god bless rdr2
grew up on playing the og red dead redemption on the xbox 360 and watching my sister play through the story too. ended up becoming my favourite game ever and it shaped a lot of my childhood and interest in media. rdr1 specifically has this wonderful bleak and existential shakespearean dialogue wrapped up in a silly cowboy game that shaped the kind of media i find myself interested in even to this day. played it for years after its release nonstop. beautiful game.
then rdr2 came out and i spent every second i could playing it. i have fond memories of playing it past midnight on my ps4 with the big living room tv. everyone was asleep and i had my headphones in, feeling the most peace i ever could in that place. this was while i was sleeping on the extremely scratchy sofa before graduating to the floor to avoid the heatwaves and the bedbugs (it didn't work, the bedbugs crawled out of the sofa to find and attack me on the floor rip).
rdr2 was my solace during what was definitely was one of the most miserable times of my life. cried my ass off and was OBSESSED. started the hunt to get 100% because i didn't want to be done with the game just from finishing the story but i only got to 82% i think.
i picked it up again last year on the pc and have been playing it on and off, with varying hiatuses, to try and inch toward 100%. so far i'm on 92.1% and i finished the wildlife exhibition requests. kind of crazy that i'm experiencing new cutscenes and dialogue that i've never seen before or even been spoiled about!! honestly it makes me so happy to remember that this is a little personal sidequest i'm working on and that i can still be surprised by this game.
eventually i will comb through disco elysium in exactly the same way :)