r/playstation • u/DiscsNotScratched • Mar 31 '25
Discussion Which game has the better horses?
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u/Ragnarok649 Mar 31 '25
Roach is king.
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u/ladyjenren Mar 31 '25
Queen!
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u/DreamerTheat Apr 01 '25
Quen
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u/bsylent Apr 01 '25
Quwent?
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u/juantreses [Game you're currently playing] Apr 01 '25
How about a game of Gwent?
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u/mad_mang45 Mar 31 '25
Reminds me of that episode of Portlandia where she visits her friends' old ranch,and at night the horses are on the roof lol.
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u/Accomplished_Tip3430 Apr 01 '25
in polish its Płotka. Nothing to do with a roach so idk from where did they get an idea to call her roach
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u/HitlerBieberTheTrain Mar 31 '25
Kingdom come horse looks like it’s suffering from a birth defect lmao
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u/BastianHS Mar 31 '25
The pebbles disrespect in this thread is unacceptable
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u/HitlerBieberTheTrain Mar 31 '25
Lmao even the name sounds like the horse is special mf name is pebbles
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u/BastianHS Mar 31 '25
Everyone that walks by you in the game talks some shit about how ugly pebbles is lol. Life imitates art
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u/HitlerBieberTheTrain Mar 31 '25
I might have to play that game now lmao that sounds hilarious. Is the game any good?
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u/Inner-Reflection-308 [Kingdom Come Deliverance 2] Mar 31 '25
yeah it’s awesome, very realistic medieval open world rpg. Combat can take some getting used to as it’s different to most games with swords, it’s more directions based. Also the story is good and it is a direct sequel to Kingdom Come Deliverance (2018) I would recommend buying the first one on sale for like 4 bucks to see if you like the style of game. JCBP!
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u/shiviness Mar 31 '25
Lmao the eyes are so wacky. I wonder why no one else is talking about it
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u/CaptnKristmas Mar 31 '25
Lol true. Looks like a goat.
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u/ProfessionalSnow943 Apr 01 '25
Horses actually just straight up have goat eyes, they’re just often a dark enough color that it’s not super obvious. If it makes you feel any better I only found this out relatively recently myself
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u/Tulip_Todesky Mar 31 '25
Agrooooo
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u/InCellsInterlinked Mar 31 '25
I like Agro, he's a chill guy, we did a lot together.
...but the horse controls in Shadow of the Colossus are awful
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u/ShayD7118 Mar 31 '25
That was the beauty of the buddy 🤌 it was like he had a mind of his own. In the rest of the games, when you sit on a horse, it's like the player has hacked into the horse's mind instead.
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u/Underdog_To_Wolf Apr 01 '25
It was intentional. The horse controls like a real horse. It tugs left or right and doesn't instantly respond to every pull of the reins
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u/youknowitslucasio Mar 31 '25
Honestly, once I got the hang of it, she’s pretty fun to use in fights. Hanging off the side to avoid Basaran’s projectiles then hitting a quick turn to run full force at him to stop him from moving away from the geyser is really satisfying.
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u/stewdadrew Mar 31 '25
It took me 3 or 4 tries to get to the second colossus because I hated the cinematic camera angles so much. Finally got through the game, excellent story, made me cry a couple times, still despise the cinematic camera angles.
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u/xcipher007 Mar 31 '25
I choose RDR2 from OP's choices, but +1 and upvote for this. Agro is ride-or-die!
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u/LXicon PS5 Mar 31 '25
I was today years old when I found out his name wasn't "Arook"! I played it like 20 years ago. That's what I thought I heard when you pressed X to call the horse.
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u/j3ffUrZ Mar 31 '25
Immediately thought of this.
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u/TheTomMark Mar 31 '25
This is the part I was talking about in my comment. Also spoilers for the game, lol
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u/TheTomMark Mar 31 '25
Agro is best horse. Only correct answer.
I remember watching Game Grumps play SotC and Arin asking Dan “Agro is a pretty cool horse, right?” before a particular part. Pure evil.
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u/Arpadiam Mar 31 '25
nothing will top RDR 2 horses when entering a cold area you can see the balls of the horse shrink
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u/Unable-Cellist-4277 [Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015] Mar 31 '25
I thought this was hyperbole, I was incorrect.
