Returning to Red Dead Redemption 2

yeah whatever New York City is one of

the most popular populated places on

planet Earth Time Square Central Park or

Zaza City oh sorry you can immediately

clock it and say boom okay that's New

York we are in New York right now this

is such a random New York moment oh my

God it's impossible to count how many

pieces of media take place in the

biggest apple let alone just video games

but one game one very special game that

I still think about a lot a game that

had a big city impact on my delicate

small town frame is Grand Theft Auto 4

I'm one of the many insane people that

actively choose to live in this giant

rat hole of a city and GTA 4 is a big

reason for that get the I am obsessed

with the scope and detail of the

architecture the super dramatic lighting

the blea compact The Psychotic physics

engine and the craziest part actual New

York feels a lot like that well not the

physics engine part but how did Rockstar

do that how did they condense the

atmosphere of this massive City onto a

single Xbox 360 DVD while still having

it possess that intangible how you say

Jenny sequa that's that's not even GTA 4

that's Halo 5 that singular question

defines what I love the most about

Rockstar Games games and I think it's

why I keep making like a billion videos

about them Rockstar's game design is

outdated might forever be the most

viewed thing on my channel and I am very

okay with that I'm really proud of that

video and I stand by just about

everything I brought up including but

not limited to the busted ass wanted

system and a series of incredibly linear

missions that treat you like a child

with no brain or functioning thumbs but

at the same time Red Dead 2 has been

squatting in my abandoned mind cottage

for the better part of the past 6 years

and I think it's because I also stand by

other things I said like how this game

has some of the best writing of any

piece of fiction I've ever consumed and

that it looks and sounds like God much

like how GTA 4 captures the distinct

feeling of being in New York Dead 2

captures Jenny Bayan qua for the

American wilderness that I personally

know while also capturing something so

beyond what I could ever know that push

and pull of loving something so much yet

being so frustrated by it this game had

to be more than just a busted wanted

system or thumbless child simulator

right Blu-ray discs are big as hell and

this game came on two of them so you bet

your ass they could fit a lot of real

estate on these Hogs after revisiting

this Titanic game this time powered by

my Titanic computer which is in turn

powered by six Titanic Sega Dreamcast in

a human centipede type formation I'd

love to share with you what I discovered

while returning to Red Dead Redemption

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okay Red Dead Redemption 2 Remains the

most beautiful game I have ever seen and

that surprised no one everything about

the art design is straight up surgical

the insane level of detail that grazes

every millimeter of this colossal map

the precise historical authenticity that

touches even the dinki of objects the

romanticized dream realism that somehow

drenches everything in the most

beautiful lighting at all times it has

and will continue to blow my back out

watching a long ass GDC talk about how

much work went into just the horses the

horse animations alone had me like two

more videos about horses from becoming a

horse girl but oh my God playing on PC

made me never want to look at a PS4

again get out of my room Sony

Pony this game doesn't only somehow look

even better but it feels feels way

better too there's still a considerable

amount of input delay when doing

anything just cuz that's how Rockstar

intended like you're puppeteering a

hefty bag of Flesh and Bones versus

flicking around a super responsive super

soldier but a high frame rate helps a

lot to make just about every interaction

feel smoother side note the fact that

they still haven't released any sort of

nextg update for PS5 that does like 4K

60 even after they've already

re-released GTA 5 and did the same thing

is a straight up

felony

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every day I Stray further and further

from the path of righteousness I haven't

seen my family in seven anyways uh I

think I think he was I think he was

saying something now because this is on

PC now and I've already played this game

a ton my devious white ass was

immediately like okay is there a mod to

skip the longest intro screen known to

man cuz booting this game up takes

forever and then I saw it I saw the

massive list of other mods available and

much like a very gaslit romantic partner

I softly whispered to myself I can fix

him I knew I wouldn't ever be able to

change how restrictive and boring so

many of the game's linear missions were

that [ __ ] was set in stone but what if I

could address all of the other issues I

had outside of the missions and this is

when Mommy went off the deep end loot

everything fast as [ __ ] buy a house rob

a bank spin your gun crazy hair crazy

ragd dolls dog companion after

installing so many different mods mods

to try and fix the inconsistently broken

wanted system mods to fix how busted the

in-game economy is mods that let me

fight the annoying ass kids in Sandy I

stopped myself I was doing too much I

realized that if the purpose of this

experiment was to revisit and reevaluate

a piece of art I should probably try to

keep it in its originally intended pure

vanilla state right totally totally yes

totally yes um but also maybe I keep a

few of

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them okay so Arthur has three speeds

right walking running by holding a and

full mashing a sprinting there's no

middle ground between crawling and

blasting off so navigating tight SPAC is

always annoyed the piss out of me but

let me also just say this per chance

there is already an in between speed

that exists in the game but only when

you're fast walking around Camp fast

walking outside of camp lets you use

that brisk walk anywhere you want I know

this may not sound like that big of a

deal but oh my God if you have played

the game as much as I have you know that

this is actually kind of a huge deal

Arthur felt so much easier to Puppeteer

once I had the option to move just a bit

more urgently moving around combat

Arenas and not having to either slowly

walk or sloppily Sprint in between cover

even leading your horse around feels so

much better and I did it way more now

that I didn't have to Tiptoe Through The

Window shout out to corvo for making

this mod it caused like zero issues with

my playthrough and it's actually

incredible on controller you could still

do the slow walk you just half press the

mouse and keyboard you can use the push

to talk button and toggle between the

two walks you guys are Gamers you'll

figure it out okay so in general this

game heavily leans into a more grounded

Vibe with all of its realistic

animations right cooking a steak one by

one opening a cabinet drawer by drawer

slowly skinning an animal with an

unskippable animation and then slow

walking its massive Pelt to your horse

it's very clear that Rockstar really

wants you to slow down and truly feel

like you're living in Arthur's custom

crafted immersive moccasin 350s but a

big thing I complained about before is

that when it comes to other things like

the weather or your portable Camp the

game just goes realism Frost my ass I

hate her I don't I don't don't [ __ ]

