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AngryLittleAlchemist on 31 October 2018
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SvennoJ said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

I loved reading this, haha. I do wish the game was a bit more realistic and less gamey when it came to being reported, too. 

Ha, have I got the video for you. Look at me simply trying to go from point A to point B... My ass horse veers to the right instead of left where I'm trying to get him to go since there is more room on that side. Bump, crash, other guy gets mad, starts shooting, then I'm scrambling to clean up not to get a bounty. I sped up the aftermath for comedy value.

No real spoilers there, just some running along a road trying to avoid a bounty. I pawned the final wagon for $40!

I'm still so sidetracked that my gang came looking for me and asked me when I would be coming back. Still too many interesting things to find, I'll get there when I get there, leave me alone! I ran out of markers to flag structures on the map I want to investigate further. Most places you visit get a description on the map, however not all. The same abandoned gold mine has tricked me 3 times now. Too bad you can't add comments on the map yourself. There is some weird stuff hidden around the map, worth checking everything out!

There seem to be only 2 type of people in the game, dead or soon to be dead. Outside towns people just open fire on you for trying to talk to them. At a stable I was simply studying the horses behind the barn and the idiot starts shooting me. Apparently you can still buy stuff from a dead stable owner. Oh and beware of crocs. I got eaten 5 times today, too lazy to go around, I'll risk it. Chance of success, 20%, yet with a bit of luck you spawn on the other side anyway :)

My horse died again jumping off a 3 foot cliff. You find plenty horse revival tonics so that's easily fixed. He seems to have gotten better at avoiding trees, still trips a lot. It's a race horse that can't handle his own speed.

There's still so much I must have missed though. I've only found 25 or so cigarette cards so far, got a couple treasure maps yet can't make any sense out of them and tons of flora and fauna missing from my compendium. There are more places to get into yet I suspect those to be involved in a story mission at some point. Couple more small spots to investigate and then really back to the story, maybe.

I just love the atmosphere in the game, can't get enough of it.




And yep, you named my two favorite story missions so far. Why do they work so well? Because you don't get taken out of the immersion by having to shoot 50 goons spawning in from every direction!

(I use imgur to upload gifs. You tube does any length clips, can always use that)

HAHA, your gang goes looking for you? That's hilarious, because the entire game I was thinking: "damn, Arthur won't shut up about John leaving for a year ... I wonder what will happen if I stay away too long?" I was on the fence about whether Rockstar would make the game that detailed, I'm not surprised there's a mechanic like that though

By the way .. while that video is funny, you didn't technical have to do all that, right? Most of those witnesses, if not all, were just investigating. If you just ran out of the area in time you wouldn't have been given a bounty. Or am I wrong? I don't know - seems like you spent more time with the game than me, haha I will say the mask/bandanna actually comes in real handy. 

I agree with you about the story missions by the way - I personally am very slightly disappointed that half of them involve a huge shootout and/or using a wagon of some sorts. But I have to say, still, this game has a lot more variety than what I remember from the original Red Dead. In that game, it was like the first hour was these really cute small missions that immersed you in the world, and then everything after that was just killing over and over again. There was some variations (like I believe the fraud medicine man missions), but it made me never finish the game even after getting pretty far into it. 

I love the fact that the two legendary hunting missions I've done (one being a main story mission and one being from a tax collection "main mission" of sorts, although it might have been optional i'm not sure) have both been like horror films - particularly the second one. I have almost never been so scared in a game as I have going into a Cougar den in Red Dead.