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[jaythelay]

Legitimately the only loss of Volition closing is there is absolutely 0 chance SR2's PC version gets fixed. Dooming their Only Good Artpiece to obscurity.

The fate of SR2 shouldn't become the standard. And yet it really is. You can play it now, but give it another OS version, hardware change, software change, give it time and you'll need to emulate windows 10, give it time and all you'll be able to do is play on the 360, give it time, and there won't be any 360s. All throughout the game is a buggy mess that needed another couple months of work, except the PC version which needed god.

But the real tragedy? The lost art, the fact this would've, could've, been Volition's legacy. Saint's Row 2! It's as critical to my gaming experience as Half-Life was, but I can play Half-Life with no problems on PS2 and PC. Not SR2 tho.

No tears were shed, because they took away everything people cared about decades ago, the series and company was already dead.

When your legacy is killing the art, crawling inside pretending to be our dad, and everyone begs you to bring them back? That's a sad, sad legacy.

No one's even going to think about Saint's Row eventually. What was a genuine rival to GTA in some instances, is now an absolute obscurity. It's only possible silver lining, gone. With only the vaguest hope that the IP is bought, and then has remakes that ignore all but the first two games.

Good luck with an IP that genuinely toxic, whoever buys it. Because nobody will be happy by then, we'll all be too old and moved on. A new audience won't experience the original and the remake won't give the same emotions. But it'd be nice at least, if done competantly.

Really think. Right now if you're a fan of Saint's Row, you and I may be amongst the last but a handful of at best hundreds of new players. But otherwise? It's dead and gone. Actual Art that most won't find worth in fighting to enjoy all the way, especially with some of those missions that needed fixed before release.

A flawed as hell gem that can only decay is an artpiece no one can experience eventually.

Volition refused to make Their One Artpiece playable before going out of business. Now? Nothing is worth playing, even SR2. Volition came with amazing art, gave us the worst iteration of it, and then dissapeared from all of history, having only made a dent within it, what could've been a chasmic hole.

Just had to not split your fanbase and then piss half them off and later dissapoint the other half. Seriously. Would've been real easy to shit out SR3 gangster edition and be dissapointed rather than hopelessly frustrated, or not use the name at all and moved on like the fanbase was forced to a decade before the reboot.

While the child-like fanbase that could only ever be the audience, moved on, SR2 fans were there everyday asking for more, instead, Volition served an audience that had long moved on in age and in genre, either to fortnite, apex legends, or tf2.

Genuinely it was like hearing a childhood friend and later teenage bully was found dead from an overdose you tried to warn them about. I'm numb. Sad, but apathetic, but also? Kind've elated, like. Man. I'm glad that's over, at least now I can truly move on again.

"but the emplo-" Sorry not this time. As far as I go I usually both do not blame creative when corporate is always to blame, and I'll generally simply be in disagreement with creative decisions, but the honest fact is the company in it's entirety exuded a mobile gaming atmosphere of contempt of audience and creative bankruptcy. At best, they'll find another job that'll find a way to make them excel, at worst, they find another job as writers somewhere they don't deserve.

Sad as hell shit. Hope beta content wasn't destroyed either, genuinely that could be the last of their legacy, beta content releasing for us to explore. A last hurrah of their history to go through, like a memoir. But that's cool, so they'd rather be genuinely awful cringe instead.

[renardtrickster]

My take on the Wizard Game Discourse is that the Harry Potter Video Game Scene hasn't been good since Prisoner of Azkaban on the PS2 (and also the LEGO games), but furthermore the left dropped the ball on Hog Legacy by A LOT, and on SO MANY LEVELS.

