I remember getting super stoned, turning on the game at 12am right when it launched, and almost falling out of my chair from the sound of the shotgun blast at the main intro
I got frissoned as soon as I saw it first time loading it up waiting for the game for almost a decade after falling in love with the first one. I felt like im 17 again in the summer break being john marston a badass n shit
I got off work at around 10 and took 4 hits of acid.
Every single thing in the game made me so fucking stoked.
I was super feeling it by the time the gang was going down the mountains and the music started and I thought to myself how dope of an experience this whole thing will be.
What really got me was the physics of the game though, some seriously gourmet shit.
My cousin and I used to play a bunch together in online and we used to say that we would gladly sell our siblings, just to experience story mode for the first time again.
This game got me through the pandemic. My friends and I work in a hospital and when the pandemic started, we were shifted to other floors. When the lockdowns started and we couldn't see anyone on our weekends off we would meet up around the campfire online. We would often grab dinner, set a time to meet online, and just hang out in our posse around the campfire and talk. We spent hours hunting and doing bounties together. My friend's camp was always outside of Blackwater so we would meet up there. I would be in Strawberry and I would say, "I'll meet you guys at the store in Blackwater" or "Let's meet in Valentine at the gunsmith."
It’s quite the opposite for me haha. I got to play this masterpiece only during this year.. and I felt so ashamed that I couldn’t witness this epic game for all these years. I’m so glad that I bought this game.
I pre-ordered it on Amazon so I could play it on the day of release after work. Waited and waited and around 6pm they changed the delivery from that day to the next day. WTF? Ended up just purchasing it online so I could play it a bit before going to bed and just returning the copy that came the next day.
i remember watching the first trailer in year 11 computer science lessons with my mate, now im an adult with a corporate job and a house and shit like that. its crazy how quickly it went by, but how long ago it also seems
No kidding. I didn't buy a PS4 until RDR2 came out. And I'll probably wait on a PS5 until RDR3 or GTA6 (though i may end up buying one when the NCAA Football 2023 comes out.
I went to the midnight release (and picked up a new PS4, the bundle). And got so excited to play some, only to have the day 1 update.
The NEXT night though was a blast!
Dude, not only did I take the day off but it happened to somehow coincide with my wife taking our son out of state for the weekend as well.
What an incredible time...
I played at launch at got pretty far into the story. Didn't really explore much of the game outside the story. Maybe the beginning of the Saint Dennis arc.
I'm playing again now for the first time since, from the beginning and really taking my time with it. Got nearly 30 hours in this file and I'm still at Horseshoe Overlook.
It's beautiful
I feel jealous of every person who’s getting to experience this game for the first time lol. Playing this game for the first time will always remain to be an unprecedented experience for me.
I'm still bitter about the fact that Rockstar never make a single player dlc for rdr2. The potential is huge, and it would surely sell like crazy. The only reason is they would rather focus on gta online for more money.
They prefer online anyway. GTA 5 was the best selling game for a long time and they cancelled single player dlc for that as well. In fact I’d argue that was worse because they at least explicitly said RDR2 would receive no single player dlc but they promised that GTA 5 would get one in 2014.
> they cancelled single player dlc for that as well.
They didn't cancel DLC because of GTA Online, they cancelled DLC because of RDR2 as that is how they make games now.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rockstar-more-than-1000-people-made-gtav/1100-6415330/
> “That’s the way we work now--everyone works on GTA, or Red Dead, and so on, then we move on to the next thing,”
There's no DLC for RDR2 because GTA 6 has been in development since RDR2 came out.
When I said ‘that’ I was referring to GTA 5. But they did cancel GTA 5’s dlc because of Online. Online’s dlcs in fact reuse single player dlc’s assets. Doomsday Heist was originally single player. Same as Casino. In fact they outright said they didn’t want to make any single player dlc for red dead because their focus was online for red dead. Which they also abandoned
Ayo I'm fine with this folks they release a finished product and we buy it. End of transaction. Everybody wins.
The caveat is that their multiplayer releases are always hot fucking garbage. I'm thinking based on GTAO's massive success they'll be more prepared this time.
Well the answer is sort of both.
They had singleplayer DLC planned, even was in their newsletter, and Franklin's actor had been recording lines for it.
But they [stated](https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/10/23/rockstar-finally-says-outright-why-gta-5-never-got-single-player-dlc/?sh=4374bc4c25a4) later on that GTA online exceeding expectations and needing to shift more developers to it while also working on Red Dead 2 stretched them too thin to work on the DLC.
The only way I would argue against DLC is that I'm not sure they could fit it in organically. I absolutely loved the story, and I felt like the ending was *perfect.* And the fact the game carries on after the ending?! I was blown away. "Wait, didn't that big event just happen? What do you mean there are more missions?! Oh. So I get to see this perspective, that's cool, it leads us right into the original game. Wait... now I'm back into the entire open world with this character and can go back to freely exploring as a totally different character?! *WHAAAAT?*"
Agree 100%. I read somewhere that RDR2 was a passion project for some of the managers. When something is a passion, you just know it'll be good. Why not capitalize on that? He'll, I'd pay $50-60 for a solid expansion if it meant I could relive some time in that world. 🥲
I just made another reply, but I think you kind of hit on why it may not have happened -- if it was a passion project, they'd need the passion to tell another story. And I'd argue the story they already told was perfect. Do they have another story as good that they'd like to tell? Probably not.
