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I loved playing this game.
The online version of it fucking sucks though.
Online was so anemic and tedious.
Shame too, because there is an appetite for a slow-paced immersive Wild West/cowboy/Southern/post-Victorian era role-playing MMO, and that game's aesthetic and engine was perfect for this.
I agree.
I also just can't really play games that force me to think about my bank account while I'm playing, charging fees or subscription rates just to fully participate in the game, like seeing a bounty hunting mission that requires me to send money before I can start it. Totally breaks the immersion--I play games so I don't have to think about the real world for a bit. Making me enter bank details wrecks that.
I love the Online, but even i will admit Online is so disappointing. With how many hackers run rampant and the lack of content, it feels like it's just been left to rot
I see a lot of praise for this game but have not looked a lot into it. How would you describe it and what makes it so good? I'm letting myself be convinced for my next game to play :)
It makes you feel like it's really happening. You're up North in the mountains, and you need to get back to camp to talk to a friend, so you ride your horse, and get stuck behind a wide carriage for a bit, and the trees are close to the trail for a while, so you can't easily get around without getting a faceful of branches. One you start making it down the mountain, you find a nice looking deer and think "that hide would look great on some boots", so you pull out your rifle to hunt. Unfortunately, you're up wind, so the deer ran away very early on, but you couldn't be deterred, so you chased after it, and eventually landed a good shot. You take the meat to the butcher, and he comments that he's greatful you brought it in so fresh this time. You wonder why you ended up here, oh yeah, you wanted to go meet up with a friend, and it's been over an hour and you're just less than halfway there, so you look up at the sky and wonder how long it'll take, it's a very pretty sky at sunset, so you decide to make camp for the night.
Beautiful :)
The story is really what makes it so good--you start to feel invested in the character, in the world, and that helps with getting deeply immersed in the gameplay. It's an incredibly well written game.
Beyond that, the screenshots show a lot--it's a world that feels very lived-in.
Also the gameplay is a ton of fun. Open world, lots of places to explore--some of them beautiful, others treacherous, some both.