Red Dead Redemption is damn good
By wubb 1 Comments
Started playing just after Thanksgiving and finished everything I'm going to do with the game yesterday. Really fun game with some awesome dialog and atmosphere. I even picked up on some subtle things reading the wikia pages about some of the characters. Some of the stuff listed there is a reach IMO, but other observations are dead-on and things I did not notice. For example: (Major spoiler if you haven't played RDR...)
Also loved John's line "Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that."
Found myself pondering that line later, heck it's still rolling around in my head. I have that happen with very good books and movies, but rarely with a video game. Voice actor delivers it very well as well. Up there with "War, war never changes." as my favorite video game lines.
I nabbed a decent share of the achievements, passed on all of the multiplayer ones and a few of the single player ones including 100% completion. If the single player achievements were enough for an S-Rank I'd probably have gone for it, but there are a bunch of DLC achievements I can't get and I really don't care for multiplayer achievements, so that made my decision to not grind out a few boring or frustrating activities easy.
Rockstar obviously puts a lot of effort behind developing excellent dialog and atmosphere in their games, in addition to creating fun gameplay, and they deserve the success they have reaped.