History YMMV / RideToHellRetribution

* CompleteMonster: While the game is full of [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels outlaw bikers]] and other nasty customers, these two manage to stand out from the pack in a big way:
** [[BigBad Caesar]] is the founder of the Devil's Hand, a powerful biker gang responsible for drug dealing and [[ArmsDealer illegal arms trading]] on an international scale. [[EvilFormerFriend Originally a close friend]] of Toledo Conway, the [[AmbitionIsEvil power-hungry]] Caesar grew to enjoy the thrill of hurting others and desired to be something far greater than a humble biker. Betraying Toledo, Caesar steadily amassed support to transform his hometown into a criminal empire and deposed his former friend by drowning him in debt, taking everything away from him but his wife, whom Caesar lusted after. After Toledo fled with his wife following a lost "all or nothing" race, Caesar, feeling his ego was wounded, brutally murdered both of them and passed an order to [[FamilyExtermination hunt down every remaining Conway]] and their friends to the last child. Expanding his gang to a paramilitary force that threatens the region, Caesar will stop at nothing to achieve more power.
** ''Cook's Mad Recipe'' {{DLC}}: [[BigBad Cook]] is an influential Devil's Hand lieutenant. A [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] veteran who [[ShellShockedVeteran went mad]] during his tour of duty, Cook was discharged for instability and subsequently blamed America for all his suffering. [[FromCamouflageToCriminal Joining the Devil's Hand]] for his own ends, Cook exploits the gang to procure a means to exact revenge on all of America. Executing his plans at the height of Caesar's conflict with Jake Conway, Cook [[EmptyQuiver secures a miniature atomic warhead]] and ultimately plans to launch it in the hopes of completely destroying his own country, proclaiming Americans must suffer as he did in Vietnam.

** As WebVideo/{{Rerez}}, WebVideo/ScottTheWoz, WebVideo/ProJared, and WebVideo/DarkLordJadow1 [[https://youtu.be/aHt8z7CN1-k?t=1238 all]] [[https://youtu.be/rDzgGRp_lgM?t=530 mention]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKucJJeZMwc&t=294s in their]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2bB4aAQS-o&t=454 reviews]], spamming the Heavy Attack breaks melee combat in two.
** You can even disregard melee combat altogether and headshot enemies with your pistol before they get into fighting range. This may be why the EliteMooks have bulletproof masks to go along with their insane health capacity, as otherwise the player could go through the entire game simply shooting every enemy in the head.

* SoBadItsGood: Exactly the reason why [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] considered it the game industry's answer to ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''.

** Jake's revenge quest for his brother becomes less sympathetic over time as he starts murdering innocent people who had nothing to do with the Devil's Hand just to accomplish his revenge quest.

** As WebVideo/{{Rerez}}, WebVideo/ScottTheWoz, and WebVideo/ProJared [[https://youtu.be/aHt8z7CN1-k?t=1238 all]] [[https://youtu.be/rDzgGRp_lgM?t=530 mention]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKucJJeZMwc&t=294s in their reviews]], spamming the Heavy Attack breaks melee combat in two.

* CaptainObviousReveal: Pretty Boy dramatically reveals that [[spoiler:Jake's dad is dead]], which might have had weight if the player was ever given the indication he was alive in the first place.

** As WebVideo/{{Rerez}} and WebVideo/ScottTheWoz [[https://youtu.be/aHt8z7CN1-k?t=1238 both]] [[https://youtu.be/rDzgGRp_lgM?t=530 mention]], spamming the Heavy Attack breaks melee combat in two.

** As WebVideo/ScottTheWoz [[https://youtu.be/rDzgGRp_lgM?t=530 mentions]], spamming the Heavy Attack breaks melee combat in two.

** As WebVideo/ProJared and WebVideo/ScottTheWoz [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKucJJeZMwc&t=294s both]] [[https://youtu.be/rDzgGRp_lgM?t=530 mention]], spamming the Heavy Attack breaks melee combat in two.

* TheUntwist: Pretty Boy dramatically reveals that [[spoiler:Jake's dad is dead]], which might have had weight if the player was ever given the indication he was alive in the first place.

