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Jimbot posted:Depends on what you want. It's very chill and atmospheric but you probably won't get up to any kind of super silly nonsense like you would in GTAO. You'll run into an occasional hacker but by and large it's not a bad time. I wish they were able to keep working on it but the economy they build into the game wasn't based on malice and hatred of humanity so they weren't able to exploit people to the maximum, so it didn't print money like GTA did. Funny enough they rebalanced GTAO after re-releasing it on PS5 and now its much more 'you can make money doing almost anything instead of grinding a weird exploit over and over', so when I tried out RDO recently I was struck much more with the sensation of 'hope you like grinding for hours to buy a single hat'
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Wolfsheim posted:Funny enough they rebalanced GTAO after re-releasing it on PS5 and now its much more 'you can make money doing almost anything instead of grinding a weird exploit over and over', so when I tried out RDO recently I was struck much more with the sensation of 'hope you like grinding for hours to buy a single hat' It was really frustrating starting RDO just before Christmas. The winter event was on so it was snowy and cold everywhere. Which meant I had to desperately grind to afford some warm clothes or I was freezing the whole time. Was v glad when the event ended.
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May 3, 2023 12:15
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ploots posted:no howdy?????????? You can emote at npcs, and that can be a greeting, but it’s not the same
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May 3, 2023 13:17
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When do you decide that you're done with this game? I'm finished with the story and epilogue, I've found some of the legendary animals and fishes, I've helped a couple strangers, but I'm still struggling with the enormity of it all. There's so much to do in this game and I want to experience it, but at the same time I'm afraid of getting burnt out.
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May 3, 2023 13:40
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rotinaj posted:You can emote at npcs, and that can be a greeting, but it’s not the same I for one would ignore the NPCs and greet all the dogs like this if I were playing RDO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbuFpgLSQ-s&t=20s E: I accidentally scolded a mangy bloodhound in the cemetery in Saint Denis and felt awful about it for a week afterwards Poo In An Alleyway fucked around with this message at 13:53 on May 3, 2023 |
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May 3, 2023 13:51
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Philippe posted:When do you decide that you're done with this game? Spend six months playing something else, then come back, and you will be refreshed IMO
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May 3, 2023 15:10
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rotinaj posted:Spend six months playing something else, then come back, and you will be refreshed IMO True, Tears of the Kingdom is coming out Friday next week, so having another open world game as a palette cleanser is my current objective
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May 3, 2023 15:12
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:True, Tears of the Kingdom is coming out Friday next week, so having another open world game as a palette cleanser is my current objective Tears of the Kingdom came out a couple days ago E: I'm gonna ride around and take photos of animals and say howdy to people. Maybe finally get that drat Herbalist 3 challenge.
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Philippe posted:Tears of the Kingdom came out a couple days ago That was a leak, it's not due for official release until May 12th
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Philippe posted:When do you decide that you're done with this game? Poke around all the buildings, not just robbery tips but any cabin you find in the woods, a lot of them have cool things to find. Maybe rob a train. There's YouTube videos on how to do that and get away clean, and tons of videos about neat secret areas you might have missed. More than that, save a backup and go play something faster paced for a while.
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Inspector Hound posted:Poke around all the buildings, not just robbery tips but any cabin you find in the woods, a lot of them have cool things to find. Maybe rob a train. There's YouTube videos on how to do that and get away clean, and tons of videos about neat secret areas you might have missed. More than that, save a backup and go play something faster paced for a while. Find the ghost train, help out the wildlife photographer, track down Dracula and kill him, pet every dog, tame every horse breed, collect all the cigarette cards, watch all the KKK members kill themselves with their own stupidity, try and find 'GAVIIIIIN!', track down the robot built by Marko Dragic, revisit the old campsites for a nice audio treat, shoot rats on the docks at Saint Denis without getting the poo poo kicked out of you by the pigs, track down all the talismans, weapons, hats, masks etc. It's such a massively overstuffed game that I honestly get slightly exhausted thinking of all the things to do and I haven't even finished Chapter 6 yet.