The first thing that should be discussed is the streaming scene, in particular the fact that a lot of streamers got sent hate for playing or wanting to play the game, or outright harassed for it (I don't know how widespread this was but I'm moving forward with the assumption that it was a Notable Phenomenon). In particular, this doesn't do anything useful and actively hurts us. If you're a neutral "apolitical" streamer who just wants to play a mediocre wizard game, then you're more likely than not going to block, ignore, and continue on (while also drawing attention to it on social media), because spite and the Streisand Effect is a very potent motivator, and this goes double if you're an especially big streamer. If you're a leftist streamer, see the next paragraph. And if you're a reactionary streamer, you're just going to spin it as a culture war "the left attacked me for liking Harry Potter" thing. And on this point, leftists already have to struggle with a reputation for being no-fun-allowed wokescolds. If we had said "don't play the game it's shit and so is JKR" and responded to it coming out by clowning on it 24/7 (and also not making it trend on twitter every day leading up to it releasing) then we still would have gotten that, but at that point is becomes Dialogue and you can just tell them that their mom sucks you good and hard through your jorts. The circle of online political discourse turns gently. The imagery of leftists actually actively jumping on people's backs because For God's Sake I Just Wanna Game, however, is much harder to shake off though. That shit scares normies off and gives reactionaries more ammo.

Going from the above, I mentioned there's one group of people who will fold when given backlash for playing Wizard Game, and it's: other leftist streamer! I've seen quite a couple of lefty streamers say something to the effect of "might play it, prolly not buying it though Yar Har Har, and make fun of it/donate the money to a trans charity to stick it to JKR", and they get blowback from it, even from their own audience. One notable instance was Hasan Piker planning to do Exactly This, only for his fanbase to slag on him and not do it, because doing otherwise would be "supporting JKR". I have more to say about "supporting JKR", but let's look at the impact here. Before, JKR was going to make a shitload of money, but also a couple of prominent leftist streamers would have streamed the game, made fun of it, showcased to their audience all the shortcomings of the game's mechanics and writing, potentially done the Really Smart Thing of using a normie opener ("Harry Potter am I right?") to inject leftist commentary in a way that's easily consumable, even by liberals and apoliticals, and then tossed whatever money they made (likely the hundreds of thousands, if not millions in Hasan's case) into a trans charity. Instead, what we get is just JKR making a shitload of money and also we get headlines about how the most prominent leftist streamer got bullied by his own audience for playing bideo james, and also the charity streams don't happen. What is our outcome? What did we accomplish? Was it moral purity? Do we care about moral purity? Will moral purity prevent the rapidly approaching trans genocide from happening? I dunno, but at least I feel slightly better for it.

The final point is my address of a counterargument I've often seen in relation to "just pirate the wizard game" or "play the wizard game to slag on it and make money for charity" or similar, and I imagine it's a point that someone reading this was about to shoot at me. It was a tweet by JK Rowling, where she states that she counts any support of her works, including Harry Potter, as indirect support of her and her ideology. Now, financially speaking this is true, any money you throw at JKR goes to JKR (which is why you should either Not Give Her Money For The Game or at the very least do it and then throw x200 that much towards groups harmed by her), but a lot of people seem to take this further, in that even if you don't financially buffer her, playing/reading her stuff is like an unconscious and/or spiritual "good job on the transphobia, love the way you're the public face of a hate movement!" handshake, and that publicly doing so is just a roundabout means of sending support and fans (and recruits) her way. And to this, I would like to say THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS. ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?

Not only is this argument as incoherent as Tom Cruise saying that watching his movies is like an indirect vindication of Scientology, and also insincere because even if Harry Potter and Cormorant Strike or whatever became unpopular and unprofitable overnight she would keep on doing what she's doing, but the real baffling part is the fact that lefties just accepted and agreed with this, letting JKR define the framework and the endgoals. By accepting this, we immediately concede that the only proper response to a 10+ years old sitting on the bookshelf at home is to burn it (please think carefully before commenting "yes I am okay with identifying with the imagery of leftists being book-burners but politically reflected). By accepting this, we concede that someone watching the films or reading the book to MST3K it or negatively review it or critically point out all the things wrong with the writing or JKR's worldview is the same thing as uncritically watching and supporting it and loving JKR. By accepting this, we make a bet with JKR that if her new game sells well, then that means she's right, and the public is on her side when it comes to transphobia. It's not, by the way, people liking Harry Potter doesn't mean people liking transphobia, much less JKR herself, in much the same way that H.P. Lovecraft being a household name doesn't mean that everyone who's ever read Shadow Over Innsmouth actually really secretly supports racism not to mention the fact that the public majority is on the side of trans people, transphobes just so happen to be loud, fucking annoying, and also in positions of power because our power structures really favor the reactionary voice for No Reason In Particular. But the game was destined to make bank, because of reactionary support, and also apoliticals/liberals/normies not being too assed about it, but mainly because JKR is a household name bigger than Lovecraft at this point. It was a bet we didn't need to make, because we let her control the narrative when we didn't need to, and in attempting to "win" the unnecessary bet, we gave her free advertising, embarrassed ourselves, prevented ourselves from doing charity streams for some reason, and accomplished nothing where just saying "game a shit" and clowning on it on twitter would have done infinitely more at none of the cost.

