Red Dead Redemption 2 (NO SPOILERS)

Red Dead Redemption 2 (NO SPOILERS)

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Dave.

7,395 posts

254 months

Tuesday 15th September 2020
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Restarted the story this weekend, only doing the story missions, ignoring the pleas for help & assistance, shooting anyone who annoys me in the face, etc.

I can see why people were turned off at the beginning, takes a good couple of hours to get past the "tutorial" stage.

Thinking of keeping the Bandanna on at all time, stay COVID & TB safe... hehe


motorizer

1,498 posts

172 months

Tuesday 15th September 2020
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I idly loaded up the online version for the first time this week, expecting to have a go for an hour and leave it.....

I'm hopelessly addicted, I think the fact that you can just jump in and do a simple mission with a gunfight appeals to me, the story missions can see you trailing about doing odd stuff sometimes....Wading though a swamp collecting crab pots the last time I played, when I just wanted a gunfight....

I like the co op story missions, not too fussed on the competitive stuff, though I do surprisingly well at them... joint top on my first ever go at one!

Edited by motorizer on Tuesday 15th September 19:31

xjay1337

15,966 posts

119 months

Tuesday 15th September 2020
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Just want to check

I'd buy this on PC -

everything good on that end now? like with the launcher, stability of the game etc?

motorizer

1,498 posts

172 months

Tuesday 15th September 2020
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I'm on PC, not had a single issue.

Dave.

7,395 posts

254 months

Sunday 20th September 2020
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motorizer said:
I idly loaded up the online version for the first time this week, expecting to have a go for an hour and leave it.....

I'm hopelessly addicted, I think the fact that you can just jump in and do a simple mission with a gunfight appeals to me, the story missions can see you trailing about doing odd stuff sometimes....Wading though a swamp collecting crab pots the last time I played, when I just wanted a gunfight....

I like the co op story missions, not too fussed on the competitive stuff, though I do surprisingly well at them... joint top on my first ever go at one!

Edited by motorizer on Tuesday 15th September 19:31
Have you started any of the "roles" yet?

Seems you need 25 gold bars to start, and it looks like you need to buy them rather than earn them.

motorizer

1,498 posts

172 months

Sunday 20th September 2020
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Dave. said:
Have you started any of the "roles" yet?

Seems you need 25 gold bars to start, and it looks like you need to buy them rather than earn them.
You can earn them but it's slow, I've started trader, bounty hunter and collector and haven't bought any gold with real money.

Doing some daily challenges speeds up gold earning.

Dave.

7,395 posts

254 months

Sunday 20th September 2020
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I've got just short of 10.

Had another couple of hours this afternoon doing a few stranger missions, but they're all a bit samey.

Are all the role missions the same regardless of the role? Go here, gun fight, run away, get ambushed, deliver?

motorizer

1,498 posts

172 months

Sunday 20th September 2020
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Yeah they are more simplistic than the story mode missions.. It is repetitive but I'm finding it addictive...for how long...who knows?

I'm enjoying a wild west free roaming skyrimy game, with a character I created.

The thing that annoys me about the story missions on all rockstars games is that you have to stand in the exact spot rockstar want you to, use the items they want you to...follow their instructions to the letter, surprisingly linear for such rich open worlds.


Morningside

24,111 posts

230 months

Sunday 15th November 2020
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Finally finished the game after a few months as I'm a crap player.

Great ending, especially the UFO ... only joking but something I did observe while playing

Missions seemed to be:
  • Speak to character
  • Jump on horse
  • Ride across map showing lovely scenary
  • Listen to an update and background of gang while riding behind them
  • Turns into nighttime
  • Support person you are with
  • Get thanks
  • Time passes
  • Reward given
and repeat


Really oddly when you are in a punch up even if you are holding weapons you cannot stand back and shoot them.



But it certainly does have that wonderful feelgood ending and although I have GTA5 I've never played it but that's my next one.

W201_190e

12,738 posts

214 months

Sunday 15th November 2020
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GTA V is all show and no substance, it's not a very good game. It took me an age to finish as I could not spend more than about an hour on it at a time, whereas RDR2 I could happily do 6-7 hour stints.

