Drimes Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Assuming that there are some of you who played RDR2 without knowing anything, what was your reaction to Arthurs diagnosis in A Fork in the Road? I already knew he eventually got it, but I was unaware of how much of a death sentence tuberculosis was back then. Once I knew he was gonna die, I was devastated and frankly, it gets me misty eyed just writing about it even though I've seen Arthur die probably 15 times by now wangsparkinglot and JetNormalGuy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cutter De Blanc Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 1 hour ago, Drimes said: Assuming that there are some of you who played RDR2 without knowing anything, what was your reaction to Arthurs diagnosis in A Fork in the Road? I already knew he eventually got it, but I was unaware of how much of a death sentence tuberculosis was back then. Once I knew he was gonna die, I was devastated and frankly, it gets me misty eyed just writing about it even though I've seen Arthur die probably 15 times by now I was blown away. I says to myself, "So that's how they're gonna do it huh?" Sad, angry and frustrated. As I recall I just rode out of Saint Denis right afterward and had to set up camp and collect myself for a few minutes JetNormalGuy and Drimes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetNormalGuy Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 2 hours ago, Drimes said: Assuming that there are some of you who played RDR2 without knowing anything, what was your reaction to Arthurs diagnosis in A Fork in the Road? I already knew he eventually got it, but I was unaware of how much of a death sentence tuberculosis was back then. Once I knew he was gonna die, I was devastated and frankly, it gets me misty eyed just writing about it even though I've seen Arthur die probably 15 times by now I was shocked, I got the diagnosis in Chapter 5 and so I was asking myself how long he has left (didn't know about Chapter 6), I was also suprised to see it also affect gameplay with him coughing when he eats and not being able to refill cores if you eat too much. I remember I rode to Valentine right after that and found Mickey right next to the trainstation, we had a long chat, and it was at the moment where Mickey told him that he's gonna miss him and told his farewell where a video game made me tear up. Chapter 6 is the most memorable part I ever played in any video game and I will never forget all the moments leading up to Arthur's demise. truly a great experience. Drimes, Sean800 and wangsparkinglot 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean800 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 On 6/19/2022 at 9:00 PM, Drimes said: Assuming that there are some of you who played RDR2 without knowing anything, what was your reaction to Arthurs diagnosis in A Fork in the Road? I already knew he eventually got it, but I was unaware of how much of a death sentence tuberculosis was back then. Once I knew he was gonna die, I was devastated and frankly, it gets me misty eyed just writing about it even though I've seen Arthur die probably 15 times by now I knew Arthur was sick because he looked different in Chapter 5. But I didn't see it coming in the slightest. I remember the first time ever: I was heading to Sadie, I stopped by the barber, all seemed fine until alomg the way he collapsed. Scary. JetNormalGuy and Drimes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabalous Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 The amount of sub-stories and side events that one could miss in this game is mind-blowing. Some of these events can even have different outcomes and dialogues depending on the time of day, what the player is wearing, whether Arthur is sick or not. Emmi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA Plus Enjoyer Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 (edited) 2 hours ago, Jabalous said: The amount of sub-stories and side events that one could miss in this game is mind-blowing. Some of these events can even have different outcomes and dialogues depending on the time of day, what the player is wearing, whether Arthur is sick or not. RDR2 is gonna be one of those games where, 10 years later, players are still gonna be discovering new details. Probably not true, but I feel like Rockstar Games are low-key dropping in some new random single-player events with their RDO updates [RIP], there's just so much stuff that gets discovered lol Edited June 24 by JohnCena420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabalous Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 (edited) 22 minutes ago, JohnCena420 said: RDR2 is gonna be one of those games where, 10 years later, players are still gonna be discovering new details. Probably not true, but I feel like Rockstar Games are low-key dropping in some new random single-player events with their RDO updates [RIP], there's just so much stuff that gets discovered lol RDR2 is the first game I see that has this amount of content which has no a known or clear way to trigger it. The logic behind it is obscure and that partially what makes the game's world feels authentic, seamless and less game-like. Edited June 24 by Jabalous TexasOdysseus, Emmi, Cutter De Blanc and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA Plus Enjoyer Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 12 minutes ago, Jabalous said: RDR2 is the first game I see that has this amount of content