My final note before you go is that this post is a criticism of the online left, but it is from a leftist perspective. This is no place for people whose takeaway is "well the real issue you guys don't realize how BASED JKR is and how trans people are bad" and you will be beaten senseless by every able-bodied patron in the bar bar for such audacious behavior.

[nathank77]

5/1/24

8:40 p.m

So I struggled to sleep. I played bully until 5:09 a.m. I had a blast. Then turned on American Dad and ate cheese and took my Xanax.

I turned on King of The Hill after I brushed my teeth and played solitaire in the dark like I always do. The voice wasn't too intrusive during solitaire.

Once I closed my eyes and started listening to King of The Hill, it was really intrusive... I mean it was talking constantly while I listened to the show... and yea King of the Hill was louder but it was aggravating me. And every break of silence I could hear what it was saying and it was really annoying. I closed my eyes for approximately 40 minutes and then I gave up. I took 25MG of Hydroxyzine and 25MG of Benadryl... and I played solitaire for about 30 minutes and then passed out around 9 a.m...

As I start to fall asleep I notice the voice gets less... I hate when I take 1MG bc the next day going back to half its like I mostly need to combine drugs to sedate me or it's just an adjustment back to a less powerful version of xanax but I mean I get that if I started taking 1MG everyday then 1.5MG would be the new 1MG.... so I mean.....

I just hope tonight goes better... either way I woke up at fucking 4:49 p.m. I wasn't able to accomplish anything. Like grocery shopping bc I had Therapy at 7 p.m...

I'm going to the post office tomorrow to drop off the shoes. Hopefully before Erin if she doesn't cancel.... Erin is at 4:30.......

If I wake up early enough I'll drop off the shoes, if not I'll do it Friday.

Regardless I have to go grocery shopping Friday now. I'm worried about the waters.. I never called the manager, I just don't have the time... or mental energy..

Anyways I was depressed last night, I did have fun gaming but my gaming channel being dead really brings me down. This eternal aloneness really brings me down.

Idk I feel crazy thinking Elise is here. I feel stupid thinking I'm going to find anyone. I feel just straight up dumb ingeneral.

Last night was so stressful hearing the voice talking while I was clearly focusing on my show.

All I can do with the rest of my day is play bully. It'll be fun but I'm sure I'll also be depressed with how alone I am...

I got my HDCP bypasser and lone behold it doesn't fucking bypass hdcp. At least the return will be easy. I just got to bring it back to Walmart. And I guess I'll try to buy another one on ebay. I wish I could get my hands on just one that would work....I really want to play silent hill and record it. I've been looking forward to playing silent hill 2 greatest hits as I took down a list of differences between the greatest hits version and the original ps2 one... anyways maybe one day..

I got to wait to get my money back from the Adidas neo, and get my money back from the Adidas forum once I ship them... then I'll have more money. Maybe i can consider glasses but I have my disability appt the 17th and if I can make it since it's at 1:30 p.m I could be getter backpay in June and then I'm def getting glasses.

Anyways I guess I'll game..I wish I got to go grocery shopping and I wish i didnt have to drug myself so heavily just to sleep.

