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Ser Prize said:
Frankly I'm sick of remakes and prequels. If Rockstar pulls another Red Dead game out I want an original story. Maybe have an encounter with the old gang at most.

And for them not to tell the same damn story of 'the death of the west' a third time.
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I think a remake/remaster of the first game is reasonable given 2's success and the first game's lack of portability. While it does have 'end of the west' themes what I like more about 1 than 2 is you get to experience all three genres of western in one game as you progress. That's a cool idea.

Any proper sequels, however, need to go back towards the heyday of the wild west. My idea would be to make a game about Landon Rickets, maybe pursuing an outlaw across parts of the country we haven't seen and ending with his retirement in Mexico after losing everything over the course of the story. Another 'protagonist dies play as some other fag' game will not fly with me.

Also no Jack game set in the 20s as a prohibition Era gangster or whatever other retarded idea I see people bandying about on the internet. I want Red Dead to stay Wild West.
 
Mega Black said:
I think a remake/remaster of the first game is reasonable given 2's success and the first game's lack of portability. While it does have 'end of the west' themes what I like more about 1 than 2 is you get to experience all three genres of western in one game as you progress. That's a cool idea.

Any proper sequels, however, need to go back towards the heyday of the wild west. My idea would be to make a game about Landon Rickets, maybe pursuing an outlaw across parts of the country we haven't seen and ending with his retirement in Mexico after losing everything over the course of the story. Another 'protagonist dies play as some other fag' game will not fly with me.

Also no Jack game set in the 20s as a prohibition Era gangster or whatever other retarded idea I see people bandying about on the internet. I want Red Dead to stay Wild West.
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Honestly, if Rockstar would make a 20's gangster era game, I think it should be its own original project and not tied to GTA or Red Dead in any fashion, maaaybe some Easter Eggs but nothing that goes "This is tied to X actually" type shit. Heck, they could even bring back the mechanics from the older GTA games like Vice City stories about you owning a business that pays you protection money.
 
Tsukasa Kadoya said:
I remember as a kid playing an on-rails western shooter that had a naked woman in the background.
It was rated E and the utter shock on my parent's faces upon seeing the buxom beauty in my vidya was hilarious.
I wish I could remember what the game was, there were an absolute shitload of Western games in the 90s.
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Dead Man’s Hand?
 
when GUN came out my dad bought it. I didn't know what it was, or care because I got God of War the same day so I was busy with that. a couple of days later at like 2 in the fucking morning in the middle of a school week he burst into my room and woke me up and was like son get up come here this is important, he was acting dead serious like 9/11 was happening again on tv or some shit so I half awake scrambled up and into the living room, where he promptly said 'check this shit out' and shot a dynamite arrow up a pig's ass and it exploded and he just cracked the fuck up for like 10 minutes and told me it was the best game he had ever played. I think I started a file on it as soon as I got home from school the next day.

I replayed it a few years ago when I modded my wii U and was disappointed at how short it actually is. I 100%ed it in no time. It's a lot of fun though and holds up pretty well. I was always upset they never made a sequel. I can't remember what game it was, but there was some other neversoft or activision game (probably a tony hawk game or something) that had a fake poster for a gun 2 in it and I kept waiting for it to come out. Red Dead 1 essentially filled that void for me but Gun kicks ass. I've heard the PSP port actually has the most content in it but I'm not sure if it's scaled down or actually the same game with more stuff. as good as psp emulation is I should check it out.
 
CyrusHowler said:
Dead Man’s Hand?
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No its was older than the Xbox. I wanna say it was in the same vein as Gunfighter: The Legend of Jesse James, but that game, while VERY similar, isn't what I was looking for.
I dunno, maybe it was a shovelware game that's long forgotten, I dunno.
EDIT: I FOUND IT!

Colt's Wild West Shootout 1999

 
Are any of the Lucky Luke games any good? The gameboy game has a decent soundtrack.
 
Hembruh said:
when GUN came out my dad bought it. I didn't know what it was, or care because I got God of War the same day so I was busy with that. a couple of days later at like 2 in the fucking morning in the middle of a school week he burst into my room and woke me up and was like son get up come here this is important, he was acting dead serious like 9/11 was happening again on tv or some shit so I half awake scrambled up and into the living room, where he promptly said 'check this shit out' and shot a dynamite arrow up a pig's ass and it exploded and he just cracked the fuck up for like 10 minutes and told me it was the best game he had ever played. I think I started a file on it as soon as I got home from school the next day.

