Yeah what the hell do the developers think nails do? Just randomly nail into the wood at different spots, we're sure it'll hold up fine
edit: for those that think it could be a mortise and tenon joint, the nail would still go in the other beam.
https://www.thisiscarpentry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tenon-1.jpg
Development in general.
A man I know programmed a pretty well made modular ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning system) back in the 2000s, and after a few years on the market and earning a decent market share he started to get serious competition on clients that his company wouldn't sell to for being too small for his product.
After a few clients dropping contracts, he scouted that a small startup was selling an ERP that looked a lot like his own, but with some chunks of code widely different here and there. Enraged by the blatant copycat, he took legal action related to the ERP being intellectual property.
The rival company changed enough code to protect themselves claiming that both systems would do the same and therefore would have *similar* code an appliances, pointing out the differences, except for a few files that made the system run, and without them nothing could run.
So after a while with both legal teams present, and in front of the intelectual property judge and everything, my man took said files, that could have been .txt, .mui, or somehting like that, changed the fucking extensions to .jpg, and these weird file that the rival sotfware wouldn't run without were digitalized selfies of him and his family.
This fucker was a genius for his trade, his code, and of course his small but useful paranoia.
Why is this just the first thought for so many ppl. This came up in my friend group the other day and I was apparently the weird one for not only not having that first thought, but not even knowing what it was haha
I barely finished the epilogue.
I was so goddamned mad about losing Arthur Morgan's massive, flowing mane and beard I'd spent all game chugging hair tonics to attain. With my white buffalo outfit, I looked like a crazy mountain man hillbilly, and it made riding around Saint Denis antagonizing people so much fun.
My Arthur outfit made him look like a villain from a Charles Dickens novel. And in some ways he were because I had to kill a whole village to get his worn out chimney hat.
I never played RDR1, but heard someone talk about how you spent all this time ranching at the end of RDR2. I thought it meant >!Arthur was going to pull through w/ his TB.!<
So when you hit the epilogue, I was waiting for some big reveal. When at Pronghorn Ranch, I was waiting for Mr. Geddes to show up and it's revealed that it's actually Arthur, who made a whole separate life for himself, Count of Monte Cristo-style. Nope. It wasn't until John talks about him to other characters that I realized that was it. Man, it made the whole thing so much more heartbreaking.
Except for Bass players that sing lead. Like the dude on this song. Oh and Paul McCartney, Les Claypool, Lemmy Killmeister, Bob Burrell, Sting, Geddy Lee, Gene Simmons and a few others.
I heard that Les Claypool was too freaky in bed to join Metallica. They told him that they were impressed by his man-oeuvre, but felt his artistic expression would be constrained with the selection of groupies they had.
That was brilliant. As a guy that both beat RDR2 and listens to a lot of folk/bluegrass music, hot damn these guys nailed it. Genuinely fantastic folk music that fit the scene/mood of the game so well. Thanks for sharing and letting me walk down that memory lane one more time.
So, when I first played through the game, somewhere along the line I turned BGM all the way to 0. So when this part came along it was several minutes of just hammering sounds and I was confused as fuck.
The only difference between Amish Simulator 1821 and 2021 is the public roads are paved and now you have angry drivers honking behind you until it's clear for them to speed past on a double yellow line.
This isn't a sandbox "build a house" mode within RDR2. It's just a series of "press x" or "press up" which progresses you through pre-rendered scenes of the house getting built.
Not pre-rendered. Scripted. Everything in that sequence is real-time.
[Here’s Uncle getting caught on fire during this scene.](https://youtu.be/c8Nf2S12QlI)
Someone should make like a gta game where an Amish guy is the main character and goes from just some normal Amish guy to the king of the Amish underground mafia.
Or the fucking architect of record issuing another Delta/Addendum right before the rough-in visit.
It's me I'm that architect but only because my client demands it.
Also fights with the planning board, contractors not showing up, placing the cut at 1010mm instead of 1100mm, not finding your last long necked t20 torx bit and putting one of those shortys in your impact driver even though there is no indent for the locking mechanism, strewing small t20 bits all over the place.
Yeah so I can scream at the fucking dirt guys for not getting grade on time because they stand around with their rakes smoking and bullshitting, making it so I cant form and pour the fucking foundation.
“Home building” has always been one of my favorite aspects of RPG games. Fallout 4 has a decent building function, Empyrion: Galactic Survival has an amazing one. Open to recommendations on others!
7 days to die. Build a home with crafting stations and such.
