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Annihilating animals in Red Dead Redemption 2 - a video adventure“Nate, ur treating that alligator horribly”
“Nate, ur treating that alligator horribly”
Just before Christmas, the RPS Treehouse got together for amarathon livestreamto raise money for the British Red Cross. There was aNidhoggtournament, a session of BlindfoldedHitman 2, and even a thrilling bout of competitive MS Paint. My role in all of this, however, was a bit more… rustic. I was summoned from my homestead in the Wild West Midlands, armed only with a head full of dreams and a saddlebag full of tinned peaches, to play some good ol’Red Dead Redemption 2.
I couldn’t help it, I swear. As Iwrote in the advent calendar, I find RDR2 is a surprisingly effective horror game, if you play it aimlessly enough. The liquid, overstuffed control scheme means that a nice stroll is only ever a thumb-twitch away from harrowing violence, and even the briefest failure of impulse control can send the Cowboy spiralling into an irreversible orgy of rootin’ and brutin’.
So… yeah, content warning. The tour doesn’t even make it to the one-minute mark before a bird gets annihilated, and seconds later, I’m desperately trying to stab a moth over the ruins of a snapping turtle. It’s all downhill from there, until it reaches the moment I describe as “the nadir of streaming”. But stick it out, and you’ll learn all sorts about what’s inside reptiles - and you might even pick up some fun facts about the philosopher Diogenes along the way. Giddy up!
Watch on YouTube
Watch on YouTube
In Episode Two, the Cowboy - having found he no longer feels any thrill from the demolition of carnivorous reptiles* - crawls out of the swamp and into the squalor of the city, where he seeks out more deserving prey: his fellow man.
*and yes, I know the alligators in the game are alligators. But there was someone in the stream chat getting increasingly furious that I was calling them crocodiles, and I wanted to see how angry they would become.