[zoobus]

mmm i stumbled upon some old-ass game opinions of yours (namely that red dead redemption sucks). i've never played said game (cries in "poor bastard who cant afford consoles and games and non-trash pcs") but i've only heard Good Things about it; care to elaborate? (i'm a sucker for "people complaining (or gushing) about things i know nothing about")

Red Dead Redemption was the reason my family finally bought a PS3 (the PS4 had been out for a while lol). I still used my ps2 but I was ready for the next generation of gaming.

Well guess what

-technology "progressed" out of plug and play. "Oh boy I can't wait to spend Christmas playing RDD" two fucking hours later it's still installing

-Red Dead opens with some rancid white women gossiping about "savages" committing some heinous act that is situationally ironic. I hate this. I was seething a bit about the installation time, but once they dropped a savage? Right from the start? Kill Bill sirens. Hatred. Words that tell you a writer has nothing interesting or profound to say about bigotry but by golly they won't let that stop them!

-John is a boring badass interchangeable good guy protagonist. You can choose evil, but his character is at odds with evil choices, which makes me not want to do evil. You can buy sex but it feels like I'm possessing someone to act against their will, in a bad way.

-all rockstar transportation mechanics suck but horses were next level

-everyone blames the MCU for this but so many writers rely on making flippant quips during shocking effects to show how jaded and badass their characters are. There's a side mission where you get stuff for this old guy's wife. If you wish, you can investigate his house and discover said wife's long dead corpse. John will quip at this reveal, so you know how unbothered he is. Boring. These characters who are too cool to care about any of the events they witness are so fucking boring. You don't have to scream and cry but give me a reaction.

-I predicted every single plot point with Abraham Reyes and Luisa. I'm not sure I was meant to. They're both grating. I felt nothing when he killed her. His fandom wiki page reads much more interesting than the character I saw.

-everyone praises the way music interjects at certain moments like the bridge crossing? Maybe I did that mission wrong but the only time I had a big music moment was during the thing in the mountains, and that came out of nowhere. It scared the shit out of me when some guy belts out that song with no warning.

-I don't think I like cowboys as a genre

-generally did not enjoy missions

I know people found this game fun but rockstar should have put that RD2 money into Bully 2.

[sarucookies]

What is the worst thing someone has told you online?

I remember being bullied by a very small few of Ape Escape fans who told me I shouldn’t be a fan because I never physically played the very first game. Since Ape Escape 2 was the first I ever played in 2004, it was because we only owned a PS2, after having a Super Nintendo growing up. I even told them that I would watch the AE1 cutscenes and playthroughs on YouTube

god forbid my immigrant parents came to Canada and my dad had to work in a steel train factory and worked months just to have money on the side to buy us our first gaming console for me and my siblings :’)

Screw those particular entitled people, I still hate them for saying that. I say this every time, and it’s that it doesn’t matter what order you play the games in. The manuals and actual games themselves give you a recap of what happened, and it’s an easy story to follow. You are a fan regardless of what order you played, so long as you enjoyed yourself, that’s all that matters. Even the anime! If you watched that first, you are still a fan

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On a lighter note, in 2007, I got a PSP for my birthday with On the Loose version of AE1, so I got to play that! And then!! In 2015, my Sheridan College friend bought me the PS1 AE1 copy and I got to finally own it ♥ Thank you again for that aaah

[thegoodhausfrau]

What’s your favorite games on GameCube and ps2?

GameCube it’s definitely Animal Crossing but I also like Harvest Moon. I didn’t buy a lot of games for that system. I had only wanted Animal Crossing.

PS2 is trickier but if I had to pick I’ll go with top three- GTA III, San Andreas, and Bully. But how can I leave off Sims, Sonic Collection, Smackdown Vs Raw, and Here Comes The Pain? It’s my favorite system and most of my games are for it.

[wrongmeat]

also anyway, I think your style is rad as hell and you said send asks so uhhhhh, fave video game?

