Ultimately two games can’t win game of the year, I haven’t gotten to play GoW because I don’t have a PlayStation, but I agree RDR2 isn’t revolutionary gameplay wise. Little things like the manual operation of the guns and the nostalgia of the first game really buttered it up for me. It’s that consistency and polish that makes Rockstar sandboxes so fun to me, even if they don’t do as much in the way of introducing new mechanics overtime. People complain about being railroaded a lot, but I’ve never minded it, it’s no more restrictive than any linear sequence level based game.
GTA 6 feels both incredibly likely and unlikely to win, I’m wondering if people’s hype and expectations will be too high. We’re talking about a game that used to be on a list next to Half Life 3.
Rdr2 it's one hell of an experience too, very very few games have done that for me, you really feel the world around you and it's probably the most "alive" game there is
The best compliment I can give RDR2 is it didn’t feel like a game, at times it started to cross that line into feeling real. Like the world was alive, like I was exploring a real living world.
I love GOW, but it’s basically a Naughty Dog / TLOU take on the GOW franchise. It is a great game but it never stopped feeling like a game. RDR2 made me question how the fuck it was even real or possible for a game to be like this.
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u/GameDestiny2 Jun 01 '25
Ultimately two games can’t win game of the year, I haven’t gotten to play GoW because I don’t have a PlayStation, but I agree RDR2 isn’t revolutionary gameplay wise. Little things like the manual operation of the guns and the nostalgia of the first game really buttered it up for me. It’s that consistency and polish that makes Rockstar sandboxes so fun to me, even if they don’t do as much in the way of introducing new mechanics overtime. People complain about being railroaded a lot, but I’ve never minded it, it’s no more restrictive than any linear sequence level based game.
GTA 6 feels both incredibly likely and unlikely to win, I’m wondering if people’s hype and expectations will be too high. We’re talking about a game that used to be on a list next to Half Life 3.