i think this is true, because arthurs voice is unironically more memorable than his looks and the outstanding voice work really makes the character work
1 is kino when you take into account the limitations of games at the time it was made. I remember when it came out originally it got none of the hype that RD2 gets but for the time it was just as crazy of a game. It's one of those games that most people did not play originally but anyone you find that did play it when it came out will tell you it was just as good for its time as RD2 is now.
I was there at the time. It was fantastic because it was the first proper cowboy GTA people expected from Red Dead Revolver. Problem is it did a lot of things worse than GTA 4 did which had already been released years prior. A lot of that was due to it being the less experienced American team rather than the Scottish guys who did the GTA games. Those guys came in to help which is why it got released but not enough to save it enough for a PC release.
>Problem is it did a lot of things worse than GTA 4 did
RDR 1 looks, handles, and plays better than GTA IV in every single conceivable way. what are you even on about
2 years ago
Anonymous
GTA IV looks and plays better than RDR and it's not even debatable. RDR looks at it's best with skyboxes. It's nowhere near as detailed or well developed as GTA IV. It's well known it was a mess. Just a really fricking good mess.
It's hard to compare to GTA4 because GTA 4 is the best game Rockstar has ever put out. You could compare any game to GTA 4 and you'd have a hard time coming away with a different opinion tbh. RD2 is obviously a great improvement on everything good about RD1 but RD1 is an amazing game considering what was possible at the time and also taking into account it was really the first game of its kind.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Gun came out years before and RDR wasn't even the first Red Dead game. It's fantastic, I'm not even debating that part. It's just overrated as frick.
Having your protagonist be so regretful and confessional over killing works well for a movie but not a videogame. I'd hoped Arthur was going to be a villain as much as you played him.
I have a hard time fully buying Arthur’s arc, considering he spends the entire game on a moral high horse even before his change of heart. the writers were either too in love with Arthur to actually make him a genuinely deplorable person who evolves into someone good, or weren’t sharp enough to construct a character the audience initially disagrees with but comes around to him in the end. either way, it feels like too much of a case of them having their cake and eating it, too
2 years ago
Anonymous
He's an absolute c**t if you want him to be.I got booted out the camp for slagging off wee Jack like 80 times before he even got TB.
2 years ago
Anonymous
but that’s not Arthur in the narrative; that’s your player agency. so my point still stands
2 years ago
Anonymous
This. Shooting and killing people doesn't count since that's largely the players actions. Almost everything Arthur says comes off as him being a good and moral person well before his redemption
2 years ago
Anonymous
the backstory (notably the blackwater massacre) but also all the other non optional missions where you do shitty stuff sells it enough for me.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Arthur wasn't at the blackwater massacre, he spends the whole game asking the gang what happened there. Also when you hear about the past, they rationalise holdups and robberies a lot.
2 years ago
Anonymous
i know he wasnt at the blackwater massacre, but what im saying is that part of the reason for his moral high horse is him not being there but he simultaneously feels like a bad person for contributing too it. also every big “kill a lot of people” event causes a big stir and has lasting consequences even if some chartachters arent bothered (or pretend they arent bothered) by it
2 years ago
Anonymous
>know he wasnt at the blackwater massacre, but what im saying is that part of the reason for his moral high horse is him not being there but he simultaneously feels like a bad person for contributing too it
in other words, Arthur was already questioning his morals before his supposed “arc”
I miss how Rockstar would use a studio to focus on a game, it made their IPs tight and unique. Now they use every studio for a game which is more impressive but I never had more fun playing it than the rest.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I was there at the time. It was fantastic because it was the first proper cowboy GTA people expected from Red Dead Revolver. Problem is it did a lot of things worse than GTA 4 did which had already been released years prior. A lot of that was due to it being the less experienced American team rather than the Scottish guys who did the GTA games. Those guys came in to help which is why it got released but not enough to save it enough for a PC release.
meant for this
2 years ago
Anonymous
Yeah, those days got us shit like Manhunt, The Warriors and Midnight Club. They were the best days of Rockstar, showing the strengths of all their teams around the world rather than fricking morphing them all into one big thing.
I found it better than the first game pretty much forcing you to act good considering how it starts off with John acting incredibly polite towards the MacFarlanes and trying not to get into any more shit that could put his family in danger.
R* had a good opportunity to go full autism and create a ranch simulator to make the game endlessly playable, instead of reusing the sweeping animation from GTA5's one mission to sweep poop
That goddamn snake oil salesman stringing along for 4 missions with no emotional thread,irish dude stringing me along for more than one mission as well.
Red Dead 2 takes its time but at least the story is character based.
Once you go back to Blackwater and start hunting Dutch Red Dead 1 gets way better
>I must be emotionally invested in every single character in order for me to care >NOOO, YOU CAN’T JUST A HAVE FUN, LARGER THAN LIFE RAGTAG GROUP OF PEOPLE I RUN ERRANDS FOR! I CAN’T LIKE THE GAME UNLESS IT MAKES ME SAD
2 years ago
Anonymous
Other anon's right to be fair. Nigel West Dickens can go and frick himself.
Red Dead 2 was clever enough to put that kind of character solely in sidequests.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You can have fun without "Princess in another castle" tier writing
2 years ago
Anonymous
John’s objective is very simple, in theory. but the point of the “padding” is so you actually have a game to play, and also to build anticipation to the eventual confrontation at Fort Mercer. I won’t pretend like the characters giving John the runaround isn’t done purely for gameplay, but it does work on a narrative standpoint. everyone is self-motivated and unwilling to help without being helped in turn, but they eventually become loyal to John thanks to his willingness to assist them. he could’ve easily threatened and forced them into helping, but that’s not the man John is anymore. I’m sorry you weren’t able to appreciate this just because it didn’t make you cry.
2 years ago
Anonymous
yeah but rdr2 doesnt need to give you fetchquests to keep the game going, most of the non optional missions contribute to the story and push it towards a logical conclusion
2 years ago
Anonymous
>yeah but rdr2 doesnt need to give you fetchquests to keep the game going
no, it instead goes on narrative tangents, such as the gang going against the Italian mafia, or them randomly getting stuck on a tropical island, or the recurrence or Colm O’Driscoll
2 years ago
Anonymous
>unfun “gameplay” is better than interesting plot with good gameplay
cringe opinion
2 years ago
Anonymous
motherfricker, I very clearly stated earlier in the thread that the game’s a 10/10 outside of its narrative. the missions are fun, but it makes the story bloated and unfocused. don’t be disingenuous
2 years ago
Anonymous
The missions sucked in this iteration. None are memorable, their checkpoints are painful and there's a good chunk which are majority riding to destinations. It's a shame because the shooting can be visceral
2 years ago
Anonymous
>going against the italian mafia
The old crime butting heads against the new way of doing crime,kino >Guarma
Every tv series has that odd episode all about the characters,controversial but i like it >Colm o Driscoll
Kino death
I loved all the characters you met along the way, they are obviously reprehensible people but Johns reaction to them is funny. They also fulfil every spaghetti western trope there is, which is cynical yeah
2 years ago
Anonymous
I love them as well but you can cut them to max 2 missions each and they fulfill their purpose.
Red dead 2 is self aware about the NpCs stringing you along so they made them the antagonist(Dutch)
>drag people from horse for fun >blow innocent peoples head off to test new weapon >burn old lady alive after killing her sons in fromt of her. Just because she mouthed off >still considered honorable because i throw back a lot of fish
>walk into police station >stab the chief to death >shoot 70 cops >kill 15 bounty hunters
Nothing morally wrong here >kill the bounty hunter's bloodhounds which are trying to rip out your throat
NOOOOO NOT THE PUPPERINOS
>going against the italian mafia
The old crime butting heads against the new way of doing crime,kino >Guarma
Every tv series has that odd episode all about the characters,controversial but i like it >Colm o Driscoll
Kino death
Not him but the Colm bit was great. Watching this horrible fricking man who feared nothing because his gang was always there to solve his issues go from smugness to sheer terror when he realised he was fricked was honestly the only time I've experienced sheer catharticism and genuine empathetic terror at the same time. That bit was really well done.
