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girlofprey) wrote2018-12-02 12:22 am
girlofprey) wrote2018-12-02 12:22 am
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So, everything I was worried about with the story of Red Dead 2 seems to be coming true. Also I might have been spoiled yesterday. And maybe last week too. It's hard to tell when they didn't say 'this is what will definitely happen' or 'this is what happens at the end', and it isn't just something that happens along the way - kind of. But I'm starting to put together a picture that might make sense. And kind of makes me wonder what the point of doing all the stuff I'm doing now really is.
I went forward with a mission that I knew was probably going to be the last one for this chapter, and probably quite a turning point for the story, and all the characters I find in any way nice or enjoyable continue to die, then the whole group got split up, then just ridiculous bad luck happened to the characters which doesn't make the story feel meaningful in any way, just like torture porn, and then they were in a place which I know is not a location in the main game so they probably won't stay, but we're probably going to spend a long time here anyway. Away from the open world which is the main bit I'm enjoying so far. And without any of my weapons and stuff, and maybe all the stuff I previously collected is going to have disappeared now too, I just don't know. It just seems like a drag. And specifically, the stuff happening in this new location is mostly just happening around the main character, because it's not a real location so you can't interact with it, but they're still forcing me to hold down a single button to keep things moving anyway. I can't explain how boring and tiresome the whole thing is. And also I just wasn't in the mood at the point, I literally just did the initial mission to get it out of the way, and get to a new camp and whatever and then get back to open world stuff, and then I had to hold buttons through massive cutscenes that were clearly going to go on for some time, so in the end I just reloaded a save from before I started the mission, because no.
I just don't know how anyone can be enjoying the story. I'm enjoying the voice acting. The voice acting is good, and the dialogue. But I don't know about the story. It just seems like a lot of pretentious wank. And especially when they mostly advertised the game as 'Outlaws for life', and 'getting to commit cowboy outlaw crimes in the Old West', I didn't expect them to make that...not fun. Because they have to be Serious. And send a Message. Which isn't even that much of a message, because they still want their outlaw main characters to be cool and Right Really. Maybe? I don't know where they're going with this. Which is my main problem with the game, with the controls/gameplay and now the story as well too - not only do I not know what they're doing with it, I don't know what they're trying to do with it. Every time I think I do, it does something that's the complete opposite, and not in a way that keeps me on my toes or gives me a new angle on the game, just in a way that makes all the previous stuff seem somehow pointless. I don't know. Clearly this isn't the game for me. Maybe I am just very weak, and can't handle a story where depressing things happen, or that has death in it, and maybe that's fair and I've problems with stories that do that before, just because they're not for me or not what I'm looking for. But with this game, and specifically with the amount of energy it takes you to get anywhere with this game, it just feels like it's not doing it's depressing stuff or death very well, it's just using it for shock value or to make things Dark, because that's Serious and Mature, and I just...ugh. The only people I have to really discuss this game with are men, and all I really want to say to them is "I think you only think this story's good because it's a pretty standard macho story, of the kind that men enjoy, and actually it's not that great", but I can't. Because then I would have to have Other Conversations after that, and I assume they probably wouldn't listen to me anyway. It's very much the same way as I feel about the Witcher 3. But there you go.
Mostly I just want to look for fic with the characters, and read fic with the characters. But I'm not prepared to completely spoiler myself just yet, which would clearly happen since people aren't shy about spoilers with this game apparently. And I don't know if it's the kind of game people will really fic about. And I don't know if the fic will be that good. I think they'd mostly write the main character unconvincingly as an Omega. But who knows? Maybe the fic will be great. And exist. And I will still like this game enough by the time I'm finished with it to read it.
They aren't writing Ryan/Ali fic for Coronation Street either. And Sally isn't top dog in prison yet. And as far as I understand, she hasn't slapped both Gina and Tim and told them to get out of her house yet either.
In the real life real world, I was walking home from the takeaway at about half past nine tonight, and I'm pretty sure I saw a guy tip some wire fencing over that was on the pavement, so that it covered the pavement and part of the road. I heard a crash of metal and looked up to see the wire fencing tipped over, and the guy flipping off something or someone at the side of the pavement, and he certainly didn't seem surprised by the fact the fencing had tipped over. He also didn't say anything to me or react in any way as he passed me, although he must have seen me see him walk away from the fencing. I was going to call the non-emergency police, because the fencing was properly in the road, cars were having to swerve around it, but before I'd turned off the street I saw a different guy behind me picking it all back up. So that was interesting. It comes after an incident in our town centre a few weeks ago where a street was cordoned off one Sunday with police officers and an ambulance - which turned out to be someone shoplifting bottles from a nearby supermarket, getting chased by the police, and tripping over and falling onto the bottles. And then an incident this morning where another road was cordoned off with police and ambulances, which apparently was for someone who got hit by a taxi while crossing the road. Our town is starting to feel a little bit more dangerous at the moment.
