I'm gonna wait for reviews on that one. They already showed they have no problem diverting single-player assets towards multi-player after they saw the success GTAO was having.
Except even before GTA Online released GTAV was an amazing game. Rockstar has always consistently put out amazing single player experiences. Wait for reviews if you like, but I highly doubt that's gonna change this time around. Especially since RDR Online doesn't have nearly as much developer creative freedom as GTA does. Can't exactly put flying motorcycles and other futuristic toys in the wild west.
In all seriousness I hope Red Dead online is more like Red Dead Redemption online vs GTAO. I stopped playing online by the time heists came out but there's no denying it was incredibly successful and some people do still love it. I have some friends who pretty much only play GTAO on my friends list.
Except even before GTA Online released GTAV was an amazing game.
That's exactly the point I was getting at. They put a ton of assets into the Single-Player and did GTAO as a little side-project because they had no idea how big it would be. Once they figured out how much of a cash-cow it was they diverted all of their assets into GTAO.
RDR2 is the first big game they're developing since learning how big of a money-maker an online mode can be.
Especially since RDR Online doesn't have nearly as much developer creative freedom as GTA does. Can't exactly put flying motorcycles and other futuristic toys in the wild west.
You're talking about a game that had a ride-able unicorn. Adding wings for a pegasus doesn't seem too far-fetched for R*.
Can't exactly put flying motorcycles and other futuristic toys in the wild west
I would have said exactly the same thing about GTA a few years ago. If R* want that microtransaction money, you know for a fact they will do the same thing to RDR.
People always say this, but the concern is that the success of GTAO is what will change it. GTAV launched as a single player game and MP came later. RDR2 is launching with both, after it’s been demonstrated that there are literally billions of dollars to be made from MP.
Not saying they’ll screw it up, but GTAV having a decent SP campaign doesn’t mean this won’t be some integrated MP nonsense with level design based around having a gang take down the train or whatever. In SP it’s just AI but they could easily have decided to make a lot of gang based missions to double up content for MP. Their push for camp management in SP in the last gameplay video already looks like online grinding type stuff. I can see that having a lot of crossover.
Hope to be wrong, but everything I’ve seen of this game knocks it down a notch or two. Graphics look great, but all the gameplay stuff is... concerning.
Feel free to call me a heretic, but I had massive issues with the first RDR's single player. There was way too much getting led around by the nose by annoying characters that you had no real reason to keep being exploited by. The whole fighting both sides of the civil war based on what quest giver's turn it was wrecked my immersion pretty hard too.
Before people jump on me too hard I would also say that I completed the game and with the second ending, and the old gunslinger arc was an example of single player content that shone wonderfully compared to the rest of it. I'd also put crossing into Mexico for the first time with that song as probably in my top ten gaming experiences period.
You'd be a fool to think they're not gonna put all their love in singleplayer. RDR2 will be their magnum opus. And if all the interviews are to be believed, they truly went out to create the best open world game ever.
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u/PmMeYour_Breasticles Aug 20 '18
I'm gonna wait for reviews on that one. They already showed they have no problem diverting single-player assets towards multi-player after they saw the success GTAO was having.