Wife mad at me because I play the video game Red Dead Redemption 2 like an outlaw

[Anonymous]

I was playing RDR2 and my wife was watching me play this game for the first time ever while she was sitting at on the couch. Mind you, she has zero history of playing video games and has no idea what open world games like RDR2 and Grand Theft Auto are like. So while playing the game, I was randomly hogtying strangers and throwing them off cliffs for fun. Shooting scores of birds, deer, elk, alligators, foxes, etc for fun. I also found a ranch where I killed the ranchers with sticks of dynamite and then shot all of their cows. I also got mad at losing poker in a bar and killed all the players to get my money back. Lots of times I'd stick up strangers, rob them, and shoot them and their horse after I got all of their money. Or I killed keepers and other randos with hatchets. I also hogtied a lady and threw her on train tracks as a train was coming. You get the idea....it's the same as Grand Theft Auto but the wild west.

My wife got mad and said I was a psycho path after I had to admit that everything I was doing was not required to beat the game. Again, she had no idea games like this exist and the types of stuff you can do in them. She hasn't talked to me for hours now. Am I really the unhinged one here when all I'm doing is playing a game? I mean, people have been playing these games since Grand Theft Auto came out and you could shoot little old grannies with walkers in the game (not even a lie). Clearly it's just a game and it hasn't made millions of people go psycho. TllI just like being an Outlaw in the game. Who's the jerk here? It's just a friggin' game.

[Anonymous]

I can see both of your points. Wife here who has played RDR and GTA in the past and enjoyed it.

It is just a game, but if my husband played the way you play, it might raise some questions in my mind.

[Anonymous]

Listen man, even I'm not the smartest guy and even I waited until my wife was out of the room before throwing a hogtied woman on a railroad track for the achievement. (I think they was the first RDR)

[Anonymous]

OP: You’re a loser.

[Anonymous]

Eh you're temporarily vicariously living through John Marston and part of the thrill (and challenge) is you can do things, again via his fictional character, you'd never-ever do in real life.
And a good chunk of GTA and RDR are the plot lines and being an antagonist and protagonist.

Does your wife not able to separate reality from video games? Does she not ever enjoy watching or reading thrillers?

[Anonymous]

You’re the jerk.

Wait, was that not the answer you were fishing for?

[Anonymous]

I'd be appalled if my husband engaged in the game to that extent. It's you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd be appalled if my husband engaged in the game to that extent. It's you.

Look, I've been ripping the heads off of opponents with subzero in mortal Kombat since 1993. How's that any different than what you do in RDR2?

[Anonymous]

I don't think either of you are being jerks, but I do think your wife should relax. It's just a video game. Unless there are other things like you play the game all day and night, you don't work and are a bum, I don't see the big deal.

[Anonymous]

The game doesn’t matter. The fact that you put that much energy in a video game is the issue.

Don’t know one woman whose spouse plays video games.

[Anonymous]

Lol who cares it’s a game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The game doesn’t matter. The fact that you put that much energy in a video game is the issue.

Don’t know one woman whose spouse plays video games.

You must not know a lot of people below the age of 50 then. RDR2 cost over $500M to make and grossed over $725M in 2 weeks. The game has sold almost 50M copies world wide. These are numbers greater than block buster movies. There literally millions of people well into adulthood who play RDR2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The game doesn’t matter. The fact that you put that much energy in a video game is the issue.

Don’t know one woman whose spouse plays video games.

You must not know a lot of people below the age of 50 then. RDR2 cost over $500M to make and grossed over $725M in 2 weeks. The game has sold almost 50M copies world wide. These are numbers greater than block buster movies. There literally millions of people well into adulthood who play RDR2.

+1

Early 40s here, nearly every guy I know plays video games… some as much as humanly possible. And these are biglaw partners, physicians, business owners, and military. Not by any means an unaccomplished group.

As for OP’s playing style… not my burrito but you do you. I personally like to play hero ball and have everybody love me… probably bc I’m kind of a prick in real life. But who cares, it’s fantasy. I also love the Bourne movies but (regrettably) I’m not out there assassinating villains and generally wrecking sh$t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listen man, even I'm not the smartest guy and even I waited until my wife was out of the room before throwing a hogtied woman on a railroad track for the achievement. (I think they was the first RDR)

Yeah, this, OP.

And if.when you have kids you definitely should not be playing these games in front of them.

[Anonymous]

I don’t get it. If it’s not part of the game, why are you doing all these cruel and awful things!? I would be horrified if I were your wife!! My husband doesn’t play video games, I probably never would have started dating him if he did, but a bunch of his friends play fortnite while they talk on the phone with eachother. I can’t imagine they are all doing that kind of stuff!