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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jul 13, 2022 15:56:58 GMT -5
Turns out today's the anniversary of when Red Dead Online last got an update. Never even considered checking it out honestly, but it does rather suck for fans of it how quickly Rockstar ditched it to focus on GTA. They can easily sell planes, tanks etc to buy for GTA so they kept going that route. Even if they didn’t want to focus on single player content once you basically ditched multiplayer and You could at least put some type of single player content out
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jul 31, 2022 14:49:50 GMT -5
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 8, 2022 9:21:02 GMT -5
Turns out today's the anniversary of when Red Dead Online last got an update. Never even considered checking it out honestly, but it does rather suck for fans of it how quickly Rockstar ditched it to focus on GTA. A bit late, but a couple of days before you posted Rockstar officially ended support for Red Dead Online, after putting about 5% of the effort to create content that they put into GTA Online. www.digitalspy.com/tech/a40563095/grand-theft-auto-6-update-rockstar-cutting-red-dead-online-support/Granted, I never really cared for RDO, but it does frustrate me how Rockstar treated Red Dead 2 as something of a redheaded stepchild outside of its release window.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Aug 8, 2022 12:56:38 GMT -5
Turns out today's the anniversary of when Red Dead Online last got an update. Never even considered checking it out honestly, but it does rather suck for fans of it how quickly Rockstar ditched it to focus on GTA. A bit late, but a couple of days before you posted Rockstar officially ended support for Red Dead Online, after putting about 5% of the effort to create content that they put into GTA Online. www.digitalspy.com/tech/a40563095/grand-theft-auto-6-update-rockstar-cutting-red-dead-online-support/Granted, I never really cared for RDO, but it does frustrate me how Rockstar treated Red Dead 2 as something of a redheaded stepchild outside of its release window. Are the Reaper Lords still a thing? I find them hilarious.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Aug 8, 2022 17:54:09 GMT -5
Turns out today's the anniversary of when Red Dead Online last got an update. Never even considered checking it out honestly, but it does rather suck for fans of it how quickly Rockstar ditched it to focus on GTA. A bit late, but a couple of days before you posted Rockstar officially ended support for Red Dead Online, after putting about 5% of the effort to create content that they put into GTA Online. www.digitalspy.com/tech/a40563095/grand-theft-auto-6-update-rockstar-cutting-red-dead-online-support/Granted, I never really cared for RDO, but it does frustrate me how Rockstar treated Red Dead 2 as something of a redheaded stepchild outside of its release window. They did RDO super bad. I played it for a little and had no interest in it but still
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 8, 2022 17:58:51 GMT -5
They did RDO super bad. I played it for a little and had no interest in it but still It could have been great... within the limits of the online experience at least. So much potential for missions that homage classic westerns, and they really didn't bother. I hold out hope that one day the modding community are able to craft something like the fanmade Skyrim expansions.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Aug 16, 2022 20:32:04 GMT -5
So for the first time since RDR2 came out, I'm replaying RDR1. And coming back to it after RDR2 has changed my perspective on the first game, in a way I'm working on articulating. Almost like that feeling of melancholy and reluctance I get when I start the last third of RDR1 has spread to playing the whole game.
For the rest of you that have played the first game after the second, has this happened to you?
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 16, 2022 20:50:56 GMT -5
So for the first time since RDR2 came out, I'm replaying RDR1. And coming back to it after RDR2 has changed my perspective on the first game, in a way I'm working on articulating. Almost like that feeling of melancholy and reluctance I get when I start the last third of RDR1 has spread to playing the whole game. For the rest of you that have played the first game after the second, has this happened to you? Kinda. On my first replay of RDR1 I really paced myself. Took in the scenery between missions, set up camp and slept when it got dark, took breaks every three or four in-game days to play poker, liar's dice, or go hunting. And I called time on the replay once John was reunited with Abigail and Jack.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 16, 2022 21:32:30 GMT -5
Didn't really impact my opinion of the first game much myself, though I'd already played it multiple times anyway.
That said I did crack up when Dutch says just before killing himself that he has a plan.
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Post by clifford on Aug 17, 2022 9:23:18 GMT -5
Thinking of restarting RDR2. Haven't played it since my first replay of it back in mid-2019. Been itching to do it all again and currently have nothing else on my To Play list. Had been holding out in the hope of a Ps5 upgrade/RDR 1 remaster but f*** it, time to yee haw again me thinks.