Speed1283

1,170 posts

96 months

Sunday 15th November 2020
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W201_190e said:
GTA V is all show and no substance, it's not a very good game. It took me an age to finish as I could not spend more than about an hour on it at a time, whereas RDR2 I could happily do 6-7 hour stints.
Not played GTA but can agree on the ability of RDR2 to easily Eat many hours.

I really enjoyed the story, those cut scenes where you're riding back to the camp with music playing, and the final mission clips... I was completely drawn in.

My game timer was something like 13 days!

DanL

6,252 posts

266 months

Sunday 15th November 2020
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Speed1283 said:
Not played GTA but can agree on the ability of RDR2 to easily Eat many hours.
This is because it takes bloody ages to travel anywhere! biggrin

Leicester Loyal

4,562 posts

123 months

Sunday 15th November 2020
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GTA 5 is class, definitely give it a go.

I don't think I ever finished RDR2, on chapter 3 still I believe. On day shifts this week so will have a lot of free time in the afternoon and evening, will try to make some progress on it, I'll come back and update you all on how it goes.

kowalski655

14,691 posts

144 months

Sunday 15th November 2020
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GTA is great fun, I thought that the story was pretty good, especially when Trevor turns up smile

Zetec-S

5,946 posts

94 months

Monday 16th November 2020
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Morningside said:
Finally finished the game after a few months as I'm a crap player.

Great ending, especially the UFO ... only joking but something I did observe while playing

Missions seemed to be:
  • Speak to character
  • Jump on horse
  • Ride across map showing lovely scenary
  • Listen to an update and background of gang while riding behind them
  • Turns into nighttime
  • Support person you are with
*Die at least 1 time while I try to remember the controls and get the controller to aim at the right person
  • Get thanks
  • Time passes
  • Reward given
and repeat


Really oddly when you are in a punch up even if you are holding weapons you cannot stand back and shoot them.



But it certainly does have that wonderful feelgood ending and although I have GTA5 I've never played it but that's my next one.
My take on it so far biggrin

I'm a few hours in and despite struggling with the controls I'm loving it. Don't mind the slow pace (for now), I've spent ages just hunting or riding around exploring a bit.

My biggest problem is I'm playing on xBox, and after 20+ years of mouse+WASD on PC I really struggle with aiming, and the controls in general. Much prefer a mouse and keyboard. Unfortunately I think my current machine will struggle to cope and I'm not quite ready to upgrade. Hopefully I'll pick it up as I progress...

Dave.

7,395 posts

254 months

Monday 16th November 2020
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I’ve been doing the online portion of it over the past few weeks.

Getting 25 gold isn’t too difficult once you get a streak going for the multiplier.

Chose moonshining, there’s a good few missions to do, some of which are quite hard (well, not exactly hard, just time/bullet consuming.

Totally opposite experience to the online portion of GTAV, everyone tends to keep to themselves, unlike GTV where you get sniped while flying a jet.. hehe

Zetec-S

5,946 posts

94 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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Dave. said:
Totally opposite experience to the online portion of GTAV, everyone tends to keep to themselves, unlike GTV where you get sniped while flying a jet.. hehe
rofl

Ruskie

3,994 posts

201 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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One thing I love and hate are the same time. Fishing. Love the actually hooking of one but the mechanics of it I find tedious and illogical. Plus my thumb hurts after a minute of winding in!

Taita

7,625 posts

204 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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I've just picked this up on PS4 for 20quid, only about 2 hours in so far (just completed the train). Certainly a slow starter but will persevere. Bit annoying not being able to zip about on the horse without worrying about provisions etc but not the end of the world.

motorizer

1,498 posts

172 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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Dave. said:
I’ve been doing the online portion of it over the past few weeks.

Getting 25 gold isn’t too difficult once you get a streak going for the multiplier.

Chose moonshining, there’s a good few missions to do, some of which are quite hard (well, not exactly hard, just time/bullet consuming.

Totally opposite experience to the online portion of GTAV, everyone tends to keep to themselves, unlike GTV where you get sniped while flying a jet.. hehe
Yeah I failed the second moonshiner mission first time (where you rescue the guy from a prison wagon) because I actually ran out of bullets there were so many enemies... second attempt was a bit easier as it was in a different location, plus I'd filled up on every ammo before I started..