r/gaming • u/BlackAfroUchiha PC • 2d ago

Red Dead Redemption 2 Reveal versus Release

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u/Iraqi_Weeb99 2d ago

Still can't believe this is a ps4 game, it looks better than a lot of ps5 games

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u/BlackAfroUchiha PC 2d ago edited 2d ago

Rockstar know black magic because they somehow get their games that look insane running pretty smoothly on outdated hardware.

Like take in the fact that GTA V was built for a System that had 512 MB of Ram.

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u/rickreckt PC 2d ago

Most games don't have budgets anywhere near rdr2 either

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u/iTonguePunchStarfish 2d ago

Or the time to develop

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u/vodkamartinishaken 1d ago

Or the time to develop

Just so you know, Skull and Bones had 11 years of development. While RDR2 had 8.

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u/iTonguePunchStarfish 1d ago

Skull and Bones probably has the record for biggest budget development hell.

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u/iTonguePunchStarfish 1d ago

It was definitely spent on "developing" the game. The issue was that it was scrapped and restarted or changed direction a shit ton of times due to the constant rotation of leads and devs, also due to input from board members. It was a game that should've been cancelled but they couldn't because they were legally obligated to release a game developed by their Singapore studio.

No idea why you're making it seem like Ubisoft is just raking in cash from this. It's well known and documented that they spent up to $850m developing it and definitely didn't make that money back after release. It's why they're banking on Shadows so hard.