which has no a known or clear way to trigger it. The logic behind it is obscure and that partially what makes the game's world feels authentic, seamless and less game-like. Yeah, even if you reload a save file, the event won't 100% happen. This happened to me when Spoiler I was in Blackwater and stumbled upon a couple getting robbed, and the robber shoots the guy's wife. I wanted to know if there was a way to stop the robber, so I reloaded the same save file like 3 times until it happened again and I was able to do it. Whoever makes those side events must be having a fun time, honestly it seems like one of the best parts of the development process to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cutter De Blanc Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Still love that culture shock I feel after fast traveling to Saint Denis from Tumbleweed or Armadillo Jabalous and Emmi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaddenedGhost Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 (edited) On 6/19/2022 at 8:00 PM, Drimes said: Assuming that there are some of you who played RDR2 without knowing anything, what was your reaction to Arthurs diagnosis in A Fork in the Road? I already knew he eventually got it, but I was unaware of how much of a death sentence tuberculosis was back then. Once I knew he was gonna die, I was devastated and frankly, it gets me misty eyed just writing about it even though I've seen Arthur die probably 15 times by now His diagnosis was strange to me, I thought it was something in my own playthrough that caused it, so as with many others, I googled a cure for TB, only to find out that there really wasn't any for at the setting of the game, then I realized what was really going on, it was really saddening, it made me loose interest in doing any side quest the game has to offer, and just focus on finishing the main story, Arthur's sickness and struggle had to end somehow. I have never cared so much for a videogame character as much as I did for Arthur, it's wild. Side note: friend of mine who usually doesn't care about story mode games did everything he could to try and save Arthur, at one point he started using all the herbs in his satchel and he even fed him poisonous ones by accident. Edited June 24 by The_Ghost Drimes and Cutter De Blanc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaiserCaesar Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Just reinstalling for second play-through. 84GB from disk & 21GB+ update... forgot how f*cking massive this game is but love RDR2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabalous Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 On 6/24/2022 at 3:33 PM, JohnCena420 said: RDR2 is gonna be one of those games where, 10 years later, players are still gonna be discovering new details. You ain't wrong... MaddenedGhost, Emmi, DEADWOODZ and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faceloft Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 On 6/19/2022 at 9:00 PM, Drimes said: Assuming that there are some of you who played RDR2 without knowing anything, what was your reaction to Arthurs diagnosis in A Fork in the Road? I already knew he eventually got it, but I was unaware of how much of a death sentence tuberculosis was back then. Once I knew he was gonna die, I was devastated and frankly, it gets me misty eyed just writing about it even though I've seen Arthur die probably 15 times by now After the doctor told him to go somewhere dry, I thought the epilogue would be Arthur spending his last days in New Austin doing some odd jobs Cutter De Blanc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cutter De Blanc Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 Whenever I play as John I can't help but play him alot meaner and more impetuous than I play Arthur. Guy got ate by wolves as John was riding along, John stops to get the wolf off him, and then instead of giving him whiskey or a health cure, I just shot him in the head and looted him. Basically I play John as an angry dumbass Drimes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeonVegaSuarez Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 I put 1300 hours in this game since release. A lot less in the last year, but I still play from time to time. If/When we get a 60fps 4k PS5 update I will put another huge amount of hours in this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaddenedGhost Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 On 7/7/2022 at 9:52 PM, LeonVegaSuarez said: I put 1300 hours in this game since release. A lot less in the last year, but I still play from time to time. If/When we get a 60fps 4k PS5 update I will put another huge amount of hours in this game. I don't think I'll play anything else for a whiiiiiiile if we ever get a 4k/60fps patch for this. Rockstar should really stop their crap and push out a patch for this one, they shouldn't even do it for us, do it out of respect for their own freaking game. Hell, do it just to repair some of the scratched reputation after their terrible track these last two years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeonVegaSuarez Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 7 hours ago, The_Ghost said: I don't think I'll play anything else for a whiiiiiiile if we ever get a 4k/60fps patch for this. Rockstar should really stop their crap and push out a patch for this one, they shouldn't even do it for us, do it out of respect for their own freaking game. Hell, do it