http://savygamer.co.uk/2010/07/01/redemption-song/ What're you buying, stranger? Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:26:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.5 http://savygamer.co.uk/2010/07/01/redemption-song/#comment-2210 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:14:07 +0000 http://savygamer.co.uk/?p=4458#comment-2210 To be honest, the “talking on a train” beginning of RDR turned out to be eminently skippable since it wasn’t well-written or intelligently directed at all. Yeah, yeah, we GET it, Rockstar; early 20th century (white) Americans were god-fearing hiearchical racist assholes who should – for some inexplicable reason – be viewed (or looked down on, rather) through the wildlly anachronistic lense of early 21th century liberal sensibilites. Please give me actual honest-to-goodness video game racism, sexism and sensationalism any day of the week over this unbelievably clumsy attempt at setting the scene…

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