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Post by Lyric πππ on Nov 25, 2018 17:19:06 GMT
Finished Chapter 6. Mesmerizing game. A true feat.
Fuck Dutch, Fuck Bill, Fuck Javier. The latter disappointed me so. He seemed level-headed, but nope. Fuck all of 'em. Glad John got to end them once and for all. As Arthur said so perfectly: "you rats."
AND ARTHUR. My GOODNESS what a character. So perfectly polished. His arc was even more impressive than John's and that's not taking anything away from John's RDR story. Arthur's is just THAT good. The way the entirety of his Chapter 6 is built is fantastic too. A ton of over-the-top redemptive stuff of course with Rain Falls and Mrs. Downes, but it's the small stranger missions like The Veteran and the few simple visits with Charlotte that are spectacularly perfect given everything that's happening around Arthur and what's happening to him.
I don't even need to say FUCK Micah. It's implied in my mere existence. All humans have share two common truths: they will eventually die and they all hate that worthless, outey-belly button, sack of shit. I PRAY I get to kill him in the Epilogues. PLEASE.
Music was all terrific, scenes were all terrific and we get to finish her off playing as John again. Unreal So good.
Oh, and what LUNATIC would go back for the money instead of getting John to safety? That's one thing I'll nitpick. Like... what's the reasoning? It could only be that Arthur and the player thinks John, Abigail and Jack will need it, right? Because otherwise, it completely contradicts the entire destruction of the Dutch/Arthur dynamic. Dutch is all about the money and that disgusts Arthur. ...then Arthur decides to ditch John and go back for the money that he'll never, ever get? Ah, no. The only way the 'go for the money' ending makes sense for Arthur is that he wants to settle things with Micah and try to save Dutch. But even then... Arthur's not a man of vengeance. Also.... go visit Charlotte now that you're in the epilogue.
Wait you can visit Charlotte in the Epilogue? I only visited her twice as Arthur, she never came back up after the second time and I was really disappointed.
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Post by Rock114 on Nov 25, 2018 17:20:10 GMT
The only way the 'go for the money' ending makes sense for Arthur is that he wants to settle things with Micah and try to save Dutch. But even then... Arthur's not a man of vengeance. Also.... go visit Charlotte now that you're in the epilogue.
Wait you can visit Charlotte in the Epilogue? I only visited her twice as Arthur, she never came back up after the second time and I was really disappointed. She, as well as other characters, have special scenes and dialogue when visiting them in the Epilogue.
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Post by sos on Nov 25, 2018 17:27:42 GMT
The scene with Arthur and Sister Calderon at Emerald Station is right up there with my favorite scenes in anything, video games, movies, TV, etc.
I hope you guys had high honor because apparently that's the only way it triggers. It's a phenomenal scene.
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Post by sos on Nov 25, 2018 23:20:04 GMT
Sorta seems like youβre not supposed to stray far from the ranch in the early stages of Epilogue I, eh?
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Post by Rock114 on Nov 25, 2018 23:23:57 GMT
The scene with Arthur and Sister Calderon at Emerald Station is right up there with my favorite scenes in anything, video games, movies, TV, etc. I hope you guys had high honor because apparently that's the only way it triggers. It's a phenomenal scene. High Honor AND you need to have completed the relevant stranger missions in Saint Denis, which thankfully I did as well. Sorta seems like youβre not supposed to stray far from the ranch in the early stages of Epilogue I, eh? The map opens up again at the end of Epilogue 1 so don't sweat it. Epilogue 2 is where things get great again.
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Post by Rock114 on Nov 25, 2018 23:41:22 GMT
Also, this is entirely too accurate. Credit to the guy who posted it on reddit. Spoilers for the whole game:
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Post by Niccc on Nov 26, 2018 20:14:42 GMT
WEDNESDAY BOAHS
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Post by sos on Nov 29, 2018 0:56:27 GMT
Donβt mind enough to have it spelt out for me... aside from Charlotte, what other side characters or strangers can you go visit in the Epilogue?
