I badly wanted Red Dead Redemption 2. I have it now.
Do you know what I play every night when my daughter goes to bed lately? Super Nintendo. I'm playing through DKC3 now. I have suddenly found myself pulled towards the games that don't require as long of an attention span/time commitment. I find that after an hour of RDR2 I get restless and want to go do something else. I'm someone that spent countless hours playing Skyrim.
It's weird to see my tastes change like this.
That's my feeling with the game. I'm glad they created a game with 64* sq mi of area to explore. I just don't want to ride a ****ing horse for 10 minutes to get to my next mission. My RDR2 time has gone ice cold since Christmas, save for maybe 2-3 hours spread over a few sessions.
* - that's a random number. I have no idea what the actual number is, but I thought I read it was more than 50 but less than 100.
I'm in the same boat. I've been waiting for RDR2 for YEARS (RDR was my favorite game outside of the Mass Effect series) and when I got it, I tried to take my time with the story. I got the Clemens Point camp part of the story but haven't really revisited it much over the last two months. Part of that was because in the interim I also picked up Anthem and Division 2, and I've really been enjoying my time with the latter of those two.
But I also find myself not really wanting to just dive back into RDR2. I think some of this is because in late January, I accidentally had what I think is a big part of RDR2's ending spoiled. But I also think gaming habits and tastes may have changed as well. To some degree, it feels like being able to invest just a handful of hours per week into a game that massive makes the game feel even bigger than it is, and it makes some of the, um...slower parts of the game feel like they're dragging even more.
Back around 2011-12, I used to try to play an hour or two every night or every other night. Now I probably play about 3-4 hours a week tops, and I also find myself drawn towards games that don't require as much...attention, I guess? Division 2 moves along at a great pace and there's enough story to keep me engaged. This is also why I still find myself drawn back to Destiny 2 and Star Wars: Battlefront II. I know the game is flawed in a lot of ways, but Battlefront II's multiplayer stuff has really become my default "decompress/not think about anything for 1-2 hours" game.
I'm probably gonna jump around your post a little, and not necessarily in order.
Yeah, I split off around December because of a few things that were going on in real life that required running back and forth from here to where I grew up. Between that and being sick the latter half of December, I just didn't have the time that I thought I did for the game. Once I finally did try to get back into it, it was like "great, time to get back on the horse and ride 3/4 of the way across the map... again", where it just seemed overly tedious and dare I say no longer fun. I didn't get that with GTAV, which was the same concept (open world, things spread all over the map, side missions galore, etc.) I don't know if it was because it was quicker paced, because it jumped points of view, or that the storyline was a lot more interesting. Once I found out
, it kinda seemed disappointing. Although after skimming wiki just now, I don't think they included everything. Nonetheless, the urgency for me to complete RDR2 just isn't there.
The time playing isn't even an issue. I originally bought the game because winter generally sucks and I hate being outside in anything below 30. You know what that means... yes, moar PS4 time. Ironically, the free time that I do have is going to old games and building two cabinets. I know I posted the one on twitter. It's about 50-60% complete, only needs a joystick, some assembly and a marquee. I just sprayed the second machine this week. Care to guess who has parts for three fingernails still covered in Donkey Kong blue despite several attempts at scrubbing?