Red Dead Redemption - 14 Years Later | What's Still Making it a Timeless Classic

[@tblcyek]

RDR1 as a whole is just so much more tragic than the second game. John’s thinks he’s finally escaped the life, dies, and is avenged by the last innocent person who could’ve had something outside of the cycle of violence.

[@stellviahohenheim]

Uhhh spoiler dude?

[@LorikQuinn]

​@@stellviahohenheim Man this game is 2 generations old

[@josedorsaith5261]

​@stellviahohenheim You're worried about spoilers when you're looking through comments on a video about the game? 😂

[@DjowZDjowZ-de8xd]

​@@stellviahohenheimgrow up and stop crying about spoilers

[@KratosisGod]

As much as I love rdr2 there's just a certain feel and atmosphere about rdr1, its like the game is melancholy personifed, wandering the desert in the game while the ambient music plays just makes me feel at peace and isolated at the same time.

[@MrHammers]

I agree, Rdr1 has an isolated vibe for sure. Maybe because you don't have a camp of people around you like in RDR 2, but just a few friends and allys, so John feels more alone when he's out and about

[@KratosisGod]

@@MrHammers And the ambient music is also more somber compared to what we got in rdr2 its like most of the music is what john is feeling in the moment

[@MrHammers]

@KratosisGod yeah, absolutely!

[@chris_player2995]

also passing thru Blackwater has an eerie vibe, probably because of the ferry robbery that started it all feels like a ghost town

[@NecramoniumVideo]

RDR1 is allot grittier, less colors also helps, but its also the graphic style that is more grittier.

[@SJxPVR]

A game that kept me in my room like a troll in a cave fpr days

[@MaSgasK-g7z]

I remember that I even just liked having the game in the background or just riding around, playing poker and stuff. On xbox360 it really looked awesome too

[@SJxPVR]

@MaSgasK-g7z I completely understand while playing RDR2 my wife loved watching me play I've beaten it 4 times and always found a different way to do things

[@mattc7420]

I did it. I lived 14 years to see a PS3 game come to PC.

[@AngraMainiiu]

Nier Replicant did it first tho...

[@Swivel01]

MGS4 is next

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Uncharted trilogy and god of war trilogy hopefully next too

[@jonatanrobledo9812]

One day Motorstorm, one day we will make them bring you back.

[@AndrewRyan-zv7zb]

The song that plays when you enter Mexico will be in my brain forever

[@MrHammers]

Far, far away 🎶

[@AndrewRyan-zv7zb]

@@MrHammers Jose Gonzalez. Hes amazing, if you haven't check out his other stuff. Hes got a fantastic cover of Heartbeat (the theme from House MD)

[@Bithe_Get]

Stepi n front of a run away train

[@AndrewRyan-zv7zb]

@@Bithe_Get just to feel alive again

[@AlfredFJones1776]

The clothing options in this game were lacking compared to GTA 4, which was lacking compared to San Andreas. But RDR1’s map is better than RDR2’s Map IMO. Mexico is way better than Lemoyne. I hate Lemoyne.

[@MrHammers]

I do like the outfits in this game quite a lot, and I like how you have to go through objectives to unlock them too, you earned them

[@rdr.erased]

​@@MrHammersEven tho you can customize the outfit in rdr2 I still prefer rdr1 outfits

[@Sirelso]

​@@rdr.erasedThe cool thing with rdr1 outfits is that they also give you bonuses like gangs wont attack or cheating at poker

[@Indigo_1001]

What? This makes NO sense. Not only is 2/3 of the map on RDR2, but RDR2 has SO much b to offer over 1 You are seriously suggesting that Mexico alone is better than the whole RDR2 map? How can y’all even think that

[@Indigo_1001]

@@rdr.erased Than you are pretty bad at customizing your character You can easily recreate a lot of the outfits from 1, but somehow having more options and flexibility is worse?

[@Milty2001]

I remember spending countless hours playing this game, it felt like a spaghetti western movie, the side missions were fun but man i remember struggling with finger filet and poker to for the challenges to unlock the outfits they were unique, i love it's ambient music its a breath of fresh air whenever you finish a serious mission.

