Greetings All!
So I just wanted to post here that for the first time in over 10 years I have finally bought a console! I have always been a PC Gamer but with more and more great titles coming to console and the fact that I am slowly getting tired of spending thousands of dollars every couple of years to keep upgrading my PC. Now the choice of which console PS4 Pro/Xbox One X was pretty damn hard as we all know PS4 is home of the best Exclusives while the X is king for Hardware atm. What finally sealed it for me was watching all the comparison videos of RDR2... The game is simply beautiful on the X.
Now I must say that after spending some time with RDR2 I am left very very conflicted.... First the game itself is as I stated previously is just beyond beautiful, the voice acting is some of the best I have seen/heard in a very long time and the depth/attention to detail is just pure crazy. Now the thing's that seriously make no sense to me.... The controls... I must admit that it's been a very long time since I owned a proper console but was the person/people who came up with the controls for the game high? Because it has been nothing but a pure pain in the ass to do nearly everything in the game... Having to constantly mash A or keep tapping A to get up too or hold speed on a horse is a chore in itself. Interacting with the world around you while on the horse is pure nightmare fuel as well because you are constantly having to contort your hand in strange ass way to greet or talk to people while you are moving on a horse or as someone earlier in the thread said lassoing someone is just silly as well.
A number of other things also seem very strange or just thought out poorly... such as fast travel or auto running to someplace.... I really do not understand them forcing you to run back to camp to use a map at your tent to fast travel every single time and auto running? It works about half the time.... and the other half I ended up somewhere in the mountains looking at snow or somewhere else instead of being anywhere near where I was supposed to be... Now I have learned that if you managed to slightly mess up a early mission in the game then a number of people will poof from your camp causing you to loose out on storyline which after reading that article today I realized happen to me because after I played that mission I had a number of missions just poof from my camp after that. Now I am going to have to restart my game which I don't mind doing but I am now at the point where I kind of want to wait for a number of big updates before I dive back into it..... That intro is a beast and takes a while. Also the default shooting is incredibly poor.... Thank god for youtube and people posting videos on how to streamline shooting via the settings.
All in all I am still super stoked to have finally dipped my toe in the console game and while spending nearly 700 dollars on a Xbox One X, a single game and the warranty was a very very hard pill to swallow I can say I am still beyond happy with my purchase as even though my time with RDR2 is on hold, that Game Pass is just beyond awesome! I was seriously unaware that Game Pass was a thing and it blew my mind at all the games you get with it. So I have more then enough things to keep me occupied while RDR2 hopefully gets straightened out in the near future.... Until then Forza Horizen 4 has been like crack cocain and it was free to boot! lol.
Apologies for the long post! I am just super excited to finally have a console