Red Dead Redemption 2 SPOILER thread

frick yes.

For the record I was damn close to calling the ending back on the first page of the other thread in the days of old. When a 24 second leaked footage made my day

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End of the game is john marston setting up his ranch with Abigail, Jack, and uncle as he tries to come to terms with killing Arthur and leaving the gang. 

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But man, this game hit me in the frickin feels. Losing Arthur to Micah in such a brutal way like that had me so enraged. I felt robbed like I'd never felt before. shite even the horse getting shot up like that and Arthur saying goodbye in that blaze of bullets choked me up some.

Did you save John or go back for the money?

Arthur > John as far as a character goes

frick Micah, knew that dude was a snitch

And while that song was good the one they played when John was climbing up the mountain to kill Micah was great too.

OST

I watch the different endings with Arthur, mine was a little different with Micah, I got shot in the head by
Micah, the one i watched Arthur crawl off and die looking at
the sunset. How's did y'alls end?

I just finished the main story. Wow. Rockstar made an incredible series here. I figured Author would die considering his illness. I didn't see Micah blowing his head off though. That was a surprise that left my jaw dropped.

I wish they would have kept the tuberculous to a minimum. I feel like I played half the game sick. Maybe just get it closer towards the end.

To see John grow from being a little runt to the bad arse he is in rdr is awesome. To tie in fishing with Jack and Author to the ending in RDR is storytelling at it's finest. R* really knocked this game out of the park.

Just finished the epilogue.
The story pales in comparison to the first imo

Its bad enough that I lost Arthur but I also lost my beautiful gray Arabian. The game exceeded my expectations and I’m into a second playthrough, but this Arthur will be of high honor. I can’t let Micah do Arthur like that again.

I finally finished the entire thing. At first I found it shocking that less than 20% of people on PS4 have finished the whole thing, but then I realized that I'm part of the diehard core that played the shite out of this game and it still took me 6 weeks. I fear that few people are actually going to get to the parts of this story that make it great.

Holy shite. I don't think I've been punched in the gut by a game as hard as this one when Arthur fails to stop Dutch and Micah and dies staring at the sun. Yeah, I played high honor and chose to save John.

Also, that last trip up the mountain to confront Micah is just fricking awesome. The music and guys just coming out to the slaughter as you murder everything in your path to get to Micah was just fun. Of course, I waded through that snow holding two six-shooters. It just seemed proper. Then, I got the single greatest sense of satisfaction I've ever gotten from a game as I dropped into Deadeye and unloaded both revolvers into Micah's face. The bullet hole through his face as he turned and fell to the snow warmed my heart. frick Micah. I'm going back up there to put more bullets into his corpse.

This game, in my mind, is the greatest video game ever made by a large margin. There's just so much there and the story is almost poetic how Arthur (in my game) earned his redemption but his actions to save John and his family and John's actions to protect Jack from the things he did in the past are ultimately futile. The events of RDR2 echo throughout the events of RDR, the Pinkertons and the Army find and kill John, then Jack waits until his mother is dead and buried to track down and murder Ross. Everything Arthur and John sacrificed for Jack is undone. I fear it's going to be a very long time before I come across a game or a franchise that has the potential to match Red Dead.

Rockstar has created a masterpiece. However, it's not perfect. It could have been 10-12 hours shorter. It seems like they could have cut out everything that happened near Rhodes with the Hatfields and McCoys and the story wouldn't have suffered.

Finally, this is all I could think of when John got Abigail in the boat to propose. I can't be the only one.



ETA: I just went back and watched the end of RDR. I'm thinking it takes place almost immediately after the end of RDR2, maybe a year or two at the outside. It takes place in 1911, RDR2 starts in 1899, and Jack looks to be about 11 or 12 at the end of RDR2 and he'd be somewhere around 14 or 15 or so during RDR, which is about the age he looks to be in the last cutscene in RDR where he talks to John before the Army kills him.

For some reason, I was imagining a much larger gap between the two stories.

Okay so I gave online a try for the first time and I got fricking wrecked. Like that shite was fricking dumb. I got killed by a posse while trying to deliver some cash and it just kept spawning me in the vicinity for me to get killed again and again. Another time I was just riding and I happen to ride into the path of someone else's mission that was going on and I guess they assumed I was trying to steal their reward or whatever and got killed while trying to mind my own business. Like seriously?

Never played GTA online so I'm new to open world online gaming, but I guess playing solo makes things infinitely harder...