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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.

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[–] calabast@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Three paragraphs!? How is anyone supposed to read all

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've given rdr2 two shots and I don't get it. I don't even hate the cut scenes that much, the gameplay just isn't fun.

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[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Red Dead Revolver is my favorite Red Dead

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

One of my biggest gamer moments is that I could not get along with Red Dead Redemption to save my life, game was infuriating. Sludgy, heavy, deliberately delayed controls were already kind of annoying to me in GTA IV, I find Red Dead's eepy sleepy cowboi and his even eepier sleepier horse just piss me off. I dropped that shit.

[–] FearsomeJoeandmac@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's got a great story. Which is why it's considered awesome.

However yeah... if you aren't doing the story missions the gamplay is way too much like some sort of boring simulator.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If you aren’t doing story missions you should be exploring the world which is pretty open with a lot of cool stuff in it. I don’t really know what people are doing if not that TBQFH

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[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Story is good, the sandbox is great, the story missions are total ass

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[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I'll turn you into a caulifower hombre

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe you should try the first game since it's a bit more cartoony/GTAy in its tone

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[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I didn't finish it and connect to the story yeah I would look back on it as boring trash, but I ended up really liking arthur

[–] FearsomeJoeandmac@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep story and Arthur are the reason I love the game. I really hope the next rdr 2 is better in the gameplay department.

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[–] Lurkerino@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Mods can fix your problems I think

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