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Red Dead 2’s fast travel unlocks very late, and in two and a half playthroughs I used it about 3 times. It’s a game that many might argue doesn’t respect your time, but the magic is in how it allows you to exist in its own time. In many ways, were the release periods further apart, you might think Death Stranding was influenced by RDR2. It’s methodical, or to some people, slow.
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There’s an allegory for the times we live in, buried deep in the story, I’m sure, but every time I’ve played through Red Dead 2 (PC being my third time) I’ve fallen hard for the people, the places, the design. You know they’re good people who’ve done bad things, and sometimes they’re also just bad people who are making others around them worse. From Arthur Morgan to Dutch, you feel the shades of grey. Red Dead Redemption 2’s characters are entirely believable. But it seems only lately that believable characters are coming through. It’s not a new thing for voice actors to sound good in games: professionals such as Troy Baker or Laura Bailey (her Gears 5 Kait is a recent highlight) have been doing the job a long time and are masters of their craft. The voice acting, and the performances in general, are out-of-this-world good.
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Both have set a new bar for production values in games, and the PC release, unconstrained by some slightly aging tech in the PS4 and Xbox One, absolutely sings. It’s telling that those two games vied for the top spot in our Game of the Year awards last year, too.
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This is a game that, like 2018’s God of War, I don’t think we’re truly able to yet understand the full impact of upon the wider industry. What is there to say about Red Dead Redemption 2 that hasn’t already been said? It’s a tough one, but with the release of Rockstar’s phenomenal game on PC (and now Stadia, too), a flood of emotions come running through me.