Red Dead Redemption 2 - now available on PC

[Ezekiel]

This looks about as lame as cover shooters get. The game pushes you to play like this because it offers so few options.



The control scheme also seems kind of bad.

Spoiler

Again, Rockstar is wasting two buttons on shoulder swapping. It should be a toggle. Also don't really like that you can only swap while aiming. GTA and RDR never had good melee systems, but here we have two buttons dedicated to melee. I would have replaced one with a dodge/roll. There seems to be no evade of any kind. I really wish you could shoot without holding the left trigger first. Running and gunning is fun. This combat looks so simplistic.

 

[ZeniBot]

I've now watched the entire game. This game sucked. So much padding with cutscenes, many annoying characters that are nothing more than Escort missions and fetch quests.
Watching it felt more like an Assasins Creed game just with cowboys.

Hope you like building fences because that's endgame (I'm not even kidding). 10/10 riveting gameplay.

 

[sullynathan]

Controls

Rockstar is wasting two buttons on shoulder swapping. It should be a toggle.

It is a toggle, the picture you posted shows shoulder switching as left on D-Pad and show info as right on D-Pad.

• D-pad left is (mostly) about records. Tapping left on the D-pad pulls up your log — a list of ongoing tasks and challenges. Holding left on the D-pad pulls up Arthur’s journal. While you’re aiming in third-person mode, tapping left will switch shoulders.

I really wish you could shoot without holding the left trigger first.

Come on now, I know you want to continue with your agenda but at least buy the game or watch more of it before typing more shit. I always thought you we're better than this Zeke

• R2/RT shoots. If you have your gun holstered, tapping R2/RT will draw it, while holding it down will shoot from the hip. If you have your gun drawn, R2/RT will fire it (also from the hip). And when you’re aiming, the right trigger fires (or cocks) the gun.

Same shit I said a few pages ago.

GTA and RDR never had good melee systems, but here we have two buttons dedicated to melee.

R* has had two - three buttons dedicated to melee when actually melee fighting since GTA 4.

• Fistfights. Circle/B punches, square/X blocks and triangle/Y grapples.

 

[Filthy Sauce]

I've now watched the entire game. This game sucked.

This is a front page review.

 

[Ezekiel]

Finally found a video that demonstrates what you're talking about.



That's what I wanted to see! He's jogging while shooting. I wonder if the dodge at 42 seconds can be done off cover. Edit: Yeah, he leaves cover before dodging.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

If the game is set in 1899, why is the Klan a part of it?
The first Klan was dead and the second one hadn't started yet.

And the first Klan didn't use white hoods, that was uniquely a part of the second Klan.

 

[Ezekiel]

Trying to figure out how the player dodges.

I wonder if the crouch could be effectively used to quickly duck under fire in combat. I did that a lot in Max Payne 3's multiplayer.

If you can only switch shoulders with D left while aiming, what does D left do when you're not aiming?

 

[cvv]

Someone have mercy and give sullynathan the Fanboy tag already. Poor guy has been begging for it for days.

 

[sullynathan]

Someone have mercy and give sullynathan the Fanboy tag already. Poor guy has been begging for it for days.

You're just butthurt

what does D left do when you're not aiming?

• D-pad left is (mostly) about records. Tapping left on the D-pad pulls up your log — a list of ongoing tasks and challenges. Holding left on the D-pad pulls up Arthur’s journal. While you’re aiming in third-person mode, tapping left will switch shoulders.

 

[Sranchammer]

If the game is set in 1899, why is the Klan a part of it?
The first Klan was dead and the second one hadn't started yet.

And the first Klan didn't use white hoods, that was uniquely a part of the second Klan.

The Klan is like Russia - timeless.

 

[unfairlight]

Fashion ages.
Style never dies.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Rockstar doesn't deserve your money. Their games are as bad as EA or Ubisoft.

Fixed.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Fashion ages.
Style never dies.

The hooded outfit wasn't popularized(or worn at all, to the best of my knowledge) until Birth of a Nation was released in 1915.