Thank you! 💖 Also you opened a huge can of worms, I’m huge on videogames, I think I have a favorite for each system I have. For ps2 it’s indigo prophecy, bully, Katamari and obsCURE. For PS4 it’s Dying light and persona 5. ​Im not sure about ps3 but I’m currently trying to hunt down a used one to buy because i need to game even MORE. I don’t have a PC anymore but on there it’s Pony island and Skullgirls 👌👌👌

[nightcoremoon]

I discovered the sonic fandom in a weird way. and no, not that way.

when I was younger I had a gamecube at my dad's and a playstation 2 at my mom's. I played the shit out of that ps2. jak and daxter, final fantasy 12, bully, sly cooper, yugioh capsule monster coliseum, ghost recon jungle storm, I sunk thousands of hours into that console before it eventually stopped reading discs. rip buddy.

anyway one of the games I had on there was the sonic mega collection plus. it had sonic 1, sonic 2, sonic 3, sonic & knuckles, sonic 2 & knuckles, sonic 3d, sonic pinball, and sonic... tetris? I played a lot of sonic in my day. not as much as everything else tho because final fantasy xii and jak 2 were THE SHIT (and they still are, i'm actually gonna go buy the zodiac age for xbox one when it gets cheaper), but I knew my way around sonic. and also shadow but WE DONT TALK ABOUT SHADOW. *crush40's I am all of me intensifies*

I watched the sonic cartoon. sonic, kirby, yugioh gx, code lyoko, those were definitive for me back then. but nobody else I knew really cared (except for one kid who also like yugioh, I had no friends). even though only the fuzziest memories of chaos emeralds remain, it was still a remnant of a simpler time, and I felt like it was my own little secret, lost to the anals of history.

...and then I discovered fanfiction.

inb4 cringey but 100% true story.

I had previously mentioned final fantasy 12. I was also like 12. and uh. ashe and fran are really pretty. so I googled ff12 rule 34 before I even knew what rule 34 was and so had to use key words to find what I was looking for. my search for ashe and fran without their armor (or clothes) lead me to a website called fanfiction dot net.

it was around that time that my little sister and I started watching avatar the last airbender. every single day after school, homework, and chores, we'd park in front of the tv for an hour and watch two episodes before it was time for dinner. I would then watch naruto and various hbo series I should not have been watching (true blood and boardwalk empire) but avatar was the biggest thing in my life at the time. and eragon because brisingr came out around then. so, curious, I looked in the avatar section. (and harry potter, invader zim, tales of symphonia, jak and daxter, a bunch of stuff). I took the plunge and took part in the community and wrote some stuff that a lot of people really enjoyed, weirdly enough.

my friends in the community also did stuff for death note, sly cooper, red vs blue, my little pony friendship is magic, and I got more involved in those fandoms too, but regardless eventually I found out that, well. sonic the hedgehog had a healthy fandom too.

the golden gates of heaven opened before me and their choir rang true.

...for about five seconds before I saw that oh my god it's all cringe. "find me on deviantart" "this is my original sonic oc please don't steal" it was the worst thing ever. it was a bunch of ten-year-olds with terrible art. but you know what, they fucking loved sonic the hedgehog, and I closed the door and let them enjoy their shit while I turned around and plunged into the brony fandom.

it was only a year later when I accidentally stumbled across rule 34 because oh my god there's no way that rainbow dash is the most popular character on the internet for porn to be drawn AND YET SHE WAS. and I was like. oh wow there's a website devoted to the exact thing that got me started on the path through fandom hell. weird. and then I saw that some of the most popular fandoms were mlp, pokemon, and... sonic the hedgehog.

only then, over a decade after falling in love with the game series, I finally realized holy shit. sonic porn is a thing. a very... big... thing.

so yeah the way I discovered the sonic fandom was pretty normal for a fandom, rather than the porn. weird, right?

[theshytigergirl]

What Kingdom Hearts means to me

As Kingdom Hearts 3 approaches release, lately I have been reflecting my feelings on the series and the fandom. I see commercials with fans talking about what the series means to them at demo events and I figured I should at least try to start a small trend before KH3. I don’t know if anyone would care or even read this but I hold this series very close to my heart, pun not intended. So, I want anyone who reads this to tell their own story because I know I am not the only one who feels this way.

I am an old person, 26 years old. I have been in the fandom from the very beginning back in 2002. I have seen the ups and the downs and the insanity that goes along with it. Believe me, I have stories to tell about how things were like for the fandom back then but let’s go back to where it all started.

