Went to quickly mount my horse in Saint Denis instead I brutally tackled a nearby unsuspecting citizen and violently held him by his collar. This is a great manifestation of Arthur’s internal conflict between good and evil. Good Job Rockstar 👍😄.
Fun fact: Watching this video is a real life thing to do. Fun fact 2: before discovering this video I was one 'RLTTD' shy of having met the requirements for "enough 'RLTTD's'". Conclusion: This video's very existence nullifies your reply.
@@Ivy_Mike wtf this isn't the comment i replied to. I was replying to a guy saying the game was too short lol 1. i had fun reading those facts, which is not always easy 2. congratulations on your filling your real life with things to do, also not easy
"I personally have not eaten meat in 30 years, though not because I love animals. I have not eaten meat in 30 years because I HATE animals and I do not want to touch them, much less put them in my mouth." LMAO
@@the_katzy that doesn't change what I said at all. If you think someone's reasoning isn't valid because they don't eat due to ethical reasons, it kind of shows how insecure you are. Maybe even some underlying psychopathic tendenicies if you can't empathize with the idea that causing suffering is wrong and that eating meat without caring how it got to your plate is wrong.
@Ryan Yarnevich it's sad you have such a warped view of things, especially in the negative direction. We wouldn't have modern tech without psychopaths? Just because positions of leadership tend to attract people like that acting as if it's the norm is entirely baselsss. I'm not sure how you transitioned that to the tech world. Even worse, it sounds like you're glorifying it.
Im incredible grateful and confused about Tim Rogers ability to make this amount of High Quality Long Form Content in the last few Weeks. Its scary and i hope he doesnt burn out
a lot of the footage i used in this one i also used in the "let's play" video, so it's all footage i've had a couple weeks to learn my way around. though yeah this will kill me if i keep doing it . . . OR WILL IT?!?!?!? let's find out
He's been doing this for a while, I remember old God Hand videos from like a decade ago. He has improved massively and is without a doubt the best thing Kotaku has had in years.
@@kotaku Tim. You are my favorite thing on the internet and your longform reviews/let's play/I hate videos make my day or week when I see them! Keep up the work but don't burn out. The Internet needs ya, boi.
Fair complaint, there’s been more than once where ive just held the stick forward while browsing random shit on my phone because they decided several minutes of slow walking with nothing else going on was a good idea.
wtf Tim Rogers..... a men's shaving device historian....... an authority on 19th century glass blowing......... "something of an advertising history maven"..... we got a real renaissance man here
@@jumbo4billion Yes you do ruclips.net/video/QO75WvWqkq4/видео.html Also, click this if you want to see how RDR2's windows should have looked ruclips.net/video/QO75WvWqkq4/видео.html Thanks Tim, I'm glad someone cares about this kind of details!
"Arthur can eat, drink, or medicate mid-gun fight to instantaneously reverse any disease or bleeding" SPOILER WARNING Well, not every disease apparently...
Yeah, I mean... is the story predictable? Yes. On the other hand, while a Hideo Kojima game can surprise the hell out of me, they don't ever make me cry. This game did that. At two separate points. The power of the acting... voice and mocap.. was that strong, and while the plot wasn't surprising, plot isn't the sum of storytelling. The storytelling was exceptional.
I have another reason to hate this game. Dutch listens to "Un bel di" on his grammophone in 1899. That is impossible since "Madama Butterfly" was composed in 1904. Fail!
I'm such a classical music nerd that I noticed it right away, without needing to look it up. I was like "Butterfly?! No way. You picked the wrong Puccini, Rockstar!" Should have gone with "Manon Lescaut" instead.
So you think its impossible someone doesnt like the game? I loved RDR but im not feeling this one. I played 20 hours and gave it a fair shot, its a good game and i can see why people like it. But i really dont enjoy it not because of any of the dumb reasons people have complained about but just because i dont, i feel like something is missing. Just not my cup of tea. Now people trying to bash something that has objective quality are just projecting their bias and thats another story.
Peter Lepelis please don't get me wrong, my dude. It's not a perfect game and your opinion isn't wrong. If you have 10 people in a room who've played it, and there's gunna be 2-3 people who would rather do LITERALLY anything else (including Greg Miller from Kinda Funny). I've been where you are now with many other games like the Witcher 3, Fallout, Bioshock, and Mass Effect . I've been jealous of the people who were able to get sucked into these games. I'm finally there and head over heels, in love with this one and because of that love those complaints seem small and insignificant. Like falling in love at first sight with a beautiful woman and your friend goes "meh, her ears are too big." And I think that's the point of this video and that's why he included legitimate complaints with silly ones. So when I said "representation of what I hear" I was trying to say that where I see imperfections you see flaws. I hope you find your RDR2, brother.
@@qwinn4911 Oh yeah dont get me wrong im agreeing with you. Im saying that its normal not to like the game for w/e reason, but its not normal to try and bash it with inaccurate complaints just because you dont like it. I dont like it but i can objectively see its a polished game with depth. For me personally, i wasnt too much in the mood for a more realistic western game atm, i kinda preferred the clunkiness and siliness of the first one. I just went into it hoping it could maybe catch my attention and intrigue me but i found the story boring, again prolly because i wasnt feeling a western atm. But now if i ever feel the itch for one i know where to look.
@@panagiotislepelis8177 I can't get into it either. I think it's just not my style. I'm like 800 hours across Souls games, and even more in the Monster Hunter franchise. I put in about 30 hours into RDR2 and decided I can't force myself to play anymore. I just find the combat mindless, and I can't get into the story. I really don't care about Arthur's group, or even Arthur himself. Everything that adds to its immersion, like the horse stuff, eating, crafting, just bugs me. Like it takes so much time but doesn't add much to the experience at all. The world, although it looks beautiful, does not make me want to explore. I know exactly what to expect if I decide to go out into the country. I can see how other people enjoy it, but it just doesn't scratch my itch.
GREAT video. hilarious. please don't work yourself to death making these. you are the bright spark we huddle around for warmth as the rest of the world freezes over.
