Red Dead Redemption II

[BillyG]

I'm getting used to the shitty shopping interface, and the shitty item management menus, and all the sytems for having to maintain yourself, and your horse etc. but what's really getting annoying and what my brain refuses to retain is that every time I get on my horse and then jump off to go fuck people up, all my guns except my pistol are now back on the horse even though I was carrying them earlier. Who thought this was a good idea?? Have a loadout, any extra guns should always be on your horse, and anytime you want to change your loadout do it at the horse, but LOCK THAT SHIT DOWN AFTER

I don't remember what it was, but there's definitely a way to have your guns on you when you jump off your horse. I always do unless there's some kind of story/dialog moment where I take off my weapons. Otherwise I always hope off with my pump action and repeater on me.

[Anderson]

I really liked how Chapter 3 ended.



But, then it was back to the same shit.

[Anderson]

I finished Chapter 6 and now I'm into the epilogue.


While the story picked up big time, there is an entire section of the game that is redundant. Hell, it feels like it should have been DLC.

[Anderson]

Finished the game at 81% completed.


Prequelitis: The Game.


But, I loved the final shoot-out.

[BillyG]

Still taking my time and soaking it in. I am working through chapter 4 right now. I was going to get into hunting, then I read that at chapter 6 your dead eye will show sweet spots on animals. I plan on really digging in and beating it during vacation.

[Abraham Smashington]

Currently on chapter 3 and doing nothing but looking for the weirdos in random homesteads. The brother and sister murderers were great.

[BillyG]

I have been told about a house filled with failed science experiments I want to find.

[Abraham Smashington]

Pretty sure I found a time traveler and then a house that is tracking him.

[Anderson]

Pretty sure I found a time traveler and then a house that is tracking him.

I found the mentally ill incest woman locked in the shitter. She was there until the end of Chapter 6.

[Anderson]

  Spoiler: My main issue. 

The epilogue is 2 parts and 6 hours long.


Seriously, imagine the end of RDR after Dutch kills himself stretched out to 6 fucking hours.


They even have a quick-time event for you to build a house.

[Captain Russ]

For all the faults found in the gameplay (of which there were a few), I really became engrossed in the people in camp and especially those found outside of it.

I couldn’t give a flying fuck about most of the characters in the original but they did a great job in fleshing out the cast this time around. Except for maybe Micah. Because cunts are all painted with the same brush, he had to be pretty one note all the way through to function.

But the widow up near Annesburg, the old drunk gunfighter, the sister in Saint Denis, Rains Fall, even the mad preacher down by the water — they each added a bit of something to the world to expand on the themes of the games.

Where I could never really slip into the life or role of Marston in the original, I could find something in Arthur. Whether that comes from the rather impressive animation or the step up in voice acting or the writing for the character and his arc (it’s all three of course) he just stuck out as a character with a bit more life to him than what had come before.

Finished the game on Sunday with some trepidation. Had several issues with how it wrapped up but the main narrative prior to the epilogue was pretty solid, barring the odd detour into uncharted waters.

[Trejo]

Running down the street in Valentine, bumped into someone standing in front of the gunsmith. As soon as it happened, the guy I bumped into, as well as at least 5 or 6 other random people that happened to be in that part of town all immediately drew their guns and executed me in like half a second.

What the fuck? Someone sees me looting a body (that I didn't kill) and I have to deal with an army of bounty hunters killing me over and over. I bump into someone, get murdered in cold blood and the game finds that quite legit.

They really need to tone the wanted/bounty system down as it's the biggest detriment to having any fun in this one

[BillyG]

Had you been doing crimes or getting into trouble in Valentine? Something the game doesn't tell you is that if you do things in a particular town more you become hated more or less, and the smallest thing will set off the locals.

[Captain Russ]

The wanted system needs a bit of tweaking to be sure. Hell, I ended up being able to stop some Lemoyne raider asshats from tossing fire bottles at a building and Saint Denis, and as soon as I have one hogtied and on my horse, people start screeching to any tin star they can find. You’d think they’d be happy the cocksuckers were dead or captured, yeah?

Also, riding around in the city is a terrible idea with how sensitive the people can be to their safe space and how wonky the horse can be at times. That said, I became extremely attached to my horse by the end.

[Fil]

May or may not help with some troubles with the game, but feel free to spend any cash you have by the end of Chapter 6. Your cash situation changes post game. I never paid off any bounties, but I probably should have with all the cash I was hoarding.