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May 3, 2023 16:16
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I don't know if it's possible to get truly sick of rdr2; i finished my second (at least) replay maybe 2 months ago and I'm already kind of itching to play again
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May 3, 2023 16:25
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Ainsley McTree posted:I don't know if it's possible to get truly sick of rdr2; i finished my second (at least) replay maybe 2 months ago and I'm already kind of itching to play again only a few other games can match the same "get high and wander around the game world" vibe
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May 3, 2023 19:03
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WoodrowSkillson posted:only a few other games can match the same "get high and wander around the game world" vibe Man I lived in RDR2 during the height of the first omicron wave. Any opportunity I had, I was smoking up and going fishing in the mountains or hanging out with my cowboy buddies (no Micahs allowed) The atmosphere and immersion of this game is almost unparalleled
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May 3, 2023 19:21
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Barry Foster posted:Man I lived in RDR2 during the height of the first omicron wave. Any opportunity I had, I was smoking up and going fishing in the mountains or hanging out with my cowboy buddies (no Micahs allowed) Witcher 3 is the only one off the top of my head that causes the same desire to just wander around listening to the music and looking at the scenery. HZD is gorgeous but never feels as conducive to just chilling. GTA 5 is long in the tooth these days but it fits the bill.
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I think it's funny that people speedrun RDR2, and that the world record is like 12 hours.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Witcher 3 is the only one off the top of my head that causes the same desire to just wander around listening to the music and looking at the scenery. HZD is gorgeous but never feels as conducive to just chilling. GTA 5 is long in the tooth these days but it fits the bill. Witcher 3 is too bitty for me to just wander. I'm always reminded that it's an RPG where I'm supposed to slay monsters (and find my weirdly hot daughter figure), whereas in Red Dead I feel much more free to enjoy the scenery.
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It has mediocre reviews but Days Gone is the only game that felt as immersive as RDR2 to me. The gameplay is a bit repetitive but that repetition involves wasting zombies by the dozen with a variety of automatic weapons, so I didn't get bored. The story has a couple of pretty good twists too imo. I bounced off Witcher 3 a few times but I'm going to try again soon.
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Comedian Joe Pera has a sleeping podcast, Drifting Off with Joe Pera. He interviews Roger Clark in the third episode. I’ve not listened to it yet, but the tiktok Joe Pera made advertising the episode, he talks about spending lots of pandemic time in Red Dead Redemption 2, not really doing anything to move the story along, just moseying. If you’re inclined to listen to something as you fall asleep, could be interesting.
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:Thinking of buying a new computer rig later this year. If I wanted to max out all of the settings for RDR2 at 1440p 175 hz on the new Alienware 34" curved OLED monitor, what kind of graphics card and processor should I be looking at? Oh, that's new? My friend was looking into getting a new monitor, and while googling I came across that and was like "since when did they have OLED monitors with high refresh rates?" Was wondering if I was misreading it's specs, but I guess I wasn't. Last I checked the only option was getting the smallest OLED TV and using it as a monitor.
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Another Bill posted:It has mediocre reviews but Days Gone is the only game that felt as immersive as RDR2 to me. The gameplay is a bit repetitive but that repetition involves wasting zombies by the dozen with a variety of automatic weapons, so I didn't get bored. The story has a couple of pretty good twists too imo. Days Gone's completely mediocre hunting/resource gathering was what brought me back to RDR2. I uninstalled it for the second time and never looked back. It's a good game but until I get very bored of RDR2, Days Gone will just seem like a cheap imitation. Plus, unlike RDR2, being outside feels like a drain on resources/punishment, as opposed to being able to live off of it
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Another Bill posted:It has mediocre reviews but Days Gone is the only game that felt as immersive as RDR2 to me. The gameplay is a bit repetitive but that repetition involves wasting zombies by the dozen with a variety of automatic weapons, so I didn't get bored. The story has a couple of pretty good twists too imo. if you ever do the W3 thread is still active and loves new players
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Could someone recommend a mod for PC to unlock the map? I've gotten near the end of ch2 on my second playthrough, not interested in progressing the story more atm but it would be cool to be able to wander around the southwest a bit on this save.
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I think Lenny's Simple Trainer will let you travel around New Austin/West Elizabeth/wherever by disabling the instakill sniper but I haven't tried it and I'm not sure what happens if the law shows up, if that's what you're looking for. There's also a pretty cool mod that lets you take boats anywhere without sinking.
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I'm playing this for the first time. I just got Micah out of jail along with the ensuing carnage. Just wondering if I'd have to pay the 300$ bounty I got afterwards or if there's some other way to deal with it (other than donating all my money to the camp and just surrender to bounty hunters).
