Red Dead Redemption 2

Tombstone · 17 Oct 2019 at 18:20

agnes said:
My wife has completed it and I've played about 4 hours worth. It improves on every aspect from the 1st in a great way. The one thing that trips a lot of people up is it's pace. It's strong on the 'sim' aspect, so getting off your horse and leashing it up to a water troff when you're in town. Going to your horse to change weapons from the saddle bags as clearly you can't carry 10 guns unlike GTA V.

Movement feels weighted and clunky until you get used to it as well, which is a major complaint from people but it's because it goes for realistic movement over overly agile character movements.

Sounds perfect to me, I have strongly desired a "sim" like wild west game for many years and this should deliver nicely by the sound of it.

ic1male · 17 Oct 2019 at 18:22

The hunting was my favourite thing most of all. Just going into an area and shooting whatever animals you needed to upgrade your equipment. I hope that's still in.

Kainz · 17 Oct 2019 at 18:48

ic1male said:
The hunting was my favourite thing most of all. Just going into an area and shooting whatever animals you needed to upgrade your equipment. I hope that's still in.

The game excels for hunting animals. It is probably the best aspect of the game for me. Rabbits and Badgers can do one though.

TonyTurbo78 · 17 Oct 2019 at 18:50

Kainz said:
Highly doubt you'll be doing any modding at all. None of Rockstars games are really mod friendly and they'll probably have a good level of control over the game, especially with their new launcher.

What????? Modding in the GTA games is easy hence why there are 100s of thousands of mods out there for GTA. I had over 100 installed on my gta4. They are obviously single player only though.

nashathedog · 17 Oct 2019 at 18:54

I just noticed this in my Youtube sub, It'd be nice for those of us who've never played Red Dead if we got Redemption 1 on PC too.

Kainz · 17 Oct 2019 at 19:04

TonyTurbo78 said:
What????? Modding in the GTA games is easy hence why there are 100s of thousands of mods out there for GTA. I had over 100 installed on my gta4. They are obviously single player only though.

It's hardly the most friendly of games to mod though is it? Well last time I looked, using OpenIV or whatever it was a right pita compared to most games. Imo Rockstar just don't do MP and Modding very well at all.

TonyTurbo78 · 17 Oct 2019 at 19:09

Kainz said:
It's hardly the most friendly of games to mod though is it? Well last time I looked, using OpenIV or whatever it was a right pita compared to most games. Imo Rockstar just don't do MP and Modding very well at all.

It's more difficult than clicking a subscribe button in the Steam workshop, I'll give it that much, but it's not exactly difficult downloading a file and dropping it where it needs to go in OpenIV or letting the extractor put it where it needs to go.

MissChief · 17 Oct 2019 at 19:52

nashathedog said:
I just noticed this in my Youtube sub, It'd be nice for those of us who've never played Red Dead if we got Redemption 1 on PC too.

I can’t see that happening. Apparently under the skin RDR1 was an absolute coding disaster only just held together by poor code and strange decisions. So I read anyway.

Boge · 17 Oct 2019 at 19:57

I bought an Xbox One X just to play this on release. Put over 200 hours in. 4k at 30fps was stunning. I can't wait to see what can be done on PC. If a 1070 and an i5 2500k can run it , I may even double dip.

mark43 · 17 Oct 2019 at 20:12

Quick question for those that have played both 1 & 2, is there anything I need to know story wise if I've not played the 1st? Not sure if its completely standalone or relies on some prior knowledge to get full enjoyment?

Boge · 17 Oct 2019 at 20:23

Your main character John Marston in RDR 1 reappears in RDR2 but only as a side character. Not the main. You really don't need to know the back story to play 2 first. But it helps put some flesh on the bones of the story if you know who certain people were and what transpired. It's a clever bit of writing the way they did that.
/SPOILER]

mark43 · 17 Oct 2019 at 20:37

@Boge Thanks

Kainz · 17 Oct 2019 at 20:55

mark43 said:
Quick question for those that have played both 1 & 2, is there anything I need to know story wise if I've not played the 1st? Not sure if its completely standalone or relies on some prior knowledge to get full enjoyment?

Complicated question. The game is a prequel to RDR1 so characters that are referenced in the first game you will encounter in 2 and they'll be more fleshed out, though one in particular isn't and he isn't important anyway.

I'd recommend not reading about the events of 1. Only do so when you've finished 2, which will take bloomin ages tbh. Enjoy your time with the Van Der Linde gang and set aside any concerns about the first game tbh.

Boge · 17 Oct 2019 at 21:14

And don't forget to pat and brush your horse. Seriously. I just finished the Witcher 3 (another 200 hours) and I really really did not like the horse in that game. I ended up walking everywhere instead. RDR2 though. The horses are just so good.

agnes · 17 Oct 2019 at 21:18

Boge said:
And don't forget to pat and brush your horse. Seriously. I just finished the Witcher 3 (another 200 hours) and I really really did not like the horse in that game. I ended up walking everywhere instead. RDR2 though. The horses are just so good.

Haha, Witcher 3 is my all time fave game. I RARELY used the horse. It was very clunky. Plus, there is just so much in the world to stop and see anyway.

mark43 · 17 Oct 2019 at 21:19

Kainz said:
Complicated question. The game is a prequel to RDR1 so characters that are referenced in the first game you will encounter in 2 and they'll be more fleshed out, though one in particular isn't and he isn't important anyway.

I'd recommend not reading about the events of 1. Only do so when you've finished 2, which will take bloomin ages tbh. Enjoy your time with the Van Der Linde gang and set aside any concerns about the first game tbh.

Thanks, I'll just settle down and enjoy this.

Kainz · 17 Oct 2019 at 22:25

Boge said:
And don't forget to pat and brush your horse. Seriously. I just finished the Witcher 3 (another 200 hours) and I really really did not like the horse in that game. I ended up walking everywhere instead. RDR2 though. The horses are just so good.

Guarantee, half this lot will end up punching their horse by accident inside the first two chapters due to the trademark Rockstar controls. I know I did.

FredFlint · 18 Oct 2019 at 00:04

Kainz said:
Guarantee, half this lot will end up punching their horse by accident inside the first two chapters due to the trademark Rockstar controls. I know I did.

LOL, I did a few times.

agnes · 18 Oct 2019 at 00:12

That or punch a random passer by instead of interacting with an object. That drove me insane. Hopefully the higher fps will help with these issues.

Matmulder · 18 Oct 2019 at 00:31

Yeah, I'll be interested how people respond to this. Myself and 3 other mates bought it, 2 sold it before finishing Ch1, the other gave up at the start of Ch2 - they all enjoyed RDR1 and expected GTAV but with horses....it's really not.

As above, it's really slow paced. I, too, found it hard going, but it really picked up both in terms of story and characters after a few hours, and (IMO) it deserves every one of of its 90+ scores. I will admit I avoided most of the "busy work" and stuck to the story and major side missions, but I got extremely invested in the world, and the guy who voices Arthur (Roger Clarke) is brilliant.

Just give it time. If you like getting invested in the world, characters and their relationships, you'll love it.