Dude, who even knows.

5th November 2018

Post reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 10 notes

kontextmaschine:

Red Dead Redemption 2 has been such a polished jewel of what AAA open-world narratives can be, but just now there’s this adult-female-as-young-male casting (for young Jack Marston, the post-epilogue PC of RDR1) — a classic voice acting scenario — somehow done more infuriatingly bad than old Capcom “maybe you, the master of unlocking” lines with no direction at all

this was the fishing mission, for a bit after this I was like “you know, RDR1 had that the awkward subtext about John and Abigail was how they were committed to this domestic thing after back in the day every guy in the gang had a turn”

and they weren’t even touching on that so I was like “huh are they retconning it” but then there was the “introduce sniper rifles” mission and in a passing ride-to conversation Albert (this game’s PC) ripped John up over it in a way that was kind of a critique of him as a protagonist that then immediately got flipped around in a way that like

• presented self-awareness at the narrative level

• and meta-narrative

• and how they tied into 2010 and 2018 narratives of masculinity

• while throwing a series lore screwball?

• in like 6 lines

Man I missed Rockstar, you could tell they were like 2/3 done GTAV when they had to rush it before their target console generation expired

(even then, they delivered Did Somebody Say Yoga?)

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    this was the fishing mission, for a bit after this I was like “you know, RDR1 had that the awkward subtext about John...