just to repair some of the scratched reputation after their terrible track these last two years. Yeah nothing confirmed sadly. I don't even want any new gameplay features, just give me 4k 60fps like GTA V has on PS5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drimes Posted July 13 Share Posted July 13 What is it with the Sadie dislike I see sometimes on youtube? I didn't care much for her in the start, but she grew on me, she helped our boahs majorly too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cutter De Blanc Posted July 13 Share Posted July 13 14 hours ago, Drimes said: What is it with the Sadie dislike I see sometimes on youtube? I didn't care much for her in the start, but she grew on me, she helped our boahs majorly too! Personally I find her to be a completely f*cking obnoxious asshole in the epilogue. And what the f*ck was with her popping off in Saint Denis at Colm's hanging? Obnoxious asshole. Lemoyne outlaw and Sean800 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemoyne outlaw Posted July 13 Share Posted July 13 14 hours ago, Drimes said: What is it with the Sadie dislike I see sometimes on youtube? I didn't care much for her in the start, but she grew on me, she helped our boahs majorly too! i don't like sadie much. it seems so obvious that rockstar added her to show all the women that complained about rockstar not making any strong female characters. which is funny because rockstar has made plenty of strong female characters in the past. we even have better and stronger females than sadie in rdr2. like susan grimshaw and karen. even side characters like penelope braithwaite. or the widow charlotte. there are so many better strong female characters than sadie. sadie reminds me a lot of a female micah. she gets into a lot of trouble just out of revenge. and she gets that innocent hot air balloon guy killed. and i personally don't care for her voice. she is just an all around boring and annoying character. and her only story is her need for revenge because her husband was killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DexMacLeod Posted July 13 Share Posted July 13 15 hours ago, Drimes said: What is it with the Sadie dislike I see sometimes on youtube? I didn't care much for her in the start, but she grew on me, she helped our boahs majorly too! I remember a lot of people bitching and moaning because her character arch felt rushed. She changed from one thing to another too fast. But nobody ever complains about all of the Rockstar characters who never change at all throughout the course of a game. Protagonists included. Me, personally, I thought she was just fine until the epilogue. I was pretty tired of all of the hand-holding companions by that point, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean800 Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 On 7/13/2022 at 3:59 AM, Drimes said: What is it with the Sadie dislike I see sometimes on youtube? I didn't care much for her in the start, but she grew on me, she helped our boahs majorly too! I personally despise her. One of RDR2's main themes is "revenge is a fool's game". Yet, she got revenge and lived on. It doesn't make sense to me. Lemoyne outlaw 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmi Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 To this date Red Dead Redemption 2 remains the most complex and visually impressive game I have ever played. God damn those animations are out of this world. I love that they abandoned Red Dead Online and put everyone (except for a few people working on upcoming GTA Online content) over to help with the development of Grand Theft Auto VI. I expect nothing else but the most groundbreaking game ever made! Jabalous and Sean800 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward RDRIII Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 As one of the biggest fans of this game, I can't really tell why people loves "Blood Feuds, Ancient and Modern" so much, there are way better missions on Chapter 3 itself such as "The Fine Joys of Tobacco" and "A Short Walk in A Pretty Town", not to mention Chapter 6 got the best missions such as "The King's Son", "My Last Boy" and "Red Dead Redemption" (the one with the best soundtrack ever I might add). Caerfinon and Lemoyne outlaw 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemoyne outlaw Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 On 7/16/2022 at 5:33 AM, Emmi said: To this date Red Dead Redemption 2 remains the most complex and visually impressive game I have ever played. God damn those animations are out of this world. I love that they abandoned Red Dead Online and put everyone (except for a few people working on upcoming GTA Online content) over to help with the development of Grand Theft Auto VI. this seems contradictory. first you talk about how much you like the game. then you say that you are happy with it being abandoned. if you like the game so much then why do you LOVE that they abandoned it? i still think its bs. i know their main focus is gta 6. but with a company as rich and as huge as rockstar. they should be able to spare some people to make dlc for rdo. 6 hours ago, Edward RDRIII said: As one of the biggest fans of this game, I can't really tell why people loves "Blood Feuds, Ancient and Modern" so much, there are way better missions on Chapter 3 itself such as "The Fine Joys of Tobacco" and "A Short Walk in A Pretty Town", not to mention Chapter 6 got the best missions such as "The King's Son", "My Last