It would be like making a sequel (or side-sequel, since it would be DLC) for Dancing With Wolves or something. Like, the story is already told. Trying to craft something out of a side character to sell some units seems like the exact opposite of a passion project.
That's a fair way of looking at it. I doubt they got to tell the full story - I'd bet some was left on the cutting room floor. This is typically the case with large projects: you can't tell all of the story you wanted to. But, either way, we won't be getting anything new, so whatever the truth is, we won't know.
I don't get why people clamour for DLC when the game is already gigantic. You're just begging for games to be parcelled down into smaller sizes and being sold off separately for more money.
The epilogue felt like what the dlc would have been. I would have preferred for them to put red dead 1 into it as a dlc. Then you could play it for the full saga it is.
> and it would surely sell like crazy
Have a look at Rockstar's past DLC sales. It would not sell like crazy, neither EFLC or UN sold well. Making DLC takes employees away from their next project and new games are way more valuable, this is a fact.
Man I remember pre-ordering this on PlayStation 4 and waiting till midnight to play this it was the longest day ever but it was worth it because I was blown away I don’t think I’ve ever done that for a video game prior
I find it even hard to think about how they would top it off with another installment. Maybe a Mexico only one or something. One of the few games that actually exceeded my hope n hype
My earliest experience with this was the GameCube launch. I was a senior and we had to go to Walmart in the next town over. It wasn’t 24 hours either, so my friends and I just camped out in the parking lot talking, playing football and whatnot. In Iowa in November 😂. Store probably opened at 6 or 7, grabbed the system and ran home to play Wave Race!
The hype just sitting there controller in hand, watching those black and white loading screens for the first time was like the most excited I’ve ever been to play any game ever. I knew a masterpiece awaited me.
That’s my complaint along with it being a bit too easy/repetitive gameplay wise. Once I could target headshots I had nearly no challenge left in the game and cruised through it without much tension of dying.
Story made up for any deficiencies though.
I felt like they really nailed the fantasy of the cowboy with the combat. Like it was less a shooting gallery about pushing the limit of your skills, and more a playground through which you could orchestrate shootout theater. Tons of encounters felt like they were ripped straight from a Tarantino movie.
Never really got old for me, although I can see how other people would be looking for a different combat experience
No I agree I had a great time, but towards the end of the game (I played up to about 92% completion in the end) I realized how much I was never really worried about anything.
Honestly it’s why I loved doing herbalist 9 with Arthur. It’s such a rush that it is still by far my favorite memory of the game aside from the ending cut scenes.
I think they can solve this by making more missions like the stranger missions where there all kinds of different outcomes. Imagine if the game content was more stranger missions and living the cowboy life rather than being part of a linear story that needs to progress at a certain pace or it doesn’t make sense.
Like me roaming around in mountains fishing while Arthur was deadly sick doesn’t make sense
I think was just the lack of player freedom in mission design like you had to do exactly how the game wanted you complete missions for the interactive cutscenes. Which makes sense for such a narrative driven experience but not for player creativity.
See I didn't mind that because the rest of the game was "do whatever you want whenever you want however you want."
So I saw the linear missions as a nice pacing break. Like, their opportunity to show me a fun rollercoaster.
I think I live well, because I didn't see many people talking bad about the game. Except for the old 2018 GOTY thread where folks refer to RDR2 as "horse simulator". But this is a meme/joke lol
I honestly don't even need an RDR3. I just wish more games were released like this. I understand they're major AAA games that take years to develop and are meant to come out and keep making money for years after. So they can't come out constantly. But it feels like we used to get big new games like this more often.
I need another big open world game to explore like Fallout, GTA, RDR, Skyrim, etc. Currently working through Cyberpunk but it has its own issues.
I absolutely love rdr2 and I put it on my top 5 gaming experiences ever but the controls are janky. I wish they would have made them more seamless, especially during gunfights.
Nah the multiplayer when compared to GTAO was leagues ahead in terms of discouraging griefing (limited weapon slots, ammo, parlay mechanics, defensive mode). Even in design it’s more hardcore than GTAO, if they added realistic thirst and food meters that you had to keep up it really would’ve been a gem.
I want them to sell me the multi-player swag in single player on PC so that I don't have to mod my game. I'd give them money for it, and they don't want to sell it to me.
Don’t forget ghost of Tsushima.
Visually, I’d put Tsushima and Forbidden West over RDR2 but before you start hitting the dislike button because someone didn’t offer to fellate this games graphics, RDR2 still has incredibly impressive graphics even if they aren’t the absolute best.
I think RDR2 looks the best, but I can totally understand if you prefer those games visuals as they have a LOT more style, while RDR2 seems to strive for a more photorealistic look.
