buttlint

Ciao, paisano. An American here. Like you, I also played the original game and will not be playing online. The visual beauty and the attention to detail are what drew me to the first game and keeps me playing this version. I could have finished weeks ago and have been avoiding concluding the second epilogue for weeks. I am retired and I live in the northern US where climate slows down my outdoor activity. This time of year has always been a period when I can afford the time to indulge in what most people consider a waste of time. Is gaming a waste of time? Is recreation a waste of time? I consider it a hobby. Something that I do that helps me relax. Something that takes my mind off of the bullsh*t that we all have to deal with in our daily lives. Escapism. Exercising our imaginations to combat the mundane. I have killed thousands of people, monsters, robots from outer space and all creatures great and small in video games. I have read books that described the hideous acts against humanity. I live in Detroit, for gods sake, the murder capitol of the world! Still I think that violence is nonsense. Red Dead 2 still has some juice left in it for me, even if its only picking flowers. Even if it only keeps me posting to a gentleman that lives in Italy to hang in there. Perhaps some DLC will come along for single player to renew interest. I sure hope so, because I dont see any games coming up that rouse my interest. That would make for a long, cold winter here in Michigan.😪

I have been exploring the extreme northeast section above the boarder. My cave entrance is already filled with empty liquor bottles.

Please forgive an old guy (69) for doing what old guys are known for....ranting nonsense. I played RDR1 on day one, and enjoyed every minute of it. I waited years to see a RDR2 release. I havent been disappointed with it. Although I am far from considering myself a hardcore gamer, I am a person that has been known to pay 200 bucks for a new video card and memory upgrades for any game that caught my fancy. I also thought that Doom was a technical marvel that would never be surpassed. Overclocking and water coolers. Tetris will never die! I have always looked at video games as being movies that we get to play the lead character. Those are the type of games that I have enjoyed the most. Shooting monsters or robots in outer space just never got the bone stiff. And like movies, everyone has their likes and dislikes. There is no accounting for taste. If anybody wants to debate whether Rio Bravo is a better western than Shane, go for it. The Wild Bunch was my favorite. I consider this a western themed video game. A genre all to itself. Rockstar put a lot of effort into this game and I think it shows. The crunch time stuff and all of the problems in production paid off in the finished product. The devils in the details are amazing. They took RDR1 and polished the sh!t out of it. They took the newer tech and made it work. To me, they wrote a compelling story. When Travis shot old yeller, it kicked me in the nuts. When .............................I got the same feeling. There are times in this game where I wished they would just get to the friggin conclusion and end it. I consider that my own impatience and not a fault of the game. At my age, slow pace isnt considered a problem....its a way of life.

Yea, I went back to his little green hut and this time he told me "he didnt want me anymore". I hogtied him and set off for my barn to do a little, "Back in the middle with you". I forgot that the law didnt cotton to having a guy tied up on the back of your horse. They called it kidnapping and promptly killed me and gave me a 20 dollar bounty. That really ticked me off.😖 So I went back again. This time he thought it was funny and says to me...... I took him out behind the house and tossed him to an alligator. I wish I would have saved before I did that, just to see how far the writers had taken that script. That was a whole of programming for one little perv. Amazing game.

I am in the epilogue and I doubt that this will trigger sooner. Stay away from the creep in the Northwest corner of Lakay. I was on my way to catch the legendary gar. He will invite you into his house to have something to eat. Your health meters will all show red and depleted. It sounded like a good idea at the time.

Many of us have waited 7 years for this game. I think I can hold my water until the beta is finished. I will keep my eyes focused on what gets said on the forums. I also dont have a Playstation account. If it turns out that this is the greatest online game of all time, I will burn my 2 day free sample and see what I think. If it sucks during the sample period......oh well. I will just have to wait another 7 years for Red Dead 3.

The last time I played online was Red Dead One. It was before Sony charged a fee for online play. My first experiences RDR1 made me feel like one of turtles that live in Lemonye. Players would test their weapons upgrades on me or just put dynamite near me to see how far they could send me flying into the air. Respawn and repeat. I found my niche in the gazebo, next to Marstons house, playing poker. I had a great time and the other players were generally buzzed (and so was I) but they knew the rules and a good time was had by all. After a couple of months, the games were swarmed with 8-12 year olds that couldnt grasp the concept that a One outranked a Two in poker. It was also obvious that the little peckerheads had learned a new language from the adults that played the game. The games lasted for about 3 minutes until they got bored and then they were off to annoy folks in other parts of the game. Then it was back to waiting for a new game to open up on backed up servers. You can only roll down the side of a hill so many times. Breaking into Marstons boarded up house or playting tag with other players waiting for a new game to open up grows real old, real quick. Unless Sony comes out with hefty seniors discount for online play, I just might head back to grinding out Fallout 4 or killing every last member of the Murfree inbreds in single player. Hitting on the camp sluts really isnt getting me anywhere.

Could we have a Seniors Mode? I'm 68 years old and my nervous system and 56K modem just cant cope with the 14 year old griefers and the jumpy graphics. A casino on the Wapiti Reservation with a Denny's down the trail and we stay out of your way. Win/win.

I dont know if this is news to anybody but Red Dead is going online this week. https://kotaku.com/red-dead-online-goes-live-this-week-1830655471

Vanmakt: Sometimes vengeance is best when served cold. I had a problem with those Murfree boys up near Annesburg. Those b*stards kilt My Little Pony! She was my favorite horse and ain't no horse will ever replace her. You see, I found her, early in the game, up near Spider Gorge, half dead and near starvation, ass up in a snowbank. I think her mother abandoned her because she was different than most colts. (She had a little horn on her forehead and a very colorful coat.) I worked for 6 weeks to get her up on her feet. Every day I had to climb Sugar Mountain and collect Skittles at the end of a rainbow. That was the only food she could eat without throwing up multicolored chunks of barf. She wasn't very fast and she wasn't very strong, but she pushed my good guy stats to the max and I loved her. Then one day, while I was picking mushrooms for a party in St. Denis, I heard gunshots followed by cruel laughter. As I approached a clearing, I saw those Murfree scum were cutting off her little horn to sell to chinese businessmen visiting Valentine. I was outnumbered by 20:1 and knew I wouldnt stand a chance against those odds. That's when I started thinking about the Mormon Strategy. I dont know about Xbox but here is how it works on PS4, I found their cabin close to Elysian pond, northeast of Van Horn. I went into a crouch and slowly crept the same way as you would when approaching the White Stallion. When I reached the front door of the cabin, I pressed X to knock on the door. As soon as the door opened, I pressed X again too stick my foot in the door and then reached into my sachal a grabbed a copy of Watchtower ( from pamphlets) to thrust into their hands. As the Murfrees stood in confusion, I started pressing 0 rapidly, until I forced my way into the room and sat down at the table. Once seated, the option menu popped up. That gave me 4 options: Shoot/ Quote Bible/Drink Whiskey/Exit. I just kept pressing Quote Bible until they all fell into a very deep sleep. Once they were all asleep, I got up, slit all of their throats, added all of their belongings to my inventory, and tossed a stick of dynamite into the center of the room. When I reached the front porch, I quickly tacked a copy of the Watchtower to the door. No, the Murfree brood never asked me to join their klan but they always give me plenty of space and always call me sir when I walk by. HTH

I agree....the gang treats Arthur like some kind of chump. The poor guy goes out and busts his hump and all he gets in return is a bowl of lousy stew and a cup of coffee. There are four hookers in the camp and not one of them offers to polish his pistol after a tough day on the trail. It's no wonder that he spends all of his time at the sheep ranch.