The thing I despise about this game after playing half the story and 100+ hours of free roam...The supposed honor system is a complete joke. I can go up to a guy building his farm who is running out of resources, and after a brief chat I can offer him $100 to help him along, and I get good boy points for doing so...Yet if I go up to the guy owing us $25 who is dying of TB while his wife and children starve and beg for their life, not only am I FORCED to extract the money from him without any option to pay it myself and forgive the debt, but I am FORCED to threaten to murder his son in front of his mother. For this I recieve NO negative consequences on the "honor" meter. In another case last night, I wanted to let a bounty go after he pleaded for his life in front of his family. When the man asked me to let him go I couldn't interact with the character, so I started to ride away. "The man is showing us clemency! quickly, let's go" said the wife, as they ran off...But then I got a notice saying "the bounty is getting away" and I failed the mission. I tried cancelling the mission but it wouldn't let me move on. I literally had no choice but to hogtie the man and drag him away from his devastated family. So much for "choice" and "honor". In fact, speaking of choice, I had a situation where I rode too close to an event (the electric chair demonstration) and I tried to go past it as I wanted to do something else in town first...But then the game wouldn't let me get on my horse, no matter how far I ran away from said event. I went several blocks away but I couldn't mount my horse until I went back and started that mission. Also, it is literally impossible to control my horse. My second horse that is...My first one died literally instantaneously (from full health) after an ambush where I didn't even have time to make one kill in dead eye...Yet other times I can take 50 bullets and still be fine. But yeah, on horseback I crash into things about every 30 seconds, go around in circles and fall over...On foot I go between the slowest walk possible and a crazy sprint. Either of those speeds causes me to bump into people which in turn causes a 20 minute shootout with law enforcement, the death of myself and my horse and a $300 bounty. And not only have I been gaming since Atari in the 80's, but I got gold on the GTAV flight school so it's not like I have trouble controlling things normally. What else? Tried to capture the white Arabian, followed all the instructions, mounted it several times, every time it got away. Impossible to catch. Side characters are ridiculous. Wasted about 4 hours on pointless missions for the French artist. Wasted another couple of hours for the electric chair demo. Now I'm trying to find bird feathers for some bizarre gay dude who lives in the botanical gardens, posting fish through the mail (cost: $5) to some moron who sends me a fishing lure in return (value: $3). I'm honestly struggling to enjoy this game. After preordering the Ultimate Edition and buying a 4k TV just to play it.
Your Arthur is riding around funky, a true beacon of filth for all to smell. I'm surprised you didn't get a bounty put on you for making the npc's nauseous.
At first sight of this common day video one would think " How could anyone hate this game?" However upon further watching this hilarious uproarious and entertaining video I am here to tell you that yes, I love this and yes, I will give it a much earned appropriate thumbs up and subscribe!!
While I was making another long trip across a span of nothing in particular I came across a woman trapped underneath a toppled wagon. She was screaming for help. This was pretty early in the game and I was uncertain of which button on my controller was the one that would lift the wagon or pull her out from underneath it. As I was performing random harmless actions in my confusion, the woman began to throw a string of insults in my direction for taking too long. I decided that perhaps what I needed to get closer to her to activate the sequence that would free her, give me some honor, and maybe a little reward for my trouble. She called me an idiot one more time before my finger found the button that put an end to her misery. Arthur knelt down and punched her in the face; killing her. Disappointed in the loss of honor, I figured I'd at least loot the body and get my reward. It was then than that, not one, not two, but three men on horseback approached to witness me as I turned the body over, still under the wagon, and took the valuable snake oil and half a dollar from the corpse. It was then that the game decided to teach me that witnesses would run off and report crimes; even unintentional ones. I made it back to my horse, mounted up, and began to follow the three men on horseback, determined to get this right. Little did I expect that a group of O'driscoll men would round a bend and kamikaze my horse with theirs and then open fire as I rolled along the dirt road between the pair of flailing horses. I was lucky as the O'driscoll who hit me got crushed in the tumble and I was able to dead eye the others before taking too many bullets. For some reason, I reasoned that I should loot these bodies as well, since I had botched the rescue. I had forgotten that I was in the middle of a chase and was informed of my previous crime being reported during the looting. I had made about 4$ total now and got a $10 dollar bounty. As I mounted my horse again I got another notification of a witness. This time I would stop him. I chased the witness all the way into Valentine, which wasn't that far from where to hose collision had taken place. In my desperation I decided to tackle the witness, only to notice as we were tumbling to the ground that I had been given an interface option in the corner of the screen to shout at him to stop. It's important at this point to note that the wagon accident happened just East of Valentine, and I had been traveling West along the road. This caused me to enter in the town close to the sheriff's office. If I were to pick a strategic place to tackle a person in Valentine, it would not have been here. I was being shot at again, but this time I didn't want to fight back because I didn't know what would happen if I shot at the law, whom I had befriended earlier in the story. So I ran into the hills and waited for the manhunt to end. That's how Red Dead Redemption taught me its controls and mechanics and how I ended up getting a $60 bounty in Valentine when all I wanted to do was rescue a woman from a toppled wagon.
'Diabolical legumes' and 'ejecting no less than three carbine bullets from punctured lungs' are undeniably the best phrases in a video I have heard in a long time
I do own this game. I payed $60 for it and I still have it. So Rockstar got their money from me. I've played it 3 times, I can't get into it. The first time I played for 1 hour, it was boring. The second time, I played longer; still can't get into it. The third time I got all the way to establishing the base camp. I realize a lot of people think this is the best game of it's generation. But I just can't get into it.
Tim, these kind of videos are hands down one of my favorite things on the internet. Keep that in mind as the internet has a plethora of content. Thanks for making this.
Look, the problem is that so many people do not care their little finger for the little beauties of Videogames. They play the game through as fast, rough and tough as they can. Mankind is and remains stupid.
This game actually highlights some of the problems with open world games as a whole. There are so many points where the only thing keeping you playing is the gorgeous view of the countryside as you go in one direction for 5 minutes at a time.
It's actually only about 220 animals, that's including fish and horses. You're looking at the number from the whole compendium which includes weapons, plants, etc.
I know everything is joking, but i thing that not been able to eat a dog is awesome, Arthur loves dogs, he mentions his dog on the game and he has a photograph of the dog and everything, so no eating dogs is his decision- character personality. If we would have play has john maybe he would have eat dogs.
