Red Dead Redemption 2 is a beautiful but painful game to play
Red Dead Redemption 2 is Rockstar Games’ latest heavyweight, with nearly 40K concurrent players even five years after the (staggered) PC launch. Despite that, it can be a challenge to run the game on midrange and low-end PCs. RDR2 has gotten NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR 2 support following poor reception from Steam gamers.
"Use the Windows “High Performance” power profile and set your GPU power management mode to the same."
Not if you use AMD Ryzen CPU's. That needs to be set to balanced. "Overclock your GPU if you’re narrowly missing the 60 FPS mark." Actually it would be better to undervolt and increase the clock speed and see how stable it is in game.
Take-Two announced its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, and Grand Theft Auto V has passed a big sales milestone.
GTA V had a budget of 265 million, while RDR 2’s budget was between 370-500 million. Rockstar Games is one of the few studios that can invest so extensively in projects without fearing a lack of return.
I guess I'm in the minority, but I bought GTA5 on launch day (ps3) and to this day have yet to beat it. The game just kinda bored me. A lot of time has passed though, I wonder how much my opinion would change if I played it now. I'll give it another go, one day...
Steam's Summer Sale looks primed for Steam Deck players - with a huge collection of titles on offer for the handheld.
I don't think the control issue with the game is exaggerated seeing as many are calling the game out for it. I'm not a fan of R*'s games control but the control in GTAV is sluggish enough for me already and I can't imagine it being even worse than THAT in RDR2.
I've yet to get the game though, but having played all GTAs and RDR, I know this control issue is legit.
The article is going to get massive hate but it is 100% truth. The pace in the game really hurts how beautiful the game truly is because it's extremely slow.
I don't know what they did between GTA IV and V, but from the sounds of it they just can't seem to get controls right anymore. GTA IV felt pretty good (both walking and driving), I don't know why they felt the need to change.
Incoming microtransactions? Boosters to speedup game pace 99cents. Grow beard faster 99cents. Faster horse grooming 99cents. Non shrinking horse balls... I don't do micros so I don't know how they go. They have to bleed the customer dry some how after the cash cow juggernaut that is GTA V paved the way. Expect custom horse shoes and saddles to make your horse top speed increase. An array of wagons to buy and customize. Throw some fifty inch rims on your coach. Two, four, six, eight, ten horses to pull your custom wagon, more horses mean more horse power. Pay large sums of money for the best horses for riding or wagon pulling. Or use donkeys if you're that cheap ass that never likes to buy anything. Me I didn't and refuse to buy the game as it's not my thing and there's going to be heavy monetization. Plus I like talking out my ass sometimes, this being one of the times.
History will mark Red dead 2 a game a head of its time. Not for the reasons most think