What made RDR2 such an enduring cultural icon?
Money
>>724450720It was one of the last big budget games made before modern slop rendering techniques totally took over, so it will remain the peak of graphics for a very long time.
>>724450720Despite what people around here will have you believe, the slow, quiet, open world really captured many people's imagination, and it's still a damn good looking game considering it's 7 years old.
>>724450720Boomers larping as movie cowboys.
>>724450720It was a PC game and not a shitty exclusive poorly ported a decade and a half later.
>>724450720Its a really really good movie game. Just like MGS
>>724451348The PC port wasn't great, came a year late and was very demanding. Not GTV IV bad or anything but could have been better.
>>724450850>Damn good looking game despite being 7 years old7 years isn’t old you autist.
Outlaws in 1899 with the sensibilities of modern day Californians and strong boss girls everywhere. What's not to like? Rockstar are masterful character creators and writers, lol
>>724452041that's ancient in gamer years
>>724452130kek way to advertise your own idiocy
>Cant kill indians, ever (people say that they're story relevant, but other races are story relevant too and they are only pacified for a chapter at most: there is no reason you shouldn't be able to shoot up wapiti in the epilogue>Cannot sleep with prostitutes at all. In the first game john was a married man trying to be decent to his family but Arthur has no reason to not fuck a whore>Charles is treated by the narrative as a noble humble stoic warrior instead of the sperging hypocritical outlaw retard he is>There are racists and feminists in the game: The game generally allows you to agree/disagree with anyone, but you cannot agree with the racists, and you cannot meaningfully disagree with the feminists>The game has an extremely Indian coded group who are savage cannibals who mutilate people: These people are of course all white as snow>There is a mission where you seek out legends of the old west: all the men are disappointing embarrassments, the only woman is of course every bit worth her legend>Everything about Sadie: she is a housewife who sometimes hunted with her husband. In a matter of weeks, she turns into a gunslinging outlaw who is at least as competent as every man in the gang, if not more. Everyone worships her except the evil guy in the gang (one of the first thing he does is call the nogs of the gang darkies so you know he is evil btw) despite her acting like a completely unhinged psycho for no good reason. The game is extremely heavy-handed about the theme of revenge being a fools game, but she gets hers without any comeuppance. She continuously beats men with her bare hands and has an extremely cringy "gruff voice"It's modern day AAA wokeslop set in Western-themed times. Exactly what søyboys love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ZnhuIDKE4
>>724450720I tried RDR1 and it was boring as shit compared to this. Don't know why it got sucked off so hard before the PC release.
>>724450720Dunno but it's plagiarized shit.https://youtu.be/3VoypuC3ATU&t=1095
>enduringlol you wish unc
>>724450720The world feels alive
>>724450842I cannot fucking believe that this game was released almost 7 years ago, where does the fucking time go?Even worse that they gave GOTY to Onions of War.
>>724452867All of these are true but they don’t take away from the tragedy of Arthur Morgan’s life. Post-Arthur is the biggest drop in quality both from a story telling perspective and in gameplay. Going on bounty hunting missions with Sadie while she talks down to John the entire time is the biggest middle finger to RDR1 possible. Sadie never getting hers stands out worse than any of the other points, her and Charles get away with everything. Charles whining at you anout revenge even after he invaded a military camp, killing guards to free a violent indian with no reflection is so fucking obnoxious. Despite all of that, Arthur had a good story, he was loyal to the wrong person and he died for it. The doctor told him to stay somewhere dry after they end up in Guarma. Mary asked Arthur to run away before the Saint Denis heist. Arthur’s disease became fatal because he chose Dutch and Dutch let him die in the dirt like a dog. I think this was the last good story Rockstar can tell, the cracks were forming in the foundation and GTA6 is going to be about how the woman is only crazy because she can’t trust her man and he can’t get things done. Only after he lets his crazy bitch wife do whatever she wants with his full support will they succeed. It’s over, companies have as much money as a small country now and that means any sense of humility, truth, or strength needs to be stamped out for some subversive morals.