Teleporting guns: the rdr2 inventory managment system is broken. ones you find a new gun like a old revolver you can pick it up and drop it again on the floor. ones you get back to your horse you will find the exact same old revolver you picked up just a second ago in your sadle bag. And not only that ones you lose your expensive gun in the mud of river you will for some reson find it in your sadle bag or in your gunlocker, scary stuff. your can find all the guns your have collected or payed for in your gunlocker. Arthur's gunlocker can be found back at camp where his tent is, Arthur uses a chest wardrobe as his gunlocker, it is next to his bed.
Thing with red dead redemption 2 is that it’s a great story, amazing detail and a great world. Unfortunately it’s backed up by a garbage fire mess of gameplay. Controls are complete fucking garbage(i’ve had times where the controls just completely stopped working), every mission is painfully linear, bounty system is broken, being spammed by bounty hunters is annoying. I absolutely hate the gameplay, but i keep coming back for the amazing story. I get that won’t be a popular opinion, bit I think everyone has been distracted from the shit gameplay thanks to the story and beautiful graphics. They focused on the wrong things in some points, horses have testicles that shrink in the cold but several elements of the gameplay are half-assed.
Tim, i'm new to your world. The first video i saw of you was the one about the Octopath Traveler Characters. I bought the game after watching your Video. And since then i absolutly love everything you do. Keep going
Regarding your point about the "thin veneer of the dropping and equipping new weapons" and how they automagically go to your horse. It's deeper than that. I don't think it's EVER explained. I was affraid to drop a unique pistol I had, so I never picked up upgrades for pistoles because I thought there was no way of keeping both. Until I got the second holster and started experimenting. But this was tens of hours late into the game. Frustrating to say the least.
Lol well it's a matter of opinion. I think the controls are perfectly fine. A slight learning curve was necessary, but once i got a hang of it I quite enjoy the controls now.
@@ntomatas1 I haven't noticed any input lag except when I fill the streets of Saint Denis with the bodies of dead lawmen. You sir must be a psychopath, leaving dead bodies everywhere. In all seriousness, sucks that you're experiencing input lag.
Awesome video, very funny stuff. Game is awesome, best I’ve ever played. But to be honest I have thought of these little inconsistencies. But still best game made to date in my opinion. But your making these forgotten details very funny to listen to. Great Video lol 😂
Just an addendum to your horse-shooting bit, but in RDR you would also frequently shoot your own horse in the back of the head if you got clumsy in a mounted gun battle.
My biggest complaint - Just last night I was in Valentine listening to an old wilderness dude NPC and he got all bent out of shape and started to fight me. I ran outside and my horse was gone!!! WTF - then he grabs me so ok - fistfight time... I always switch to fists before going into a bar so I don't accidentally shoot someone. I go to fight back and out comes the pistol and I kill him... WTF???? cost me 10 dollars and I was trying to leave him be
I can't get this game because I'm broke and I got a new job as a security guard but I'm waiting on a phone call to let me know when I start working. 😭 end my life brooo. No man should suffer like me.
My mother has heart surgery tomorrow after developing bacterial pneumonia. Not COVID-19. It's been a rough few days and I gotta say, thank you Tim Rogers. I escaped and laughed so hard watching this.
The windows are a great point! I work at a house-museum built in 1868, with “wavy glass” windows. That’s the only window glass there was until the 20th century. They create beautiful designs on the walls when sunset comes through!
Everyone keeps saying that it has to go to PC but the reason why that is is that the original ‘Red Dead Revolver’ was going to be made by Capcom. Capcom making this game was going to be exclusive to consoles so carrying on tradition it isn’t available on PC
@@aarondavenport8228 There's a huge difference between good control and sluggish when using an Analog controller. The one game I really loved playing with a controller was Horizon: Zero Dawn. The controller response was superb and I've yet to play a game with such good bow gameplay. Dragon's Dogma is another that comes to mind. But if it's like say Dishonored 2 which wasn't too bad, but it's still a huge difference and I expect RDR2 is far worse. I'll still buy but I want to play it on PC.
yes! i was just talking about this with someone on twitter. Real Cowboys would have played five card stud. texas hold 'em was perhaps in the wind at that time, though absolutely no one had written about it as of 1899.
Skyedogg i mean to be honest i like texas hold em, too. it’s a fascinating game. five card stud is far less interesting in my opinion. though yeah: cowboys played stud! lol
This feels like a more digestible Everything Wrong with Red Dead Redemption 2. A lot of the points are nitpicky but there are some poignant ones that I have to agree with wholeheartedly. The nitpicks are pretty funny and the suggestions lend to some thinking on how to improve the game’s experience. Glad I found this, well done sir.
Mito Midou thanks for watchin, bud . . . i got a lot of other videos like this on my playlist here on this channel, if you wanna try watching some of those too :-O
I just discovered Tim Rodgers less than a month ago and he is the best thing to happen to video games and RUclips and video games youtube. Hearing him say in his games of the decade that he probably wouldn’t do it for the next (this) decade is sad. But like life is life so, Respect ya decision Tim
Tim is basically describing cyberpunk towards the middle of this video, talking about a game that can account for your failures and react to your previous decisions. Cyberpunk's only fail state is death, anything else the game just rolls with the punches. This mostly results in simple design, but it's still true that failure simply equals succeeding poorly rather than restarting to try again. One mission had me interrogate a ripperdoc for info, i decided to punch him cause he had creepy vibes. He later refused service once i came back, seeing online that he was the only ripperdoc that sells the best sandevistan in the game. I killed him for the transgression, but the sandy was already lost to decisions i had made hours of playtime prior. Decisions i didn't even need to make, i was being a dick cause i felt impatient, and it later bit me in the ass. That feels bad, but in an incredibly good way.
