The music that plays during the very first shootout is a terrific nod to Harmonica’s theme in Once Upon A Time in the West
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The fire-dance song sounds original and the drinking-song on the fishing expedition sounds original.
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I’ve put a lot more hours into this game since I last posted about it, doing both the side missions in the base game and the online, and my opinion hasn’t changed at all. It definetely has a couple of minor flaws and a couple more nitpicks, and the online sadly has a very similiar economy to GTA:Online (but that was always going to be the case), but I still think it’s the best game I’ve ever played and objectively one of the best games ever made. I still highly recommend it to anyone here who has a PS4 or an XBOX ONE.
Now we just need Rockstar to make a GTA style game set in 70’s Italy, and a game where you play as an amateur sleuth investigating a series of murders also set in 70’s Italy and we’ll be laughing 
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I’m guessing I’m 95% finished with the ‘main story’, if that’s what it still is. Arthur’s adventures are long done. The ‘old’ RDR1-map hasn’t even been explored yet. It’s just opening-up. Went there once for a bounty, involving a running canyon-shootout.
Looks like most of the bones from the dinosaur-mission are located there. The serial-killer mission is the only side-mission I’ve completed. There’s rock-carvings, Indian-paintings, tree-carvings, dreamcatcher-locations… not to mention the legendary-beast hunts. I screwed-up shooting a legendary moose when it fled into a river. The water was too deep to ‘bring’ it ashore, so I don’t know if the mission re-spawns or not.
As for fast travel, you get the map when John buys the Beecher’s Hope property.
I agree with some of the above statements. This is, overall, the best game I’ve ever played. Before this, it was the original Red Dead Redemption. I think it has a run for best video game of all time. And I think it very, very easily has the best soundtrack of any video game. In fact, it might be my favorite western soundtrack (as a whole) of all time. And that is saying something.
until RDR2 comes to PC next year I’m playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey… it’s the first AC games I played and so far it’s pretty good… it’s like GTA mixed with Peplum 
I’ve only explored like 5% of the map afer 8 hours of play…. this game is huge.
yeah it does 
I’m glad I’m not the only person with such an opinion because I’ve seen a hell of a lot of people really bash this game. I think a lot of them were expecting GTA with horses but this to me is far more than just that.
It’s definetely worth the wait.
Yep. It’s a rousing success. You have enough money at the end to do everything you want. There’s only one train left. Sometimes it’s in-service and other times it’s just sitting in the middle of nowhere. I’m gonna try and steal it before I put the game away. In GTA5 you could ride the train around the entire map.
Anyone who has RDR2 on PS4 and wants to play Online?
I’ll play with you once I’m back home from vaccation (2 weeks) 
Alright, there’s a new update that adds roles to the game like a bounty hunter, which you can do with others. I’m also thinking of creating a persistant posse, but I don’t have a name yet. Maybe a reference to a western, like The Great Silencers, The Grand Duellists or High Plains Drifters. What do you think?
I created a posse yet with zero members called THE DIRTY OUTLAWS, so if you wanna save some money you can join that one
I’m going to create a posse anyway to get that trophy. 
I enjoy playing western games such as Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2, Red Dead Online, Evil West, Call of Juarez etc
I feel like RDR is like being in a 3 Sergio’s Spaghetti Western and RDR2 is like a Sam Peckinpah western.
I have met the actors Rob Wiethoff and Roger Clark who played John Marston & Arthur Morgan both great guys.
Does anyone else enjoy playing them?
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RDR2 was the only game I ever pre-ordered (was getting bored playing Call of Juarez Gunslinger for the 27th time, even though it’s easily the best Western game that isn’t RDR2), and it taught me a bitter lesson. BTW, there is one Western game with an official Morricone score: Red Dead Revolver, an old Rockstar title.
The online part was unplayable for the first year, and once it became playable, it was officially abandoned by Rockstar (it can still be played but no longer gets updates). I normally don’t like online games, but for RDR2, I actually preferred the online game.
However, the online part is now completely ruined by cheaters/hackers, so the only way to get to play in peace is to add a file that locks out other players / creates a solo session.
For the main/offline game, If anyone else is also driven crazy by the stupid mechanic whereby Arthur always leaves his long weapons on the horse every time he gets off, I recommend installing the respective mod that fixes the issue (at least in most situations). It’s insane that they haven’t fixed this. But remember the files u add to fix the mechanic in case you want to go online, as they will get u banned if u forget to remove them. They should have a safety feature crashing the game if u try/forget, but better not rely on it. (Best save a list in game folder to ensure u removed them all when u want to go online).
If anyone needs help setting up the mentioned improvements to make it fun to play, feel free to message me and I can help u set these things up. We could also create an unofficial SWDB Forum Posse in the game if anyone’s interested.
For SW fans, Red Dead Redemption 1 & 2, the Call of Juarez games (which were made in Europe and even contain some clear nods to Spaghetti Westerns, like the Bridge explosion in the civil war battle opening COJ Bound in Blood) and Red Dead Revolver surely are the the closest thing to the genre in gaming.
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