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The first 20 hours were just like, Oh, Im playing a video game.
This is fun, Olsson laughs, chatting with Den of Geek between lectures.
Thats a genre thats not nearly as prevalent.
John Marston and Arthur Morgan are not cowboys, Olsson asserts.
Cowboys are the pawns in the game, not the kings.
The age of outlaw gangs Red Dead presents is actually 30 years too late.
By the 1890s, cowboys were more likely to be striking for fair wages than robbing trains.
(See also:HBOsDeadwoodand its third season villain George Hearst, who was very real.)
I live in Appalachia.
Many of my students self-identify with the Southern mountains as where theyre from.
The game does both a good and bad job.
The point ofRed Deads Historyis not to ruinRed Dead Redemption 2for you.
