I always liked seeing them when opening up a new game. I hardly ever looked through them more than once or twice, though. I understand why they've been more or less phased out, but it is slightly disappointing to see a single slip of paper or just some advertisements when opening a new case.

I do like when there are actual effects if it is used, especially excessively. GTA IV simulated drunkenness fairly well, and that you would get 1 star if you tried to drive was pretty cool (at least, I think that's a thing in the game). Fallout 4 has your character's speech become slurred after drinks, at least with basic greeting lines. Nice touch. RDR2 and GTA V handle it similarly to GTA IV of course. The Witcher 3 has been mentioned... also has the slurred speech thing and blacking out from excess drinking.

At any rate, I don't demand realism from games, so how alcohol is portrayed in games doesn't matter to me too much in the grand scheme of things.

I think GTA IV is a bit more clunky and tougher to get the hang of at first. I remember there being some missions that were a pain because you couldn't let friendly AI die. It's been really long since I've played RDR, but I want to say it was easier since the aiming was more precise and you could use Dead Eye. Also, if I remember right, RDR has checkpoints in its missions and GTA IV does not.

Yeah, it plays out in a similar way as GTA IV in the ways you described. Open world with various side missions and activities. You can play story missions on and off as you wish and progress at your own pace. The story is basically that you (John Marston) are essentially forced to hunt down members of the old gang you ran with. RDR2 is a prequel, so its entire story is surrounding around the events that occurred while he was with this gang.

McDonalds as a whole is overrated. But I'll eat there if I really need to stop and find a place to eat because it's cheap af compared to buying meals at other fast food places that end up being almost $10 or something stupid like that.

As for the McRib... never tried it, but it looks almost exactly like the cheap microwaveable sandwiches I eat. And I imagine the taste isn't all that different.

Lol, this is fantastic. Someone responds to a 3+ year old comment and the person who made that comment actually replies. God, it's like there's only been the same 10 people on this forum for something like the past 5 years.

A 1 week trial to get as much as I can out of the service as possible before cancelling.

Aside from that... depends. I think my only yearly subscription is PS+. But even with that I let it run out for a while before renewing it. I've done a few streaming services on a monthly basis. I just can't commit to a full year of those services because of how on and off I am with watching stuff.

Depends on how exactly a microtransaction is defined. I think the closest things I've bought to microtransactions are those weapons pack DLC things in Fallout: New Vegas and an unlock key for collectibles in LittleBigPlanet Karting. I think the first purchase was somewhat okay, not that I would normally pay for weapons and whatnot. But I played the game a lot and some of the items, particularly the water canteen on Hardcore, was quite helpful. LittleBigPlanet Karting... idk, it was a cheap thing to do but I was going after the platinum and couldn't be assed to actually spend the time to get all the collectibles. So I just spent the $5-10 to save me the trouble. No real regrets, it's just not a purchase I tell anyone about except for right now lol.

That's a good question... Skyrim's snowy settings instantly come to mind. There's also Horizon: Zero Dawn, Metro, and Witcher 3. I'm sure there's many games I'm missing that had at least one snowy area. Also like those kinds of settings.

Go for 100% completion which includes spending like 8 hours to kill all the pigeons...