Wow this was funny. This blokes delivery is spot on. Yeah we can tell you read a bit oldmate:) Your fundamental faculties are sufficiently sophisticated to bombast your philosophy. Subbed. I say Good Day sir ! :)
Also, his build up to 17:25 is hilarious and very much on point. I would also like THAT game to be a thing. That isn’t THIS game, but that’s ok. I love this game despite. If someone worked out how to make THIS game THAT... I would give them all my money! Good point Tim!
arthur should only be able to clean shave himself, and less trimming options. the barber should give more variety as he is trained. you should be able to learn more trimming lengths as you do it more
@@Sithlug I upgraded to an X with the GS deal. I was thinking of just getting a pro for the exclusives but after looking at it, it not as developed as a media hub. PS4 pro for exclusives, Xbox for centralizing your media center.... Both have their significant advantages.
how about the Anti-Pinkerton act of 1893. after which pinkertons could not be offered government work. That kinda hurt the realism for me. especially since Mr. Millton keeps claiming to work for the government.
complete and total failure on the part of the writing team's fact-checkers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! maybe mister milton was NOT working for the government, or maybe he wasn't even a pinkerton? maybe he was a conman. though probably milton just had a weak writer!
"Look, I played Quake in 1996. I don't need to prove anything anymore."
Oh yeah :D
The Trent Reznor soundtrack was dope.
@TheHooseNutz let us not talk about the Extraterrestrial Atari Game. It was shamed in Atari times; statement?
Put your server IP in and hope
That bitch is still up.. these kids will never know
Chill joe rogan
Can we just agree that Tim is the best thing Kotaku has.
InvasionFPS yes
Mike fahey
Yex x100
He is the best that this world has.
I agree, in absolute *aggressive* agreeableness.
Horse: It's just a sprain
Tim: *Slowly pulls out gun*
i was expecting a gun, but when i killed my horse (was the extra horse) arthur stabbed it.
Mr Sheep hahahahahahahbHahahahahhahahahaha!
Went to quickly mount my horse in Saint Denis instead I brutally tackled a nearby unsuspecting citizen and violently held him by his collar. This is a great manifestation of Arthur’s internal conflict between good and evil. Good Job Rockstar 👍😄.
*Arthur intensely sweating while deciding if he wants to put a random person in a headlock or get on his horse and go on with his day*
Biggest problem of the game: two opened chewing tobaccos.
I dont see how chewing tobaccos help you aim...for me all it does is make me want to spit desperately while I'm in the middle of a weld at work lol
@@darthbane2669 ummmm ....nicotine.....and your a welder.....lol yeah right
@@andrewman111ah What's so unbelievable about that 💀
@@XxAeroxXable because people like me don't exist
It keeps you alert, ask truck drivers who drive for 6 hours straight
42 minutes of Tim Rogers talking about RDR2?
It's not even my birthday.
You don’t have enough real life things ti do
Fun fact: Watching this video is a real life thing to do.
Fun fact 2: before discovering this video I was one 'RLTTD' shy of having met the requirements for "enough 'RLTTD's'".
Conclusion: This video's very existence nullifies your reply.
@@Ivy_Mike wtf this isn't the comment i replied to. I was replying to a guy saying the game was too short lol
1. i had fun reading those facts, which is not always easy
2. congratulations on your filling your real life with things to do, also not easy
This is my birthday so...wahoo!
Bombchu he was responding to someone who deleted his comment
"I personally have not eaten meat in 30 years, though not because I love animals. I have not eaten meat in 30 years because I HATE animals and I do not want to touch them, much less put them in my mouth." LMAO
@@the_katzy kind of weird that you care so much about other people's dietary choices
@@the_katzy that doesn't change what I said at all. If you think someone's reasoning isn't valid because they don't eat due to ethical reasons, it kind of shows how insecure you are. Maybe even some underlying psychopathic tendenicies if you can't empathize with the idea that causing suffering is wrong and that eating meat without caring how it got to your plate is wrong.
@Ryan Yarnevich it's sad you have such a warped view of things, especially in the negative direction. We wouldn't have modern tech without psychopaths? Just because positions of leadership tend to attract people like that acting as if it's the norm is entirely baselsss. I'm not sure how you transitioned that to the tech world. Even worse, it sounds like you're glorifying it.
@Ryan Yarnevich They are bad things, just because people like that have power it doesn't make those tendencies good
@@victorpetrescu6586 lmao chill out he's making a funny
Im incredible grateful and confused about Tim Rogers ability to make this amount of High Quality Long Form Content in the last few Weeks. Its scary and i hope he doesnt burn out
a lot of the footage i used in this one i also used in the "let's play" video, so it's all footage i've had a couple weeks to learn my way around. though yeah this will kill me if i keep doing it . . . OR WILL IT?!?!?!? let's find out
Kotaku Love you Tim
He's been doing this for a while, I remember old God Hand videos from like a decade ago. He has improved massively and is without a doubt the best thing Kotaku has had in years.
@@kotaku please don't shuffle off the mortal coil!
@@kotaku Tim. You are my favorite thing on the internet and your longform reviews/let's play/I hate videos make my day or week when I see them! Keep up the work but don't burn out. The Internet needs ya, boi.
Do this for every game now.
i would die
@@kotaku You will be worship as a god.
any other game is already openly terrible.
I don't want to be a hater. But I hate this game for taking too much of my time.
No one, especially male, should EVER use the word “hater”...unless you’re a bratty teen girl
Fair complaint, there’s been more than once where ive just held the stick forward while browsing random shit on my phone because they decided several minutes of slow walking with nothing else going on was a good idea.
Like GTA V did or the previous game xD
GamingOOF HD Or pretty much any other open world game.
Just watch the playthrough, I didn't even need to buy the game.
wtf Tim Rogers..... a men's shaving device historian....... an authority on 19th century glass blowing......... "something of an advertising history maven"..... we got a real renaissance man here
David Hanover i been all around the world and i’ve hung out at every place, yeah
You don't blow glass when making window panes.
@@jumbo4billion Yes you do ruclips.net/video/QO75WvWqkq4/видео.html Also, click this if you want to see how RDR2's windows should have looked ruclips.net/video/QO75WvWqkq4/видео.html Thanks Tim, I'm glad someone cares about this kind of details!
Tim Rogers is a national treasure
"Arthur can eat, drink, or medicate mid-gun fight to instantaneously reverse any disease or bleeding"
SPOILER WARNING
Well, not every disease apparently...
Pee Control in games should be mandatory
Hemang Chauhan and there should be a survival game element where you to manage how much of it (pee) that you can store (in the balls)
@@TomFromRUclips Yeah you dumb fuck
this is a joke
@@samuraipotato2144 you bastard.
