Has anyone actually decided how they are pacing the first week
Not the first two hours. The first week. I have a tendency to do fourteen hour days on something like this and then not touch it again for a month, and I would...
Story questions and discussions
Missions, characters, and how the plot lands, kept behind whatever chapter you are on. Spoilers stay sealed until you ask for them.
How long before somebody posts a hundred percent run
Genuine curiosity rather than a competition. With a map this size and however many collectibles, what is the realistic timeline for the first credible full comp...
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the fact that they dont post their own snapmatic photos is such a good detail
snapmatic is back but jason and lucia dont publicly post because it leaves a trail. two criminals in 2026 who understand opsec better than most people i know me...
how much of the story do we reckon actually happens outside the city
six regions but the cast is heavily vice city. boobie, dre quan, the real dimez, the club, the label, all city meanwhile the keys have jason, cal, heder and lor...
eleven weeks out, what is the one thing you are actually worried about
not what you want. what you are quietly scared it gets wrong mine is that the two of them do not have enough scenes together. the whole pitch is a relationship...
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the criminal profile system is going to be misunderstood constantly
people keep calling it honor 2.0 and thats not what they described. its context aware. blowing up a gas station for no reason builds it. doing violence a missio...
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The thing I keep coming back to is that this is a story about two people, and Rockstar has never done that
Every one of these games has been about a man and his associates. Even V, with three protagonists, was three separate men who happened to be in the same city. T...
is the 80 hours the main story or main story plus everything
I keep seeing 80 hours quoted like it is the campaign length. What was actually said is that a developer's own playthrough took about 80 hours and it included t...
do we think the chapters are gonna be by region
chapters got mentioned and six regions exist. its an obvious guess and obvious guesses are usually wrong but i want to say it out loud anyway rdr2 chapters move...
how much do the choices actually branch though
they keep saying decisions have consequences and some are immediate and some build up over time. thats a nice sentence. what does it mean like is it rdr2 honor...
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Money mattering for progression is the quiet structural change nobody is discussing
Buried in the previews: money matters more this time, and some story points may require raising a sum first. In V money was a score. You finished the game with...
Did the montage pacing feel like it was hiding something to anyone else
The activity montage is fast. Nineteen things in under a minute, each one on screen for about two seconds. That is either a confident studio compressing a lot o...
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The document now has a section for things that turned out to be nothing
In the interest of intellectual honesty, four entries have been moved to a new section called Resolved As Nothing. One was a reflection. One was a compression a...
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The narration in the extended look was doing something I have not seen before
It was not a voice explaining features. It was not a character speaking either. It sat somewhere between a documentary voiceover and a person describing a place...
Is there a completion percentage and does anything depend on it
The thing that decides whether I have a normal relationship with a game or not. In V there was a hundred percent checklist and a reward for it. In RDR2 there wa...
Is there a cooldown on switching or can you spam it
V let you switch freely outside missions with a short animation. The transition here looks faster but there is clearly still a camera move. Question is whether...
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The chapter structure comment is the most important thing they said and everyone skipped it
Buried in the editions explanation is the detail that Ultimate content unlocks as Jason and Lucia progress through chapters. Chapters. Not missions, not acts, c...
Is this going to be a funny game or a bleak one
Genuine question after watching. The satire is broad and very funny, the fake ads are excellent, and then there are stretches where the tone goes somewhere much...
StoryHaven't played
I have made a decision about the checklist
Three separate people in this forum have told me not to chase completion on a first playthrough and I have argued with all of them. They are right. I know they...
StoryHaven't played
The blow the safe fast or take longer choice is the best idea they showed
Speed versus profit inside a single robbery, decided in the moment, with the police response timer running against you. That is a whole design philosophy in one...