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[–] 45 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I understand that it can feel that way, but remember that video games are romanticized interpretations that make things way easier than they are in real life. Life back then wasn't RDR2 and there's no guarantee that you'd find the community you're imagining, and a much higher chance you'd have to deal with the harsh realities of those times

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Idk if you've played the game, but you regularly have to deal with pretty harsh realities of those times.

    OP isn't wrong, though. RDR2 does a good job of putting you in the shoes of someone 125y ago (as much as a real time simulation projected on a 2D surface can), after all, someone 125y ago wasn't thinking "man, these times sure have some harsh realities", it was just the world they knew.

    While I don't think the writers intended the takeaway to be "look how much better life was in the wild west", they did intend to give some perspective on what "freedom" meant to people in the US 125y ago. And how something things have changed while others have stayed exactly the same.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm just saying there's a difference between playing a game designed to provide a fun and rewarding experience and actually going through those harsh realities in real life

    RDR2 does a good job of putting you in the shoes of someone 125y ago

    Does it? I wasn't alive then, and I doubt any of the devs were either. Even if you're going off first hand sources it can still be hard to know if the perception we have today is actually accurate to how it was back then

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