The amount of misogyny present in the chat along with the WM hate was really eFFing lame, though that said I must say the Comic Vine guys did seem both less organised and less fun, which is just a shame really.
God that lady keeps being loud and interupting people to say unfunny things, please stop. And please people keep down the misogyny, yea she's annoying but she isn't being a bigot.
I wasn't as annoyed as you, but I very much felt that it was not all that well thought out and I agree with a lot of your criticisms. I personally found a lot of the cynical downer stuff really really aggravating, and not at all funny as I assume they were supposed to be, loads of the stranger tasks have a absurdly unbelievable ending which left me rolling my eyes, almost everyone ends up dead, so by the end I felt like I pretty much knew it would do a dumb 'sad' turn, and as steeped in ( the glorious) Western cliches the game is, it was fairly obvious it would go the way it did. Though when it reveals that you're Jack initially I thought I was in High Plains Drifter territory, I thought I was the undead bad ass revenge hunting bastard, which made me well exited, then I found out I was Jack...
God I fucking hate Jack, it utterly breaks the story, the implication is that redemption is impossible, the cycle of violence hurtles on, all the murderous stuff it makes us do as Jack to save our family was futile, people cannot change etc as someone who loves good Western stories, the Hotchpotch way this has been chucked together annoys me. All the implications of playing as outlaw Jack (rather than intellectual writer Jack as we would have wanted) just shatters everything.
How I wish Video games could tell a story in at least half as good the way a film does, if this game ended like Josey Wales I would have been really really exited put my pad down and reveled in the best game I had ever experienced, and they were so close, having the military coming and attacking his family on his ranch, that they went all Butch Cassidy (which is great of course) pisses me off.
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