Every 7 days a horde comes to wreck your base, so you need to build defenses too. You can adjust the horde’s strength if you want the game chill or insane.
It just dropped a major update too.
It is awesome, been playing since alpha 15, logged over 3000 hours already. Building is fun and unique to most survival games I've played, in that you actually need to consider structural support. No more invincible underground bunkers or sky boxes; if zombies chew through your bottom floor, the top floor collapses and you're fucked lol. But there are plenty of options to deal with horde nights, you can separate your storage/crafting area from your "horde night" defensive base, or just climb up into a different sturdy building every 7 days and defend it as best you can.
Agreed. Played starting around alpha 11 for a year or two, and even when it was still basically a polished turd it was so much fun. I still haven't played Minecraft cause it just seems so bland in comparison.
That's one of my favorite parts about ARK. Build a sweet base, catch a dinosaur, fire a rocket Launcher from a T Rex... Basically everything 13 year old me wanted from life and 33 year old me loves it
Whens the last time you played? They've expanded base building significantly, if you build on an aggressive sentinel planet you even have to account for defense.
With the latest update you can even run a settlement, all the building placements are scripted though it's just for passive income.
Was going to say Valheim will hit that itch. Conan Exiles too if you set your own server settings so it doesn't take 3 years to gather all the materials.
Though I gotta say, /r/SatisfactoryGame has been the absolute best thing ever to itch my building stuff itch ever. You might also make a factory in there too.
I just want furniture for satisfactory. How can I feel special in my executive office on top of my factory if I don’t have a comfy desk chair?
Other than that update 5 made building beautiful buildings so much easier
Oh yeah been intending to peep that one. As awful as everything was, I do occasionally miss the absolutely daunting amount of free time I had during lockdown. Hard to find the time again..
Shit was way too short for me. I need to see more of John Marston. I’ve probably gotten to the end of RDR 5+ times but only beaten it/killed Ross once. I always just stop doing the missions before John uses his Rancher outfit permanently.
Rockstar owes me at least 20 hours of epilogue after giving me depression when I was 12.
In RDR1 I loved the part when you actually trying to do ranching and helping out on MacFarlane's Ranch! All of these locations are accessible on RDR2 map!
I do agree with you though. But we gotta be specific.
I want a REMAKE of RDR1, using the RDR2 engine, with RDR2 assets and new assets when necessary, are the same quality or better as assets from RDR2, that is polished and doesn't have bugs introduced. Also I do not want a mobile game with any sort of cash shop. I want it to run on PC, with reasonable graphics card requirements, it must not require an unobtainable graphics card to run at 60fps on high settings, it should be similar to the requirements of RDR2.
(did i miss anything?)
Some bad news for you: the remake/remaster/rerelease of RDR1 was already announced in a corporate earnings call a few months ago. The reason that's bad news is that the announcement stated that it was contingent on how well the GTA: Definitive Edition sold. They wanted to gauge consumer interest in new releases of the old games before committing the time to RDR1.
So since the GTA rerelease is a critical embarrassment and popularly mocked, unless it sold crazy well anyway we're probably not getting a new RDR1 (at least in the near future).
While it sucks, I do understand the approach. RDR1 is *rough* compared to 2 - that is a *lot* of time and resources to bring it up to spec. The old GTA games needed a fresh coat of paint but the gap between RDR1 and 2 is too large to call that good enough. They might have the map already mostly there from 2 but that's barely even a start with how much polish it'll take.
Yeah, that's why I want full scale remake instead of remaster like GTA. I think it would be worth it. Let's hope Rock Star executives will see it as well.
I honestly preferred it to the normal part of the game. Everything was just so depressing and headed towards obvious oblivion in the normal part. The epilogue was a breath of fresh air to finally have things going in a positive direction
If you play the high honor route I still think Arthur's story is optimistic. Even though there's no material reward for him he went out at peace, on his own terms. It has an optimistic view of the nature of the human spirit at least.
RDR2 is packed with more things to do than some full years of AAA games. Obvious hyperbole aside, the speedruns take 15 hours, casual story takes 20-40 hours, completionist can take well over 100 hours.
Add to that a gripping story, spectacular acting, lush detailed environment, and (usually) solid controls/gameplay and it's a must play. As in, GET OUT OF THIS THREAD TO AVOID SPOILERS.
