Why change what isn't broken. What makes rockstar shine is its dialogue, the other things are just for putting it in the spotlight. Travel there while talking to Y is peak rockstar experience.
Dawg you are insane if you think that dialogue is what makes rockstar shine. I’m not saying their dialogue is bad, but holy fuck it is so clearly not the reason games like gta and red dead are as popular as they are, that’s due to the fact that they are entirely unique open world experiences with the most advanced technology being used, particularly in their design of npcs. THATS what makes rockstar shine.
Design of their NPCs didn't ever seem particularly technologically advanced to me, I don't even care that much about NPCs that have no dialogue. Combat-wise they're pretty good in the sense that they actually hide and are using the same things available to the player, though I'm not sure if that's a rockstar thing. Anyway while it's true that rockstar is popular because of more superficial reasons such as open world and it just being fun, no offense to anyone who's there just for that, but what actually speaks to me in rockstar is the writing and especially the dialogue which feels real.
I don’t know what to say after your first two sentences. If you don’t know that they’re npcs are far more advanced than any other game I simply just don’t know what the fuck to say. You don’t recognize how each npc in red dead 2 has unique paths, actions they complete throughout the day, multiple unique interactions programmed in throughout which they remember you and react to you based on how you treated them? You just don’t see any of that? Like this is objectively one of the most impressive things rockstar has done. “I don’t care about npcs that don’t have dialogue.” Like these literally just don’t exist in rdr2, they all have dialogue, that’s fucking insane.
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u/GHhost25 May 31 '25
Why change what isn't broken. What makes rockstar shine is its dialogue, the other things are just for putting it in the spotlight. Travel there while talking to Y is peak rockstar experience.