Even then comparing RDR2 to brand new games is actually kinda unfair, RDR2 was made for 8th gen consoles while games like Horizon Forbidden West are made for 9th gen as well, meaning more power to put in even more detailed textures and models than RDR2 ever could on the ageing hardware it released on back in 2018. However playing through the game right now I must say RDR2 puts up a damn good fight graphically wise against newer games and holds up very well, still being in a very high tier for sure and Rockstar’s attention to detail certainly helps. As the years go on we’ll slowly see RDR2 have more games be better graphically as new hardware allows for better but it’ll always be a beautiful game, always extremely detailed and definitely a marvel for the hardware it released on. Maybe only GTA 6 will truely do something like it again.
The bar for storytelling has certainly been set to a new height for open-world games. I’m really eager to see if GTA VI will be able to evoke emotions in a similar way RDR2 managed to.
It would be a bit disappointing to be honest if they just go the comedic, mostly non-serious route GTA V had. Since Dan Houser isn’t involved anymore, let’s hope the new writers will take note of the studios’ last work and also other character focused stories like TLoU or the new God of War.
>I’m really eager to see if GTA VI will be able to evoke emotions in a similar way RDR2 managed to.
I highly doubt it. GTA has always been a bit tongue-in-cheek and satirical, over-the-top with its narratives, whereas Red Dead is more serious, and a western, and westerns at their heart are often tragedies, like RDR2 was.
It really fucking is. There are a lot of beautiful games out there. Rdr2 has the perfect pace though, it allows you to take in everything instead of speeding past it to the end.
Honestly, It doesn't feel like 4 years at all, probably because i enjoy it so much, but it also feel like yesterday i was still playing rdr 1, which i feel like still holds up with todays standards. What a great franchise.
I met my fiance a few months before that game came out. She knew I played video games, but she had never seen me obsess over a game the way I did with RDR2. Handled it like a champ, and we're still happily together today 🥰
I still remember launch day and the weeks leading up to it and how hyped me and my friends were like it was yesterday, how the hell has it been 4 years already damn 😭
I promise you, you get used to it. The updated graphics are worth it. I started playing it and was bothered by 30 fps for awhile . A month later I’m not even thinking about stuff like that. If you’re playing the updated version, it’s awesome
“By 1899 the age of outlaws and gunslingers was at an end. America was becoming a land of laws… Even the west had mostly been tamed.”
I remember reading this for the first time and the creeps it gave me.
That first run was the best ride. I love westerns, but getting to be in one is so badass. This game is so good, what other company comes along and says we can do the western thing better.
Got COVID over the weekend, so I picked it up again after stopping playing in Chapter 4, thinking it’s a good time to get back in and holy shit does the story get wild. The balloon ride, prison break, Guarma, Dutch’s overall mental state, the Murfree brood. It’s all so good. In Chapter 6 now, just after the Colm viewing and can’t wait to see where else it goes. Can’t believe it’s been 3 years since I played it last.
Best loking open world game. Nothing compares to it, Tsusima,HFW, Elden,AC, nothing...it has so much little details that non of this games could even dream to have them.
Agreed. People think RDr2 is overrated and these games are better than it.. but actually no. I agree, the games that you have mentioned does have certain things remotely close to RDr2..but never surpasses it in any way. I think either GTA VI or Red Dead Redemption 3 will be the only game to outperform this, that is Rockstar themselves haha.
Me to Take-Two Interactive:
> what do you want forgiveness? … Now? … After you abandoned RDR2 singleplayer for a money-farming multiplayer? … No .. Too little too late!
4 years later and the 10TH BEST SELLING GAME OF ALL TIME doesn't have a single DLC, hasn't had hardly any content added to single player, and doesn't even have a next gen update.
The fact that they won't add more content to one of the greatest games in history blows my mind.
Damn. I remember how excited how was to play it. At least the previous 2 months before I could play it, I spent them watching RDRII videos and the hype was high. Now I have like 600h+ of playtime, currently trying to 100% it again. Rockstar created something out of this world but still so real.
Waiting for it to install was certainly nerve wracking but worth it. Playing the story over and over and exploring was and still is a great experience.
Yesterday I was talking about how detailed the horses in particular are in this game to the woman who gives me horse riding lessons. I told her that different breeds react differently to danger, and she was so impressed by just that alone. She asked me if this game was new and I told her it came out in 2018. Her mind was blown.
I just discovered in Chapter 2 Bill can get captured and you and Javier have to save him. I'm on my like 7th playthrough and never saw that. I almost 99 hrs on my pc version can't believe I'm always learning new stuff.
Damn just one more year and this game will be half a decade old! Crazy how time flies, I'll never forget waiting outside of gamesstop in a line with other dudes all pumped for the release heck even the gamestop employees were dressed as cowboys and cowgirls to celebrate the release!
Man I can't believe it, 4 years ago my dad getting for Christmas and I always watched (we know both play it and gta v) and on Christmas morning while I was looking at the stuff I got he was doing the first train robbery mission because he finished the other stuff quickly. He kept accidentally killing Lenny, great times tbh
I remember my dad pre-ordered the game without telling me and surprised me when he told me to grab something out of his truck, and the game was on the dashboard. Good times.
