As much as I loved the first one, I am very leery of how the online is going to be implemented.
GTA Online is ludicrously grindy and built around shark cards. Fear the same for RDR2.
I have no interest in online, so this may be my first release-day purchase in a while. Spider-man may be another release-day purchase too, but that's really more because of my son.
The Red Dead Redemption II PS4 Pro bundle is very tempting. Too bad it includes the disc version of the game instead of the digital version.
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You can flip the game the minute you get it for $50.
I recently replaced my disc copy of RDR for PS3 with a nice digital download.
My PS3 is now all digital, as well.
The bigger issue is that I know there's going to be a $100 price drop on the PS4 Pro during the holiday season. I'm starting to give up hope on a PS4 Pro Slim.
I assumed you would wait until then, hell, the game will probably be on sale at that point, as well.
A major hardware revision of the Pro seems very unlikely.
Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 Pro Bundle Features New CUH-72XX Series Hardware.
The PS4 Pro hardware, which has been upgraded as a new iterative version, has launched alongside the Red Dead Redemption 2 bundle. Spider-Man was the last limited edition PS4 Pro which followed the 500 million limited edition. It was still a CUH-71XX series console.
If you compare it to the Red Dead Redemption 2 bundle, it features an iterative upgrade to CUH-72XX series. This is always a minor upgrade in most cases and as we saw with the 500 million limited edition console, this has resulted in less noise and quieter fans.
105 GB to install, ho-lee-phuk
So glad the PS4 supports external drives now. This is a day one purchase for me, especially with the $20 in PSN credit I should I have by then.
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Starting to get really excited for this now that it's only 10 days away, although the 60 hours required to complete the main storyline has me a little stressed out. I don't think I've ever completed a single-player game longer than 20 hours.
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Dude, the game can't be crushed in a few sittings. Play it at your leisure, when I do get it, it will take me months to finish.
Well, I pre-ordered it on PSN this morning so that I can start downloading it tonight at 9pm.
Ride 'em cowboy.
Woke up this morning to find out that the game had downloaded overnight and is ready to go a week from today.
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I picture you in a cowboy hat riding a broom horse around the house until then.
I just might if I drink enough this weekend.
Well, I caved and got it...installing as I type.
BTW, the Kotaku review is really really good.
I'm about an hour into it. It's a little slow moving, and I'm not sure how I feel about having to feed myself all the time, but I'm looking forward to playing some more tonight.
Yep, you gotta take it nice and leisurely. A 19th century pace, if you will.
Mine downloaded and fully installed in 2 hours or less. Some people have to wait hours and hours.
Just started chapter 2. Trying to take your advice and just play for an hour or so every day and enjoy the slow ride.
The subreddit is full of people that think the game, which basically plays itself, is too hard.
And loads of people that clearly never touched the first game.
I've been avoiding reviews and forum conversations due to spoilers, but I can't imagine what they find too hard. I know I'm not that far into the game, but nothing has seemed "too hard" yet. Can't recall thinking that way about anything in the original either.
Yeah, there's going to be a lot of used copies of this. People expecting high paced GTA hijinks are bumming at the realities of trying to get a perfect rabbit skin pelt, and having to turn around to pick up their hat.
I've gotten a few more hours in and as expected, I'm not liking all the tedious shit that needs to be done like eating, shaving and cleaning your horse. The control scheme sucks too. I'm wondering if I should wait for a big patch to hopefully fix some of these things up.
Interesting video about the response time in the game:
They've never patched better controls into any of their stuff. The shaving, eating, and horse grooming is here to stay, as well.
Needless to say, there are a ton of disappointed, as well as some people getting down with the game.
I'm just dicking around until the MP drops. I have no rational reason to believe it will be anything but a pay to win shitshow, but ya gotta have hope.
Why do you have to shave? Will people shoot you on sight for whiskers?
Is it better to have finished the first one (which I never have, but still have my copy) or does it matter for the story if I just move on into the second one. I plan to pick it up when it's cheap in a year or two I guess.
I have no idea why I have to shave. I hate shaving in real life and now I have to do it in a video game too. It feels like they added these things to make it realistic, but it really just makes it tedious. Maybe RPG fans enjoy this crap, but I find it annoying.
The second game is a prequel that takes place 12 years (I think) before the first game, so completing the first one isn't necessary to play this. I would recommend playing it just because it's an amazing game, and so far I'd rank it higher than the new one.
