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You can, but then it would be less like a movie, and by definition less accessible. Lots of cutscenes and story can also get in the way of fun gameplay. It's a matter of taste.

You can't hunt and scalp natives in RDR2, which isn't very realistic. You should be able to sell scalps for money by the sheriff. The low honor mechanic would be scamming the sheriff with similar looking spanish/mexican scalps.

Degrees of realism can add a lot of depth and tension to shooters. The fact that you can die instantly at any moment makes you approach combat much more strategically and adds way more weight to your actions. Just shooting in the general direction of where you think the enemy is is a valid strategy. Your constantly playing mind games to optimize your approach and reading the environment for clues of where the enemy might be.

That's the point of the design. Make it so accessible that your uncle can play it. You have to admit that they accomplish that not through clever game design but by actually making it more like a movie and less like a game.

Hell Let Loose captures realism fairly well as a cross between COD controls and a simulator. As a result it can be fairly tedious to play as you get realistic scenarios like being shot from 200m away by a guy you didn't even see or getting blown up by random artillery. I was once camping a wall and a random tank came out of the hedgerow and ran me over. It didn't even see me. It's a luck simulator, which is realistic but obviously not always fun.

Do you think Rayman's dick is detached like his hands? Can he launch it? Would he charge it by meatspinning?

Nope. You only need 5 hours to tell if a game is for you. 10 hours is a generously fair chance, especially if you consider I was bored all the way through. The main story is only about 50 hours, 80-100 with sidecontent. Death Stranding is about 60. Elden Ring rakes about 60-80 hours to beat. RDR2 isn't special in it's lenght. It's nominal. 10 hours is already 1/10th of your experience.

Christmas is a time to connect with family and it's exciting for the kids. The culture tends to overhype it and make you feel pressured to do a bunch of stuff. Do no more than you feel like. I only bought a giant cookie each for my family members. It's perfectly fine to not be into it though. It can make people feel lonely in a counter-productive way.

I don't enjoy strand type gaming, but I don't see how you can call something like RDR2 or The Last of Us 2 the peak of gaming when it's whole design is being more like movies and less like an actual game. Death Stranding is weird and cringey. 10 hours is a generous chance given to any media. Really, you shouldn't waste more than half of that on something your not enjoying.

Realism is good and all and it can add a lot to an experience, but it is not a substitute for a good gameplay hook. When a game like RDR2 puts so much resources into shrinking horse balls and other extrenious details then that is a sign that the core game design isn't prioritized. These kind of details don't matter at the end of the day. It's part of a strategy to appeal to a wide an audience as possible, with fancy graphics and less pronounced gameplay in favor of story. Game design is inherently polarizing to a certain degree. Not everyone likes fighting games, shooters, Minecraft, etc. Therefor they minimize the game aspect in favor of making it more like a movie.

Rayman 2 and 3 are really easy. You can beat Rayman 2 in the time it takes to find out that RDR2 isn't getting any better.

Bongo Hills is the Vietnam of 2000s kids.

I'm playing Rayman as well on an emulator. Such a brutal game underneath that facade of childish wims. I'm about to do the 99 lives cheat for my own sanity.

Bro, we already went over this. Your like going through the bargaining phase of the stages of grief. It's really not a big deal.

I expected it to be fun. Fanboys hype it up too much. You act like your in a cult.