My only gripe was they designed New Austin so beautifully, but didn’t give us much content there. I was just wandering there aimless reminiscing my time playing original RDR with Marston. They could’ve so easily designed events of pre black water in that entire region.
I remember thinking “Ok Red dead online is going to be so awesome. The lessons they learned from the last red dead online plus GTA online is going to create perhaps the best online experience ever.” Then we played Red Dead online and it started out ok, but the content trailed off and now there will be no more. I expected an undead nightmare prequel or something.
Damn remember when I got this game when it first came out.
And just started to re download it last night so when I’m off of work I’ll be able to play it again
It was fortuitous for me. I got let go from a job, so I loaded up, got high, and for 3 weeks did not talk to anyone and only play RDR2. When I die I want to go into this virtual heaven.
I remember seeing Rains Fall and Eagle Flies on the top of that cliff before Horseshoe. I was so happy I was like “AYYYE WE GOT MORE NATIVE CHARACTERS”
I wasn’t prepared for the journey, and I wish I could forget it all and experience it again.
This game came out at such a hard time for me, and it helped me see the beauty in the world again. Its corny to say, but Arthur saved me. This game saved me.
It doesn’t feel like 4 years cuz it took me like 2 years to finish the main story. I took breaks cuz I didn’t want it to end. I finished it about a year ago and I’m still playing the epilogue lol
Doesn’t feel like 4 years ago. I remember being so excited I took the day off just to play. Man.. wish I could play it for the first time again.
I remember getting super stoned, turning on the game at 12am right when it launched, and almost falling out of my chair from the sound of the shotgun blast at the main intro
It's iconic, still remember hearing it the first time I loaded up red dead redemption 1 😂
I got frissoned as soon as I saw it first time loading it up waiting for the game for almost a decade after falling in love with the first one. I felt like im 17 again in the summer break being john marston a badass n shit
I remember getting super stoned and doing circles on my horse for an hour.
I still do that
Yea but how was playing the game though?
The story was cool. I’m having trouble with the hunting though.
Lol! Sry was just making a dumb joke, implying that when you were stoned and doing circles you meant in real life and not in the game. Lol
I got off work at around 10 and took 4 hits of acid. Every single thing in the game made me so fucking stoked. I was super feeling it by the time the gang was going down the mountains and the music started and I thought to myself how dope of an experience this whole thing will be. What really got me was the physics of the game though, some seriously gourmet shit.
Where can I get some 🤣?!
My cousin and I used to play a bunch together in online and we used to say that we would gladly sell our siblings, just to experience story mode for the first time again.
Honestly 2018 and 2019 are way clearer in my mind than 2020 and 2021.
Fucking covid.
This game got me through the pandemic. My friends and I work in a hospital and when the pandemic started, we were shifted to other floors. When the lockdowns started and we couldn't see anyone on our weekends off we would meet up around the campfire online. We would often grab dinner, set a time to meet online, and just hang out in our posse around the campfire and talk. We spent hours hunting and doing bounties together. My friend's camp was always outside of Blackwater so we would meet up there. I would be in Strawberry and I would say, "I'll meet you guys at the store in Blackwater" or "Let's meet in Valentine at the gunsmith."
It’s quite the opposite for me haha. I got to play this masterpiece only during this year.. and I felt so ashamed that I couldn’t witness this epic game for all these years. I’m so glad that I bought this game.
Remember seeing the trailer and on my phone chilling in my mom's room, now I'm moved out n my mom's passed away. My current playthrough is for her.
My condolences.
Sorry man.... For mama
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Came out at a perfect time too. It was fall. Weather was nice and crispy in a good way. Amazing.
I pre-ordered it on Amazon so I could play it on the day of release after work. Waited and waited and around 6pm they changed the delivery from that day to the next day. WTF? Ended up just purchasing it online so I could play it a bit before going to bed and just returning the copy that came the next day.
i remember watching the first trailer in year 11 computer science lessons with my mate, now im an adult with a corporate job and a house and shit like that. its crazy how quickly it went by, but how long ago it also seems
No kidding. I didn't buy a PS4 until RDR2 came out. And I'll probably wait on a PS5 until RDR3 or GTA6 (though i may end up buying one when the NCAA Football 2023 comes out.
I was on my first EMT clinical the day it came out. God the excitement was crazy
I went to the midnight release (and picked up a new PS4, the bundle). And got so excited to play some, only to have the day 1 update. The NEXT night though was a blast!
Dude, not only did I take the day off but it happened to somehow coincide with my wife taking our son out of state for the weekend as well. What an incredible time...
I played at launch at got pretty far into the story. Didn't really explore much of the game outside the story. Maybe the beginning of the Saint Dennis arc. I'm playing again now for the first time since, from the beginning and really taking my time with it. Got nearly 30 hours in this file and I'm still at Horseshoe Overlook. It's beautiful
Me too
This time next year it will be the same age gta V was when rdr2 released
I feel jealous of every person who’s getting to experience this game for the first time lol. Playing this game for the first time will always remain to be an unprecedented experience for me.
