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Chris said:
Gonna be a long time before another open world tops this one. Really is a marvel.
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The fact that you can actually 100% this game astounds me. I've played it for hours already and I've barely done anything.
 
Jack Brickman said:
The fact that you can actually 100% this game astounds me. I've played it for hours already and I've barely done anything.
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I completed the main storyline of Red Dead and never even crafted a satchel or anything. Is that normal? lol

Haven't even really hunted yet which I wanted to do. So much I haven't done. But Apex Legends has my attention right now so it might be awhile. I want to try online for Red Dead too bad, but need someone to play with.
 
Jack Brickman said:
Had dinner with a nice couple in Red Dead 2 who drugged me, robbed me, and left me for dead in a mass grave near their farm. After coming to, I staggered back to their farm and walked into their house. The woman came at me with a knife, so I hog-tied her while the husband, who was alerted by her yelling, took pot shots at me from the top of the stairwell. I backed off, forcing him to come down the stairs, then introduced his face to my hatchet.

Carried the wife to the mass grave and dumped her there while she cried "Anywhere but here." :chuckle:

Impressed that they actually accounted for players doing that in the recorded dialogue.

I'm still in chapter two of this game. Just been wandering around completing challenges, hunting, fishing, robbing people, stealing stagecoaches, and accidentally getting bounties put on me because I had the gall to bump into someone, starting a massive firefight.
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I'm on my second play-through and I've been in CH2 for weeks now, literally. Doing all of the hunting and fishing challenges that I can, the normal challenges (Gambler, Herbalist, Sharpshooter, etc.), the collectibles (dreamcatchers, rock carving, dino bones), while also just soaking in the world and occasionally shooting up Valentine or Rhodes to keep things fresh.

Game is phenomenal, probably has taken over my #1 spot all-time.
 
Stark said:
I'm on my second play-through and I've been in CH2 for weeks now, literally. Doing all of the hunting and fishing challenges that I can, the normal challenges (Gambler, Herbalist, Sharpshooter, etc.), the collectibles (dreamcatchers, rock carving, dino bones), while also just soaking in the world and occasionally shooting up Valentine or Rhodes to keep things fresh.

Game is phenomenal, probably has taken over my #1 spot all-time.
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Yeah there is a ton to do. I'm trying to avoid moving forward in the game just yet because I'm pretty sure that wrapping up chapter two will mean no going back to Valentine for a while.

Looking to track down the legendary buck next so I can get the trinket that makes getting perfect pelts easier.
 
Jack Brickman said:
Yeah there is a ton to do. I'm trying to avoid moving forward in the game just yet because I'm pretty sure that wrapping up chapter two will mean no going back to Valentine for a while.

Looking to track down the legendary buck next so I can get the trinket that makes getting perfect pelts easier.
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Without spoiling anything, you can still go back to Valentine whenever you want. A few CH3 missions still involve the town, but your camp at Horseshoe Overlook (best camp in the game IMO) does move pretty far away from Valentine, which can complicate things.
 
Stark said:
Without spoiling anything, you can still go back to Valentine whenever you want. A few CH3 missions still involve the town, but your camp at Horseshoe Overlook (best camp in the game IMO) does move pretty far away from Valentine, which can complicate things.
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Ah. Figured it'd end up being a wanted dead or alive zone like Blackwater.
 
Jack Brickman said:
Ah. Figured it'd end up being a wanted dead or alive zone like Blackwater.
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I think it may be for like the first two or three missions of chapter three, but I remember it definitely becomes available again relatively quickly. You might even just have to sleep a few in-game days and it'll be fine again.

Valentine is definitely my favorite town in the entire game though. It just has that classic "western" feel to it. That and Strawberry up to the NW part of the map are the two best, IMO.
 
I will say, one thing I really like about Red Dead 2 is that there's so much to do that I feel like there's little rush to complete it. It's one of the few games I've played where I am okay with taking it slow. I rarely take my horse at full speed. Usually set it to a quick trot or a light gallup and enjoy the scenery and keep an eye out for things to check out.
 
Stark said:
I think it may be for like the first two or three missions of chapter three, but I remember it definitely becomes available again relatively quickly. You might even just have to sleep a few in-game days and it'll be fine again.

Valentine is definitely my favorite town in the entire game though. It just has that classic "western" feel to it. That and Strawberry up to the NW part of the map are the two best, IMO.
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Strawberry reminds me of Deadwood. Although the town itself kind of sucks because there's not really anything to do.

Valentine looks like Tombstone, which is about as classic a Western town as I can think of on screen. Only difference is it's in the Midwest as opposed to the desert.
 
Jack Brickman said:
Strawberry reminds me of Deadwood. Although the town itself kind of sucks because there's not really anything to do.
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Yeah, outside of the like one Micah mission in CH2, there really are no significant missions that take place in Strawberry. I just love the aesthetic and it usually has the closest butcher to where I like to hunt in the map, so I tend to hang around there a lot.
 
Stark said:
Yeah, outside of the like one Micah mission in CH2, there really are no significant missions that take place in Strawberry. I just love the aesthetic and it usually has the closest butcher to where I like to hunt in the map, so I tend to hang around there a lot.
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Yeah, lot of good wildlife in that area.

Also see my edit to the previous post, as I addressed Valentine as well.
 
Jack Brickman said:
Yeah, lot of good wildlife in that area.

Also see my edit to the previous post, as I addressed Valentine as well.
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Tombstone was the first thing I thought of when I first saw the trailer with Valentine and then actually got there in-game. It's pretty much perfect.

A lot of the towns/cities to the East/South-East (I'll spoiler tag them in-case you haven't been there yet and don't want to know)
Saint Denis, Annesburg, Van Horn
still have the time period feel, but not really the cowboy feel that I love about these games. They feel more rustic/Chicago-like.
 
Main issue with Red Dead is the controls are an absolute mess. Nothing intuitive about them. I'm at the fifteen to twenty hour mark and I still don't have them completely down. Using the same button to pull your gun and shoot it was not the smartest design decision.

The UI is awful and unintuitive too. Didn't even realize you could manually save for the first five hours because it's inexplicably hidden in the Story section of the menu.

I took a Usability Engineering class in college and the prof would have been appalled at this game's menu and control design.
 
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