Friday, January 24th 2020
Red Dead Redemption 2 (PC) is TechPowerUp Game of the Year 2019
Red Dead Redemption 2 (PC) is TechPowerUp Game of the Year 2019. Decided purely by popular vote of our readers with close to 13,000 respondents, the Rockstar Games open-world got the most votes among 16 entries that included a large number of commercially, critically, and technically acclaimed PC games released in 2019. The PC version of Red Dead Redemption (or RDR2), had enough technical differentiation from its console releases to not strictly qualify as a "PC port."
RDR2 game took advantage of the increased hardware resources of modern PCs to bring to life higher visual fidelity, support for higher display resolutions, and a suitably improved input mechanic taking advantage of PC input devices. We asked our readers not to judge a game by its technical merits alone, but as an artistic and interactive achievement. It should be a fun game to play foremost, with an intuitive gameplay mechanic, an engaging risk-reward mechanic, and draw the player into its world. For these reasons and more, RDR2 is the pick of the TechPowerUp community, and we as its editors couldn't agree with the popular vote more.
A somewhat distant second is Metro: Exodus, a survival horror FPS/RPG that succeeds with an engaging gameplay, an unputdownable story, and a high degree of technical achievement, including implementation of modern tech such as ray-tracing. Following closely behind are Resident Evil 2 at third place, The Outer Worlds at fourth, and Sekiro at fifth. The poll also threw some surprises, with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Borderlands 3 not even in the top-6, and Quake II RTX, NVIDIA's pet-project and RTX varnish job over a 22-year old legend, ranked higher than Gears 5.
Thank you dear reader, a winner is you!
RDR2 game took advantage of the increased hardware resources of modern PCs to bring to life higher visual fidelity, support for higher display resolutions, and a suitably improved input mechanic taking advantage of PC input devices. We asked our readers not to judge a game by its technical merits alone, but as an artistic and interactive achievement. It should be a fun game to play foremost, with an intuitive gameplay mechanic, an engaging risk-reward mechanic, and draw the player into its world. For these reasons and more, RDR2 is the pick of the TechPowerUp community, and we as its editors couldn't agree with the popular vote more.
Thank you dear reader, a winner is you!
21 Comments on Red Dead Redemption 2 (PC) is TechPowerUp Game of the Year 2019
Wow, it is real :)
I should retry it , it did cost a bit.
1. It was a nightmare on launch and it is still buggy.
2. Forced you onto a buggy launcher.
3. It's a buggy console port running on the GTA5 engine.
Pfft...
Some 300 hours in now and had a good fair amount of crashes but the game overall has been a blast, in fact i have not enjoyed a a game as much since The Witcher 3 & Divinity OS2.What is 2 goes ? 3 minutes a time or say 10 hours ?. Maybe you don't like this type of game, well what ya know i also have games i don't enjoy playing too, how ever i do try to keep a open mind to what people do like in a game even if i don't like it my self.
Votes then.
The other side is, it released right at the tail end of the year, so it got to make a big splash in a relatively calm pool and it was the freshest in everyone's minds.
I think it's a fun game when it's not glitching, but it should have been pushed into the 2020 year. As you can tell it shouldn't have dropped for another month because it was broken when it did.
Just my opinion of course.
Ill go to confession this week ,five hail Marys should get my soul bsck on track:p.
Just may be it will take you a little time to get comfortable with it. DA3 was the same for me annoyed me so much how much it had changed to what the first one was like it was like 12 months later until i even bothered with it.
The multiplayer seems like a totally Fail well at least for me at least. The one real thing that's really pissed me of with the game is with the challenges as i did not give a dam about them and it took the game from the immersion.
But still i am glad i got it and glad i played my way and not how the game wanted me play even if it made me redo the challenges which could of been solved by the game keeping a record of what you had done, but hey.
Some times you can get to the one(s) who spotted you can talk them out of it hehe.
Won't even run properly on a 2080Ti with a Core i9 9900KS and 64GB of RAM with SSD.