I’m actually glad at how he handled it. Logically it didn’t make sense, but it appealed to the human in me. From the first set of those debt missions for Strauss you could see that most of thethe people he was lending to were the most vulnerable people around, people who were genuinely trying to do their best and struggling, and I found that to be really scummy, and I hated doing those missions. I was so glad when Arthur kicked him out.
Gaming Red Dead Redemption 2 (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Stadia)
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I wasn’t taking any chances and used explosive shotgun rounds on this legendary panther 
Big Gator.
Staring down a legendary wolf.
Big Gator.
Staring down a legendary wolf.
Agreed.
It’s interesting that during the first batch of Strauss missions where you initially contract the TB, I internally questioned how barbaric they were. Now you can be a brutal cnut throughout the game, but when you’re battering that man in his farm, it just didn’t feel right...
At the end of the game, it’s mentioned that Strauss was tortured to death by the Pinkertons(?) because he wouldn’t sell out the gang. Seems like Strauss found repentance in his own way, much like Arthur did.
At the end of the game, it’s mentioned that Strauss was tortured to death by the Pinkertons(?) because he wouldn’t sell out the gang. Seems like Strauss found repentance in his own way, much like Arthur did.
Hey guys does it matter how you kill the legendary creatures - can their pelts become poor? Want to start going after them and hoping I can just use shotguns rather pissing round with bows/varmint rifle headshots.
Yeah, I can see that view, but it was always gang first and Strauss was bringing money in. They could've told him to not to do it that way from the off or at any point. Anyway, Arthur mentioned getting rid of a few more to Sadie and I'm wondering I end up with some kind of refined gang for the end bits. John, Charles, Javier (not even sure if both of them are still alive - lost track haha), Sadie, Mary-Beth, Jack would be good.
Legendary pelts it doesn’t matter, unlike perfect pelts. You don’t even have to carry them to the trapper to use them.
If anyone is stuck at 75% completion on the online story, I found out that you have to go to the opposite end of the honor spectrum pretty much. 2 missions are for high honor, 2 missions for low honor, so once you do that you can finish the online story.
Time to go on a murder spree in Blackwater or saint denis I guess...
Time to go on a murder spree in Blackwater or saint denis I guess...
Well I'm still playing the epilogue so I'm not sure how it's going to end, but I'm pretty sure Javier won't end up being part of the gang again, since him, Bill and Dutch were the three villains in Red dead 1. I guess you're right about Strauss, but again I'm viewing things through the lens of my own personal moral compass, not necessarily what would be good for the gang. You can really see the change in Arthur and how he views the world and views what they're doing after he realized he was dying. Wanting to make sure John and his family were good, giving money away to the people who were in debt etc etc, I really liked the character he became in the end. His arc was really pleasing to experience for me.
See above where I take out the legendary panther with an explosive shotgun slug. They don’t damage so kill them anyway you want.
Only thing is some will bolt at any sight of you and some take a few shots to go down even with headshots. See Legendary wolf kill above. 2 clean headshots with a rolling block rifle and express ammo.
Anyone else having issues with bonding on a second horse online? Got a free thoroughbred in the stables - prob due to ultimate edition on Xbox. I can’t it past 160/350 bonding level 1! He’s well fed, brushed etc
The Gambler 8 challenge is ridiculous. Win a game of black jack taking 3 or more hits. Hopefully a split counts as multiple hits because gadz. I did get a 4 split but I decided to try for numerous hits till I went bust on both.
So I just finished the epilogue. My final thoughts on the game, it was good, but for me I wouldn’t say it was overly special.
I had a lot of fun with it, but there wasn’t anything particularly memorable about it for me, which is much the same as GTA games have been in the past. Lots of fun, definitely worth the money, but not necessarily a game I would ever think back to say “wow, yeah, that was a really good game”
In terms of games I’ve played this year, it ranks in 4th place for me. Still, it was a good journey while it lasted
I had a lot of fun with it, but there wasn’t anything particularly memorable about it for me, which is much the same as GTA games have been in the past. Lots of fun, definitely worth the money, but not necessarily a game I would ever think back to say “wow, yeah, that was a really good game”
In terms of games I’ve played this year, it ranks in 4th place for me. Still, it was a good journey while it lasted
Just started the epilogue..
feel like pure shit just want arthur back
You've just echoed my thoughts, I've not finished this yet but I find very little of those wow moments in rockstar games, I can honestly say there wouldn't be a single rockstar game in my top 10 of all time. Which leads to the fact that my game of the year and now in my top 10 is God of war.So I just finished the epilogue. My final thoughts on the game, it was good, but for me I wouldn’t say it was overly special.
