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[ChessPieceFace]

FINALLY! It's official!

http://www.rockstarg...eadredemption2/

 

Trailer coming Thursday at 11AM, so not much to chew on yet. But I've suffered through so many disappointing E3s waiting for this announcement.

 

I hope Destiny 2 comes out in the spring or summer, I can't imagine how I could divide my time between those two...

[Ironbite]

Well shit.  Might as well go see how much Red Dead Redemption is so I can psych myself up for GTA: Old West

[ChessPieceFace]

Well shit.  Might as well go see how much Red Dead Redemption is so I can psych myself up for GTA: Old West

 

Did you never play the original?

 

Nothing in the GTA series has ever been as fun as RDR. By far my favorite game of the last generation. I'm about halfway through a replay now, since it was made backwards compatible on the Xbox One a couple months ago.

[PiratedTVPro]

Did you never play the original?

 

Nothing in the GTA series has ever been as fun as RDR. By far my favorite game of the last generation. I'm about halfway through a replay now, since it was made backwards compatible on the Xbox One a couple months ago.

 

My second favorite game of the last generation, but it has my single favorite video game moment of all time (and if you played you know exactly when it is). This is especially saying something, since normally I COMPLETELY CAN'T STAND OPEN WORLD GAMES. Something about "Red Dead" just feels completely right in nearly every way. Can't wait for the sequel.

Edited by PiratedTVPro, 18 October 2016 - 12:23 PM.

[Devcon]

As much as I liked Red Dead Redemption and am psyched for this... I'm going to be "that guy".

Why is this "Red Dead Redemption 2" and not "Red Dead 3" or "Red Dead [word that starts with 'r']"

(Ducks tomatoes)

[PiratedTVPro]

As much as I liked Red Dead Redemption and am psyched for this... I'm going to be "that guy".

Why is this "Red Dead Redemption 2" and not "Red Dead 3" or "Red Dead [word that starts with 'r']"

(Ducks tomatoes)

 

No worries. I had the same question/expectation.

Edited by PiratedTVPro, 18 October 2016 - 01:00 PM.

[ChessPieceFace]

Yeah, I read so many rumors about "Red Dead Revolution," which sounded pretty great.

[Ironbite]

Oh that's why I never played the original.

 

Ironbite-not on PC.

[Rust]

Red Dead Redemption is a masterpiece that flies in the face of conventional Rockstar developing (I still love the fact that you can't engage the Prostitutes at all, given you are a married man...but you can hog tie said Prostitute and strap her to train tracks for a gruesome death) and was just an amazing game.

 

Got it as a wedding gift, actually. I spent a entire night - TWELVE HOURS - playing Poker. Not the game, just POKER.

[ChessPieceFace]

you can hog tie said Prostitute and strap her to train tracks for a gruesome death

 

I love the fact that it's not just possible, but there's actually an achievement for it, called "Dastardly."

 

But speaking of that, another big improvement (for me) over GTA is that you can play RDR as a Clint Eastwood or a Lee Van Cleef--you're not forced to be a bad guy like in GTA. I chose to be a "good guy" (well, relatively), and tried to maintain my honor as much as possible, so I never killed nobody who didn't need killing.

 

So, the day some lady on the trail stopped me to help her, and it turned out she was lying so so she and her partners could rob me, well, that's the day I collected the achievement.

[Rust]

I always felt bad for the one gal, dying of thirst out in the desert because she felt it would bring her closer to God.

[ChessPieceFace]

Pretty much every Stranger mission was "terrible thing happens to a crazy person in five steps."

[Ironbite]

 

you can hog tie said Prostitute and strap her to train tracks for a gruesome death

 

I love the fact that it's not just possible, but there's actually an achievement for it, called "Dastardly."

 

But speaking of that, another big improvement (for me) over GTA is that you can play RDR as a Clint Eastwood or a Lee Van Cleef--you're not forced to be a bad guy like in GTA. I chose to be a "good guy" (well, relatively), and tried to maintain my honor as much as possible, so I never killed nobody who didn't need killing.

 

So, the day some lady on the trail stopped me to help her, and it turned out she was lying so so she and her partners could rob me, well, that's the day I collected the achievement.

 

 

Nobody's really a "bad guy" in GTA anyways.  Just various levels of craziness.

 

Ironbite-except for Trevor.

[Rust]

The only one with moral fiber would be CJ from San Andreas. Everyone else has been an example of the worst scum of the Human Condition. It's to Rockstar's credit that they can make these people sympathetic.

 

Especially Trevor.

 

"SCOOTER BROTHERS!"

[Ironbite]

Franklin?  Scum of the earth?  Really?

[Rust]

Considering he's only out to make money by any means necessary....

[Ironbite]

Yeah but he really doesn't look like he's that into killing for it.

 

Ironbite-just wants to earn enough to be comfortable.

[Fishbug]

The three protags really helped spread out the gameplay. Franklin, like Niko and CJ before him, just didn't seem the "hire a prostitute, kill her, and get the money back" kind of person. Obviously if you wronged them you'd be in trouble, but they didn't actively go out looking to start anything.

 

I just wonder how GTA Online's price inflation rate will find purchase in this game.

 

$40,000 in the early 1900s for a really fast horse?

[spikeriley]

Well, looks like red ain't dead.

[Teufel]

Even though I love Rockstar games for the most part and love westerns, I could never get into Red Dead Redemption when I tried to play it. Then I spent the last few years thinking "I'll give it another shot when it comes out on PC" which I don't think ever happened? Maybe I'll track down where I put my 360 copy one of these days. At any rate, more Rockstar, more western. Hard not to be excited about that.