I went forward with a mission that I knew was probably going to be the last one for this chapter, and probably quite a turning point for the story, and all the characters I find in any way nice or enjoyable continue to die, then the whole group got split up, then just ridiculous bad luck happened to the characters which doesn't make the story feel meaningful in any way, just like torture porn, and then they were in a place which I know is not a location in the main game so they probably won't stay, but we're probably going to spend a long time here anyway. Away from the open world which is the main bit I'm enjoying so far. And without any of my weapons and stuff, and maybe all the stuff I previously collected is going to have disappeared now too, I just don't know. It just seems like a drag. And specifically, the stuff happening in this new location is mostly just happening around the main character, because it's not a real location so you can't interact with it, but they're still forcing me to hold down a single button to keep things moving anyway. I can't explain how boring and tiresome the whole thing is. And also I just wasn't in the mood at the point, I literally just did the initial mission to get it out of the way, and get to a new camp and whatever and then get back to open world stuff, and then I had to hold buttons through massive cutscenes that were clearly going to go on for some time, so in the end I just reloaded a save from before I started the mission, because no.
I just don't know how anyone can be enjoying the story. I'm enjoying the voice acting. The voice acting is good, and the dialogue. But I don't know about the story. It just seems like a lot of pretentious wank. And especially when they mostly advertised the game as 'Outlaws for life', and 'getting to commit cowboy outlaw crimes in the Old West', I didn't expect them to make that...not fun. Because they have to be Serious. And send a Message. Which isn't even that much of a message, because they still want their outlaw main characters to be cool and Right Really. Maybe? I don't know where they're going with this. Which is my main problem with the game, with the controls/gameplay and now the story as well too - not only do I not know what they're doing with it, I don't know what they're trying to do with it. Every time I think I do, it does something that's the complete opposite, and not in a way that keeps me on my toes or gives me a new angle on the game, just in a way that makes all the previous stuff seem somehow pointless. I don't know. Clearly this isn't the game for me. Maybe I am just very weak, and can't handle a story where depressing things happen, or that has death in it, and maybe that's fair and I've problems with stories that do that before, just because they're not for me or not what I'm looking for. But with this game, and specifically with the amount of energy it takes you to get anywhere with this game, it just feels like it's not doing it's depressing stuff or death very well, it's just using it for shock value or to make things Dark, because that's Serious and Mature, and I just...ugh. The only people I have to really discuss this game with are men, and all I really want to say to them is "I think you only think this story's good because it's a pretty standard macho story, of the kind that men enjoy, and actually it's not that great", but I can't. Because then I would have to have Other Conversations after that, and I assume they probably wouldn't listen to me anyway. It's very much the same way as I feel about the Witcher 3. But there you go.
Mostly I just want to look for fic with the characters, and read fic with the characters. But I'm not prepared to completely spoiler myself just yet, which would clearly happen since people aren't shy about spoilers with this game apparently. And I don't know if it's the kind of game people will really fic about. And I don't know if the fic will be that good. I think they'd mostly write the main character unconvincingly as an Omega. But who knows? Maybe the fic will be great. And exist. And I will still like this game enough by the time I'm finished with it to read it.
They aren't writing Ryan/Ali fic for Coronation Street either. And Sally isn't top dog in prison yet. And as far as I understand, she hasn't slapped both Gina and Tim and told them to get out of her house yet either.
In the real life real world, I was walking home from the takeaway at about half past nine tonight, and I'm pretty sure I saw a guy tip some wire fencing over that was on the pavement, so that it covered the pavement and part of the road. I heard a crash of metal and looked up to see the wire fencing tipped over, and the guy flipping off something or someone at the side of the pavement, and he certainly didn't seem surprised by the fact the fencing had tipped over. He also didn't say anything to me or react in any way as he passed me, although he must have seen me see him walk away from the fencing. I was going to call the non-emergency police, because the fencing was properly in the road, cars were having to swerve around it, but before I'd turned off the street I saw a different guy behind me picking it all back up. So that was interesting. It comes after an incident in our town centre a few weeks ago where a street was cordoned off one Sunday with police officers and an ambulance - which turned out to be someone shoplifting bottles from a nearby supermarket, getting chased by the police, and tripping over and falling onto the bottles. And then an incident this morning where another road was cordoned off with police and ambulances, which apparently was for someone who got hit by a taxi while crossing the road. Our town is starting to feel a little bit more dangerous at the moment.