A land so stupid... even we are like geniuses [Red Dead Redemption 2 - Part 9]

[@carcosa_swamp]

John casually starting a town massacre by insulting people was the highlight for me

[@H0TR0B]

I actually love that spontaneous Van Horn brawl, it felt so cinematic. One moment you're brawling with a guy and then he gets shot in the head from offscreen. Panic ensues as you look around frantically for the shooter but it turns out EVERYONE is the shooter. Did someone take advantage of your fight to settle an old score? The 4v1 turns into a free for all and within moments the street is littered with bodies. It's like those western bar fight scenes where someone bumps into someone else and the guy across the room takes that as his cue to break a chair over someone's head.

[@thacobell4700]

"Howdy Pardner!" *town erupts in violence*

[@Stevalyns]

Red dots when you are riding along on your horse that quickly disappear are often snakes. They appear as enemies, sometimes your horse will get spooked, then they slither off.

[@djbeema]

Basically the entire swamp area is just filthy with snakes constantly constantly spooking your horse much to your annoyance😅

[@BMB57]

Seeing John go through the myriad of emotions while greeting and antagonizing people in this game brings me so much joy. He's fully immersed and it's so enjoyable to watch.

[@sophiag7005]

This was my favorite episode yet, and that’s really saying something. John wandering around causing chaos and finding weird little side places, mixed with a little camp interaction and mission, is exactly the sort of video I dream of

[@luke5041]

I gotta say, loving this play-through. I’m glad that you are taking your time exploring the world, seeing all the incredible detail that rockstar put into this game. That alongside your humour makes this an enjoyable watch lol.

[@coldfooted]

nearly died laughing when you shot the gunsmith immediately 😭😭😭 arthur was just so worked up about the illicit activities going on under the shop that he acted on his own accord 😂

[@KT559]

Lol I've been waiting for John's first encounter with the Night Folk

[@stewiegriffin5139]

As everyone has said, you sell your valuables at a fence. There's one in every region. If you just loot everyone and sell there often you'll have enough money to get by. To really thrive find gold nuggets and ingots on the map which you also sell at the fence. The fence also has unique items and crafting pamphlets for sale. For legendary fish you need to meet a stranger by the lake north of camp and it allowes you to buy 'special lake lure, special river lure' etc. Loving the play through John!!

[@wishywoshua]

i see John got the Van Horn experience 😂

[@joshuaross9777]

Good ole Van Horn

[@xvromo1362]

@@joshuaross9777best place to go when your bored😂

[@jaynick7280]

God I love Van Horn

[@djbeema]

John has been so bloodthirsty lately I was literally counting the minutes until he started something in Van Horn and then immediately regretted it 😂😂

[@mulattice3703]

You CAN sell valuables, but the ones you got were stolen from people you killed; you have to sell them to a fence for money if they're obtained illegally.

[@janelladalupang2115]

Tilly matching John's sass and attitude 🤣 love it

[@SonicGeneration]

I really do love Arthur’s interactions with Tilly.

[@djbeema]

One neat detail that came up when you killed that opossum: opossums in the game will often play dead, and when they do the game treats them lole a carvass, which is why the "skin" prompt came up and the disappeared as it ran away

[@lizzy6828]

I love John @ 44:26 just confused jogging after the woman and completely ignoring the map as red dots slowly close in on his location

[@BexTheBoo388]

Too locked in on following her 😭

[@samwisegamgee1243]

That section was awesome! I was hoping for more encounters like that in that area!

[@RosettisRevenge]

John, go back to the house in the beginning and climb through the top window for something….interesting.

[@joshuaross9777]

18:37 John Van Horn is one of the only lawless towns in RDR2 you could literally massacre the whole town and not gain Bounty

[@ESPLTD782]

This is up there with the best play through John’s ever done. And it’s so early.

[@Jamie-o6v]

As someone who 100% the game, I had no idea you could fish up poisoned fish, it makes sense for that area I guess. Pretty cool.