😉
Welcome to Postal 2
This is like cinemasins but... good
They can be good 2 :P
@@quak8246 no they can't
the john marston! loved you in gta!
hersheybruce TRIGGERED
@@quak8246 you trolling right now?
Cinema sins is pretty inaccurate and its not on purpose like this guy.
Yeah, I mean... is the story predictable? Yes. On the other hand, while a Hideo Kojima game can surprise the hell out of me, they don't ever make me cry. This game did that. At two separate points. The power of the acting... voice and mocap.. was that strong, and while the plot wasn't surprising, plot isn't the sum of storytelling. The storytelling was exceptional.
Damn near heckled all five of my bonkers off on this one, pard
crikey
In English?
5 bonkers, are you a sea urchin?
4:17 My horse has a shiny coat, therefore I have the shiniest meat bicycle
I came here to type angry comments thinking this was actually a haters review...ending up subscribing
David Monreal, nice. Tim Rogers has some of the best reviews out there.
Don't. Kotaku is cancer in the gaming industry wven though this guy is pretty decent.
Hahaha me too Yoo!
Watch his Dragon Quest XI review, its freaking hilarious
And THIS MY FRIENDS... this is how we fix America.
One Tim Rogers review at a time.
I have another reason to hate this game. Dutch listens to "Un bel di" on his grammophone in 1899. That is impossible since "Madama Butterfly" was composed in 1904.
Fail!
AHHHHHHHHHHH i meant to look into this!! god dang it. i swear i meant to google this. thanks for the note, pard
I'm such a classical music nerd that I noticed it right away, without needing to look it up. I was like "Butterfly?! No way. You picked the wrong Puccini, Rockstar!" Should have gone with "Manon Lescaut" instead.
Maybe Dutch is friends with the Doctor??
Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898)
Dutch is a time traveller.
man I hate when I'm at recess and someone else eats my pancake
This video is the perfect representation of what I hear when people complain about RDR2. Lol!! You killed it with this one!!haha!!
So you think its impossible someone doesnt like the game? I loved RDR but im not feeling this one. I played 20 hours and gave it a fair shot, its a good game and i can see why people like it. But i really dont enjoy it not because of any of the dumb reasons people have complained about but just because i dont, i feel like something is missing. Just not my cup of tea. Now people trying to bash something that has objective quality are just projecting their bias and thats another story.
Peter Lepelis please don't get me wrong, my dude. It's not a perfect game and your opinion isn't wrong. If you have 10 people in a room who've played it, and there's gunna be 2-3 people who would rather do LITERALLY anything else (including Greg Miller from Kinda Funny). I've been where you are now with many other games like the Witcher 3, Fallout, Bioshock, and Mass Effect . I've been jealous of the people who were able to get sucked into these games. I'm finally there and head over heels, in love with this one and because of that love those complaints seem small and insignificant. Like falling in love at first sight with a beautiful woman and your friend goes "meh, her ears are too big." And I think that's the point of this video and that's why he included legitimate complaints with silly ones. So when I said "representation of what I hear" I was trying to say that where I see imperfections you see flaws. I hope you find your RDR2, brother.
@@qwinn4911 Oh yeah dont get me wrong im agreeing with you. Im saying that its normal not to like the game for w/e reason, but its not normal to try and bash it with inaccurate complaints just because you dont like it. I dont like it but i can objectively see its a polished game with depth. For me personally, i wasnt too much in the mood for a more realistic western game atm, i kinda preferred the clunkiness and siliness of the first one. I just went into it hoping it could maybe catch my attention and intrigue me but i found the story boring, again prolly because i wasnt feeling a western atm. But now if i ever feel the itch for one i know where to look.
@@qwinn4911 im just sitting here with a potato pc playing wc3 looking forward to remaster still enjoying good ol rts gaming
@@panagiotislepelis8177 I can't get into it either. I think it's just not my style. I'm like 800 hours across Souls games, and even more in the Monster Hunter franchise.
I put in about 30 hours into RDR2 and decided I can't force myself to play anymore.
I just find the combat mindless, and I can't get into the story. I really don't care about Arthur's group, or even Arthur himself. Everything that adds to its immersion, like the horse stuff, eating, crafting, just bugs me. Like it takes so much time but doesn't add much to the experience at all. The world, although it looks beautiful, does not make me want to explore. I know exactly what to expect if I decide to go out into the country.
I can see how other people enjoy it, but it just doesn't scratch my itch.
I made him look like James Hetfield and then I mounted my horse, Lil' Lars Ulrich, yea-yeaheeeeh!
I bet your horse's canter was off time too.
GREAT video. hilarious. please don't work yourself to death making these. you are the bright spark we huddle around for warmth as the rest of the world freezes over.
Oh Tim, you are a gem! Your writing and vocal delivery is always a pleasure!
PS - hope the lung biopsy went well and isnt for anything super serious...
Oh, Tim !
The thing I despise about this game after playing half the story and 100+ hours of free roam...The supposed honor system is a complete joke. I can go up to a guy building his farm who is running out of resources, and after a brief chat I can offer him $100 to help him along, and I get good boy points for doing so...Yet if I go up to the guy owing us $25 who is dying of TB while his wife and children starve and beg for their life, not only am I FORCED to extract the money from him without any option to pay it myself and forgive the debt, but I am FORCED to threaten to murder his son in front of his mother. For this I recieve NO negative consequences on the "honor" meter. In another case last night, I wanted to let a bounty go after he pleaded for his life in front of his family. When the man asked me to let him go I couldn't interact with the character, so I started to ride away. "The man is showing us clemency! quickly, let's go" said the wife, as they ran off...But then I got a notice saying "the bounty is getting away" and I failed the mission. I tried cancelling the mission but it wouldn't let me move on. I literally had no choice but to hogtie the man and drag him away from his devastated family. So much for "choice" and "honor".
In fact, speaking of choice, I had a situation where I rode too close to an event (the electric chair demonstration) and I tried to go past it as I wanted to do something else in town first...But then the game wouldn't let me get on my horse, no matter how far I ran away from said event. I went several blocks away but I couldn't mount my horse until I went back and started that mission.
