Mediocre villains? Dutch is probably the most effective villain I've ever seen in a video game because there are layers to his character. You truly feel conflicted about him.

Little known fact: real cowboys in those days only rooted. The tooting is a complete fabrication concocted later to sell cigarettes.

i had literally no issues maintaining max honor throughout the entire game

Fun fact: Dutch can’t admit he’s wrong. You can tell when Micah kills Arthur he keeps saying “I” but can’t say “I’m sorry” because he can’t admit he’s wrong.

Whitelight: This game has some major flaws, and you cannot call it a masterpiece. I'm afraid I must insist.

Me: You... insist?






             he iNsIsTs?!?!

For high honor just go to St. Denis and greet everyone.
Much faster than fishing

The game is not perfect, that's for sure, but it still is a masterpiece to me.

I love how the guns sound different when theyre dirty. A clean gun sounds sharp while a dirty one is thuddy

I actually liked the non-action missions in the epilogue. I don’t think you need shooting for it to be fun or “red dead redemption”.

I strongly disliked how missions would automatically assign you weapons at times. I used the cattleman revolvers for most of the game, and it would frequently auto-equip the double actions or schofields. Same with rifles. I hated how missions would automatically equip a rifle or shotgun.

Let me choose my own weapons, dammit!

You have completely and utterly missed the point of this game...

It makes you FEEL like lUmBaGo.

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence"
- Vince Lombardi

One more dimension to the story I think you missed is Micah's death and how it leads into the events of RDR1. With Micah, his spy, dead, Edgar Ross hunts down the man responsible for it so he could still have a lead on finding and killing Dutch, just as Milton was tasked to do previously. If John had listened to Abigail and fully let go of his past as a vengeful gunslinger, Ross would have had no reason to hunt him down, kidnap his family, and set into motion the events of RDR1. John's irrational need for revenge and to break away from the stagnant domestic life he established for himself and his family causes him to take up arms once again, precisely what Arthur attempted to keep him from doing. Arthur was a bad man turned good, but his attempts to break the cycle of redemption ultimately fail with John when his hunting down of Micah eventually lead to his own death at the hands of Ross. Looking at the big picture, John's failure to break the cycle of redemption then leads to his own son, Jack, leading exactly the life both John and Arthur tried to save him from. Its very likely Jack ends up unceremoniously murdered because of his life decisions as well, probably while seeking a redemption of his own. This cycle of (red dead) redemption is the true overarching plot of the series.

Not gonna lie Arthur's honorable ending brought a tear to my eye

Bad honor could have been so much more. Imagine, the lower your honor, and higher your bounty, people start recognizing and fearing you. Saloons empty when you step in, people run in their houses when they see you approaching, people afraid of making eye contact, people giving you free things out of fear, people and even policemen straight up refusing to fight you and run away due to your reputation. If you won't have me be a Lucky Luke style gunslinger, in regard to the story missions that force you into illegal actions, at least let me become a scourge of the west; a feared outlaw. Also, when going for realism, infinite spawning police forces in places like Rhodes might not be such a good idea. Would be interesting to be able to wipe out the law for a large period of time and watching crime go rampant in a town, while also making shootouts winnable and more realistic. The way things are right now you either run away or die eventually.

I think Dutch is one of the best written antagonists in a video game, watching his descent over the course of the game was so good

"Ride with me ms. Adler" had to be one of most powerful and perfectly placed interactions, i actually cared about the people and that's a rarity.

Auto lock -> gently press up on the stick -> Perfect headshot every time/ one shot kill.

45:16 "I don't even know if I can, in good faith, recommend this magnificent game."

Me: "Fine... I'll do it myself."

Eating to refill your cores isn't that big of a hassle, you can access all of your food from the items tab of the weapon wheel.