I had a lot of fun with it, but there wasn’t anything particularly memorable about it for me, which is much the same as GTA games have been in the past. Lots of fun, definitely worth the money, but not necessarily a game I would ever think back to say “wow, yeah, that was a really good game”
In terms of games I’ve played this year, it ranks in 4th place for me. Still, it was a good journey while it lasted
Must say I enjoyed catching all the legendary fishes more than the animals. Dinosaur bones and flowers left before 100 percent complete.
I think I feel the same, yeah.So I just finished the epilogue. My final thoughts on the game, it was good, but for me I wouldn’t say it was overly special.
I had a lot of fun with it, but there wasn’t anything particularly memorable about it for me, which is much the same as GTA games have been in the past. Lots of fun, definitely worth the money, but not necessarily a game I would ever think back to say “wow, yeah, that was a really good game”
In terms of games I’ve played this year, it ranks in 4th place for me. Still, it was a good journey while it lasted
I was absolutely loving the game in chapter two and chapter three because of the world and how much there was to see and do. Maybe I did too much in those chapters because I felt that by maybe mid to late chapter four, a lot of that had died up, there were a few more stranger missions but the random encounters seemed to be mostly repeats of previous ones, and once I got the best satchel and most legendary hunts I felt no real urge to go hunting anymore. Maybe if I had spread out the actual world exploration it would have made the rest of the game more enjoyable but as it was, chapters 5 and beyond were probably 80% story missions and the missions themselves were so linear and easy that it felt like a bit of a chore doing them at times. That said, Arthur is one of my favourite video game characters ever and the missions were generally worth it to play and interact as him.
Also I felt the epilogue was just totally unnecessary.
It was essentially a throwback to the first game but by that point I loved Arthur so much that having to play as John was a real bummer, and the fact that it was so slow and most of the missions were so crap (I don't care about building John's fecking farm!) made it a real slog. I said before - the game would've been better without the epilogue, just Arthur killing Micah, Dutch disappearing, and John escaping with Arthur's help.
No doubt it's an objectively great game but God of War was much better imo. It's also not the sort of game I could ever see myself rushing back to play, whereas something like GoW or Horizon, I will.
An 8, maybe 8.5 out of 10 for me.
Arthur was a fantastic protagonist. He was by far my favorite thing about the game as well
I knew from the time he got TB he was going to die, but some part of me really hoped that he would have ended up riding into the sunset with Mary, both of them having run away from their lives to be together. He deserved a happy ending
So nearly finished the epilogue, I think I'll trade it in after this. It's a great game, but do I really want to sink another 60+ hours into it? Probably not, especially since the moral system doesn't really change. The online is great on paper, but I don't have that patience for the grind at the moment, or to wait for them to fix the economy.
As for the epilogue
As for the epilogue
As already mentioned by someone, feel it's not needed and tacked on. Arthur should have killed Micah and the game ended. I feel it was something Rockstar added in a rush. When he's writing the letter to Abigail, the flashbacks show John looking different to what I had him wearing/looking like. There were a few cutscenes like that where there is an inconsistency between the game and cutscene, which I feel they had down in the main game.
Discussion about the end of the game
The idea that Arthur was going to run in the sunset was never going to happen. He was a outlaw. There were only two outcomes those were prison or death. He gave his life up so that John could save himself. I don’t think the game should have ended up after chapter 6. The epilogue even though the first one was annoying cleaning horse shit and all that. But it was very important as it led us to the events of what happened to John. Him looking for revenge on Micah was his downfall. The Pinkertons traced him through that. He then in the original obviously killed his old crew to save his family. But sadly for him his son then chose the life that John didn’t want him to have by killing Agent Ross. The only stupid thing was that Micah couldn’t have a more gruesome death. I would have liked John to pummel him to death.
Arthur was one of my favourite video game characters. But I figured he was going to be dead as there was no mention of him in RDR 1.
Arthur was one of my favourite video game characters. But I figured he was going to be dead as there was no mention of him in RDR 1.
