Would you consider RDR1/2 more """Mature""" Then GTA?

[sefus]

I mean as in tone setting, the lack of 69 and Adult humor, amped up violence, and darker story, would you consider it a more "Mature" and "Dark" game kinda like GTA 4?

[Lock n' Stock]

Without a doubt. Still some of that trademark Rockstar humour but it's more restrained. 

 

I think the one place where the edgy style of humour is present (at least in RDR 1) is during the in-game silent movies.

 

 

[Lemoyne outlaw]

i think for the most part it is. i feel like less kids would play red dead. but since gta has all the fun toys. more kids play it. i do feel like gta 4 is pretty dark. similar to the red dead games. but gta 5 vc sa are more lighthearted silly games.

[KGBeast]

Yes. Both deal with many of the same themes but RDR is more grounded and dramatic whereas GTA is heightened and satirical. 

[Badman_]

Yes.

RDR wants the player to think deeper on the repercussions of his/her violent actions. The Downes family plot is the best example of this. You won't find anything like it in a GTA title.

IV kind of scratched this concept, but not with same effectiveness IMO.

[billiejoearmstrong8]

In general it is but there really is quite a lot of silly humour in RDR, especially in RDR1. Like, it's not stupid humour but literally half the characters you do main missions for in RDR1 are silly "comedy characters" (Nigel West Dickens, Seth, Irish, Reyes, Harold McDougal, Uncle) along with pretty much every side mission character. RDR2 has a lot of silliness with side missions as well. I guess it was to balance the overall serious tone and emotional storylines/events, but I kind of wish they went with less of that and made it even more serious. I suppose GTA IV has a lot of humour alongside the seriousness as well, but it seems more in keeping with the tone of the game (dark humour and the usual over the top GTA satire).  

 

But yeah, RDR's stories go beyond anything in GTA for being emotionally affecting, and the setting and gameplay is more involved and grounded and mature.

Edited September 17, 2021 by billiejoearmstrong8

[SneakyDeaky]

No, I think almost everyone in the game are immature idiots! 

 

[AzelfandQuilava]

Red Dead 1's Stranger Missions and NPC interactions outside of the main story are GTA 3D Universe levels of goofy a lot of the time. The story has some quirky elements to it early on but it grows the f*ck up by the halfway point.

 

Red Dead 2 has a much more consistent tone in that sense. Everything is played straight, even the fantasy elements that it introduced regardless of how goofy said elements might've been.

 

Thankfully neither game has "haha look the business name has 69 in the title" levels of humour. For that we should be thankful.

[billiejoearmstrong8]

2 hours ago, AzelfandQuilava said:

Red Dead 1's Stranger Missions and NPC interactions outside of the main story are GTA 3D Universe levels of goofy a lot of the time. The story has some quirky elements to it early on but it grows the f*ck up by the halfway point.

 

Red Dead 2 has a much more consistent tone in that sense. Everything is played straight, even the fantasy elements that it introduced regardless of how goofy said elements might've been.

 

Thankfully neither game has "haha look the business name has 69 in the title" levels of humour. For that we should be thankful.

 

I think RDR2's stranger/side missions can be pretty goofy too. And in RDR1 although they're goofy they do have a theme that makes them more interesting in the end - almost every one of them is about people deluding themselves. They all believe they can achieve their unrealistic dreams but fail. When it comes to the end of the game we see that John wasn't much different (deluding himself that if he did what Ross said he could live happily ever after with his family), and this makes them more meaningful. I agree that RDR2 gets the tone more consistent and plays it straighter, but they're pretty close I think.

 

[illicitstreet]

Definitely

Even when RDR is humorous, it's just a very different kind of humor compared to GTA humor, it feels like a higher quality humor, GTA sometimes goes for some very easy and unfunny jokes, GTA V does this on most of its cutscenes.

[WXSTER]

Yes the endings are alot less

 

"WE DID IT"

 

Im not including gta 4