What do you think of RDR2 so far? (for those who are playing it)

[SvennoJ]

The game managed to piss me off greatly today. I lost over an hour of game play and had to do the most restrictive story mission 3 times.

I did another side mission first then headed to Valentine to check something out and by the time night fell I set out to the next story mission. I had it on auto pilot in cinematic mode to enjoy the moonlit vistas. And of course out of nowhere a gang spawns to shoot me up. Scrambling to get control back with the horse wildly turning from switching back to a different view it was too late, dead. Whatever, respawn, little money lost, still dark, I get on my horse and continue. Happens way too often. (Btw why won't the horse keep running when you turn around to shoot at pursuers, so frigging annoying he comes to a stop every time)

Anyway I go through the mission, however my character decides to hump a chest instead of opening it and a timer I was not aware off runs out and it moves on without me actually being able to loot anything... Not allowed to go back either after dealing with the interruption so I restart the mission to try again. Big mistake, it doesn't matter anyway, plus the clunky controls screw up even worse this time. I try to take up a defensive position to at least have a chance to loot the bodies, not allowed, my stupid gang members just stand around waiting to get shot. I try to set the thing I'm robbing in motion to get away that way, not allowed.

Oh well, stick to the script by the inch. Mission ends, I get a little bit of money and a bounty on my head for the trouble. So I head back to Valentine to pay off the bounty when I get the message my horse bond has increased. I wonder wth it's been maxed for a long time, look at my horse, it's not my horse. Where is my horse. What is this slow piece of crap. Oh well, perhaps my horse is at the stable. Pay off bounty first.

I get to Valentine, pay off my bounty then trot too close to a fence on the way to the stable when my horse decides to sort of slide along then jump over right where a person is standing. Witness assault, crime reported, Bounty on my head. FFS. Reload auto save, run to Valentine again, pay bounty again, get to stable. Nope no horse there. It's gone, must have died in that skirmish at the start and replaced by a brown horse. Impossible to spot the difference between black grey spotted and brown.

There is only one auto save so my only option is to reload where I started today. Do the side mission again etc etc. I get attacked again in the same place otw to the story mission (I guess it's not so random...) Fight them off, then get "witness animal cruelty" flashing on screen. I run down and kill the 'witness' and continue to the story mission.

I don't feel like doing it a third time so instead I get creative and figure out the fastest way to fail each section to use skip to next checkpoint. Just standing still will certainly fail it at some point, takes too long. Shooting the npc the script wants to interact with works pretty fast, interfering fail. Running away doesn't take long, abandoned fail. Fastest is simply throwing a molotov cocktail next to a gang member or one of their horses, instant fail. Skip skip skip good riddance. End result, slightly lower take and higher bounty for not participating. The gang still got the same haul anyway.

It's a shame it's more fun sabotaging the story missions than playing them. No freedom at all, might as well be a qte sequence or extended cut scene. Literally one part of the mission is pressing forward for 2 seconds to trigger the next cut scene.

Oh and this is what I did with the imposter horse :)


Deep breath, back to enjoying the game later. Hopefully the next mission goes better as I want to unlock the next part of the map to explore more. That's where the real fun is.