know her 90% of the time it doesn't

really matter what clothes you're

wearing unless you go up into the snowy

mountain section part of the map you can

essentially go the majority of the game

wearing the same outfit whether it's 90°

in the swampy south or 45° in the Dakota

comma South I remember this felt like

such a missed opportunity because the

outfit crafting in this game is actually

Immaculate and you can pair layers with

other layers to achieve in theory

varying layers of warmth but again the

vanilla game doesn't really do much with

any of this humidity and temperature

overhaul by Bowman 70 fixes all of that

the middle symbol on this new core

changes color when you're not optimally

dressed for the current weather and if

you're not optimally dressed it will

slowly start to drain your health and

stamina cords this could mean needing

more layers of warmth in the chilly

Woods versus wearing less layers in the

soupy swamp the outside ring is your

current resistance to any harsh weather

so putting on a hat to Shield yourself

from beaming sunlight or hard rain

strengthens the ring regardless of what

you're wearing though if you get caught

in the storm your clothes are going to

get wet and that ring is going to drain

no matter what but going into a warm

interior to find shelter or standing

near any sort of heat Source actively

changes your temperature and heats your

ring back up this mod automatically

turns off during missions so that it

doesn't cause any problems too which is

great but in the open world it feels

like such a natural immersive addition

to the existing realism formula that

Rockstar was already going with that I

seriously can't imagine playing the game

without it now watching a storm from

inside your tent feels way more cozy and

grounded and immersive when the Rin

actually has an effect on the player and

speaking of camp

I hated how the vanilla Camp system

worked back in 2018 and it still Frost

my ass I hated how it automatically

teleported you to a predestined location

I hated how the rain did not affect your

ability to make a fire I hated how

sensitive the perimeters were of when

and where you could spawn your magic

teleporting camp the camp anywhere mod

does not fix all of these issues but it

certainly validates a lot of my

complaints and desires it's exactly what

it sounds like a custom menu that lets

you spawn either your whole camp or

individual elements of a camp wherever

you want want oh you found the most

gorgeous view and you want to put your

tent in that exact spot talk your [ __ ]

arur oh you want to build a fire right

by a frozen lake while you're fishing so

that you can immediately cook any giant

fishies that you catch without having to

teleport away to an entire Camp just to

cook them and also standing next to the

fire is in perfect Synergy with the

weather mod I was just talking about

what the hell this is the best day of my

life I think you get why I love this mod

so much camp anywhere makes exploring

this [ __ ] beautiful Majestic world

just a tad more engaging because it's

one more choice that the player gets to

make make for themselves a choice

capable of creating magical emergent

moments that feel so much more personal

pitching your horse to any tree is a

feature that is already in the game so

picking a specific spot to settle down

with your precious boy or girl feels

Supernatural but again this mod is not

perfect dude camp anywhere really said

camp anywhere for better or worse hey

this is my genuine

reaction I didn't I didn't know that

guys would actually get into your tent

that's that's incredible I can see how

Rockstar landed on the solution they did

of having pre-selected places for the

player to set up their Camp to avoid

Shenanigans like this but I still think

a middle ground definitely could have

been achieved at least like letting you

manually place down a fire or a bed roll

in way more places I'm not saying you

even got to chop wood or anything to

make a fire even though that's already

kind of in the game too jk LOL LOL I'm

sorry I'm

sorry but am I sorry sadly the campfires

built using this mod can't ever have the

grill attachment that you can get that

lets you cook like the oregano special

meat and it doesn't let you fast travel

like the vanilla portable Camp does now

if you upgrade to have fast travel at

the main gangs Camp which that was not

in the game originally and is an amazing

addition and also it makes upgrading the

gang's Camp actually matter a bit more

now because before if you upgraded it

and you got fast travel it's like cool I

can fast travel from the camp but you're

still having to go back there all the

time if you played the game you know

what I'm talking about but shout out to

cross 99 for making this mod if you see

this and you could pretty please somehow

add the grill and the Fast Travel

function to this mod I'll name my

firstborn cross 99 and it'll pick and

roll my ass and cross me up and break my

cankles you may have noticed that I'm

wearing a lot of stuff that says ball

creative or ball or has you know some

[ __ ] on the back or something that's

because it's my new company that I

started it's basically the creative

umbrella for all future creative

projects whether that's music or videos

or merch or uh eventually and not

anytime soon don't get your hopes up but

video games if you're

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interested okay real quick one more mod

is selling guns by Bullman 70 Jesus

Christ this guy is really crushing the

mod game Rockstar updated the game to

have a weapon Locker at the main Camp

which is amazing because now you can

finally organize the billions of guns

but Arthur can sometimes still pick up

guns that you can't then put into the

weapon Locker so they just get stuck in

your inventory and it's annoying as [ __ ]

with the mod you can go up to this guy

and sell whatever guns you want and just

get them out of your inventory and it's

amazing okay mod mods mods we get it bro

you're a Discord kitten manager get on

with it clearly these mods were a very

important part of my return trip and

improved my experience by base boosting

mechanics that were already in the game

but really they were the Catalyst to

truly enjoy and Savor all of the things

that the game has already possessed

since 2018 what it started as I can fix

him eventually turned into he can fix

me

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I played the everliving [ __ ] out of this

game back when it dropped in 2018 just

like everyone else did and even with all