I love it. I've played since day one and am still going strong. There's enough variety of things to do that whatever you're in the mood for that day, the game has something to offer for it.

Imagine having different drive modes in gta6 Just like in a real car, put it in sport to make noise and go fast or put in off road it would give a lot

Mafia definitive edition for sure wouldnt of been one of my favorites of all time if it wasn't so linear

The suborbital gave me an idea. Would be neat if you could steal a space shuttle, go to the international space station, and stratojump back down.

Just got the game. Let's hope it's cute

people need to realize their games are linear for a reason. look at red dead online, its way more open ended and it failed because of it. people like being told what to do even if they wont admit it

Idk if it’s because I’m new but I actually really like rdo

You talk so fucking slow holy shit

Aye I like that touch at 16:55 lmao I'm in the Southern Ontario area and I can 100% agree these Brampton drivers are outta hand fr

Rdr2 is linear but the missions have multiple ways to finish them

I played the beta version with ultimate edition pre order and never touched it ever again. Played it since day one and I’m only level 4 😂

As a person who only plays open world games, I’ve been in a major video game slump for a few years now. I have rotated replaying Skyrim, starfield, all gtas, saints row, bully, cyberpunk, fallout, and red dead story mode and probably any others you can think of. I’ve replayed them all so much that I’m officially done with all of them and have been for some time now. One game I haven’t gone back and played in years is red dead online. Ive been considering for a few months to redownload it but I just couldn’t bring myself to because I figured i would just immediately turn it off. I was one of the people who got bored and frustrated with rdo, but today I was watching videos of the Amazon and the Everglades, and it reminded me of how fun being in nature and hunting was in red dead. I started feeling more motivated to download the online part since I’ve played the story mode 10 plus times. All over KZbin are videos of how terrible red dead online is, but I came across this one so I watched it. You have single handedly brought back the spark for me to play this game and appreciate it for what it is. It is downloading right now and I’m very excited. Thanks man keep up the good content cheers

5:52 *Cough* *Cough* Tf2

My ringtone is the GTA four theme and I was on all ears at all times because I kept hearing it

Bro, have you walked downtown at night lately, in NORTHERN ONTARIO? Shits legit scary AF!

Thank you!!!! <3

The game as a whole is terrible. The online is specifically designed to waste your time telling you how dumb you are and the story mode is full of problems. I don't understand why people defend this game so much. So many problems that make no logical sense. People are trying to kill me and I kill them and now all of a sudden I'm wanted for murder. All because I said some things to people. The story mode is designed to screw you over in every way. The game is actually terrible and again I don't know why people defend it. Keep in mind I have thousands of hours into the game. I have thousands into the first Red Dead. RDR2 is just bad.

For the story for the online it’s actually interesting so sad they abandoned it completely I want to know what happens

0:30 do you got some manners?

Thank you for this take! The obsession with sandbox games (which, IMO, in many cases has merged from many players' feel of nostalgia when they played Minecraft back in the simpler days) kinda ruins the market and forces many developers to turn everything into a sandbox even when its completely unnecessary. Since GTA IV and RDR1 Rockstar decided to focus on storytelling and cinematic experience rather than on sandbox, and I wish more people could appreciate this choice of direction before GTA VI comes out

RDR3 has missions with alot of freedom and others more scripted for story and cinematic

6:55 Ain't no one find that switching the muzzle between Dutch and Micah to trigger the dialogues is super immersion breaking in this mission?Who tf does that irl?If I were Dutch getting pointed at all of a sudden,I would've pulled the trigger at John already

Honestly, I don’t even mind the linear missions because I’m left to my own devices otherwise. So there’s that balance, I guess. Like I know going into the mission that I’ll be railroaded, but it’s a good story so I’ll deal with it until I get back to shenanigans in the open world.

Cant play without getting hacked anymore,let alone they make you hostile and owe 500$ bounty so you can not even log in anymore

No GTA *ChinaTown* ?

i think totk suffers in this. they try to blend linear and nonlinear. you can just leave during most of the suposadly tense parts which ruins them

i often dont finish open world games just because often sooner or later it gets to the point where i dont know where im supposed to go or there is so many markers that i get overwhelmed and dont know what to do. I prefer linear stories, metro games are one of my favorites.

12:11 played it for 2 days then got bored. weirdly enough i wana start playing again

John Marston is my favorite character. Period. This was an outstanding analysis

RDR2 is a story, I love the story, I love the immersion, I understand people who want to go batshit insane and do whatever on a sandbox but sometimes I just want to be shown a story and enjoy it. Also I think games like RDR or GTA could have used a couple of sandbox missions like a Hitman level, for important events but not for the whole game