It would've been kino if it was just that which I liked myself. Then that moron Sadie had to shoot him and start an entire unnecessary shootout because...reasons.
>except the main protagonist never does anything bad
The event that got Arthur his death sentence was one of the most wretched actions carried out in the whole game
>beatingup some guy as a loan shurk >one of the mkst wretchrd actions carried out in the whole game >repeats the action with game not taking it seriously 95% over the course of the game several times
2 years ago
Anonymous
She didn't shoot him though, you're misremembering. Sadie goes mental later but the hanging goes through like a regular hanging. That's why it's great.
That bit was good but in terms of kino shootouts it was actually the first fricking one in the game when you get to the house being raped by the Irish gang. Once you start shooting that fricking tune kicks in which is clearly just a riff on Man With The Harmonica from Once Upon a Time in the West. Loved that bit.
I know which scene you mean but post the track. I love vid related a lot so I don't remember any of the music for RDR2 coming close and I found it all a bit underwhelming
>no one thought to ask the Housers why the gang would curse Jack as a "goddamned child" throughout the entire scene
This is why we can't have nice kino in video games. The frickers who write it and the morons who consoom it don't know how people actually talk. The fact that you thought this was good is cringe as frick.
(especially when you are riding to camp for the final time)
i know its a very reddit thing to say, but people who say video games arent art need to play rdr2. its literally more art than it is video game in some senses
>be me, 25 >just got laid off from job at IT software company >find out and decide to leave my gf and start over somewhere else >5 days later, find out shes pregnant >dont know what to do >decide we get n abortion >feelsbadman.jpg >play this game when its released >whole game is depressing and somehow get the shitty ending >get to this scene
this game got me through the hardest point and pain of my life and ill always be grateful. tx for reading my blog. please understand i had to do what needed to be done.
just that song in particular and the housebuilding scene. showed me that no matter how much life can kick you in the balls with unexpected crap, theres a little fleck of light. that year was one of the worst for me too
So how does the game being depressing help? I had a bad year and that game completely bummed me out kek
just that song in particular and the housebuilding scene. showed me that no matter how much life can kick you in the balls with unexpected crap, theres a little fleck of light. that year was one of the worst for me too
2018 was one of the last really good years I had in a long time up until then, and RDR 2 coming out at the tail end of it was the cherry on top lol. hope things got better for you lot over time
>make things for no reason so a year later you can abandon the game and cite needing to support other games with those coders that wasted all their time
based!
>character commits genocide in literally every major population center in the game, robbing banks and breaking the law >"gosh dutch, we can never go back to blackwater, what we did was so bad there!" >"*COUGH* I'M GONNA DIE NOW, FEEL BAD FOR ME"
RDR2 was embarrassing on a writing level. act 2 especially was just one big fricking benny hill sideshow just so they could justify a wild bunch moment of them all walking down to the 'baddy's mansion. felt completely unearned, like most of the emotional beats in this clownshow.
oh ffs stfu moron, Arthur is literally riding "2 holy 4 thou" horse against Micah despite shooting up half of Strawberry five minutes ago and this is just one example.
>knows micah got into trouble with townspeople because of Lenny's information >knows micah will frick everything up once he gets him out >kills half of the town with micah >then complains about it with a moral high ground >this happens several times later but because micah isn't there (or someone else is there too alongside micah) he doesn't complain
pretty hard to have a Red Dead REDEMPTION if the character never did anything bad to warrant a redemption, and why do Cinemaphile Black folk seem to ignore the fact you can stay a scumbag until the very end if you want?
>pretty hard to have a Red Dead REDEMPTION if the character never did anything bad to warrant a redemption
except the main protagonist never does anything bad comapred to other gang members and criminals. >to ignore the fact you can stay a scumbag until the very end if you want?
a scumbag will never save his friend's life and family from certain death. the honor system is nothing but a gimmick to trick your brain into thinking there are good/bad choices.
even without that, you're proving his point, disjointed gameplay gimmick that has no real impact on the narrative as a whole.
he beats the shit out of that guy and tries collecting the debt he owes in front of the dude's family and then contracts tuberculosis. did u even play the game anon?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Arthur beating the clearly sickly man to fricking death in front of his wife and son just to collect a few measly bucks, then even threatening the wife and son when they rush to their loved one's defense.
yes of course, i thought you meant a literal death sentence in court.
cut me some slack, im kinda high.
Arthur beating the clearly sickly man to fricking death in front of his wife and son just to collect a few measly bucks, then even threatening the wife and son when they rush to their loved one's defense.
>Marriage? A sacred institution? Heh, it's anything but in my experience, brother, I can tell you that. If two fellers wanna tie the knot, who am I ta say no? If the Lord ain't judged our gang, I'd say he's been takin' some time off the job, yer probably safe. Heh heh. Have at it, I say. >Abortion? Well, that's a rough one. Bit of a tough pill to swaller. At first, I didn't rightly take kindly to the idea of killin' babies, but Dutch gave me this ole thick science book and I pretty much surmised that well, that thing is about as human as Micah here, which is lackin' to say the least, heh. Hell, I'd say a gal has the right to choose. >A gal? As president? Well, what I can tell ya is its been nothin' but fellers since this whole thing here started up and what have we got? A bunch of other dead fellers. What have we got ta lose? I reckon' tryin' a gal's touch wouldn't do anyone no harm. If weakness is a concern of yours, I promise you some of the ladies runnin' in my gang would probably make Old Hickory look like a nancy in comparison. Hell, I'd reckon its her turn. >Lettin' a black feller do yer wife? Well, if the old lady's havin' fun, who am I to deny her that? I reckon that feller's got a bigger one than me anyway. Besides, we gotta pay some back for that whole slavery bid'ness we did to them. Dutch raised me and I ain't his real son, so I'll raise my wife's son, whether he's black or white. >Cuttin off yer willie sure sound silly but I reckon a feller might as well chop it off he ain't goin use it. And i suppose a wig can't do harm neither, heck men use to wear em all the time back in them oldin' days.
This one is so simple but you realize it's the end credits and you remember you'll never experience RDR2 for the first time ever again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MZKbJIhPCk
me too and i had a fricking blast.
4 weeks just pure fricking bliss, half of my gaming time was not being able to believe how fricking good everything looked.
My first playthrough lasted me I think 130 hours, after I had finished the epilogue, I without a single days break just started the game over again and played another 120 hours. I spent most of that time in Chapter 2, my favorite chapter in the game. Then I stopped around chapter 4.
I'm for sure replaying the game again in the future, without a shadow of a doubt.
Yeah it's crazy how good the game looks. The epilogue gave me the biggest nostalgia boner of all time. When John puts on his RDR outfit I think I shidded and farded in my pants. Or cried.
I loved it to death, but I don't understand how anybody but neets are supposed to enjoy it. It's such a slow game, I feel like you can spend 12 hours playing and do fricking nothing but explore the world. I played it 250 hours straight when I got it over the course of a month
that could be said for a lot of different games, anon. >witcher 3 >Elder Scrolls >Elden Ring >Sekiro >Deadliest Catch the game
Masterpieces take time to complete and enjoy. You dont have to be a neet. but like 2-3 hours after work is fine.