I replayed it a few years ago when I modded my wii U and was disappointed at how short it actually is. I 100%ed it in no time. It's a lot of fun though and holds up pretty well. I was always upset they never made a sequel. I can't remember what game it was, but there was some other neversoft or activision game (probably a tony hawk game or something) that had a fake poster for a gun 2 in it and I kept waiting for it to come out. Red Dead 1 essentially filled that void for me but Gun kicks ass. I've heard the PSP port actually has the most content in it but I'm not sure if it's scaled down or actually the same game with more stuff. as good as psp emulation is I should check it out.
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I fucking loved the shit out of that game. There's a PC port you can find on the pirate sites, too. Short, but fairly sweet. And I love that the villain is 100% unequivocally evil, none of this modern day "muh poor misunderstood man" bullshit.
 
I wish more AA or even AAA devs would take a chance on the genre. Yeah, you’re gonna get compared to Red Dead but who cares? Rockstar don’t have a monopoly on the genre.
A few years ago after Far Cry 4, Ubisoft put out a questionnaire asking people what kind of Far Cry game they’d like to see next and Western was on the list. I wanted one so bad back then lmao. But Far Cry 6 sucked so idk if I wanna see it anymore.
 
The first Western video game I ever played was a light gun arcade shooter called Mad Dog McCree. It was decent, and even my Dad enjoyed playing it.

I absolutely LOVED Darkwatch back in the PS2 days, and wish like hell the sequel had gotten made.

I played the hell out of Red Dead Redemption 1 and Call of Juarez 1 & 2 back in the day, but never played CoJ: Gunslinger.

I have no interest in a Western game infected with Current Year faggotry, which is why I've never played RDR2.

I hope that Blood West gets ported to the XBOX at some point, I'd love to play it.

I still play Hunt: Showdown on occasion, but I'm taking a break from it thanks to all the sweathogs that have turned it from a game into a chore.

New Vegas is the best Fallout game since the the first two, and I still play it even to this day.
 
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CyrusHowler said:
I wish more AA or even AAA devs would take a chance on the genre. Yeah, you’re gonna get compared to Red Dead but who cares? Rockstar don’t have a monopoly on the genre.
A few years ago after Far Cry 4, Ubisoft put out a questionnaire asking people what kind of Far Cry game they’d like to see next and Western was on the list. I wanted one so bad back then lmao. But Far Cry 6 sucked so idk if I wanna see it anymore.
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I think that a lot of RPG-style games should also look at adding gunslinger/sharpshooter-style character classes. Imagine having a gunslinger-type character class in a dark fantasy Diablo-style game or Bloodbourne, Dark Souls, or Elden Ring...and I think it would fit with the theme of a creepy "hero" walking through a ruined world full of weird monsters and armed with a whole repitoire of formidable gun tricks.
 
Hepativore said:
I think that a lot of RPG-style games should also look at adding gunslinger/sharpshooter-style character classes. Imagine having a gunslinger-type character class in a dark fantasy Diablo-style game or Bloodbourne, Dark Souls, or Elden Ring...and I think it would fit with the theme of a creepy "hero" walking through a ruined world full of weird monsters and armed with a whole repitoire of formidable gun tricks.
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If you want FromSoft style gameplay but with guns then play Remnant 1 or 2.
 
Weird West was an interesting experiment. Top down action RPG with twin stick shooter controls. A bit to much focus on randomly generated missions and locations, and frankly its kind of an ugly game. But I'm glad I played through it at least once
 
RDR1: Good game with very fun characters, plot was kind of light but artsy enough that people took it more seriously than it deserved, looked really good for is day too (in a pushing the envelope sense), multiplayer was amazing

RDR2: Excellent game, top tier immersion, but it went up its ass trying to be artsy, characters felt more real but were less memorable/enjoyable, annoying politics, multiplayer was canceraids

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger: Decent bones of an arcade shooter (like a rail shooter where you move yourself, if that makes sense), but the plot is godawful and the mission types are repetitive

Desperados 3: God-tier stealth/tactics/puzzle game that's basically a movie scene generator (with things like coordinated ambushes and different distraction options). Plot is dumb as hell but the characters are fun in a shallow Marvel movie way. Beautiful painting-like graphics.

Weird West: Boring as hell, clunky, don't like it's fantasy setting, chinks everywhere, hate this, hate this, didn't even finish second act
 
I love some westerns.

Westerado: Double Barrelled was one of the Adult Swim games that got fleshed out for sale, and I think it was worth every bit of it. Just a fun little game where it's about shooting varmints on a horizontal plane to plug them. Get shot and lose a hat, run out of hats and die. But it had a really fleshed out world map with little questlines and storylines to follow for a lot of replayability, and the unlockable characters were neat, too.

