Red Dead Redemption

From all accounts this seems like an enormous time sink and there’s no way I could give the old timey west that much time. It would have to be blade runner 2814 or some shit for me to invest that much of my life

https://www.audubon.org/news/birding-its-1899-inside-blockbuster-american-west-video-game

Today I met a rancher randomly and he started shooting at me when I wouldn't leave the area, so I killed him. Then I set his pigs free. Who then all proceeded to munch on his corpse.

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glad i found an example of this, which is one of the most clever and poignant details i've seen in this game:

**RDR2 SPOILER ALERT** unbelievable how much detail @RockstarGames has put into Red Dead Redemption 2. First pic is Arthur’s journal entry, Second is John’s entry for the same encounter. Arthur being the more experienced journal writer, his drawing was naturally better. pic.twitter.com/Pw8k2u03zx

— Teo Kıral (@mayo_teo) November 17, 2018

wow! that's awesome.

Do I lose much if I don't play the first game?

imo no

yeah not really. i'm sure the narrative elements don't line up 100% anyway.

"Pinkerton employees 'now have to explain to their young game players why Red Dead Redemption 2 encourages people to murder Pinkertons.'"
Yes parents, video games can be educational https://t.co/qp9cQHXmQ1

— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) January 16, 2019

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/15/18183843/red-dead-online-black-character-racism

uggggggggghhhhhh

good kicker, though

as an aside, there's some juicy stuff about the pinkertons in the last (and amazing) david grann book, "killers of the flower moon"

i think this focus on "achievements" runs counter to marston's character. for instance i don't do any of the bounty hunts. what the fuck do i care? i'm basically a criminal myself. i just want to find william williamson.

― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 June 2010 11:37 (eight years ago) Permalink

you can read his discharge letter from the army. his name's not William!

so many of the systems of this game are so strange. found hats are not stolen hats are not crafted hats:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddeadredemption/comments/9w9mjc/havent_found_a_good_guide_for_stolen_hats_yet_so/

100% ~~

How many hours?

I think this might be up there with Witcher 3 for me - just so cathartic and immersive.

On the other hand, I met my brother for a drink last week and he told me he got sexually assaulted in this game. I won't go into further detail but it was fairly graphic.

That happened to a friend of mine and he went back to see if it would happen again but the NPC isn't interested in you any more after the first time.

Yeah my brother said he went back and killed the guy in some elaborate manner.

my wife got knocked out and picked up in a fireman's carry by some rando other player (presumably an 11 yo boy) but she pressed the Die button before they got wherever he was taking her. The Die button seems urgent and key.

kf: i don't even want to know.

with the polar vortex and feb snowfalls i've been quote-unquote working from home quite a bit the past month

also a lot of racism online, no surprise: https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/15/18183843/red-dead-online-black-character-racism

after dipping my toe in the water in both GTA online and RDR online, i have learned my lesson and will never participate in a rockstar game's online mode ever again.

http://jazz.horse

:)

https://www.polygon.com/2019/2/28/18244135/red-dead-rdr2-online-horse

is this ever coming out on PC :(

probably

gta 5 had a 18 month lag from console to pc for what thats worth as precedent

RDR2 coming to PC, nov/dec <3

Yeah I might finally get to play this

do not get this for PC

Why not

hey being a cowboy isn’t about asking questions like that, it’s about following orders

or maybe the opposite, i dunno i never finished the game

yeah heard the PC release was all hosed up.

i never finished it either. it's a stunningly gorgeous game, but man does it go on forever. i'd guess i probably have only ~5 hours left but it could be 25.

half of people couldn't even get the game to launch, many others (including me) had stutters and crashes that were seemingly unrelated to hardware capacity- like even those with top of the line machines had them. unplayable. i guess this is the curse of easy patching, not super surprising but just a horribly done port

Ah well that answers that then

the game itself is gorgeous but the plot just repeats itself. 'we need one last heist to stop this life of crime for good' (something goes horribly wrong) 'we need one last heist to stop this life of crime for good' (something goes horribly wrong) 'we need one last heist to stop this life of crime for good' (something goes horribly wrong)

that sounds like The Point even if its not well executed

Picked this up. It’s fun

so i basically have no idea what you're supposed to do in online, what the point is. the different challenges and icons/etc are basically just like game lobbies distributed around the map? free roam was really quiet, i know there are missions and other players join for parts of them, but other than that it just seems completely empty and there is no point in doing anything. seems like wasted potential

I've been playing a lot of this lately. If you can manage to do just one daily challenge per day (which can be as simple as (go to x place)), you build up a multiplier that makes it a lot easier to get the gold you need to do stuff.

You want to focus on the daily challenges and the roles. Doing those tasks regularly sort of teaches you to play the game the way they want you play it.

If I feel like I'm in a spot where I'm wasting my time in a remote location, I load up the quick menu and launch into a multiplayer story mission or pvp, which both generally pay out well. They can be a little boring but it's a great way to get back on track really quick.

Generally, don't waste your money on anything except for the most important stuff early on.

There isn't a point to it any more than there's a point to playing Animal Crossing. You have to enjoy being in the space and the expanse of it, I think.

It's the redheaded stepchild compared to gtao, no arguing with that.

i agree about the wasted potential remark, though, for both RDR and GTA Online. there's a way to have fun with it, but it seems so limited and...strange. just a very strange vibe in both of those online places, it's hard to explain

they both have the otherworldly feeling of an airport. only in this airport, every once in a while someone will just drive by and murder you as soon as you respawn

Doing those tasks regularly sort of teaches you to play the game the way they want you play it.

this was something i needed to learn during the campaign. it really got more enjoyable once i got used to the relaxed pace, got very immersive. better the slower you play it. thanks for the tip! i don't doubt there is something there, just thought a cowboy MMO would be amazing but it just wasn't what i expected

Also, typing "rdr2 (name of thing)" into youtube is your friend.

Thanks to my shitty internet and the game's hilarious size it took me a full week to download it from Xbox Game Pass.

so far i have to say i am appreciating that the economy makes sense now even if it's gamified to take advantage of 'whales'. like in the campaign money becomes irrelevant early on and the shootouts are so easy that tonics/food etc are basically meaningless which makes the RPG elements half baked

and the honor system is far less opaque

Suddenly clicked with me that I might like this game. It's down to $30 in the PS4 store. Seems like a good price for a 100GB monster. Think it will get much cheaper any time soon?