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It would be good if we got Mexsico in RDR2 Or even beter idea for rockstar. Make combined edition so we get RDR1 and RDR2 as the same game,making RDR1 whit remade thatics
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I will forever believe that the Mexico ambience is, hands down, the best ambience in video game history. After completing the story I literally only let Jack live in Mexico. Chuparosa will forever have a special place in my heart.
You should have mentioned when we try to shoot the strange man he is standing exactly where johns, Abigail and uncles graves will be. He shoots 4 times but his gun jams on the 4th shot. 3 bullets for him, uncle and Abigail however the shot meant for Jack gets jammed meaning he will be spared....Strange Man is my favorite creepy thing about the series!
When you first played red dead redemption, one of the first things you did was tie a bunch of people up and lay them down on the train tracks. Classic.
@@Fizhy lmaooo the questioning going on. It was like the first time it was like will the train stop or no? And where is it? The dialogue the people had And the whole lead up… good times
As much as this series has been “milked.” I still find myself craving mroe and more every time. The world they build is so engaging and I can’t take myself out of it. It’s genuinely addicting. These games are masterpieces and I’m here for all the milking bby gorl;)
@Jedimasta_82 I know it’s 2023, but you are NOT, just gonna come in here and pretend like OG consoles just don’t exist, saying there’s “literally no way to buy RdR1 anymore”. How do you think Fizshy got his hands on it??? I got the GOTY Edition of the game for just *$25* dollars, off of eBay (resurfaced, played all the way through). Not to mention i also got a perfect condition 360 for just $80. I know it was recently removed from the PS Cloud Streaming library, which is why i bought myself an OG disc copy, because if you truly love a game then you *will* find a way to play it. But Red Dead Redemption 1 is definitely not the game to be publicly crying over its fictional “unavailability”. You are simply not looking hard enough, or don’t want it enough. Though i agree a remake/remaster is deserved, just a “re-release” is absolutely unnecessary.
"I put pen to paper and alphabet pasta is all I could come up with, because I was too busy thinking... about being a cowboy." Legendary. My new favorite quote.
I think what really makes RDR, and John in particular, unique is how long we spend in the introduction without getting to know him at all. We simply watch three men walk through a town we’ve never seen, one of them gets on a train, says nothing, only listens to people around him, gets off and heads for a saloon for a purpose we know not. Pretty poor introduction, right? Actually the exact opposite. From the start, the aesthetic of this world draws us in, a world we recognise vaguely as our own yet very outdated. Even the characters walking tells us a lot about them, as we can tell the two men in suits walking alongside the third aren’t his friends but enemies. John’s facial expressions are enough to tell us that whatever he’s up to, it wasn’t of his free will. Likewise, listening to people on the train such as the rich WASP ladies bragging about the “civilisation” they’ve brought west disgust John even though Bonnie shows more visible outrage at what they’re saying than him. Or the preacher and his young acolyte, who recognises his hypocrisy yet doesn’t understand he is being contradictory in what he’s saying. With this alone, we can see the kind of world we’re about to enter: One mired in social and technological change, pride, hypocrisy, corruption, elitism and people just trying to get by through it all. And John, whatever he cares about, doesn’t care for anything going on around him. But whatever does, we’re about to find out. All of this without the main character saying a single word. It’s a masterful introduction to this world and characters and only continues to build on that strength going forward.
I remember wanting gta 4 when this game came out, but my mom didnt want me getting something with sexual content. So the gamestop employee recommended red dead. Been in love with the series ever since. Great video, man
I learned how to play poker because of this game. It was satisfying because whenever I'd lose I could just stand up and blast everyone at the table unlike I could do in real life
In my opinion, Red Dead Redemption is one of the best western games to this day. Red Dead Redemption 2 had too much complexity and really doesn't feel like a wild west game including the setting of the story and main character. Red Dead Redemption 1 just feels classic, wild, and mysterious. And the ambient tracks really just make the environment come together making it a very memorable game.
