Red Dead Redemption

They shoot horses, don’t they?

thomas i haven't played the original rdr in many years but from my memory it's similar but not a carbon copy

Went on a virtual date last night jfc

them o'driscoll boys can git, tbqh

my download finally finished at 9pm last night, and I managed to make it to chapter II before heading to bed. seems like i'm past the tutorial area now, so i'm pretty pumped to explore and rename my horse.

What will you name its nuts?

Privately, I will name them.

The rest of the horse shall be named bird dog

What will you name its nuts?

for a moment i wanted to seriously start a thread about names for horses

i'm on chapter 5 i believe -- 6 in total and 2 epilogues

about 50% done

there are some really cool plot twists

My horses are Nagging Doubt and Pony Up.

Gary (after my cat), Reggie, and Felix so far

black stallion
iron cock
caesar

black stallion
iron cock (after my cat)
caesar

nice

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/nov/07/red-dead-redemption-2-game-criticised-over-killing-of-suffragette

Ok what the fuck?! #RDR2 #PS4sharehttps://t.co/lGRvsDV9Tk pic.twitter.com/49d7s7bc8W

— Russian Bot (@callme_mok) November 4, 2018

the barf core is rapidly depleting

So i got tuberculosis

how’s that going?

No cure in 1890 america

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn3g25ZEbak

Spoilers

How many could there be

I’m on epilogue 1

oh, it said spoilers re chapter 5 or something?

once i got out of the prelude and opened up horseshoe overlook, i stopped talking to dutch completely. i've been having a great time just wandering around and getting into situations. i wish i could find the trapper guy, though, because i've had a legendary bear pelt stowed on my horse for a looong time now.

half of the dust-ups i get into are caused by me pressing the wrong button. two randos in Valentine were talking shit on me because of a previous incident where i pressed the wrong button and had to murder a few people. so i went over there with the intention to Antagonize him a little. but then i accidentally punched him and all hell broke loose, again. i'm starting to get a reputation in Valentine, even though when i ride through i say hello to everyone.

As with Mafia 2 it appears most of being an outlaw is running errands.

isnt that a common theme with all crime games

Yes - but when the balance is too much "find x and take it to y" and too little "rob a bank" it's all work and no fun. Mafia 2 was the worst I played for that.

RDR2 is better balanced but running love letters across country doesn't seem very Billy the Kid.

just finished the game

fuck

almost had me crying towards the end

also the music in this game is probably the best game music i've ever heard tbh

i can totally see myself actually listening to the tracks outside the game

yeah, the music is consistently excellent. there's a new d'angelo song in there, too! (i listened to it online, haven't heard it in the game yet because i haven't advanced the story very far)

looking at the music credits, some not so obvious names that jump out at me:

nas
colin stetson
vincent gallo

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ9e3eRJ8shIBQdUTfD34VAGiUeT61mP

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ9e3eRJ8shXtie25BT3GdFsb7-dWgVz

official soundtrack is available too, which has all the originals the above are based off of

rdr2 soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPfHaI9XqTnEXCUC7Ac9mEPdg0PfUW6V8

credits was so long and had so many different tracks

aww

just finished the game

fuck

almost had me crying towards the end

Almost calchiefo

Almost

Honored and humbled 🎶

Cowboys hurt too

🤠

Uh

https://n4g.com/news/2218417/red-dead-redemption-2-kkk-locations-heres-all-three-locations-in-the-game-marked-in-the-map

I'm gonna say that i am not enjoying this game

it seems very deliberately designed to be... not fun? thx rockstar, hate to enjoy my time playing video games

i found the original boring after a while and never completed, though it looked gorgeous etc. what I've read about this makes it sound like more boring (and more gorgeous)

i get ppl not liking this, but i'm finding the deliberately slow pace enjoyable

My game has been extremely buggy so far, sometimes in a mission-breaking way. I think I'm going to wait for Online to dig back into it.

Yeah it’s not for everyone

I'm mostly enjoying it. I'm old and in no hurry.

My latest favourite bug is that my spare horse appeared out of nowhere halfway through a mission and now won't stop following me.

He used to be my main horse. I think he's jealous and lonely :(

i've met lots of people who became unhealthily emotionally attached to their horse

i'm enjoying myself too, although i do worry about what a psychopath coldblooded killer i turn into when i play these games. i was riding my new horse (who i was already unhealthily emotionally attached to) when suddenly i was ambushed by those fucking O'Driscolls. i was attempting to flee and accidentally made my jump leap off of a bridge running over train tracks, horrifically killing the horse in the process. i went on a rampage revenge, and when it was over and i had looted the bodies, i methodically started stacking them on the train tracks, thinking that it would be satisfying to wait until a train came along and see what it would do to the bodies. as i carefully positioned the third body so that it's neck was right on the track, a stagecoach came along and witnessed it. i tried to murder them, too, but they ended up reporting it. only a $15 bounty for all that! and i never did get to see what the train would do (i'll try again soon, and be more careful this time)

er, weird typos in there but you get the drift.

I’ve been playing this like a saint. All that WANTED n BOUNTY stuff seems like a real pain in the ass. Feeling the urge to get gnarly though.

Will also join the choir and say the music in this is really impressive. Way smarter and more interesting than it needs to be.