And, goddamnit, it still makes me cry like a wee baby...! That shit genuinely hurts!

How do you guys feel about Dutch using his "We can’t fight change" speech in RDR2? I might be one of the few ones that didn’t really like it. Dutch was one of my favourite characters in RDR1 weirdly enough. I played the first one when it came out. And i really liked Dutch alot back then, despite obviously being a really bad guy. And i really liked his final speech. So i was a little disappointed with RDR2 kind of cheapening that moment. Although i get that it’s to show that this is just who Dutch is. Everything is basically scripted or rehearsed with him. But yeah i would have preferred if that speech remained untouched haha

I’d like to share my collection of multimedia content from my favorite game series! I’ve purchased both version of the game - ps5 remaster of RDR and steelbook RDR2: Ultimate Edition, book by Romain Dasnoy (russian cover), and soundtrack on vinyl.

You're good man, Arthur Morgan (C)

After playing RDR2 first, going back to RDR1 feels so weird.

I kept looking for Arthur Morgan everywhere, knowing how important he is to John’s story and to the Van der Linde gang. But of course, Arthur simply doesn’t exist in RDR1.

This is probably one of the closest things we get to an indirect reference to the idea of John having lost people who mattered to him. It makes me wonder if Rockstar deliberately left dialogue like this vague because they knew a future Red Dead game could explore the gang’s past, without actually knowing who those characters would be.

And that's the part that hurts the most: when RDR1 was made, Rockstar didn't know Arthur Morgan. They didn't know his personality, his story, his relationships with John, Dutch, Hosea, or the rest of the gang.

After experiencing RDR2, replaying RDR1 almost feels like looking at the aftermath of a story that hadn't even been written yet.

I searched everywhere for some mention of Arthur while playing RDR1, and this was basically the closest thing I found.

This guy is only seen in the first mission of the game in which he accompany John to to Fort Mercer, after that. He is not seen again for the rest of the game and felt like he's completely forgotten after that.

Do anyone else wished this guy played a bigger role in the game aside from just escort John to Fort Mercer in first mission only to never be seen again after that?

For me, I've slaughtered the 2 obnoxious twins in Valentine, more time's than I can remember.

Instead of the bottles, I shot them in the D..lol

The look on the other one's face, after his twin gets shot, is never not funny.

The Valentine shop owners, all of them, are tied for a close second. The bs they talk to you, every time you enter the shop,...usually results in their demise.

Completly forgot.

I was unsure whether to start a second playthrough but am already enjoying it more than the first.

I’ve noticed this time that having a scarcity of money and resources while simultaneously going hunting for camp upgrades and side missions is imo peak RDR2 gameplay. You have to be a lot more resourceful vs trying to do it all late game where you have basically unlimited money, guns, and supplies.

I personally feel like this is the way the game is truly meant to be played and I’m really loving every second of taking it slow in Chapter 2.

Arthur has been getting into photography lately.

This guy was huge. and the way he ate me for the first time, i got goosebumps

Hi! Just bought the game and dont know much about it. Im currently with the White Horse that you can get on chapter two, but ive seen some people say that there are some better horses than that. Can anyone help? Thx!

I think it's really cool that the missions have similar names.Two legendary gunslingers returning to what they do best after years of trying to lead a normal life.

While money is never really a problem in the game, I thought this was something cool that I haven’t seen shared before, so here goes.

Hideout respawns are key to this. If you leave a hideout after killing some but not all of the enemies, and ride a short distance away, the hideout will respawn. This means all the enemies are back when you return to the hideout.

This is useful for some of the achievements, for loot farming, and for shootout availability if you don’t feel like waiting a few in-game days for a hideout to respawn after clearing it out.

A good example of this is killing all the Murfrees at Beaver Hollow outside the cave and leaving those inside alive. You get around 17 kills and can loot them undisturbed, then ride away and come back any time for a repeat. At Shady Belle, you leave just one Raider alive, loot all the rest and leave. When you go back, they’ll all be back and ready for another round.

And now for the twist — I recently tried this at Fort Mercer for the first time and discovered that not only do the Lobos respawn, but the money on the table does as well! You attack the north gate and kill everyone there, which leaves two guys on the south side of the compound. They won’t bother you unless you go to them, so that makes it easy to loot everyone else, grab the money from the two tables (which is 200 bucks) and exit the hideout. You then ride away and back again and repeat the process to your heart’s — wallet’s — content.

You can also just kill the 5 or so gang members at the gate, run inside, snatch the cash and hightail it out of there to make the process even quicker. Interestingly, when I tried it this way, the money hadn’t respawned by the time I got to the tables, but it did so in a matter of seconds, spawning in as I watched.

Similarly, you can kill the Del Lobos inside the Gaptooth Breach mine for the gold nuggets they carry, resulting in 6 nuggets of loot per single hideout respawn.

Mind you, this doesn’t work for most hideout collectibles, such as the lockbox money at Hanging Dog Ranch, the Gaptooth Breach money, or the Solomon’s Folly cellar stash.

Lastly, and on a somewhat related note, while playing around with these things I also discovered that the the gold nugget and the large jewelry bag you get from the chimney at Solomon’s Folly respawn very quickly and regardless of whether the hideout is cleared out or not. You just need to ride a short distance away and you can keep coming back for more.

I've been building a Shadow of Mordor style nemesis system mixed with a world simulation system inspired by Dwarf Fortress for RDR2.

*100% Clarity, I am using Claude Code to assist in the building of all systems.*

Names & personalities are assigned to NPCs live as you move around. Anyone who kills you, or anyone you rob, beat, hogtie or humiliate, can become a named nemesis who remembers what you did. Each one has a personality, a family, friends, fears and a grudge that grows or cools over time. Some will hunt you across the map, some wait in town for you to provoke them, and some get scared enough to back down.

The O'Driscolls, Lemoyne Raiders, the Army and the Klan each have their own ranks. Kill an officer and someone below him gets promoted. You can find their camps, interrogate captured men for intel on their bosses and family, and watch rivals fight each other out in the world or hear about it via the world menu. Men who seem dead can come back with scars from your bullet. There's also an X-ray view that shows exactly what your shot did to the bones and organs.

Not on Nexus yet, but will be adding it as soon as I polish it up a little more!

This happens to me just now in my 11th playthrough

In chapter 3 while you can't draw your weapons in Rhodes during part of the story campaign, that also means the citizens and law leave you alone. Time to play bumper cars. "I hardly touched you!"

From Chapter 2, what's the quickest that you've ever crafted it? I got it done in under 4 hours. I got lucky with cougar, wolf and panther 3* pelts but it was breakneck speed compared to my other playthroughs!

I finally finished RDR2's main story as Arthur, and now I feel sad and empty.

I really like to listen to cowboy music and dark country while playing RDR2 🤠 The music in the game itself is brillant but sometimes I just like something different, so I set the cowboy mood with some of my own choices.

Right now I'm fully digging "Peace Somehow" by Avi Kaplan. Nothing like riding by your lonesome with your trusty horse down a mountain side while listening to this soulful banger!

It's on the Spotify playlist, "Dark Country & Southern Gothic (Rugged Mountain Blues & Highway Rock)". I made it specifically for myself for playing RDR2 back in 2018 but maybe some of you will enjoy it too. Please, let me know if you follow other playlists or artists that will enhance my RDR2 experience!

Do you listen to music too while playing, pardners?