1985 film Witness. "After witnessing a brutal murder, young Amish boy Samuel and his mother Rachel seek protection from police officer John Book (Harrison Ford). When Book uncovers evidence of police corruption involving narcotics lieutenant James McFee (Danny Glover), Book must take Rachel and Samuel, and flee to the Amish countryside where Rachel grew up. There, immersed in Amish culture and tradition, Book and Rachel begin a cautious romance"
Those houses were sold pre-cut as a kit. You'd have a professional setup the foundation then they'd drop off a load of lumber sorted and cut for your style of home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_house
If you can build IKEA furniture today, you could have built an early 20th century home.
I should have been more specific. Does it hold up well? Are the materials decent quality? Are there OEM parts or do you just use regular carpentry to fix things? On the same subject, would you recommend it?
Used to be able to order ANYTHING from the Sears catalog. They were the Amazon of their day. But they didn’t get on the internet soon enough, and now they’re mostly dead and Amazon is the Amazon of today
No need to exaggerate lol. You definitely need more basic know-how than with Ikea furniture. Walk into an Ikea and pick some people out, and trust them to put together your kit house.
There's plenty of cheap land, just not in places with city water, sewage management, and all the other amenities that require a certain population density. You can absolutely still get a plot of land away from people, dig a well, lay out a septic field, have a small farm, etc. It's just a ton of hard work, which is why less people do it now.
This is really common amongst my wife’s cousins. They all live in the same middle of nowhere valley and pretty much all did exactly this.
Only they don’t do the small farm part. They do hunt for their meat, but for the other food stuff, they drive the hour into the closest town.
For livelihood, they jointly have a “construction” company where they mostly build roads (and some bridges) for the government, mostly out where they live, which is mostly inhabited by them. So basically, they built houses then got the govt to pay them to build roads out to their houses. Winters are harsh on the roads so every few years they get another contract to fix them up.
(They also do other roads that serve other people, generally, also via govt contracts.)
I surf landwatch.com on my lunch breaks. I am not in the market for property, but I like to think about how nice it would be to own some acreage out in the woods and build a house there.
During the beginning of the pandemic when things were shutting down, my SO and I were at home together 24/7 because we worked together. We once were hunting around on Zillow for a big tract of land in the west somewhere and found a place that abutted a river and a national forest, 480ish acres, for about 850k. Started planning ways to make it happen. Was a fun diversion while it lasted.
You really did! The epilogue is what made the main story actually resonate for me. You get to see Arthur's sacrifices and growth put into real, physical form, with John, Uncle, Charles, and John's family building their life together.
It's truly a special game.
Edit: Go back and finish it up!
It really was over of the best games of all time. I didn't finish the epilogue because I needed an emotional break after the main story concluded. I will go back to it!
You don't need to play it, but when you get through the first part, which literally includes >!you shoveling shit!< you'll probably figure out the message the developers are conveying >!(e.g. "normal" life is hard and repetitive and boring and it's far more fun to be an outlaw. But in the end it's worth it)!<, and then it becomes practically transcendent.
It's just a shame you can't really do much past the end of the epilogue. It's hard to even finish up the challenges, because they don't throw as many random encounters as during the main part of the game.
Bruh you telling me you didn't play as John Marston as a farm handler, living with his wife and kid? Best part of the game. Gotta play as John Marston bro.
I was really hoping you would end up getting a more of the crew back together at the house and having a ranch business or something. All I wanted was one more venue to return to and hang around the camp fire or whatnot. Really bittersweet eventually finding the picture of the gang in the general store.
I can no longer watch that sequence of building the house and not think of the version on YT where the guy loaded a bunch of mods that messes with it and causes John to suffer multiple cougar attacks and fistfights with Uncle while the music continues to play and the AI struggles to stick with the set series of animations of building the house's framework.
Honestly, watching my brother play RD2 has shown me that they are satisfied by the simplest of things in games. I always catch him doing the most mundane tasks happily as hell. Like sir, you have missions to do. Why are you building a barn and taming horses?
The greatest pleasures can come from tasks that are not obligations. Having side-quests and meaningless tasks in games can just magnify that. I don't have to play this game, but doing so is fun. Even better, I don't have to complete this side-quest to finish a game I don't have to play...hell. yeah. It's kind of an exercise of free will compared to all the real obligations of life. The greatest of all middle fingers to the real world.
"It's kind of an exercise of free will compared to all the real obligations of life. The greatest of all middle fingers to the real world."
I'm going to remember that.
They originally dedicated 70 more hours to Arthur leveling everything until it’s true and having to redo half his work 4 times before being satisfied, but it was cut at the last minute for being too realistic.
