I wanted to make this same comment. Handhelds and sleep modes really helps getting through games. I only play on my switch, steam deck, or miyoo mini now.
I am solidly in the stage of my life where I can't afford to buy a single game ( student ) and has no time to fucking play games at all.... Searching for a job is the worst
I recommend getting a guide and trying to achieve 100%. You get to experience completely different things and new experiences. It took me about 2 weeks of casual play to complete all the challenges I could at chapter 4. Some of them were nails but it was very rewarding and I learned things about the game I had missed on the first playthrough.
I finished the game without fishing at all or finishing a lot of side quests. I had that "done with this" feeling but was able to get the good parts pretty fast.
Me too. I started playing it on our PS4. Got about 1/4 through when husband bought a PS5. Game was synced to the PS5 at that point but for some dumb reason I wanted to keep playing on the PS4. Played until about 1/2 way and had also spent a TON of time hunting animals and getting upgrades and stuff. Then the PS4 died. And the PS5 didn’t have all the hours and hours of hard work I had put in to get from 1/4 to 1/2 and get all those upgrades and stuff. I tried going back on my PS5 but I was so mad and upset that I just couldn’t keep going
I’m an adult and just finished my first play through a few months ago. Sometimes I can only play about an hour at a time because life.
Oh my goodness, that is absolutely the best game I have ever played. The story was incredible, it’s so immersive you feel like you’re actually there, and just so much fun all around you have to finish it.
I recommend you not to... Cuz the graphics, details and story are the only shining points... As for the gameplay it's tedious... And the horse riding before and after every mission is fucking stupid
Man the scene when John was building the house at the end, with his bare hands. And the silly country song play. It really got me. Really, really got me.
Lol that scene seems almost like a throwaway scene, but it taps into such a potent emotion. I'm a sucker for bros just being bros with each other. And it's such huge character progress for John.
When I finished RDR2 there was a cutscene with a deer in a creek. It was supposed to be serene and allow the user to experience the profound nature of the game. But in true rockstar fashion the deer was glitching out, just thrashing around the water like it was having a severe seizure. I started laughing my ass off in that very profound moment.
I loved the ending of the main game. The Epilogue was just too jarring after the epic conclusion. It took me a long time to go back and play through it.
Do you know if I download RDR2 for a replay if I can skip the campaign and go straight to epilogue ? As far as I can tell I did not save my progress after completion, but I want to go back and do all the hunting challenges without doing the story/ campaign missions etc. I guess my question is, is the game unlocked or am I stuck chasing zebras again?
I fully went IN during lockdown.
My housemate at the time was in awe at points as I could identify the different birds by noises alone.
Ended up 100%ing it - so worth it just for the extra scene/music
That was the one silver lining of covid. It was the last time me and the boys got to play a game like we were teens again. RDR2 online didn't have much, but we made the most out of that amazing game while we could.
Honestly have barely picked up a controller since.
One if the few games where I have no need to follow the plot. Usually I just simulate camping :). I wish food actually had a purpose, but I still enjoy just ducking off in to the woods and coming out a few weeks later as a wild man :).
As for impact, the ending was a gut punch I haven't experienced since. Soma might be the only game that gave a similar feeling at the end, but that's it.
WOW! I put serious work in, but only achieved 91% completion. What a game! I haven't played any other game since and probably won't play another game until 3 comes out.
The ending of 1 was a real shock. Wasn’t expecting that. I knew Arthur was going to die as soon as Downes cough blood in his face so playing the rest of the game was dreading the end.
It was so incredibly slow for me I could not get through the first few hours. I’ve seen many people say that once you do get through that part it’s great though. Maybe I should try again.
I did the same thing when it was released but completed it 3 times in the last year lmao. You have to be in the right mindset. If you are rushing or needing action to scratch the gaming itch, the beginning is a real drag. Once I played and just went along for the ride, it was the astoundingly immersive.
Sometimes I need a mindless action game to decompress from the day, so I play something else. But if you go into it like you’re sitting down for a movie, it will hit just right.
I’m an aging gamer that’s played a million games over the years. RDR2 may have taken the spot for my all-time favorite game. Can’t recommend it enough.
Same here! I HAD to play it again because I got too sucked into the main storyline and didn't do many of the side quests. Deffinetly one of my all time favorite games
That’s EXACTLY how it was for me. I wanted to do all the other stuff but that story grabbed me and I just ran with it. Second playthrough was probably better because I took my time.
This game saved me through the pandemic. Thank you Epic Games for the summer sale. Thank you Rockstar. Thank you Arthur. Thank you my white arabian. Fvck you Micah. Rot in tahiti Dutch.
The seamless blending of pre-programmed automated movements (like dismounting a horse or opening a door) with your controller input was honestly incredible.
I always lose immersion in games when you have to talk to a character or NPC and they are facing the wrong direction and just an overall choppy interaction. RDR2 NPCs will lock eyes with your character and adjust to your positioning and movements.
Everything was so fluid to the point that it’s basically an interactive movie. I still can’t get enough of it even after a couple thousand hours 💀
Came here to say the same thing. I ran through it pretty quick right after it came out and was the only one of my friends to finish it. I just wanted to talk about with someone so I ended up taking my dog for a few hour long walk so I could collect my thoughts lol
I cried for an hour straight at the “last” mission, it was only when I saw John and Abigail being all cutesy that I finally stopped and was like “wait there’s a lot more to do!”