Also, it is literally impossible to control my horse. My second horse that is...My first one died literally instantaneously (from full health) after an ambush where I didn't even have time to make one kill in dead eye...Yet other times I can take 50 bullets and still be fine. But yeah, on horseback I crash into things about every 30 seconds, go around in circles and fall over...On foot I go between the slowest walk possible and a crazy sprint. Either of those speeds causes me to bump into people which in turn causes a 20 minute shootout with law enforcement, the death of myself and my horse and a $300 bounty. And not only have I been gaming since Atari in the 80's, but I got gold on the GTAV flight school so it's not like I have trouble controlling things normally.
What else? Tried to capture the white Arabian, followed all the instructions, mounted it several times, every time it got away. Impossible to catch.
Side characters are ridiculous. Wasted about 4 hours on pointless missions for the French artist. Wasted another couple of hours for the electric chair demo. Now I'm trying to find bird feathers for some bizarre gay dude who lives in the botanical gardens, posting fish through the mail (cost: $5) to some moron who sends me a fishing lure in return (value: $3).
I'm honestly struggling to enjoy this game. After preordering the Ultimate Edition and buying a 4k TV just to play it.
wait... you can take a bath? I'm about to finish the game and haven't bathed once..
you rushed it
Your Arthur is riding around funky, a true beacon of filth for all to smell. I'm surprised you didn't get a bounty put on you for making the npc's nauseous.
@@TheOfficial_CommanderShepherd Unfortunately at this time, my Arthur is no longer with us due to gangrene. RIP.
FuzRModz why u out here spoiling the game u nerd
you dirty
You made me literally cry for laughter. Best review video ever. I hope they'll all be like this. I agree with every word.
We don't deserve this!
RIP Floppy Bloppy, the Boneless Pony. Always in our hearts.
At first sight of this common day video one would think " How could anyone hate this game?" However upon further watching this hilarious uproarious and entertaining video I am here to tell you that yes, I love this and yes, I will give it a much earned appropriate thumbs up and subscribe!!
Haters:I hate this game it sucks
When they leave:I LOVE YOU AUTHOR MORGAN
Thank you for the disclaimer at the start.
Very helpful
These kids disliking videos because they saw Red Dead Redemption 2 and hate in the same title...
You can blow your horse up with dynamite.
I call that move poor mans pegasus.
While I was making another long trip across a span of nothing in particular I came across a woman trapped underneath a toppled wagon. She was screaming for help.
This was pretty early in the game and I was uncertain of which button on my controller was the one that would lift the wagon or pull her out from underneath it. As I was performing random harmless actions in my confusion, the woman began to throw a string of insults in my direction for taking too long.
I decided that perhaps what I needed to get closer to her to activate the sequence that would free her, give me some honor, and maybe a little reward for my trouble. She called me an idiot one more time before my finger found the button that put an end to her misery. Arthur knelt down and punched her in the face; killing her.
Disappointed in the loss of honor, I figured I'd at least loot the body and get my reward. It was then than that, not one, not two, but three men on horseback approached to witness me as I turned the body over, still under the wagon, and took the valuable snake oil and half a dollar from the corpse. It was then that the game decided to teach me that witnesses would run off and report crimes; even unintentional ones.
I made it back to my horse, mounted up, and began to follow the three men on horseback, determined to get this right. Little did I expect that a group of O'driscoll men would round a bend and kamikaze my horse with theirs and then open fire as I rolled along the dirt road between the pair of flailing horses. I was lucky as the O'driscoll who hit me got crushed in the tumble and I was able to dead eye the others before taking too many bullets. For some reason, I reasoned that I should loot these bodies as well, since I had botched the rescue. I had forgotten that I was in the middle of a chase and was informed of my previous crime being reported during the looting. I had made about 4$ total now and got a $10 dollar bounty. As I mounted my horse again I got another notification of a witness. This time I would stop him.
I chased the witness all the way into Valentine, which wasn't that far from where to hose collision had taken place. In my desperation I decided to tackle the witness, only to notice as we were tumbling to the ground that I had been given an interface option in the corner of the screen to shout at him to stop. It's important at this point to note that the wagon accident happened just East of Valentine, and I had been traveling West along the road. This caused me to enter in the town close to the sheriff's office. If I were to pick a strategic place to tackle a person in Valentine, it would not have been here.
I was being shot at again, but this time I didn't want to fight back because I didn't know what would happen if I shot at the law, whom I had befriended earlier in the story. So I ran into the hills and waited for the manhunt to end.
That's how Red Dead Redemption taught me its controls and mechanics and how I ended up getting a $60 bounty in Valentine when all I wanted to do was rescue a woman from a toppled wagon.
i appreciate your story. the time it took you to write this was not in vain :)
Yeah this is my entire playthrough. Greet people, get shot at and all of a sudden the laws after you. The controls are definitely not forgiving.
By far the best video I've seen in a long time.
thanks amigo . . . . . . i got a bunch more, you know
@Jym E. Changa whats that even mean?
@@kotaku I know, I have been going through your other videos. Great stuff. Keep it up!
'Diabolical legumes' and 'ejecting no less than three carbine bullets from punctured lungs' are undeniably the best phrases in a video I have heard in a long time
"Rdr2s protagonist cannot eat dog meat RAW or COOKED, that's just w e a k ."
I do own this game. I payed $60 for it and I still have it. So Rockstar got their money from me. I've played it 3 times, I can't get into it. The first time I played for 1 hour, it was boring. The second time, I played longer; still can't get into it. The third time I got all the way to establishing the base camp. I realize a lot of people think this is the best game of it's generation. But I just can't get into it.
Tim, these kind of videos are hands down one of my favorite things on the internet. Keep that in mind as the internet has a plethora of content. Thanks for making this.
Look, the problem is that so many people do not care their little finger for the little beauties of Videogames. They play the game through as fast, rough and tough as they can. Mankind is and remains stupid.
It's BODDY TIME
This game actually highlights some of the problems with open world games as a whole. There are so many points where the only thing keeping you playing is the gorgeous view of the countryside as you go in one direction for 5 minutes at a time.
It's actually only about 220 animals, that's including fish and horses. You're looking at the number from the whole compendium which includes weapons, plants, etc.
