Red Dead Redemption 2

I put it down when I graduated college and just haven't had a super day where I felt like unpacking the PS 4. At this point, I might likely wait for a PC release as I tend to prefer PC gaming.

Those fantastic Rockstar PC port controls.

yaaaayyyyyyyy

I MIGHT get the PC port, but I'm still gonna be using my Dualshock

Is it just going to be RDR 2? Because I'd be really thrilled if we could get both of them.

My GF is in love with Arthur Morgan and she keeps playing it with the online stuff or side misssions because she refuses to ever actually finish the story for obvious reasons.

Edited by Nikkolas on Oct 16th 2019 at 12:00:39 PM

Just have her keep a second save. The epilogue is worth playing

They are still pushing out promotion material for RDR 2 on GTA V Online. Recently they added some collectibles that also provide perks in RDR 2 if you have both games.

x4

The original is, supposedly, a goddamn fucking nightmare under the hood. It's a miracle it is as stable as it is, but trying to port it to PC would... probably require almost if not rebuilding it from the ground up. It would be a goddamn nightmare.

Which is why the current theory of RDR 1 will be ported via RDR 2 is so popular: They've mapped out so much of the original game's locations, even to Mexico despite no reason to do so, and the Jack lines glitch, assuming they're not something else, don't make any sense in RDR 2 otherwise.

The original, unfortunately, will probably become a lost video game classic due to the coding problems.

I rather like Dutch a lot. I sympathize with Arthur's pangs of guilt but as a straight white dude in 19th Century America, he had choices. I noticed a lot of women were in the Van der Linde gang and what were their choices as "law-abiding citizens?" Make babies or work in factories for insane hours and low pay. That doesn't necessarily make what they did right but they were at least able to exercise some freedom and choice this way.

It's very easy to sympathize with the turn of the 20th century anarchists, of which there were many. Terrible empires and racism and oppression everywhere, the law and the state were an active threat to the happiness of most of the population. Dutch fighting all that is commendable.

Of course, everything falls apart and all their lives are ruined and Dutch played a big part in that. But the idea was good.

Game is fucking depressing, though.

Yeah, but it at least has a mostly-sweet Bittersweet Ending. Arthur dies and John's Doomed by Canon, but Charles, Sadie, Mary-Beth, Swanson, Pearson, Tilly, Trelawney, and most of the strangers live Happily Ever After.

They're probably lucky Redemption 2 is a prequel. If they ever release another story set well after this one, there's a decent chance we'd get to find easter eggs about how the rest of the Van Der Linde gang all died or were hunted down or went on to live horrible lives.

Then again, maybe not. In spite of its somber story, Redemption 2 is considerably more... if not necessarily optimistic, then maybe idealistic a story than Redemption 1 - especially when you're playing high honor.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Oct 21st 2019 at 10:47:18 AM

I still can't sleep because of Gavin

Do we ever actually find him?

Where are you, Gav?

RDR 2 is depressing for most of the game so the tone is heavier, but the moments of levity and optimism ring louder because of it. RDR's depressing moments don't really sink until the end of the game when the themes come to their climax; before that it's kind of your typical western adventure.

I don't suspect that there's going to be a sequel with the same characters. There's literally nowhere left to bring the narrative, the characters are all dead, and the west itself has been chained and tamed. And I already has reservations about doing the prequel thing since prequels have problems (of which RDR 2 isn't free of either). Any sequel would have to be what Revolver was to Redemption; spiritual successor.

I just noticed that our page says a PC port is coming to Steam in December, but I can't find anything about that on Steam itself. Is that true?

Wikipedia says the Windows edition is coming November 5th, presumably that will also be on Steam.

RDR ends right at 1914, which is right before The Great War kicks off. There's a possibility of a sequel but it wouldn't be RDR as we know it.

At which point, is there much point in it being a sequel to RDR? Like, the franchise is fundamentally the Cowboy Western Video Game series. It's a love letter to that genre.

I don't think the franchise could survive trying to shed that skin because I don't think it'd have much left after.

Could go into alternate history. One where the Great War affected America far more. One where "California" and "New York" had to be renamed and rebuilt due to massive damages to the structures.

I'm surprised they've not rereleased Red dead 1

The code is supposedly a buggy mess. I imagine a reMAKE would be better

You could do a spiritual bridge between RDR and GTA. Who wouldn't want to play as interwar mobsters?

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Saw an ad for RDR 2 on PC, but it was on Epic. Did they get exclusivity (again)?

According to this (https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/61153/Red-Dead-Redemption-2-Coming-to-PC-November-5th), no. Its available on EGS, Greenman Gaming, Humble Store and Game Stop. Steam seems to be the odd one out here.

Just started playing the PC version and it already showed some technical difficulties.....can't even see the menu properly (Escape button), half of it is graphic-glitched out.

Edited by Forenperser on Nov 5th 2019 at 8:06:28 PM