If you think about it, had John heeded Arthur’s words about revenge being a fool’s game, he probably would have lived a happy life with his family. Arthur really was such a spectacular character
I’m still in chapter 6 but one major complaint I’d have about this game is how easy the main missions are or just life in general in the game. I probably should have turned up the difficulty by now but with dead eye you’re just massively overpowered and in many instances you don’t even have to take cover. You can just walk about getting shot and take out 10-15 people with ease. The more challenging aspects of the game seem to lie elsewhere doing challenges or puzzles. I spent an hour in the strange statue cave trying to work it out last night.
Can you even turn up the difficulty? I guess you could turn off aim assist but feck having to free aim on a controller. I agree that the combat is super easy though. When you've got enough dead eye tonics/chewing tobacco to fill a swimming pool, you can just scoff them down and pop off peoples heads in dead eye with relative ease.
I'd say the real challenge is getting gold medals for each mission, especially after you've already completed the mission. When replaying the mission through mission select you get given basic stats, items and weapons so it gets even harder to spam dead eye all the time.
If anything Deadeye should be something that charges instead of decreasing, you get a limited amount and when you use it you have to wait for it to recharge not just throwing back some tobacco every 30 secs. Although I’m partial to having a cigar mid gun fight.
Yeah I’ve retried a mission or two and was disgusted with the horse I was given or the crap gun, I need my gun bling, anyway that does make that aspect a lot harder.
I actually feel when it comes to the main story Rockstar have had a meeting and thought let’s make a movie and throw in some gamey bits just to keep them happy as the missions in general are pretty rubbish and don’t take long at all.
Edit: I’m sure I did see a difficulty setting but I guess it’s more how little damage you can take.
I have so far really enjoyed the game, more so the exploration and random encounters as even last night just when I thought I’d been everywhere in the game I found new areas and random encounters.
Completed the story mode at the weekend. What a guy Arthur Morgan is
What do you have to do to earn money online?
Honestly skipped through everything and don't really know what to do but I'm permanently skint and guns and everything else seem stupidly expensive.
Honestly skipped through everything and don't really know what to do but I'm permanently skint and guns and everything else seem stupidly expensive.
Hunting, missions and multiplayer.
Found another KKK meeting. They were trying to erect a cross and it fell on top of them. Notes for the planned meeting off the leader I hogtied included: ‘Maybe look into robes that are flame resistant?’
Flush with joy about my positive karma, I help a stranger by retrieving his runaway horse. Then promptly run over him as he’s running to it...
Flush with joy about my positive karma, I help a stranger by retrieving his runaway horse. Then promptly run over him as he’s running to it...
Guys, I just started online and I am clueless.
What quick tips do you have for the rookie? I just got the free Arabian chestnut horse. Are there any free guns available etc.?
What quick tips do you have for the rookie? I just got the free Arabian chestnut horse. Are there any free guns available etc.?
The fence has a free revolver.
Cool.
Do you know how missions work (the yellow once)? Will they eventually run out?
They're story missions, they will run out until they add more. There are two sets depending on your choices for the sheriffs, if you make honourable choices you get extra honourable ones and likewise with dishonourable but you can replay them anyway to make the opposite choice.
I finally got the fecking badger and my shitty fantastic satchel. Never playing the game again now.
I finally completed the story. Such a fantastic game.
Now to get 100%
Now to get 100%
That satchel about to change your life though. There is always the best of the east outfit that I think requires completing all outfits at the trapper to get. Get those binoculars out.One thing I hate about the bounty system is how quickly everything escalates. One min I’m riding through Saint Denis, next min I’ve clipped someone with my horse and 18 police are shooting at me. fecking daft
Just then for example I was running through a market and someone ran off to the police for public disturbance. Gave me the option to calm it down but feck me
Just then for example I was running through a market and someone ran off to the police for public disturbance. Gave me the option to calm it down but feck me
Online is horribly boring and repetitive..
My 2nd horse has decided to increase bonding levels again thankfully. Was stuck on 160/350 level 1 for a few days.
How much shit do you have to eat to up weight online? I’ve killed and eaten many a deer in 1 sitting, a long with my looted canned provisions. fecker is still underweight. Metabolism of a garbage disposal unit
How much shit do you have to eat to up weight online? I’ve killed and eaten many a deer in 1 sitting, a long with my looted canned provisions. fecker is still underweight. Metabolism of a garbage disposal unit
It is just a beta... They're going to release loads of stuff eventually you'd expect.
In single player you have to sleep to put the calories away. Assume it's the same online?
It better! Gonna fill it with pure hair tonics and go for the biggest beard