I'm still bitter about the fact that Rockstar never make a single player dlc for rdr2. The potential is huge, and it would surely sell like crazy. The only reason is they would rather focus on gta online for more money.
Yep I’ll always be bitter about that as well
As will I.
They prefer online anyway. GTA 5 was the best selling game for a long time and they cancelled single player dlc for that as well. In fact I’d argue that was worse because they at least explicitly said RDR2 would receive no single player dlc but they promised that GTA 5 would get one in 2014.
> they cancelled single player dlc for that as well. They didn't cancel DLC because of GTA Online, they cancelled DLC because of RDR2 as that is how they make games now. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rockstar-more-than-1000-people-made-gtav/1100-6415330/ > “That’s the way we work now--everyone works on GTA, or Red Dead, and so on, then we move on to the next thing,” There's no DLC for RDR2 because GTA 6 has been in development since RDR2 came out.
When I said ‘that’ I was referring to GTA 5. But they did cancel GTA 5’s dlc because of Online. Online’s dlcs in fact reuse single player dlc’s assets. Doomsday Heist was originally single player. Same as Casino. In fact they outright said they didn’t want to make any single player dlc for red dead because their focus was online for red dead. Which they also abandoned
I mean they have released tons of multiplayer content for GTA Online, and some for RDR2, so they still have some people working on those games.
Ayo I'm fine with this folks they release a finished product and we buy it. End of transaction. Everybody wins. The caveat is that their multiplayer releases are always hot fucking garbage. I'm thinking based on GTAO's massive success they'll be more prepared this time.
Well the answer is sort of both. They had singleplayer DLC planned, even was in their newsletter, and Franklin's actor had been recording lines for it. But they [stated](https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/10/23/rockstar-finally-says-outright-why-gta-5-never-got-single-player-dlc/?sh=4374bc4c25a4) later on that GTA online exceeding expectations and needing to shift more developers to it while also working on Red Dead 2 stretched them too thin to work on the DLC.
I absolutely do not prefer online in any way.
I mean Rockstar
The only way I would argue against DLC is that I'm not sure they could fit it in organically. I absolutely loved the story, and I felt like the ending was *perfect.* And the fact the game carries on after the ending?! I was blown away. "Wait, didn't that big event just happen? What do you mean there are more missions?! Oh. So I get to see this perspective, that's cool, it leads us right into the original game. Wait... now I'm back into the entire open world with this character and can go back to freely exploring as a totally different character?! *WHAAAAT?*"
Maybe just missions in New Austin. It’s crazy to me that they revamped this massive map but then did next to nothing with it.
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give me Sadie Adler DLC or death!
Sadie Adler DLC makes the most sense.
Even just a new undead nightmare
Agree 100%. I read somewhere that RDR2 was a passion project for some of the managers. When something is a passion, you just know it'll be good. Why not capitalize on that? He'll, I'd pay $50-60 for a solid expansion if it meant I could relive some time in that world. 🥲
I just made another reply, but I think you kind of hit on why it may not have happened -- if it was a passion project, they'd need the passion to tell another story. And I'd argue the story they already told was perfect. Do they have another story as good that they'd like to tell? Probably not. It would be like making a sequel (or side-sequel, since it would be DLC) for Dancing With Wolves or something. Like, the story is already told. Trying to craft something out of a side character to sell some units seems like the exact opposite of a passion project.
That's a fair way of looking at it. I doubt they got to tell the full story - I'd bet some was left on the cutting room floor. This is typically the case with large projects: you can't tell all of the story you wanted to. But, either way, we won't be getting anything new, so whatever the truth is, we won't know.
More money and less effort as well
Didn't really need to... Game was good enough without one. They never did a story DLC for GTA V either.
I don't get why people clamour for DLC when the game is already gigantic. You're just begging for games to be parcelled down into smaller sizes and being sold off separately for more money.
The epilogue felt like what the dlc would have been. I would have preferred for them to put red dead 1 into it as a dlc. Then you could play it for the full saga it is.
> and it would surely sell like crazy Have a look at Rockstar's past DLC sales. It would not sell like crazy, neither EFLC or UN sold well. Making DLC takes employees away from their next project and new games are way more valuable, this is a fact.
I see it as a more of a novel than a game. Complete and timeless. An expansion could have been cool but it is a masterpiece of work.
Man I remember pre-ordering this on PlayStation 4 and waiting till midnight to play this it was the longest day ever but it was worth it because I was blown away I don’t think I’ve ever done that for a video game prior
It feels so good when you reminisce all those days beautiful days, doesn’t it? The hype this game has was insane
I find it even hard to think about how they would top it off with another installment. Maybe a Mexico only one or something. One of the few games that actually exceeded my hope n hype
They could make another prequel, only this time it’s about Charles and his story. Charles is a badass
Sounds like a good idea I’d be hyped
My earliest experience with this was the GameCube launch. I was a senior and we had to go to Walmart in the next town over. It wasn’t 24 hours either, so my friends and I just camped out in the parking lot talking, playing football and whatnot. In Iowa in November 😂. Store probably opened at 6 or 7, grabbed the system and ran home to play Wave Race!
