Red Dead Redemption 2 (no spoilers)

We'll see how they'll pull it off. They lost main headchugger behind their previous games and the game was suppos-e-dly stuck in development hell.

Sept 29, 2017 7:30:28 GMT -3 Ocelot said:
Try to look at it this way, atleast you won't really feel guilty when you kill npc's

Unless this takes place even before Marsten joins.

Marston. John Marston.

First Gameplay video (it looks amazing!)

Looking good! But apparently Amazon doesnt want my money cause they arnt offering any version that includes their 20% prime preorder discount

...so, like Assassin's Creed?

Didn't play the first game. Kind of always wanted to ever since a coworker said he mostly just rode for hours while listening to music. He said it was pretty meditative.

I agree that Rockstar is really slow to innovate in their games. Ubi gets a bad rap for copy paste design but I think Rockstar is actually much worse in this regard. It's not as noticeable since their release schedule is far slower than other devs, but mission design and mechanics in GTA remain mostly the same. And there's never anything complex about the gameplay. At least Red Dead was somewhat different. They improved exploration, side activities, added loot and the law mechanic is easier to get around and more sensible.

Does anyone else notice the apparent nostalgia color filter on RDR 2? I'm obviously nitpicking as I think the game looks stellar, but I might prefer the slightly cleaner look of the first game.

Crunch is one thing, but being proud of it and developing a culture around it to the point where it is a bragging right is another.  I have worked crunch in the past, but there are limits the human body and do as well and it sounds like it is more common then naught to push games developers to the point of breaking.  I used to work for an IT company that would setup major network installations where something would go wrong and we would work overtime near the end to make sure the project finished on time. The thing is we never took that time as a badge of honor to show how dedicated we were to the job, it was a necessary evil to make sure the project was done and we were always compensated for our time by either taking flex time to take more time off or overtime pay which was our decision to make.  It just sounds like when you are getting to the extreme cases of crunch and not crunch as part of the industry as a whole is where my problem lies.  So when CDPR talks about how its their culture to push a nearly non-stop crunch or 100 hours in a week is commonplace where I have concerns.

Just want to mention, I deleted that post because of a board error that over formatted it and was overlapping letters and I couldn't fix it.

I work in the tech industry and you are right there is crunch, but nobody at any of the companies I have ever worked for worked 100 hours in a single week let alone boast about it.  We all took pride in the work we did, but we also knew there was a line where you push too hard and expensive mistakes can be made by anyone even if they were volunteering to continue to work.  To me it isn't about crunch its about the amount of crunch here and with the gaming industry there are too few options for people to really move around in.  Its my choice if I want to be happy with the reports I am reading about this crunch situation and if I want to accept it or not, just like its the employees choice to accept working in a sweatshop environment or leaving and trying to find a job elsewhere.  Just like some of the people that have left BioWare they have left the game development area all together to work back in software development where there is better pay and from what my programming friends tell me much better working conditions.

Just like you say the employees can make the choice to work there or not and I can make the choice if I want to give Rockstar my money or not.