Back then, I was starting to get bullied. I was the weird tall girl in elementary school and bullies tend to attack hard on targets like that. I still struggle to this day with some things as a result of it. I was a little kid, isolated and feeling alone, I was not in a good place. One day I was watching tv and all of the sudden, this commercial appeared on it. I thought it was a weird commercial and it looked dumb, so I didn’t pay attention to it much at the time. Then, more commercials started to air and my attention drew more and more towards this odd looking game. Now most people would say that the game play or the fact it was a Final Fantasy crossover was the thing that made them buy the game but for me, it was the music playing that ultimately made me watch them every single time. I was a really young kid, so a pretty song went a long way. That Christmas, my oldest brother bought me and my brother a ps2 and a couple of games and one of them was Kingdom Hearts. I started playing it and I was hooked, my other brother watched me. I had some challenges and I played it on easy but that wasn’t much of a change *cough* unskippable cutscenes and the dark Riku fight *cough* Still, I played the best I could and I felt good. The bullying still was going on but at least I had something to go back to when I went home and my mind was just full of thoughts about the game. It was something I held onto, a thing that made me happy and I felt happy when I beat the game....that was until my brother erased my save file and then I was pissed. Still, I became a fan and have been one ever since. 

I have met a lot of people through the game and I have been on this wild ride of a fandom through the weirdest trends to the toughest parts of my own life. It has been a source of comfort, a light in my darkness and I am so grateful for that. I love the characters, I love the music, the story is fun if not a mess and I wouldn’t change it. I poke fun at it from time to time and honestly, it is a VERY silly game but I honestly do have nothing but love for this series. I know I must be rambling but I figured, since this is going to be end of one huge part of my life and the beginning of a new story in the series, I should at least get this off my chest. Kingdom Hearts 3 is almost here, so I hope everyone has fun and we all survive the feels nuke I know is coming our way!

Thank you Disney, Square Enix and Tetsuya Nomura, I can’t tell you those words enough. 

[burnouts3s3]

Red Dead Redemption 2, a review

(Disclaimer: The following is a non-profit unprofessional blog post written by an unprofessional blog poster. All purported facts and statement are little more than the subjective, biased opinion of said blog poster. In other words, don’t take anything I say too seriously. Just the facts 'Cause you're in a Hurry! Publisher: Rockstar Studios Developer: Rockstar Games Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP): 59.99 USD How much I paid: 59.99 USD Rated: M for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language and Use of Drugs and Alcohol. How long I played: 50 Hours in an attempt to complete the story mode before Christmas rolls around Microtransactions: Preorder bonuses to those who ordered the game before release.   What I played on: A Regular PS4, not a PS4 Pro Performance Issues: Say what you will about the Infamous Rockstar Studios, the looks gorgeous with its various weather effects, depictions of gore and its various animations. Certain shadow details and hair particle effects look a bit blurry. One instance of the game pausing momentarily before starting again. My Personal Biases:  The only Rockstar Games I’ve completed are GTA IV and Bully on the PS2. I almost completed the Original Red Dead Redemption but got stuck and watched the rest of the cutscenes on Youtube. My Verdict: Red Dead Redemption 2 not only feels like a Love Letter to Rockstar games but also a Farewell. Admist the shooting, bank robbing, horse riding, cow milking, train heisting fun, there’s a sense of melancholy. Just like the Protagonist Arthur Morgan, players will begin to realize that not only have things changed but maybe looking back, the nostalgia of the hayday years are starting to fade and just like Civilization starts to roll in, change is coming to not only the world but to Rockstar as well… Buy it! WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD! Red Dead Redemption 2, a review

