I loaded this up with my new X and man it was amazing to not hear my Xbox fan HOWLING. Whisper quiet.
This game is amazing and I want to replay the campaign again..
This game is amazing and I want to replay the campaign again..
To answer your question from months ago, it previously had fake HDR. Now it has real HDR... but it still sucks. If you do select HDR, select game (real) rather than cinematic (fake) if I remember correctly. Or just turn it off.How is the HDR on the PS4 lately? I played through on launch and HDR wasnt great.
25m if I don't remember wrong
I've decided it's time to mark this off the backlog. Opened up the case just now, and...holy cow it's two discs!? Is this the only two disc game on PS4? How long is this gonna take to install lol...
Pretty sure it was north of an hour but I could be misremembering; I do remember feeling very frustrated cause my hype levels were through the roof and it was already midnight when I got home. And you'll probably have to download updates after the initial install, so there's some additional time there.
Pretty sure it was north of an hour but I could be misremembering; I do remember feeling very frustrated cause my hype levels were through the roof and it was already midnight when I got home. And you'll probably have to download updates after the initial install, so there's some additional time there.
One little tip that the game mentions once and then never touches on again; when your horse gets spooked or when you're pushing them at a heavy gallop, pushing and holding in the left stick for a second will have Arthur give some reassurance, which calms them in the case of predators nearby, and will refill a little of their stamina meter depending on your level of bonding. You can do a quick tap of L3 as well, but the push and hold works better.Yeah it actually took ages lol.
I just played a couple tutorial levels and managed to save manually now that I'm in a camp. Wow, I was already expecting this but has to be reiterated: this game is gorgeous. And thankfully yes, it's polished and handles like a dream. I have zero complaints so far.
1] Works out of the box
2] The tutorial isn't an incoherent clusterfuck
Just eases you into the narrative and gameplay step by step, rather than throwing you into the deep end and drowning you in notifications like some other games I've played lately. I'm still wrapping my head around the control scheme, need to google it and memorise it, because there's a ton of stuff to remember, some of it based on context, long pressing d-pads versus tapping them, etc.
I also was not expecting the health/stamina bar depleting over time, and how indepth the game goes into your character's weight, temperature, etc. I've already noticed tons of attention to detail which I absolutely love in games. Like my horse getting unsettled when I walked it past another dead horse on the mountain top in the tutorial level.
One little tip that the game mentions once and then never touches on again; when your horse gets spooked or when you're pushing them at a heavy gallop, pushing and holding in the left stick for a second will have Arthur give some reassurance, which calms them in the case of predators nearby, and will refill a little of their stamina meter depending on your level of bonding. You can do a quick tap of L3 as well, but the push and hold works better.
Yeah, and I would recommend using it often. The game is pretty good about having cinematic camera showcase landmarks and other various points of interest that might come up later and trigger you to think "oh, I remember where that is." Familiarizes you with the world in a way that's more functional than just staring at your horse's behind. You can also use cinematic camera for things like sitting around the campfire in camp, but that's not really useful. And another tip, pushing in the right stick will cycle the cinematic camera to the next angle, so if it feels like you've been stuck on a lame one for a while, tap R3 and move on.Thanks, will add that to my notes, I do remember the L3 tutorial but you only use it once during the mission and I already forgot it. I also saw 'cinematic camera' (PS4 touchpad) notification pop up, and only had a brief moment to use it. I guess that's something to use when you're racing your horse across long distances?
Every time I think to play this game I get these two songs stuck in my head and I hate my brain for doing this to me.
Getting near to the end of chapter 6. I like the game, but my two complaints are that 1) it feels like I pretty much just held down the A button for 40 hours, and 2) the very long story is essentially:
10 "We need money to move out of here to get away from the people trying to kill us. Let's rob something".
20 "That robbery did not go well, and now more people are trying to kill us"
30 GOTO 10
Have you checked any of the Red Dead Redemption / Red Dead Online pages on reddit? I think they've got some guides up.
Have you checked any of the Red Dead Redemption / Red Dead Online pages on reddit? I think they've got some guides up.
You don't need to donate to camp. Eventually you unlock the ability to upgrade your camp, and one of the camp upgrades allows Pearson to craft satchel upgrades for you which increases your carrying capacity, so that's certainly worth investing in when the time comes. But the other stuff is strictly optional.Riding my horse, random dude invited me to a can-shooting competition. He won, so I paid up fair and square. Accidentally got on his horse and he went apeshit, firing at me. I had to shoot him in the head.
:|
Btw, do I need to pay attention to donating stuff to the camp or can I largely ignore that element of the game? I've donated a pig and some cash, but not really feeling like it's having much of a difference on anything.
I loved the epilogue, loved Sadie,.loved the fact that Sadie survives
Gameplay wise there's a bunch of niggling flaws that ultimately become huge flaws due to the sheer size of the game. Not least the bizarre fast travel restrictions, nor the constant replacing of your weapon loadout without your consent.
Yeah you put it exactly right, same things I was thinking as I was playing. Exactly.YEah the weapon loadout thing was the most annoying. After a while I decided to just "live with it," but it's one of those annoying diversions that Rockstar has made as they've moved away from creating sandbox games and more towards telling an interactive movie story. Like, the hallmark of, say, GTAIII -> SA is that if you happened to have a rocket launcher, you could take that rocket launcher into a mission if you wanted to .. and literally your enemy can be bringing a knife to a rocket launcher fight. It was one of those things that the GTA games gave freedom to do over other action games, where other games wouldn't let you get access to a weapon like that early on, and so you'd always be roughly equipped the same as your enemies. That's one of those things that made GTA a sandbox.