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Post by Mr Mario Mario on Dec 14, 2022 17:08:00 GMT -5
So I finally got around to playing it this month and about 85-90 hours later I’m finally
I’d heard about the pacing etc long before I got around to play it and can see both sides i.e. the experience the developers were going for but also the unbearably slow crowd but the only time it really bothered me was when I was in camps. Let me go at my pace you SOBs! However it did allow you to see Arthur’s changing views on things and get to know him so plus and minuses of it
The epilogue, I loved what they were going for but that could have been done in half the time I think
Also I need a RDR3 with Sadie like ASAP. She was a great character
But as always “F*** Micah”
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Dec 14, 2022 17:13:27 GMT -5
I replayed it for the first time earlier this year. Doing so elevated my opinion of it quite a bit but I do think it's kind of still a bit too much of a bloated, grinding chore to be a game I revisit often. Can see myself playing the first game again in a year or two (also did it recently) but I think it'll be two or three before I'm ready to buckle down with RDR2 again.
And even then I don't think I'd play the epilogue again. I never got around to it on my first playthrough but did so on the second, and I kind of wish I hadn't since it's just a slow, tedious chore that destroys what pacing the game has doing a bunch of pointless busywork until culminating in one last real mission that isn't really anything great anyway.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 14, 2022 17:29:17 GMT -5
Hmm. I know I got a save file on my PS5 I might run through it again
I know for sure I got a save file for after Chapter 1 cause no one got time for that
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Post by Mr Mario Mario on Dec 14, 2022 19:12:08 GMT -5
And even then I don't think I'd play the epilogue again. I never got around to it on my first playthrough but did so on the second, and I kind of wish I hadn't since it's just a slow, tedious chore that destroys what pacing the game has doing a bunch of pointless busywork until culminating in one last real mission that isn't really anything great anyway. Yeah, at first I was “Sweet, get to play as John again” then several hours later, I’m nailing nails into wood to build a house…….woo-hoo I guess
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Dec 14, 2022 19:50:56 GMT -5
And even then I don't think I'd play the epilogue again. I never got around to it on my first playthrough but did so on the second, and I kind of wish I hadn't since it's just a slow, tedious chore that destroys what pacing the game has doing a bunch of pointless busywork until culminating in one last real mission that isn't really anything great anyway. Yeah, at first I was “Sweet, get to play as John again” then several hours later, I’m nailing nails into wood to build a house…….woo-hoo I guess You did not just talk shit on that wholesome mission.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 14, 2022 20:11:16 GMT -5
I enjoy the epilogue, though I tend to reframe it as a prologue to the first game and go straight into it, especially since the first game ends on a similar note with John teaching Jack how to run the ranch and the Marstons go on to live long, quiet lives.
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on Dec 15, 2022 1:57:27 GMT -5
Even if the final mission itself falls prey to Rockstar's on-rails narrative design, the story of the epilogue rules.
It's a two-hour vibe that lets players come down from the big emotional ending of the main story, depending on which ending you get and how you feel about Arthur Morgan, and there's a lot of tragedy and irony in the epilogue knowing how Marston's story will end.
There's value in experiencing the slowness of time as it passes, especially in something like video games, and I think the epilogue does a good job exploring something as mundane as building a house as a symbol of the passage of time towards the inevitability of death.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 15, 2022 2:14:16 GMT -5
There's value in experiencing the slowness of time as it passes, especially in something like video games, and I think the epilogue does a good job exploring something as mundane as building a house as a symbol of the passage of time towards the inevitability of death. Absolutely. One of the most popular Skyrim mod trends is to play as a random NPC and just tend your farm or run your market stall or tavern. Sometimes it's just nice to exist in a game world without being part of the narrative.
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Post by Mr Mario Mario on Dec 15, 2022 18:21:13 GMT -5
Yeah, at first I was “Sweet, get to play as John again” then several hours later, I’m nailing nails into wood to build a house…….woo-hoo I guess You did not just talk shit on that wholesome mission. I liked the song at least. But I dunno if I’d call it a mission myself I do get what they were going for overall and some parts of it I did like such as the day they spent in town and him proposing but they could easily have carved a chunk out of the epilogue and got that message across I think because 6 hours or something at least it was?
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