Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4, Xbox and PC Hopefully)

I'm very much enjoying the more 'mundane' aspects of the game. The storyline is a bloody inconvenience!

I spent most of the past couple of hours hunting and discovering new species of animal / plant. I played some five finger filter and then sat the bar in the saloon, watching the world go by.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
As an old school gamer I adore the slow pace, the proper story telling, the depth to everything, it's an absolute masterpiece. Yet there's definitely trend with the younger generation of gamer I'm seeing, well to me anyway. Sons of friends, circles of friends online, young kids on the internet tend to call it boring slow paced etc. If just goes to show how dumbed down games have been made to cater for a younger audience generally. Everything needs to be handed to them on a plate immediately with little effort put into the game for them to enjoy is how I see things these days.
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So refreshing to read this post.

A trend with modern games and the current young gamers is they thrive on fast paced games, not just short stories but also they really love fast animations, twitch reaction mechanics, that sort of thing, things which I hate.

This has as you said it, led to dumbed down games.
 
Played a couple more hours last night and its starting to click.

Some maddeningly stupid game design though. I complete a shootout and get told to search a building. I go plodding through the drawers, pinch the pile of cash in the chimney, empty all the food out of the cupboards, all fine, pick up a couple of shotgun shells off the counter and BAM. I'm wanted.

Who the hell saw me? Why is that one thing triggering it? I go outside and there's nobody around.

I ride back to town and just before I get there it it starts raining bullets and I'm dead.

Now I have to Google the wanted system. Ok, so I have to ride into town and pay off the bounty at the post office. So I repeat my ride through the forest to town and for some reason this time there's no hail of bullets for whatever reason. Pay the bounty. Done.

For some reason a second horse has been following me....I double check....yep, it's definitely following me. Whatever, it's nicer than my current one, so I swap saddles and ride off on the nice new one into the sunset with cinematic mode on....

And ride into a wagon and get trampled to death.

I really wish they'd traded some of the world features for ironing out the really jarring stupidity that happens and wrenches you out of the amazing world they've created.
 
I know it’s just a game but...
One of the missions I killed half a town, got a bounty. Few days later I turn up at the same town with no cash to pay bounty, instead get a night in jail, out the next morning have a good day sir. Lol class. Somewhat at odds with the otherwise excellent realism.
I’ve adjusted the controls so it’s a little more manageable though to me it’ll always be clunky in shootouts.
Had a random encounter with a couple of cheeky campers, shot gunned their heads off. Went to hide the bodies, one of them had fell into his campfire he was all charred when I picked him up.
Wish they’d sort the hdr out, it looks terrible when the weather is misty. Enjoying it loads about 20 hours in now still chapter 2.
 
I had a silly/annoying thing happen. Went to hunt Bison with Charles. As he is rounding them up I am trying to study them. Charles comes flying into me on his horse complete with dramatic footage of him catapulting off his horse and going flying. Cue mission failure because I attacked him :eek::confused:
 
the_chicco said:
Of course there are. And I'm going to go against the grain of the majority of reviewers and say this is no way a 10/10 title, 7/8 out of 10 at best. I seriously doubt any of the reviewers actually completed the entire game. Because after chapter 2/3 it is tedious at best.
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Most reviewers put about 60 hours in, which is more than enough to complete the story, so I think they are fine there. As mentioned before in the thread, I think in the age we are in where everything has to be fast paced and entertaining all the time you're going to get people who don't "get" this game or just don't like slower pace games - but especially for people who played the first this is easily one of the best games to come out this decade!
 
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Halfway through chapter 5 now. It should be renamed to 'chapter 5 - just hold this button' ... Because that is all it is. Did they let that cretin David Cage direct this chapter? It is nothing like the rest of the game! They clearly put a lot less effort in to it.
 
chrcoluk said:
This has as you said it, led to dumbed down games.
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This game has some of the most dumbed down gameplay you can get! Most of the missions all you do is follow a marker then have a shootout. And if you don't do things precisely as the game tells you to you get a game over screen!

The Dumbing down argument is a nonsense one.

I have to say that whilst I'm still engrossed in the game and enjoying it, chapter 5 is testing my resolve.
 
Boge said:
OK. I'll admit that some of the main story characters are a bit "hard to like" . Dutch is annoying. Not sure why they went with that angle. What does he actually do? ((I'm still only at chapter 2 so no spoilers there please)

The open world stuff is still blooming epic though.

(Can't help feeling I might get bored by the whole thing by the middle of next week but hey- it was fun whilst it lasted)
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Same with any leader or senior management. They don't do anything but reap the benefits of everyone below them.

Someone needs to be the leader and if it was us the game would be boring. As in tell people what to do and sit around doing nothing.
 
Is It not possible to hold up a bank in free roam?

I've tried countless times at the bank in Valentine, but the law descends on me in seconds, no matter how quiet I go about it.
 
mid_gen said:
Played a couple more hours last night and its starting to click.

Some maddeningly stupid game design though. I complete a shootout and get told to search a building. I go plodding through the drawers, pinch the pile of cash in the chimney, empty all the food out of the cupboards, all fine, pick up a couple of shotgun shells off the counter and BAM. I'm wanted.

Who the hell saw me? Why is that one thing triggering it? I go outside and there's nobody around.

I ride back to town and just before I get there it it starts raining bullets and I'm dead.

Now I have to Google the wanted system. Ok, so I have to ride into town and pay off the bounty at the post office. So I repeat my ride through the forest to town and for some reason this time there's no hail of bullets for whatever reason. Pay the bounty. Done.

For some reason a second horse has been following me....I double check....yep, it's definitely following me. Whatever, it's nicer than my current one, so I swap saddles and ride off on the nice new one into the sunset with cinematic mode on....

And ride into a wagon and get trampled to death.

I really wish they'd traded some of the world features for ironing out the really jarring stupidity that happens and wrenches you out of the amazing world they've created.
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I think it's because you are sticking around too long. It's not the taking of a specific item just that bullets have been reigning and people are sent to investigate all the gunshots.

You can take the stuff and ride away and you don't get any bounty if they find no evidence linking you. So someone must have seen you nearby, etc. Don't stick to main roads/paths. Ride in random areas where nobody can see you leaving the crime area.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
i believe this will be unlocked in online mode and you will need 3 other online players to help you do it. same thing as GTA
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ah ok, online side does not interest me, was hoping I could do it in single player, will have to try robbing a train instead, last time I attempted that It didn't go well either.
 
the_chicco said:
Of course there are. And I'm going to go against the grain of the majority of reviewers and say this is no way a 10/10 title, 7/8 out of 10 at best. I seriously doubt any of the reviewers actually completed the entire game. Because after chapter 2/3 it is tedious at best.
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Ah! I'm only on chapter two. I have a habit of open world games to earn as much money as possible and do upgrades :o
 
A lot of enjoyment from the game is about understanding the mechanics and how to play around them. I'm nearing the end of chapter 3, the missions are dare I say a bit basic and unvaried to this point but when you break that up by going hunting or exploring it doesn't really grate with me. I did some legendary hunting last night and some of the challenges. Doing the hunts allows you to craft trinkets and talismans that improve stats. I also found the white horse whilst I was hunting so now I have that too. I went to bed at 3am last night...

If you don't like horse riding I can see how the game will annoy you. I've started taking the train round more and you can hire stagecoaches.
 
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