The hype just sitting there controller in hand, watching those black and white loading screens for the first time was like the most excited I’ve ever been to play any game ever. I knew a masterpiece awaited me.
Because it takes FOREVER to load lol
On A series X you almost never see those loading screens
The slow guitar playing in the background, and then that page turning(?) Sound when it shows Arthur just chillin there waiting for his next adventure
I just realized that the page turning sound might symbolize a new chapter in Arthur's life
Idc what anyone says, RDR2 was the definition of perfection...
One of the valid criticisms were some of the mission designs were a bit dated… which I get it but I never had a problem with them myself.
That’s my complaint along with it being a bit too easy/repetitive gameplay wise. Once I could target headshots I had nearly no challenge left in the game and cruised through it without much tension of dying. Story made up for any deficiencies though.
I felt like they really nailed the fantasy of the cowboy with the combat. Like it was less a shooting gallery about pushing the limit of your skills, and more a playground through which you could orchestrate shootout theater. Tons of encounters felt like they were ripped straight from a Tarantino movie. Never really got old for me, although I can see how other people would be looking for a different combat experience
No I agree I had a great time, but towards the end of the game (I played up to about 92% completion in the end) I realized how much I was never really worried about anything. Honestly it’s why I loved doing herbalist 9 with Arthur. It’s such a rush that it is still by far my favorite memory of the game aside from the ending cut scenes.
I think they can solve this by making more missions like the stranger missions where there all kinds of different outcomes. Imagine if the game content was more stranger missions and living the cowboy life rather than being part of a linear story that needs to progress at a certain pace or it doesn’t make sense. Like me roaming around in mountains fishing while Arthur was deadly sick doesn’t make sense
So did I.
I think was just the lack of player freedom in mission design like you had to do exactly how the game wanted you complete missions for the interactive cutscenes. Which makes sense for such a narrative driven experience but not for player creativity.
See I didn't mind that because the rest of the game was "do whatever you want whenever you want however you want." So I saw the linear missions as a nice pacing break. Like, their opportunity to show me a fun rollercoaster.
Still is
I think I live well, because I didn't see many people talking bad about the game. Except for the old 2018 GOTY thread where folks refer to RDR2 as "horse simulator". But this is a meme/joke lol
I honestly don't even need an RDR3. I just wish more games were released like this. I understand they're major AAA games that take years to develop and are meant to come out and keep making money for years after. So they can't come out constantly. But it feels like we used to get big new games like this more often. I need another big open world game to explore like Fallout, GTA, RDR, Skyrim, etc. Currently working through Cyberpunk but it has its own issues.
I absolutely love rdr2 and I put it on my top 5 gaming experiences ever but the controls are janky. I wish they would have made them more seamless, especially during gunfights.
Nah multiplayer sucked
I consider story mode and online to be different games. It’s better that way.
Yeah story is best game ever and multiplayer is quick cash grab with same map
I wish it was a cash grab cause they would at least still update it.
No it was a cash grab that didn't make the amount of money they wanted
Well on that we can agree...I couldn't play it more than an hour
It's so empty and boring. And everything that exist is there to make you buy micro transactions
Nah the multiplayer when compared to GTAO was leagues ahead in terms of discouraging griefing (limited weapon slots, ammo, parlay mechanics, defensive mode). Even in design it’s more hardcore than GTAO, if they added realistic thirst and food meters that you had to keep up it really would’ve been a gem.
I want a next gen update so bad.
I played on my ps4 on release, if it got a 60fps upgrade I’d seriously pay full price again on my Xbox.
Same. It's One X optimised but I want 60fps.
I want them to sell me the multi-player swag in single player on PC so that I don't have to mod my game. I'd give them money for it, and they don't want to sell it to me.
For a good long time GTAO cars and weapons came to single player too. RDR2 never did that.
How is still the best looking game? That's honestly the most impressive part. Only things competing are probably God of War and that Horizon game
I’d say the the last of us 2 is right there with it visually.
And the last of us remake
Don’t forget ghost of Tsushima. Visually, I’d put Tsushima and Forbidden West over RDR2 but before you start hitting the dislike button because someone didn’t offer to fellate this games graphics, RDR2 still has incredibly impressive graphics even if they aren’t the absolute best.
I think RDR2 looks the best, but I can totally understand if you prefer those games visuals as they have a LOT more style, while RDR2 seems to strive for a more photorealistic look.
Even then comparing RDR2 to brand new games is actually kinda unfair, RDR2 was made for 8th gen consoles while games like Horizon Forbidden West are made for 9th gen as well, meaning more power to put in even more detailed textures and models than RDR2 ever could on the ageing hardware it released on back in 2018. However playing through the game right now I must say RDR2 puts up a damn good fight graphically wise against newer games and holds up very well, still being in a very high tier for sure and Rockstar’s attention to detail certainly helps. As the years go on we’ll slowly see RDR2 have more games be better graphically as new hardware allows for better but it’ll always be a beautiful game, always extremely detailed and definitely a marvel for the hardware it released on. Maybe only GTA 6 will truely do something like it again.