She reminded me of a character from the movie El Dorado with John Wayne. It also made me realize that actors in old Hollywood were all beautiful, but nowadays it seems like they deliberately cast ugly people.
have actually heard this theory before and could definitely be plausible. I just hope the game/characters are good. I know some anons prefer gta IV over V, but I liked Trevor and Michael as protags. Niko was kinda bland. Roman was the shit tho
>Niko was kinda bland
Fricking how? The eastern european war criminal mentalist more dangerous than any of the supposed big guy americans was less interesting than wacky kill everyone man and Tony Soprano-lite? I'll never understand that opinion.
i was only 15 when IV was released, so maybe some of the nuances of his character just flew past me and i never got to appreciate it. I thought Ballad of Gay Tony was way better overall. i miss good dlcs 🙁
Both IV DLCs were seriously fricking good. That was in the days when they were "expancion packs" though. Nico's great because he's a genuine scary person in a world of plastic scary monsters. He wants to be a good person because he's seen the bad and this is emphasised over and over again yet he can't do it because he is the real monster. All the gangsters around him acting like the big guy are basically projecting shadow puppets of monsters attempthing to use the real monster in front of them.
2 years ago
Anonymous
[...]
This will always be the Nico song for me.
they havent remastered it yet have they? jus checked and doesnt look like it. shame. would love to give this game a crack again. my old 360 got fricked in a flood 10 years ago and lost all my vidya
How did you did you end up playing zoomer 360 games if you're 29
wdym anon. i played these games as a young teen. are you saying that zoomers play these games now? they really do wanna be millennials so fricking bad. also splinter cell games are kino
2 years ago
Anonymous
It'll never get remastered. The code's too fricked up and it'll be too weird these days. Looking back it's definitely the werid but best one.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Remastering GTA 4
the game still looks like God on PC after 14 years.
Both IV DLCs were seriously fricking good. That was in the days when they were "expancion packs" though. Nico's great because he's a genuine scary person in a world of plastic scary monsters. He wants to be a good person because he's seen the bad and this is emphasised over and over again yet he can't do it because he is the real monster. All the gangsters around him acting like the big guy are basically projecting shadow puppets of monsters attempthing to use the real monster in front of them.
Character has to be interesting if he comes out of Florida, as long as it's not a woman I'll be sold on it. Also wouldn't mind some of the RP stuff from RDR2 returning, like weight and hair growth
V was shite and the Scottish guys have been reduced to the "fix it" team. They did all make RDR 2 fucing amazing so I have hope but V really put me off GTA in general.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Not a perfect fit lookswise, but masculine and big enough ti pull it off, the dark broody character he has been playing in B movies since GoT ended shiw he's a solid pick. Would picked him for Joel in TLoU as well.
Video games are only fun when you’re a kid and don’t have the ability to do real-world stuff yet. Once you turn 24 or 25 they’re completely unplayable unless it’s a casual night with friends (in person) or something
frick that. im 29 and still love vidya. it's just that theres no good vidya anymore. as a kid, even the shitty vidya was kino. >viva pinata >crackdown >the outfit
games just suck balls now. same with tv and movies
You'd have to cast a southern actor to play the role. His voice/accent is too important. On the other hand, the entire game is moronic and everyone keeps calling the most ethnically-southern man in the game a "yankee" because it was made by moronic britbongs so maybe just cast whoever on second thought...
Most frontier accents had a twang of sorts most likely but this dude Arthur is straight up southern fried. No way around it.
How you considered that they call him a yankee because he isn't southern you stupid c**t
>How you considered that they call him a yankee because he isn't southern you stupid c**t
Never post here again, ESL. You prove my point with your stupidity. "Yankee" here has a specific >implication that the moron Bongs didn't do their homework on probably because they got confused by their own "Yank" bantz.
Red Dead 2 is the first major collaboration game they did. It's the first one where the burgers, the haggis', the bongs, the moose frickers etc all just combined to make it.
maybe to you guys, but it's a totally different meaning in the states. Yanks are northeast gays. PA, DC, NY, New England states. Anything above the mason dixon. dont tell me what the correct term is foreigner.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Until you stop calling everyone in the UK "English" none of us will give a frick
t.scotsman
2 years ago
Anonymous
im not as ignorant as my countryman, and I will always call u by ur country of origin. but if u ever call a redneck southerner a yankee, you will trigger their autism
2 years ago
Anonymous
My two favourite people in random meetings were a funny as frick Texan guy in a Chinese pub who was genuinely brilliant and a couple I spoke to on Omegle from Alabama who were just really excited about their new house.
I loved every one of them and would never want to insult them.
I'll still always call all Americans yank because it's the default.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Texans are their own species here in the states. some of the nicest people ive ever met. alabama people too. of course, totally understand, Yankee is a generic term, but here it is definitely a weird cultural thing. I say all this as a northern yankee thats been living in the south for 10 years. similar to how the norf folks are totally different from southerners in England. Western US states are irrelevant imo. kek
2 years ago
Anonymous
Well I'll think of you and those guys and be more careful about my usage of the word yank.
2 years ago
Anonymous
they're weirdos. idgaf about the term because I was born a new yorker and am proud to be called a yank, but hardcore southerners are fricking dork and still act like the South is battling the north. just a word of wisdom
2 years ago
Anonymous
What about the people from that weird bit of Napoleon Dynamite country? They're the Americans I like. Do they actually exist?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>do mormons exist irl?
no they just kill tribals in new vegas
2 years ago
Anonymous
Either they were mormons and I didn't get that bit or you're being a sarcy cun....ohhhhh
2 years ago
Anonymous
Of course, yeah. Those folks are from like Utah and the Dakotas. They’re kinda the middle children of the USA. They’re unironically way more racist than southerners. Tons of black folk here in the south, so you either get accustomed to it or just hold on to the racism. Folks in the west like Utah where there’s no blacks are some of the most racist since they’re never exposed to cool blacks people
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Western US states are irrelevant imo. kek
*carries the country’s economy and agriculture on their back*
>This is the problem I have with GTA too, it always feels like it was made by a foreigner who doesn’t quite understand America in general
Have you ever played Heavy Rain? It's basically moron Euro Thinks He Understands America: The Game. The dialogue is atrocious. GTA historically gets a pass somewhat because it's supposed to be a moronic cartoon but yeah they really don't know what they're doing culminating in the terrible misfortune of mocking Hillary Clinton for two straight games and then Trump happens and they end up looking like implicit Trump supporters.
>They were taking the piss out of all sides which is something Americans just can't understand.
You have no idea what you're talking about, bong. You can't "take the piss" when you are completely unaware of one side. They were making fun of the GOP and 90's Clinton liberalism when the country was grappling with Obama and rising populism from the right. Getting topical with YOUR OWN politics in storytelling is traditionally a big no-no. Getting topical with SOMEONE ELSE'S politics and trying to from their perspective is just incredibly stupid and the height of hubris.
>get incredibly butthurt and obsessed with American culture and politics >”Um hey nigel it doesn’t really work like that here” >OI M8 I WUZ JUS TAKIN THE PISS
'Immersion' is a meme word but this is the one game in recent memory where I really felt it. I could unironically imagine the smell. The general smell of the outdoors after a rain, the old wood, the gun powder, I really felt like I was there. Clocked 119 hours.
Yeah it's the first genuinely awe inspiring game I've played. There's impressive visuals and that I'm unfazed by, but Red Dead 2's world has beauty to it, and it takes talented visual artists to do that.
It's so insanely well crafted that I at multiple points, and still do question how the frick they did it, how they at such a big scope made such an autistically detailed game.
>the best looking ever made
been playing metro exodus enhanced edition, I'd say rdr2's art direction wins out, but as far as pure graphical fidelity go, not much is beating exodus
It's fricking gorgeous but long desert backdrops make for beauty rather easily. Mad Max looked stunning and wasn't anywhere near as technically accomplished.
It's utterly beautiful, I was just relying on google. If you like blasting over sand dunes in an 80s muscle car while most of the cast pretends to be Australian it's fricking great.
There's a mod that revamps crime system. A feature of it is that you can do whatever the frick you want in open wilderness without any witness or wanted system ruining it for you.
I never understood this game, like I'm sure it's good and all, but the whole point of RDR was that John was a truly evil person, but you play this game and he does nothing wrong at all
>The only cowboy/gunslinger/western hat is Stalker Hat >Only Jeans are the wildwest-fitting pants but have bad coloring
what were they thinking when developing these parts.