I walk around my property, theres creeks and waterfalls, animal trails leading down gauges... i think ive found everything then one day ill find a new spot. Rdr2 feels exactly like it. Its crazy how real it seems for a game.
Got this game some 4 years after its release from my parents, after my first surgery had left me homebound with loads of bandages around my head. Played through it all while in recovery, loved it to bits. Might want to do a more relaxed playthrough eventually :P
I feel very much that a new person to the series should actually play them in chronological order now, RDR2 adds so much perspective and weight to what John is doing in RDR, that I think playing them in timeline order would actually elevate both games. 1 you wouldn't know the outcome making everything that happens in RDR2 surprise. Then giving so much more detail and weight to what Marston is doing, his former gang members and what happens with him. Either way played both games just amazing but i think RDR2 should be played first by newcomers.
I’m glad I went timeline order. I got to see John grow up, in Arthur’s eyes; and I had no preconceived notions about characters, and I was open to Dutch fully pulling the wool over my eyes and open to hoping he’d show some decency in chapter 6. I do have to admit that it’s hard to play the older game with its older look now, though.
Bur just like with the star wars prequels it removes the mystery..if you play them in release order you hear all these stories but you have to paint the bigger picture yourself.. I feel if you play 2 first then the original game will just feel like a long epilogue
As the great grand daughter of an actual cowboy RDR has come to mean a lot to me. This was an excellent video and I think we all share the sentiment that RDR1 &2 are games that will go down in history as some of the greatest games.
Red dead redemption use of real historical ideas, and time period with there own modern twist does make the world to a modern viewer far more enjoyable. The Wild West is still here but it’s dying and we see that unfold before our eyes, new technology, new cities, and eliminating all gangs. We as the player help fight the Wild West when we don’t want too but john and his family push us to do so. It’s a very bold story which doesn’t hold anything back. There are nice feel good moments in the game but mostly it’s the end of era and we as the player have to navigate it.
Red dead redemption will always have a special place in my heart. It’s the first true story game I ever played and at that still one of the best. I love to see that someone else shares the same appreciation for the game I’ve had since my first playthrough. What a masterpiece.
I just finished it today for the first time. Tully an amazing game and I really wish Rockstar would have re released it for newer consoles or for pc so I wouldn't have had to play it on an emulator
I played RDR on a whim back when it released as people kept saying it was GTA with horses. So I did not expect the story to have such a lasting effect on me that I still tear up over it's ending. Even Dutch who only shows up for ~10mins had an impression on me as. I totally got why people would be so loyal to him as heck I would've too lol but I also get the danger in that allure that ironically sealed John's fate as Dutch knew. I love that Rockstar, despite how shallow journalists try to paint them, try to make nuanced interesting story and characters that aren't always clear cut "Good vs Bad" and I really hope that nuance hasn't been lost.
A totally unrelated point. But does anyone else remember Dutch always using the Semi-Automatic Pistol and never something else? I always see it in old gameplay clips that he throws away what would be a Semi-Automatic Borchardt C93 Pistol, but recently I'm seeing more and more clips, and have even experienced it myself where he carries and throws away instead a Cattleman 1873 Revolver.
Red dead 1 is so friggin good that I constantly go back and forth over which is better between rdr1 and 2 (with timing and capabilities of technology in mind)
In a world full of games of many different types, RDR2 will always have this special spot at the top. it's not just a game, it's an experience, it's like a movie but we're immersed into it as the main character and get to live all the intense emotions that came with his character development. Sure one can skip that and just beat the game but you'd be missing sooo much. I cried on my first playthrough and I still didn't finish the last missions as Arthur on my second because I know what's coming. Although I didn't play it in almost a year, every once in a while I feel the need to reconnect with the world of RDR2, I tried to continue online it's sooo much less interesting, it feel hollow and without soul
Amazing video as always Fizhy !! I Hope they focus on RDR3 and that it will be about Jack Story even if they work on a remaster would be nice I agree with you
I love RDR2 so much. I never got to play RDR. I went to stream it on PS and it wasn't available anymore. I hope it becomes playable again. I wanna play it so bad.
