MULTI [OT] Red Dead Redemption II | Wild West 1899

I named my current horse "HORSIEEEE"

I don't think you ever even see the name outside of stables, so it's not like it's something that would appear anywhere.

Red Dead Redemption 2's HDR support seems to serve no real purpose

Based on the video output of Xbox One X, the output is clearly derived from the SDR image and is not actually rendered with any kind of high dynamic range. Yes, we can hit a max 500 nits, but this is with the HDR calibration ramped up to the max, artificially boosting peak brightness from what is likely a 100 nit source image. The game's recommended 100 setting for LCD screens would see all of our comparison shots on this page present in a completely monochrome manner, signifying an image that is, effectively, an SDR image.

This is not the first game to present us with what you might call 'fake' HDR - earlier this year the Xbox One port of Nier Automata also pulled a similar trick, effectively transplanting the standard dynamic range image into an 'HDR container'. Once active, your screen registers an HDR output from the console, but it just contains the SDR image within it. All of our tests suggests the same thing is happening in Red Dead 2 on both Xbox and PlayStation systems.

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Yep, didn't need an article to know the HDR in the game is definitely broken. Glad I didn't try to forcefully play the game with it on. Turned it off after a few minutes because it wasn't right just at a glance even after attempting calibration.

Between this, and the simple task of adding a sharpness slider on the 4K mode on PS4 Pro, R* really need to roll out a patch soon. Hopefully add an alternate, more responsive, control scheme.

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Barbie Chan!
Name of my horse.

I feel I was well adjusted to the controls by the last few hours of the game. Manual gunplay is manageable if the enemies are close but almost impossible if they are at long distances or if you are on the horse. The attempt at realism largely remains a failure given the arbitrary nature of it. It doesn't work across the board but works here and there. It is as if R* realised that they can't be too real and left working on this aspect in the middle. This one time a fellar was knocked out with a butt of the gun on his head but his glasses didn't leave his face. A lot of these inconsistencies are noticeable while on the other hand you keep doing chores that give the impression of realism. I'm fine with all that except where controls, like character movements and buttons, become inconvenient. I wish they'd rather worked on improving the GTA 4ish gunplay instead of incorporating half baked realism (if they really had to do one). Anyway, the controls and gameplay frustration goes away eventually but it took over half the story for me to get to that point.

I don't know if the wanted system is broken or not but this one time I was walking my horse in the middle of a big city when I touched or barely bumped a stranger walking on the walkway. Turns out I had just committed the highest possible offence because the whole city police was out on every street to hunt me down with no way to escape. They killed not only me but also my long term horse.

Apart from that, the character development and story are absolutely top notch, memorable, and moving. The story did seem a bit dragged, especially the first half, but it pays off well at the end. Also liking the background music and occasional songs that I don't quite understand due to the accent but it seems to fit right into the Western theme. I'm currently playing the epilogue which seems quite big for an epilogue and is going as good as the main story.

As much as I love Rockstar, I wonder how it's getting perfect 10/10s when so many people agree the controls are terrible and their fake HDR blows. And I heard framerate isn't too great either

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NaNoW said:

Yes, they could be more polished, and few technical glitches here and there could be removed, but they dont normally "break the game" for most people.
There wont be a perfect game, and there will always have to be some compromises made, Rockstar just made them in the "right" places.

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I will take this point of polishing a game, and compare with the likes of Ubisoft and CD Projekt Red. RDR2 is miles ahead as far as "polish" goes, with glitches few and far between.

manigamer said:

i assume its just the damn HYPE of rockstar that's given them these 10/10's...

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That's certainly a factor when it comes to R*'s games and their scores. What's debatable is how significant this factor is. Does RDR2 have enough flaws NOT to get a 97? Yes. Does it deserve a high score for the overall package that it is? Certainly. At this point (playing the epilogue), I'd sure rate it somewhere around 9.

SolitarySoldier said:

That's certainly a factor when it comes to R*'s games and their scores. What's debatable is how significant this factor is. Does RDR2 have enough flaws NOT to get a 97? Yes. Does it deserve a high score for the overall package that it is? Certainly. At this point (playing the epilogue), I'd sure rate it somewhere around 9.

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These scores are arbitrary as it is. If you quantify and emphasize on your experience based on a difference between 9 and 9.7, you psychologically deteriorate your experience.

Muaaz said:

These scores are arbitrary as it is. If you quantify and emphasize on your experience based on a difference between 9 and 9.7, you psychologically deteriorate your experience.

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Not so arbitrary if people use them as arguments while discounting the fact that not everyone jumps on the hype train and that people may judge a game differently for good reasons. I don't usually quantify games but here I was referring to a quantity - the 97 on Metacritic or lots of 10/10s. They give the impression that the game is almost flawless in every sense (or its not but we are still giving it a 10 because horse balls are realistic). I don't think that's correct, hence the room for flaws in my relative score of 9. I'm primarily a narrative focused gamer so overall my experience was actually great but it would be unreasonable of me to focus on one aspect of the game to explain away everything else.

Man, that Arabian horse is a BEAUTY. Runs like the wind. I loved the War Horse because of how freaking imposing it looked but it was reaaally sloooowwww.

There's no point in using money glitches in this game, money is such a non issue. It's not like you're spending a lot on guns and ammo anyway, simply looting all corpses should be more than enough for your obligatory camp donations and supplies I think.