That was the point of the gang you utter nitwit. Things like the racial hierarchy of the time were the standard. They actively called out the standards of the time to be a weird little misfit band of multiracial communists. And they're viewed as the bad guys. The fact you don't get that is honestly not that surprising.
>The only cowboy/gunslinger/western hat is Stalker Hat >Only Jeans are the wildwest-fitting pants but have bad coloring
what were they thinking when developing these parts.
They were definitely more inspired by more modern westerns like unforgiven and assassination of jesse james than classic spaghetti westerns, but yeah, fashion was kind of lacking
>fancy Arthur
friend of mine said it looked too formal, I was just going for a classic gunslinger look, ended up with this by the end of the game
>They were definitely more inspired by more modern westerns like unforgiven and assassination of jesse james than classic spaghetti westerns, but yeah, fashion was kind of lacking
Even those had western fashions. The game had more modernist (for the game) cityslicker clothing than wildwest stuff. >
>fancy Arthur
friend of mine said it looked too formal, I was just going for a classic gunslinger look, ended up with this by the end of the game # >feed your fricking arthur bro thats neglect
That's act 6 Arthur whose model is scripted into underweight model because of sickness.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I remember my arthur being a bit beefier, pic related, but i was also wearing a thick coat and several layers
the only slight against this game is the shitty TAA that you are forced to use. The TAA was very, very obviously made for 4k and any resolutions below that simply do not hold up and the game looks blurry in motion.
When I get an even more powerful gpu I'll replay this game at 1.75x the resolution, my current one can handle it at 30fps but not 60 and it is actually depressing how much better it looks in motion, the game just always looks like the photo mode looks in terms of sharpness.
>You can now replace it with DLSS which is much, much better.
No it isn't, not even almost. DLSS looks like shit in motion and there's a bunch of awkward looking artifacts and shimmering. If you turn on DLSS and stand completely still then yes it does look better than TAA.
Unfortunately we're stuck with TAA, anything else breaks the visuals.
You can't get around the TAA blur, unfortunately. Playing with it off looks like shit, playing with it on means blur
it looks better at 1440p but still far from as good as it looks at the intended 4k. Rockstar really shit the bed with the TAA in the game, it blurs the fricking game up so much
You can try slightly increasing the resolution, a 3060 means you can probably afford upping it a little in the advanced settings, maybe 1.25 or 1.50
elliot page
he couldn't pull it off, too smol
Ciaran Hinds
maybe as Rains Fall
WHAT HAVE I BECOME
unironically what i thought, he just needs to bulk up
Too ugly and skinny
Doesn't have the voice
he doesnt have arthurs jaw and sad eyes and he cant do the voice
if you are thinking about [s]sawyer from lost[/s] then stop
jamie foxx
Brad Pitt
should be someone in his early 40s
Too clean cut, can't play a gritty ambiguous character imo
UMM HELLO??? JESSE JAMES?
Tom Holland
he's not good enough of an actor to pull it off
Looks the part, but like the other anon said all we see is his not so good acting
uncastable
feels
A younger Norman Reedus and Lauren Cohan would have pull it off
Frick off
that goofy smile while he's watching the show with mary always gets me
He was a good looking man
Damn that’s a good looking game. They almost look real.
>video games
The word you’re looking for is quincunx
The guy that played the marlboro man.
There is not a single man on the planet currently handsome or manly enough to play Arthur Morgan and that's a FACT.
True theyd have to deep fake Steve Mcqueen or Burt Lancaster
Even they're not close enough.
The voice is too integral to the character. Couldn't cast it without casting the VA
i think this is true, because arthurs voice is unironically more memorable than his looks and the outstanding voice work really makes the character work
Mel Gibson could pull it off.
He was a fricking godawful William Wallace. I don't think he could come close to Arthur.
Ben Affleck
who will play the gay couple whose wedding he will bless in the movie?
There hasn't been a genuine 10/10 video game since RDR 2
rdr2 was a 7/10
Elden Ring
>le dark souls 15
frick off
arthur morgan is a cuck who got gay raped twice and the story is written by and for redditors
Pokemon emerald
Hades
Sekiro
RDR 2 isn’t even better than the first game
First one's overrated and 2's underrated. Modern people can't get into the slowness of 2 which is what makes it kino.
1 is kino when you take into account the limitations of games at the time it was made. I remember when it came out originally it got none of the hype that RD2 gets but for the time it was just as crazy of a game. It's one of those games that most people did not play originally but anyone you find that did play it when it came out will tell you it was just as good for its time as RD2 is now.
I was there at the time. It was fantastic because it was the first proper cowboy GTA people expected from Red Dead Revolver. Problem is it did a lot of things worse than GTA 4 did which had already been released years prior. A lot of that was due to it being the less experienced American team rather than the Scottish guys who did the GTA games. Those guys came in to help which is why it got released but not enough to save it enough for a PC release.
>Problem is it did a lot of things worse than GTA 4 did
RDR 1 looks, handles, and plays better than GTA IV in every single conceivable way. what are you even on about
GTA IV looks and plays better than RDR and it's not even debatable. RDR looks at it's best with skyboxes. It's nowhere near as detailed or well developed as GTA IV. It's well known it was a mess. Just a really fricking good mess.
It's hard to compare to GTA4 because GTA 4 is the best game Rockstar has ever put out. You could compare any game to GTA 4 and you'd have a hard time coming away with a different opinion tbh. RD2 is obviously a great improvement on everything good about RD1 but RD1 is an amazing game considering what was possible at the time and also taking into account it was really the first game of its kind.
Gun came out years before and RDR wasn't even the first Red Dead game. It's fantastic, I'm not even debating that part. It's just overrated as frick.
I was speaking narratively. RDR 2 would be a 10 if the story weren’t such an unfocused mess that steps on the toes of the better written first game
Having your protagonist be so regretful and confessional over killing works well for a movie but not a videogame. I'd hoped Arthur was going to be a villain as much as you played him.
I have a hard time fully buying Arthur’s arc, considering he spends the entire game on a moral high horse even before his change of heart. the writers were either too in love with Arthur to actually make him a genuinely deplorable person who evolves into someone good, or weren’t sharp enough to construct a character the audience initially disagrees with but comes around to him in the end. either way, it feels like too much of a case of them having their cake and eating it, too
He's an absolute c**t if you want him to be.I got booted out the camp for slagging off wee Jack like 80 times before he even got TB.
but that’s not Arthur in the narrative; that’s your player agency. so my point still stands
This. Shooting and killing people doesn't count since that's largely the players actions. Almost everything Arthur says comes off as him being a good and moral person well before his redemption
the backstory (notably the blackwater massacre) but also all the other non optional missions where you do shitty stuff sells it enough for me.
Arthur wasn't at the blackwater massacre, he spends the whole game asking the gang what happened there. Also when you hear about the past, they rationalise holdups and robberies a lot.
i know he wasnt at the blackwater massacre, but what im saying is that part of the reason for his moral high horse is him not being there but he simultaneously feels like a bad person for contributing too it. also every big “kill a lot of people” event causes a big stir and has lasting consequences even if some chartachters arent bothered (or pretend they arent bothered) by it
>know he wasnt at the blackwater massacre, but what im saying is that part of the reason for his moral high horse is him not being there but he simultaneously feels like a bad person for contributing too it
in other words, Arthur was already questioning his morals before his supposed “arc”
I miss how Rockstar would use a studio to focus on a game, it made their IPs tight and unique. Now they use every studio for a game which is more impressive but I never had more fun playing it than the rest.
meant for this
Yeah, those days got us shit like Manhunt, The Warriors and Midnight Club. They were the best days of Rockstar, showing the strengths of all their teams around the world rather than fricking morphing them all into one big thing.
