I would love to see more folks add a Review of the game. Including my own, we're only at two.
Can we retitle the game with its Roman numerals? Just for accuracy's sake.
- The Man Is Sticking It to the Man: Red Dead Redemption 2 has you play as a band of quasi-anarchist outlaws opposed to the rise of capitalism and big business which erodes the "freedom" of the Wild West. Leviticus Cornwall, is a robber baron capitalist who suppresses strikes, docks pays, and buys police and is shown as an Asshole Victim. A message brought to you by Rockstar Games, a multi-national corporation who were revealed to have overworked and underpaid a large percent of its staff across many countries, and whose employees fear bargaining for more rights on threat of being fired and going unaccredited.
This edit was was made by me and removed once because a poster claimed, erroneously, it was YMMV. It wasn't. The trope is not YMMV. Then it was removed for Rockstar bashing. Then recently another troper, not me, a fellow troper named Red-Dead-Redeemer added it, but called for a discussion to arrive at consensus and I brought it here to avoid edit-war.
Now to make things clear. The Man Is Sticking It to the Man is not a YMMV trope at all. It's a main page trope and the only criteria is a discrepancy between the content and the nature of the production. I believe that RDR-2 qualifies because the story of the game with the Dutch van der Linde gang and its opposition to Leviticus Cornwall, a robber baron and so on, is openly populist in its presentation and it's at direct odds with the fact that Rockstar Games was revealed to be like any other video game company. This isn't Rockstar-bashing, it's basic facts, and the real-life behavior contrasts heavily with the story in the game and the message it says. That's worth mentioning.
Edited by Revolutionary_Jack
This page needs a slight correction. The game uses the Roman numeral II, not Arabic 2.