[@MrHammers]

Agree! The music is a perfect compliment to the game, always so somber and peaceful in a way

[@williambarr318]

I have never head the Red Dead Redemption story told as detailed and clear as this. Thank you for the time and effort you put into this video.

[@Shotgunminister]

I was really glad to see this pop up on my feed. Absolutely love this game. In some ways, more than RDR2. Hyped to see you cover it, Hammers!

[@MrHammers]

Thank you my dude! Much appreciated 🙏

[@Bithe_Get]

​@@MrHammersjust wanted to mention amazing quality but you made a mistake in the premise part just that the girl and guy are just a random believer of the curch and a curch man i reckon not father and daugther apart from that great work

[@denchkidd1082]

This video was insanely good and well worked, good job

[@ZeMalta]

RDR1 for me has no comparison RDR2 kind of made the same advancements that RDR1 made from Revolver, but there is still something uncapturable in its atmosphere, taste, fun, easy-go. classic but vigorous. I love RDR2, but it simply doesn't takes RDR1's place, just it's own

[@TroubleZxHCT]

Jesus your John took a shot to the face like a man at the end

[@MrHammers]

Hell yeah brother, he ate that... Until he died moments later

[@tsycho1619]

Ooof , a video about RDR for over an hour?! I am so fukcing in!

[@jaymac7203]

This game still looks incredibly good for its age! Such a great game. The Undead Nightmare dlc is a classic too lol

[@eg4441]

the lighting specifically in sunrises and sunsets is wonderful. it's very obvious a lot of love was given to how light would pass over the terrain, buildings, and characters, and the skyboxes have that perfect painterly quality that real clouds at sunrise and sunset do

[@mody2648]

This video deserves a lot more attention, thanks for putting this together, great watch!

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

Facts on god man even Red Dead Undead Nightmare still gets played a lot even online and I'm shocked it's lasted this long too... I feel a bit proud that my nonexistent kids will get to see it.

[@shahnoorahmed1462]

9:00 Uncle is Red Harlow, he has the power of lumbago

[@AdamIsInTheGulag]

RDR1 will probably always be my favourite game of all time. The craziest thing about RDR2 is how it actually made RDR1 even better and all the more tragic. We got to see sides of John/Abigail/dutch etc we never seen before. Game was so ahead of its time in terms of storytelling.

[@I_AM_WOLVERINE17]

1:09:36 I've NEVER seen John get shot in the face here. I never knew the bullets were random

[@legobobafett5045]

O.G. Legend Of The West from The West Coast. My Little Brother Share Birthdays with this Game! I Miss Freshman Year Of High School when this Masterpiece Dropped.

[@Shotgunminister]

Red Red Redemption is still in my opinion, a masterpiece and the best story Rockstar has ever written. I'm excited to see that you're covering Undead Nightmare as well!

[@MrHammers]

Thank you my man 🙏 Actually going to check out Undead Nightmare on the new steam version to gather some good footage

[@Shotgunminister]

@@MrHammers That's a great way to go about it. I have heard that the Steam port runs decent, but does struggle in some FPS's above 60. You might run into some animation issues if you go above that mark. Just a side effect of running that era of games on more modern and powerful GPUs.

[@MrHammers]

@Shotgunminister good to know! I'm excited to check it out. The convenience of playing on PC should be nice, curious to see if it'll run on steam deck as well

[@quarreneverett4767]

​@@MrHammersnice a year ago i set up the xenia project it has modibility and alot.of benefits :)

[@Mister_Trep]

RDR1 is my favourite game of all time. RDR2 was fantastic but it felt more like a Django western (or eastern, technically 😂) whilst the first game was a pure western. Not to mention Mexico. That region of the game was always my favourite. Oh and the ambient music! That was one thing 1 absolutely did better than 2.

[@thelegendofner0]

Great review Mister, I'm stoked for your review for the second one ❤

[@alkhoaja]

Call Of Juarez, Gun, Red Dead are some of the best western game titles and I think RDR1 had some few features that RDR2 didn’t have like Mexico and infinite bounties, the horseshoe overlook game, hand wrestling.