I found it better than the first game pretty much forcing you to act good considering how it starts off with John acting incredibly polite towards the MacFarlanes and trying not to get into any more shit that could put his family in danger.
>First one's overrated and 2's underrated
RDR2 is good, but it is the most overrated game since that homosexual movie game with ellen page
Nobody like Beyond Two Souls. It was always viewed as worse than Heavy Rain.
No the other movie game with not-ellen page
The one with the fungus zombies
That was fake Ellen Page, she even tried to sue for it.
Open world is kino but the scripted story kills the immersion.
1 has the best 3rd act in gaming but the beginning and Mexico is padded as hell
>the family ranching part is better than the pure, unadulterated kino of a former outlaw hunting down his old crew
huh
R* had a good opportunity to go full autism and create a ranch simulator to make the game endlessly playable, instead of reusing the sweeping animation from GTA5's one mission to sweep poop
That goddamn snake oil salesman stringing along for 4 missions with no emotional thread,irish dude stringing me along for more than one mission as well.
Red Dead 2 takes its time but at least the story is character based.
Once you go back to Blackwater and start hunting Dutch Red Dead 1 gets way better
>I must be emotionally invested in every single character in order for me to care
>NOOO, YOU CAN’T JUST A HAVE FUN, LARGER THAN LIFE RAGTAG GROUP OF PEOPLE I RUN ERRANDS FOR! I CAN’T LIKE THE GAME UNLESS IT MAKES ME SAD
Other anon's right to be fair. Nigel West Dickens can go and frick himself.
Red Dead 2 was clever enough to put that kind of character solely in sidequests.
You can have fun without "Princess in another castle" tier writing
John’s objective is very simple, in theory. but the point of the “padding” is so you actually have a game to play, and also to build anticipation to the eventual confrontation at Fort Mercer. I won’t pretend like the characters giving John the runaround isn’t done purely for gameplay, but it does work on a narrative standpoint. everyone is self-motivated and unwilling to help without being helped in turn, but they eventually become loyal to John thanks to his willingness to assist them. he could’ve easily threatened and forced them into helping, but that’s not the man John is anymore. I’m sorry you weren’t able to appreciate this just because it didn’t make you cry.
yeah but rdr2 doesnt need to give you fetchquests to keep the game going, most of the non optional missions contribute to the story and push it towards a logical conclusion
>yeah but rdr2 doesnt need to give you fetchquests to keep the game going
no, it instead goes on narrative tangents, such as the gang going against the Italian mafia, or them randomly getting stuck on a tropical island, or the recurrence or Colm O’Driscoll
>unfun “gameplay” is better than interesting plot with good gameplay
cringe opinion
motherfricker, I very clearly stated earlier in the thread that the game’s a 10/10 outside of its narrative. the missions are fun, but it makes the story bloated and unfocused. don’t be disingenuous
The missions sucked in this iteration. None are memorable, their checkpoints are painful and there's a good chunk which are majority riding to destinations. It's a shame because the shooting can be visceral
>going against the italian mafia
The old crime butting heads against the new way of doing crime,kino
>Guarma
Every tv series has that odd episode all about the characters,controversial but i like it
>Colm o Driscoll
Kino death
I loved all the characters you met along the way, they are obviously reprehensible people but Johns reaction to them is funny. They also fulfil every spaghetti western trope there is, which is cynical yeah
I love them as well but you can cut them to max 2 missions each and they fulfill their purpose.
Red dead 2 is self aware about the NpCs stringing you along so they made them the antagonist(Dutch)
I liked New Austin and Mexico a lot more even though the traveling distances in Mexico were fricking long.
>This dude openly admits he never played Ghost of Tsushima
What are you waiting for?
I enjoyed Hunter Simulator in rd2, but RD1 > RD2
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante 2021
Spiritfarer 2020
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2018
Return of Obra Dinn 2018
rdr2 is 10/10 with mods.
outer wilds was a better video game than rdr2
Me
Chris Pratt, or James Marsden on HGH, Marsden has similar bone structure to Arthur
Honestly Christian Bale would be fricking amazing
Or Josh Brolin
Josh Brolin 100%. His amazon series convinced me
Not handsome and not tall enough
LENNEH
>drag people from horse for fun
>blow innocent peoples head off to test new weapon
>burn old lady alive after killing her sons in fromt of her. Just because she mouthed off
>still considered honorable because i throw back a lot of fish
>walk into police station
>stab the chief to death
>shoot 70 cops
>kill 15 bounty hunters
Nothing morally wrong here
>kill the bounty hunter's bloodhounds which are trying to rip out your throat
NOOOOO NOT THE PUPPERINOS
The audio I accidentally overlayed on this couldn't have been more perfect
https://files.
catbox.
moe/8yxs56.mp4
Idris Elba
Does everything have to be a frickjng joke on this forum
Why? It's already a movie.
The voice actor could do it if he lost a few pounds, and gain a few inches, he’s sadly a manlet
he is 185cm (6feet 1) for morons. what are you talking about manlet?
He's not a manlet, judt just looks like one in all his interviews because Dutch's VA is a great big bear that always sits next to him
Pic related, allegedly they’re just 12cm apart, more like 20, stop believe hollywood e-stats, he’s 180cm at best
>we're putting together the F(at)-Team
>>Colm o Driscoll
>Kino death
Not him but the Colm bit was great. Watching this horrible fricking man who feared nothing because his gang was always there to solve his issues go from smugness to sheer terror when he realised he was fricked was honestly the only time I've experienced sheer catharticism and genuine empathetic terror at the same time. That bit was really well done.
It would've been kino if it was just that which I liked myself. Then that moron Sadie had to shoot him and start an entire unnecessary shootout because...reasons.
>beatingup some guy as a loan shurk
>one of the mkst wretchrd actions carried out in the whole game
>repeats the action with game not taking it seriously 95% over the course of the game several times
She didn't shoot him though, you're misremembering. Sadie goes mental later but the hanging goes through like a regular hanging. That's why it's great.
I thought the cast was manets until I found out dutchess va is 6ft6
>surpasses kino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8068ZrwicQ
>the best part of red dead 2 was a fricking house building music video montage segment
I was not expeting that.
that wasn't the best part, it was one of the best parts. For me it was pic rel, i actually teared up from kino overload
Cringe
That bit was good but in terms of kino shootouts it was actually the first fricking one in the game when you get to the house being raped by the Irish gang. Once you start shooting that fricking tune kicks in which is clearly just a riff on Man With The Harmonica from Once Upon a Time in the West. Loved that bit.
I know which scene you mean but post the track. I love vid related a lot so I don't remember any of the music for RDR2 coming close and I found it all a bit underwhelming
I'm literally trying to find it. It's the most underused track in the game which makes it all the more frustrating..
If it's underused then I will take your word for it.
Just found it.
Oh yeah, this was a pretty good track and I can hear the inspiration
>no one thought to ask the Housers why the gang would curse Jack as a "goddamned child" throughout the entire scene
This is why we can't have nice kino in video games. The frickers who write it and the morons who consoom it don't know how people actually talk. The fact that you thought this was good is cringe as frick.
>the blue jay representing Arthur watching over John
I'm telling ya,RDR 2 epilogue would be a great season of tv
For me, it's https://youtu.be/-MK5ChLJTAk
Or, alternatively https://youtu.be/wRnSm7nPf3U
(especially when you are riding to camp for the final time)
i know its a very reddit thing to say, but people who say video games arent art need to play rdr2. its literally more art than it is video game in some senses
when was the last time an American western treated the cowboty's last ride with the sanctity it deserves?
there hasnt been a more emotional moment in any game in the 21st century
btw if you didnt finish the game with high honor then you didnt beat the game
I literally teared up playing that part, maybe more than tear up, tears were streaking down my face.