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u/evillurkz PS5 Pro Mar 31 '25
lmao i was amazed when there was a link, and was even more amazed when its actually real
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u/Ferocious-Fart Mar 31 '25
It’s kinda like that joke about the time traveler.
A time traveler goes back 150 years with his smart phone. He shows it off to the people and they ask what it is and what he does with it.
I hold all the knowledge of human kind in my hands. And use it to
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u/Unable-Cellist-4277 [Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015] Apr 01 '25
“Good God man, what on Earth is a ‘video game’?”
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u/XMAN2YMAN Mar 31 '25
You can slap your horse in RDR2???
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u/Smart-Dream6500 Mar 31 '25
I've definitely Conan punched my Arabian before, which was retaliated by a swift horse kick to the face
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u/afsdjkll Mar 31 '25
I don't remember what it is bc it's been a minute since I played but there's a punch button and a maybe greet button that I was getting mixed up on? I've definitely punched a horse before. I think I even kicked a random dog in valentine :( The sheriff came and got me for that. I did my time. I still feel bad.
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u/FreshestCremeFraiche Mar 31 '25
I did this lol. My wife likes horses and when I got RDR2 I was like hey honey check out these cool super detailed horses. Then I tried to greet mine and sucker punched it straight in the jaw lmao
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u/Smart-Dream6500 Mar 31 '25
Oh no, I intended to punch my (red) Arabian. That horse is a dick. We have an understanding though.
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u/afsdjkll Mar 31 '25
They're little scaredy ass horses. I'm team missouri fox trotter.
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u/Its_D_youtube Mar 31 '25
I just 100% red dead 1 and damn the graphics man 😅 its like night and day
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u/Temporary-Book8635 Apr 01 '25
I remember this was actually a major talking point ahead of the games release lol. It was used to emphasise how ridiculously needlessly detailed the game was
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u/Untouchable64 Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25
I remember this detail being revealed before the game even came out. It probably has the most detail for a horse.
But I did love my horse and how it controlled in Ghost.
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u/xtermist Mar 31 '25
I didn’t know this and now my mind is blown. I remember the horse takes shit if you keep feeding him but this is brand new
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u/HereticLaserHaggis Mar 31 '25
Yep. I actually cared about my horse in rdr2.
I don't even care about my car in real life.
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u/haw35ome Mar 31 '25
It’s enough that they included his balls but to shrink them automatically in cold water is commendable & I hope that poor soul got a bonus for that
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u/Zxar99 Mar 31 '25
AC’s horse looks better, but RDR2 horses feel and act more like real horses. Giving it to RDR2
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u/ElegantEchoes Mar 31 '25
R* had a whole department working on the horses for years. It took lots of work and time to get right. They really wanted them to feel like an animal with its own inertial physics and wanted to portray some of the different ways horses can behave. The different techniques you'd learn when bonding with the horse and the whole confidence system was quite cool.
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u/Bob69748742 Mar 31 '25
Like how much horses love to run into trees at high speeds
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u/stuffeh Mar 31 '25
Usually, if you let go of the stick, the horse will weave through without issues. You might get clotheslined though.
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u/gavinderulo124K Mar 31 '25
Exactly. If people run into things on their horse, it's because they are actively steering into them. I never had that issue, as I let the horse dodge on its own.
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u/VoopityScoop Mar 31 '25
The issue is that the horse's own dodging doesn't turn off when you're actively steering. That way, you'll try and make one maneuver, but the horse will go a different direction instead, often directly into the thing you were trying to steer around.
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u/lemonade_eyescream Final Fantasy XXVII Apr 01 '25
I feel like in the case of conflict the horse should go the horse's way, but it should turn its head to side-eye the player lol
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u/iLoveDinosaurs1 Mar 31 '25
It looking better in AC makes sense given it's come out 7 years after Red Dead 2 but RDR2 definetely has a lot more depth to it. Rockstar goes hard on the details
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u/Spekingur Mar 31 '25
I mean, RDR2 kinda has to get horses mostly right, considering the setting.