[@YourPalKindred]

My headcanon is that Jack became an author after Red Dead, writing the stories of the Van Der Linde Gang and his father. Those books he wrote preserved their tales and are the reason we get the games today and are able to experience their stories today even a hundred years later

[@MrHammers]

That's a great head canon, rather plausible

[@theayatollah8119]

This game is a such a masterpiece in combination of game mechanics and story telling. The story is a tragedy, but it is a tragedy on many multiple scales. Many characters are tragic. John fights a hundred battles to be with his family only to have it stripped from him. Dutch could’ve used his intelligence for good but instead became a violent maniac. Bonnie stays alone to manage the ranch by herself as the only man she wanted ( John ) leaves her forever. Seth waste his whole life greedily digging for treasure. Abraham just becomes another cruel dictator like the ones he promised to fight. And finally the biggest tragedy of Jack, a promising young man that could’ve been anything ( politician, writer, honest farmer) but simply falls into the outlaw ways his family tried so hard to steer him from. Then there is the many tragedies of the societies and the game presents them masterfully. First it puts you in the west ( New Austin ) and you see how run down and backwards the society is and how the last true remnants of individualism are fading as the frontier is closing. But then it shows you Mexico and you realise how worse it could be as the peasants have no freedom and are crushed like ants. And in West Elizabeth where the government has ruthlessly crushed all the rogues and the Natives are slaughtered and disregarded to make way for a new America. The way the game introduces each new setting is genius. But even as you have enacted the final revenge the game has a great sense of loneliness as Jack rides of with nothing to do and no future to build.

[@MrHammers]

Excellent analysis, you're exactly right. This game is a tragedy through and through. I think only maybe West Dickens and Irish may have some positive outlook, only because of their poor integrities as men they can make any situation benefit them

[@Rileygee0224]

Both RDR1 & 2 are incredible western shooters but rdr1 being made when gaming hardware was still younger and far less powerful forced Rockstar to make a game with simple mechanics, a simple world along with a simple story to boot and as a result makes the game feel like a true western where as RDR2, being a much more complex and newer game lacks that same charm. For me, it's probably how the game plays out taking place in mostly wooded areas or cities where rdr1 has more baren deserts or glass lands akin to something in an old time western movie or TV show. Now that isn't a bad thing but looking back, rdr2 felt more like a drama film at times.

[@MrHammers]

Yeah, the open fields and prairies around Armadillo were super serene and RDR 2 didn't really have something comparable to that. For all its limitations Rdr1 was magnificent

[@steelydanlover1972]

If you want to capture the sort of setting and atmosphere that was present in RDR2, especially the atmosphere and setting of Strawberry, Valentine, and the Grizzlies West, I'd suggest you watch McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), Open Range (2003), and The Great Silence (1966).

[@anthonyalvarez3595]

This is so funny that you just posted this not too long ago because I'm just playing this game for for the first time. Just hit black water. When I'm done I'll come back to this video

[@Loganrock4321]

One thing that has always confused me playing this game even back in the day, why does John come in on a boat like he’s new to the land? His whole life was there. Even his family

[@borb7085]

Probably something the devs of rdr2 didnt think to much about when crafting the epilogue.

[@UnimportantAcc]

It's not a stretch to imagine when the FBI picked him up they took him out of state for a while

[@jellyjohn7881]

​@@borb7085His farm is still in the same area as blackwater though

[@coffeecloves]

Of course I get this just as I’m having my yearly replay of the series. Great video!

[@MrHammers]

Love to hear it! Enjoy the playthrough my dude

[@mydogisspeed1437]

This game may be one of my favorite games of all time

[@SaiyaSounds]

This was great to watch; I still love RDR to this day. I'd love to see you do a video on RDR2 whenever the time may come!

[@LucasAndrade-wh3xk]

Yes, awesome video as always man!!

[@MrHammers]

Appreciate ya my dude

[@RemnantCult]

With RDR's latest release a day from now, I can't wait to explore this game once again. Having been replaying RDR2 as well, I want to see if there was anything I missed with the first installment. You've done an excellent literary analysis on the game's story, thank you.

