markini6

Bit of a necro bump sorry - has this app stopped working for anyone else recently? It’s stopped pulling through most vids for me, only the occasional Borne to Run video in the recent vids feed. I’ve tried the usual delete/reinstall/wipe data steps but no dice

Red Dead is a standout for me. I'm a big Morricone fan and I love how in the sequel they've really embraced some of the musical traditions typically found in the Western genre

Yeah I went from a standard PS4 to an X for Red Dead/Forza and the image quality is noticeably better. Red Dead is kinda weird, I don't look at it and think constantly omg the graphics are incredible, it's a more subtle thing of thinking 'I genuinely don't think this could look better, I can't see any compromises'

I think it's worth bothering with if you like what they excel at (really detailed environments with lots of cool details to uncover, levels with lots of pathways that can be fun to explore with the traversal powers, taking part in the side-quests that present themselves), but would be a hard sell if you didn't like the original game/DLC. As for the stealth aspect, I felt like I was being spotted a bit more easily in this one, but once I remembered that the easiest and most effective stealth tool in these games is using height, then it went back to being fun. Like, in the whole game, I could probably count on two hands the times when I didn't have something high up to teleport to, as there's almost always pipes/chandeliers/balconies to go on, offering good vantage points but also a haven from detection. Despite the things that weren't great/were hindrances (the chaos system, sound design), I still really enjoyed the game. But I think that was largely in part because I hadn't played any Dishonored for 3 years and was happy to have a new one.

Do agree about the chaos system, but having seen the ending and what you get for being a total saint, it's really not worth playing with 'achieving the good ending' as your main objective. There are types of story moments in games that have to be experienced, but this definitely falls into the category of 'watch in a 1 min youtube video' (the ending is super short. The only important bit in it, as far as I could tell, is that by not killing a certain character, the part of the ending where that person is referred to may be setting up the DLC). There's also supposedly the nuance of using the heart to listen to peoples' thoughts, and it not affecting the chaos if you kill someone who is revealed to be a murderer, for example, but in all honesty I don't think the chaos system adds anything to the game, and is more or less just a carrot on the end of a stick for playing non-lethally (that, and encountering fewer bloodflies)