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Im back to playing Starship Troopers. Still thoroughly enjoy the game. Only downside is low player counts. One of the recent additions that has made a dramatic atmospheric improvance is that corpses do not automatically despawn. And corpses can be climbed over. So you end up with situations like in the movies when stacks of bugs outside of the walls form a smooth ramp up to your poor troopers. Flamethrowers are more important for cleanup now.
I'm trying to play RDR 2... I'm just so bored. The scenes are so long. I'm still in like the intro town and man every time I fk up a mission I have to repeat so much.
Kind of annoying, but I've heard such great things I'm trying to slog into it at least a bit.
It’s not really like most other games. It’s an immersive experience, like a form of interactive theater. It only works if you forget about game stuff like “what’s the fastest way to the next mission” and instead devote yourself wholly to thinking “what would Arthur do next?”. When it gets dark, set up camp and cook some food over the fire; in the morning brew some coffee and drink it as the fog clears, then saddle up and keep going. When you stop at a town, get a drink at the saloon, play a game of poker, overhear some conversations. Get distracted. Hunt if you spot rare game, then bring the skin back to town for sale. In between, pursue the story missions, upgrade camp as you find things, explore the towns and cities organically. Don’t obsessively overloot; looting is deliberately slow to discourage this. Your horse is fragile, you have to look after it, you can’t treat it like a ‘mount’ in other games. Speak to everyone whenever you can, your camp followers and friends have almost unimaginable amounts of incidental dialogue and there are countless little side stories, some of which you’ll miss and some you’ll be there for. Fish at sunset. Stalk a deer in a rainstorm. Read every newspaper, watching how they change as you complete quests bf meet new characters. If there’s a party in camp, do what Arthur would do; get a drink, talk to people, socialize. More than any other game of its type, Red Dead Redemption 2 needs you to buy in fully, or it will seem slow and boring. But do this and eventually every other open game of a similar type will seem like a crude facsimile of a world, a gamified, simplified, fake-feeling funfair compared to the Wild West in a setting with the industry’s best sense of time and place.
Hmmm I guess I will try more to get into it, sounds like I need to dedicate some time to getting into the experience.
Idk I've never been one to get immersed in video games, any tips for getting into this mindset? Or like questions to think about as I play?
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