What made this game feel so soulful?

What made this game feel so soulful?

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the old west just resonates with people. A western gta reskin is bound to make money.

>tfw 4:09

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This games blows - repetitious main missions, Fedex-quest side missions, boring Far Cry 3-style hunting.

The god damn soundtrack is a masterpiece

What are the going to market their new shark cards as? Railroad bonds? Bank Notes?

What kind of fucking moron describes plagiarism as "soulful"?

nothing, it's boring and overrated

Atmosphere, soundtrack, art style. It all just blends together and forms absolute Western kino

It certainly feels alive, but soulful isn't the world I used to describe it. It's very repetitive and much of the world is absolutely dead.

plagiarism of what?

Story line was epic, was GOAT for last gen. I actually got pissed as fuck with them killing off.... would reload from save and try and deadeye as many as possible thinking I could somehow change the outcome.

Soundtrack massive plus to.

>It certainly feels alive
>much of the world is absolutely dead.
this is why i don't come to Sup Forums anymore

The premise of the game is blatantly ripped off from the highly acclaimed The Proposition that came out a few years earlier. Individual small pieces of the game are stolen from a smorgasbord of classic westerns.

That's how Rockstar operates. Their games are just an amalgamation of things stolen from film and TV. It was fine when they were making satire but then they suddenly decided they are serious artists without changing how they write their games at all. They're hacks.

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The word you're looking for is "Inspired". It cannot be "stolen", because no one owns the concepts their games portrayed.

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AND THE WIND BLOWS FREE

Inspired means you do your own thing with it. You contribute something new. Rockstar does not, they just have significantly larger development budgets than most developers.

That's just westerns in general and has been that way since they first become truly popular 50 years ago.

No, that is not true. And Rockstar have displayed a pattern of behavior when it comes to this sort of stuff. Red Dead Redemption is not the only rip off they've ever produced. Max Payne 3 blatantly stole from Man on Fire. LA Noire blatantly stole from Chinatown, The Two Jakes and LA Confidential. The lead writer for the company, who also happens to own the company and decides what gets in the game and what doesn't, is just a hack. He's genuinely worse than Kojima.

>What made this game feel so soulful?

Cringe word use. Also I wouldn't go so far to say it is boring though. Not until you beat it. Then it gets boring.

gold

repetitive quests and enemies

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This is my all time favorite game. Fight me.

mine too

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>tfw talking around the snowy tall trees

For me it was the random encounters. I remember riding along a dirt path in the middle of nowhere when I hear a gunshot ring out. I went to investigate and found a man sobbing over the body of a women before he blows his brains out. Was it a murder-suicide? Did he try to defend her against a cougar and failed? I'll never know.
Also, exploring abandoned shacks and such and Marston would say, "Something doesn't feel right", or "What happened here?" and an eerie music cue would play. I'm a sucker for that kinda shit.

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Ragdoll physics has not been done better before or since. One shot in particular that was always guaranteed to be amazing was a rifle shot into the belt, just above the crotch. The way they'd stumble back, clutch their gut, drop their gun, fall over, right themselves onto their abdomen if they landed on their back or side, then crawl away leaving a blood trail while gasping, calling for help, or begging for mercy, was just perfect. Sometimes I'd follow them as the crawled while aiming at their head, and if they begged me to kill them, I'd oblige. The blood splatter across the ground and gore protruding from their head was beautifully brutal.