Waypoint 101 - Red Dead Redemption Part 1

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🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Content Warning for discussion of sexual violence and racist language, and spoilers for the first half of Red Dead Redemption

With Red Dead Redemption 2 right around the corner, the Waypoint crew: Natalie, Patrick, Rob, Austin, and Danielle (with Cado on production!) saddled up to revisit the first open-world game in the series, 2010's Red Dead Redemption. Here in our first episode of a two-part podcast, we played up until protagonist John Marston's journey to Mexico, and friends, what a journey it is.

We dive deep into one of Rockstar's least subtle intros, into the finicky mechanics, the one-note characters, the beautiful skyboxes and moments that work—as well as the elements that just plain don't.

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0:00.0	What's good internet welcome to the first episode in our waypoint 101 of Red Dead Redemption.
0:22.7	Today we are covering the first act of the game beginning with John Martins arrival in
0:26.1	the state of New Austin and ending with his second arrival this time to Mexico. As a reminder,
0:31.8	the next episode will cover the remainder of the game or at least as much as you or anyone
0:35.5	on this podcast wants to play of it as well as Undead Nightmare which I'm excited about because
0:39.8	I've not played that at all. That was the horror themed alternate universe DLC that a lot of people
0:45.3	loved back when it came out in 2010. I'm curious about it especially given our current spooktacular
0:52.3	October environs. In any case I am Austin Walker and joining me today Daniel Riendo.
0:59.7	Thank you for being a cowgirl Rob Zachney. Well hello. Swav Cowboy Rob Zachney. Also joining us
1:10.3	Patrick Leppick. I didn't have a bit ready. I didn't know we were doing this. All right.
1:16.1	And I was a drunk Irish guy. Whoa. Welcome to Red Dead Redemption. That's yeah. That's my character.
1:24.2	Contour the original racism and Natalie Watson. Everybody asks Yee Ha but nobody asks. No. Yee.
1:35.8	Sure. Yeah. I hadn't thought about. Holly. So I think a lot of people were surprised when
1:43.2	we chose Red Dead as our next game because we've been doing our best to stay off the beaten path
1:47.7	or maybe what I should say more clearly is like we've been very close to our own heart. We've
1:52.3	done games like Metro 2033 and Shadow Run and the zombie you very off-kilter games that maybe
2:02.8	didn't get a huge audience when they were released and were very much in our own wheelhouses.
2:08.0	And Red Dead is a AAA game by one of the largest most successful studios in the industry.
2:15.3	I had of one of their biggest releases and I definitely get the I definitely get the like huh
2:20.6	like the double take of that but I but I also think that it's something interesting here which is one
2:24.8	we've been talking about open worlds lately. Obviously if you listen to Mondays episode of Waypoint
2:29.4	Radio we kind of dug into what the future of the open world might be. To Red Dead is often brought up
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