Episode 213: Pointless Stuff I Want The Horses to Do

Waypoint Radio

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4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

What does open world mean, anyway? Austin, Rob, and Patrick use Patty's recent story about Red Dead Redemption 2's world and systems feeling largely meaningless as a launching pad to work out their larger feelings on open world games, from what we ask and demand of them to where they should go in the future.

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0:00.0	[♪ Een
0:00.8	Let's have a look.
0:17.8	My first hours with Red Dead Redemption 2 were a little bit of everything.
0:31.0	I went hunting, played poker, made fires in the desert, and slowly picked away at everything
0:35.8	but the story.
0:37.3	I cleaned weapons, skinned deer, and crafted stat boosting foods.
0:41.6	I eagerly searched the pockets of the dead in hopes of finding an expensive watch to buy
0:46.5	goods for the camp and increase morale.
0:49.4	A dozen hours into the game and Arthur's pockets are overflowing with cash.
0:53.8	I'm only halfway through the game.
0:55.5	I just hit episode 4 and there's nothing else to buy.
0:59.1	The story keeps telling me we're poor and cash needy, but I've got thousands to spare.
1:04.2	This got me thinking.
1:06.0	Maybe none of this shit actually matters.
1:09.0	Those were the words of Patrick Kleppek and you are listening to Waypoint Radio.
1:13.3	In episode 212, I am your host Austin Walker.
1:16.6	Still with the bad voice, joining me.
1:19.5	Patrick Kleppek himself.
1:20.8	Austin, bad voice Walker.
1:22.7	That's me, one of my new AKA's bad voice.
1:26.0	Also joining us Rob Zachary.
1:27.0	I made that reading suspenseful.
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