This is the most poignant and comprehensive review of RDR2 I've come across. Absolutely spot on through every aspect covered!
"You've gotta be frankly heckling my bonkers off" LOL
I know everything is joking, but i thing that not been able to eat a dog is awesome, Arthur loves dogs, he mentions his dog on the game and he has a photograph of the dog and everything, so no eating dogs is his decision- character personality. If we would have play has john maybe he would have eat dogs.
3.5 mins talking about details of shaving. Best video ever!
Teleporting guns:
the rdr2 inventory managment system is broken.
ones you find a new gun like a old revolver you can pick it up and drop it again on the floor.
ones you get back to your horse you will find the exact same old revolver you picked up just a second ago in your sadle bag.
And not only that ones you lose your expensive gun in the mud of river you will for some reson find it in your sadle bag or in your gunlocker, scary stuff. your can find all the guns your have collected or payed for in your gunlocker. Arthur's gunlocker can be found back at camp where his tent is, Arthur uses a chest wardrobe as his gunlocker, it is next to his bed.
I hate the lack of duel challenges
"Young Dirty Santa"sounds like a Christmas blockbuster film
you sharpen razorblades on leather strops, not whetstones
Thing with red dead redemption 2 is that it’s a great story, amazing detail and a great world. Unfortunately it’s backed up by a garbage fire mess of gameplay. Controls are complete fucking garbage(i’ve had times where the controls just completely stopped working), every mission is painfully linear, bounty system is broken, being spammed by bounty hunters is annoying. I absolutely hate the gameplay, but i keep coming back for the amazing story. I get that won’t be a popular opinion, bit I think everyone has been distracted from the shit gameplay thanks to the story and beautiful graphics. They focused on the wrong things in some points, horses have testicles that shrink in the cold but several elements of the gameplay are half-assed.
I take back the good things i said, the story is a lot of build up with no pay off.
Tim, i'm new to your world. The first video i saw of you was the one about the Octopath Traveler Characters. I bought the game after watching your Video. And since then i absolutly love everything you do. Keep going
Lu Bu thanks bud
there will be more . . . !!
Regarding your point about the "thin veneer of the dropping and equipping new weapons" and how they automagically go to your horse. It's deeper than that. I don't think it's EVER explained. I was affraid to drop a unique pistol I had, so I never picked up upgrades for pistoles because I thought there was no way of keeping both. Until I got the second holster and started experimenting. But this was tens of hours late into the game. Frustrating to say the least.
So anyone who understands that the controls are bad is a hater. Got it.
Lol well it's a matter of opinion. I think the controls are perfectly fine. A slight learning curve was necessary, but once i got a hang of it I quite enjoy the controls now.
@@ThePowerOfOneThePowerOfTwo input lag is not a matter of opinion. It is measurable
@@ntomatas1 I haven't noticed any input lag except when I fill the streets of Saint Denis with the bodies of dead lawmen. You sir must be a psychopath, leaving dead bodies everywhere.
In all seriousness, sucks that you're experiencing input lag.
@@apolloaero the game has input lag. I don't understand the rest
For some reason I don't mind the controls at all.
Anyone else find it ironic that Rockstar made a joke in game about underpaid overworked employees creating a product?
Awesome video, very funny stuff. Game is awesome, best I’ve ever played. But to be honest I have thought of these little inconsistencies. But still best game made to date in my opinion. But your making these forgotten details very funny to listen to. Great Video lol 😂
Just an addendum to your horse-shooting bit, but in RDR you would also frequently shoot your own horse in the back of the head if you got clumsy in a mounted gun battle.
oh yes! i included a shot of this in my red dead redemption 1 recap video :-D
Honestly i love this game, but for some reason i just havent been in the mood to play it
Because the gameplay is atrocious and ruins everything else amazing in the game
Gerald of Rivia __W.W. You named yourself after the main character from the Witcher yet you criticise gameplay, have you played the Witcher?😂
When he said “Red Dead Redemption 2 SUCKS!”, I’m like 😱. Then when he said he was just kidding, I was like PHEW!!!
Horse balls, SUCH REALISM. Much WOW
Wait till you see the grizzly balls
“When I came back from giving the local toilet a quick refill...” I LAUGHED MY BUTT OFF!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tim is the best thing to come out of the internet.
It sucks because the control system is sooooooooo clunky. Entering camps you end up walking through treacle. Pees me off.
I don't Kotaku often, but when I do, I Kotaku Tim.
Stay cynical my friends.
My biggest complaint - Just last night I was in Valentine listening to an old wilderness dude NPC and he got all bent out of shape and started to fight me. I ran outside and my horse was gone!!! WTF - then he grabs me so ok - fistfight time... I always switch to fists before going into a bar so I don't accidentally shoot someone. I go to fight back and out comes the pistol and I kill him... WTF???? cost me 10 dollars and I was trying to leave him be
I can't get this game because I'm broke and I got a new job as a security guard but I'm waiting on a phone call to let me know when I start working. 😭 end my life brooo. No man should suffer like me.
Hope u get the job bro.. wish u luck and happiness
@@imbatmanireallyam9122 I got the job and I start tomorrow at 9pm. RDR2 Here we come
@@BigGucciNola Yo, that's great new man! Especially when the holidays are coming again.
Have fun with the game man!
I can't wait for online haha
@@BigGucciNola that's great bro,so did you like it?
My mother has heart surgery tomorrow after developing bacterial pneumonia. Not COVID-19. It's been a rough few days and I gotta say, thank you Tim Rogers. I escaped and laughed so hard watching this.
thank you kanye, very cool!
ye
Love it if you made it
The windows are a great point! I work at a house-museum built in 1868, with “wavy glass” windows. That’s the only window glass there was until the 20th century. They create beautiful designs on the walls when sunset comes through!
34:43 Ouch. This is a good summarization of anything the Housers wrote.
GREAT dialogue, though!! like, seriously excellent dialogue. the best dialogue in video games. they did good with that.
Kotaku Yeah, I found it much more sentimental and nuanced, I’m shocked at how much I care about Arthur.
