For a long while, many popular songs just aped the melodies of other songs everyone knew while changing up the lyrics. A famous example being the Star-Spangled Banner's melody being borrowed from a short-lived 18th-century London musical club, the Anacreontic Society
I had a feeling that is likely the case. Considering the song had only recently been rediscovered means the RS devs absolutely had no idea. It absolutely is the same melody, though. Makes me wish there was a mod that adds racist, era-appropriate ragtime melodies for the saloons.
For a game that tries to realistically depict 19th century America the racism is really tame and surface level. It just boils down to nothing or stereotypical racist southerner.
Yeah, Lenny, Charles and Tina. They are the niggers. At least Micah can be the most obnoxius one but even him just say: "darkie" in the game.
Idk if that town in the swamps can be considered a black town.
The worst in terms of actual racism in the game is people occasionally calling Lenny boy, but it seems to just be because he's young. Micah calls him a darkie in a hushed, whispering tone, but that's about it. The game came out in 2018, which was right at the height of online censorship and companies doing their damnedest to make sure they adhered to the cult of progressiveism.
That's more inbred swamp people and criminals, like the Forbidden Woods in Bloodborne using an example off the top of my head. A real black town would be a small one by a river with a handful of tiny farms and wooden houses dotted about, a small general store too.
Yeah, but its silly how it seems to treat all racist characters as monsters who deserve suffering or death considering that the beliefs held by the majority in that time would be considered uber-Hitler KKK nowadays. This isn't to say everyone was pro-TND in the past, its much more complex, but Rockstar would rather just ignore and portray people as essentially having modern-day beliefs unless they were written as the designated bigot
It is pretty jarring and it regularly ruins immersion since it's all handled so awkwardly. It's like whenever a children's show attempts to talk about heavy subject matters, but half ass it. Alas, Rockstar has cultivated a rather morally confusing audience, I've realized. I saw a poll that was posted asking which character was the most moral/kindest out of the four posted. Charles, Author's ex-gf, Captain Monroe, and Hercule. A vast majority chose Charles despite him being a murderous criminal.
If you have no idea what happens in RDR1, honestly, play RDR2 first since it makes stuff in RDR1 matter much more and make more sense.
I done that and i just found background of the main antagonists. Not the plot itself.
The story missions are fucking awful from a pure gaming perspective. Absolute shit. Any player agency is choked to death at every possible turn.
That's pretty much Lagras, just trade farming crops for farming crayfish. You can come across a black chick by the side of the road as a random encounter and she asks to be taken back home, and she sounds exactly like you would expect her to sound as she prattles on about life there.
Hilariously, her dead horse is also one of the best, and most expensive breeds in the game. Although, that might just be because there's a similar event that you can find which uses the same horse, so it might just be a case of reused assets.
I think the worst example of this "on rails" shit is the mission where you're tasked with breaking in to the Cornwall Oil field depot/offices and if you don't specifically go to a specific door immediately, you fail the mission. At pretty much no point can you approach a given mission your own way, you have to do it exactly as the developers intended, because otherwise scripts and cutscenes won't trigger appropriately, so rather than working around that they just fail the mission for you.
Mafia 3 had NPC's from specific districts literally call the main character a nigger as you free roamed and would call the police on you in the event that you stumbled into a segregated store or area and this was back in 2016, Rockstar would just beat around the bush regarding the topic, Which is fucking retarded, it's been only 30 years since the end of the Civil War, and yet despite this, the worst you'd see is Micah saying a few mean words to Lenny or Charles.
This reminds me a lot of how dipshits will hold up the Joker for example as a "Good Villain" in regards to him not being a heckin racist, just a guy who will rape and kill literally anything with a pulse just for the hell of it. It's a retarded thought process and it's pushed like hell, calling somebody a nigger is a crime worse than anything a human could commit according to these people.
I would like to see more Red Dead games, i just hope they aren't "Redemption" ones. John, Arthur and the Van Der Linde Gang's story imo is told and done, i would love to see a game with a new set of faces and in the peak of the wild west rather than in it's last legs. That being said, i wouldn't complain seeing familiar characters appear, so long as they aren't the crutch of the story.
Rockstar might be in for a rude awakening when it comes to the reception of GTA 6.