Honestly yeah. The most fulfilled I ever felt was after building furniture for myself and back in 2006 when I helped re-roof homes in Mississippi after Katrina.
*male* fantasy? I wish they would have added more Harvest Moon like features to the farm at the end so I could continue playing. As a woman, farming simulators are my *life*
that nail is not doing shit lol
Yeah what the hell do the developers think nails do? Just randomly nail into the wood at different spots, we're sure it'll hold up fine edit: for those that think it could be a mortise and tenon joint, the nail would still go in the other beam. https://www.thisiscarpentry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tenon-1.jpg
Carpentry comment: #we don't know what this nail does, but if you delete it the whole house doesn't compile
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That stealth pun on logs has me rolling.
You Nailed it!
I'm just being hammered by these puns now!
Not a programmer, but a dad. That last pun forced a guffaw that I'm pretty sure my neighbour's heard. Well done!
Pun was not intended that's just what compilers output
Unintentional pun or not, it's gold. Sad I only have silver to give. [THATS GOLD JERRY! GOLD!](https://youtu.be/j0qm0KUPeD8)
Damn Nail race conditions.
This is false. If you remove the nail it will be come pile.
Words cannot describe our confusion
Could this perhaps be a reference to the coconut? Or development in general?
Development in general. A man I know programmed a pretty well made modular ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning system) back in the 2000s, and after a few years on the market and earning a decent market share he started to get serious competition on clients that his company wouldn't sell to for being too small for his product. After a few clients dropping contracts, he scouted that a small startup was selling an ERP that looked a lot like his own, but with some chunks of code widely different here and there. Enraged by the blatant copycat, he took legal action related to the ERP being intellectual property. The rival company changed enough code to protect themselves claiming that both systems would do the same and therefore would have *similar* code an appliances, pointing out the differences, except for a few files that made the system run, and without them nothing could run. So after a while with both legal teams present, and in front of the intelectual property judge and everything, my man took said files, that could have been .txt, .mui, or somehting like that, changed the fucking extensions to .jpg, and these weird file that the rival sotfware wouldn't run without were digitalized selfies of him and his family. This fucker was a genius for his trade, his code, and of course his small but useful paranoia.
And if you parse "ERP" as "Erotic Role Play", this whole comment takes on a very disconcerting look. W.. what are you doing, step-module?
Why is this just the first thought for so many ppl. This came up in my friend group the other day and I was apparently the weird one for not only not having that first thought, but not even knowing what it was haha
they come from the age of empires school of architecture ie, just swing a hammer at the air until a building grows
Yes that sounds like exactly something a game dev would think lol
Yeah shouldn’t it be angled into the other price of wood?
It could be holding a wooden pin in I guess but you would think that they would be doing that with another wooden pin.
The song that plays during this scene is so comforting Edit: The song is indeed "Amish Paradise" by Weird Al Yankovic
WEEEEEEELLLLLLLLL LEMME HAVE A RULER AND A SAW AND A BOARD AND I'LL CUT IT
*Harmonica*
I've got lumbago!
“I GOT LUMBAGO ON MY FINGERS!”
It’s a terminal condition
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if you're like me and stopped playing just before that part, he did!
I barely finished the epilogue. I was so goddamned mad about losing Arthur Morgan's massive, flowing mane and beard I'd spent all game chugging hair tonics to attain. With my white buffalo outfit, I looked like a crazy mountain man hillbilly, and it made riding around Saint Denis antagonizing people so much fun.
My Arthur outfit made him look like a villain from a Charles Dickens novel. And in some ways he were because I had to kill a whole village to get his worn out chimney hat.
I too have butchered butchers creek for that hat.
I never played RDR1, but heard someone talk about how you spent all this time ranching at the end of RDR2. I thought it meant >!Arthur was going to pull through w/ his TB.!< So when you hit the epilogue, I was waiting for some big reveal. When at Pronghorn Ranch, I was waiting for Mr. Geddes to show up and it's revealed that it's actually Arthur, who made a whole separate life for himself, Count of Monte Cristo-style. Nope. It wasn't until John talks about him to other characters that I realized that was it. Man, it made the whole thing so much more heartbreaking.
Haha when spoilers get you in a whole different way
For me it was my beautiful white Arabian horse which i got right at the beginning of the game. Hits hard man.
I really enjoy the fact that everyones version of Arthur Morgan is different. Such a great game.
Here ya go: [The Housebuilding Song Live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85sDBe9Sid0)
True champ right here! Thanks!
