Developer/Pop Culture Easter Eggs in RDR2

[XxElBigMex913xX]

So I completed RDR2 the other day and I thought it was quite masterful compared to the previous title and for some reason, I found three main easter eggs in the game. One of them that I found interesting was that when you encounter a bear in a random event, the motion camera movement and ragdoll physics heavily resemble to an iconic scene from Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant where Hugh Glass gets attacked by a bear. Plus, when you wander around the wilderness at night you will encounter the KKK which one member accidentally burned himself while igniting that cross and it's humorously connected to Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained and "well sh*t fire" it was funny. And lastly, when you go to Marko Dragic, he will ask you to put four or five conductors in the woods so all the electricity to be gathered so his "masterpiece" is alive which is an ode to Frankenstein. No wonder why Rockstar is so obssessed on planting so much easter eggs in their past games that they made.

Wanna share the things you found while playing RDR2? Drop it down the thread below and tell us what you found! 

 

[Crm114]

The kkk was hilarious you’ll run into them again l

[sunhuntin]

One of the guys at the store I got my copy said they had used fans heavily into their games for some voices and had based the NPC on their looks as well. Don't recall if they were Youtubers or Online players?

[ArthurMorgan]

7 hours ago, sunhuntin said:

One of the guys at the store I got my copy said they had used fans heavily into their games for some voices and had based the NPC on their looks as well. Don't recall if they were Youtubers or Online players?

That’s bullsh*t.

[Iroquois]

Up in the mountains right north of Strawberry, there is

Spoiler

a giant skeleton, which is a reference to the supposed giant beings that existed in america before the indians. The idea was repopularized by the show ancient aliens. There was supposedly quite many fragments of them collected for research and display in some smithsonian museum until the government found out about them, stole them, and destroyed almost all the remaining evidence of these giants. So yeah, this giant is sort of tied to the whole alien or fantasy nature of stories of giants.

 

[Catfish Pie]

Did you also come across the nods towards these movies....? 

 

Unforgiven 

Stand By Me 

James Bond (a certain little character) 

The Goonies 

 

[jollythecat]

I think that French painter Charles Chatenay is Paul Gaugain.

 

The colors and motives on his paintings in that gallery in St Denis looks like Gaugain in a way.

And the letter you get from him pretty much confirms it.

[Banana]

Not exactly a pop culture easter egg, but I had a real chuckle when Dutch gave the fake name "Aiden O'Malley" in one mission.

 

Edited November 6, 2018 by Banana

[Hondaslayer]

On 10/31/2018 at 11:19 AM, Crm114 said:

The kkk was hilarious you’ll run into them again l

Good,

 

Met them last night and traded a stick of dynamite and three bullets for a gold nugget, a pretty horse and some salted venison.

[el capito]

Jim "Boy" Calloway, Slim Grant, Theodore Levin were the most obvious Pop Culture easter eggs since I discovered them.

 

English Bob,  "Little" Bill Daggett and W. W. Beauchamp from Unforgiven.

[Corndawg93]

On 7 November 2018 at 5:39 AM, Banana said:

Not exactly a pop culture easter egg, but I had a real chuckle when Dutch gave the fake name "Aiden O'Malley" in one mission.

 

The second he mentioned that name I picked up on it immediantly

[woggleman]

One of plantation houses looks a lot like the one in Django Unchained.