When Rockstar VP Dan Houser said in an interview that “we” were working 100-hour weeks to create 300,000 animations, etc. īefore I get started, I would be remiss by failing to mention the controversy surrounding RDR2‘s development. For characters such as these, I looked forward to how Rockstar would build upon this kind of narrative foundation in RDR2. While the game accommodates its fair share of ridiculous characters, violence, and tawdry sex, what I remember most is the wholesomeness of Bonnie MacFarlane, Abagail Roberts-Marston, and John Marston himself, who declines propositions from wenches in burlesque houses by insisting that he is married. RDR specifically appealed to me because despite extortion as the root source of John Marston’s quest, the underlying motive is that he is a family man.

After Volition provided competition for Grand Theft Auto with Saint’s Row, Rockstar wisely began to pivot over time from extravagant satire to stories featuring fewer sociopaths as main characters (Trevor in GTAV indicates that there is still more work to do). I confess that Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption ( RDR)is among the handful of games that I played during the PS3/60 era purely due to word-of-mouth, and what I experienced actually lived up to expectations. This is Photoshopped, yet it is also indicative of Rockstar’s protagonist push.

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