Everyone keeps saying that it has to go to PC but the reason why that is is that the original ‘Red Dead Revolver’ was going to be made by Capcom. Capcom making this game was going to be exclusive to consoles so carrying on tradition it isn’t available on PC
How can you not love a game that lets you “Shoot, root, toot, hoot, and loot” 10/10
"aiming using the Analog stick is like trying to eat spaghetti with a phillips head screwdriver." I almost spewed my coffee on the keyboard. LOL.
maybe dudes just not good at aiming it was fine in RDR just takes practice.too many people find anything to crap on a game about
Aaron Davenport get a sense of humour man
@@aarondavenport8228 There's a huge difference between good control and sluggish when using an Analog controller. The one game I really loved playing with a controller was Horizon: Zero Dawn. The controller response was superb and I've yet to play a game with such good bow gameplay. Dragon's Dogma is another that comes to mind. But if it's like say Dishonored 2 which wasn't too bad, but it's still a huge difference and I expect RDR2 is far worse. I'll still buy but I want to play it on PC.
The poker game type in RDR2 it’s not historically accurate.
yes! i was just talking about this with someone on twitter. Real Cowboys would have played five card stud. texas hold 'em was perhaps in the wind at that time, though absolutely no one had written about it as of 1899.
I sure wish it was 5 card stud
I like texas hold 'em.
Skyedogg i mean to be honest i like texas hold em, too. it’s a fascinating game. five card stud is far less interesting in my opinion. though yeah: cowboys played stud! lol
@@kotaku yeah I get that! An interesting choice for rockstar to make. Authenticity against perhaps something that's more fun/recognizable.
This feels like a more digestible Everything Wrong with Red Dead Redemption 2. A lot of the points are nitpicky but there are some poignant ones that I have to agree with wholeheartedly. The nitpicks are pretty funny and the suggestions lend to some thinking on how to improve the game’s experience. Glad I found this, well done sir.
Mito Midou thanks for watchin, bud . . . i got a lot of other videos like this on my playlist here on this channel, if you wanna try watching some of those too :-O
I can proudly say that I watched and enjoyed all 42 minutes and 18 seconds of this beautiful masterpiece.
The problem with this game is that it's too hard to do things you DO want to do, and WAY too easy to do things you DON'T want to do.
Kotaku actually talking about Games? This surprises me...
I just discovered Tim Rodgers less than a month ago and he is the best thing to happen to video games and RUclips and video games youtube. Hearing him say in his games of the decade that he probably wouldn’t do it for the next (this) decade is sad. But like life is life so, Respect ya decision Tim
This review was fucking epic. I laughed so much
2022 red dead redemption 2 is THE benchmark for open world games, no game this far has surpassed it
Right when the feels maybe got a bit to feely, or maybe just a bit too close to home. Cue the circusy zydeco... well done
This was so fresh, and so funny , man you really did something no one else has done.....fantastic....thank you...absolutely crazy fun...
Kay Fiedler thanks . . . please watch some more of the (102???) videos on my playlist here on kotaku’s youtube . . . you might like them, too :-D
Fun Shaving Facts.
Tim is basically describing cyberpunk towards the middle of this video, talking about a game that can account for your failures and react to your previous decisions. Cyberpunk's only fail state is death, anything else the game just rolls with the punches. This mostly results in simple design, but it's still true that failure simply equals succeeding poorly rather than restarting to try again. One mission had me interrogate a ripperdoc for info, i decided to punch him cause he had creepy vibes. He later refused service once i came back, seeing online that he was the only ripperdoc that sells the best sandevistan in the game. I killed him for the transgression, but the sandy was already lost to decisions i had made hours of playtime prior. Decisions i didn't even need to make, i was being a dick cause i felt impatient, and it later bit me in the ass. That feels bad, but in an incredibly good way.
My favorite game ever.
You can give a dead dog/cat to Pearson and he’ll cook it
Most overrated game ever .boring game
Wow this was funny. This blokes delivery is spot on. Yeah we can tell you read a bit oldmate:) Your fundamental faculties are sufficiently sophisticated to bombast your philosophy. Subbed. I say Good Day sir ! :)
I completely fucking hate this game
Because I haven't played it since it didn't release on PC yet
EgoManiac how about you get a Xbox 1 or ps4 where actual games are meant to be played on
@@Lucas-tx3rt And pay to play online on a console that will become outdated in a few years? Nah
Hail the PC master race
@@JasonT404 shut up bro. Youre making us look bad.
EgoManiac d
Also, his build up to 17:25 is hilarious and very much on point. I would also like THAT game to be a thing. That isn’t THIS game, but that’s ok. I love this game despite. If someone worked out how to make THIS game THAT... I would give them all my money! Good point Tim!
I don’t get why people say this is a good game. I thought it sucked.
You Joking?
J.Jonah.Jameson No, I’m dead serious. This game is terrible.
@@gus8378 Whatever,But it's your opinion
J.Jonah.Jameson Yes it is. You’re very observant.
Biggest disappointment this Gen.
arthur should only be able to clean shave himself, and less trimming options. the barber should give more variety as he is trained. you should be able to learn more trimming lengths as you do it more
I brought a ps4 pro for this game. I only have a PC until.
can i ask why you chose the pro?
Quinnmesh Sony have a better exclusives games library in my opinion.
@@SrStakeholder i have a pro also and i completely agree. I just thought people would get the One X for the "best" version of the game
X one x runs better and clearer. but i agree best to get a ps4 because of exclusives. @sirStakeholder make sure you get bloodborne and god of war
@@Sithlug I upgraded to an X with the GS deal. I was thinking of just getting a pro for the exclusives but after looking at it, it not as developed as a media hub. PS4 pro for exclusives, Xbox for centralizing your media center.... Both have their significant advantages.
I subscribed just because the bit about trying to find tonics while getting bushwacked was hilarious. Funny shit bro
how about the Anti-Pinkerton act of 1893. after which pinkertons could not be offered government work. That kinda hurt the realism for me. especially since Mr. Millton keeps claiming to work for the government.
complete and total failure on the part of the writing team's fact-checkers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
maybe mister milton was NOT working for the government, or maybe he wasn't even a pinkerton? maybe he was a conman.
though probably milton just had a weak writer!
@@kotaku Yea so one would expect he's give up after the annesburg thing right? It would make sense up till that point with Cornwall funding them.
Want a open world game with consequences ? Fallout 1 and 2.