I should have known better, as the whole cowboy genre is terrible as fuck. Westerns (as boomer Americans call the genre) have the slowest dialogue, the corniest patriarchal story-line, and are obviously filled with a heap ton of other problematic bits. Of course, I had to try as the game got great reviews. I thought I'd try it with the Steam summer sale.
Fuckkkkkkkk the long boring ass cut scenes. OMG pls talk faster and have dialogue that's interesting. The beginning of the game is just 30 minutes of video and riding your horse so slowly through the snow. I thought that my TikTok brain couldn't stand some old slow game from a bygone era, but I'm checking this shit and it was released in 2018!
If I was some prat who loved the mythology of the "settling of the west", a game with a white dude on a horse on a mountain would get me hard. Why can't more games be like Atomic Heart? I wanna defend the land of Stalin and have cut scenes with ~~good dialogue~~ a talking glove that debates theory and a sexy refrigerator that probably wants to murder me.
I've tried to finish this game at least 4 times. It's not the story that's boring to me, but all of the mechanics designed to make you take your time. Holding a button to interact with EVERYTHING, yeah skinning animals is immersive but you don't really need to sit through that animation EVERY single time???? Also, I don't like the linearity of the missions. You don't really get a lot of freedom to play differently. (That might just be a R* problem at this point). I still believe there's a good game underneath all of this but I refuse to waste time with it anymore.
Ya the mechanics are fecking slow. The whole picking stuff up thing is so damn slow. Also why can't I auto run?
OK I'm glad I didn't get to this