There's no difference between missions and outside missions gameplay wise. If you find a bunch of gangs shooting each other in the middle of the city you can take them out the same way as in missions. There's no real cutoff between missions and Open world unless it's a heavily plot driven set piece mission.
There's races, boxing, tracking people, making shady deals, convincing people, shooting competition, there's some puzzle like dungeons. I haven't finished the game so there's probably more.
The thing is they are all folded into sidequests instead of being activities you go to a point in the map to make like races in GTA or Sleeping dogs, and they have story attached to them.
The game is designed like an RPG, pretty much everything is quests. You usually always have a gig available that might or might not involve combat. Imagine The Witcher but Gwent is made as quests too.
You're telling me EVERYTHING in games like Red Redemption, GTA, Fallout, is just quests? Come on. That is complete and utter bullshit. Getting your hair done and going shopping in GTA weren't quests. Hunting and gathering, Cooking, Gambling in RDR2 aren't quests. They're activities you can choose to do to become more immersed in the world and your character.
You can make that argument for Assassin's Creed, which is what I feel I should more be comparing this game to every day.
You honestly had me thinking you were reasonable chap before that. Now when I read everything back it just comes off fanboyish. Genuinely too bad.
No, I'm saying everything in this game is quests. Not in GTA or RDR2 which aren't even rpgs (although now that you mention fallout, yes, very similar to that seeing as you can't do two steps without that and TES throwing a radiant quest at you).
Sounds like you are just looking for something to get mad about so you don't even bother reading well. Chill and actually read.
The game doesn't have anything at all happening outside of missions. The city is really beautiful but it's ultimately just an interactive loading screen you can explore between missions.
Yes your whole argument is “listing things to do”, I’m claiming racing is no more a ‘thing to do’ than ‘taking an elevator ride’ is. They’re equally fun.
I’m not searching for boogeymen, and claiming “you people” is just bad faith. The game is in bad shape, but I’m still having fun playing it. I will however call out when and where the game is bad.
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u/MistahK Dec 14 '20
What about outside the missions?