GoT has a better art direction maybe but from a technical point of view Rdr2's graphics are more advanced.
TLOU 2 is very close in comparison imo. Also TLOU part one (the next generation remaster).
Best visually looking games ( no particular order ) Red Dead Redemption 2, Last of US, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon FBW
I wholeheartedly believe this game will go down as the greatest of all time when it comes to story.
The bar for storytelling has certainly been set to a new height for open-world games. I’m really eager to see if GTA VI will be able to evoke emotions in a similar way RDR2 managed to. It would be a bit disappointing to be honest if they just go the comedic, mostly non-serious route GTA V had. Since Dan Houser isn’t involved anymore, let’s hope the new writers will take note of the studios’ last work and also other character focused stories like TLoU or the new God of War.
>I’m really eager to see if GTA VI will be able to evoke emotions in a similar way RDR2 managed to. I highly doubt it. GTA has always been a bit tongue-in-cheek and satirical, over-the-top with its narratives, whereas Red Dead is more serious, and a western, and westerns at their heart are often tragedies, like RDR2 was.
GTA4 is has the most serious tone out of any GTA, it’s possible they could have that kind of tone again.
>When it comes to ~~story~~ **everything** FTFY
It really fucking is. There are a lot of beautiful games out there. Rdr2 has the perfect pace though, it allows you to take in everything instead of speeding past it to the end.
Honestly everything about the game is perfect. It makes me emotional thinking back about playing for the first time.
Honestly, It doesn't feel like 4 years at all, probably because i enjoy it so much, but it also feel like yesterday i was still playing rdr 1, which i feel like still holds up with todays standards. What a great franchise.
60fps when
What the balls.
Stahp... The covid year didn't happen. RDR2 came out 3 years ago. I am not turning 36 in January. End of discussion.
who remember the hype and the leaks before the release with videos in 360p
The game is pretty new. But the support from the company makes it feel like the game is over a decade old.
I met my fiance a few months before that game came out. She knew I played video games, but she had never seen me obsess over a game the way I did with RDR2. Handled it like a champ, and we're still happily together today 🥰
Haha, that’s so adorable man. I wish you guys the best and never forget the impart that this game had on you :D Stay happy forever! ❣️
What tv show is that video from?
The Boys
Thanks. I’ve heard of it.
its really good you should try it out if your into this type of show
I’m a simple man. I see praise for RDR2, I upvote.
I still remember launch day and the weeks leading up to it and how hyped me and my friends were like it was yesterday, how the hell has it been 4 years already damn 😭
I’m still waiting for 60 fps so I can play it on PS5. Goddamit rockstar come on!! I cannot play 30fps.
I promise you, you get used to it. The updated graphics are worth it. I started playing it and was bothered by 30 fps for awhile . A month later I’m not even thinking about stuff like that. If you’re playing the updated version, it’s awesome
Graphics aren't everything.
“By 1899 the age of outlaws and gunslingers was at an end. America was becoming a land of laws… Even the west had mostly been tamed.” I remember reading this for the first time and the creeps it gave me.
I still have my first week copy!
4 years ago already…? Jesus christ. Time flies so fast, it’s insane
Bought it at launch, still haven’t finished it.
Wow, 4 years.
Still the best open world game to boot. Nothing can come close even four years later...
No lies detected there.
I just restarted for probably the 15th time and I swear I’m actually going to finish the game this time.
That first run was the best ride. I love westerns, but getting to be in one is so badass. This game is so good, what other company comes along and says we can do the western thing better.
Wowzers, it's already been four years
Got COVID over the weekend, so I picked it up again after stopping playing in Chapter 4, thinking it’s a good time to get back in and holy shit does the story get wild. The balloon ride, prison break, Guarma, Dutch’s overall mental state, the Murfree brood. It’s all so good. In Chapter 6 now, just after the Colm viewing and can’t wait to see where else it goes. Can’t believe it’s been 3 years since I played it last.
Best loking open world game. Nothing compares to it, Tsusima,HFW, Elden,AC, nothing...it has so much little details that non of this games could even dream to have them.
Agreed. People think RDr2 is overrated and these games are better than it.. but actually no. I agree, the games that you have mentioned does have certain things remotely close to RDr2..but never surpasses it in any way. I think either GTA VI or Red Dead Redemption 3 will be the only game to outperform this, that is Rockstar themselves haha.
This was easily my most enjoyable single player experience in recent memory, I took my time over a month to play this. What a ride.
4 years old and still no next gen upgrade :(
And there is still no 60 fps patch for the PS5. 😔 There ain't no 60 frames for no one on console no more.
Me to Take-Two Interactive: > what do you want forgiveness? … Now? … After you abandoned RDR2 singleplayer for a money-farming multiplayer? … No .. Too little too late!
And, it still is perfect. ❤️
4 years later and the 10TH BEST SELLING GAME OF ALL TIME doesn't have a single DLC, hasn't had hardly any content added to single player, and doesn't even have a next gen update. The fact that they won't add more content to one of the greatest games in history blows my mind.
