I don't think the fella from RDR needs his back story fleshed out. I'm ready for the Rockstar open world games to go fully system based, emergent stuff and bin the whole story thing. If you could just start up as a an outlaw or a deputy and have at it in this no doubt amazing world they're creating I'd be happy.

I'd like a game like that, but also if you're giving me a big portentous trailer like that I'd prefer the game behind it wasn't encouraging you to do open world stuff. Keep the space, some of the systems, but make it fully story driven.

Have the world big, have the story completable in 4hrs with x different endings.

That trailer looks lovely, but my worry is that the game will just be more of the same. Every level seemed to be ride on horseback whilst being talked at for ages, get somewhere, shoot some baddies, back on horse, exposition overload. Rather unfair, but just didn't click with me.

I can't do any more "my coach is being attacked

PSYCHE

kill this fool"

The advantage GTA has over RDR is that modern vehicles and weapons generally make for more fun sandbox shit.
Strip that out and I'm not overly fussed really, I don't go into R* games looking for a decent story or anything. I just want them to set up shenanigans for a while and then let me set up my own shenanigans later.

12hrs for the story again please.  One ending is fine by me.

Dunno, sweet in-engine cutscenes et al but would like to see some gameplays.

Looks like a chalice-tier purchase por moi.

Dull as trailer. A movie trailer which if it was an actual film I would have no interest in watching.

Still, can't wait to play the game.

I generally enjoy Rockstar games but, like other people have said, I can't help but feel their desire to make the world bigger each time is counter to the stories they want to tell. The previous red dead did some stuff that I really loved so I'll definitely play this but I'm sure I'll get to a point where the massive map is filled with non-main story threads I need to complete before I can continue and I'll groan a little.

Actually a cowboy story needs a small tight narrative in a massive setting. It's a X killed y so z killed X type thing and when it gets sprawling it removes that tight, Nasty narrative

After having such a good time with the remastered GTA V, especially with the ability to take photos of the game, both through the in-game feature and the Share button on PS4, I am very excited to see the scale and detail of the world. That is the thing I think that sets Rockstar apart from other developers: their mastery of crafting a diverse, beautiful world that can be explored for hours and hours. They have really elevated their game in story-telling this last generation too; GTA IV was an important milestone in their telling a personal, emotionally based story, even if it faltered in other areas - I'm looking at you friend calls. Red Dead Redemption was arguably their best work, for its humanity and unexpected emotional wallop and resonance. I swear that moment when Compass by Jamie Lidell comes in still gets me.

This is why I believe that simply looking at the movies/other media they reference fails to tell the whole story. Sam Peckinpah never made a video game, but if he had it would look like Red Dead Redemption. I don't think plagiarism is a fair evaluation of their work, seeing as there is a level of immersion that is impossible in other media, and even *if* it was simply a catalogue of influences, it would still be quite unlike them given its nature as an open world video game. I am a huge Westerns guy, and Red Dead Redemption was a beautiful dream. I would rank it high on my list of favourite Westerns, along with Deadwood (the greatest), The Searchers, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, True Grit (the original and remake), The Wild Bunch, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, The Assassination of Jesse James, and the remake of 3:10 To Yuma.

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Oh and Once Upon a Time in the West obviously.

Fucking close call, bud.  And, ahem, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

I remember yawning through that once upon a time.

I'm really looking forward to it. Probably get this launch or close to.