Rockstar's cowboy epic might be a game of the year contender, but the Red Dead Redemption 2 tutorial is a filled with pointless objectives and over complicated explanations.
Take-Two announced its financial results for Q2 of fiscal year 2026, and shared an update on the sales of GTA5 and Red Dead Redemption 2.
You think Rockstar views Red Dead 2 as a failure because it didn't sell 150m copies?
I am pretty sure they don't. It was profitable and made them a lot of money. Not GTA5 money but far from failure. Maybe it is lower priority franchise, due to being smaller, but that is about the lowest they would put it as. Only thing they do consider failure is RDR2 Online, unlike GTA5 Online, that RDR2 Online flopped. Hence why it got less support. And when it come to profits, sales for both combined don't come close to GTA Online microtansactions. Hence why everything very quickly got canceled and GTA Online was top priority, so no GTA6 for a long time, no DLC for GTA5, despite there being 5 DLCs planned, at least I think it was 5, give or take one. But as I see it, they needed to rejuvenate interest and all, hence why GTA6 eventually is getting made. But what they are really looking forward to is refresh of Online.
Only in terms of the online aspect of the game. They didn't support it as much as they did GTA V Online. I remember people being pissed about that.
Boring and overrated. Red Dead Redemption is pretty good though. The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is my personal GOAT. We need more stuff like that from TooKyo.
I must be one of the few who are fine with the GTA6 delay. People treat that game like it’s the 2nd coming lol.
My daughter asked me how I felt about I shrugged and said I don't care gives me time to finish up games I already have. It's all good let them make the best game they can.
Dan Houser opens up about Red Dead Redemption 2’s rocky development, calling it behind schedule, massively over budget, and full of pressure to prove doubters wrong.
The world they built is pretty amazing. Unfortunately, the game was mostly boring to me. I definitely had fun in some parts, but it didn't do it for me as a whole like the first one did. I loved RDR so much.
The budgets and time it takes to make games these days is out of control. Such a big risk. If a game isn't a huge hit, it is often it for a studio. Scary. I really miss the PS2 and PS3 days where studeios could make 4 games in a generation and take risks in making something new. And so many were using their own engines. Those were the days.
Agreed. I love RDR but couldn't get into RDR2. The animations take forever and game slows you down on purpose. It won't let you have fun because R* want us to play the game they want to. I know millions love RDR2 and I even bought and own it. But just wasn't for me.
It's like comparing GTA4 to saints row 2. One game was about fun while the other was about realism and that's coming from someone who beat GTA4 many times. I much rather a game be fun to play than chase realism
GTA IV’s realism is what made it so much more fun for me. I loved experimenting with the physics.
I bought RDR2 also. Put 100+ hours into it and beat it our of respect for Rockstar and all the people saying it was the greatest game ever. RDR blew my mind but might also have been the best time in gaming for me personally. l loved that PS3 gen so much.
I am excited to see what GTA6 is like.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 fans took to social media to honor D'Angelo.
I was listening to D Angelo when he debuted in 1995. He had some great songs from that period up in to the early 2000s. He was a talented Neo Soul musician. I never knew his music was in RDR. May he R.I.P.
Why do things always have to be so black and white. Either excellent or failure. Always siding up into an opinion using extremes. Was it perfect? No. Was it long? Yes. Dit you learn what you needed? Yes. Does that make it a failure? No
It did its job but could have been better. Man people are so harsh lately.
I guess people really have nothing to write about.
I know i wish they would come on and put a update to fixed buds in the game
I think a lot of stuff should have been explained and unlocked early on. To be SEVERAL hours into the game and still having fast travel locked although the stage coach is right there, guns locked, although I have money for them at the store, and just now finding out how to quick raise a mask is kinda ridiculous.
Personally I think they should have had a young Arthur dream session where you get a lot of that stuff done. In conversations you hear all this stuff Dutch taught him. That was a perfect tutorial opportunity. Hell the game told me ONE time how to auto follow in formation when riding with others and I forgot it. It’s nowhere in the “help” section in game either. I love the game, but explaining things or at least giving you the option to find more help is definitely a weakness. And if I can’t fast travel why not let auto pathing on the horse be possible? Damn I’m to the point that I will turn it off if my next mission is across the map.
I love the tutorial. It set thing up for an epic adventure.
“Red Dead Redemption 2 tutorial is a filled with pointless objectives and over complicated explanations.”
They explained you how to shoot, loot, hunt, ride horse, talk to the npc, and even how to rob a train. Isn’t that what tutorial is about?