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hey everyone object Bakalar and ho boy if I look weird it's cuz I've spent the last eight days plowing through Red Dead Redemption - I don't know what year it is I've forgotten who I am and occasionally I speak like a cowboy this game is massive while I was writing my review I was dreading how I'd make a video to go along with it so I decided that the best way to explain this game was to have a conversation about it so joining me today is Scott Stein someone who has not played the game but is as eager as anyone to know about this so Scott let's get right into it yes I'm excited to debrief you on this yeah I know very little about the game on purpose because I'm excited about diving in myself sure it's smart it's a smart way to approach it tell me about this game compared to Red Dead Redemption 1 this game feels like much more of a an evolution of what Rockstar is trying to do with you know their ambitions of like storytelling an open-world kind of stuff you'll see some like Rockstar hallmarks like you know the characters you'll meet along the way and some of those side missions but their intentions it feels like for this game is to sort of blur the line of like what's campaign what side stuff and everything just feels like a little bit more important Red Dead 2 is a much different game than Red Dead one I mean that's it in the same time period or so like so it's a prequel to Red Dead one it takes place about ten years before the events I've read dead one and in Red Dead one you're sort of like breaking apart from this gang in Red Dead one in Red Dead - the prequel you are a member of the gang and you're sort of like making your way through an America that is slowly but surely losing its outlaws and falling into more lawfulness so why are you feel so traumatized you've been talking about how you how did this break you so I spent saying that this game has broken me because of like the paradox of like having to marathon a game like this in eight days and be able to write a review that is not the way you should be playing this game so let me just put that out there this game is insanely big on a level that I've kind of never seen before the only thing that I think comes close to it is something like The Witcher 3 where you're just presented with so much stuff at the outset that it's kind of daunting to just wrap your head around it I mean I played the game for over 40 hours and I'm only roughly 35 percent through the way the game kind of like tracks your progress so I think the marathon pace at which I attempted to kind of like not blaze through it but just like keep on going and keep a solid pace as much as I enjoyed this game and enjoy playing it and will continue to enjoy that is not how anyone should play this game and I think it's sort of like you know it shows just how impossible it is to like summarize this massive massive game in just like an 8 day play session well do you feel it's like a pretty solitary experience or are you running into a lot of people or is it everything in Red Dead 2 seems unique from like the bounties that you might collect to debts you might reclaim from people that the the brilliance of this game is that everything is so varied and unique and things that you things that you think are insignificant in the story could wind up being this wild chase for hours this games like a cowboy simulator like a moment-to-moment life in America in 1899 where like you essentially have to do everything but breathe for this guy I mean you have to consider so many things your clothing the weather will you be hot will you be cold will you be hungry will you will your horse be okay that's a lot of variables okay there's a lot is it kind of like a GTA 5 with horses no read it one was was in my opinion much more of a GTA game with horses Red Dead 2 is a life simulator mixed peppered with like outlaw gang life and you know the way you play this game directly impacts how people think about you how towns consider you how how long police officers look at you like you make your own way in this game and you kind of have this storyline of you being a member of this gang to kind of carry it through the chapters see do you have like regrets then or do you feel like there are moments where you want to go back and play it a different way or at some point in videogames I was like you know what I can't live like this I just have to play the game and see what happens to me I can't go back and perfect life I can't go back and like change the way this goes so I think that is that is ultimately the right way to play this game is to sort of just let it happen yeah how much of the game is like travel and you mentioned like that it you know you're moving around in some places and what's really cool is they introduced this thing called cinematic mode which is in a lot of rockstar games but they kind of encourage you to use it when you're traveling great distances on horseback because the camera will shift away from third-person and sort of just show you like these prairie these like beautiful sweeping like jib shots and and you're able to kind of like pass the time you know the wildlife and the weather there's amazing weather effects in this game where you're just like you know the line of like photo realism and video game is blurred there was one time where I came across these two rival gang members and they were just like keep moving like you don't want any of this crap no need for threats all right Klaus keep going and now I'm gonna like kill them and take that because I'm an outlaw that's that's what laws do this is a game that will make you sort of have to live with choices on a level like this game is deliberately slow at times to make you feel like