Red Dead Redemption 2 Launch Trailer Released

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Ahead of a console launch later this month, Rockstar uploaded a launch trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2. While recent reports suggest that the game isn't coming to PC, PCGamer seems to think a PC port is just a matter of time. GTA V sold well on the PC, so it's hard to believe Rockstar would leave such a huge market untapped forever.

Check out the trailer here.

Red Dead Redemption 2, an epic tale of life in America at the dawn of the modern age, arrives for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 26th. Pre-order now to get the War Horse and Outlaw Survival Kit, or select the Special Edition or Ultimate Edition to receive additional bonuses and exclusive content. And starting at midnight on October 18, pre-loading for digital pre-orders on both the PlayStation Store or Xbox Store will be unlocked worldwide for all available territories. All digital pre-orders also receive bonus GTA$ for GTA Online.
 
I had no interest in this game till I started watching old Clint Eastwood westerns on Netflix and Amazon recently. But sucks that its not being released on PC anytime soon.
 
Westworld inspired me to get this game. I took off work on Friday and realized my preorder was for a physical copy that will come in later that day or Saturday.

Canceled the preorder, ordered the digital edition, upgraded to the Supreme Mega Give Me all the Ponies version, 12:01AM Oct 26th can't come soon enough.
 
I'm sorry, but even before watching the video, I'm really annoyed. Because that guy has his finger on the trigger when he really, really shouldn't.
 
HorseproofBacon said:
I remember PC Gamer also saying the first Red Dead would come to PC...We are still waiting on that one, right?
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That's a different situation, this is more like GTAV where they've strategically timed the release to coincide with the ending of the era for the current gen console's. The next-gen consoles are on the horizon and no doubt an "updated" version will come with the PC launch. They're double-dipping, again. There was an ex-Rockstar employee that listed RDR2 PC on his LinkedIn page at one point.

The original game never came to PC because Rockstar realized what a mess the codebase was when they acquired the property. It would have basically been a complete rewrite. Back then, you had different codebases for each platform (they weren't all x86), so it wasn't a small undertaking.
 
Mohonri said:
I'm sorry, but even before watching the video, I'm really annoyed. Because that guy has his finger on the trigger when he really, really shouldn't.
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I wouldn't put it past them to not have as much discipline in gun safety in those days (especially in the "Wild" West) than those that were trained to handle guns in more controlled environments like the army or those that did so as a hobby in more lawful areas of the US.

If Wiki is to be believed, certain standards of gun safety was still in it's early stages of being adopted during the early 1900s-1910s, with the finger being off the trigger not being mentioned at all. It seems that even during WWII, soldiers weren't yet disciplined to keep their fingers off the trigger. The mindset of having your finger off the trigger wasn't popularized until Jeff Cooper formalized it with his four basic gun safety rules (no dates were given but judging from the info, I'd say it was formalized some time between 1950s to at the latest 1970s).

So yeah, even if it is not safe according to modern standards, I'll give them a pass on it if going by the history of gun safety standards.
 
Mikolai said:
I wouldn't put it past them to not have as much discipline in gun safety in those days (especially in the "Wild" West) than those that were trained to handle guns in more controlled environments like the army or those that did so as a hobby in more lawful areas of the US.

If Wiki is to be believed, certain standards of gun safety was still in it's early stages of being adopted during the early 1900s-1910s, with the finger being off the trigger not being mentioned at all. It seems that even during WWII, soldiers weren't yet disciplined to keep their fingers off the trigger. The mindset of having your finger off the trigger wasn't popularized until Jeff Cooper formalized it with his four basic gun safety rules (no dates were given but judging from the info, I'd say it was formalized some time between 1950s to at the latest 1970s).

So yeah, even if it is not safe according to modern standards, I'll give them a pass on it if going by the history of gun safety standards.
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Just look at pictures of officers, soldiers or civilians from the 70s. It simply wasn't a thing back then. Over time people get better at what they do and that includes safety measures. Example:


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I still don't understand why this game and its predecessor aren't on PC. If and when it eventually does make it to PC I'll buy it. If we're lucky maybe they'll throw in a copy of the original as a sweetener.
 
The Red Dead series sounds awesome, but I get on some kind of hate trip and avoid cross-platform console franchises that are suspiciously not brought to PC. I'll play PlayStation and Nintendo exclusives, but there is absolutely no reason for a Rockstar cross-platform console game to not have a PC release. If it had a PC release, it would be difficult to avoid, but since it doesn't, it's so much easier to avoid and not even consider.
 
djoye said:
there is absolutely no reason for a Rockstar cross-platform console game to not have a PC release.
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Actually there is. Rockstar/TakeTwo/2k are a business, legally obligated to maximize value for their shareholders and maximize profits. It's really that simple. They have a formula that is working for them by staggering the releases.

Their titles are god tier level of blockbusters now in terms of budget and sales volume, so everything they do is highly calculated and their analytics tell them they'll sell more total copies of the game releasing for PC later. A simultaneous PC release would dilute total console copies sold, and by extension piracy would dilute the total PC copies sold.