[@TheDaringSpoon]

don't be afraid to take your time with this game man, love the series so far

[@valka-u5p]

This is become my comfy playthrough real quick and seeing John enjoying the game and taking his time with horsing around the towns im really thankful for that! Can't wait to see his reactions on how things will play out in the future 😌❤️

[@Gh0stofEarth]

I definitely agree. I can tell John is having fun still, the burnout may hit a bit around 50% through the story like it does for me, but this is ine of my favorite plays he has done so far!

[@megamason8335]

17:44 the guy with the knife getting run over tho🤣

[@sophiag7005]

The horseman didn’t even slow down! Ice cold in Van Horn

[@JoseRodriguez-gi6pf]

Love the vids also just a tip dont forget to clean your weapons the dirtier they get the less range they have and deal less damage so they end up taking more bullets to kill enemies. Anyways love the playthrough you are definitely my all time favorite youtuber.

[@AriShinato]

Crafty Pinkertons sending naked undercover agents 😤😤😤

[@soull_fllower]

John, snoop around that resident evil Baker house some more. Try climbing on things 😉 Also, sell stolen items at the fence!!!!

[@amodelmannequin]

John "Plus Cowboy" Wolfe returns! 😩🙌🏾

[@ghosthunter13]

I aint even gonna lie I was yelling John go upstairs when u came up across a house. I was like the window John u can go thru the window. There was some messed u stuff up in that house lol but he ound his card n was done. N rode off w out going upstairs I've never yelled n laughed so much at my tv screen about a game. Thanks John for the fun

[@Mr.Cronin89]

Same, it's soooo frustrating when you really want him to see something 😭😩

[@BoneStack117]

The street fight in Van Horn was awesome haha. One of the townsfolk pulling a gun and then it just descending into chaos was so cool. This game has so many awesome moments like that; unscripted moments that outshine scripted moments in other games.

[@Jamie-o6v]

Van Horn aren't the friendliest of folk. Although they are loyal to each other. You mess with one of them you mess with all of them.

[@mweeming]

They're so loyal, they'll k*ll each other to try to k*ll you

[@cheepytiger]

3 hours?! My cup overfloweth!! ❤️🎉🤠 Thank you, John!

[@JDoujinshis]

Hey john, valuables (belts,gold bars,ignots,nuggets,watches etc) can be sold to a fence. you can also craft trinkets and unique talismans from the legendary animals that you hunt that give unique buffs

[@lizzy6828]

Just thought I'd let you know, that abandoned house you went to in the beginning has an open window on the second floor you can climb in through and there's some cool stuff inside if you ever want to go back for it

[@DemetriusBarnesjr]

John love to see your playstyle as you roam! storyline or not, really enjoying this playthrough!💛

[@echobay2023]

That Pleasance town place is very creepy, and I love how Rockstar puts in little things that keep you on edge or make you wonder. That womens voice you heard, was that in your head? Is there someone actually there? The whole Murfree/ Lemonye areas are good horror-adjacent areas to shake things up a bit.

[@Ozymandias21]

That woman's voice was one of the npc's in the background I think.

[@echobay2023]

@Ozymandias21 I looked it up myself, and I think Rockstar intentionally sets you up. You can see all kinds of threads online discussing hearing a womens voice there, but not knowing who it is. So its not a coincidence that every player has a shared experience of this exact random NPC walking by at this exact same time. That's just one of Rockstars tricks, there to make you wonder if what you heard was real in a creepy location.

[@joshuaross9777]

John for the love of Bob press (LS and RS) to activate eagle eye it will highlight everything you can search

[@coffeemode2159]

Ahahaha on the Alligator. I was just thinking John's instinct to not get in that water was a good one right before that Alligator nabbed that body. Another great episode. Loved the variety.

[@floatingdisembodiedhead8975]

Yeah I was thinking when John walked away, "I wish there was some alligators that John could see rn, he'll love 'em". Then like clockwork it just growl and drag one of the corpses down with only his tail insight 😂 couldn't asked for a perfect introduction especially with how John reacted.

[@coffeemode2159]

@@floatingdisembodiedhead8975 The alligators in Red Dead have very good comedic timing.

[@baddie_brayyy]

everyone getting in a town wide fight because of Arthur is so hilarious

[@HeresBigPapa]

I knew the second you stepped into Van Horn that you would be getting into a full-town scrap lol. That place is no joke!

