Red Dead Redemption 2 was amazing.

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨darkguyman@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

Right now, I don’t have a PC. Long ago, when I did have one, the first AAA game I ever played was Red Dead Redemption 2. I have played other games, but I feel like RDR2 surpasses all of them and is legitimately one of the greatest games ever made. The amount of details related to realism, the solid storyline, the amazing graphics, NPCs getting angry/creeped out when you follow them for too long, and the hilarious antagonistic insults. I can just go on and on about this game. This is undoubtedly Rockstar’s best achievement yet, and I can’t wait to see how they top it with GTA 6 releasing next year. TL;DR: RDR2 is one of the best video games ever made.

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B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
It’s good but I didn’t really get on with it after a couple chapters. It constantly goes through highs and lows, and although I can be fun I found the lows to be absolute boredom.

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lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
I loved that game and RDR. I 99% completed it. The only thing I have left is the gambling challenges which are ridiculous. I should have did them before I finished everything else.

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nairui@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I need help enjoying this game. How can I get past what feels like certain tedium. I’m very early in the game and I don’t really enjoy the time spent walking, riding, or looting, is that essentially the core of the game and maybe it’s not for me?

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- EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  The game is essentially a trudge from shooting gallery to shooting gallery, with a large open world to do very little of consequence in. There isn’t really anything more to it than what’s on the surface. Either you enjoy the slow burn cowboy experience or you don’t. It doesn’t really get any better.
  
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- NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah that tedium doesn’t go away, imo. There’s a mission that seems inconsequential at the time, but has huge implications for the main character that I really didn’t want to engage with, but the story is the story, there isn’t much if any player agency.
  
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- nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  The looting you can skip with cheats. Technically you can skip a lot of traveling that way as well. But That’s a bit part of the game, imo. If you don’t enjoy spending time in the game, then all you want to do is shoot people? There’s better games for that.
  
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s an all-timer as far as video game stories and production value, but the railroading that they did to players did irk a great deal of us, as chronicled in that Nakey Jakey video. They set up so many dynamic systems for the player to interact with and then basically dictated that you couldn’t get creative with them during the story missions. Deviating even slightly from the intended path would be a mission failed.

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- SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Odd, I don’t recall having any issues there.
  
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  - ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The video evidence in that essay will do more justice than any of my anecdotes, but even things that seemed like possible ways to handle a story mission were not what the developers intended and resulted in a mission failed, like trying to take the high ground in a valley, or trying to sneak in through a window instead of entering from the ground floor.
    
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IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
RDR2 is on my list and I need to stop fiddling around with all my other games and play this one.

All I ever hear is great things about this game.

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- thessnake03@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I was in the same boat as you until a few months ago when I started. Well worth it. The story is great, I’m not to the end yet (been savoring). Game play is very much like gta. Get to it!
  
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  - chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s also a very long campaign with several points that feel like they’re coming up on the ending, only for a lot more game and story to come afterward.
    
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- BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Genuine piece of advice, if you have the patience for it - walk everywhere, don’t use fast travel. Treat it like a hiking sim sometimes and it will reward you with vibes like no other game.
  
  It does mean that sometimes you’ll have a session where nothing happens and you don’t progress any of the missions/story… but I always found it to be super worth it.
  
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  - brap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Absolutely. Just stumbling on an empty shack but the contents telling a tale about who was there before is fascinating. Among many other reasons.
    
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  - IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Ok will do
    
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- FrictionFiction@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  it’s the best game I ever played. I waited years to play it and I played it two years ago, on pc. Amazing. Outrageously good. when I finished playing it, I deleted it off my computer and I set up a block on Reddit before I left Reddit permanently, so that I don’t see any mention of it. I just wanted to forget that I never played it and forget the story so that I could have that feeling of playing it for first time. I think in a year maybe two I’ll be ready to play it again. I can’t wait to forget more about it, so I can experience it again.
  
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- Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m not gonna spoil anything bit I didn’t enjoy the story.
  
  Maybe it’s just me and I would play it again if it was a 20 hours game, but it’s too long for me to give it another chance.
  
  I loved the ambiance and gameplay though. I think I enjoyed the first one more because the story wasn’t bad, but it has been ages…
  
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absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s so damn good. I must’ve replayed it like six times since it came to pc. The story, the voice acting, characters, graphics, everything is absolutely top notch. Except for the goddamn controls (and the menus). I’m not sure if it’s due to it being a console-first game or just a rockstar thing as rdr1’s were also crap, but holy shit they’re infuriating. The amount of times I shot people by mistake, lost missions because of a wrong key, or just plain ended up with an unpayable bounty is too damn high.

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HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah its like the soy sauce on rice. Gotta have it.

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