In the other games, the setting has a different focus, horses may not be immediately conducive to it.
I feel like the difference could be similar to GTA5 and something like Forza Horizon 5 or Burnout Paradise, where the setting focus is on the vehicles and driving.
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u/Mediocre_Scott Mar 31 '25
I legit formed a bond with my horse in RDR2, so much so that I ran cross country for like 10 minutes to buy medicine to revive him after he was shot out from underneath me. There are other horses in that game but that was my horse.
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u/edd6pi Favorite game: Red Dead Redemption 2 Mar 31 '25
I once got ambushed by the Neo Confederate gang and they killed my horse with a rattling gun. I immediately turned off my PS4 so that it wouldn’t save.
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u/huffer4 Mar 31 '25
I had mine for most of the game. Then got attacked by wolves and tried to shoot one and accidentally shot him in the head and then I got mauled to death. I was legitimately sad. RIP Mike D.
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u/mars92 Mar 31 '25
Nice models, but AC horses have been the same since Origins and I think the running animation looks really stiff and unnatural.
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u/Rocco_al_Dente Mar 31 '25
Especially when you factor in how long ago it was made vs AC.
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u/Merckilling47 Mar 31 '25
AC has come a long way when it comes to riding horses. AC1 horse mechanics was very bare bones even for its time lol.
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u/VladDHell Apr 01 '25
Basically, like, graphical fidelity is definitely better since ac shadows is brand new, but rdr definitely spent a long time perfecting the art of horse
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u/Wboy2006 PS5 Mar 31 '25
The enemy design of Horizon is just top notch. All the machines are just so cool. I love them
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u/LooneyHK PS5 Mar 31 '25
Except Glinthawks of course
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u/Wboy2006 PS5 Mar 31 '25
Honestly, Glinthawks weren't that bad for me. You could take them down with a good shot or two at their blaze sack, and the design was still sick.
I mostly hated fighting the Slitherfangs from Forbidden west. They were tanky, but their hitbox was extremely thin and they moved around a ton. Those were the only machines I genuinely hated fighting
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u/alexanderthemedium_ Mar 31 '25
Shellsnappers were the worst because they were arrow sponges and would also wreck you in 3 hits
The waterwings I also had issues figuring out their movements because of how jerky they moved too, took me a minute to get through those
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u/FlapgoleSitta PS5 Apr 01 '25
Those are a nuisance but it’s the clamberjaws that make me wanna rage quit the game sometimes.
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u/VikingRaptor2 PS5 Mar 31 '25
Good answer. It sucks people forget this game. It also plays better than modern AC games. Valhalla was the only other game I liked. (Possibly due to a biased but I'll ignore that)
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u/OkayRuin PS5 Pro Mar 31 '25
Ghost and Horizon are both better AC games than modern AC. I made the mistake of trying out Valhalla right after finishing Ghost, and it really underlined how good Ghost is. Ubi is following the Game Freak path of not improving upon their game’s formula because people continue buying it anyway.
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u/FutbolMasta Mar 31 '25
Could any of these horses teleport on top of a house? No? Witcher 3 then.
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u/VikingRaptor2 PS5 Mar 31 '25
RDR2 has some of the best mechanics in any video game, its almost perfect.
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u/EatMoarTendies Mar 31 '25
Commentor above said the horses’ balls shrink when entering cold areas. Lmao talk about attention to detail, Rockstar!
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u/VikingRaptor2 PS5 Mar 31 '25
All rockstar games are super detailed for their time. And you gotta remember RDR2 came out in October of 2018. People are still comparing modern video games to a game that is 7 or so years old.
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u/Barbarossa429 Mar 31 '25
Honestly, that game did not feel like a 2018 game when it came out in 2018. Way ahead of it’s time.
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u/Katarinkushi Mar 31 '25
It perfectly could be a 2025 game, tbh
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u/ArchimedesNutss Mar 31 '25
Just makes me even more excited for how GTA 6 is gonna feel
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u/SmokeeA Mar 31 '25
And yet they abandoned it because the micro gold bars were earnable
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u/YoungLangston PS5 Mar 31 '25
RDR2, simply because they used like 1,800 animations for the horses and their movement.
