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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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[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I have like 80 hours in the game of me just catching horses, hunting animals, and searching for stuff. Only at the second camp (3rd chapter)l I think) but who cares because I'm happy to ride around go hunting or gambling or whatever. Figuring out the store robberies was pretty interesting too!

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

Stay in chapter three for as long as you want, there's no benefit to rushing out of horseshoe Creek