Red Dead Redemption Review: A Landmark Moment in Gaming History

[@satori3108]

They just don’t do such masterpieces anymore. But at least you do masterpiece videos and we can enjoy the nostalgia trip. Thank you.

[@TwinSticksReviews]

RDR is definitely a masterpiece, I'm glad you think I did it justice. So many memories playing this on the 360, an incredible experience even today.

[@MeepMacArthur]

​@@TwinSticksReviewsgot I envy you playing this masterpiece

[@justajad2809]

Finally. The game I've waited from you Twin Sticks. Cheers. Truly an incredible franchise.

[@BIGwillTHEGAME]

I still have the Game Of The Year Edition on 360/PS3. I been playing this game since 2011.

[@TheCommunityDub]

I feel RDR2 did this game justice, both are masterpieces, I haven’t finished RDR1 or 2 yet

[@John-996]

The World still blows allot games out the water with how reactive it is. I got attacked by a bunch of wild life and random NPC passing by helped me. You also have NPCs that if you have high honour And high fame will react to you differntly then if yoi have low honour High fame NPCs will start to fear you. The amount activites that all have purposes like unlike outfits and so on really makes stand out from allot of games. The physics are still some of thr best in any game thr way they react to being shot is top notch. Doing things like Robbing banks, Breaking horses, playing horse shoe, poker, Dueling, the world events, Side quests that on like allot open World games that come out and just have you clear bandit camps in exsample rage2, Mad Max and days gone that do not have story behind there side Quests RDR stands out. The story of course is also fantastic and playing on hardcore is allot of fun.

[@lasarousi]

I thought this channel was already over 100k, here's for a bright future.

[@nonaborhan7269]

Fantastic work as always! What this game was able to achieve back in 2010 remains outstanding, it took the Western genre and found clever ways to do something original with it's presentation, story, and characters, and I'm surprised more developers haven't touched the genre since the groundbreaking release of RDR1, it felt like everyone in the industry had to take a moment to appreciate what this game had accomplished, yet no one has attempted anything similar since. Side note, but do you have any plans to cover Undead Nightmare and Red Dead Redemption 2 any time soon? I'm sure those are gigantic videos on their own.

[@TwinSticksReviews]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the vid! Yeah really impressive how Rockstar took the GTA formula and applied it to this genre, while at the same time advancing open world realism and narratives in games. Crazy how well it holds up today too. I'm definitely doing RDR2 next year but that will be a mammoth task! Undead Nightmare is on the cards at some point too

[@John-996]

Although they are not westerns devs how mad Kingdom Come and Ghost of Tusmimia took allot inspiration from this game and even pitched there games as red dead in Japan or medievel japan. Before RDR1 came out people were saying westerns fo not work in a video game they were proven wrong. Kingdom come was game that got rejected at first due to being a medievel game with no Fantasy crap in it They of course were proven Wrong as the game received lots of support from Crowed funds. Ghost of Tushimia also had a tough time and acording to David jaffe the guy behind God of war he talked to guys and sony how said Ghost would not have been green lit on jim Ryan.

[@نونيم-ي4ح]

i waited very very long for this review and boy was it so worth it, big fan of your work and i hope you continue the amazing work.

[@MistahJay7]

Pretty sure that Old lady that was looking for her Dead Husband was just a ghost lol

[@TwinSticksReviews]

Oh really, that's interesting I didn't clock that. Pretty weird if she is

[@charlesdwayne2196]

Looking forward to this

[@talentoveranything2838]

21:08 damn rockstar 🤦🏻🤦🏻

[@TwinSticksReviews]

I know, a remake or remaster would have been sick. Maybe one day...

[@adamdavis1737]

This was my favorite game of all time until Red Dead 2 came out lol Others have also since knocked it down a few pegs but it will always be amongst my favorites I played through it about four times, although I only ever actually completely finished it once. Each subsequent playthrough I would stop right before you go back to the ranch and I would just linger in the game world and avoid John's inevitable fate I'm replaying it now with the switch version and it's a bit jarring. Mostly because the last playthrough I had was on the Xbox One X after they gave it the 4K patch. So seeing the visuals reduced back closer to original quality is a shock lol. But playing around with some of the visual options and playing handheld on the OLED still makes it look pretty damn good Mostly though I'm seeing how spoiled I've been by Red Dead 2, the controls really stick out to me as very janky and outdated. The game is still serviceable, once you get the hang of it you're able to maneuver around fine but things like the horses are way finickier than I really remembered. It also feels much more like a video game compared to the second game, the map is a bit smaller and easier to find your bearings with, everything is much quicker. And that's not a bad thing or anything, it's just the difference between the two. But it's still easy to get immersed in this one, losing yourself playing poker in a saloon for hours. I especially love the opening area in New Austin, the main missions with each character do kind of linger for a long time but damn it feels like such a classic over the top western. I feel the game loses steam as it goes along, but it is never not fun. This is the first time I'm replaying it after playing the prequel now at this point too and things hit just a little bit harder because of it.

[@John-996]

John, Arthur and Niko are such interesting chracters Max in Maxpayne 3 is another chracter who feels really human.

[@lasarousi]

I prefer max in the second game where he was still trying to go back to a normal life, like max from mad Max 1, where it's not entirely a broken man but it's getting there.

[@zackeryparkerson]

I think introducing big choices to the main narrative would have hindered the beautiful main story we love as it is.

[@OAndreDrumond]

nice easter egg at the end buddy xD great review, truly an amazing experience, and I also had friends at the time that didn't and to this day don't understand what a great achievement this game was and still is.

[@SanDmaNTheFreakTrucker]

RDR is better than RDR2 to me. RDR2 is probably the most boring game I’ve ever played. The novelty of feeding my horse and cleaning my guns wore off almost instantaneously, and the “random” encounters aren’t random at all.

[@skd_don]

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[@marbl3d45]

Feels good to spew out bad takes?

[@MeepMacArthur]

NO WAY BRO JUST SAID THAT OH NO BRO