Post by chzrm3 on Jul 12, 2010 19:25:57 GMT -5
Hey yeah this thread has spoilers in it, don't click/read if you didn't want to get anything spoiled for you.
Okay, so wow, that ending was intense. It's one thing when the main character dies at the end of a game. It's another thing ENTIRELY when you get a few days of relative in-game happiness, peace, and closure, and then the main character dies.
I was seriously happy for Marston, guys. I was really impressed that Rockstar was giving us an Epilogue that you not only appreciated because it involved his family, but got to experience. There've been a lot of video games with happy endings, and most of them really meant nothing to me. This one, on the other hand, I felt some legitimate happiness about. I thought the game was going to segue into an open ended, "build your ranch" type of thing, where you herd cattle and invest money into the farm to make it better and live out Marston's dreams of a peaceful, happy life.
Then, bam. That invasion. Honestly, I thought his family was gonna die, and I was like "that's gonna suck for him, but it'll be a great way to lead into Red Dead 2!" And then MARSTON DIES?!?!? It was like a complete 180. Instead of making the main character feel sad and you're like "aww, it'll be okay buddy", they take the main character from you? And marston wasn't your typical sandbox protagonist. He was GREAT. I can honestly say, one of my top ten video game characters ever. Even the little comments he'd make while skinning a pig were hilarious, no matter how many times I heard them.
"Damn, you stink!"
"Lie still... ahahahaha."
But now he's dead, and while his family was torn up about it, I'm the one that has to live with it. I can play as Jack, who's OKAY, but every time I do something new as Jack, I find myself feeling a twinge of sadness because I'd rather be doing it with John. Like, I threw a stick of dynamite into a buffalo heard and blew them all to shit. Jack was like "Look out everybody!", and I'm just thinking : |. If it was Marston, he would've been like "God DAMN!"
So, I dunno. I get why Rockstar did it. The west is dead, and this whole game was a tribute to its death. For Marston to live would've made no sense. It also makes much more of an impact when characters die (see: Aeris). But in the same vein, it also makes the rest of the game kinda unplayable for me. I don't wanna finish the single player stuff or do multiplayer cause I miss Marston's commentary. I don't feel like a badass tearing shit up as his kid, I feel like a poser. And I keep wishing that even though the west is dead, Marston could've survived.
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Okay, so wow, that ending was intense. It's one thing when the main character dies at the end of a game. It's another thing ENTIRELY when you get a few days of relative in-game happiness, peace, and closure, and then the main character dies.
I was seriously happy for Marston, guys. I was really impressed that Rockstar was giving us an Epilogue that you not only appreciated because it involved his family, but got to experience. There've been a lot of video games with happy endings, and most of them really meant nothing to me. This one, on the other hand, I felt some legitimate happiness about. I thought the game was going to segue into an open ended, "build your ranch" type of thing, where you herd cattle and invest money into the farm to make it better and live out Marston's dreams of a peaceful, happy life.
Then, bam. That invasion. Honestly, I thought his family was gonna die, and I was like "that's gonna suck for him, but it'll be a great way to lead into Red Dead 2!" And then MARSTON DIES?!?!? It was like a complete 180. Instead of making the main character feel sad and you're like "aww, it'll be okay buddy", they take the main character from you? And marston wasn't your typical sandbox protagonist. He was GREAT. I can honestly say, one of my top ten video game characters ever. Even the little comments he'd make while skinning a pig were hilarious, no matter how many times I heard them.
"Damn, you stink!"
"Lie still... ahahahaha."
But now he's dead, and while his family was torn up about it, I'm the one that has to live with it. I can play as Jack, who's OKAY, but every time I do something new as Jack, I find myself feeling a twinge of sadness because I'd rather be doing it with John. Like, I threw a stick of dynamite into a buffalo heard and blew them all to shit. Jack was like "Look out everybody!", and I'm just thinking : |. If it was Marston, he would've been like "God DAMN!"
So, I dunno. I get why Rockstar did it. The west is dead, and this whole game was a tribute to its death. For Marston to live would've made no sense. It also makes much more of an impact when characters die (see: Aeris). But in the same vein, it also makes the rest of the game kinda unplayable for me. I don't wanna finish the single player stuff or do multiplayer cause I miss Marston's commentary. I don't feel like a badass tearing shit up as his kid, I feel like a poser. And I keep wishing that even though the west is dead, Marston could've survived.
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