Red Dead Redemption (2) v3 Cereal for a secondary form of currency
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My two main horses in the story were called Raku and Ghost. The first name was taken from a book series I read ages ago, the latter was a suggestion.
Online my first horse was Jon Bon Poni, while my free red Arabian is named after a friend as a joke that his horse is named after me.
I really tried to shoot the weapons out of Micah's hands in the end scene, but nope
Does the game have a new game+ thing or something? I haven't finished it yet but I just wanna know. Also is it a spoiler that Micah likely killed his brother?
To those who are fans of the game, I have a question.
Is the MAIN selling point of RDR2 the story and characters? I ask because I'm about ten hours in and just don't have any interest in playing anymore. I do like the writing and most of the characters, but my main problem is that I'm just not having any fun with this game. I can't help but feel as though the combat is a bit stiff and dated, and that movement is needlessly sluggish, which doesn't help matters. And thus far, the missions just haven't been winning me over on a functional standpoint. Things just
feel a tad too scripted and are often opening with really slow starts so the characters can ride on horseback and have a chat.
I DO want to like this game because the world feels very well realized, the West is GORGEOUS, and I do feel invested in a fair amount of the characters as well as the
camp as a whole. I'm just very curious what others feel on the subject of gameplay and plot, and if there's any way I can get a little more out of the gameplay than I'm
currently getting.
I can give you an answer only on the narrative angle of the whole thing.
If you don't like the characters involved, their interactions and how they develop over the course of the game, then yes, take a break or leave the game altogether, 'cause, althought the majority of players will argue against me to death about it, the story of Red Dead Redemption 2 is underwhelming at best and a random events plot at worst, and it also doesn't even try to fit itself into the story of the original game
If you are not having any fun, maybe put it on the backlog and come back to it later, no shame in it. But yeah what you have been doing up to this point in the game is pretty much what you will be doing for the rest of the game. It's a rather slow burn, but it's not for everybody I suppose.
I can't help but read this as your opinion, even though you're making all this sound like these are facts.
Yes, I'm afraid it's a recurring problem with me, isn't it?
I was referring more to the fact that:
1) Arthur's existence isn't aknowledged at all in the original game, which, while understandable as the sequel was written years after Red Dead Redemption, doesn't make the thing any less jarring, especially if you consider how much Arthur did for John and his family by the end of RDR 2.
2) The original game consistently describes Dutch's gang as a band of shameless murderers who were only delusional about being a family and had no redimeeing traits whatsoever (hell, it's flat-out said to the playerby Dutch, Javier and Bill that Abigail was "passed around" the gang for sex). In RDR 2, instead, Dutch's gang really is a family of sort and the gang members respect and look out for each other and then Dutch mandatory plot-induced crazyness and Micah's, well, mere existence throws anything to hell
John was pretty reticent about the whole gang and he didn’t care for most of the people he worked for so he wasn’t going to open up about his family or a guy like Arthur. If he did, it would have been to Bonnie or perhaps even Marshal Johnson, and from what I recall, the specifics of the gang were never talked about that much.
And for John’s description of the gang being delusional about being a family, considering what happens to him over the course of the game, it’s easy to see why he has those feelings. Plus it probably makes it easier for him to say they were never family while he’s actively hunting down his former “brothers.”
I think the only relevance Arthur could've had in the first game, was with Javier and Bill, neither of them two mention him and you'd think they would since it'd be ages since they'd seen John, it'd probably bring up memories for them, so that is an inconsistency I will give you.
Who's describing them though? If it's the FBI then obviously they're going to, Milton talked shit about them too, doesn't mean it was true, it just makes it consistent with law bringers to describe people who are against them as scum or bad people; did Uncle, John or Abigail describe the gang as being like that? If they did that'd be weird as fuck, but I don't know if they ever did, I can't remember, but I can't imagine they did.
Come to think of it, yeah, I’m pretty sure it was only Ross calling John a hypocrite for describing the gang as a family when they were really a gang of murderers.
I understand guys, but for fuck's sake, during the events of "Red Dead Redemption" (the RDR 2 mission, mind you) Arthur, regardless of his honor level, literally spend the last hours of his life rescuing Abigail and reunite her with Jack, then saving John too and, depending on the player's actions, either (A) go back to the cave to get the gang's money and give the Marston family the means to lead a happy, honest life, even if he knows it means certain death, or (B) see it personally that John survives, leaving himself behind to die while his friend escapes.
Before that, and althought they have a vitriolic relationship at first, Arthur is the only gang member who shows any concerns about John and his family well-being later on, and at one point his willingness to help them get him into conflict with the man he spent his whole life looking up to.
You'll excuse me if listening to John in Red Dead Redemption claiming that his old gang was entirely composed of fucking murderous assholes with no sympathetic qualities whatsoever is kinda hard to digest in retrospective
Oh so John does say that in Redemption 1?
I've been thinking of Dutch just going cowboys rise up while has the same face paint as the joker. Has this joke been made before?
Damn it, it's only a memory but I'm pretty sure
I don't really know why you're taking the piss out of people like myself wanting you to be more objective with what you're coming out with, is this a pride thing or something, having people call you out but you're unable to back up what you say so you just go on the defensive and do this?
Can I say that, at this point, you are reading too much into my posts?
Well how am I supposed to read your posts, I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or serious with what you're saying, it's very confusing to understand what you're doing.
It's also entirely possible that John's less-then-stellar thoughts on his former gang are him trying to justify the situation to himself and try to cope with the fact that he, personally, is being made responsible for bringing an end to an era in American history where men like him could thrive
Ok that's kinda cool
Marston still had feelings for his gang even years after they left him to die (and even then it was mainly Dutch not going back to save him). For him to hunt down every single one, one after the other, and send them to their deaths it must've torn at him inside. I do believe he'd try to rationalize it. And even then he knew he wasn't being particularly honourable as it was really the only choice enforced upon
him by Edgar Ross and the agency.
Big rip @ John Marston.
Has anyone found or stumbled into interesting rumors? I stumbled upon one when a guy near a camp told me about a princess corpse was around van horn or close to
it, I tried to find it with no luck. There is also the one thing the reverend says about a white figure near the swamp.
There is a poster about the princess on the van horn tavern
Ok so I tried to get the poster but there was a bunch of npcs infront of it, I fought 2 of them so they would piss off from the poster and when I grab it a third one attacks
me, making me drop the poster and making me unable to pick it up. Also the online seems like the most unrewarding experience so far.
The white figure in the swamp is a real thing iirc, it even has voice clips when you're near it
Isn't that suppose to just be a ghost experience?
https://youtu.be/-VOK44iGIH0
It could be the one where she attacks you with some zombies, or the other which tells the story of a couple before she hangs herself. This one is spread across multiple parts/nights.
There are two events involving a woman in white in the swamp. One has zombies attack, the other is a ghostly apparition which will fade away once you approach it.
I never knew about the zombies wtf
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