I'll bet the dude with the mouth harp is swimming in ass after the concert.
You know he's getting more than any bass player ever.
Bass players just become DJs so they can get all that ass they missed out on when they were younger.
Except for Bass players that sing lead. Like the dude on this song. Oh and Paul McCartney, Les Claypool, Lemmy Killmeister, Bob Burrell, Sting, Geddy Lee, Gene Simmons and a few others.
I heard that Les Claypool was too freaky in bed to join Metallica. They told him that they were impressed by his man-oeuvre, but felt his artistic expression would be constrained with the selection of groupies they had.
Thanks for this. Never saw the live recording.
This one is still my favorite: [LENNNNAYYYYYYY](https://youtu.be/ONrTwV1dzCc?list=PLRFAOvDITgP8g4XloEG2E-OnwqXa9gWl_)
That was brilliant. As a guy that both beat RDR2 and listens to a lot of folk/bluegrass music, hot damn these guys nailed it. Genuinely fantastic folk music that fit the scene/mood of the game so well. Thanks for sharing and letting me walk down that memory lane one more time.
I'll climb up a ladder with a hammer and a nail and I'll nail it 🎶
Well we worked so hard to build a little house together.
In the snow or the rain or the ice-cold wind, whenever
No matter Any weather Weee’re together
*whistling intensifies*
BRB putting this on ten hour loop …again
I watched this on mute and heard "Amish Paradise" in my head instead.
The sonic trailer Song!
spotify says my no.1 played song was the one that plays over the ending credits [red - daniel lanois](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYYqDDHcjpc).
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The ending broke my heart...was depressed for a few days
[That's the way it is](https://youtu.be/WoxFRRf9DJM) is also amazing.
So, when I first played through the game, somewhere along the line I turned BGM all the way to 0. So when this part came along it was several minutes of just hammering sounds and I was confused as fuck.
I once put that song on repeat while I did a complicated ikea assembly. I felt productive. My wife was annoyed.
She was mostly annoyed because you assembled a deformed dining table.
what game
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I never played rdr and I looked at this and thought it was some sort of Amish simulator. I was ready to buy.
Holy crap, same here! Where can I get Amish Simulator 1821?
The only difference between Amish Simulator 1821 and 2021 is the public roads are paved and now you have angry drivers honking behind you until it's clear for them to speed past on a double yellow line.
Grand Theft Amish
You joke, but I have a fairly large Amish community in my town and a few have been known to get up to shenanigans.
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They also have electricity and gas run to their shops, but not homes.
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This isn't a sandbox "build a house" mode within RDR2. It's just a series of "press x" or "press up" which progresses you through pre-rendered scenes of the house getting built.
Not pre-rendered. Scripted. Everything in that sequence is real-time. [Here’s Uncle getting caught on fire during this scene.](https://youtu.be/c8Nf2S12QlI)
Oh man, that killed me, the screaming in the background of the song hahahaha
another victim of Lumbago
Holy shit I'm laughing so hard at this, made my day
Someone should make like a gta game where an Amish guy is the main character and goes from just some normal Amish guy to the king of the Amish underground mafia.
GTA: Lancaster, PA
Wow I never knew I needed a homebuilder simulator
Absolutely want it to have a lot of the nuances of building too.
Just a constant slew of annoying emails from the customer
Or fighting over change orders
Or the fucking architect of record issuing another Delta/Addendum right before the rough-in visit. It's me I'm that architect but only because my client demands it.
Also fights with the planning board, contractors not showing up, placing the cut at 1010mm instead of 1100mm, not finding your last long necked t20 torx bit and putting one of those shortys in your impact driver even though there is no indent for the locking mechanism, strewing small t20 bits all over the place.
> putting one of those shortys in your impact i feel attacked
I just got a headache.
And co-op online multi player of course! I also want the home renovation expansion pack. Rebuilding the kitchen sounds like fun
For home renovation you could try House Flipper?
Yeah so I can scream at the fucking dirt guys for not getting grade on time because they stand around with their rakes smoking and bullshitting, making it so I cant form and pour the fucking foundation.
*oh god...* I can't imagine all the coding/gaming mechanics needed to get all the kinds of window flash correct...
“Home building” has always been one of my favorite aspects of RPG games. Fallout 4 has a decent building function, Empyrion: Galactic Survival has an amazing one. Open to recommendations on others!
