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Tom:
I'm pretty sure that Aaron Staton (Ken Cosgrove, Mad Men) is the main character. This is a good thing.
KvP:
He is.
Storm Rider:
Totally not believing this game actually exists until someone can actually go into a store and buy it.
That someone will not be me, because even if this game comes out the Rockstar formula does not interest me and never has. I will brood in my frozen mountain cave as game critics shower absurdly hyperbolic praise upon it like every Rockstar game before it, and silently plot for the end.
Ozymandias:
Hey guy.
What if those critics are right about this one?
Alex C:
It's not really a matter of whether the critics are right or not. It's a matter of whether we want the same things. When it comes to video games, I really don't think I want the same things as the people who play Rockstar games apparently want. I'm the guy that still kinda likes it when a game turns out to be Nintendo hard and thematically I prefer games like Torment over games that are snarky and feature a lot of swearing while riffing on pop culture. Rockstar games definitely are a bit self aware and have a tongue firmly in cheek, but I still find them kind of ugly and crass even if their heart is in the right place in a fucked up way (as with Bully.)
Basically, it'll probably require a Herculean effort and a rejiggering of someone's expectations of what constitutes a good game (either mine or theirs) before Rockstar produces the sort of game I'd enjoy. That, and I've decided I just don't really like crime dramas. That's sort of a problem considering that this game appears to be Rockstar's love letter to American crime drama.
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