Red Dead Redemption 2

McGraw · 13 Oct 2019 at 17:30

MissChief said:
£55 import from Kingbit Games in Edinburgh, along with £15 for the double cartridge adaptor about six months before the official UK launch. I played nothing else for about three months.

yikes. My next door neighbour bought it. I tended to do most of my gaming round at his as he had an Amiga too.

McGraw · 13 Oct 2019 at 17:32

Tombstone said:
From what I understand from my readings, the online is set slightly before the events of the single player but does contain its own storyline, I read it had like 12 missions to it, so I'm guessing theres sort of a co-opable storyline of sorts that can be followed..along with the non-storyline content of course.

thanks. Hoping for some sort of defend type mode. Will be pretty sad if we only get a few hours of coop out of it.

Azrael1 · 14 Oct 2019 at 08:53

Tempted to buy this and add it to the my pile of shame. I did see the VPN trick to get it cheaper but no idea if they will region lock the game though..

jasonsony735 · 14 Oct 2019 at 09:03

MrWhippy said:
Anyone willing to speculate abouts when this'll be sub 20 quid?
I'm interested but prepared to wait.

If its anything like GTA V then expect to wait a good 2 years for a price drop. You might maybe get 10% discount from Steam as they do this every now and again on new titles but only got a limited time. I believe the game will be on Steam in late DEC

chroniclard · 14 Oct 2019 at 09:26

Tried to get into this on Xbox but the beginning is so slow I got bored. May try again on PC.

robfosters · 14 Oct 2019 at 09:31

chroniclard said:
Tried to get into this on Xbox but the beginning is so slow I got bored. May try again on PC.

Definitely more of a PC game than console imo.

Azrael1 · 14 Oct 2019 at 09:31

jasonsony735 said:
If its anything like GTA V then expect to wait a good 2 years for a price drop. You might maybe get 10% discount from Steam as they do this every now and again on new titles but only got a limited time. I believe the game will be on Steam in late DEC

I agree but isnt it like Uplay Games where no matter where you buy it from you then log into your UPlay account anyway

opethdisciple · 14 Oct 2019 at 12:28

But £54!

I'm spoilt by CDKeys. I rarely buy games full price (£35) let alone £54!

£54 just seems like price gouging to me.

Azrael1 · 14 Oct 2019 at 12:35

Going to wait to see what the other sellers price their games at. In game loot makes no difference for me. I always go for the cheapest

AHarvey · 14 Oct 2019 at 12:41

opethdisciple said:
But £54!

I'm spoilt by CDKeys. I rarely buy games full price (£35) let alone £54!

£54 just seems like price gouging to me.

One of the girls in my team just blew £150 on a special edition version of some game. I just laughed and carried on working. Saying that, she also spends up to £200 for photos and signatures with 'celebs' at conventions. what's that saying about fools and money...

Tombstone · 14 Oct 2019 at 13:03

I've done my preorder with Rockstar, its pricey at 54 but I did spend more on AC Origins and AC Odyssey. Usually I cdkeys games but there are the occassional game that comes out where I just know I'm going to get a lot of bang for my buck, the two AC games were of that ilk, I'm sure that even at 54 I will end up looking back at RDR2 and say that I got value for money.

Hell, this weekend we got a family dominos delivered (me, the missus, 19yr old daughter and 23 yr old son) and that came to £42 all in. So its only slightly more than a tenner for something which will last longer than 1 evening

Paul_cz · 14 Oct 2019 at 13:33

AHarvey said:
One of the girls in my team just blew £150 on a special edition version of some game.

These Collector's editions usually go up in price in time since they have limited quantity. It is not something you lose money on if you ever need to sell it.

joker666 · 14 Oct 2019 at 15:41

Tombstone said:
I've done my preorder with Rockstar, its pricey at 54 but I did spend more on AC Origins and AC Odyssey. Usually I cdkeys games but there are the occassional game that comes out where I just know I'm going to get a lot of bang for my buck, the two AC games were of that ilk, I'm sure that even at 54 I will end up looking back at RDR2 and say that I got value for money.

Hell, this weekend we got a family dominos delivered (me, the missus, 19yr old daughter and 23 yr old son) and that came to £42 all in. So its only slightly more than a tenner for something which will last longer than 1 evening

same.. preordered and got the two free games.. put over 100 hours into odyssey and paid full price for that but defo feel I got my monies worth on that title.. I even got the season pass which I have never done before. If I get the same out of this then defo good value

Oblivion007 · 14 Oct 2019 at 16:21

Paul_cz said:
These Collector's editions usually go up in price in time since they have limited quantity. It is not something you lose money on if you ever need to sell it.

I don't think this is strictly true - you see a lot of collectors editions in the local CEX for next to nothing compared to their original price.

agnes · 14 Oct 2019 at 16:26

Pre ordering a known good game is fine, pre ordering a game you've no idea about... Bad.

BUT, people buying collectors editions and getting signed photos of celebs because that's what they enjoy?

markoboyo11 · 14 Oct 2019 at 21:51

Cant believe I just spanked 55 big ones on a game...…...it better be good guys.

Paul_cz · 14 Oct 2019 at 23:13

Oblivion007 said:
I don't think this is strictly true - you see a lot of collectors editions in the local CEX for next to nothing compared to their original price.

Sure it may depend on the game. But with RDR2 cheapest collector's box I see on ebay is for 150 quid. I bought mine at release for about 90. Same with my other CEs.

Duel_me_bro · 15 Oct 2019 at 00:36

Seems very expensive! Will check out the reviews first and then make a decision. Don't want to wait forever like I did for GTA5.....

Scania · 15 Oct 2019 at 05:53

Having sat and watched a few hours of RDR2 on an X-Box 1X I was more than happy to preorder this, can’t wait for the mods!!

Not particularly bothered about yet another launcher, not to mention they have applied a few tweaks to GTAVC and GTASA so they both work better on modern hardware which my original copies don’t seem to (especially with regard to display)

GTA V is one of my favourite games, this seems to be GTA in the Wild West what’s not to like? bring it on!

Paul_cz · 15 Oct 2019 at 07:57

Scania said:
GTA V is one of my favourite games, this seems to be GTA in the Wild West what’s not to like? bring it on!

It's really not. It is much slower and much more simulationist. And also much better.