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Post by Rock114 on Nov 29, 2018 5:48:05 GMT
Donβt mind enough to have it spelt out for me... aside from Charlotte, what other side characters or strangers can you go visit in the Epilogue? Rains Fall, Mary-Beth, Tilly, and Pearson I believe. Each one gets a short little scene where they reminisce with John and update him on their new lives.
EDIT: Also Mickey in Valentine.
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Post by sos on Nov 29, 2018 5:51:50 GMT
Donβt mind enough to have it spelt out for me... aside from Charlotte, what other side characters or strangers can you go visit in the Epilogue? Rains Fall, Mary-Beth, Tilly, and Pearson I believe. Each one gets a short little scene where they reminisce with John and update him on their new lives. Where do I find these muffuckas? Or do they just pop up naturally with the Epilogue?
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Post by Rock114 on Nov 29, 2018 5:54:01 GMT
Rains Fall, Mary-Beth, Tilly, and Pearson I believe. Each one gets a short little scene where they reminisce with John and update him on their new lives. Where do I find these muffuckas? Or do they just pop up naturally with the Epilogue? Pearson actually runs the general store in Rhodes now, so life turned out well for him. He's the only one I'm 100% sure on the location.
Rains Fall is at the train station in Annesburg, I think?
Mary-Beth is at some train station, not sure which ones. Maybe Riggs or Wallace?
Tilly is in Saint Denis, possibly at the trolley car station?
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Post by Rock114 on Nov 30, 2018 6:33:13 GMT
I was just playing poker at Flaneck Station trying to get the Gambler 4 challenge, to bust someone out at three different tables. It was going good, the cards kept coming my way and within half a dozen hands I was leading the table by more than half. My two opponents, Alfred and Henry, feared me as if they were playing cards with the devil himself. I was up by 55 fucking dollars and Henry, tenacious little Henry, was at TWO CENTS. I just had to beat him in ONE hand. But Henry, despite his obviously inbred heritage, was a fighter. He refused to go out. He was on the ropes for a good 8 hands, barely scraping by and escaping my wrath time and again with the luckiest of cards, always just barely better than mine. But I knew my time was at hand. Henry would meet his destiny...
And that's when ROY walked in.
This cow fucker swaggered up to the table just before the hand was dealt, sat himself down, and proceeded to wreck EVERYTHING. Licking his exquisitely waxed mustache with disgustingly diabolic anticipation he proceeded to ruin everything. The whole deal order of the cards was ruined, Henry was finally given a chance to breathe by no longer being forced to bet every round, and ROY suddenly had the cards that I had been getting. We went had for hand, trading chips back and forth with pairs, threes of a kind, flushes, the whole nine yards. All this time Henry was sitting between us, sweating bullets as the heavy hitters traded blows like bears.
Eventually Henry could avoid his fate no more and was forced in against us. Adjusting his devilish suspenders in a way not unlike Satan himself, Roy went all in. I had more money so I matched him. Henry merely trembled. We all threw our cards on the table and Henry's luck had finally run out against my pair of Queens... AND AGAINST ROY'S FULL HOUSE. That motherfucker took Henry out after I spent a literal half hour of my life trying to do the same. He ruined my attempt at the challenge. But I vowed that here and now I would prove this demon-spawned huckster to be as mortal as the rest of us and ruin him in the way I had tried to ruin Henry... and just as I was dealing the cards for the next hand ROY STOOD UP AND LEFT.
Fuck.
THAT.
I stood up, drew my gun on him, and chased him out of the station yelling while yelling profanities about his horridly ugly appearance. I almost shot him in the face but no, this had to be painful. Drawn out. Memorable. I knee capped him with a bullet to end his escape and lassoed him as he lay bleeding in the road. I summoned my horse, Charger, to my side, mounted him, and dragged this low-life rat faced con-artist down the road and back, then down the road again. I took him by the railroad tracks and on the way his head smashed against a rock so hard it jarred him loose from my lasso. The visceral crunching of his skull against the rock convinced me I had killed him until he got up and tried to hobble away, but I still wasn't satisfied. He hadn't truly suffered. My rage would only be sated in one way: Death via TRAIN. I hogtied Roy, set him on the tracks, stood back and waited for my ultimate triumph over the Devil's Gambler.