Just had an idea. What if RDR3 give us the story of a Jack Marston that goes to world war 1 and becomes a writer. And the end of the day we could se the defenitive end of the old west. And how Jack founds meaning in fighting to protect his land idk. And he becomes a writer because that must happen. If not, go backwards and Let's play as Dutch with mechanic for making plans.
Just replayed rdr this past summer, dug out my ps3 from my parents basement, I would sell my first born for a remaster ps5 version of this, á la TLOU part 1. The ambience for this game alone is perfect, and the political commentary throughout, as well as the usage of western tropes and the overall satirical feeling of the story is perfect. Undead nightmare does the same thing with its satirical use of classic horror tropes. These games feel like home.
After playing the second back in 2018 I absolutely had to play this absolutely incredible the graphics might not quite be as impressive as rdr2 but they were still good enough to damn near kill my 360
The theory that the strange man is in johns head can't be true due to how the strange man tests johns morality by being like hey this guy is going to cheat on his wife stop him or don't. How would the strange man know that if he's just in johns head considering John can't tell the future he doesn't know what's about to happen in an entirely different location
My grandpa bought me this game when I was 10 and said that’s a real man who try to do right after doing wrong but they never gave him a chance also he reminds me too much of hosea Mathew’s
18:05 to expand on Nastas, look at him as an older version of Shadow Wolf from Revolver as a native that has seen the collapse of their land firsthand and knows the folly of civilization and men's greed. He is very very wise. Killed brutaly and in the most unjust way imaginable. I can't put it into words, just play or watch the cutscenes of John in Blackwater meeting Mcdougal.
Red Dead Revolver within itself is confirmed to not be canon, however there’s enough evidence to suggest a variation of the story occurred within the Redemption continuity.
@@Fizhy yea that makes sense I'm guessing the more magical elements of revolver didn't happen in the rdr continuity just strange everyone seems to know his story.
I absolutely HATE RDR2 wish a passion, for me they took everything that made the original RDR an epic masterpiece of a game and completely ruined it. But yeah yeah yeah I know, _rEaLiSm reeeeeee_ 🙄 It could be great if they first and foremost scrapped entire stupid Core System! Then brought back the Unlimited Inventory space along with the weapon wheel with ALL our weapons available whenever we want them and stopped storing shoulder mounted weapons on the damn horse. There's many little things also that I don't like about it but the above is the worst part of it and it's what made quit playing RDR2 and delete it from my PS4. I don't even want to get started on the whole reconned story that made RDR seem unfinished and how much I can't stand Arthur as a character. Really good video that summed up almost everything I loved about the original. 👍👍
You're depriving yourself of some fun and addictive mini games by not learning the card games. If you don't want to read how to play: don't. RU-vid surely has tons of videos on the subject. The best way to learn is to just have someone teach you in person, but videos are the next best thing.
See, shit like the snake oil guy convincing people that a laxative would made them fly is so juvenile and low rent that stuff like that really took me out of the game. RDR2 has been rightfully praised for being more grown up and mature. It’s a game for adults and it feels like it’s been made by adults too.
You can hand Javier over alive. Abraham will shoot Bill if you hold off doing it. Dutch throws himself off a cliff rather than be captured. I love that for all the death and violence John inflicts through the game, the three men he was actually sent after don’t necessarily die by his hand. Cool stuff.
