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I can't stand the simulation, but that just highlights the problem in trying to merge simulation with drama and action-adventure. Nobody wants to watch Jeremiah Johnson cook every piece of rabbit or maintain his core or see every step he SLOWLY takes over that mountain in a 100 hour version of the movie. And people who really are into simulators (I am not.) probably don't want their experience hampered by all the scripted scenarios and forced drama. You can't have both. Pick one.
Well… I actually think the simulation is the only unique and worthwhile thing in the game. I enjoyed RDR 1 because it made the effort to remember it was Cowboys and Indians and Mexicans: The Game. The second game absolutely refuses to do the same. It is a Hollywood soap opera hiding in an American Western disguise. But…
I’d played a bit of RDR2 online for coop and dropped it because online they amputate most of the simulation out and leave a barren wasteland. But I was curious, and made an effort to install a selection of mods and play the embarrassingly bad campaign until it ‘opens up’ and all the henpecking wives that are Rockstar Signature supporting characters can no longer simply drag you into around like a bitch.
And with those mods, it’s a decent western game. Slow, realistic gunfights with kills from a single organ shot of the legendary Spencer Rifle. Good hunting in good country. Good generated open-form bounty hunting. It’s fun to be occasionally hunted by Marshalls, bounty hunters or Pinkertons.
And I can’t help but notice some great, craftsmanlike simulation in the game. It must be what they had all the nerdy guys work on. There’s a fully animated coal mine, down to the coal trains being loaded and driving to an import-export depot in the port owned by the same company. If they won’t really let me play Cowboys and Indians (a serious deficit of injuns in this game, what a waste), they should have just focused on the simulated world they partially made.
But no, they demand you play the garbage soap opera they’ve always dreamed of being producers for.
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