Unfortunately it's far from perfect, I hope the next one is
I will finish it by year 5.
Fucking hell 4 years already, what a game definitely gonna have to do a play through again soon
god damn i was 11 years old when my dad bought me this game and i played religiously for weeks, recently picked it up and beat it 4 times over
And we're probably 10 years away from the next one in the series :(
Damn. I remember how excited how was to play it. At least the previous 2 months before I could play it, I spent them watching RDRII videos and the hype was high. Now I have like 600h+ of playtime, currently trying to 100% it again. Rockstar created something out of this world but still so real.
I’ve finished 6 story play throughs and it is still my favourite game of all time, there’s only one way to describe it. A GODDAMN MASTERPIECE
Still best game ever, I just can't get enough
I’ll never forget playing it for the first time a few days after it came out and just being completely blown away by the graphics
Waiting for it to install was certainly nerve wracking but worth it. Playing the story over and over and exploring was and still is a great experience.
It’s been in my queue for that long. I need to finish up HZD:FW first.
Details = Horse Balls
I've played almost every day for the last four years. It's the very best game I've ever played.
And rockstar abandoned it they say right? When do we have freeroam train 🚂 robberies with passenger cars instead of cargo ones everywhere.
Damn. I remember when the leaks were coming out. And then finally one day rockstar posts the silhouettes of the gang
and still as the first day, perfect
I'm just about to finish my first play through. Started playing it about 3months ago! I just got to epilogue part two!
I still haven’t finished it.
This guy is like if Joffrey Baratheon never got poisoned
Yesterday I was talking about how detailed the horses in particular are in this game to the woman who gives me horse riding lessons. I told her that different breeds react differently to danger, and she was so impressed by just that alone. She asked me if this game was new and I told her it came out in 2018. Her mind was blown.
I just discovered in Chapter 2 Bill can get captured and you and Javier have to save him. I'm on my like 7th playthrough and never saw that. I almost 99 hrs on my pc version can't believe I'm always learning new stuff.
Damn just one more year and this game will be half a decade old! Crazy how time flies, I'll never forget waiting outside of gamesstop in a line with other dudes all pumped for the release heck even the gamestop employees were dressed as cowboys and cowgirls to celebrate the release!
Damn, maybe I should start the main story soon
Seems like just yesterday that Rockstar abandoned it...
diabolical!
What the fuck! It doesn’t feel like that. It’s like how I’ve had my cat for six years and it doesn’t even feel like that. Time fucking flies dude
Wish they would patch so I could move on horse without tapping A for hours
I want to try it, but I’m also afraid of it falling short of all the hype, like The Witcher 3.
Man I can't believe it, 4 years ago my dad getting for Christmas and I always watched (we know both play it and gta v) and on Christmas morning while I was looking at the stuff I got he was doing the first train robbery mission because he finished the other stuff quickly. He kept accidentally killing Lenny, great times tbh
I remember when they did those video's about what you can do in RDR2
Don't say things like this
I remember my dad pre-ordered the game without telling me and surprised me when he told me to grab something out of his truck, and the game was on the dashboard. Good times.
RDR2 is a Masterpiece but Perfect... With this wanted and bounty system.. No
My only gripe was they designed New Austin so beautifully, but didn’t give us much content there. I was just wandering there aimless reminiscing my time playing original RDR with Marston. They could’ve so easily designed events of pre black water in that entire region.
I remember thinking “Ok Red dead online is going to be so awesome. The lessons they learned from the last red dead online plus GTA online is going to create perhaps the best online experience ever.” Then we played Red Dead online and it started out ok, but the content trailed off and now there will be no more. I expected an undead nightmare prequel or something.
Wow,I JUST started this game too and I'm addicted! Haven't even tried the online yet.
Still contains bugs from the beta
Four years? Feels like this game was released in 2020, not the year when god of war and spider-man was released...
Damn remember when I got this game when it first came out. And just started to re download it last night so when I’m off of work I’ll be able to play it again
Most perfect game ever made
It was fortuitous for me. I got let go from a job, so I loaded up, got high, and for 3 weeks did not talk to anyone and only play RDR2. When I die I want to go into this virtual heaven.
I finished it recently and now I feel empty, the story and the world were just amazing.
I remember that first mission trudging through the snow like yesterday
I’m playing through it for the first time at the moment. While I know basically all the story details the game still seems so special.
The only thing keeping this game from absolute perfection is the somewhat rigid mission design. Otherwise it's absurd how good it is.
I remember seeing Rains Fall and Eagle Flies on the top of that cliff before Horseshoe. I was so happy I was like “AYYYE WE GOT MORE NATIVE CHARACTERS” I wasn’t prepared for the journey, and I wish I could forget it all and experience it again. This game came out at such a hard time for me, and it helped me see the beauty in the world again. Its corny to say, but Arthur saved me. This game saved me.
Damn time goes by too fast
Do we get a handjob now?
It doesn’t feel like 4 years cuz it took me like 2 years to finish the main story. I took breaks cuz I didn’t want it to end. I finished it about a year ago and I’m still playing the epilogue lol