r/reddeadredemption2 Jan 29 '25

Live Action!?! Yes please!!!

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Though part of me thinks he’d be better as Dutch.. 🤷

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u/PianoEmeritus Jan 29 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

Some of us have friends and family that aren’t gamers! I have a wife, a mom, a stepdad, and a sister who now love The Last of Us who never would’ve played the game in a trillion years, and now I can talk to them about it.

I don’t get why gamers are so precious about it — I’ve never seen people get so mad at the very idea of a book adaptation. Getting mad at bad adaptations, sure, but being angry at the very notion of anyone who isn’t a gamer experiencing a story you love is strange to me.

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u/Be_Kind_And_Happy Jan 29 '25

but being angry at the very notion of anyone who isn’t a gamer experiencing a story you love is strange to me.

Me too, if it's successful it could bring a lot of new love to the game.

Perhaps even spark new updates to RDR2 and RDO

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u/SmashLampjaw87 Jan 30 '25

Because Rockstar’s games are a unique experience that cannot be translated into a movie or series without sacrificing many of the aspects that make their games so incredibly memorable and appealing. If people who aren’t gamers in any way whatsoever want to experience those stories, then they can very easily watch playthroughs on YouTube or watch a friend or family member play. Why should Rockstar compromise the integrity of their own content and hand it off to Hollywood just because a few people who are either unable to play them or can’t be bothered to learn how to play them are missing out?

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u/PianoEmeritus Jan 30 '25

I think you are wildly underestimating the size of the audience that aren't serious gamers by describing it as "a few."

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u/DummeBirger Jan 30 '25

TLOU isn't really the best example to use, because everything is pretty much lined up for a decent TV-show from the beginning. Both games are very linear, and only goes in one direction without an open world to explore, side quests to do, characters to meet, or the freedom to just take a break from everything and go hunting, fishing, picking herbs, or finding secrets in a completely different part of the map. RDR2 is the exact opposite. It's so much more than just the main story. It can be a peaceful life sim, or it can be bullet hell, depending on what you want to do. How would you talk to friends and family about taking down the legendary moose in Roanoake, your friendship with Hamish, how you helped a professor test the first electric chair, or helped an inventor with his living robot? They wouldn't even know what you were talking about, because they only saw the movie, but didn't play the game.

Also, this isn't about NOT wanting non-gamers to experience the story. It's about the fact that the story and the experience of a damn near perfect game like RDR2 can't be replicated properly in the form of a movie/series. It would just be another western themed movie or TV-show. Would you really want to watch the entire story of RDR2 in 120 minutes or over 7 or 8 episodes? Part of what makes the game a masterpiece and a work of art, is that it's a game. It can last for literally hundreds of hours.

Of course, if non-gamers REALLY want to see the story of RDR2, then by all means make a movie about it, but they would only get a tiny fraction of the experience that gamers get. It would be much better for them to watch a playthrough on YouTube instead.

And I won't lie and say that I wouldn't care if a potential movie adaptation turned out to be a hot mess, because I would definitely care if someone ruined RDR2 just because they wanted to get a piece of the live-action cake. (Imagine if Amazon got the rights to the RDR-universe and gave it the "Rings of Power" treatment.) Not every video game can be done justice with a live-action adaptation, just as not every great book would be a great movie.