Yeah, the main missions are very restrictive. Some RDR 2 fans may see this criticism as "Well, RDR 2 is not mulitbranching path story" or it can contradict the cutscene by having main character talks like a nice guy even though in the gameplay, the players play the main character like murderous psycho that killed anyone he met in the open world lol. I think this criticism simply means that Arthur can have mission failed for stupid things. I once want to flank an entire group of enemies by taking their machine gun and blast them from behind. Yet the game saw that as "You walked away from the gang". RDR 2 doesn't need to give total freedom the way Zelda do but it also can be not as restrctive as it is. Games like Resident Evil 4 (Not apple to apple comparasion to RDR 2) is more linear than previous installments of the series but the amount of choice of how to approch enemies provided by the game tools is a good example of linear done right. RDR 2 is an excellent games which faults are just a bunch of minor simple things but since these minor faults are so attached to the main mission story, it can sticks out as hinderence of immersion and enjoyment for some people. Linear in video games doesn't mean 1 straight line. It means more of there is only one outcome but the path to reach that one outcome can be many. The most simple example being, what kind of gun and strategy I'm going to use to solve this mission. RDR 2 loves to remove the strategy part, hell they sometime take away players free choice of weapon during some mission. RDR 2 is one of my favorite games of all time, one of the very few games that made me feel helping people out is more satisfying than shooting anyone who stands in our path. RDR 2 open world is also amazing, I love exploring it by not looking at the map and just go wherever randomly. How we managed Arthur to be a better person than yesterday by taking care of simple things such as his beard, food, sleep schedule to big things like helping folks out insteaf of beating them give me freedom of gameplay enough despite those restrictive missions. I ended up falling in love with this game because of that. I hope GTA 6 learn from this, that game can be more linear for all I care as long as they don't restrict player choice to solve a mission based on the tools the game provides.

GTA 5 bad GTA 4 good

I completed the game. I maxed out all of the roles (except the stupid animal one) and there was nothing really left to do. The only thing that kept me playing the game was the daily challenge streaks and they ruined it by making it reset every month. It’s still probably my favourite game of all time, and I’m definitely proud of my platinum trophy.

Is either u sacrifice the immersion and go for sandbox Or You sacrifice creativity and go for linear Or you could be golem and do all

the reason why john always talks about how people “shouldn’t be something your not.” because HE does that. reyes puts it best “a romantic desperately trying to be a cynic”

8:05 Rockstar actually has the same idea as you here, and it can be seen in GTA online. You can see this development in their game design philosophy throughout the years. A great example of this is the differences between the Deliver EMP mission from the Humane Labs Raid, and the Disorganized Crime mission from the Cluckin Bell Farm Raid. Deliver EMP, the older mission, is a super strict and limiting stealth mission, and fails you for any mistake you make, which is alerting the guards. Disorganized Crime however, a mission released earlier this year, also involves stealth, but making a mistake prompts a tense sequence where you have to eliminate all traces of yourself. If you fail to do this, it can impact the rest of the heist. It's a way better solution that can give opportunities for freedom while also reasonably keeping the player in the narrative of the heist. I really hope we see this kind of solution in future Rockstar games. Not letting the player do anything, but also not failing them for everything. Just finding a creative solution that blends both options like you said

The moment I started liking Red Dead was the moment I started liking it for itself. Sure we can laugh at all the intricate game mechanics. Like wind effects, horse poop and ya-da ya-da. But playing the game as a walking sim. Immersing myself in it. Rivals any game with better sandbox mechanics... But I feel like. If you can. Why not do both? Like having an interesting sandbox game, and an interesting story isn't exclusive to each other. I mean GTA IV to me scratches the itch of interesting and compelling missions. And a very non-restrictive mission design. So it shows that Rockstar can create a game in that manner.

Finally someone who said it. I get the point of the criticism but I don't agree that the gamedesign is broken and/or needs to change. Just like you said, giving the player all the freedom of the open world during a mission would be disruptive to the immersion of the story and minimize it's impact. I don't see it as one limiting the other, I see it as the best of both worlds. Be glad that such an excellent story like that of RDR2 can exist in an open world setting. You have a sandbox AND a great story. Missions are just part of the game, not the entire game... so it's not like you're limited in the sandbox all the time.

Incredible how in a 60min iceberg you mentioned Midnight Club a total of one (1) time

I do think it's preety lame to fail a mission unless i get killed by an enemy imo, especially the "you abandoned x character" fail is annoying because i always wanna check every detail and the game forces me into being fast paced

rdr2 without linear missions is like minecraft without infinite sized worlds...

Yes but RDR2’s linear game design would NOT work for GTA 6

I think the leaks say something like a tailing mission can turn into a chase mission once the target is alerted, similar to some of the missions in other GTA games, GTA 4 specifically.

If people want to play a non linear Rockstar games, they can just play GTA/RDR Online. Most online missions are just going to a location, killing a bunch of enemies, or getting a specific item, pretty much the exact same as GTA III in terms of design. They also try to avoid mission fails, so the only way to mess up is by destroying you objective or killing an ally. It's a lot of fun, but there isn't much of a narrative, and most of the missions are forgettable since its just the core gameplay over and over and over again. The most memorable online missions are the ones that are linear.

I love you for accurately responding to that inception in open-ended game design.

8:27 What you said is pretty much similar to the GTAO mission "Disorganized Crime", where whatever you do affects the Cluckin' Bell Raid Farm Finale. So say if you accidently alert the cartel guards, the rest of them will be aware of your presence in the finale.

26:16: It’s likely that those gun files are leftovers from Max Payne 3.

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California and New York are mentioned by name in Red Dead 1 and 2. Can't be the same universe as San Andreas and Liberty City.