** [[https://youtu.be/rDzgGRp_lgM?t=530 As Scott The Woz mentions]], spamming the Heavy Attack breaks melee combat in two.

->'''Creator/ScottTheWoz''': See, with speedruns of ''Ride to Hell: Retribution'', even though skipping the sex cutscenes is 100% beneficial, nobody does it.

** The game’s infamous sex scenes also qualify. The characters all look emotionless, and bang '''with their clothes on''' to cheesy vintage porno music. And the "sex" scenes take place after [[RescueSex saving the women from assault]].

'''Jake:''' AAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Between his [[DullSurprise limited emotional range]] and his penchant for [[ComplexityAddiction ridiculously convoluted solutions to his problems]], you'd be forgiven for thinking Jake has something wrong upstairs.

* InferredHolocaust: Destroying a power plant dam could do even more damage than just shutting down an [[ComplexityAddiction electric fence]]. For example, Jake could've caused a massive power outage of at least four different states including his own, which would likely result in dozens if not hundreds of deaths by heat stroke in the area's arid climate due to air conditioning being lost, not to mention deaths from the breakdown of law and order that would result from such a large blackout. Even worse, if the explosion somehow broke through the wall of the dam, there could've been a massive flash flood that could cause the deaths of millions including Jake himself. Jake is very lucky that the story ignores this, otherwise he'd have an untold amount of blood on his hands from sabotaging a power plant just to get past an electric fence.

* NeverLiveItDown: Jake destroying a power plant so he can deactivate an electric fence is brought up by so many reviewers[[note]]about the only reviewer who ''doesn’t'' mention the electric fence is [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]][[/note]] (and mentioned so many times on this very page) that you'd think it was the only thing he ever did in his lengthy revenge quest.
* ObviousBeta: The game’s enormous amount of bugs, [[ArtificialStupidity hilariously poor AI]], massive amounts of obvious {{Padding}}, and issues such as the Jake’s hair on his model being unfinished and textures loading during cutscenes make it very obvious that the game was a rush job from an inexperienced dev team. [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] even correctly guessed it was originally a WideOpenSandbox that was hastily cut down, despite not knowing anything about its development.

* {{Padding}}: Much of the game could've been shorter if Jake went for simpler schemes. One gets the feeling that his ComplexityAddiction is just so the game can have enough content.

** The part where Jake murders a bunch of civilians and police to steal a truck and drive it into a power plant to turn off an electric fence has become this, for all the [[MoralEventHorizon wrong]] [[ComplexityAddiction reasons]]. It's almost like the developers said "Since the players can't just rampage across the game world willy-nilly killing innocent people, why not make a mission where you ''have'' to kill a bunch of innocent people to progress?"

** Half of the time textures don’t load in for cutscenes for several seconds.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Between his [[DullSurprise limited emotional range]] and his penchant for [[ComplexityAddiction ridiculously convoluted solutions to his problems]], you'd be forgiven for thinking Jake has something wrong upstairs.

* InferredHolocaust: Destroying a power plant dam could do even more damage than just shutting down an [[ComplexityAddiction electric fence]]. For example, Jake could've caused a massive power outage of at least four different states including his own, which would likely result in dozens of deaths by heat stroke in the area's arid climate due to air conditioning being lost, not to mention a possible wave of looting and vandalism. Even worse, if the explosion somehow broke through the wall of a dam, there could've been a massive flash flood that could cause the deaths of millions including Jake himself. Jake is very lucky that none of these are discussed, otherwise, he would've been targeted as an international terrorist for sabotaging a dam just to get past an electric fence.

* SignatureScene: The part where Jake murders a bunch of civilians and police to steal a truck and drive it into a power plant to turn off an electric fence has become this, for all the [[MoralEventHorizon wrong]] [[ComplexityAddiction reasons]]. It's almost like the developers said "Since the players can't just rampage across the game world willy-nilly killing innocent people, why not make a mission where you ''have'' to kill a bunch of innocent people to progress?"
** The game’s infamous sex scenes also qualify. The characters all look emotionless, and bang '''with their clothes on''' to cheesy vintage porno music.
*** Not to mention, the "sex" scenes take place after [[RescueSex saving the women from assault]].