I don’t mind when you’re trolling with media with obvious themes, but RDR2 is one of those games full of blue curtain enjoyers, so when I see “RDR2 is about settling and pro-patriarchy” I just gotta hit you with that stare

IIRC Dan Houser didn’t care much about GTA after they made the RDR series and put most of his focus on that lol

Quail cum chips? Someone tell Mr. Jingling we have barbecue chips here in America

Arthur sees himself as a simple thug, and in practice, is a simple thug. But when they’re not robbing he’s actually quite complex, but as OP points out, he hates himself.

There are several moments in the game where he talks with the women in the gang, and they all compliment him for being thoughtful, intelligent, and handsome compared to the other male members, but he dismisses them and says he doesn’t know anything about anything. He also talks about how much of a bad and ugly person he is in his journals.

Dutch, his “father,” and some of the other members such as Micah and Bill see Arthur as the enforcer and nothing more. They never ask him about his thoughts on plans or life and in fact tell him to shut up and shoot, so Arthur just goes along because father knows best. In addition to everything else mentioned in these threads, Arthur also has low self esteem. He’s aware of the harm he brings, but doesn’t believe he has any good in himself until he gives up his life for the gang.

Uncle sings both John Brown’s Body and Dixie at the campfire https://youtu.be/gUo9XpuPYaA

Horse poop balls

I think it depends on what you find excitable. I think everything about RDR2 was heat except the gameplay whch held my hand too much and repetitive and the money aspect didn’t match with the story.

RDR2 is about a man realizing he and his ilk were sent by the American bourgeoisie to colonize land

I disagree. The Van Der Linde gang was somewhat anarchistic before Dutch recruited Strauss and hit his head. And even then, they didn’t extract rent on the behalf of anyone except themselves.

They didn’t colonize any land, and in fact, the gang resisted the settlers in the form on being outlaws and grasping onto the last pieces of “wildness” as modernization creeped in. Arthur only realizes the gang’s struggle for freedom was shared with other marginalized groups at much more intense and existential levels, such as the Guarman slaves, the Indians, and even less “grander” groups such as the sex workers, and Arthur himself from the very gang he considered his whole identity.

I agree with everything else, but him being “wrong his entire life” isn’t necessarily about land or colonization, but him realizing that he’s one of the few people in the gang who still truly wants freedom whereas Dutch - his father figure - and his faction (who he considered much of them as family) are clinging onto a delusion of freedom and holding him back, no different than how the government’s colonization of land and people is a delusion of freedom and holding other people back.

You quite literally fight a giant colonial Spanish warship that’s sent in to assist a private company to kill you after you help (presumably socialist) Cuban slaves rebel in a sugar plantation

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.

When someone drops a take so stupid I’m not even gonna bother defending my favorite game

I’m gonna be sad when Macron goes. I was hoping to see some french soldiers blown up

Zionists are used to fighting courageously against people with both hands tied behind their backs