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Anyone have a video game or a movie or a book or anything else like that that you want to get into, but you just can't every time you try?
For me it's Red Dead Redemption 2. I just can't get through the winter prologue. It has idiosyncratic controls that I can't remember and the fucking lasso just doesn't work after I rebind 200 different buttons to adjust the controls to ESDF. And there's no quicksave, so every time I watch people enjoy the open stage of RDR2 it wants me to replay a long enough segment before I even can try and fail to lasso a dude again. I guess I should just mod the game to skip it and try again.
I'd say RDR2 is worth sticking with. The snow section isn't very long dude. 90 minutes or so? The controls and obligatory walking through base camp etc is a pain, but overall I really enjoyed my time in that world. Hunting and fishing with those great graphics almost felt like a nature experience. :P
I thought I wanted to play Ghost of Tsushima. It has released on PC and I've got it installed. But something about these mass-market, third person, action-rpg, open world games that 'play it safe' (politically and creatively) and make you spend 50-100 hours grinding through the game makes me anticipate that I'll be filled with ennui while playing them. I don't know if GoT is as guilty of all this as, say, Horizon or the like...
It's way less guilty than the horizon games, although you have brought up an interesting point - I wonder if I found got more palatable because despite the playing it safe (the most obvious example being the fact that your partner Yuna is very obviously not Japanese or attractive, but it's littered with other indignities) the overall story is a fundamentally conservative one about the value of protecting your home from foreign invaders even when it comes at a terrible price.
But add in unskippable cutscenes and it's almost impossible to recommend you stick with it. I mean, if you could appreciate the pacing of rdr2 you can probably get into it - I spent a lot of time in that game just walking around playing the flute for people and things - but you have to keep playing the story at some point and then you'll get another slap in the face.
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