[@HumbleDial]

Johns being real naughty this episode

[@streetzomb69]

?? 😂

[@HumbleDial]

@@streetzomb69 He keeps fighting everybody! 😅🤣

[@djbeema]

He seems to be getting more callous every episode😂

[@echobay2023]

Dont forget you can change your clothes and add different gear to help improve stats

[@Erocksome]

😂😂 John starts a brawl in good ol Van Horn that leads to a blood bath. Lmao . When you're out exploring and searching abandoned buildings make sure to check fireplaces. Never know what you might find.

[@Yvesenjoyer666]

wether is exploring or story quest this playthrough is awesome! loving seeing you just explore and run into cool areas and events, the swamp area was creepy!

[@Heemi30]

17:03 That brawl took me out. 🤣🤣Everybody was trying to get a piece of Arthur. 😂😂

[@djbeema]

Exploring is half the fun of this game, I definitely wouldn't mind if you even spent an entire episode doing it. You should return to some of the places you visited this episode and check them over once more. There's an incredible amount of interesting things to find in this game. The area around the swamps in St Dennis, especially, are full of interesting and often creepy secrets and mysteries to uncover. Black Belle was probably my favorite gunslinger encounter, she's such a fun character. It figures that the lone woman of the group would be the only reasonable one😂

[@skookathing]

The constant arguing and screaming in the camp followed by reverend saying "the folks seem happy mr morgan" killed me

[@BasedOverflow]

I live once more for peak John content

[@monrosemeadows]

Valuables like jewelry, gold nuggets/ingots etc can be sold to fences. There is one in Rhodes (northwest of the butcher if you face him head-on) near a small camp site and there's another one in St. Denis, inside a building near the market place where you find the trapper. Some of them can also be given to camp members if you have the specific item they requested. As I said before, you don"t have to donate to the camp if all you're looking for is honor. You can do chores around camp (small black dots on your mini-map), you can greet NPCs, tend to your horse, help strangers while free-roaming etc. I also saw that one of the gang members at camp still hasn"t received their requested item, they are marked as a small white clock icon on your mini-map. You should pay more attention to your mini-map, since I noticed you get confused often on where to go, find markers or people, and your mini-map literally highlights it in yellow, red or white or with specific icons. Also, you seem to fill up cores through eating stew and brewing coffee at camp before sleeping, that is completely unnecessary, since sleeping restores cores by default. You're better off eating stew or cooked meat, and drinking coffee right after waking up. Also, I said it in an earlier comment as well, there's no need to stress over arthur's weight, it fluxes a lot, him being underweight is normal. Your horse should also be fine as long as you feed it semi-regularly with produce (wild carrots, oat cakes, corn etc) I've said it before, but I'll repeat it just in case: there really is no benefit to you in donating hunting kills to Pearson. It doesn"t affect anything, other than giving you honor, but again, you can also just do chores and get it through that. Might want to read my earlier comments since I went more in-depth there on various mechanics and added some tips here and there, and I don''t want to repeat myself. But feel free to reach out if you want me to go more in-depth if there's anything that's still unclear. I'm always happy to assist.

[@_Summer.]

Karen and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

[@GolemCC]

The highlight for me was the mischievous realization of power you could see when John was looting all the moonshiners. "Oh, what's the rush? Are the deputies going to come? ... *We're* the deputies."

[@samwisegamgee1243]

Tilly sassing you for losing dominos was great! 😂 I’m really loving the variety of NPC interaction in this game, even though for living in the Wild West they seem to ironically get spooked by guns easily. 😅

[@Gh0stofEarth]

This entire episode is just the pure chaos of RDR2, and John is just having a great time with it. I couldn't be happier watching anything else now

[@maxfrog4]

Hey John you probably know this now, you can sell your valuables to the fence. There is a fence in emerald ranch. Loving your series

[@evertjethoe]

Hi John, I am a new subscriber and have played this game 2 times (i wont spoil). I do not know if you found the answer to your valuables and more etc,but here it is: 1. Pierson's Satchels try to get to Legendary Satchel (wich means you have to go through the other satchels to unlock the Legendary one). 2. Pierson does have other stuff for you to craft but best is to get the Legendary satchel. 3. Valuables like gold, jewelry etc or rare valuables can be sold to a fence, wich as you know is in Emerald Ranch. The same fence also makes exotic clothes like from alligators etc and you can craft trinkets if you find like rare animal parts. 4. The Fence/Trappers are scattered all over the whole map, you just have to find them wich is a big task. Like your channel keep it up man 👍🏽😇