@@tommymiller8793 I did the same. It’s perfect knowing the backstory of what happened as it feels like half of what’s said in rdr 1 has more context behind it instead of being throw away dialogue within the game
@@tommymiller8793 For me, playing them in this order allowed me to view John's (and Jack's) story in chronological order. Every decision I made in RDR1 had background, had weight, because it was coming off the back of my knowledge of John's and Jack's characters in RDR2. Their past personalities and experiences influenced my play through, encouraging me to explore those dynamics from RDR2 in RDR1, and deepening my understanding of a character who had been family to me in playing RDR2 first. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that Charles, Hosea, John and Keiran (and even Hamish, the veteran in the cabin in the Grizzlies) were family, and the rest of the gang I just didn't care for by the end of RDR2 - hunting down Dutch in particular in RDR1 felt justified, considering the hell his insanity had put the Van der Linde gang through at the end of RDR2. It made the conflicts with the Pinkertons/Feds, Dutch, Bill, and Javier heavy in a way they might not have been had I played the games in release order. I think without the weight of RDR2 behind it first, there is probably a levity to RDR1 that I didn't get to experience. That levity is probably enjoyable in its own right, but the gravity of my decisions in RDR1, knowing how Arthur, Hosea and many more had met a bad end for their lives as outlaws was unignorable. That John's story ends in tragedy simply feels right - most of the Van der Linde gang meet tragic ends, which I think highlights the tragedy within the parody theme in a way it might perhaps not if I'd played RDR1 first. That transition to family man from outlaw for John has a gravitas to it because of Arthur's sacrifice to make it possible as a result of my decisions in RDR2. It made me want to do right by Arthur, to be a man of high honor, to make him proud. Arthur cast a long shadow for me in playing RDR1 after RDR2. That shadow in turn meant that, as I played Jack, I was deeply aware of the shadow both John and Arthur cast over his life - I got a distinct feeling in playing Jack that there would never be an escape from the long shadows the Van der Linde gang cast on his life, whether it was his father's influence, Arthur's influence, or indeed, the consequences of Dutch's descent into what I viewed as a complete mental break as Dutch's coping strategies were utterly inadequate for the circumstances he found himself in as a result of a string of bad decisions there could be no coming back from. If anything, it left me sure that, no matter how I played Jack, a bad end would come for him, just as it had for the majority of his extended 'family' in the Van der Linde gang. There is a darkness to the epilogue of RDR1 that, again, perhaps might not have held the same weight had I not played RDR2. It, to me, affirmed that there are two certainties in the RDR universe: death, and beauty. That was a pretty powerful experience.
@@tommymiller8793 it was amazing I would actually recommend it that way, because all through red dead redemption two I didn’t have any hate towards Bill or Xavier, or Dutch or anything. So when I got to red dead one things made a little bit more sense.
It’s an interesting narrative choice that we don’t meet Abigail and Jack until relatively late in the game. We spend a lot of time bonding with Bonnie McFarland, and we see the strength of John’s relationship with Abigail as he rejects Bonnie’s attempts to keep him for herself.
@@fakeninja4447 true, but if it did happen, it would fit better with RDR2 a lot more than the original. As it stands the two games just do not mesh well.
@@fakeninja4447 RDR2 feels very differnt to RDR1. The Tone of RDR2 is more like Movies like Unforgiven and Hateful eight. It also takes allot from real world history and much closer to a real western.
they’re just both very different stylistically and mechanically. The first Red Dead really leans into the tropes of westerns and almost exaggerates it. The Wilhelm screams, the way NPC’s comically spin when you shoot them. It’s not rlly going for realism. Whereas RDR2 leans soooo heavily into realism and immersion. It’s like it wants you to feel like you’re in the old west instead of making it feel like your in a Sergio Corleone movie haha
@@THEODSTKING117 It's very weird to explain, not gonna lie. Rdr2 does feel like a movie sometimes, like a western but, not a spaghetti western. While rdr1 definetly feels like one. The loneliness in both games feel different aswell. As you said, rdr2 feels immersive, like you are part of a living breathing world that goes on without you aswell. It's extremely immersive and goes for realism. Now in rdr1 it feels very different in a way i can't explain. More artificial, but not in a bad way at all. It also has a creepier undertone. It feels, sinnister. But that's just my opinion, that i can't even put into words tbh.