Here's another key: more people will buy two copies than bitter PC gamers that will "protest" and not buy any copies.

Fwiw I'd like a PC release next week too, but I understand their business rationale.
 
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If it does well (it should!), I bet it gets a rework for PS5 and maybe that will give us PC folks some Redemption...
 
Oh, it'll come to PC 100%. They just said no PC, because after GTA V, if they said PC comes later, alot of people would just wait. Now, they'll get plenty of sales from suckers who believe them, and then sometime down the road, they'll come out with a press release about how to popular demand, and because they love their customers soooo much, they decided to release on PC. I really wish somebody internal would just leak the fact that PC was always going to be a thing.
 
DPI said:
Actually there is. Rockstar/TakeTwo/2k are a business, legally obligated to maximize value for their shareholders and maximize profits. It's really that simple. They have a formula that is working for them by staggering the releases.

Their titles are god tier level of blockbusters now in terms of budget and sales volume, so everything they do is highly calculated and their analytics tell them they'll sell more total copies of the game releasing for PC later. A simultaneous PC release would dilute total console copies sold, and by extension piracy would dilute the total PC copies sold.

Here's another key: more people will buy two copies than bitter PC gamers that will "protest" and not buy any copies.

Fwiw I'd like a PC release next week too, but I understand their business rationale.
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Yup, many will bitch and complain about no pc release and then buy a console version "well its the only way I can play it". Then in 6months or a year they release pc with a new texture set and/or modding and "i have to get this so i can mod and play it like its meant to be played".

I too have games on console and pc that I bought staggered (mostly due to steam sales or humble bundles but still) so I am in the group feeding the formula that screws us :/

marketing all the way.
 
NeoNemesis said:
I still don't understand why this game and its predecessor aren't on PC. If and when it eventually does make it to PC I'll buy it. If we're lucky maybe they'll throw in a copy of the original as a sweetener.
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They never bothered to port the first one to PC because from what I remember the code was a disaster. The game was basically a complete redesign of what was supposed to be a sequel to Red Dead Revolver before the studio got absorbed by Rockstar and became Rockstar San Diego. Rockstar didn't even know the game would be popular enough to warrant a sequel but the unexpected success created a franchise. It probably wasn't worth the effort to fix the game to function on PC so they decided to just build a newer better RDR instead. We'll definitely be getting a PC version but it'll be just like GTA and they'll delay it a year or so to maximize profits.
 
Darunion said:
Yup, many will bitch and complain about no pc release and then buy a console version "well its the only way I can play it". Then in 6months or a year they release pc with a new texture set and/or modding and "i have to get this so i can mod and play it like its meant to be played".

I too have games on console and pc that I bought staggered (mostly due to steam sales or humble bundles but still) so I am in the group feeding the formula that screws us :/

marketing all the way.
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I bought a console to play red dead and I will sell it once I am done playing it. If it comes to PC a year later I'll put on an eye patch and set sail, if you catch my drift.
 
NickJames said:
They never bothered to port the first one to PC because from what I remember the code was a disaster. The game was basically a complete redesign of what was supposed to be a sequel to Red Dead Revolver before the studio got absorbed by Rockstar and became Rockstar San Diego. Rockstar didn't even know the game would be popular enough to warrant a sequel but the unexpected success created a franchise. It probably wasn't worth the effort to fix the game to function on PC so they decided to just build a newer better RDR instead. We'll definitely be getting a PC version but it'll be just like GTA and they'll delay it a year or so to maximize profits.
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I could see that being the case if was a PS3 exclusive, but the Xbox 360 was a basically just a scaled back PC. Should have been a no brainer to port the 360 version to PC.
 
NeoNemesis said:
I could see that being the case if was a PS3 exclusive, but the Xbox 360 was a basically just a scaled back PC. Should have been a no brainer to port the 360 version to PC.
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I think that's true of the XBone but the 360 software runs on 16 MB of internal storage, it's such a stripped down OS that I could see why some developers rarely do it. Now a days most games are developed in tandem for both so it's much easier to get a good port.
 
NeoNemesis said:
I could see that being the case if was a PS3 exclusive, but the Xbox 360 was a basically just a scaled back PC. Should have been a no brainer to port the 360 version to PC.
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Didn't the 360 have an ibm cpu or something? Thought it had very different architecture?
 
The hype was real, ladies and gentlemen. Reviews rolling in and it's looking like the game of the generation.

Metacritic 98%
Opencritic 97%
 
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Darunion said:
Didn't the 360 have an ibm cpu or something? Thought it had very different architecture?
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Ja, it had a custom IBM PowerPC. As far as I know this is the first home console generation to use x86.
 
percydaman said:
Oh, it'll come to PC 100%. They just said no PC, because after GTA V, if they said PC comes later, alot of people would just wait. Now, they'll get plenty of sales from suckers who believe them, and then sometime down the road, they'll come out with a press release about how to popular demand, and because they love their customers soooo much, they decided to release on PC. I really wish somebody internal would just leak the fact that PC was always going to be a thing.
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How could you possibly know this though? Or are you just speculating?
 
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