Why the hell did rockstar think that setting half of their wild west game in the middle of some filthy old southeast city laden with palm trees and black people was a good idea? Nobody gives a fuck about old cities, it shoulda been entirely fun action hijinks in the middle of some Texas desert imo.
Why the hell did rockstar think that setting half of their wild west game in the middle of some filthy old southeast...
Owen Watson
Zachary Clark
Because that was the first game.
Camden Price
Didn't play the first game but my friend said it's aged badly so I haven't bothered
Dylan Harris
Saint Denis isn't even close to half the game, only one chapter takes place in it. Most of RDR2 takes place in forested areas and plains, with some time in the snow, swamp, and tropical island climate sprinkled in.
Not being in a desert was also a good chance of pace seeing as 2/3 of RDR was set in the desert. I remember when I was younger West Elizabeth was my favorite area simply because it finally broke up the tone.
Hudson Reed
typical brainlet who thinks all westerns are spaghetti
Cameron Wilson
>Arthur will never be played by prime Brad Pitt
it isn't fair bros, it just isn't
Luke Murphy
What a fucking dumbass you are
Carter Collins
>black people was a good idea
NOOOOOOOOO NOT THE HECKING NIGGERINOS NOT MUH DIVERSITY AND ANTI WHITE SUPREMACY
Easton Clark
>my friend said it's aged badly
kill him.
Chase Brown
rdr2 really is the biggest pleb filter in a long time
every time someone whines about it I read the dumbest shit like the OP
Cooper Ortiz
Absolute Kino
Justin Jones
low effort bait
Benjamin Morgan
Is No Country For Old Men a western?
Gabriel Scott
His friend was right. RDR2 is an improvement in every regard. RDR1 looks like bologna that's been left in the sun too long.
Asher Rogers
shut the fuck up OP
Ayden Cruz
It's not a pleb filter, it's just the game is popular so Zig Forums has a hateboner for it.
We have pretty much a daily thread guaranteed with someone crying about it for some asinine shit like "WHY ISN'T IT ALL AN EMPTY DESERT" to the point where one thread one guy went full retard because he kept asking "WHAT WAS THE REDEMPTION OF THIS GAME, THERE'S NO REDEMPTION".
Zig Forums is willing to pretend to be retarded just to shit on it, reminds me of those CP2077 threads.
Isaiah Russell
No. Maybe if you count neo-westerns as westerns
Ryan Perez
I'm not OP
Sebastian Gray
Screenshot my post and prove it
Isaac Brown
Honestly, it has.
The animations look rough as fuck, the horses feel more like controlling some weird car than an actual horse and the entire map is completely covered in ledges and cliffs to cover up how small it actually is.
Noah Davis
It's a 'modern-day western'. Much like "Hell or High Water" or pic related.
Blake Phillips
Eat shit faggot
Jordan Gonzalez
It's called a neo-western
Austin Harris
Yes
Isaiah Martin
Way to miss the point of the game. The whole story talks about how outlaws and the wild west was a bygone era, soon to be replaced by gangsters and more industrialization.
Sebastian Johnson
oh yeah my bad
Carter Russell
Only if The Mandalorian is
Tyler Robinson
I like how both games serve as great explorations and encapsulations of the genre as a whole.
The first game's three acts are pretty clearly representative of three distinct eras or sub-genres that left their marks on the Western. The first act is deliberately evocative of the classic American Western which were popular from the 1920s to the 1950s. It had all the stock characters you'd expect from one of these films - the snake oil salesman, the grave robber, the ageing sheriff, the cattle ranchers etc.
The second act in Mexico is more evocative of the Spaghetti Westerns. It's a little darker in tone compared to the first act - the morality of everything is a little murkier. There are no more distinct white hats or black hats - rather every character seems to be self-serving to some degree.
The third act in Blackwater represents the Revisionist Western.It's here that the game's central theme - that being the death of the Wild West - is most clearly conveyed. Like a lot of revisionist westerns, this act also seeks to interrogate and critique issues like manifest destiny and race relations with Native Americans - issues which were either ignored or incuriously celebrated in the classic Westerns.
Red Dead Redemption 2 then can only be described as an epic Western, one that critiques this idea of the 'noble' gang of outlaws by chronicling the downfall of Dutch's gang - which coincides with the demise of the Wild West itself.
Aaron Roberts
>Arthur never plays the harmonica
Dylan Ramirez
>Didn't play the first game but my friend said it's aged badly so I haven't bothered
I fucking hate normalniggers.
Gabriel Thompson
Do normies hate black people?
Kayden Green
How about you eat me instead? If you do a good job I'll take you out for ice cream after.
Luis Long
I considered it a 10/10 when I first completed it but a few months later I took the time to realise it was so trash.
Adrian Watson
Coincidentally, I'm playing it for the first time tonight since it was on the Summer Sale. I'm just now at the stables and unknowingly blew all my money buying saddles.
...there's no way to sell those back, is there?