This isn’t a complain about the game, neither a compliment.
It’s something personal I guess, not related to anything else, but myself, I think I just need to vent.
Maybe the game romanticize way too much the life in the year around 1900 and the thing is I just love the life how they portrait it. The game is extremely immersive and it’s hitting me hard.
Everything is so simple, there’s so much respect between people, they live camping with a simple life, everybody trying to help to survive as they can, singing at the end of nights, having profound and philosophical talking. It’s such a more human focused life.
Seeing a simple life like that and comparing to the modern world makes me feel sad. Today we have cars, cities, buildings, very few vegetation, a lot of pollution, everybody is so fixed on being clean, good looking, companies rule the world, people accepting being modern slaves in exchange of a little comfort and convenience. It’s truly a disappointment to me.
I’d exchange 20-30 years living in a world like RDR2 shows than 70-80 years in the modern world. That’s right, I’d rather die trying to hunt for food and learning how to survive in the woods than a massive boring life doing the exact same thing every single day in front of a computer.
When I started playing rdr2 I thought I’d mostly be focused on the mission like most games but what ended up happening is that I mostly just roamed around the beautiful mountains and plains and forests, camping and fishing because such simple beauty is completely absent in my life, all I have for nature is some manicured gardens and artificial lakes, there’s no personal freedom of movement, no going for a walk in places unknown, no privacy to just relax without worry, I grew up in the 90s pre internet and social media and cell phones, even though I grew up in a city, life still felt enjoyable and more social in so many ways, now I live isolated and disconnected and discontent with what has become of society, if I could I’d choose to live in the world of rdr2 as well