[@hurts2hatelo]

Haven't been commenting on these because ive been watching them in the background while drawing and doing other stuff, but I've been really enjoying this series so far. I think it's really entertaining to watch and I love your commentary, accents, and the choices you make. I recently moved country, so I don't really have any friends yet and your content has been keeping me company :D

[@JWildberry]

3 hours! You're the best, John!

[@HeresBigPapa]

Omg-- btw, that strange voice you heard in Pleasance at 54:06 -- I love RDR2 because of these kind of subtle folklore type things, nothing overt or "red means scary" sort of scares. Just little strange happenings like stories you might actually hear in real life of ghosts and weird moments where you think you hear things... So good! Also, love that you got the Bill/Kieran interaction at the end-- the way that romance is written in Red Dead, it's super subtle. If you interrupt them, Bill gets extremely flustered.

[@carc3132]

John not all animals are 3 star pelts to begin with even before you shoot them you have to study them and then it’ll tell you which ones in the pack are 3 stars when you look at them, so even if your using the varmint rifle and getting a good kill it might not be a 3 star pelt because it was a 1 or 2 star to begin with before you shot it

[@commanderkorra3316]

Yeah that is something most people figure out on their own. I wish they were all 3 stars lol Hopefully he realizes eventually.

[@MonaMello]

You can sell valuables to the fence, it has the same symbol as the general store but with an X in it! The fence can also craft some useful items and trinkets!

[@MsBananahsplit]

One of my favorite quotes from this game is in this part “we have alighted on a land so stupid! … even we are like geniuses.” 😂 I love Sean so much. Always happy to watch interactions with him. He was a favorite my first playthrough. Silly me had a crush on the Irish boy XD edit: 1:57:00 When you went fishing with the daddios they mentioned borrowing the boat on the shore. So it wasn't technically yours to keep.

[@thealannab14]

Love the chiller side quest / exploring videos! Thank you John, really enjoyed this one.

[@cail8811]

i love seeing you doing all the exploring, there is a lot of interesting things to find out in this game so I hope you don't hold back doing it. If not for the videos, hopefully you do some exploring in your own time (if you have any free time)!

[@Dark-tf9qy]

I knew John would have a fun time in Van Horn 🤣

[@BMB57]

1:03:15 What John says here after Karen and Molly hit each other made me laugh so damn hard.

[@jasminliberty6082]

Loving this play through so much! The tangents and exploration are the best bits 😊

[@-Aimzy-]

John, go back to that abandoned house (in the abandoned village you found when leaving the swamp) where you found that book for the kid and where you killed the possum, go back at night time for a “surprise” 😉 *if I remember correctly*

[@Mr.Cronin89]

You're probably aware of this by now but use eagle vision which will indicate what you can & can't interact with & pick up. By the way it would be cool if you returned to the first abandoned house you came across outside van horn, you need to climb up the porch & go through the window, I'm sure you will love it....

[@ntp4003]

I never bothered playing all the minigames when I played this game but watching you do it is fun for some reason

[@djbeema]

FYI John If you consider knowing where to find iguanas a spoiler don't read on . . but you can get iguanas on those small islands just off the coast of the camp

[@tehdmanvids3]

John's first encounter with the Night Folk went EXACTLY as I had hoped it would

[@CHIEFxxGERONIMO]

John walkin into the van horn saloon was perfect timing lol

[@Ozymandias21]

Sell valuables at a fence, some can also be used for crafting trinkets.

[@morseliimortmort2149]

PLEASE THE BEVER HAT PLEASE, ITS MY FAVORITE PART OF THIS GAME!!! I THINK ABOUT IT SO MUCH

[@cheepytiger]

1:26:44 Omg the 'You eejit!' 😂 I'm glad John loves Arthur already. He's one of my favourite video game characters of all time, and his wit is just one part. Roger Clark and the writers did a phenomenal job developing and portraying him. All the actors are fantastic in this (not purely voice actors as an aside, this game was full mocap and took around 5 1/2 years of mocap filming if I remember correctly).

