Red Dead Online is fantastic, but they stopped supporting it so it's really empty. No new content and once you've unlocked all the roles it's just repetitive with nothing to buy for the cash you've earned. A million players would flock back to it overnight if they added a new role (roles are similar to GTA businesses.)

Never played at launch, and good gosh, I'm glad... I played recently with my wife and friends and loved this game! BUT... with no NPCs except robots it would have been awful. I also don't think as a single player experience it would hold up to FO4. But with friends it's a hoot.

I can respect the base game stayed very much the same, but the insignificant new features were things that were somewhat important to me, like outfits added. The fact that my first playthrough had the Delemain on the phone forever bug really ruined what immersion it had. I found playing at launch and playing now totally a different experience personally.

Co-op can be SO misleading in modern games, because that word encompasses 3 or 4 possible things.

*split screen/take turns on same computer/tv (see A Way Out.)

*Online co-op with friends (see Borderlands 2, Diablo 3, etc)

*Online required co-op with random players (see any COD/Battlefield game.)

*Single player with some optional co-op elements (see Elden Ring.)

Sometimes it's optional, sometimes it's required. We know what MMO means, and what single player means, but co-op is so all-purpose. I actually bought Darktide not realizing it required grouping with randos, assumed it would be like Vermintide.

Andromeda would have been so decent with a bit of polish and a completely new name and setting (not Mass Effect.) As it is the plot and the characters are pretty awful, but I liked the combat and weapon customization a lot.

The biggest issue it has is that the story makes no sense, and deals with a lot of tell but don't show. Example: Angarans keep going on and on about how emotional they are, but never really show it. And for that matter, how would they know? What's their reference point for other races? Dump some of the dumb dialogue and give a plot reason for some of the dumb stuff and it would have been really good. As it was, it was okay.