It is cool that noob horses handle like noob horses, and that better horses will have a better feel and also that the relationship between man and horse affects things. Maybe.ĭoes the game give out some control cues throughout at least? That will absolutely be helpful. But for a player who may need to take a week away from the game – or more – and return, it may be tougher for the controls to get to fully intuited levels. If you’re reviewing a game, I’m guessing that you’ve (a royal “you”, by the way!) have poured multiple heavy gameplay sessions into this in a fairly compact (one week? two? three?) span of time to get to the end. My one worry – and I will try to state this in a way that doesn’t sound cranky, because I mean it as a clear-eyed observation – is that the control scheme is something that game reviewers may not have minded so much. At one point I almost burst out laughing last night, because there was an almost Onion-like “They can’t be serious” level of control wrangling going on. I’m happy to hear that there’s a logic to it. It’s too bad the controls aren’t revealed in such a way to teach you those patterns. But you should start to see patterns eventually. It can feel like a mess, and you will fumble it early on. Just make sure you don’t have a weapon drawn. The L2 button aims your weapons, but it also aims your intent to interact with someone, whether it’s talking to a character or addressing your horse. And the square is for interacting with the terrain (picking up stuff, changing cover, mantling).

The circle button is for punching or kicking. The triangle button is reaching out to manipulate something with your hands, always context specific. Basically, the X button is always your feet or legs, running, galloping the horse, that sort of thing. These are some of Rockstar’s usual idiosyncracies, but they’re not just random. Such as the way the weapon and inventory wheels are laid out, which I explain above. Who thought making players play thumb twister on the controllers was a good idea? So the horse you’re riding when the game begins won’t be the same horse you’re riding later in the game, even if it is, technically, the same horse. That sort of thing.Īlso, and perhaps more importantly, a horse’s control changes as you level up your bond with it, as well as the tack you’re using, which can be upgraded at any stable. Shires have great stamina for long distance sprinting. Appaloosas are flighty little things in comparison. Arabians are good in battle for a specific reason, for instance.

As you study the horses you see, you’ll note they have different qualities in the compendium. Starter horses aren’t as good as better horses. The horses are like cars in a driving game. Far more finicky than Phobos’ point-n’-go controls in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. I don’t recall Roach’s handling from The Witcher 3 specifically, but the horses in Red Dead Redemption 2 are definitely finicky. It also felt sludgy, the control of everything my horse to Arthur was clunky at times, almost more oddly out of control than the Witcher 3.

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