Actually, the story flows better playing RDR2 first, then RDR.
Update 1.03 is out:
Red Dead Online Beta update, plus a range of miscellaneous improvements and bug fix for optimal performance.
Improved horse testicles and hat finding would be welcome.
Update 1.04 is out now, but no patch notes have been released yet. I just hope it doesn't focus on online fixes only.
RDR2 Story Mode General / Miscellaneous â€" PS4, Xbox One
- Fixed an issue where the player could become stuck at 90% when loading an autosave made immediately after the mission ‘Country Pursuits’, if it was the only open mission
- Fixed an issue where players could become stuck on loading screen when trying to restart game after completing the mission ‘County Pursuits’
- Fixed an issue where players could become stuck at 90% when loading a save in Chapter 2, if they had set up camp near Horseshoe Overlook after completing ‘The First Shall Be Last’
- Fixed an issue where players could become stuck at 90% when loading after loading an autosave or manual save
- Fixed an issue where players could lose access to all weapons and equipment in their weapon wheel after completing a mission replay in Guarma
Red Dead Online Beta General / Miscellaneous â€" PS4, Xbox One
- General stability improvements
- Fixed the issue where players removing an injured horse from the stables without healing it would result in the Scrawny Nag appearing when whistling for their horse
- Fixed an issue where players could not exit the house in the Mission ‘Love and Honor’
- Fixed an issue where players would be unable to load beyond 90% in the Red Dead Online beta unless they entered Story mode first
- Fixed an issue where players could become stuck at a black screen after a Posse leader quit the lobby in the mission ‘Love and Honor’
- Fixed an issue where players could crash to the Xbox Home screen when resuming from a suspended state after connecting to Xbox Live services
- Fixed an issue where players could be kicked from Rockstar game services with error 0x99395004 after completing part 2 of the mission ‘Honor Among Horse Thieves’
Another online-focused update is coming on September 10th, but this is what interest me:
Alongside the introduction of roles, this update promises to be an important milestone. Rockstar mentions the ability to redesign your character's appearance at any time, a more dynamic open world with more random encounters and events, and even an overhauled character movement system, offering "dramatic improvements to player control with quicker and more responsive movement across all phases of combat and locomotion."
I would love to see them do something similar to RDR Undead Nightmare but Rockstar just does not seem to care about Single Player DLC anymore. There have been rumors but nothing. They have this big beautiful sandbox and nothing but online stuff. Oh well, beat it and got more than my moneys worth.
Quote from: Jason on September 03, 2019 @ 11:29:18 PM
Another online-focused update is coming on September 10th, but this is what interest me:
Alongside the introduction of roles, this update promises to be an important milestone. Rockstar mentions the ability to redesign your character's appearance at any time, a more dynamic open world with more random encounters and events, and even an overhauled character movement system, offering "dramatic improvements to player control with quicker and more responsive movement across all phases of combat and locomotion."
I think that will only affect your RDRO character.
I thought about that when I read it, but it wouldn't make much sense for them to make that change to online players only, especially when it was one of the biggest complaints about the game.
I've been wrong before and it's not like game companies don't make ridiculous decisions, so I guess we'll find out next week.
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Starting with GTA V, R* doesn't touch the single player story game, it's all the online, which is a standalone game within a game.
Only some refinement of Free Aim for Story Mode. Almost all of the good stuff is RDRO only. On the bright side, the good stuff looks quite good, gonna roll out my character soon.
That's disappointing.
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As expected; https://kotaku.com/rockstar-currently-has-no-plans-for-red-dead-redemption-1838538750
No offline DLC is a bummer.
Be wary of clicking on anything from Kotaku. A couple days ago they posted a bunch of underage video game characters having sex in an article called, “Animated Video Game Porn Could Be A Lot Sexier And Less Gross.â€
https://kotaku.com/an-apology-1838490733
I think I am going to set my computer on fire even after posting the apology link.
Quote from: Brad Company on September 27, 2019 @ 04:34:56 PM
As expected; https://kotaku.com/rockstar-currently-has-no-plans-for-red-dead-redemption-1838538750
I'd be a lot more annoyed if I thought there was a chance I'd actually complete the main game.
RDR2 on PC 11/5
The graphics in the PC trailer are incredible: