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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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[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My biggest criticism of the games writing is it saying “Arthur doing these shakedowns is the thing that literally kills him” It’s a bit too on the nose but overall the writing is great.

There is literally nothing wrong with this? What exactly is the criticism?

[–] Stolen_Stolen_Valor@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Its a minor criticism, but my issue with it is it’s not subtle. Like working for a debtor was obviously killing Arthur spiritually and metaphorically, making it also literally killing him seemed unnecessary.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh I get you, but I don’t think that was because they couldn’t be subtle, that was because it was a prequel and there is absolutely no mention of Arther in the first game, so he kinda has to die.

[–] Stolen_Stolen_Valor@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh no I agree he has to die, the story is a tragedy, just the manner of his death in this way was a little silly.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Agree to disagree. But I would like to hear an alternative if you have one.