How the frick, I hated all the characters
>be me, 25
>just got laid off from job at IT software company
>find out and decide to leave my gf and start over somewhere else
>5 days later, find out shes pregnant
>dont know what to do
>decide we get n abortion
>feelsbadman.jpg
>play this game when its released
>whole game is depressing and somehow get the shitty ending
>get to this scene
this game got me through the hardest point and pain of my life and ill always be grateful. tx for reading my blog. please understand i had to do what needed to be done.
So how does the game being depressing help? I had a bad year and that game completely bummed me out kek
just that song in particular and the housebuilding scene. showed me that no matter how much life can kick you in the balls with unexpected crap, theres a little fleck of light. that year was one of the worst for me too
2018 was one of the last really good years I had in a long time up until then, and RDR 2 coming out at the tail end of it was the cherry on top lol. hope things got better for you lot over time
based and compassion pilled. it's been a long journey but things are good anon. hope so on your end as well. WAGMI
>tfw product delivers more than trailer promises
Far from open country.
This was the most kino part for me.
i remember sitting in my chair in some weird shock at that point
The low honor version of 'Thats The Way It Is' is the most kino moment followed up by
>it's all makes sense now...
>No. It damn well doesn't.
HOME
>half the map goes nearly completely unused
What did they mean by this?
>all the map MUST be used
what did you mean by this ?
>make things for no reason so a year later you can abandon the game and cite needing to support other games with those coders that wasted all their time
based!
i got a satisfying story and experience from the map that was used, good enough for me
Sometimes less is more
Karl Urban
RDR is an explicitly Christian story.
Arthur = Jesus
John and his family = mankind’s sins
Dutch = Satan
Micah = Priests
Strauss = Money changers in the temple
I get every analogy here but Micah.
Micah would obviously be Judas
Nah, Judas was Jesus' friend, Micah and Arthur openly fricking hated each other.
>Micah = Judas
>Dutch = Satan and Pilate combo
these video game arguments are pointless because for me it will always be one of the best things i ever experienced
The camp parties were pure fricking comfy.
The camp was the worst. You'd have to be an ip chugging beard to enjoy that catharsis
i was actually always getting drunk af when playing, so the parties really hit the spot.
I admire your dedication then
Sean Bean
tom hardy
>Video game stories are terri-
Live Lenny quest song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONrTwV1dzCc
ben foster would be a perfect micah, also pretty sure micah was a standin for charlie prince.
i love this mother fricker like you wouldn't believe
Games aren't supposed to be depressing.
It's over.
Am I the only person that seriously thought he was modeled after Chris Pine?
finally, a good answer
Modeled sure, but Pine is too much of a closeted gay who can't act out of his pretty boy niche.
Winner winner chicken dinner
Jensen Ackles
he’s too bloated and old IRL. he also looks way too harmless
idris elba
still pissed that rockstar never released dlcs.
and the online mode is basically dead too now.
Post Arthur's before thread deleted.
why do gamers love 'pitbull' protagonists
>character commits genocide in literally every major population center in the game, robbing banks and breaking the law
>"gosh dutch, we can never go back to blackwater, what we did was so bad there!"
>"*COUGH* I'M GONNA DIE NOW, FEEL BAD FOR ME"
RDR2 was embarrassing on a writing level. act 2 especially was just one big fricking benny hill sideshow just so they could justify a wild bunch moment of them all walking down to the 'baddy's mansion. felt completely unearned, like most of the emotional beats in this clownshow.
you mean act 3 but agreed
>admits he wasnt paying attention
oh ffs stfu moron, Arthur is literally riding "2 holy 4 thou" horse against Micah despite shooting up half of Strawberry five minutes ago and this is just one example.
just boys being boys
well its not like he had a choice, micah provoked the attack and arthur was caught in it.
>knows micah got into trouble with townspeople because of Lenny's information
>knows micah will frick everything up once he gets him out
>kills half of the town with micah
>then complains about it with a moral high ground
>this happens several times later but because micah isn't there (or someone else is there too alongside micah) he doesn't complain
it's not a problem for me, i've seen this type of character in movies too. Here's an example - you hate him att first, you cry for him at the end.
pretty hard to have a Red Dead REDEMPTION if the character never did anything bad to warrant a redemption, and why do Cinemaphile Black folk seem to ignore the fact you can stay a scumbag until the very end if you want?
>pretty hard to have a Red Dead REDEMPTION if the character never did anything bad to warrant a redemption
except the main protagonist never does anything bad comapred to other gang members and criminals.
>to ignore the fact you can stay a scumbag until the very end if you want?
a scumbag will never save his friend's life and family from certain death. the honor system is nothing but a gimmick to trick your brain into thinking there are good/bad choices.
even without that, you're proving his point, disjointed gameplay gimmick that has no real impact on the narrative as a whole.
>except the main protagonist never does anything bad
The event that got Arthur his death sentence was one of the most wretched actions carried out in the whole game
what do you mean?
he beats the shit out of that guy and tries collecting the debt he owes in front of the dude's family and then contracts tuberculosis. did u even play the game anon?
yes of course, i thought you meant a literal death sentence in court.
cut me some slack, im kinda high.
>im kinda high
gay
Arthur beating the clearly sickly man to fricking death in front of his wife and son just to collect a few measly bucks, then even threatening the wife and son when they rush to their loved one's defense.
>he didn't give Arthur mutton chops
what the frick, anon?
Was clean shaved the entire game. Dropped the fade when he started looking very sick though.
Clean shaven or short stubble is the best look but his hair should be 3 or 4. Makes him look like a handsome old hollywood cowboy
Mary doesn't like them
If you are going to make him a simp then at least be cool about it
>Marriage? A sacred institution? Heh, it's anything but in my experience, brother, I can tell you that. If two fellers wanna tie the knot, who am I ta say no? If the Lord ain't judged our gang, I'd say he's been takin' some time off the job, yer probably safe. Heh heh. Have at it, I say.
>Abortion? Well, that's a rough one. Bit of a tough pill to swaller. At first, I didn't rightly take kindly to the idea of killin' babies, but Dutch gave me this ole thick science book and I pretty much surmised that well, that thing is about as human as Micah here, which is lackin' to say the least, heh. Hell, I'd say a gal has the right to choose.
>A gal? As president? Well, what I can tell ya is its been nothin' but fellers since this whole thing here started up and what have we got? A bunch of other dead fellers. What have we got ta lose? I reckon' tryin' a gal's touch wouldn't do anyone no harm. If weakness is a concern of yours, I promise you some of the ladies runnin' in my gang would probably make Old Hickory look like a nancy in comparison. Hell, I'd reckon its her turn.
>Lettin' a black feller do yer wife? Well, if the old lady's havin' fun, who am I to deny her that? I reckon that feller's got a bigger one than me anyway. Besides, we gotta pay some back for that whole slavery bid'ness we did to them. Dutch raised me and I ain't his real son, so I'll raise my wife's son, whether he's black or white.
>Cuttin off yer willie sure sound silly but I reckon a feller might as well chop it off he ain't goin use it. And i suppose a wig can't do harm neither, heck men use to wear em all the time back in them oldin' days.
gets me everytime.
>Just you left is it?
>Yeah,just me
holy kino
John > Arthur
This one is so simple but you realize it's the end credits and you remember you'll never experience RDR2 for the first time ever again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MZKbJIhPCk
I had to wait 2 years until I had a good enough video card to play it. Worth the wait.
me too and i had a fricking blast.
4 weeks just pure fricking bliss, half of my gaming time was not being able to believe how fricking good everything looked.
275 hours here, 1 walkthrough. Got it done. Spent a lot of time just hunting in that world, peak comfy
My first playthrough lasted me I think 130 hours, after I had finished the epilogue, I without a single days break just started the game over again and played another 120 hours. I spent most of that time in Chapter 2, my favorite chapter in the game. Then I stopped around chapter 4.
I'm for sure replaying the game again in the future, without a shadow of a doubt.
