re: Starting RDR2

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Also I wish they would have added more varied random encounters, stranger missions, and places that actually felt worthwhile to explore

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I find this hard to believe.

I am still running into shite I havent seen, you just have to get off of the road and explore and there are a ton of mysteries that aren’t solved yet.

The voices in the woods, the ritual sites, the meteors, IKZ Mystery and those are just the unsolved mysteries in the game. Probably even more shite that we haven’t even found.

It is true you find a lot of shite out exploring, but the issue is that none of it really feels rewarding outside of the "oh that's neat" site seeing factor.

I read an article months ago, have no idea how legit it was, but it basically said the devs intentionally kept all the open world side stuff lite on the rewards so it wouldn't feel mandatory. I can see how it's a tough line to walk. But I think they went too far in the other direction. You can ignore everything in the game except the main story line missions if you so choose and your game isn't really affected at all.

There's like 12 different bullet types you can buy/craft but it was pointless because enemies all die in one head shot anyway.

Same story with crafting tonics, you can craft all these super cool tonics, but you find them so regularly on enemies as regular loot there's really no point to crafting them.

The amount of money or rewards you get for fishing/hunting/robbing/gambling is so trivial you give up on it quickly unless you actually enjoy doing those things.

I tend to find mechanics that don't really give the player any tangible incentive to be pointless.

However RDR2 is just as much a sim as it a traditional video game, and once you come to peace with that you can enjoy it for what it is.

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i feel like all the issues were a product of so many people working on the game that they didn't realize they were creating redundant/pointless mechanics

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Eating/Sleeping

Yeah the explosive rounds are fun to use.

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if it is worth it to find them.

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Dinosaurs get added to the wildlife once you find them all. So, yeah..... it’s worth it

Building a house was lame as frick.

Use Eagle Eye when looking for things like carvings, bones, graves. They have a yellow cloud over them.

So yeah it’s a bit overwhelming. Last night did the thing where you get drunk with Lenny and then have to find him.

Can you store items in your camp or just on your horse? Is it worth buying any guns? I just use the carbine repeater and everyone dies in one headshot. If you die or get arrested do they take your stored money or just what you have on you?

Trying to avoid walkthroughs so sorry if some of this is basic stuff.

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I’ve looked up most of these as well as the solved mysteries and I’m just not that impressed. The payoff is barely worth the time it would take to discover these naturally, and frankly if millions of players and the internet still haven’t solved these mysteries then I think that kind of speaks to my point. I don’t consider Easter eggs meaningful side content, and some (most) of these are so obscure that your average player would never be able to find them without the internet.

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Well that’s unfortunate. I think it’s all very interesting and I’ve spent a whopping zero minutes researching the stuff myself. There are people who have spent I can only weeks or months trying the figure the shite out so some people obviously have enjoyed the content

I’m probably 100 hours in and haven’t beaten the game yet. Just got to chapter 6. I’ve done most of the collectibles, all the legendary hunts and fish I can and have done all of the challenges possible.

I easily have gotten my money’s worth and almost certainly will do another playthrough.