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PSN sale: Steam and GOG: CDkeys is an amazing site and don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise.

Already did a couple rounds of purchases in the Steam sale. Might or might not get more but going through my wishlist there's actually a fairly low amount of stuff that's tempting me. I'm probably overdue to prune it significantly. Lots of games on there that if I haven't bought them by now, I probably never will. Anyway, here's what I got so far:

Red Dead Redemption I have a lot of nostalgia for this game and it's still a ton of fun to play in 2024. I haven't touched it since it came out originally and I was surprised that there was less jank than I was expecting. Here's a random collection of thoughts: That said, the game has aged poorly in some respects. Characters are racist, antisemitic, sexist, homophobic, etc and no one gets their comeuppance. I get that they're trying to paint a realistic portrait of what common beliefs/attitudes would have been like in 1911 but this is also a game where John Marston kills like, over 1000 people, in a one month span. So it's already not realistic. They could have just... not done included that? Instead a random shopkeeper will just say like 5 horribly racist things during a single transaction and doesn't get challenged on it, nothing bad happens to them, it just is. I think my biggest gripe has to be with the representation of indigenous people. Off the top of my head I can think of one Native American with speaking lines in this game, and he is unceremoniously killed off after a few missions. Meanwhile Dutch's gang is mostly indigenous men and you kill so many of them. I suspect Red Dead 2 is probably better for all this, which I'll probably be playing next, after Undead Nightmare. Gameplay wise, it was more arcade-y than I remember but it's still a ton of fun. I love the world they crafted even if it does feel kind of small. The soundtrack is great (love all that Fender Bass VI you can hear). I'm glad this game is available to play again, it worked really well on my Steam Deck.