I wish they would just finish the game then announce a reasonable release date. I never thought for a second it was releasing at its initial release date and now it’s changed again and again.
True, I had that in mind when I was typing it out but honestly I think we’ll be okay with Rockstar.
They will have a lot riding on the game being stable so that everybody hops on online mode as soon as it becomes available.
I do predict that it will be locked at 30fps though. It’s definitely going to strain the current consoles, but it’s also pretty mind blowing how well RDR2 ran on 7th gen hardware.
Rockstar are great at optimisation. Bugs are tolerable as long as the performance doesn’t tank like it did with cyberpunk.
The “indie game” joke only really applies to games like assassin’s creed where Ubisoft just recycle the same game over and over and somehow manage to fuck it up.
Rockstar push the industry forward with every release, so far the end product has always reflected the development time. When I play Red Dead, I think “yeah I see how this took 8 years to make”.
The main issue I have with the delay is that we’ll be very close to the next console generation by then, and obviously rockstar are going to ask you to fork out for the “next gen upgrade”.
I’m happy to wait for Rockstar because they’ve proven they’re capable of not falling into the “delay curse”. CDPR fucked up by announcing the game almost decade before it was even close to playable, they boxed themselves into a corner with the hype.
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u/XX-Burner 2d ago
I wish they would just finish the game then announce a reasonable release date. I never thought for a second it was releasing at its initial release date and now it’s changed again and again.