I mean, you don't have to play every game to completion before you play a different one.

It’s a better looking game but also much slower. So as long as you’re in the right state of mind and don’t expect it to be GTA 5 in the Wild West, you’ll enjoy it. If you’re a Michael Bay fan and only big explosions will keep your ADHD under control, it may not be for you.

Try telling my wife that

Beat it, now I'm watching the credits to see if anyone plays Gavin.

Spoiler?

This thread makes me laugh. I haven't played the game for a week or so but I'll try to add to the ridiculous moments.

First off this is coming from someone that is a first time red dead redemption player. Onto my story....

So one night I was bored and decided I would try to find the weakest looking individual in the city of Valentine and agitate him while looking for a fight. That individual happened to be what I believe at the time was the newspaper boy that hangs out near the post office. I started by agitating him and bumping into him alot. He proceeded to throw a hissy fit and started running away to get his horse. Of course I got on my horse and chased him while shooting. Oddly enough he must be an "un-killable" character as my target never aligned with his torso and I kept missing him from a distance. I kept trying though and he dragged me out to the middle of nowhere chasing him until finally my horse was done; basically dying from exhaustion so I had to put my horse to rest.

This was not the smartest move as now I was stuck out in the middle of nowhere. Luckily for me a chariot was being robbed by a rival gang not to far from where I was stuck so I took out the rival outlaws with my gun and as a reward for saving his life the chariot driver told me that he would write the loss off as a robbery and granted me permission to take the safe and chariot as my own. I proceeded to do so and then while driving back towards town I accidentally drove the chariot into a ditch in which I had no means of getting out of and again I was stuck.

Logically I felt the problem was the horse in the front and that the only solution was to take him out so I executed him while the other horses panicked and pulled themselves out of the ditch. I then jumped back on the chariot and continued the ride back to town. Unfortunately once again my errant driving pushed us into a ditch. Again, I felt the obvious and only solution here was to execute another horse. It was at this time an icon popped onto my screen which allowed me the option to "free" a horse so I now realized that there was a more humane option and cut one of the horses loose and rode off into the sunset while leaving the other horses and chariot stuck in ditch.

Spoilers for about 50% through.

So I broke down and bought a PS4 Pro with the bundle. Been playing for a few days now. Initial impressions are that I like the first one a little better but this is definitely much more rich, beautiful, and more immersive. My main complaint is that I don’t find Arthur that interesting of a protagonist, but maybe it gets better, I’m only in chapter 2. My other complaint is the sensitive and sometimes confusing justice system.

I also don’t like how this game seems really skewed towards performing good actions, I like being a mean son of a ***** but it seems to only penalize you for it and forces you to play in a certain way.

Overall though i don’t doubt i’ll get at least 200 hours from this so it was a good investment.

Things i’m really impressed with is the attention to detail - right down to the poker ai. I played a ****load of poker in rd1 and the ai was awful. These guys are a little predictable and tend to overvalue certain hands but they play pretty realistically to casino donkeys, i’ve been enjoying the minigame a lot. I hope you’re able to play online.

Finally finished the story last night. Still have the epilogue. I’ll probably type out a more thorough review later, but I’ll say that even aside from the clunky controls and a few annoying systems, it’s one of the best games I’ve ever played. The emotional impact in the last portion is phenomenal. Still replaying a few of those moments in my head over and over again. Dare I say it’s more effecting then TLOU was, which I didn’t think could happen.

First of all, your character is a badass outlaw in the Wild West and you choose to challenge the paperboy to a fight? The paperboy? Then, the guy you should have killed, you let live because he gifted you a safe and wagon? Kill him, crack the safe or blow it up with dynamite, and either forget about the wagon or sell it to the wagon fence guy. Lastly, you start a fight with a paperboy, literally run your horse to death via exhaustion, kill rival gang members, shoot a horse, but later feel bad about not being humane enough to the horse you shot?? You, sir, are doing it wrong. Don’t fight the children, kill everyone, steal what you can, and don’t worry about killing a horse.

Just gave the stranger in St. Denis selling the $50 book what he deserves

I gave the hospital people the $20 they wanted. I have a 25% discount on all shop items now. Does it go higher?

Yeah you can get up to 50% discount.

I love my fully gold volcanic pistol with the pearl grip

I golded up all my guns with top of the line stocks and grips. My favorite weapon is the Springfield rifle with express ammunition. The exploding rounds work well for taking down large prey if you aren’t concerned with the condition of the pelt.

Rdr2 online launches this week. Access for those with the ultimate addition tomorrow, those played on launch day on Wednesday, those who played the first weekend on Thursday and for everyone else on Friday.

I’m not terribly thrilled about this. I didn’t particularly care for the first one’s online gameplay and, unless this is totally revamped, think I’ll stick with story mode.

How will it work? I patrol on a horse and no buddies and get shot at from large groups?
Auto aim will or won't work online?

Nobody really knows for sure. It didn't work iin GTA online but did in GTA IV online. The fact that they are staggering launch so they don't and up with first day GTA Online problems shows they are at least learning something.

I think the first one still allowed auto-aim so I assume this will too. I hear they’re saying there will be different competitions and stuff ala GTA online but I don’t see how it will work for RDR. In GTA, you can do things like parachuting cars and rocket launchers. RDR...not so much. Maybe horse races? Shooting cans? It just doesn’t seem appealing. Probably bank heists and such that you work with a posse for but that still sounds kinda meh to me.

If it keeps me in the world and I get to do new ****, I’m good with whatever. I’m expecting any PvP to be garbage but the rest should be cool.

Watching some gameplay today it certainly looks like fun. Will be downloading tomorrow for sure.

I'll settle for being able to grief people cheaply for a few weeks. 0% chance online isn't a pure money grab suckfest after you hit the first wall.

I will buy this game tomorrow. Looks like a nice game

Ugh the game just went full on into one of my least favorite things games tend to do.