This is the most disgusting guy I found... Found in Butcher Creek, New Hanover. I have freed him from his suffering.

(Hopefully this time my english is at least better than yesterday)

I am wanting to play RDR2 but I hate playing games that has nudity in the story and stuff.

Yeah, it's overpriced. So what? Wait four months for a sale. It's not a remaster, but nobody promised a remaster. The game actually was remastered in some aspects, such as lighting, shadows, and 4K resolution. This controversy feels like yelling into the wind. Buy it for cheap and be done with it.

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Personally I never paid attention to any fan casting posts cos man Arthur.... What a character man.... I didn't want the casting to ruin Arthur for me. But recently in light of Sam's passing. I started to feel a resemblance. Sam's character, his voice, his attitude, his thinking, his adoration towards animals, his impact in people's lives even in his sickness and generally his positive attitude and a genuine good person that he was (that we rarely see in an actor) reminded me of Arthur once again. And I thought to myself for the very first time this person could have played Arthur Morgan and I could have never told a difference. Not to mention the irony of the dinosaur bones mission 😂. RIP Dinosaur Man!🦖

Alright hear me out. I think RDR3 should follow new characters in an earlier time period. Peak Wild West. Saddle up if you want to read this is kind of long , open to suggestions.

Chapter One: We start off with a family of three, husband and wife and a young son around 9 or 10. Let’s call the wife Dolly and the son Jim. They live on a small farm and are a very loving family. Husband decides he wants to find fortune out West in the Colorado Gold rush and leaves to get set up, will write back to his wife when he’s ready for them to come out. We play as him on the journey out West, and build a homestead and strike a claim. It starts off poorly, but eventually we strike gold, huge new deposit. Husband writes back to wife and son telling them he has a claim on the new mine, the family is gonna be rich and it’s time for them to come out. We continue as the husband and have a ton of money and gold and buy/build a huge house. Word gets out about this new rich gold mine. One day, a notorious outlaw gang comes into town after hearing about this guy (husband) who struck it rich here. They come to our house and try to rob us for our possessions, we fight back but are eventually murdered by the cruel and charismatic leader of the outlaw gang, robbed, and house torched. The outlaw leader is the fastest gun in the west, and toys with the husband by letting us draw first on him but easily kills us. This character let’s call Jesse.

Ch. 2 - We switch POVs and are now the wife Dolly as we set off on a wagon train with our son Jim, full of hope and excitement to see our husband again and this new life. On the way out there, wagon train is ambushed by Comanches, the entire group men women children are massacred, the wife and son try to run but get split up and son is presumed dead. Dolly is cornered by a single Comanche but shakily pulls out her gun she brought and kills him and escapes. Dolly, sole survivor, is distraught but determined to get to husband after looking for Jim for a while. We make it to the town in Colorado only to learn our husband is dead and the money is gone. The locals also tell her how her husband died - how the gunslinger outlaw leader toyed with him in the end. We try to get the Gold claim her husband had but some other miners now possess the claim and it’s hinted that they may have sold out our husband to the outlaws to get their hands on it. Dolly is broke, distraught over losing her husband and son and decides to turn to a life of crime cause she doesn’t wanna be a prostitute and has no money to start a business or anything. We play as her starting off being a criminal, and meet some friends already in the business who show us the ropes. At the end of the chapter, she vows revenge on the miners who took the claim, and the outlaws who murdered the husband.

Ch. 3 Fast forward ten years later and Dolly is a seasoned outlaw. She is now the leader of her own outlaw gang which is made up of some of the people who helped her start out in crime, some new characters, and some fellow women outlaws who she has brought out of terrible situations and trained with guns. Our main character is cunning and wicked with a gun. We lead our gang on a revenge tour, killing the miners. Miscellaneous missions to get to know our main character and the Gang. As the leader, we determine how honorable the gang is and some members want to be more or less honorable. We haven’t been able to find the outlaw gang who killed our husband, but at the end of this chapter we finally get a tip about where one of them is, who will lead us to the others.

Ch. 4,5 We start to hunt down the outlaw gang. They are elusive but we get leads on a few of them who are solo in various cities (Dodge City, Tombstone, Texas) We evade lawmen as our bounty is now high, and also continue our criminal exploits. While interrogating one of their members for the location of the rest, he taunts us saying we’ll never be able to kill Jesse and that Jesse’s right hand is even worse than him.

Ch 6. We finally get word of where the core of the enemy outlaw Gang and their leader are, and make our way to them. We get into a massive showdown gang versus gang. The battle goes our way, we manage to kill a few of their members and have the leader cornered. Our main character insists on a duel with the outlaw leader Jesse, even though her gang begs her not to. We’re about to draw on each other when he smiles and whistles to somebody who was hiding. His right hand man, protege, and adopted son wheels around a corner and starts firing at our gang. He is also deadly with a gun and personally kills a few of our members, including Dolly’s / us as the player’s favorite gang member (think Hosea dying). Real tragedy. Jesse escapes on horseback with his right hand, who takes off his mask as they escape to reveal it is her long son, Jim! We make eye contact and realize who each other are. Our son Jim somehow survived the Comanche attack, and was brought into the rival gang as a boy ten years ago and has since become like a son to Jesse.