I turned away from my TV to kill time on reddit while waiting for the train to come. A minute later I turned back and Roy was GONE. DISAPPEARED. VAMOOSED. The slimy fucker slipped the ropes when I wasn't looking and took off in God knows what direction. He escaped.
I'LL FIND YOU ROY. IT'S PERSONAL NOW.
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Post by sos on Dec 1, 2018 19:52:47 GMT
Done. Perfect game. Such a humongous tragedy whenever you remember the outcome of Red Dead Redemption. Overall, probably one of the greatest tragedies ever written.
CHARLES THO.
Once the credits roll thatβs 100%, right? Just wanna make sure.
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Post by Niccc on Dec 1, 2018 21:29:30 GMT
Although the Online mode really needs improvements, I had the best fucking time on it last night. Me and my friend had just finished a mission and Zyphon joined my lobby, we just kinda messed around with some other person for a good 20 minutes or so, then we heard someone yell over their mic "VALENTINE'S A BLOOD BATH, I'VE GOTTA GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE" (the man's name is AtomicKrogan, so naturally I had to help him)
The four of us (Me, my friend, Furshizall, a random we came across and Zyphon) all headed to Valentine. I invited them all to the posse but Zyph wasn't able to join for some reason, so Furshizall hogtied her and put on the back of my horse. Then we headed towards Valentine and then we proceeded to have a goddamn war in Valentine for about 2 hours. Then we said to the lobby that we wanted to have a fists or knife only fight, and much to our surprise, most of the lobby agreed to it. Even the respectable Blue Bell Banditos that had been killing us over the last hour. We formed new friendships, Atomic and someone named Kyoto joining us. After a while, we all just kinda got tired of killing each other and we all went hunting together. Along the way, we made more new friends, and we hunted for a good 2 or 3 hours. After that, we all headed to Blackwater, our legion being about eight people at this point. A new guy walked into the bar that we were all in and wanted to join our posse without saying a word. We let him join because at this point more of us just adds to our power. This guy's name was Andup, he pretty much acted like my goddamn bodyguard. I criticized the man on the piano in the bar in Blackwater, and he immediately drew his gun, threatening the piano man. The piano man did not give two shits so Andup tried to fight him but it didn't work. He took out his frustration on a local townsman, beating him to a pulp, his blood spilling all over the wooden floor.
After we all got drunk, we decided to go to the roof of the highest building in Blackwater, we all just kinda fucked around up there by tackling each other and lasso'ing each other. I had an idea, I stood on the edge and told someone to lasso me, and they did, and I was being hung by my legs from the top of the building. I told the people on the roof to go to the street to get a screenshot or something. Several of them proceeded to kill themselves by jumping off the roof. Andup stayed with me, the loyal bastard. They all watched from the street, watching as I was dangling from the roof with a rope over my legs. Eventually he let go and I fell to my death.
After we spent more time just lasso'ing each other in Blackwater and lynching one another, we decided to posse up, all nine(ish) of us, and we headed as a group to Valentine. Some new people in Blackwater heard about it and joined us. I felt like we could take on Dutch's gang at this point. Along the way, we hit a few rocks and ran into each others' horses, but we made it in the end. The journey to Valentine was a fun time. When we reached Valentine, we decided to just.... start another war. We killed each other with guns and knifes and whatever in Valentine, at this point all the lawmen and townspeople were dead, so we had it all to ourselves. We all grew tired of it, and me, my friend, Kyoto, and one of our new friends K all went to do the last main online mission available in the game.
Then by that point, it was 6 am and I was ready to call it a night.
But wow, holy fuck, that was one of the most fun nights I've ever had, gaming wise. There's definitely some fun to be had in the Online mode, and there's actually a lot of friendly people, or at least there was in that session. I made probably like 7 friends on PS4 last night. Good fucking shit.
If anyone's interested, I saved a good amount of the clips, so I might just edit 'em down and compile them into a video (Zyph's the only one that would be in the video tho) I'll probably do it anyways, but if anyone's interested, I'll either share it here or not.
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Post by Lyric πππ on Dec 1, 2018 21:39:27 GMT
In really disappointed that I had to leave in Valentine now lol.
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