Gaming

[Sworntothecans]

Haven't had the chance to check it out, definitely looking forward to it and have it ordered. Think the only thing that's got me a bit worried is there's a lot of key folks at Rockstar that left since V & RDR2 that might affect some of the old magic. But if I knock 100+ hours out of it I'll be happy.

Replayed V as they made the next gen up date free and it's still great, although once you get to Trevor you see how poor the writing/performance was for Michael & Franklin.
Stephen Ogg goes all out with it.

I still miss the darker tone IV had.

[John Kimble]

Yeah, 4 was great.
With 5, I dunno, maybe it was the interplay between 3 main characters that put me off a bit. I agree, the Franklin character was quite weak.

I'm 46 now and while I'm far from an avid gamer, stuff like this still blows my mind. Obviously younger generations can't be expected to appreciate the jump from the 8bit era to what we have now. Again, it may be misguided nostalgia or having too much of a good thing, but sometimes I feel like the sandbox element of modern games has detracted somewhat from the overall experience. The big exception to me is the last two Zelda games, where I could happily pass many hours just pissing about and exploring. A minor gripe I suppose.

[Sworntothecans]

One thing that Rockstar are great at is putting the brakes on, they don't want folks getting to the third act in the first day. Hardware limitations was a reason from 1-IV, but nailed it on V and by the time you got the RDR2 you had young wans bitching about the start of it being too slow as COD/Fortnite had fucked attention.

CDPR figured it out with Witcher 3 & Cyberpunk too. Take your time, get your money's worth.