Yeah it's crazy how good the game looks. The epilogue gave me the biggest nostalgia boner of all time. When John puts on his RDR outfit I think I shidded and farded in my pants. Or cried.
Red Dead 2 truly was a special game.
I loved it to death, but I don't understand how anybody but neets are supposed to enjoy it. It's such a slow game, I feel like you can spend 12 hours playing and do fricking nothing but explore the world. I played it 250 hours straight when I got it over the course of a month
that could be said for a lot of different games, anon.
>witcher 3
>Elder Scrolls
>Elden Ring
>Sekiro
>Deadliest Catch the game
Masterpieces take time to complete and enjoy. You dont have to be a neet. but like 2-3 hours after work is fine.
cast her
Florence Pugh
As if that dwarf could play her
Just get a dog off the street
Emily Blunt
She reminded me of a character from the movie El Dorado with John Wayne. It also made me realize that actors in old Hollywood were all beautiful, but nowadays it seems like they deliberately cast ugly people.
They do, beautiful people trigger twitter
Thomasin McKenzie without any makeup except fake freckles and maybe some eyeshadow + mess hair would go hard
I hope Rockstar delivers on GTA VI. They are unironically are only hope for AAA studios to deliver. After Cyberpunk, I just don't know anymore.
My theory is Guama was a tech demo for VI and we get Miami/Cuba setting
have actually heard this theory before and could definitely be plausible. I just hope the game/characters are good. I know some anons prefer gta IV over V, but I liked Trevor and Michael as protags. Niko was kinda bland. Roman was the shit tho
>Niko was kinda bland
Fricking how? The eastern european war criminal mentalist more dangerous than any of the supposed big guy americans was less interesting than wacky kill everyone man and Tony Soprano-lite? I'll never understand that opinion.
i was only 15 when IV was released, so maybe some of the nuances of his character just flew past me and i never got to appreciate it. I thought Ballad of Gay Tony was way better overall. i miss good dlcs 🙁
Both IV DLCs were seriously fricking good. That was in the days when they were "expancion packs" though. Nico's great because he's a genuine scary person in a world of plastic scary monsters. He wants to be a good person because he's seen the bad and this is emphasised over and over again yet he can't do it because he is the real monster. All the gangsters around him acting like the big guy are basically projecting shadow puppets of monsters attempthing to use the real monster in front of them.
they havent remastered it yet have they? jus checked and doesnt look like it. shame. would love to give this game a crack again. my old 360 got fricked in a flood 10 years ago and lost all my vidya
wdym anon. i played these games as a young teen. are you saying that zoomers play these games now? they really do wanna be millennials so fricking bad. also splinter cell games are kino
It'll never get remastered. The code's too fricked up and it'll be too weird these days. Looking back it's definitely the werid but best one.
>Remastering GTA 4
the game still looks like God on PC after 14 years.
This will always be the Nico song for me.
The fact that Lamar was going to be playable but ended up not being so is the saddest thing about the game
Character has to be interesting if he comes out of Florida, as long as it's not a woman I'll be sold on it. Also wouldn't mind some of the RP stuff from RDR2 returning, like weight and hair growth
Niko was the best GTA's main character
V was shite and the Scottish guys have been reduced to the "fix it" team. They did all make RDR 2 fucing amazing so I have hope but V really put me off GTA in general.
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This thread is more meaningful than every film thread on Cinemaphile in the past few months. I think we see the way things are going.
>videogame is more kino than most modern movies or shows
For me ? It was the widow in the wild
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Not a perfect fit lookswise, but masculine and big enough ti pull it off, the dark broody character he has been playing in B movies since GoT ended shiw he's a solid pick. Would picked him for Joel in TLoU as well.
They’d probably cast some homosexual Brit who’s never rode a horse in his life
As opposed to some braindead yank who can't actually read? Reading is unforutnately integral to being in films, Brayden. You are fricked.
im so pissed such an amazing looking game and incredible map was wasted on a shit game
You're thinking of MGSV.
Most underrated theme in the game
...is this one https://youtu.be/4OYFngQcVqk
your theme has 11 times the views as mine does, so unfortunately for you, I win this one. Mine is more underrated
Video games are only fun when you’re a kid and don’t have the ability to do real-world stuff yet. Once you turn 24 or 25 they’re completely unplayable unless it’s a casual night with friends (in person) or something
This bait got old years ago. You need to up the game, champ.
frick that. im 29 and still love vidya. it's just that theres no good vidya anymore. as a kid, even the shitty vidya was kino.
>viva pinata
>crackdown
>the outfit
games just suck balls now. same with tv and movies
>it's just that theres no good vidya anymore.
You just grew up anon.
How did you did you end up playing zoomer 360 games if you're 29
I pick Chris Pine
excellent choice, but could he do the voice?
You'd have to cast a southern actor to play the role. His voice/accent is too important. On the other hand, the entire game is moronic and everyone keeps calling the most ethnically-southern man in the game a "yankee" because it was made by moronic britbongs so maybe just cast whoever on second thought...
I thought he was midwestern
Most frontier accents had a twang of sorts most likely but this dude Arthur is straight up southern fried. No way around it.
>How you considered that they call him a yankee because he isn't southern you stupid c**t
Never post here again, ESL. You prove my point with your stupidity. "Yankee" here has a specific >implication that the moron Bongs didn't do their homework on probably because they got confused by their own "Yank" bantz.
I think the people of Rhodes call him Yankee because he was with Dutch
Red Dead 2 is the first major collaboration game they did. It's the first one where the burgers, the haggis', the bongs, the moose frickers etc all just combined to make it.
How you considered that they call him a yankee because he isn't southern you stupid c**t
Yankees are northern gays. NOT anyone that is not a southerner.
t. North Carolina chad
Yanks are yanks
t. nonamerican
maybe to you guys, but it's a totally different meaning in the states. Yanks are northeast gays. PA, DC, NY, New England states. Anything above the mason dixon. dont tell me what the correct term is foreigner.
Until you stop calling everyone in the UK "English" none of us will give a frick
t.scotsman
im not as ignorant as my countryman, and I will always call u by ur country of origin. but if u ever call a redneck southerner a yankee, you will trigger their autism
My two favourite people in random meetings were a funny as frick Texan guy in a Chinese pub who was genuinely brilliant and a couple I spoke to on Omegle from Alabama who were just really excited about their new house.
I loved every one of them and would never want to insult them.
I'll still always call all Americans yank because it's the default.
Texans are their own species here in the states. some of the nicest people ive ever met. alabama people too. of course, totally understand, Yankee is a generic term, but here it is definitely a weird cultural thing. I say all this as a northern yankee thats been living in the south for 10 years. similar to how the norf folks are totally different from southerners in England. Western US states are irrelevant imo. kek
Well I'll think of you and those guys and be more careful about my usage of the word yank.
they're weirdos. idgaf about the term because I was born a new yorker and am proud to be called a yank, but hardcore southerners are fricking dork and still act like the South is battling the north. just a word of wisdom
What about the people from that weird bit of Napoleon Dynamite country? They're the Americans I like. Do they actually exist?
>do mormons exist irl?
no they just kill tribals in new vegas
Either they were mormons and I didn't get that bit or you're being a sarcy cun....ohhhhh
Of course, yeah. Those folks are from like Utah and the Dakotas. They’re kinda the middle children of the USA. They’re unironically way more racist than southerners. Tons of black folk here in the south, so you either get accustomed to it or just hold on to the racism. Folks in the west like Utah where there’s no blacks are some of the most racist since they’re never exposed to cool blacks people
>Western US states are irrelevant imo. kek
*carries the country’s economy and agriculture on their back*
I thought it was any state that fought for the union
>because it was made by moronic britbongs
This is the problem I have with GTA too, it always feels like it was made by a foreigner who doesn’t quite understand America in general
>This is the problem I have with GTA too, it always feels like it was made by a foreigner who doesn’t quite understand America in general
Have you ever played Heavy Rain? It's basically moron Euro Thinks He Understands America: The Game. The dialogue is atrocious. GTA historically gets a pass somewhat because it's supposed to be a moronic cartoon but yeah they really don't know what they're doing culminating in the terrible misfortune of mocking Hillary Clinton for two straight games and then Trump happens and they end up looking like implicit Trump supporters.
