Red Dead Redemption 2

[FoxyPV]

Worth it for £20 online?

[Leicester_Loyal]

Hard to say, but 90% of us would probably say it's definitely worth it, especially if you enjoy GTA or any of the other Red Dead games.

 

The single player is definitely worth £20, was fantastic to play through.

[moore_94]

51 minutes ago, FoxyPV said:

Worth it for £20 online?

One of my favourite ever games personally, definitely worth it

 

Easy game to put a lot of hours into exploring, killing whole towns () etc.

Edited 22 November 2021 by moore_94

[Saxondale]

Probably my favourite game of all time.

[kingcarr21]

Cant go wrong at £20. Fantastic game. Though the first 4 hours is quite boring while it builds up the story. Persevere with it and once you have the map open to you you wont know what to do first.

[Finnegan]

If you like other Rockstar games it's worth it, especially for twenty quid. 

 

If you don't, probably not.

 

Once you get past how pretty it is, it's extremely formulaic. It's the same Grand Theft Horse that the first one was really. 

[RoboFox]

It's not what I'd call a "pick up and play." In fact it's very slow at times. 

 

You need to isolate like 90mins of free time every time you want to play it.

 

It's 100% worth your time though. Everyone should experience it. 

[urban.spaceman]

100%. Buy it now. It's one of the best games of all time. Profoundly beautiful storytelling. 

[FerrisBueller]

Yes, such an excellent game. Don’t usually get too invested in storylines in games, but this one grabbed me!

[snoopy87]

Picked this up for £18 yesterday. Anyone know if it's Series X/S optimised?

[FoxyPV]

Lads, loving it so far

[FoxyPV]

My son spent 4 hours hunting animals last night. 

[Buzzell]

One of the best games I’ve played. The story is fantastic.

[Trav Le Bleu]

On 30/11/2021 at 10:26, FoxyPV said:

My son spent 4 hours hunting animals last night. 

You should get him in into video games, instead of abusing poor helpless creature!

 

 

 

 

 

(As someone who is actually very anti-hunting (at least by people who do it for fun rather than need) I actually really enjoy going hunting in RDR2)

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

In a game where you can hogtie a prostitute to a train track and watch on as a train obliterates her I'd say hunting wasn't too bad. 

[FoxyPV]

I know what's coming but I don't think I'm emotionally ready for it.

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Picked this up for 15 quid for my series s, maybe done 10 hours now and only done 2 or 3 missions, I think I'm just going to stay in chapter 2 for a very long time and do all the side stuff and fish a lot and just mess about. Been a bit stressed lately and mentioned elsewhere never seem to get the time to have a game but this game has really made me want to play it for an hour or two before bed rather than watch a couple of episodes of something or a film. It is still absolutely gorgeous, what is it, 5 years later? So immersive. 

[leicsmac]

It would be really nice to have a PS5 4k 60fps update for this.

 

Unfortunately, it seems that R* have become fully corporate and are much more interested in the GTA cash cow than actually maintaining a quality product.

[Manwell Pablo]

On 09/12/2022 at 20:15, Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot said:

Picked this up for 15 quid for my series s, maybe done 10 hours now and only done 2 or 3 missions, I think I'm just going to stay in chapter 2 for a very long time and do all the side stuff and fish a lot and just mess about. Been a bit stressed lately and mentioned elsewhere never seem to get the time to have a game but this game has really made me want to play it for an hour or two before bed rather than watch a couple of episodes of something or a film. It is still absolutely gorgeous, what is it, 5 years later? So immersive. 

Four, but yeah it’s stunning.

[Jaspa]

Tried to give this another go, just can't get into it. Everything feels like a chore, it looks amazing and the attention to detail is obviously far beyond what you'd expect from most games but the story/sidequests just aren't hooking me.

 

I've moved the camp along a couple of times, opened what appears to be all of the 'new' map(without the island). Just find myself re-installing it occasionally to give it another go, clopping around for what feels like 30minutes, get bothered by "random encounters" every 30 seconds along the way, watch something grousome happen and decide to turn it off and swiftly remove to 200gb from my SSD for another 8months.

 

To be fair it took me a while with the first one, after repeated attempts. This feels too slow even in comparison to RDR1.

[Zear0]

6 hours ago, Jaspa said:

Tried to give this another go, just can't get into it. Everything feels like a chore, it looks amazing and the attention to detail is obviously far beyond what you'd expect from most games but the story/sidequests just aren't hooking me.

 

I've moved the camp along a couple of times, opened what appears to be all of the 'new' map(without the island). Just find myself re-installing it occasionally to give it another go, clopping around for what feels like 30minutes, get bothered by "random encounters" every 30 seconds along the way, watch something grousome happen and decide to turn it off and swiftly remove to 200gb from my SSD for another 8months.

 

To be fair it took me a while with the first one, after repeated attempts. This feels too slow even in comparison to RDR1.

Same tbh. It's a game of extraordinary technical achievement that I found dull as dishwater. Only persisted with it for the story myself. 

[samlcfc]

17 hours ago, Jaspa said:

Tried to give this another go, just can't get into it. Everything feels like a chore, it looks amazing and the attention to detail is obviously far beyond what you'd expect from most games but the story/sidequests just aren't hooking me.

 

I've moved the camp along a couple of times, opened what appears to be all of the 'new' map(without the island). Just find myself re-installing it occasionally to give it another go, clopping around for what feels like 30minutes, get bothered by "random encounters" every 30 seconds along the way, watch something grousome happen and decide to turn it off and swiftly remove to 200gb from my SSD for another 8months.

 

To be fair it took me a while with the first one, after repeated attempts. This feels too slow even in comparison to RDR1.

I tried to play it recently and felt the same. It looks incredible and it seems as though there is some gold in there, but the lack of variation in the filler just stops me from wanting to get involved.

 

I get that there is character development to be done, but I don't think I've got enough time to ride for 20 minutes, have a 5 line conversation and then ride back.

 

I'm really not a fan of some of the mechanics, like being forced to walk slow around the camp. I was listening to Lex Fridman interview Todd Howard recently about the Bethesda games. He discussed how there are things they considered adding that may add realism, but they ultimately didn't because it takes away from the fun. I feel there's a few of those in RDR.

 

Despite the fear of missing out on something that is slated as such an amazing experience, I think I'm just going to accept that it isn't for me.