This isn’t a complain about the game, neither a compliment.
It’s something personal I guess, not related to anything else, but myself, I think I just need to vent.
Maybe the game romanticize way too much the life in the year around 1900 and the thing is I just love the life how they portrait it. The game is extremely immersive and it’s hitting me hard.
Everything is so simple, there’s so much respect between people, they live camping with a simple life, everybody trying to help to survive as they can, singing at the end of nights, having profound and philosophical talking. It’s such a more human focused life.
Seeing a simple life like that and comparing to the modern world makes me feel sad. Today we have cars, cities, buildings, very few vegetation, a lot of pollution, everybody is so fixed on being clean, good looking, companies rule the world, people accepting being modern slaves in exchange of a little comfort and convenience. It’s truly a disappointment to me.
I’d exchange 20-30 years living in a world like RDR2 shows than 70-80 years in the modern world. That’s right, I’d rather die trying to hunt for food and learning how to survive in the woods than a massive boring life doing the exact same thing every single day in front of a computer.
I understand that it can feel that way, but remember that video games are romanticized interpretations that make things way easier than they are in real life. Life back then wasn’t RDR2 and there’s no guarantee that you’d find the community you’re imagining, and a much higher chance you’d have to deal with the harsh realities of those times
Idk if you’ve played the game, but you regularly have to deal with pretty harsh realities of those times.
OP isn’t wrong, though. RDR2 does a good job of putting you in the shoes of someone 125y ago (as much as a real time simulation projected on a 2D surface can), after all, someone 125y ago wasn’t thinking “man, these times sure have some harsh realities”, it was just the world they knew.
While I don’t think the writers intended the takeaway to be “look how much better life was in the wild west”, they did intend to give some perspective on what “freedom” meant to people in the US 125y ago. And how something things have changed while others have stayed exactly the same.
I’m just saying there’s a difference between playing a game designed to provide a fun and rewarding experience and actually going through those harsh realities in real life
Does it? I wasn’t alive then, and I doubt any of the devs were either. Even if you’re going off first hand sources it can still be hard to know if the perception we have today is actually accurate to how it was back then
Tell me you stopped reading my comment mid-sentence without telling me.
If you think RDR2 is a simple romanisation you haven’t played much of the game…
At the end of the day it’s still a video game designed to be fun to a mass market of consumers, even if it shows the rough parts players aren’t actually dealing with everything back then