I should have known better, as the whole cowboy genre is terrible as fuck. Westerns (as boomer Americans call the genre) have the slowest dialogue, the corniest patriarchal story-line, and are obviously filled with a heap ton of other problematic bits. Of course, I had to try as the game got great reviews. I thought I’d try it with the Steam summer sale.
Fuckkkkkkkk the long boring ass cut scenes. OMG pls talk faster and have dialogue that’s interesting. The beginning of the game is just 30 minutes of video and riding your horse so slowly through the snow. I thought that my TikTok brain couldn’t stand some old slow game from a bygone era, but I’m checking this shit and it was released in 2018!
If I was some prat who loved the mythology of the “settling of the west”, a game with a white dude on a horse on a mountain would get me hard. Why can’t more games be like Atomic Heart? I wanna defend the land of Stalin and have cut scenes with good dialogue a talking glove that debates theory and a sexy refrigerator that probably wants to murder me.
“One last score Arthur”
“Cough Cough I’m dead”
“It’s so dang hard being a straight white male.”
There. Now you don’t have to play the game.
Also there’s a part of the game where you’re forced to beat up a disabled man.
I gotta say, I don’t think you played the game tbh. There were many opportunities to sympathize or outright assist the marginalized. Unfortunately you do play as a white man, but if the player decides to be a white asshole that was a personal choice most of the time.
this is absolutely the least charitable read of the game. it’s about a guy who realizes he’s a cog in a deeply exploitative system and doing his best to undo some of the damage he’s caused
We always talk about right wing media illiteracy, but this thread makes me realize maybe it’s not just a right wing problem.
the problem is almost definitely people not playing through the game enough to understand the actual themes
Yeah I would say it’s probably people not being able to connect with Arthur at first glance because IT IS just another grizzled white guy action shooter. Obviously that’s valid, but in this one instance I think people should look past it because is good game
oh absolutely, but that’s also the point of the series. both red dead redemption games are about grizzled white guys realizing they suck
Couldn’t have said it better.
It’s slop
I thought you were disengaging with me?
Sorry I was rude before.
That’s okay, but I will not be replying to you anymore in this thread.
I would play through the game but that intro is just sooooo bad I can’t get through it
Like I got to town and I’m thinking “cool, now I can buy a new gun” I get to the gun shop and they have literally nothing
Let me buy a shotgun right away, then I’ll be able to get into this shit
maybe try the first one? alternatively if you’re on pc, there are mod menus that can spawn weapons on you
Ya it’s like Rockstar listened to all the “wokes are ruining games” suggestions and took all the ideas to heart.