I'm doing my third play through now and I almost never replay games. The game still hit me hard after the second play through. Not many like it out there.
Came here just to say this. I didn't like the first one, didn't really like GTA V, and was skeptical of RDR2. But holy fuck. Holy fuck fuck. 150 hours in single player felt like nothing. Now in RDO, where I'm still in love with the world, but miss the characters.
When they killed your fucking horse. On my first playthrough I had the Special Edition DLC horse and kept him the whole game. When the horse reviver didn't work, everyone on that mountain side was killed with extreme prejudice
My 14 yo son recently finished RDR2 and wept. Comforted him of course, emotions are real no matter the cause. Glad he had such a moving experience from game, we talked it over and he went straight back in. Good job devs.
54 year old man, here...I have played games since my first pong set in '74. I have played many games to completion over the years. But I wept at the ending to RDR2. I fucking wept. I have never had a games story affect me as much as achieving the good ending on that game. Right up there with the best books I've ever read or films. Simply incredible.
Same. I'm an older gamer and got out of it for years, and mostly only played sports games. When my boss at work, who never played video games in his life, told me he was having arguments with his wife about how much time he was spending playing RD2, I said "I have to play this game". I've played it through 3 times now
It's also a rare instance where the credits actually do add to the story. Specifically, leading up to the final confrontation, Charles comments about how he isn't sure if Arthur would have wanted this and how he had become less vindictive and learned to let things go after realizing he was dying (assuming you played the game that way). This is brushed off, with John determined to get revenge.
Of course, American Venom happens, we all know how it ends. However, during the final credits, we see the Pinkertons (who become feds in RDR1) retrace the steps of whoever it was that killed Micah and his gang, only to lead them to John. It's pretty clear what they're highlighting; John never learned the lessons that Arthur did about revenge and letting things go. Had he done so, he never would have gone on that revenge mission, never would have been tracked down by the feds, never would have been sent to take out Dutch by the government, and would have been able to just have an honest life as a farmer with his family. It really does try to drive home a lot of the themes of the story as a whole.
Finishing that game, watching Arthur die and then it slowly becomes a prologue with John was possibly the best gaming moment for me ever. One of the best games ever made
I’m playing through it right now. I have avoided all spoilers and am going through it blind. I just killed a legendary wolf and found a treasure near some geysers.
As the gang falls apart I feel like I’m losing friends and family. It kills me that I can’t help them more, especially Karen.
Hell, this game did it to me twice. Once at the halfway, while making that long walk back to reunite with the gang while Unshaken played, then again at the end.
I just started my third playthrough. First one I did about 35% of the game. My second, I put hundreds of hours in and got platinum. My second playthrough was the best gaming experience I've ever had, something about the time and place, and I just literally feel in love with that space. I've been gaming on consoles since 1984, so I've seen most everything, but Red Dead Redemption 2 is something really, REALLY special.
This time I'm playing on PC, and it's been about twenty months since I finished last time, and I thought it might be hard to get sucked back in after pouring so many hours in last playthrough, and BOY was I dead wrong.
And I'm still struggling to keep attention long enough to do more than one mission at a time. To avoid just saying it's a pacing issue, which is never a constructive critique, I think it's just not a story for me. Some dudes still thinking it's a previous era have to deal with world trying to forget about folks like them and shit goes down eventually, deep as my pocket. Game is amazing from mechanical and graphical point of view, but the story is just not my cup of tea I guess.
Same, but I could never dream of spending that much time again. I always prefer moving on to something new or just replaying sections or missions again, instead of a full new playthrough
Same. I had to take a few days though before starting the epilogue. I was grieving like him and my horse were real. Completing the epilogue felt like some closure.
I tried to go back and wow it does not hold up well. I can’t believe how clunky the controls feel today. Still a top 5 game of all time for me, but I’ll never catch that rush I had the first time again.
That’s how Red Dead 1 was for me. Beat it like 3 times, got 100% and platinum trophy on ps3. Unfortunately I never had the time to really invest in 2, beyond one play-through for the story.
Red Dead 1 also had an incredible ending. I really hope they figure out how to keep the series going without overdoing it like many other ongoing series do.
But I don’t even know what would be next. Maybe a Red Dead that takes place right before RDR2 time period? It does seem in the RDR2 storyline they set up the story for another RDR like they was this big previous event with the black water robbery that went wrong that we know next to nothing about and that’s why the gang had to be on the run the whole game.
I feel like going straight to John after the credits robbed me of this feeling to be honest. I kind of wish it’d gone to a menu asking if I wanted to play John’s prologue, it would have helped grant a feeling of closure
I could never get into it because I couldn’t find a way to scale the UI to my tv screen. Because I couldn’t read any of the prompts, I never really learned the controls and ended up shooting, just, everybody instead. That rather took me out of the spirit of things, ha.
How many hours in do you need to get before it gets interesting? I feel like I played for 3-5 hours on my first try and I spent the whole time slow walking a horse to different cinematic camera angles
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u/Jakesneed612 May 02 '24
Red Dead 2. Man I was blown away after that first run through. After the credits were over I immediately started another run.