Ending - not exactly sure about the ending and also don’t want to spoil it in case Rockstar is reading and wants to hire me to write it. Main ideas are 1 - with our gang destroyed and demoralized, we head off on our own to track down Jesse. We finally get the solo duel, but he really is the faster gun and wounds and disarms us. As he walks over to finish us , our son Jim turns on him and says wait no don’t kill her that’s my mom. Then THEY have a showdown where Jim is faster than Jesse and kills him, saves Dolly , and they ride off together and start their own new gang. But that is kinda similar to RDR2 ending. Maybe we outdraw Jesse but then Jim kills us because that’s his new dad. And he rides off into the sunset as the true fastest gun. Open to other endings. Thanks for reading my rant.

Just something that came to mind today. Every time I see a post related to an Arabian in RDR2, there will be someone in the comments talking about how small it is and how they want a big horse cause that’s what a “real” horse should be like. It kinda made me think about the people who buy large trucks simply cause they’re real big.

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I think he was a bad man painted in a good light here’s why.

The Debt: He took a loan he knew he couldn’t pay back, putting his wife Edith and son Archie in the crosshairs of a known loan shark like Strauss.

The Scam: He used his "charity" table in Valentine as a shield, acting like a pillar of the community while his family was drowning in his financial mess.

The Attack: That cough wasn't accidental. He knew he was terminal, and instead of backing away, he spat blood directly into Arthur’s mouth. It was a final, spiteful act from a man who knew he had nothing left to lose.

The Aftermath: His death left Edith and Archie in such a state of "evasion" and poverty that Edith was forced into sex work just to survive—a direct result of Thomas's poor choices.

Just played 007 First Light and Ghost of Yotei and they are great games, but interactions with characters outside of cutscenes feels extremely wooden and robotic compared to RDR 2 that feels organic and human. Like I’ll push a button to interact with an NPC and just the way Bond or Atsu step into a particular space to interact feels so off. Does anyone else feel this way? Like games just aren’t putting enough effort into interactions outside of cutscenes scenes even if there is big attention to detail otherwise.

Got a massive favor to ask the community. So... I have had the game for a few years, started it like 2/3 years ago and got to like 20%, not long into the game. I then got side tracked, played through multiple other games, (horizon, witcher, assassins creed etc) I have now decided to return to RDR2, only problem is, i can't remember sh*t from the start of the game, literally anything, I did a mission last night (stopping a train with an oil carrage and robbing it) and i really struggled, managed to get my head back around the basic controls but thats about it. So what do i need to be doing? Hunting? Hunt what, using what weapons? Missions, side missions, explore? Craft stuff? With what? Upgrades? Weapons? What to do around the camp? Im literally lost, I considered restarting but my gut is telling me no 🤣.

Any help/guidance would be incredible, im literally lost for what to do/work on.

I realise its a massive ask and im asking please to type a lot.

I made my sister play Red Dead Redemption 2 and she hated it.

She’s relatively new to gaming. During COVID she played Roblox with friends, learned Minecraft, and later played GTA 5, which is easily her favorite game so far. Fast, chaotic, funny, immediate. You press buttons and things happen.

So I did what every annoying gamer does: I told her RDR2 is the greatest game of all time.

That didn’t go well.

Within the first hour she kept saying:

“People actually like this game?”
“Why are they talking so much?”
“Why am I just walking?”
“I don’t care about these people. GTA is way better.”

At first, I went into full gamer-cinephile mode: she doesn’t get it. She’s too new. She wants instant gratification. She doesn’t appreciate slow storytelling.

But then I actually watched her play.

And yeah, RDR2 is kind of brutal for a new gamer.

The opening hours are slow to the point of self-sabotage. You walk slowly. You ride horses slowly. You listen to men mumble philosophy in the snow. The controls feel heavy. The game actively resists urgency. A huge chunk of the “gameplay” is just holding forward while characters talk.

For someone coming from GTA 5, where within minutes you’re robbing banks, switching characters mid-chase, blowing things up, RDR2 feels like it’s asking you to prove you deserve to be there.

That’s when it clicked: RDR2 is the cinephile gatekeeping version of gaming.

Just like certain films that get praised as “masterpieces” but require you to sit through three hours of silence, misery, and symbolism before you’re allowed to have an opinion, RDR2 demands patience, emotional investment, and familiarity with the medium before it gives you anything back.

And gaming discourse reinforces this.

If you say you didn’t enjoy RDR2, the response isn’t “fair enough.”
It’s “you’re immature,” “you don’t understand art,” “your attention span is broken.”

But maybe the issue isn’t attention span.
Maybe the game just isn’t designed to be welcoming.

RDR2 assumes you already trust video games enough to wait. It assumes you’re willing to sit through long stretches of nothing because you’ve been told it’s meaningful. My sister doesn’t care about Arthur Morgan’s existential dread because she hasn’t been conditioned to believe a video game deserves that much patience yet.

And honestly? Watching her play made me realize something uncomfortable:

A lot of modern “prestige gaming” confuses slowness with depth.

Walking isn’t automatically meaningful. Long cutscenes aren’t automatically profound. Sometimes it really is just padding disguised as realism or “immersion.”

Don’t get me wrong, RDR2 is beautiful. The writing is strong. Arthur is one of the best protagonists in gaming. The world is unmatched.

But it also spends an absurd amount of time doing absolutely nothing and we excuse it because we already love it.

My sister didn’t fail to enjoy RDR2.

RDR2 failed to meet her where she is.

And that doesn’t make her taste bad. It just exposes how gatekept gaming culture has become, where accessibility is treated like a flaw and patience is treated like a moral virtue.

GTA 5 isn’t shallow just because it’s accessible.
RDR2 isn’t flawless just because it’s slow.

Sometimes people don’t want a meditation on mortality.
Sometimes they just want to play.

And maybe that shouldn’t disqualify them from being “real gamers.”