the gunslinger's lament

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4. Red Dead Redemption: This game was made for me, Rockstar was like “how can we appeal to Jakes inner child?” and then they tailor made a cowboy game exactly to my tastes and better yet they made a main character who didn’t suck! Seriously half the time they screw up the main character so bad i purposely kill him over and over again just because (Hi Niko!) it might be sadistic but i come from the school of thought that its just a bunch of pixels falling off a building made of more pixels. Red Dead did everything right though, beautiful open world environments, awesome characters, compelling story and you can hunt things! It drew from the influences of old and new westerns and condensed it all into an enjoyable playing experience. If you want to see how amazing this game is just look at the horses, the way they are animated is nothing short of brilliant. In fact look at the horses then look at the horses in assassins creed then once you have stopped laughing (usually it will take around 25 minutes) go play Red Dead Redemption!

I kind of wish I’d seen the AC horses before RDR so I might be able to judge them a little more fairly, but…yeah. I’m not sure any horses so far can compare, but the ones in AC are especially bad.

(Source: flipmaybetimecowboy)