41 - Red Dead Redemption 2
Added 2022-06-29 06:29:34 +0000 UTCThe lads head eastbound and down as they take a ride through the American Inferno and sharp cultural commentary of Rockstar Games’ magnum opus: Red Dead Redemption 2. They discuss the magnificent open world, the labor abuses that went into its creation, and the hauntingly empty void at the heart of the American Dream.
How the West Was Digitized:
The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 by Harold Goldberg.
https://www.vulture.com/2018/10/the-making-of-rockstar-games-red-dead-redemption-2.html
Noclip documentary about Looking Glass Studios (go to the 40:04 mark for the discussion of crunch in the video game industry): https://youtu.be/8ZmcbShMFNY?t=2404
Jessica Hoffman Davis’ Essay on Playing Red Dead Redemption:
https://www.reddit.com/r/reddeadredemption/comments/f31bz4/at_75_my_mother_decided_to_play_through_red_dead/
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Comments
The whole discussion near the end about how RDR2 was an artistic video game didn't quite sit right with me. If the main thing making your game artistic is basically writing and story, that's great, but why make it a video game? You all brought up games that tell their story more through their gameplay mechanics, which to me is the best way to make video games their own unique category of art, but you all didn't seem to like the concept generally.
Farecoal
2024-07-30 23:21:24 +0000 UTCI love AJ's horse corner
Maladapted
2024-05-31 03:39:11 +0000 UTCI’ve never seriously played a video game before in my life, but the story on this game sounds interesting enough for someone like me. Wow!
Elizabeth Power
2022-10-22 20:16:00 +0000 UTClmao - josh remind me to dump in your DMs about some absolutely UNHINGED crunch grindset from the web/software development side of the entertainment industry. some real clangers
Emily Robinson
2022-07-06 12:01:52 +0000 UTCprior to listening this was my only knowledge of this game https://www.reddit.com/r/reddeadredemption/comments/afni4a/deluxe_bath_machine_roke_again/
Bruce
2022-07-02 19:31:53 +0000 UTCWhy can't you name horses swares in rdr2? I tried to name a horse Sam Bone in the game which was a nickname I would call my late dog. Apparently SAM BONE was too spicy language for the Puritans at Rockstar Games. Murder is cool but not PG level cursing
Jimmy McMillan
2022-06-30 02:52:53 +0000 UTCI am in the industry, and the level of scope creep that has continued to flow into AAA games just makes me honestly, so tired. I always say it as eventually everything becomes Skyrim
Aysha U. Farah
2022-06-29 23:29:30 +0000 UTCWhen y’all said there are two different deliveries of all the Arthur lines I literally did a spit-take. What a WASTE OF MONEY
Aysha U. Farah
2022-06-29 23:22:24 +0000 UTCThis was really great! Love the video game episodes. Regrettably though I did laugh at the "Dutch angle" joke.
Henry Martyn
2022-06-29 20:01:26 +0000 UTCListening right now and in terms of telling story in game design, when you get to the final camp, you can’t even donate money to the till or upgrade the camp outside what you can do through Pierson because Dutch has smashed the box.
Nate Netzley
2022-06-29 17:23:09 +0000 UTC