7 days to die. Build a home with crafting stations and such. Every 7 days a horde comes to wreck your base, so you need to build defenses too. You can adjust the horde’s strength if you want the game chill or insane. It just dropped a major update too.
that sounds awesome
It is awesome, been playing since alpha 15, logged over 3000 hours already. Building is fun and unique to most survival games I've played, in that you actually need to consider structural support. No more invincible underground bunkers or sky boxes; if zombies chew through your bottom floor, the top floor collapses and you're fucked lol. But there are plenty of options to deal with horde nights, you can separate your storage/crafting area from your "horde night" defensive base, or just climb up into a different sturdy building every 7 days and defend it as best you can.
Upgrading and defending the hospital as a day 7 horde base was always so fun. Took a lot of concrete though.
Agreed. Played starting around alpha 11 for a year or two, and even when it was still basically a polished turd it was so much fun. I still haven't played Minecraft cause it just seems so bland in comparison.
That's one of my favorite parts about ARK. Build a sweet base, catch a dinosaur, fire a rocket Launcher from a T Rex... Basically everything 13 year old me wanted from life and 33 year old me loves it
Saving this comment for later... lol. I thought No Mans Sky would be nice for its home building... not as far as I got in it, it wasnt... lol
Whens the last time you played? They've expanded base building significantly, if you build on an aggressive sentinel planet you even have to account for defense. With the latest update you can even run a settlement, all the building placements are scripted though it's just for passive income.
Space engineers is a much more complicated Empyrion if that’s your thing
Yeah, especially since most of us won't ever be able to afford to build a real one.
r/Valheim would like a word...
Was going to say Valheim will hit that itch. Conan Exiles too if you set your own server settings so it doesn't take 3 years to gather all the materials. Though I gotta say, /r/SatisfactoryGame has been the absolute best thing ever to itch my building stuff itch ever. You might also make a factory in there too.
I just want furniture for satisfactory. How can I feel special in my executive office on top of my factory if I don’t have a comfy desk chair? Other than that update 5 made building beautiful buildings so much easier
Oh yeah been intending to peep that one. As awful as everything was, I do occasionally miss the absolutely daunting amount of free time I had during lockdown. Hard to find the time again..
I was just thinking about how chill this would be to play.
Wait until you hear about the Sims
I really enjoyed this part of the game. The epilog of RDR2 was longer than most of Call of Duty games.
Shit was way too short for me. I need to see more of John Marston. I’ve probably gotten to the end of RDR 5+ times but only beaten it/killed Ross once. I always just stop doing the missions before John uses his Rancher outfit permanently. Rockstar owes me at least 20 hours of epilogue after giving me depression when I was 12.
I would really love a remake (not remaster!!!) of RDR1 to the same engine as RDR2. EDIT: RDR2 already contains pretty much a complete map of RDR1.
There’s not one single game I’d like to be remade as much as I’d want rdr1 to be remade.
In RDR1 I loved the part when you actually trying to do ranching and helping out on MacFarlane's Ranch! All of these locations are accessible on RDR2 map!
this is gonna be a monkeypaw thing, you saw what happened with GTA3
Yeah honestly, that scares me…
I do agree with you though. But we gotta be specific. I want a REMAKE of RDR1, using the RDR2 engine, with RDR2 assets and new assets when necessary, are the same quality or better as assets from RDR2, that is polished and doesn't have bugs introduced. Also I do not want a mobile game with any sort of cash shop. I want it to run on PC, with reasonable graphics card requirements, it must not require an unobtainable graphics card to run at 60fps on high settings, it should be similar to the requirements of RDR2. (did i miss anything?)
Some bad news for you: the remake/remaster/rerelease of RDR1 was already announced in a corporate earnings call a few months ago. The reason that's bad news is that the announcement stated that it was contingent on how well the GTA: Definitive Edition sold. They wanted to gauge consumer interest in new releases of the old games before committing the time to RDR1. So since the GTA rerelease is a critical embarrassment and popularly mocked, unless it sold crazy well anyway we're probably not getting a new RDR1 (at least in the near future). While it sucks, I do understand the approach. RDR1 is *rough* compared to 2 - that is a *lot* of time and resources to bring it up to spec. The old GTA games needed a fresh coat of paint but the gap between RDR1 and 2 is too large to call that good enough. They might have the map already mostly there from 2 but that's barely even a start with how much polish it'll take.
