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Post by thelistenercanon on Feb 10, 2019 20:50:37 GMT
Just beat this a couple of days ago. Got 81% of the 100% completion without trying, which isn’t too bad. Took me almost 60 hours to do. You would think there's not much stuff, but I can guarantee there's a lot of shit that only nets .01-.05%. Trust me, it took me a long time. I think I had the same when I beat the game, but took me like another 60 hours to complete. Case in point by my timestamps...
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Post by dazed on Feb 11, 2019 0:10:58 GMT
Oh yeah, the things I skipped out on (such as gambiling, finding cigarette cards, fossils, legendary animals, etc) feels like the things that would be most time consuming. I pretty much focused on the main missions and all of the stranger missions to get that 81%.
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Post by thelistenercanon on Feb 11, 2019 7:49:22 GMT
Oh yeah, the things I skipped out on (such as gambiling, finding cigarette cards, fossils, legendary animals, etc) feels like the things that would be most time consuming. I pretty much focused on the main missions and all of the stranger missions to get that 81%. 1. You only need to find 5 legendary animals and not all 16. Plus, they're all marked on the map. 2. Not that you would still do it, but you can sort of exploit by getting a set (don't need ALL actually) of cig cards by doing this...
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Post by Archie on Feb 11, 2019 21:04:15 GMT
I got the platinum and now I'm praying for new content. Undead Nightmare 2 pls.
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Post by DeepArcher on Jan 9, 2020 6:31:01 GMT
I'm fiiiiinally getting around to playing this ... the first game is one of my of my all-time favorites and I'd been hotly anticipating this since it was first announced, I just fell out of the loop with gaming for awhile and have now only finally gotten around to it. Anyway, I really can't emphasize enough just how much I am absolutely loving every bit of this game. I'm trying to plow through the story as efficiently as possible, and I just finished Chapter 3/started Chapter 4. There's a lot of obvious aspects that I could praise here: the spectacularly fun gameplay, the incredibly detailed and diverse open world, the absolutely breathtaking visuals boasting awe-inspiring landscapes the likes of which I've never seen. But what really has me obsessed of course is the narrative, which is not only epic in scope (I've already poured something like 20 hours of gameplay into this and still not even halfway through) but is just fully absorbing and incredibly told. The cinematic quality of it all is just impeccable, and I love things like the one train heist mission where there's a specific succession of shots that feel like a clear homage to Assassination of Jesse James, or that badass Wild Bunch-esque plantation shootout, etc. The story and characters are so well-produced and so well-realized, even a small detail like the name "Arthur Morgan" itself, literally a contradiction of good and evil, is just so clever. And some of its liberal politics feel like Rockstar pretty obviously course-correcting for not exactly being, um, politically correct in the past, but to me that's pretty necessary and the way they incorporate those social undertones is seamless ... plus it's nice to have side characters who aren't just offensive caricatures, but all without losing the satirical edge one bit.
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Post by DeepArcher on Jan 22, 2020 16:26:34 GMT
So I finally finished the story last night, and I gotta say: while this is definitely superior to the (already all-time great) first game in basically every facet, I do think the one aspect where the first handily has it beat is the ending. The iconic, totally badass ending of Red Dead Redemption is the very best thing about it, and I think the two Epilogue sections are quite easily the weakest thing about RDR 2. I think a few things sort of account for that ... for one that I just got so attached to Arthur and gradually appreciated him as a character much more than John that going back to playing John made me lose my passion for it a little bit, also the fact that they also did the whole "going back to normal life right before the big finale" thing in the first game that when they do it again here it's not new territory and we already now where it's going, and just in general that ending is not nearly as satisfying as the first game's. It sure is gratifying to get to gun down Micah, but I dunno, it's a bit underwhelming that getting revenge on Micah is the focus of literally only the last mission, it feels like it comes too easy and is a bit unearned, and then they just kind of shoehorn Dutch in there at the end and then just have him walk off after shooting Micah as if they couldn't think of a better way to have him survive the game to keep the chronology consistent. Also felt cheap that both Charles and Sadie were gravely wounded on the final mission and both survived (at first thought it might be a high honor/low honor thing, but I guess not), I mean I love both of those characters and I'm sorta glad they didn't die as I expected them too, considering every other character who didn't appear in the first installment had already been killed off, but it still felt cheap. John's "Just me" 1 v. 3 standoff moment is the most badass part, but the novelty wore off after I failed that checkpoint like a dozen times and had to do it over and over again ... but that's totally my fault. The ending of Chapter 6 which in a lot of ways feels like the true ending of this story is absolutely spectacular though. The story really just escalates until it gets there and it reaches such a grand, emotional climax that couldn't be more perfect. Thanks to all the senseless rampages I went on while sandboxing (I call it "social commentary") I did unfortunately get the infuriating low honor ending, so I'm motivated to get the "true" high honor version of the ending when I re-play it. And I definitely will be re-playing it, and might even aim for 100% completion when I do rather than just trying to plow through the main story as effeciently possible ... but God of War is next for me, so that'll have to wait just a bit.
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Post by stephen on Jan 31, 2020 19:24:07 GMT
Beat it last night. I'm still cogitating on it, but I'll say this: I loved it up until the epilogue, which lost a wee bit of steam for me (but not by much).
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Post by stephen on Jan 31, 2020 19:27:21 GMT
Holy shit, DeepArcher -- I just started God of War myself. And I am loving it already.
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Post by Archie on Jun 27, 2020 16:40:18 GMT
This is a work of art.
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Post by stephen on Jun 27, 2020 17:55:26 GMT
Can we FYC this video for Best Animated Feature at the AMARAs?
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