[@thefailbender]

Jesus that shit in the swamp was terrifying. I have not encountered that in my playthrough yet since I didn't travel further north after dealing with Black Belle.... yikes!! Edit: I'm glad I'm not the only one totally confused by the All Fives Dominos. At least you figured it out, I just gave up LOL Edit 2: I've hated fishing because of having to spin the joystick, but assumed - wrongly, apparently! - that this game wouldn't have accessibility options. Turning that on for sure!

[@carc3132]

That van horn part was funny af by the way 😂

[@DavidPayYT]

John, you can sell the items you loot at the fence. You might wanna keep some for yourself to buy upgrades for your guns.

[@BexTheBoo388]

I've really been enjoying watching this series! This was a fun video, a good mix of exploring and questing and getting into trouble hahahaha

[@littlekitsune1]

Another town dead just from John trying to say hi and then not taking lip.

[@JohnsNumber1AdoringFan]

I love that you're enjoying this game, John. 😊

[@Emily-xk2du]

That low growling "DO SOME *WORK* AROUND HERE, *DEARIE*" offscreen followed instantly by the chipper "People seem happy around here!" was INCREDIBLE whiplash lmaooo

[@BoneStack117]

I think the valuables can be sold to a fence, but I don't think you've been introduced to one yet t

[@bugdomrulez]

i love the alligators gobblin up bodies and scaring the crap out of people

[@harasnicole]

Idk if anyone said it yet, but you get in the boat the same way you get on your horse: press Y.

[@jeremiahkinser1720]

John that house you just left where you got the cigarette card from that you said looked like the one from RE7 you can go inside of it your have to climb onto the roof with the wagon sitting there and climb onto the roof and climb in through the window

[@Zu3sUK]

Only John can go through RDR2 being polite and asking how people are in game and starting a gun fight 🤣

[@petrkdn8224]

well just watched it, cant wait for next episodes..

[@LadyMisalein]

Ngl i hope john encounters some of the paranormal mysteries in this game

[@meanboss14]

Yeah John may have killed dozens of people this chapter but Tilly killed him the hardest

[@ssss-rt5qu]

The 'red dot' at 32:32 was a snake.

[@itsavalinnoduh8]

My fav joke that John does is when he says he's about to turn into the joker

[@bakedbeans_edits]

'Shoot first ask questions later.' Immediately after shooting some poor stranger just going along the trail close to some bounty hunters. 🙏 (I don't comment lots but love this playthrough ❤)

[@eyesotherworldly]

32:55 "Who was that, Randall Flagg?" Peak reference, now I know you're thinking like a true gunslinger 🤠

[@csongorkakuk5871]

Only 5 minutes in and I feel like John's playing Dredge over again. lol

[@Anhtique]

If you find a stranger along the east coast of Flat Iron lake, you'll unlock special lures to catch legendary fish

[@lollove7815]

“I love Arthur..” yeaah don’t we all ….

[@OskarBlomkvist]

You sell valuables to the fence

[@cleonRIP]

I'm rewatching that brawl in Van Horn like the long take from True Detective!! 😂😂😂😂 so much chaos from a simple conversation!!+

[@abby7049]

you heard the ghost woman in pleasance!

[@AbbaJoe26]

Heh heh, this was a pretty good ep. Reminded of the wisdom "One-eyed man in a land of blind people.....is king."

[@pancakeclaper1021]

You probably shouldn't go off stats when considering weapons, the Lancaster repeater is an improved version of the carbine repeater and is generally the most versatile weapon in the game

[@JohnTwolfe]

How is that possible when the stats are worse…? What advantage does it give, then?

[@pancakeclaper1021]

@@JohnTwolfe it holds 14 bullet's and has a faster rate of fire, damage doesn't really matter when everyone dies in one or two hits, also you have the carbine from the start of the game while the Lancaster is a reward in the Micah stagecoach robbery and the gunsmith basement robbery that you did in this video. Another gun you put away was the double action revolver, that's an improvement because the next round is cocked automatically like a pistol so you don't have to tap the trigger twice