The story is really what makes it so good--you start to feel invested in the character, in the world, and that helps with getting deeply immersed in the gameplay. It's an incredibly well written game.
Beyond that, the screenshots show a lot--it's a world that feels very lived-in.
Also the gameplay is a ton of fun. Open world, lots of places to explore--some of them beautiful, others treacherous, some both.
I agree.
I also just can't really play games that force me to think about my bank account while I'm playing, charging fees or subscription rates just to fully participate in the game, like seeing a bounty hunting mission that requires me to send money before I can start it. Totally breaks the immersion--I play games so I don't have to think about the real world for a bit. Making me enter bank details wrecks that.
I loved playing this game.
The online version of it fucking sucks though.
I like this judge.
These moral panics are fodder for political primates in the Conservative party. When the Reagan Administration dominated the airwaves in the 1980s and started all this Christian Doomerism, the major media really sucked off the Reaganite platform.
I'd guess most of y'all are too young to remember the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Reagan worshippers were convinced that there was a nationwide secret Satanic plot to abuse and kill children taking place in basements and secret locations all over the U.S. There were only a few major media formats (CBS, NBC, and ABC mostly) and they all reported constantly on these secret Satanists and how they were hiding secret messages in music, invading the brains of children through Dungeons & Dragons, and abusing children in secret rituals. The Satanic Panic got endless news coverage, and good Conservative Christians everywhere were constantly vigilant against all the secret Satanism in their midst. They picketed school boards, scanned their children's media consumption for secret subliminal Satanic penises (seriously), and so on.
And here's the kicker ... NONE of it was real. Hours of news coverage, daytime talk show discussions, pages upon pages of ink in major newspapers, and NOT ONE OUNCE of it had any actual evidence behind it.
This was the beginning of the political/media landscape we're all trapped in now. The gameplan never changed.
p.s. and this was of course all topped off by major media news coverage that referred to AIDS as 'gay cancer' repeatedly, all in line with the anti-gay dictates of Reagan himself repeating that the U.S. was going to turn into Sodom & Gomorrah because of all the gayness hiding in suburban closets.