[@MrHammers]

Enjoy the playthrough, my man! RDR1's got so much to offer. Appreciate the kind words

[@MyNamesComics]

Glad your back man!

[@MrHammers]

Appreciate ya! Glad to be back.

[@WraithPeercPHD]

Best game, best retrospective, best youtuber!

[@MrHammers]

Ayyy thank you bro 🫡

[@kylefarris8866]

It would be mint if we could create/develop a fan made Landon Ricketts game set in the 1870s and 1880s and somehow tie it into Arthur Morgan's storyline. For example, Landon helps Arthur's father with a miscellaneous task or side quest, Arthur's father struggling to pick a name for his almost born boy, and Landon suggests the boy have the name Arthur after the legend of King Arthur. Just a thought.

[@MrHammers]

A Landon Ricketts storyline would be dope af not gonna lie

[@akiluro2981]

As far I know Arthur’s Father didn’t care for him, and was just an drunk. Retcon that, would ruin his character development, since Arthur learned from Dutch. If his father would be an John Marston type guy, that would ruin the story too, since such people always pass down experience. As you can see in Undead Nightmare, and RDR2 with John.

[@Koutchise]

Came here to comment that the video is timely for me as I just finished my session of RDR2, closing loose ends in the epilogue for the first time and I'm ready for the first Red Dead coming later this week. Glad I closed off RDR2 with my video for it and finishing the epilogue. Thank you for making a video about this but I'll make sure to revisit this one after RDR1 lol

[@MrHammers]

Nice dude! You're playing the games in chronological order, that's what's up. Hope you enjoy the games

[@hemangchauhan2864]

Played it this year first time, and it hasn't aged a bit. Narrative is some of the best in AAA gaming.

[@theoutsiderjess1869]

Im literally playing Red dead redemptipn for the first time. I have love and played rdr 2 for years and while 2 is the definitive game 1 is such a gem and it truly deserved a proper remaster made with love and care

[@MrHammers]

Hopefully this steam version coming out soon is made well

[@gr6373]

It's Hammer time🤓

[@MrHammers]

👆🤓

[@B00tieW4rriOR]

Dude, I was literally checking your channel to see what was up 9 minutes ago, and like magic, a notification popped up 😌

[@MrHammers]

Eyyy thanks my man 🙏 upload just for you

[@papaberger64]

I’ve been waiting for a come back but didn’t expect it to be with this amazing game! I love your rockstar game reviews as much as the weird obscure game reviews. Still hoping one day for a ties that bind review! You plan on covering the sh2 remake since you did the og game?

[@MrHammers]

Thanks my man. I've been thinking of doing the suffering games again, might dive back into them soon. And idk about sh2 remake, maybe a small video but not likely I don't think

[@trashboat_]

shout out gun bro. "name's macgruder and the cross is mine"

[@MrHammers]

Goated game for sure

[@Knh55-u5l]

Rdr1 feels more of a relaxing game to play , great game great story ye love it even like playing the undead nightmare

[@MR.PERFECTPRODUCTIONS]

Mr.Hammers doesn’t miss.

[@MrHammers]

🫡

[@jumpman2326]

Bro you should do some retrospective videos on sports games like the classic iconic nba and nfl street series!

[@MrHammers]

I had a video on EA BIG games a long time ago, been thinking about remaking it

[@JakeTheL3mur]

My 2nd Favorite Game of all time Right here!

[@MrHammers]

What's number 1?

[@aliceangel2799]

Bonnie mid sentence: [...] we gotta get down to armadil- oh god, mr marston, you ran over our dog! ...anyway, like i was saying,

[@t20pIayer]

I like to think red is just a legend that evolved to look like John after he came to fame in rdr1

[@flippedoutkyrii]

Never got the chance to play this game back in 2009, so I'm happy I can finally give this a go on PC after 15 years of waiting! Shame the price is ballbustingly high.

[@MrHammers]

yeah $50 is crazy for a port

[@Camarillian]

Uploaded 40 seconds ago?! Damn, last time I was this early, the Callender Brothers were alive.

