Thread 719795626

Will I like this if I ride horses, shoot guns and watch spaghetti westerns irl?

>>719795626 (OP)
it's alright, a solid 7/10

>>719795626 (OP)
boring game 40% of the time. not joking.

>>719795626 (OP)
this isn't a spaghetti western

>>719795626 (OP)
It looks very old west, the clothing and general tech level is very much old west but the characters are more modern than a person from the 1980s. Imagine a cowboy show at one of those old ghost towns in nevada where outlaws and lawnmen shoot at each other with blanks. That is RDR2. It's nice but it's not authentic old west. For instance when it comes to casual racism or sexism, it's just not there. There are no characters bitching about niggers or chinks or japs. The only time the word nigger is used is by(forgot his name) a black outlaw making a point about the casually racist nature of the townsfolk. But you never see them actually being casually racist. Benny, i think, is complaining about an issue that never comes up. Micah is being misogynist towards Sadie, and Sadie isn't just taking it but firing back, again, in an attempt to make a point. But that is the only time that happens. There is no casual element to those issues. Any golden age western with John Wayne or Gary Cooper, which are rated G by the way, is more racist and sexist than one of the most violent and gruesome games, RDR2, made today. That is my problem.

>>719797167
Oh and by the way, if this thread dies again with my effort post, i will repost it every single fucking time RDR2 comes up again. I am not writing a serious post for a dead thread.

>>719797167
>>719797336
that's RDR1 amigo...

>>719795626 (OP)
>and watch spaghetti westerns irl?
Why not watch real westerns, too? Pretty much anyone who says he like spaghetti westerns doen't even watch spaghetti westerns anyways, they just like the idea of enjoying of the The Good the Bad the Ugly and probably only watched it once.

>>719795626 (OP)
Unironically play it yourself and find out. You already bought it so all this serves to do is poison your experience with irrelevant opinions. Come here and ask about it after you've tried it so you can tell when people are talking out of their ass.>>719795626 (OP)

>>719796272
even with that hat the jaw is a pussy deterrent

>>719797458
RDR1 is even worse in that regard. The only time those issues even come up at all is when John talks to that one retard bitching about minority groups.

>>719795626 (OP)
You will love sadie. Shes strong powerful and takes no shit from noone. Shes not annoying rude or a mary sue so dont you dare even think that

>mistaking RDR1 for RDR2
is it bots or is it actual people that just don't play video games?

>>719797948
The culture war types just learn the talking points from each game so their magazines are loaded with ammo and don't really engage any deeper with them. That's why I told OP to go try the game cuz this kind of thing is hilariously easy to read if you're even a little bit informed.

>>719798221
I don't mind that people fault RDR2 for it's political messaging. I actually watch westerns (actual westerns, not just spaghetti westerns), and yeah Sadie is written shittily. There's a weird disconnect in tone such as being a thug that beats a poor farmer to death in front of his family while also protesting for women's rights. Imagine how silly Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid would be if it had this shit in it (which is basically what RDR2 is). But it's a shame that it's people just parroting stuff without actually having any idea what their even talking about because it makes them look stupid.

>>719795626 (OP)
game is somehow even more boring than RDR2 which is objectively a better game it just has faggot politics injected into it

>>719797563
I've watched it entirely at least 3 times.

>>719798976
And you never wanted to branch out to the actual sources that it's copying? Or do you just not know where to start?

>>719795626 (OP)
i think so, it captures the wild west really well, much better than 2, the art direction is godlike so just riding your horse from point A to B is fun, if you like gunfights i recommend you play it on hardcore,

>>719799068
I just think Clint Eastwood is cool

>>719799270
Agreed, and The Outlaw Josey Wales is his best western.

>>719799381
Never heard of it. Might watch. Thanks anon.

>>719798760
Arthur doesn't protest for women's rights tho. This is what I'm talking about in the post you're replying to. And the rule that something inspired by something else isn't allowed to do anything that inspiration didn't do is an arbitrary one you're imposing on something you didn't make, in my opinion.

>>719800259
He literally drives the wagon, anon. And it's fine to do things the inspiration did do, but it needs to make sense within the world and the story.

>>719800871
And why does he drive the wagon and what are all his actions once he arrived focused on and motivated by? Someone trying to get an in with a (presumably) wealthy family through their educated young daughter brushing up against the women's suffrage movement while living in the time and place where it really happened makes a lot of sense in the world and story to me.

>>719795626 (OP)
How about you play it faggit.

>>719801321
Actually a good parallel to this would be calling John a mexican revolutionary because of the things he did to achieve his own ends while in Mexico. It works from a state propaganda/smear campaign perspective but deliberately obscures what John was doing and why.

>>719801321
>And why
Because the story is contrived to be that way is all. A women's right protest being a part of the main story to a western set in the 1880s is weird and uncanny in a story where I'm murdering an entire town just to retrieve my sociapath gang member's guns back so he can murder even more people.

>>719800871
We've been over this so many times. The suffragettes hire Arthur as a driver/bodyguard to protect them from getting lynched by the townsfolk. Arthur agrees because he's trying to rob the two wealthy families that run the town and their children are going to be there, using it as a front to have a romantic rendezvous. He doesn't participate in the protest. He even explicitly states that he doesn't give a shit about voting and never saw any use to it, man probably hasn't voted once in his life. Then when a fight breaks out he flees the scene.

At no point does Arthur participate in this protest. He plays the suffragettes to fit in so that he can eventually rob them. You people didn't play the game.

>>719801951
Your whole reasoning is based on overlooking that is off having a women's right protest in the 1880s western. Maybe you're trying to gaslight people into believing that this wasn't Rockstar trying to win woke points and is an entirely natural occurrence for a western?

>>719797948
I think it's just an autistic person on a moral crusade against a video game.

>>719802296
The game is set in 1899. You're not doing much to disprove the initial claim that culture warriors didn't play the game, simply adding a layer where they don't know history either.

I only ever dicked around in this at a friend's house after he had finished the story. The game has a slow-mo lock-on mechanic (deadeye mode or something? desperado, maybe? I forget) that, for whatever reason, also works with throwable weapons on targets at any range. You can target birds in the sky mid-flight with sticks of dynamite and watch the dynamite chase them like homing missiles. Pretty funny shit.
Aside from that, all I remember doing was tying people to railroad tracks and playing online poker.

>>719802296
>women's right protest in the 1880s western
First off, the suffragette moment began in the 1840s, so no it's not out of the ordinary to see something like this.
https://www.crusadeforthevote.org/woman-suffrage-timeline-18401920
Second, if you actually played the game you'd know that the central thesis of the game is about the closing of the frontier, the end of the age of outlaws, and civilization creeping ever-westward. So a big part of the game is the gang being forced to interact with and navigate through the modern world.

>>719802673
Good summary. Didn't know about throwable thing. Sounds fuckin funny

>>719796272
OP posted rdr1 not rdr2

>>719795626 (OP)
it has the cynical and almost fantastical writing of GTA4 but with cowboys instead of mobsters