, but that in conjunction with the mission design are going to be the make it or break it gameplay side for me. I still don't trust them not to shoehorn any woke garbage in the game, but that's going to be for the console players to find out because I'm not buying one regardless.
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