[@MrHammers]

🫡 thank you brother

[@Dogucicekson]

Great video man been waiting after I finished watching all your videos. Btw It’s pronounced like Dough-oo Chee-check-son Turkish name sorry but you can stick with your pronounciation if it is easier for you because I loved it too

[@MrHammers]

Ayy! Thanks my man!! I will try and pronounce it correctly next video. Please forgive me 🙏😭

[@trosenthal3711]

14 years - thought I had something with my eyes when I saw that

[@nekipeh7373]

I am literally playing it at the moment after i finished Revolver last month, and i must say i do love really love both games, especially this one. Its not my favorite Rockstar game, but its in top 5 for sure. Map and setting is great to explore, characters are fine, minigames and side activities are great, sound and music are top notch. My only downsides are not that many dialogues during a mission when traveling with another person via carriage/train compared to GTA IV and V; more refined shop system because there werent that many upgrades to gather from them and that bug where if i fail to hogtie a person, he gets stuck in laying position on the ground and cant be hogtied/picked up/wont stand up, so killing the person is only solution or just leaving the area.

[@MrHammers]

Revolver is such a charming game for what it is, but I'm very glad the series went where it did. RDR definitely has some growing pains but I think they continued the growth of the series fantastically with RDR 2 as well

[@eyeguydojima7131]

I just got an ad for Red Dead Redemption on a video ABOUT Red Dead Redemption.

[@MrHammers]

Lmaoo

[@gamerdude612]

Jesus your John got shot in the face damn that was brutal lol

[@dennissinned6299]

14 years later, we finally got the PC version we've been wishing for.

[@Deadsetdead]

WARNER BROTHERS. 1970 , Directed by Sam Peckinpah stars Warren Oates. 'The Ballad Of Cable Hogue'.

[@gamerrr50]

I am old now… 😂 14 years? Game feels like 5 years ago.

[@anthonycaputo2669]

You do get a cool horse if you achieve the lowest honor level. Some kind of Black Death horse. Looks really cool.

[@YellowBriefs]

5:12 LOL not literally a "father and a daughter", it's a priest and a believer

[@John-996]

Red dead 1 was such an important game and went on to inspire games Like AC Black Flag, Kingdom Come Deliverance and Ghost of Tushimia.

[@MANOFSOUTHPARK1]

Bro wtf I’ve never seen John get shot in the head like that :( I guess I kinda mirrors how Micah went down on top that mountain

[@MrHammers]

Took that shot to the face like a G

[@astaticELLINGTON]

Maybe because I started with red dead2 and played red dead on my switch but i didnt really feel like it was a masterpiece but im willing to watch this and see how i feel afterwards

[@MrHammers]

You set the game for failure 😭. RDR 2 is better in a lot of regards, but it's modern feel probably feels better these days. But playing RDR on the switch is doing it a massive disservice

[@Shayne-wi7wm]

28:38 You killed the dog 😭

[@MrHammers]

LOL i looked back to see if he died too :(

[@gamerdude612]

Such a great game and sad story sadder if you played both games John tried to do what Arthur said don't look back but he couldn't out run his past that Ross I hate him so much for stringing John along he never had any intentions on letting him off the hook just used him to do his dirty work and put him down when John outlived his usefulness.This was the first game I legit cried at the first time I played it when Abigail was crying over his body I lost it same with Arthur in 2 the way Rockstar can make you feel for these guys it's incredible I hope we're not too much longer from the next Red Dead Redemption entry like you said either as Jack or something new.

[@MrHammers]

I think Ross was a scumbag of course, but he was straight villainous for going after John at the end with an army. In my opinion if they tried to take John in, he would've went to prison rather than get gunned down. It's too the game forces you to go out swinging and shooting first, I think surrender should've been an option at the end. But then we wouldn't have seen Jacks vengeance either

[@learnmore6192]

The first time I played it I didn't know you could use dead eye. I was really good at the free aim by the end of the game.

[@TheRealChappers]

But rickets first mission makes u use dead eye? But what ever

[@learnmore6192]

@@TheRealChappers I played the game taking turns with my siblings. I didn't do every mission.

