Red Mosquito

I’m finally at the “fuck it” stage where I’m staying up later and playing for a few hours at night. I’m not getting bored with the game per se, but I am eager to play other things, and I don’t like playing more than one game at once. I will probably skip some side missions to get there in the next week or so, but might return some day to 100% it. The same thing happened with Bulgar’s Gate 3–once I stopped leveling, I just ran through the endgame. Never went to the vampire mansion or confronted Raphael, which seem like pretty important stories to wrap up, but it felt like it was getting a bit stale.

Sounds like depression

Don’t make fun of that, it was a gift from my mother.

Depression jokes

ST, the time you spend finishing RDR2 properly will be much much more rewarding than starting some other new game.

zeb wrote:ST, the time you spend finishing RDR2 properly will be much much more rewarding than starting some other new game.

Yeah, I talked a big game about not doing side missions and then immediately logged on today and collected some debts.

zeb wrote:Depression jokes

lol I played this morning until right before my appointment with my PCP to talk about the dosage of my anti-depressant.

Simple Torture wrote:

zeb wrote:Depression jokes

lol I played this morning until right before my appointment with my PCP to talk about the dosage of my anti-depressant.

I had my therapist appointment this week, too!

Mecca wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

zeb wrote:Depression jokes

lol I played this morning until right before my appointment with my PCP to talk about the dosage of my anti-depressant.

I had my therapist appointment this week, too!

My therapist is on vacation so I didn’t have an appointment during the first few weeks of starting this drug, so it’s been kind of weird. But I go back next week.

When Dutch turned to Arthur and sarcastically said “Oh, I’m sorry, Arthur needs to rest,” I was ready to punch that MFer in the throat.

Simple Torture wrote:When Dutch turned to Arthur and sarcastically said “Oh, I’m sorry, Arthur needs to rest,” I was ready to punch that MFer in the throat.

mf wrote:I finished up my playthrough a few days ago and this game really still hits just as hard. I'm compelled to revisit RDR1 now.

I've been slowly working my way through this over the past month. I just wrapped up the Mexican revolution plot and took down Javier and Bill, should get to Dutch soon if memory serves me correct.

I will say this game does show its age. Visually it's not as bad as you'd expect for a 15 year old game but it has nowhere near the complexity and polish of RDR2, or GTAV for that matter. I haven't played GTAIV recently enough to offer a comparison there. The systems are clunky and the characters and missions are one-dimensional. One thing that struck me is that the game doesn't give you much in the way of a primer re: Abigail and Jack. You're just sort of dumped into the world with the understanding that the govt has your family held hostage and you need to take our your old gang to get them back. It feels really half-cooked coming into that after RDR2. Still though, it has been fun to revisit.

Onto the epilogue. I got the high honor ending of helping John escape. In the end, I did every mission and side mission available on the map except for all the Hamish ones (I didn’t find him until late in Chapter 6, and at that point I just wasn’t interested in fishing/hunting trips).

Read somewhere this comes with a physical map when you buy the physical

Does it?

Simple Torture wrote:Onto the epilogue. I got the high honor ending of helping John escape. In the end, I did every mission and side mission available on the map except for all the Hamish ones (I didn’t find him until late in Chapter 6, and at that point I just wasn’t interested in fishing/hunting trips).

The hunting stuff is fun but fishing can be pretty ho hum.

I’m on Epilogue 2 now, and instead of doing missions I finished finding dinosaur bones today, which required riding all around New Austin. Is this a 1:1 recreation of the RDR map? Minus Mexico, of course. It certainly felt like it, and there were definitely landmarks I recognized, even though it’s been over 10 years since I played it.

Simple Torture wrote:I’m on Epilogue 2 now, and instead of doing missions I finished finding dinosaur bones today, which required riding all around New Austin. Is this a 1:1 recreation of the RDR map? Minus Mexico, of course. It certainly felt like it, and there were definitely landmarks I recognized, even though it’s been over 10 years since I played it.

It is an exact replica. I wish there was more content in that area. Maybe there was in the abandoned single player DLC?

Monkey_Driven wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:I’m on Epilogue 2 now, and instead of doing missions I finished finding dinosaur bones today, which required riding all around New Austin. Is this a 1:1 recreation of the RDR map? Minus Mexico, of course. It certainly felt like it, and there were definitely landmarks I recognized, even though it’s been over 10 years since I played it.

It is an exact replica. I wish there was more content in that area. Maybe there was in the abandoned single player DLC?

I think there was talk of that yeah, or content that couldn't be finished prior to launch and they never went back to.

ST, have you done all the legendary hunts?

zeb wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:I’m on Epilogue 2 now, and instead of doing missions I finished finding dinosaur bones today, which required riding all around New Austin. Is this a 1:1 recreation of the RDR map? Minus Mexico, of course. It certainly felt like it, and there were definitely landmarks I recognized, even though it’s been over 10 years since I played it.

It is an exact replica. I wish there was more content in that area. Maybe there was in the abandoned single player DLC?

I think there was talk of that yeah, or content that couldn't be finished prior to launch and they never went back to.

ST, have you done all the legendary hunts?

Noooo definitely not. I'm not aiming to 100% the game, just want to get through the story and most of the side missions that add depth to the game. I will probably finish up tomorrow.

You gotta do the hunts.