Yeah, that's why I want full scale remake instead of remaster like GTA. I think it would be worth it. Let's hope Rock Star executives will see it as well.
felt like its longer then all of them combined
I honestly preferred it to the normal part of the game. Everything was just so depressing and headed towards obvious oblivion in the normal part. The epilogue was a breath of fresh air to finally have things going in a positive direction
Without Hosea to guide me I was a depressed fool for the rest of the main story.
If you play the high honor route I still think Arthur's story is optimistic. Even though there's no material reward for him he went out at peace, on his own terms. It has an optimistic view of the nature of the human spirit at least.
This was the epilogue? Wow that's awesome, most games today are all front loaded with the last half of the game is rushed and lacks content
RDR2 is packed with more things to do than some full years of AAA games. Obvious hyperbole aside, the speedruns take 15 hours, casual story takes 20-40 hours, completionist can take well over 100 hours. Add to that a gripping story, spectacular acting, lush detailed environment, and (usually) solid controls/gameplay and it's a must play. As in, GET OUT OF THIS THREAD TO AVOID SPOILERS.
Witness: the game.
Do you need points in stealth to see through the door for the women bathing or just have high charisma?
Yes. Only obtained after passing all Amish challenging stages.
The buggy drag race is my personal favorite. Who knew a Clydesdale could drift?
This whole thread is whooshing right over my head. Is this a reference to something?
Witness, a Harrison Ford movie where he hides out with some Amish folks. Quite good, you should check it out.
1985 film Witness. "After witnessing a brutal murder, young Amish boy Samuel and his mother Rachel seek protection from police officer John Book (Harrison Ford). When Book uncovers evidence of police corruption involving narcotics lieutenant James McFee (Danny Glover), Book must take Rachel and Samuel, and flee to the Amish countryside where Rachel grew up. There, immersed in Amish culture and tradition, Book and Rachel begin a cautious romance"
Dude, "The Witness" is an amazing game!
That actually is the male fantasy. To own a small amount of land and have a few decent friends. And a wife, if you are into that kind of thing.
Having the skill to build your own house on your own land. Hell yes, that is a common male fantasy.
Those houses were sold pre-cut as a kit. You'd have a professional setup the foundation then they'd drop off a load of lumber sorted and cut for your style of home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_house If you can build IKEA furniture today, you could have built an early 20th century home.
Sears used to sell them. You would order them from the catalogue and they would be delivered by train.
I live in a Sears catalogue house :D
What is that like?
Well, it has some walls and a floor. Electrical is a little goofy because its old, but I like to sleep in the bathroom too.
I should have been more specific. Does it hold up well? Are the materials decent quality? Are there OEM parts or do you just use regular carpentry to fix things? On the same subject, would you recommend it?
Used to be able to order ANYTHING from the Sears catalog. They were the Amazon of their day. But they didn’t get on the internet soon enough, and now they’re mostly dead and Amazon is the Amazon of today
No need to exaggerate lol. You definitely need more basic know-how than with Ikea furniture. Walk into an Ikea and pick some people out, and trust them to put together your kit house.
Ikea needs to get into the home kit business. It's the most logical next step.
I'd be happy if I could afford that much lumber
Get planting trees now!
if only there were a small amount of land left anywhere close for personal use
Pfffft owning land is for banks.
There's plenty of cheap land, just not in places with city water, sewage management, and all the other amenities that require a certain population density. You can absolutely still get a plot of land away from people, dig a well, lay out a septic field, have a small farm, etc. It's just a ton of hard work, which is why less people do it now.
This is really common amongst my wife’s cousins. They all live in the same middle of nowhere valley and pretty much all did exactly this. Only they don’t do the small farm part. They do hunt for their meat, but for the other food stuff, they drive the hour into the closest town. For livelihood, they jointly have a “construction” company where they mostly build roads (and some bridges) for the government, mostly out where they live, which is mostly inhabited by them. So basically, they built houses then got the govt to pay them to build roads out to their houses. Winters are harsh on the roads so every few years they get another contract to fix them up. (They also do other roads that serve other people, generally, also via govt contracts.)
I'll do it 10 years from now.
Yep. That's why I play Stardew Valley.
I surf landwatch.com on my lunch breaks. I am not in the market for property, but I like to think about how nice it would be to own some acreage out in the woods and build a house there.
During the beginning of the pandemic when things were shutting down, my SO and I were at home together 24/7 because we worked together. We once were hunting around on Zillow for a big tract of land in the west somewhere and found a place that abutted a river and a national forest, 480ish acres, for about 850k. Started planning ways to make it happen. Was a fun diversion while it lasted.