Rockstar started to move away from that with IV for th emost part, and then they've been caught between worlds with RDR1 and GTAV. RDR2 is really the first Rockstar open world game where they're like "Nope, we're controlling everything for you," but because it's built on the recipe of their previous games there's a tension... The game lets you buy guns, customize guns, have a ton of guns on your horse, but...... Start a mission and the game replaces whatever customized special gun that you want to use with... Whatever they think you should have for this mission. Worse off, it disrupts the flow of the game, and it introduces a schitzophrenic nature to the player and Arthur. Are you, the player, Arthur Morgan? Or is the game Arthur Morgan and you're just watching?
It's something that I wish they just patched and chalk it up as a frustrating, failed experiment. Let people go OP into a mission if they want to, or let them be outgunned if they pick the wrong gun. It's a game where they let you stagger through the world haggard and tired if you refuse to eat, or they let you grow a beard down to your stomach if you never shave. But, they don't let you choose your own guns?
Are you talking SP or Online?What's the best horse to get?
What's the best gun to use if I like to use the auto aim?
What's the best horse to get?
What's the best gun to use if I like to use the auto aim?
Is there a way to skip the gun cleaning animation?
EDIT: also, my beard's all fucked up. Ever since I experimented with a goatee, now I can't seem to get the hair to grow at the same rate all across my face, so I always end up with a fucked up style where there's more hair growing in my chops than my chin or vice versa. All I wanted was a stubble look but I just can't recreate it anymore, only choice is to go clean shaven to not look like a crazy homeless person.
At the camp there is an option to trim all facial hair to a certain length. It's the first option. Evens out the beard.
What's the best horse to get?
What's the best gun to use if I like to use the auto aim?
If I trim all facial hair, it grows back uneven. Either moustache grows first, or chops, etc, etc. My beard is so fucked up, I don't know what kind of weird coding is going on. It doesn't happen in real life!
It's been a few years, but I used the white Arabian for most of the game.What's the best horse to get?
What's the best gun to use if I like to use the auto aim?
If I trim all facial hair, it grows back uneven. Either moustache grows first, or chops, etc, etc. My beard is so fucked up, I don't know what kind of weird coding is going on. It doesn't happen in real life!
If you hold down the clean weapon button it speeds up the animation. Same goes for cooking meat over the fire.
Thanks for this tip btw, I don't know how I missed it.
I was riding through Valentine and watched a hanging, which was quite disturbing. Sat on my horse and watched the widow of the criminal crying by herself for a minute after everyone wandered off, before she picked herself up and walked off herself. I swear her entire crying voice over was one long take by the actor, not on a loop or anything.
I followed her, and Arthur was like "hey, sorry for your loss, I'm..uh, sure he was a nice guy" and she was like "leave me alone!".
I wasn't a fan of GTAV, but this game reminds me how immersive Rockstar games are, I just love all the attention to detail. Because of the immersive nature, I feel like shit when I accidentally kill someone lol.
I also felt fucking terrible doing those horrible loanshark missions. I had to beat a Polish guy who couldn't speak English in his own home. Tried to do the bare minimum damage to the poor bastard before looting his house. Glad even Arthur felt shitty about it afterwards.
It's those little details that separate the world from so many others. Like the ability to directly comment to the widow.
I've played the game for like 200 hours and have never let "accidentally killed someone," though so not sure how you're doing that ... but it's good you feel bad about it I guess!
Regarding the Polish guy, he starts off not speaking English, but if you loot his house, then go loot his barn and walk his horse out like you're going to take that too, he runs out of the house and suddenly speaks pretty fluent English and begs you to leave the horse.
Bought this one Steam, looked at the amount of space required to install, got intimidated, and asked for a refund.
How much am I going to regret passing on this.
Depends on what sort of game you tend to enjoy. It's a very long singleplayer experience that tends to favor a slow pace with a strong focus on exploring a very richly detailed world that punishes you for treating it like other sandbox games (GTA V with horses this is not). The story is excellent provided you like Westerns, the characters are excellent, the graphics and world are jaw-dropping, the gameplay is passable though not revelatory in any way, the side content can be hit or miss, but what the game does well, it does as well or better than any game ever. It's a sensational singleplayer experience if the setting and format appeal to you.Bought this one Steam, looked at the amount of space required to install, got intimidated, and asked for a refund.
How much am I going to regret passing on this.
Depends on what sort of game you tend to enjoy. It's a very long singleplayer experience that tends to favor a slow pace with a strong focus on exploring a very richly detailed world that punishes you for treating it like other sandbox games (GTA V with horses this is not). The story is excellent provided you like Westerns, the characters are excellent, the graphics and world are jaw-dropping, the gameplay is passable though not revelatory in any way, the side content can be hit or miss, but what the game does well, it does as well or better than any game ever. It's a sensational singleplayer experience if the setting and format appeal to you.
I can't speak to the online component as I haven't tried it. I hated GTAO and it permanently turned me off multiplayer in any Rockstar open world title.