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u/Phastic Dominantxx 🇨🇦 Mar 31 '25
Roach is a boat cause he for sure controls like one
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u/eliteguard91 Mar 31 '25
Yup nothing like sprinting and coming to a halt because of a checks notes nothing…
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u/captnconnman Mar 31 '25
tries to back up because you got stuck on a fence “Fuck it, I’ll just run to the quest marker”
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u/IAreBeMrLee Mar 31 '25
Nobu is best boi
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u/michaelshing Apr 01 '25
The only video game horse that I genuinely went on a rage filled murder spree for after... that scene.
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u/TwistederRope Mar 31 '25
That post proves you really are a top 1% commenter. Good to see others here with superior tastes and opinions.
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u/Beeyo176 Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25
Can any of those other horses drop a poop strong enough to stop a military convoy on command? No? Then it's D-Horse
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u/BLJS2warchief Mar 31 '25
are there any other horses (or dogs) that run alongside you when you run ? coolest shit ever
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u/Scoonie24 Mar 31 '25
Red dead... The answer is Red Dead
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u/paradox-eater Mar 31 '25
Yea I mean, the horses in RDR2 made me care for them as if they were real, hard to argue
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u/RPO_TP Mar 31 '25
I love the GoT scenes with the horse after completing a tale.
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u/roz763 Mar 31 '25
Shadowmere from Skyrim
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u/NotARealBuckeye Mar 31 '25
GoT with the full armor from Iki Island.
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u/HCG-Vedette Mar 31 '25
My beloved Kage.. Never felt more connected to a mount in a game
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Best horse graphics model: AC Shadows
Best in-game horse mechanics: RDR2
Best horse story and character development: Ghost of Tsushima
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u/VikingRaptor2 PS5 Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25
The RDR2 horse is a low to medium render and in less than ideal lighting. I've seen the horses in-game the details are immaculate.
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u/nrealistic Mar 31 '25
The way Roach wanders off to find a snack whenever you leave him
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u/Defiant-Package119 Mar 31 '25
My horse bud from Ghost of Tsushima was such a homie
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u/jaffamental [# of Platinums] Apr 01 '25
Everyone who picked any of these is objectively wrong because the best horse riding game was this gem!
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u/fishymc Mar 31 '25
D-horse from MGS V: Phantom pain My reason?, he can poop and make small vehicles go off the road with said poop
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u/OldSloppy PS5 Mar 31 '25
I think the image picked for RD2 was a mistake this is more accurate to what it looks like
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u/Flashy-Split-5177 Apr 02 '25
Whatever tf is going on with the horse for kingdom come deliverance, it looks shooketh and very badly built 😂
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u/Asleep_Chocolate_797 Mar 31 '25
I was closer with my RDR2/GoT horse way more than any other in a game. Granted they killed my horse both times but still. Wait I’m forgetting agro even if they survive it still hurt just as bad
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u/Mysterious_Fennel459 [Trophy Level 500-599] Mar 31 '25
Karma farming bot spam posts the same thing in multiple subs. What a loser.
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u/Iboss1990 Mar 31 '25
Elden ring of course !
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u/MissingScore777 Mar 31 '25
For graphical fidelity Torrent is probably behind all 4 of these.
But for how well it controls and how fun it is to ride Torrent wins easily.
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u/Playful-Narwhal-6618 Mar 31 '25
Red dead 2, it really feels like a living creature that you care for rather than just being an alternative to walking, I really felt bad when I lost a horse.
I had one in that game that wasn't scared of anything saved my ass so many times, I don't know if they actually programmed them to have a "personality" but it seemed like they did at times, I had skittish horses, some seemed brave, some were absolute assholes.
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u/weglarz Mar 31 '25
In terms of realism or how good they feel to control? Most fun I’ve had on a horse is torrent. Most impactful scenes I’ve had on a horse has been RDR when riding to Mexico.
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u/Iseedeadnames Apr 01 '25
I'd say Shadows, the mane looks better.
Why is RDR2 even in this list LOL, horse tails were a nightmare to watch.
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u/darkflame4ever Mar 31 '25
Showing my age with this one. Lol