Red Dead Redemption Part Deux

[Benji]

Spoiler

I think you are all misunderstanding what I mean about the intro. It's literally just the mechanic of being forced to extremely slowly walk through snow that I don't like. It's like an extended version of that part in Uncharted 3 where Drake is plodding through the desert and you are forced to play at the speed of an asthmatic ant carrying some heavy shopping. The rest of it is fine.

 

[Kaney]

Oh. Yeah that part was awful in Uncharted.

[apsham]

Yeah no, I'm still super into it.

[stokeriño]

So, silly question...

If I were tempted to put RDR2 on my Christmas wishlist (lol @ the idea of buying it now), would it matter much - or at all - that I have zero experience of the original RDR?

[apsham]

It's technically a prequel, so story wise you are fine.

[Bobfoc]

30 minutes ago, stokerino said:

So, silly question...

If I were tempted to put RDR2 on my Christmas wishlist (lol @ the idea of buying it now), would it matter much - or at all - that I have zero experience of the original RDR?

There are plenty of articles and videos online to fill you in on the story anyway.

[stokeriño]

Ta.

[Maxx]

2 hours ago, stokerino said:

So, silly question...

If I were tempted to put RDR2 on my Christmas wishlist (lol @ the idea of buying it now), would it matter much - or at all - that I have zero experience of the original RDR?

If you want a recap of what happened in RDR, might I suggest Tim Rogers', assuming you've got 30 minutes.
 

Don't know when I'm picking this up, didn't end up preordering it because I've got a show tonight and tomorrow so I wouldn't even get around to getting in installed until maybe Sunday, and I anticipate that install is going to take a few hours.  Maybe next week.

[9 to 5]

@stokerino in some ways not knowing what happened in the first game would be an advantage tbh. 

[Benji]

Trying to get gold medals as early as possible - does anyone know if dying counts against a gold medal? Is it literally just the objectives that you need to fulfil?

[Rocky]

If it's like GTA th3n it's just objectives I believe. 

@Maxx install is roughly 2hrs and there's a 2gb network update to do while installing. You can skip the update though (as it's network related) if you just want to dive straight into it. 

[TMM]

Without too many spoilers, how “bad” are you? I understand you are in a gang but are you a terrible person or do you have options on how you complete a task? 

My friend who is considering the game can’t heing himself to play games where you are a bad person, so its a moral choice.

[Kaney]

Only played the very first few missions but there are occasions when you're left to decide whether hostages get killed or let go so it seems very much up to you how bad you wanna be.

[Baddar]

Re the first few hours

Spoiler

The missions themselves are fine but I wish the game opened up quicker to let me go and do my own thing in the world. A mate has played at least two hours more than me and it's still relatively linear apparently. 

 

[Maxx]

 

13 minutes ago, Kaney said:

Only played the very first few missions but there are occasions when you're left to decide whether hostages get killed or let go so it seems very much up to you how bad you wanna be.

I will choose to be bad enough to rescue the president.

[Liam]

When you re-do a mission, does it literally mean the whole mission, or is there a way of cutting out the stuff and getting to the action? I'm thinking about medals and that.

[Gazz]

You can skip cutscenes.

I quite like the first few hours being slow, it's introduced the mechanics and the new characters. If it let you go off straight away, twenty hours into the story, you'd be on mission with a member of the ganf and you wouldn't know their name.

[Your Mom]

Is there a setting where you can automatically lock on a guy? I know some games have it where you hit aim and it just automatically goes to the next guy. Like I'm not mad but I'm going to be honest. I died the first time I tried the first gun fight. Like if this is the only option I can figure it out and be ok but I would rather not

[Gazz]

I think so, go to settings, controls, and set targeting to 'wide' and aim assist strength as high as it will go.

[Your Mom]

Can you explain the horse thing too? It says hold X to match speed but will I automatically follow the guy? Do I have to hold the stick the whole time?