this character there is so much stuff that's bit like the weight of it everything carries so much weight the game will tell you if you are underweight you will begin to you know lose health quicker if you are underweight and malnourished you have to eat like what do you what do you eat like what are you grabbing well you you are part of a campsite and this gang has a campsite and everyone this it's sort of like a little bit of communism there and like everyone kind of like pitches in and and you know they all you have to keep the camp fed and stocked with supplies and and if you don't go hunting at some point and provide the camp with food people are like oh we used to eat more you know we're hungry now well don't necessarily want to get spoilers or other things like that but it seems like the type of game where you're just gonna encounter weird things on your own like things that may no one else might see it sure what's like the weird thing you've seen the most bizarre moment you've had I've seen like real weird stuff we're like I stopped once to like help a guy who who whose horse looked like he needed like a horseshoe replacement and the guys like talking to me is like oh thanks so much for stopping by and then all of a sudden the horse kicks him because he would like was like holding the horse's leg improperly the horse I kicked back killed the guy and the horse was like trotted away into the wilderness and I'm just sitting there I'm like it's a strange feeling that this game is able to create and I think that's what's been like the most kind of like emotional part of it is like this game has made me feel stuff probably more more so than a lot of stuff I applied it sound like you're saying the silences or the the question of like judgment in these moments I mean GTA I feel like a lot of times you're moving fast so like you you get the thing to get to the next thing yeah you need the money or whatever else but like it or yeah there's moments where like if it's just you and the dead dead guy what happens and it's just know nothing for miles no one's around and you look around a lot because it's a you know you have to think of like you know technology is obviously much different new to 99 you Oh someone's gonna take a picture of this and I'm screwed it's more like was there a witness oh there was one witness there they go I have to chase them down and either convince them to not say anything or deal with them a different way you know that the game lets you kind of interact in a more seamless you don't engage in like sort of like a dialogue tree everything they've gone for like a more seamless interaction with people so you're just kind of like hold a trigger thank you sure not strong enough to work is this reminding you of other things that are out there I think every time a rockstar game comes out I think it's very bold to push the needle move the needle rather push the envelope and kind of be a milestone in what games are perceived as and and I think the GTA games have done a good job of like you know telling a narrative story through missions and then side stuff and you know this game to me tries to like I said before bring everything to the same level and not you know have you discount things that are just like side icon on a map I think like a lot of games now suffer from Matt barf or like there's all these just dots all over a map and you just have to like check all these boxes it is much less a box checking game and more of like a story that can really go on for a long time and you kind of make your way through it and your experience is likely almost a hundred percent guaranteed to be vastly different from the next person the multiplayer is that's not available that's not yeah but yet they're gonna do that I believe the plan is to launch it in November whether or not it hits that date we'll see but don't get me wrong you can play you can spend months with this game I have not finished it I don't know anyone who has I mean I'm sure there's readers ever finish this game but yeah the people I've talked with no one's close to it it is a seemingly never ending game and I'm gonna start to take my time with it after this like how much of my life do you think I'm gonna have to sacrifice to play this I mean I this is a game that you can play two hours a day or like let's say like six hours a week for six months what are the horses like they're serious about their amazing there's so many different kinds I mean like that is essentially like the you know the vehicle of the game but you can you know you have to treat them well you have to bond with them the more you bond with them the more you can do like special maneuvers with them you can do these like skid maneuvers if you really have to feed them have to brush them you have to maintain them you have to make sure they have you know everyone's got like little meters that you sort of have to keep an eye on and it's detailed are there like other animals - there there's everything you interact with there with you a lot of it is just for skinning and eating and hunting but just I mean there's there's like legendary animals that are like these you know almost like mythical creatures or like a legendary grizzly bear that you know you have to skin and it's there's a lot there is a lot a lot of animals did you feel Redemption this is all done and I can go back and start enjoying this game at a much slower pace I'm happy I was I was not have to be a real cowboy yeah I think that's gonna do it I thank you for for this opportunity it was very cathartic and I'm happy to provide your exit interview from leaving the world of Red Dead I feel much better now coming out the other side if you want to read the full review it's over at CNET and thanks for watching