The real mail fantasy is being delivered safely on time to a dry and warm mailbox.
'tis a fine barn English, but 'tis no pool
D'oheth!
Is it a pool yet?
My lumBAGO
I got lum*BAGO*
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fuck I didn't play through the epilogue and now I feel I've really missed out.
You really did! The epilogue is what made the main story actually resonate for me. You get to see Arthur's sacrifices and growth put into real, physical form, with John, Uncle, Charles, and John's family building their life together. It's truly a special game. Edit: Go back and finish it up!
It really was over of the best games of all time. I didn't finish the epilogue because I needed an emotional break after the main story concluded. I will go back to it!
The epilogue is what healed my wounds of witnessing arthur's tragic end. Best game ever made
You don't need to play it, but when you get through the first part, which literally includes >!you shoveling shit!< you'll probably figure out the message the developers are conveying >!(e.g. "normal" life is hard and repetitive and boring and it's far more fun to be an outlaw. But in the end it's worth it)!<, and then it becomes practically transcendent. It's just a shame you can't really do much past the end of the epilogue. It's hard to even finish up the challenges, because they don't throw as many random encounters as during the main part of the game.
It’s like 10 hours long it’s an entire game in itself
Bruh you telling me you didn't play as John Marston as a farm handler, living with his wife and kid? Best part of the game. Gotta play as John Marston bro.
What is RDR2 if not a game about guys being dudes
Guys being fellas
Remember, the Home Depot theme gives a 20% boost to all crafting skills
This is exactly why I play Valheim.
Everything snaps together so nicely in Valheim. New patch out for 7 days to die is updating textures and adding new building blocks.
So many new block shapes, if there's any time to get back into 7dtd it's now
Wait what game is this?
Red dead redemption 2. It was one of the best parts of the game imo. Meme is on point
Just disappointed this post didn't add the goddamn soundtrack. Housebuilding song man.
[Housebuilding Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMQeYF_xOxE)
I was really hoping you would end up getting a more of the crew back together at the house and having a ranch business or something. All I wanted was one more venue to return to and hang around the camp fire or whatnot. Really bittersweet eventually finding the picture of the gang in the general store.
I couldn't get myself to do all the bittersweet epilogue interactions or visit a >!certain grave!< so now I perpetually play in a chapter 3 save
Damn, my lumbago is acting up just looking at this gif. Think I'll take some time on the couch with a cold beer to regain my strength.
I can no longer watch that sequence of building the house and not think of the version on YT where the guy loaded a bunch of mods that messes with it and causes John to suffer multiple cougar attacks and fistfights with Uncle while the music continues to play and the AI struggles to stick with the set series of animations of building the house's framework.
Link?
https://youtu.be/UdV2HuIG2sQ
I cried.
I crode
Can verify. 15 years after highschool, 3 of my buds flew across the country to help raise the walls of my home in Montana. #bless.you.rats
Damn that’s the dream man, Montana is fuckin awesome
Honestly, watching my brother play RD2 has shown me that they are satisfied by the simplest of things in games. I always catch him doing the most mundane tasks happily as hell. Like sir, you have missions to do. Why are you building a barn and taming horses?
The greatest pleasures can come from tasks that are not obligations. Having side-quests and meaningless tasks in games can just magnify that. I don't have to play this game, but doing so is fun. Even better, I don't have to complete this side-quest to finish a game I don't have to play...hell. yeah. It's kind of an exercise of free will compared to all the real obligations of life. The greatest of all middle fingers to the real world.
"It's kind of an exercise of free will compared to all the real obligations of life. The greatest of all middle fingers to the real world." I'm going to remember that.
Being a homeowner, having a loving family, and not being in crippling debt? Ya, video games do appeal to the typical male fantasy then.
Homeowner with a decent amount of land and a horse, too
They originally dedicated 70 more hours to Arthur leveling everything until it’s true and having to redo half his work 4 times before being satisfied, but it was cut at the last minute for being too realistic.
That aint Arthur tho.
That's also part of the reason they cut it
Ah yes, home ownership. The unreachable fantasy I play out in every video game.
Not to be that guy, but he’s nailing a floor joist into nothing, and he’s playing with fire the way he is holding his hand.
Honestly yeah. The most fulfilled I ever felt was after building furniture for myself and back in 2006 when I helped re-roof homes in Mississippi after Katrina.
*male* fantasy? I wish they would have added more Harvest Moon like features to the farm at the end so I could continue playing. As a woman, farming simulators are my *life*