A gamer got his 75-year-old father to play the Western adventure Red Dead Redemption on Steam and realizes a year later that it was the right decision.
How did this happen? As the user SlightWerewolf4428 explains in a post on Reddit, his father grew up during the heyday of the Western genre. As a child, he would go on outings with his father, who excitedly told him stories about the colorful personalities of the Wild West.
The player says: He is one of the few people who finds Red Dead Redemption 1 even better than its successor. When he first played the game, he immediately knew it had to be the right game for his father (via Vida Extra).
With the Steam release of the Western adventure in 2024, it was finally time: He bought the game for his father, his brother gave him a controller, and off the 75-year-old went.
Even years after its release, players are still discovering new things in Red Dead Redemption 2:
For him, it was the right decision to introduce the game to his father
This was the gaming experience: As SlightWerewolf4428 reports, the beginning was a bit rocky. His father first had to get used to the controller controls. He set up WhatsApp and Steam-Broadcast to be able to help his father.
He explained to his father in a video call where the triggers were on the controller and how they worked, how he could shoot from cover, and encouraged him to use some more functions.
After some time, however, his father started to play more independently, completed missions, and handled some dangerous situations. At the time of writing the post, the 75-year-old was already very close to the end of the game, without knowing it.
And did he enjoy it? Apparently yes. The gamer says he checked if his father was following the story and that he remembered all the names and had a similar impression of the characters as he did.
SlightWerewolf4428 concludes: “At this point, I think it’s pretty much certain that he loves the game, more than I could have hoped, but I knew he would.” For him, it was the right decision to introduce the game to his father.
Now, however, the gamer faces a completely different problem: it’s only a matter of time before his father will want to play Red Dead Redemption 2 as well, but he’s not sure if his PC would be suitable for it.
Time and again, it shows that gaming is a surprisingly good medium to connect families – even over long times and great distances. We have such a story here on MeinMMO for you: WoW connects families for 20 years: “They always have their perfect 5-player group”