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Laughing Zealot posted:I'm playing this for the first time. I just got Micah out of jail along with the ensuing carnage. Just wondering if I'd have to pay the 300$ bounty I got afterwards or if there's some other way to deal with it (other than donating all my money to the camp and just surrender to bounty hunters). you will have to pay it, eventually you will have so much money it won't be a problem
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Laughing Zealot posted:I'm playing this for the first time. I just got Micah out of jail along with the ensuing carnage. Just wondering if I'd have to pay the 300$ bounty I got afterwards or if there's some other way to deal with it (other than donating all my money to the camp and just surrender to bounty hunters). The other way to deal with it is to find one of the caches of money and gold around the map and pay off your bounty. That will happen a number of times throughout the game, you just have to either surrender to the police or take the hit and pay the fine Between treasure maps and secret gold stashes, there is enough money in the game to pay off all of that kind of thing.
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There’s a gold bar or two in that burnt out town by the second campsite, which is a great early boost for money
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There's a lot of money in people’s pockets
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rotinaj posted:There's a lot of money in people’s pockets My Arthur is a bizarrely nice guy when just on the road. Always greeting and helping people, otherwise just hunting and picking herbs and stuff. And murdering them O'Driscolls.
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Laughing Zealot posted:My Arthur is a bizarrely nice guy when just on the road. Always greeting and helping people, otherwise just hunting and picking herbs and stuff. I love riding up to smoke columns in the wild and chatting with the folks i find. Some of ‘em are real nice and welcome me and i say howdy and mosey on. Some tell me to get out of here and i say fair enough and mosey on. Some get all aggro and talk poo poo to me about how i had better keep moving, and i do not mosey on. And some are o’driscolls. There is no moseying. And if i find that one dude who is planning to go rape the widow in the far north of annesburg, moseying is the furthest thing from my mind.
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Laughing Zealot posted:My Arthur is a bizarrely nice guy when just on the road. Always greeting and helping people, otherwise just hunting and picking herbs and stuff. Same. Unless someone on the road is rude or threatening towards me when I ride past them. In which case I will turn around and murder them. And anyone who witnesses it. And any lawmen who come to find me.
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Player actions aside it’s amazing just how much better of a person Arthur instantly becomes the moment you’re doing anything not associated with the gang.
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christmas boots posted:Player actions aside it’s amazing just how much better of a person Arthur instantly becomes the moment you’re doing anything not associated with the gang. Quoth Mary Linton, "There's a good man inside you Arthur, but he's wrestling with a giant". The giant is called Dutch van der Linde.
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I don’t want to get too into it because of spoilers, but hosea definitely does not get enough criticism as one of the reasons the gang is so into crime and heists and essentially being snake oil salesmen at times. Reminds me some of nigel west dickens in RDR1.
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Huh. I've never run into someone camping in the wild (besides named NPC's) who didn't immediately yell at me to gently caress off and draw on me if I didn't comply within seconds.
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Osmosisch posted:Huh. I've never run into someone camping in the wild (besides named NPC's) who didn't immediately yell at me to gently caress off and draw on me if I didn't comply within seconds. It is extremely rare but it happens. He said something like come on over and enjoy the fire. I wish there were some kind of way i could have given that NPC something nice for not getting all salty at me.
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rotinaj posted:I don’t want to get too into it because of spoilers, but hosea definitely does not get enough criticism as one of the reasons the gang is so into crime and heists and essentially being snake oil salesmen at times. Reminds me some of nigel west dickens in RDR1. I agree and I could go on about this for days. Can't right now because spoilers but it's something which really stuck out to me on my second playthrough. But hell Arthur himself says it at the start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfLq7jXd164&t=319s The problem is, for all the writing quality, RDR2 remains a very un-subtle game. Because the game has a message it's trying to get across, you will be hearing far more about Hosea going "woe is me" and being a sad old man because that's a big part of the message. It's to contrast with Dutch who, whatever his virtues, is not a humble man. Beware of spoilers but this is a Reddit thread I wrote on the topic.
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Osmosisch posted:Huh. I've never run into someone camping in the wild (besides named NPC's) who didn't immediately yell at me to gently caress off and draw on me if I didn't comply within seconds. The ones that come to mind are: - moonshiners - random dude sitting by a tree reading - guy who talks about trusting your gut and distrusting pig farmers - guy who just loves herbs so much - creepy peeping tom - treasure hunter
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ploots posted:The ones that come to mind are: Don't forget the drunk soldier talking about the Native American camp where he killed people before passing out and/or dying in his sleep
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