I Really Mean It
Veteran
I tried this when it came out, ending my session after just an hour or two, finding the place plodding and the movement too slow. Everything, from how your character walked to how he interacted with the environment, moved with a deliberate sluggishness that almost seemed to interfere with your agency. It made for a disconnect that I wasn’t able to overcome until recently.
I returned to it, taking my time with an understanding that this is how Rockstars wanted you to experience Arthur’s story. And, taking that into consideration, I have to say that this stands as one of the best games I have ever experienced.
I just ended the 1st story, which was epic in how it charted the consequences that inevitably- for most men, I’ll say - meets a life of depravity and violence. I loved Arthur as a character, despite knowing he wasn’t a good person at all, his qualms over the course of the game coming only as he pondered his mortality.
I don’t want to be spoiled, since I’ve only just begun the 2nd part, but that ending had to have been because of the choices I made. It was so sudden and unforgiving, as if to show me the error of my ways.
I don’t know what to think about Dutch. I don’t necessarily see him the way Arthur did at the end, as a man who betrayed his brothers for venal ends. I think he was a flawed idealist who had a vision he wasn’t willing to let go of, no matter how impractical or even impossible it became as the world encroached on him and his gang.
fukk Micah, though.
I returned to it, taking my time with an understanding that this is how Rockstars wanted you to experience Arthur’s story. And, taking that into consideration, I have to say that this stands as one of the best games I have ever experienced.
I just ended the 1st story, which was epic in how it charted the consequences that inevitably- for most men, I’ll say - meets a life of depravity and violence. I loved Arthur as a character, despite knowing he wasn’t a good person at all, his qualms over the course of the game coming only as he pondered his mortality.
I don’t want to be spoiled, since I’ve only just begun the 2nd part, but that ending had to have been because of the choices I made. It was so sudden and unforgiving, as if to show me the error of my ways.
I don’t know what to think about Dutch. I don’t necessarily see him the way Arthur did at the end, as a man who betrayed his brothers for venal ends. I think he was a flawed idealist who had a vision he wasn’t willing to let go of, no matter how impractical or even impossible it became as the world encroached on him and his gang.
fukk Micah, though.