We have no need for historical accuracies if we have an agenda to push, I suppose.

 

[Life of the Party]

I think the only thing that would hinder it is that the gameplay is complex and not approachable for casual gamers who enjoy a more simple, easy or straight forward experience.

Persononally I love the direction Rockstar took for RDR2, I like interesting, complex and immersive gameplay mechanics. Forreal getting 100% doesn't seem to difficult from looking at list, I'm at 31.09%. I will still enjoy the game after completion because I really like this niche historical setting and will keep playing it because gameplay is enjoyable. I have no harsh criticism for RDR2 and couldn't care less positive or negative what media has to say.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

when will it be released on computer.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

If the game is set in 1899, why is the Klan a part of it?
The first Klan was dead and the second one hadn't started yet.

And the first Klan didn't use white hoods, that was uniquely a part of the second Klan.

can you join the klan in red dead redemption 2?

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Polygon's review. Lol. Upset that a racist, backwards cult was portrayed in a mocking fashion.

A couple of times, I come across a mob of Ku Klux Klan members holding a cross burning in the woods at night. On one occasion, they light themselves on fire. On another, a few members are crushed beneath the weight of the large cross. The face of white supremacy is played for slapstick comedy, betraying the reality of a mechanism of hate that killed entire communities in acts of terror. In the real Gilded Age American South, the white hoods concealed politicians, law enforcement officers and business owners. Here, they cover up Abbott and Costello.​

Not sure what the big deal is. Wolfenstein is a series dedicated just to that. Terror groups should be satirised.

This Polygon writer's reaction probably isn't too different from the average Stormfront posters reaction about the exact same thing.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Polygon's review. Lol. Upset that a racist, backwards cult was portrayed in a mocking fashion.

A couple of times, I come across a mob of Ku Klux Klan members holding a cross burning in the woods at night. On one occasion, they light themselves on fire. On another, a few members are crushed beneath the weight of the large cross. The face of white supremacy is played for slapstick comedy, betraying the reality of a mechanism of hate that killed entire communities in acts of terror. In the real Gilded Age American South, the white hoods concealed politicians, law enforcement officers and business owners. Here, they cover up Abbott and Costello.​

Not sure what the big deal is. Wolfenstein is a series dedicated just to that. Terror groups should be satirised.

This Polygon writer's reaction probably isn't too different from the average Stormfront posters reaction about the exact same thing.

meanwhile, neither of them point out that it's historically inaccurate
immersion fucking broken

 

[ADL]

when will it be released on computer.

Considering it'll be very difficult to cash in on a "remaster" when both consoles will likely be backwards compatible and every day they're not on PC while Red Dead Online is online is a day they're missing out on shark card money? I'd guesstimate sooner than a lot of people expect.

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[Junmarko]

This Polygon writer's reaction probably isn't too different from the average Stormfront posters reaction about the exact same thing.

Yup. All just keeping their passion alive.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

"I'm pissed the KKK aren't represented better. They're not slapstick comedy acts, assholes." - Polygon

 

[Junmarko]

"I'm pissed the KKK aren't represented better. They're not slapstick comedy acts, assholes." - Polygon

Can't maintain collectivist guilt if people laugh at the boogie-man

 

[†††]

This Polygon writer's reaction probably isn't too different from the average Stormfront posters reaction about the exact same thing.

"it's alright that a professional behaves in unprofessional ways because unprofessional users not related to the job at hand behave that way!"

 

[Alienman]

I'm playing without auto-aim and lock on, and it's pretty hard to survive some encounters, like if you get ambushed in the middle of nowhere without cover. Hitting anything from horseback is almost impossible, so I just use the horse as a ram and then shoot them when they are on the ground

 

[Morgoth]

I was watching a stream and

alpacinosbigboy: horse shitting distracts NPCs. people are using it to speedrun cuz it breaks the game

Horse shitting is the new videogame meta, every game will need to have it

Horse shitting is the new Horse armor.

Inb4 Todd fights back with Dragon shitting in TESVI.