They were taking the piss out of all sides which is something Americans just can't understand.
>They were taking the piss out of all sides which is something Americans just can't understand.
You have no idea what you're talking about, bong. You can't "take the piss" when you are completely unaware of one side. They were making fun of the GOP and 90's Clinton liberalism when the country was grappling with Obama and rising populism from the right. Getting topical with YOUR OWN politics in storytelling is traditionally a big no-no. Getting topical with SOMEONE ELSE'S politics and trying to from their perspective is just incredibly stupid and the height of hubris.
>get incredibly butthurt and obsessed with American culture and politics
>”Um hey nigel it doesn’t really work like that here”
>OI M8 I WUZ JUS TAKIN THE PISS
Arthur ? Southern? Rdr2 is the first time hes been south and hes 38 in rdr2
'Immersion' is a meme word but this is the one game in recent memory where I really felt it. I could unironically imagine the smell. The general smell of the outdoors after a rain, the old wood, the gun powder, I really felt like I was there. Clocked 119 hours.
Yeah it's the first genuinely awe inspiring game I've played. There's impressive visuals and that I'm unfazed by, but Red Dead 2's world has beauty to it, and it takes talented visual artists to do that.
It's so insanely well crafted that I at multiple points, and still do question how the frick they did it, how they at such a big scope made such an autistically detailed game.
It was their swan song, rockstar isn't the same company any more.
I think josh brolin could pull it off.
>itt Cinemaphile show us what Cinemaphile would look like if it was good
Post your Arthurs
Haven't played it in ages but here's mine, clothes are modded
Goddamn that’s a beautiful game. Easily the best looking ever made
>the best looking ever made
been playing metro exodus enhanced edition, I'd say rdr2's art direction wins out, but as far as pure graphical fidelity go, not much is beating exodus
it hits different indeed
Someone post a screenshot of Saint Denis or Valentine
So kino
Unbelievable.
Rockstar cyberpunk game when?
Kind of makes me want a game set in Victorian London with the same kind of graphical fidelity. (No I have not played Syndicate).
It's fricking gorgeous but long desert backdrops make for beauty rather easily. Mad Max looked stunning and wasn't anywhere near as technically accomplished.
Can't find many online screens and can't be arsed to make any of my own but Mad Max has a similar vibe but is vastly underrated.
In comparison it looks pretty shitty, I’m sure it’s a decent game though
It's utterly beautiful, I was just relying on google. If you like blasting over sand dunes in an 80s muscle car while most of the cast pretends to be Australian it's fricking great.
Mad Max was a solid game, I have some screenshots. Steam not letting my sort screenshots by games for some reason, but I found this one I took.
hows the mod scene in rdr2 anyhow?
are there mods that enhance the gameplay in some way?
Best mod is the teleport mod to skip all the BS back and forth. Other than that, just check Nexus.
There's a mod that revamps crime system. A feature of it is that you can do whatever the frick you want in open wilderness without any witness or wanted system ruining it for you.
that sounds good, gonna check it out.
I never understood this game, like I'm sure it's good and all, but the whole point of RDR was that John was a truly evil person, but you play this game and he does nothing wrong at all
Johnny Ringo!!
I'll take it lol, game needed more clothing options really
I can respect the choice, but playing as fancy Arthur just feels wrong to me, doesn't fit him.
>fancy Arthur
friend of mine said it looked too formal, I was just going for a classic gunslinger look, ended up with this by the end of the game
very nice, much better.
I take your hobo Arthur and raise you a Confederate Arthur
>The only cowboy/gunslinger/western hat is Stalker Hat
>Only Jeans are the wildwest-fitting pants but have bad coloring
what were they thinking when developing these parts.
For me? It's Viking Arthur
https://files.catbox
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Not fancy enough, tbh
there's no one handsome enough
Arthur is welsh
>unequal eyes
Nah.
WHOAH THERE DUTCH, WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?
Dutch was completely and totally in the right, the greedy slag was threatening him with a weapon. Only mistake was not taking the gold back.
>now we might be murdering, raping, thieving outlaws wanted for every crime under the sun, but we ain't no god damn racists! that's the real evil!
That was the point of the gang you utter nitwit. Things like the racial hierarchy of the time were the standard. They actively called out the standards of the time to be a weird little misfit band of multiracial communists. And they're viewed as the bad guys. The fact you don't get that is honestly not that surprising.
blow it out your ass, homosexual
Duke Nukem supports trans rights
Not even close to being as handsome enough. Looks too theatrical.
finally an excuse to post my screenshots
They really should've had more missions in the snowy area. Only time I had to use the warm clothing was the Flaco bit.
AWOOGA
It really is a ridiculously photogenic game, you can just take random screenshots at any time and they always look great
They were definitely more inspired by more modern westerns like unforgiven and assassination of jesse james than classic spaghetti westerns, but yeah, fashion was kind of lacking
feed your fricking arthur bro thats neglect
>em eff dubyah i see a city slicker
that fricking skunk hat was a nightmare to get
>feed your fricking arthur bro
it was the tb i swear, couldn't keep all the pork chops down
>They were definitely more inspired by more modern westerns like unforgiven and assassination of jesse james than classic spaghetti westerns, but yeah, fashion was kind of lacking
Even those had western fashions. The game had more modernist (for the game) cityslicker clothing than wildwest stuff.
>
>fancy Arthur
friend of mine said it looked too formal, I was just going for a classic gunslinger look, ended up with this by the end of the game #
>feed your fricking arthur bro thats neglect
That's act 6 Arthur whose model is scripted into underweight model because of sickness.
I remember my arthur being a bit beefier, pic related, but i was also wearing a thick coat and several layers
>tfw Arthur was such a good character that he retroactively ruined John just a little bit
I think I cried 3 times to this game. The only one to do so.
the only slight against this game is the shitty TAA that you are forced to use. The TAA was very, very obviously made for 4k and any resolutions below that simply do not hold up and the game looks blurry in motion.
When I get an even more powerful gpu I'll replay this game at 1.75x the resolution, my current one can handle it at 30fps but not 60 and it is actually depressing how much better it looks in motion, the game just always looks like the photo mode looks in terms of sharpness.
You can now replace it with DLSS which is much, much better.
>You can now replace it with DLSS which is much, much better.
No it isn't, not even almost. DLSS looks like shit in motion and there's a bunch of awkward looking artifacts and shimmering. If you turn on DLSS and stand completely still then yes it does look better than TAA.
Unfortunately we're stuck with TAA, anything else breaks the visuals.
That hasn't been my experience. Which setting were you using? DLSS always has like 3-4 different settings.
Is this heavily modded or does it actually look this good?
Unmodded 1440p with most everything on the best settings.
completely unmodded
I don't think I'll ever love anything as much as I love RDR2 and I say that as someone who hates video games.
armadilo was comfy
Shame that part of the map was so empty.
What's a nice setting for 3060 at 1080p?
I have everything at high except textures (Ultra) with TAA on but it's blurry.
Have you tried fiddling around with anti aliasing settings? It might be TAA that's doing it.
not really. TAA was on by default when I installed the game. I'll try it later.
You can't get around the TAA blur, unfortunately. Playing with it off looks like shit, playing with it on means blur
it looks better at 1440p but still far from as good as it looks at the intended 4k. Rockstar really shit the bed with the TAA in the game, it blurs the fricking game up so much
You can try slightly increasing the resolution, a 3060 means you can probably afford upping it a little in the advanced settings, maybe 1.25 or 1.50
tnx fren
Just curious, can anyone tell what I was going for here?