Red Dead Redemption 2 Story

Everyone is talking about RDR2 online but I just barely beat the story last night.

What did Yea Forums think of the main story and the epilogue? Were you moved? Did you cringe? Did you watch the entire hour long end credits?

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Fuck off

it was a nice ending for a high honor play, but for low honor i was let down. i posted this in the other thread but im dissapointed in a lack of a bad ending, i played as a huge scumbag for my low honor run, yet due to the story i was forced to have my 'redemption' which i found out of character. i realize this goes all the way back to gta 4 too, but its as true as it was then as it is now

>What did Yea Forums think of the main story and the epilogue?
the best story I've seen in a game to date.
>Were you moved?
Yes.
>There's a good man within you Arthur, but he's wrestling with a giant.
>I always was a good thief! - That you were...
>Why, you're a good man. I just wish you'd done it before he worked himself into the grave.
>I'm really sorry for you son, it's a hell of a thing. All you can do now is decide the man you wanna be for the time you have left.
>I'm afraid

>Did you watch the entire hour long end credits?
Yes. The song was great.

OP here. I thought it was really good and I was moved. The game pacing overall is trash. By the time I got to chapter 5 I was already over the game and just wanted to be done so I could move on to a different game. But that's when the actual story got good for me. Once Arthur got TB, I liked how his character changed and you felt like your decisions to help people actually had weight (even though they didnt). Like when Arthur was helping that whore and her son leave the mining town. I liked whenever the game would go into cinema mode while you were traveling and play a unique song. Those moments were really good. You actually felt like there was a redemption theme.

The epilogue was kind of whatever. Like the main story, I just wanted to power through. But I did enjoy seeing how Marston was trying to put his life back together. I liked the house-building montage.

The end credits were so fucking long, too long. I watched the entire sequence cause I wanted to see the clips. I liked when they showed Pearson working in that little cafe. I liked that it showed those law men investigating and ultimately finding john's ranch.

Overall good story tainted by really bad pacing. The game makes you waste so much time cooking food and looting corpses that when the good story moments come you want the characters to hurry up and stop talking so you can ride to where to need to ride to and kill who youre supposed to kill.

Wonderful game but zero replay value, hesitant to finish my replay bc some of the missions are such slogs to get through.

You can just fail three times and skip the mission.

>The game makes you waste so much time cooking food and looting corpses
the mark of a brainlet
why would you ever loot corpses or, god forbid, fucking cook food? you can buy anything at stores and skip the bonfire crafting completely.

What a faggot, youre probably one of those cringy weirdos that post ridiculous shit praising this garbage on social media

Arthur getting a terminal disease is what made the game story bad. There were other methods to force a redemption arc but they chose the worst one.

i dont have social media but cool projecting weeb.

>you can buy anything at stores
You can't buy improved or small game arrows, nigger. And anyway those are just two random examples. There are plenty more like having to brush your horse and do slow af chores.

I liked it a lot, but it felt very padded towards the end. Too many similar missions, and too many missions that were just ride to a place -> shoot out -> ride to another place, mission end.

Overall though, it was a great experience. The world's large and appealing, hunting animals for outfits is fun, and I was always finding new camps and places to investigate in the world.

My major complaints are that money is basically useless after a certain point, and some of the weapons are either redundant or just not that good. I also missed the dynamic bounty missions from RDR1.

>hunting animals for outfits is fun,
This was the side activity I invested the most time into. I loved visiting that crusty old trapper. He was probably my favorite NPC.

>Just you left, is it?

When RDR2 was announced I had super low expectations and expected it to be a shitty cashgrab that bogs down the first game's story.
Bought the game over the holidays after my friends highly recommended it and I couldn't have been happier to be wrong, the whole game was super fucking good.
The whole Tuberculosis plot point kind of bogs the end game down IMO and I was just in a rush to finish the story since I didn't want to spend any more time playing as a broken shell of Arthur, but all in all I'm glad how the story and epilogue turned out. Loved all the call-forwards to RDR1's story.

So what happens after the epilogue. From what I remember of RDR, you start the game waking up on some lady's ranch right? And you dont reunite with Abigail and Jack until way later in the game, right? Should I replay RDR? I can sign up for a free week of playstation now.

I agree on the pacing but I thought the story was pretty lame tbqh. Felt like it was forcing me to care about shit I just didnt. Story really wanted me to care about the gang but I didn't, wanted me to care about the Indians but I didn't, wanted me to think Arthur is a "good man" after robbing people and murdering half a cities worth of lawmen. Idk the story just didn't stick with me

Just finished the main story last night, I played as high honor and it was worth it. I haven't cried in a long time, just not a crier but i have to admit it brought a tear to my eye.

Very depressing game provided you've played the first. The only part that made my heart sink was the horse part at the end. The entire epilogue was bittersweet and depressing knowing that everything john and arthur worked towards doesn't matter. Jack might as well have been raised by dutch considering how he ends up.

You start being escorted by lawmen

>escorted
Escorted to where?

Seething drone

First to a saloon to get stinking drunk and then to the local brothel to get some poon

mediocre writing with a few high points, doubt I'll ever touch it again