[@StreetSweep]

*Inhales deeply* "DAMN YOU"

[@jaxrush5229]

It would be awesome if you did a video on 2000s game called Second Sight that was on the PlayStation 2

[@Rcb4th]

I never got past the mission where you attack the fort. Every time I would start the journey to said fort, my ps3 would crash. Really enjoyed the cheats and just being an outlaw for fun tho.

[@MrHammers]

Dang! You gotta check the full game out

[@nerorivera6049]

amazing video but it's driving me insane why is your John Marston not wearing gloves in the cowboy outfit?

[@t20pIayer]

20:30 Rockstars cougars r famous for their encounters even if they're millions to 1

[@michaelsmyth3935]

I adapted The MacFarland family for D&D. Good Party defends. Bad raids.

[@MrHammers]

That's actually super cool, Im gonna give that idea to my DM

[@mementomori771]

Game had one of the highest budgets of its time but payed its devs shit god rockstar is a shit company

[@Heat7208]

Can you make one for Bully? It is a masterpiece! That along with Manhunt and The Warriors are the GOATED trilogy of Rockstar Games apart from the already popular GTA and Red Dead series.

[@steel066]

This game is amazing, Bonnie #1 bea

[@DexNathan]

Nice

[@literallynothinghere9089]

RDR2 is a great game but RDR1 has that vibe I can't explain what it is but i love 1 more than 2 even though 2 is clearly a superior game

[@incelescapist4387]

What do you think about "Bloodrayne 2"?

[@randomguyonyoutube5292]

Red Dead Retrospective

[@MrHammers]

Bro... That's good, might steal that

[@zjay]

This is just my headcanon, but i believe the story of revolver is true but the way it's portrayed in the game isn't how it actually happened

[@lasarousi]

We now know that a genre defining masterpiece is not worth full price 14 years later.

[@MrHammers]

I feel like $50 is worth it for what's offered: high resolution, high frame rate, convenient platform. Maybe don't get it if you played it before, but for first time players or content creators $50 isn't bad

[@fakeyoutuber5124]

This game feels more fun than RDR2. The over realism in RDR2 takes me away from the fun of it being a video game sometimes. This game in all honesty too felt like a more REAL historical experience than RDR2, since Rdr2 was too preachy about modern politics

[@literallynothinghere9089]

Mfw a banger video like this has less veiws than some girl pouting at the screen

[@MrHammers]

It be like that sometimes, haha. Thanks for being here my friend

[@JordonTheo]

Rdr1 was CREEPY. Hard to say why, but many of the missions were creepy..hell, even the strangers music cue was creepy.

[@het2patel]

Please make a video on San Andreas

[@TheMasterblaster32]

My favourite red dead back then and still is, honestly got sick of 2 I never even bothered finishing it because I can't stand the way you hold guns along with the stupid weapon sway crap.

[@rogueraccoon1840]

A whole hour of Mr.Hammer. im gonna listen to this during work

[@MrHammers]

Preciate ya my man 🙏

[@ShaneReynolds0421]

22:01 I ONLY use free aim. 😅

[@DjowZDjowZ-de8xd]

You should make a rdr2 rdr1 audio book ❤❤❤ please

[@austinrose2248]

I prefer the story of the first one over rdr2

[@BIGNUGGET5434]

Isn't it Strange?

[@myelectroheart]

Yo wake up babe, new hammer dropped!

[@rxgz5722]

man i cant wait for the pc release so i can mod arthur morgan into the game

[@michaelsmyth3935]

Father? Yes, Daughter? No. 🐑 of the flock.

[@DinaricUbermensch]

undead nightmare next

[@MrHammers]

Gonna play that on the steam version coming out in a couple days

[@NTEDOG561]

RDR 1 story is sooo much better. Puts you into the action great revenge story with a satisfying finale. Where as 2 is so long winded and just plain boring.

[@centitat6367]

Blasphemy.

[@NTEDOG561]

@centitat6367 not really

[@jonesygrets6029]

Rockstars best series

[@MrHammers]

I can stand behind that

[@cenationofjnu]

Compared to red dead redemption, red dead redemption 2 is nothing but garbage.