Rockstar Games wants to ask a question: At what price does Freedom come with? Set in 1899 and before the events of the first Red Dead Redemption, players control Arthur Morgan, an outlaw on the run after the Blackwater job went bad. Along with his charming bullshitter of a leader, Dutch van der Linde and the crazed Micah, Arthur attempts to lead a community of outcasts to safety. But with the Federal Government, the Pinkerton Detective Agency and rival gangsters after him, Arthur soon realizes that things aren’t what they seem. And in an attempt to be free from the every growing march of progress and civilization, he’s starting to have doubts if the things he thought were good were even great to begin with. Throughout the game, Players perform heists in an attempt to gain enough money to buy the community out for freedom. But, with one crazy heist after another, Arthur soon suspects that his all-knowing leader, Dutch, might be in over his head. Using the familiar cover mechanic, players can fire off guns and fend off or shoot civilians just so he pleases. But, now Arthur has to take care of the community. Using funds he’s acquired, he can upgrade his camp to supply food, medicine or ammunition. Arthur can now eat and cook items from materials found out in the wilderness. By hunting animals, Arthur can skin them for meat and pelts, which he can either sell or use for crafting. With no cars available, Arthur will ride his trusty steed through the desert, bayou and other locations, rendered in gorgeous detail. I could ride for hours and hours with time passing slowly in-game while various weather effects show off the RAGE engine to its finest. Customization is also a feature where in Arthur can grow a beard, get a haircut, own various guns or buy himself a three piece suit that will make him the most well dressed gentleman on the riverboat. In addition, the various mini-games appear where-in Arthur can do 5 finger fillet, play some Texas Hold’em Poker, or just collect debts from dead beats. In terms of content, for 60 USD, I felt like the thief here! And yet, it’s going to be the story that will either make or break the various players here. The game makes one thing clear: there’s going to be an increased emphasis on not only ethnic minorities but female characters as well. From Charles Smith, a half black, half Native-American, hunter to Sadie Adler, a widow who’s lost her home only to become a hardened gunslinger, gamers are sure to press the “SJW” alarm here. In one story mission, Arthur must drive a Women’s Suffrage Caravan into a southern town while being booed by hecklers. The change in cast also bleeds into the story: Arthur is having continuous doubts about Dutch’s mad schemes and wonders if Dutch has changed or if Arthur himself has changed. Their community is constantly on the run, attempting to find the ‘freedom’ America has promised only to be met by cities, civilization and some pissed off gangsters. The beauty of the wilderness is heavily contrasted with the polluted city of Saint Denis, where-in smokestacks blacken the sky. In some ways, the game is a commentary on Rockstar itself. Before, Rockstar games was the bad boy of the industry, upsetting parent groups and politicians with its risqué behavior. But now, Arthur reflects on whether or not those heydays of freedom and doing whatever you want were, in fact, as wonderful as they make it out to be. Arthur keeps second-guessing himself; he’s not sure if his loyalty to Dutch was warranted or if things were as good as Dutch made them out to be. Things have changed and Arthur isn’t sure if he’s the one that changed or if it’s the world around him. In some ways, Red Dead Redemption 2 is as deconstructionist and self-critical as Grand Theft Auto IV and its protagonist Nico Bellic, but where as Nico attempted to play the immigrant unable to let go (which contrasted heavily to the gameplay of gamers doing whatever they want with him), Arthur feels more consistent as a character.  Whereas John Marston, the protagonist form the previous game had a sardonic wit and one-liner for everything, Arthur feels like a cowboy seeing his last days of freedom and is coming to terms with his fate. It feels like the game is trying to appease everybody but the ideas put in place are sure to upset their political opponents. Men’s Rights Activists are going to complain about the mandatory mission wherein Arthur must drive a Women’s Suffrage Movement caravan through town but Feminists don’t like that players have the ability to beat up a Feminist. Minority players aren’t going to like the rampant racism displayed by Micah and Bill but White gamers aren’t probably going to like the depiction of Southern Plantation owners depicted as stupid and racist. Pro-gamergate players won’t like Sadie Adler, a widow turned gunslinger who might be crazier than Arthur but anti-Gamergate players will hate how Sadie would be a National Rifle Association spokesperson if Dana Loesch decides to retire. CAVEAT: Red Dead Redemption 2 might be the inevitable turning point for Rockstar Games. While the mechanics, the animation and the attention to detail can’t be less than soul bearing, it will inevitably alienate people. In some ways, RDR2 is all things to all people: a misogynistic game beating up women for Feminists, an SJW Pandering game to Gamergate Supporters, a Hunter’s wet dream to Animal’s rights advocates, Feminist Propaganda to Men’s Rights Advocates, and a thinly-veiled NRA ad to the #MarchforOurLives supporters. It’s offensive to everyone, Republicans, Democrats, independents, Libertarians, Feminists, MRAs, Journalists, Gamers, Consumers, pro-Gamergate, anti-Gamergate, pro-gun control advocates, anti-gun control advocates and anyone with good taste, even more so than the “all sides are bad, everyone shut the fuck up” viewpoint mainly held by South Park creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker. And yet, I had a lot of fun with it. Verdict: Full Price!

