Thursday, December 16, 2010

Red Dead Destined

[Slate, Chris Suellentrop]... "A magazine writer e-mailed me the other day, saying that he feels like he's missing out on an important cultural phenomenon by not playing video games. He wants to know how he should get started. If I were forced to suggest only games from 2010, I could offer him only one suggestion that would be worth his time."


and...

[John Lanchester] "Red Dead Redemption was my game of the year by a country mile. In fact I'd go further than that: Red Dead Redemption is the best video game I've ever played." "The learning curve of a game, when it's measured just right, helps encourage you to invest in characters: You struggle with them and that helps you to identify with them. I found myself more closely aligned with John Marston than with any video game protagonist I know."

3 comments:

The Man Who Couldn't Blog said...

Have you played Metro 2033?

The Man Who Couldn't Blog said...

Have you tried Metro 2033? The game Tom talks up?

Justin Sirois said...

Yet not. Just moved it to the top of my Gamefly Queue.

What astonishes me is that these guys didn't even touch on RDR's online multiplayer and how revolutionary it is. Weird.