Red Dead Redemption 2 is an homage to Seven Samurai

PowerUp! - " Everything that’s been teased for Red Dead Redemption 2 points to a story that pays homage to Seven Samurai and particularly the anime Samurai 7"

[kneon]

The magnificent 7? I guess it will be as predictable as the last game with nothing but western movie clichés, only this time with a larger cast.

[smolinsk]

So you want a western game that do not resembles the wild west? Great ;-)

As with gta Rockstar makes game worlds that looks like the real thing but with a Rockstar stroke of magic on it and that's what we like.

[kneon]

It's not like western movies actually resemble the "wild" west, that's just the American mythology about the west, not at all like it really was.

But my problems with Red Dead, besides the numerous (and sometimes humorous) technical glitches was that the main and side stories were all so unoriginal and the characters were more like caricatures. I grew up when westerns were on TV all the time, so playing Red Dead I felt like I'd seen this movie before, because I had.

[Derekvinyard13]

No way in hell did you predict that ending

[kneon]

I sure did. And it was handled poorly.

[MWH]

I can understand your point of view, nonetheless i enjoyed playing the hell out of this game.

[raWfodog]

You and so many others, like me, enjoyed the hell out of this game. And we look forward to some more of this 'clichéd' western story.

[pietro1212]

There's always that one guy.
All western movies are riddled with cliches, but really enjoyable. Same goes for Red Dead Redemption.

[joab777]

Maybe cliche, but for a reason. And quality is what I’m looking for in Rockstar, not so much originality.

[kneon]

I'd be ok with the lack of originality if the characters had been better, but they are pretty shallow.

And the quality wasn't that great, there were so many technical problems, major pop-in, levitating barrels and sacks, some really freaky stuff like the infamous donkey lady, riding my horse about 50 feet behind the horse with my arms stretched to make up the distance, enemies stuck in rocks or fallen through the ground so that you couldn't complete the mission.

Most other devs would have been ripped to shreds for such bugs but Rockstar gets a pass for some reason.

[gigoran]

A basically a story for years ago trying to get the jump in others and creating a rumour when absolutely nothing about the story was known.

And even close to release it’s still not a valid rumour

[bangoskank]

Awesome. One of my favorite movies.

[Internetratnik]

How come? There's 8 folks in the picture

[raWfodog]

Look again, the second person from the left is just a really big guy. Kikuchiyo, I believe.

[Internetratnik]

Oh hahah, thnx for responding nicely, I didnt notice that :-D
Though from the original movie, I dont think any of them was so much bigger

[smolinsk]

So what is it you want? Being irritated at Rockstar for making a fun great game with focus on fun and the wild west we all like to think is was, just more fun that way. Of course the real life wild west is not exactly that way, everybody knows that. We want a Rockstar game, if I want a true to life western RPG game it's never gonna be a Rockstar game, don't understand why you wanna take that fight, it's not even close to being Rockstars thing to make close to life games, it's all fun and cliche, all ways have been.
Stupid fight to take.

If somebody else is going to make a real life western RPG game I'm all in for sure, would be amazing, but this is Rockstar.

[DivineAssault]

Im looking forward to finding out more on this.. However if its plagued with cancerous non cosmetic micro transactions, i will be very disappointed

[ZombieKiller]

The Magnificent 7 is more like it! I know I know, it's based off of The 7 Samurai. I was hoping this is true. I kept thinking that I see a resemblance in the trailers. It reminds me of the movie. I know R* will wow the ever loving shit out of us with it regardless. I cant wait to return to the wild west!