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@riverdalerandomness​ tagged me in this like a month ago, during my Tumblr hiatus! I have no idea who has already done this, so I won’t tag anyone...if you’d like to do it, please go ahead!

favorite game from the last 5 years? ‒ Fallout 4. But I buy so few games on release so I’m actually not sure when a lot of the games I love came out. I know FO4 was 2015 though and it was one of the few I bought on release day. 

most nostalgic game?   ‒ Definitely SIms 2! Still play as often as I can!

game that deserves a sequel?  ‒ LA Noire. I would love to see more in that world!

game that deserves a remaster?  ‒ Bully. It’s so much fun but the graphics are pretty dated now.

favorite game series?  ‒ Probably the Sims. Even the weaker games - 3 and 4 - are still enjoyable to me, much as they need improvement. 

favorite genre? ‒ open world RPG/adventures

least favorite genre?  ‒ I’m turned off by anything with a military or space setting. I'm not a fan of real-time strategy either.

favorite song from a game? ‒ Jingle Jangle Jingle from Fallout New Vegas. Or if you mean score, the menu music from Fallout 3. 

favorite character from a game? ‒ Vaas from Far Cry 3. 

favorite ship from a game? ‒ I don’t really do much shipping! It never occurs to me to wish two characters who are not already together were a couple. 

favorite voice actor from a game? ‒ Ashly Burch - Chloe in Life is Strange

favorite cutscene? ‒ Probably the ending of Bioshock Infinite

favorite boss?  ‒ I never really know what’s considered a boss! I find it super-satisfying to kill Malyn Varen in Skyrim though, because I haaaaate those dremora he has with all the fire spells. I love it when they’re all dead!

first console?  ‒ Playstation 2

current console or consoles?  ‒ None

console you want?  ‒ None. My PS2 experience taught me that I am not a console person. I hate playing with a controller.

place from a game that you’d like to visit?  ‒ Honestly? I would like to visit some of my favourite bloggers’ Sim hoods. I see lot tours and everything and I always want to get right in there and get an even closer look at all the details!

place from a game that you’d like to live in?  ‒ My custom hood, Sullivan, in TS2

ridiculous crossover that would never happen but would be super fun?  ‒ I would love to see my sims in an ultra-realistic city world - maybe something like San Francisco in Watch Dogs 2, or Chicago from the first game. 

book that would make a good game?  ‒ Uh...probably no books I tend to read! They’re not especially action-packed reads. I’m reading Pride and Prejudice right now, for example.

show/movie that would make a good game? ‒  Games based on TV shows are usually kind of rubbish, with The Walking Dead being a notable exception. I’m honestly not sure I want to see any of my shows sullied by a terrible game! Assuming it would actually be a decent game, the idea of a game of The Good Place is intriguing to me. 

games you want to play?  ‒ A LOT! I have 41 games on my Steam wishlist. But just to start with, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Origins and Life is Strange 2. 

have you gotten 100% completion in a game?  ‒ Yes but only once or twice. I tend to restart a lot. 

have you cried over a game?  ‒ I don’t think so. Oh, maybe when Lee dies in The Walking Dead? I think I cried then, because I loved him and Clementine so much. 

what power-up or ability would you want in real life?  ‒ Motherlode!

@retromaisie also tagged me into something about a week ago! I intend to do that tag too, maybe later on this weekend. :)