Boy" and "Red Dead Redemption" (the one with the best soundtrack ever I might add). yes i totally agree it's a very overrated mission. the song in it is pretty good. but other than that it's just another gunfight. nothing special. it's just another mission trying to make the southerners as the evil ones. and the yankees are the heroes. even though they burned down a nice house for no reason. basically what sherman did in the civil war. there are so many better missions than that one. not to mention people always post the same picture of the gang walking up to the house. i see it all the time on the red dead subreddit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward RDRIII Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 34 minutes ago, Lemoyne outlaw said: this seems contradictory. first you talk about how much you like the game. then you say that you are happy with it being abandoned. if you like the game so much then why do you LOVE that they abandoned it? i still think its bs. i know their main focus is gta 6. but with a company as rich and as huge as rockstar. they should be able to spare some people to make dlc for rdo. yes i totally agree it's a very overrated mission. the song in it is pretty good. but other than that it's just another gunfight. nothing special. it's just another mission trying to make the southerners as the evil ones. and the yankees are the heroes. even though they burned down a nice house for no reason. basically what sherman did in the civil war. there are so many better missions than that one. not to mention people always post the same picture of the gang walking up to the house. i see it all the time on the red dead subreddit. And it's not even that big of a gunfight, we kill way more people in "My Last Boy", probably 50, 60 or more soldiers, I even like "The Battle of Shady Belle" better because of the unique events inside the house such as the missable knife fight with the Raider and such. Yeah, I heard about General Sherman torching the land during the Civil War to not leave anything for the confederates to drink, eat, take shelter or whatever, I also heard he was a racist himself, he didn't really give a crap about the black people and was only doing his job, that's why I agree with you that the south should be represented better in the next Red Dead, especially if it's about the Civil War itself, the Reconstruction Period or something similar. Lemoyne outlaw 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmi Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 8 hours ago, Lemoyne outlaw said: this seems contradictory. first you talk about how much you like the game. then you say that you are happy with it being abandoned. if you like the game so much then why do you LOVE that they abandoned it? i still think its bs. i know their main focus is gta 6. but with a company as rich and as huge as rockstar. they should be able to spare some people to make dlc for rdo. I am talking about RDR2's story mode ... I don't care a bit about RDO so I am happy they move on to other projects because RDR2's story mode won't get any better and wouldn't receive any dlc at all so why should I care? The only thing they should change in RDR2 is Johns character model AND hair come Epilogue ... that's a disaster but thankfully on PC you can use mods to fix this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean800 Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 17 hours ago, Edward RDRIII said: As one of the biggest fans of this game, I can't really tell why people loves "Blood Feuds, Ancient and Modern" so much, there are way better missions on Chapter 3 itself such as "The Fine Joys of Tobacco" and "A Short Walk in A Pretty Town", not to mention Chapter 6 got the best missions such as "The King's Son", "My Last Boy" and "Red Dead Redemption" (the one with the best soundtrack ever I might add). That's one of my favourites because it's one of the few missions where ALL gang members are present at the same time. Also there's no Micah. Caerfinon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward RDRIII Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 3 hours ago, Sean800 said: That's one of my favourites because it's one of the few missions where ALL gang members are present at the same time. Also there's no Micah. That's why I like "My Last Boy" more, it has the entire remaining gang on it plus the Wapiti Tribe, which is sort of a "second gang" to Arthur by now, not to mention he admires Rains Fall way more than Dutch. That's why I like the game better from the mission "Dear Uncle Tacitus" onwards, because everyone starts showing who they truly are and not the fake motherf*ckers they are before coming back from Guarma, also Arthur is more on his own in Chapter 6 or mostly accompanied by his true friends (John, Charles, Sadie...). Sean800 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemoyne outlaw Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 why are there no bounties in annesburg? it's the only functioning town that doesn't have them. armadillo doesn't have them because it's got the cholera outbreak. and van horn is a lawless town. but annesburg has a functioning sheriff's office. not to mention with the murfree brood so close by. they should want to rid the area of them. i wonder if there were meant to be bounties but they were cut. if that's true then it's a real shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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