I realize that, given how I don't really play video games, I don't usually offer video game opinions, but you know? What if Red Dead Redemption 3, whenever it comes out, *wasn't* about the Wild West but instead was about Bush Rangers and went between the Outback and NZ?
@Leucrotta I want to play as Ned Kelly in a video game.
@mmsword yeah EXACTLY! Like you'd have Irish nationalism, Aboriginal art and rights, references to Te Kooti's Rebellion, sheep-stealing, huge forests full of ferns, and the occasional suit of kludged together plate armor.
@Leucrotta @mmsword I smile every time I see someone mention "sheep-stealing," because I am literally and factually descended from a gang of Scottish rustlers and I am so inordinately proud of that fact. ^____^
@zebratron2084 @Leucrotta As a decedent from a man who had the largest illegal still in New Jersey during Prohibition, I feel this.
@mmsword @zebratron2084 SWEET! The closest I come is that I had a relative who made money off the races after his job as an accountant for the Schulz Mob went away (along with Dutch and presumably Abadaba Berman as the guy's boss).
@mmsword @Leucrotta Hmm. Appropos to my post the other day about missing outlaws... Now I want to play John Dillinger. Or Bonnie Parker. Or hell, at this point in history, even the SLA feel like protagonists...
@zebratron2084 @mmsword And that's another selling point *right there*! There's not an Aussie, Kiwi or even Brit who's going to root for Victorian British provincial police and troops.
... wait, it's 2020. There are probably really die hard video gamers out there who think colonialism in Oz and NZ was just *great*.
... okay, I realize that opens up discussion to "what if Red Dead Redemption 3 happens during the Meiji Restoration and puts our Colt-Army-revolver-slinging hero between the shinsengumi and government forces?"