Before that I feel like the original Red Dead Revolver was overlooked; it was incredibly goofy but still had plenty of charm to it and a fun quick-draw challenge that the last part of the game really focused on. Not as good as the one that came out with Call of Juarez, but quick draws seem challenging to make satisfying in any way so I think that might be part of why westerns aren't as evergreen as other genres.

The Lethal Enforcers sequel from arcades was nice, I liked it a lot more than the original, and it was a good attempt at making a cowboy shooter when the best alternative at the time was the Mad Dog McCree games, which featured actual quick-draw mechanics in the arcade cabinets that were a lot of fun. Overpriced, but fun. Also worth mentioning is the Cowboys of Moo Mesa arcade cabinet from the time which was a full and cartoony beat-em-up that was constantly screaming at you for playing it because of all the contextual events showing up from what I remember.

Cowboy Kids on the NES was sort of like a westernized version of the Goemon games, at least in running around to different locations to farm money and power-ups before eventually going into an actual stage to fight a boss. Gunman's Proof, which never got a US release so only really showed up on emulators with translation patches was a cute sort of western-themed Legend of Zelda.

And for PC, I did like Silverado despite it being an extremely janky adventure game, when adventure games were coming close to their sunset as the premier title for a company to produce. Alone in the Dark 3 also managed to pull the series out of the absolute descent to madness that was Alone in the Dark 2, by presenting a big polygonal wild west town to solve puzzles in and have frustrating combat through.

Honorable mention to Way of the Samurai 4 for featuring several cowboy-themed bits of clothing you can throw on your samurai as well as an unlockable six-gun that takes an incredible amount of grinding to make viable.
 
I remember the Kinect having a puppet Western rail shooter. The Gunstringer.

 
I've actually thought it was weird my whole life how little western games there are. before Gun and Red Dead Revolver as far as on a console the only ones we had were a lone ranger game on nes, and sunset riders on snes that I guess my dad and brother had bought whenever they came out. I remember seeing Wild Arms 1/2 at the video store at some point but didn't know what they were. I assume maybe it was because most of the big developers in the 80s and 90s were Japanese and presumably they were more interested in Science Fiction and stuff than Westerns in those days.

I do remember a couple of random light gun western games on various systems that I played at other people's houses growing up but really the setting just lends itself to basically any genre of game, and it's weird how little people capitalized on it outside of those. now it sucks because we have the technology to make the coolest western games but modern day bullshit that plagues games is pretty much a guarantee.

the western is my favorite genre in general and I also think it kind of sucks that 80%+ of the western games we have are more weird west stuff with regular video-gamey types of things in it, not that there isn't room for that because absolutely but I want more straight up cowboy shit but you can't be slaughtering indians and beating up whores and robbing banks and be a white guy in a game today. fuck I would love a stealth game where you're some indian hunting down and scalping people too. there's a literal reason you could have a brown person killing white people but they wouldn't make that either because there'd be no fags.

anyways another suggestion for anyone is a SNES game that got a fan translation, called Gunman's Proof. it's a fun little game that's sort of a weird zelda crossed with zombies ate my neighbors game with earthbound vibes. it's short, you wander around through a couple little dungeons getting new guns fighting aliens and monsters. it's a nice beat it in an afternoon kind of game.
 

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I did play Westerado. I actually found it really fun at first and it's definitely short and replayable enough (toy around with different possible resolutions to what boils down to just a few main quests). The way the shooting works is pretty good. But there's not much to it and I didn't find it funny at all.


I bought Luckslinger on a sale, game I really anticipated but was never going to pay more than a few bucks for.
I was really, really disappointed.

The premise of it is that it's a side scrolling shooter/platformer with this cringey "cool" hip-hop Western theme (I wonder if it was inspired by Django, there's no race bait in it at all, it's just that the protagonist is Black and it plays into that in a very cringey "exaggerated swagger of a Black teenager" way) with a luck theme. The gameplay gimmick is that luck is a resource that you build up, passively it triggers good events and prevents bad events (like bullets veering away from you, your bullets veering into them, being spared when falling down a pit, etc, and if you're desperate you can manually blow your accumulated luck on a temporary super-luck ability.

But it's just BORING and it SUCKS.
It'll have a boss fight that's hard as shit at the end of a short level, so you spend almost all your time fighting the boss fight. The story isn't really supposed to matter, but for what it's worth it's nonexistent. I don't actually like the music (it's just there). It's ugly. The gameplay gimmick isn't used in interesting fashion, more of a nuisance that it's there at all.

Playing it just made me wish I could have been playing Save the Sheriff (you know, the MINICLIP game) instead.
 
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