Can't believe he didn't mention the soundtrack when you first arrive in Mexico. The music together with the scenery is one of my favourite gaming moments to this day.

@TheSaltFactory

Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love RDR/RDR2's soundtrack, it's an absolute masterwork. I always forget to talk about music in my videos for some reason, prompting me to crank the volume on the soundtracks higher in the background lol

@schnarfschnarf5886

Жыл бұрын

That is the one thing that I remember from this game. That song is a hit!

@michaelnichols7306

Жыл бұрын

@@schnarfschnarf5886 That song right when you enter Mexico is Far Away by José González. The soundtrack in RDR helped me find an artist who I've loved for nearly a decade!

@insertnamehere8147

Жыл бұрын

@@TheSaltFactory my man, read the newspaper as Jack, gives you some closure for some of the characters John had help from, such as reading about Irish, drinking himself to death in mexico. I wont ruin the others endings :)

@treetheoak8313

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact! They used period corrext instruments for the soundtrack! Some 100-150 year old guitars and trumpets that where used for classic western movies.

Just wanted to say, John didn't walk into armageddon because of hubris. He knew he had no chance to face them head on, but he also knew if he escaped with his family, the feds would never stop hunting him. His family would be in danger forever.

@toiletvirusandcoronapaper271

Жыл бұрын

This. He knew he was what they were after and only his sacrifice would stop them. He accepted the answer that he could never outrun his past. He had to reap what he sew

@Yyybigra

Жыл бұрын

It's genuinely bizarre he couldn't figure this out. Zero critical thinking.

@acquiredtaste5446

Жыл бұрын

@@Yyybigra Notice this a lot with this guy. Stuff that takes just a little bit of thinking or is even explained at some point and he just completely misses it

@DesertRatTactical

Жыл бұрын

“When I’m gone, they’ll just find another monster. They have to, to justify their wages.”

@Bryandan1elson

Жыл бұрын

thats such a mind numbingly bad take on the ending from salt. I was floored. How does someone misread something so badly?

Tbh I do agree a lot of the ranch stuff was boring, but I Kinda liked it because it made me feel immersed, you're a cowboy not everyday is going to be shooting up salons, some times you need to herd cows, or break horses, do normal cowboy stuff, and I appreciate that kind of stuff

@corbjones2738

10 ай бұрын

It feels as though a lot of people forget that missions in story-driven games are usually laid out the way they are because that's what the writers said the character would do. John can't just start bigfoot hunting (in-story) as soon as the feds let him go from the train

@toastertarts2990

10 ай бұрын

​@@corbjones2738 That's fine unless I'm doing something like the dock mission or mopping in GTA V

@corbjones2738

10 ай бұрын

@@toastertarts2990 in gta v's case, there was so much shit like that & it felt like one big awkwardly written macguffin. the dock and mop missions are atrocious.

@victorstiles8946

7 ай бұрын

I kinda liked the ranch tbh, it felt cozy

@og._dyn

6 ай бұрын

the only thing ‘bad’ about the ranch part was the stragglers you encounter when driving a herd, but those were only minor annoyances

I actually really liked nearly all side quests. The one with the Guy who lost his mind in the deserts, the one with the old lady who can’t get over her fiancé, the strange man challenging John to redeem himself from his past… I know they mostly don’t contribute to the story, that’s why I like them, their just encounters with interesting stories

@capitcha

Жыл бұрын

“The Wronged Woman” was pretty cool it felt like a real life lesson although a lot of the game is like that lol

@Ryan_Rants

11 ай бұрын

I agree, they were intriguing and offered some unexpected and strange (holding true to their name) plot twists. Like the guy you help collect flowers for his wife who turns out to be a corpse, the flying contraption you help complete and watch the guy plummet to his death. I don't get why he didn't hit on these and found them to be so annoying.

@Indigo_1001

7 ай бұрын

Really? Yes the stranger mission was by far the best, but the rest? A guy ask you to get flowers, you get them and you see a funny cutscene. A lady ask you to get medicine, you get it and you see a cutscene. Someone ask you to buy land, you get it and that’s it. They are a very weak element of the game that even GTAV greatly improved

@loudrockacdc

28 күн бұрын

That stranger who people theorized was Death, an Angel, God or something else always stuck with me

@hydrocritical2268

12 күн бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@Indigo_1001It’s supposed to show the wackiness of the Wild West along with the grittiness that comes with it. With a bit of rockstar edginess. Cutscenes aren’t the most engaging thing in a game but it’s a character focused game where the main characters are John and the world around him. Not all of them are going to be great but it’s good to recognize that a couple of them are “Great”. I can only name one “cheesy” one. It’s not bad but the man in love with the horse one is just odd.

I think John steps out of the barn because if he were alive, his family would always be in danger. Kind of a final sacrifice to protect what he fought so hard for. Not too dissimilar to Arthur in RDR2 ig

@Cruddyhorse

Жыл бұрын

This is absolutely why, it's not a matter of John being cocky or over confident, he was never like that.

@user-zq1eo2pp5s

Жыл бұрын

Glad these comments are here to show me that this isn't worth sitting through, ahaha. Idk how you could play through this game the first time or 10 years later and think he did that because he was overconfident when the entire point of the game is that your past always catches up with you unavoidably.

@lynnlRDR-RDR2

Жыл бұрын

Never looked at it that was. I do like that idea although still super sad.

@user-zq1eo2pp5s

Жыл бұрын

@@lynnlRDR-RDR2 Yeah, the Red Dead Redemption title refers to the redemption John Marston is trying so hard to achieve by hunting down his past crew to make up for those "sins" and allow him and his family to live their life. But he was in that gang same as the rest, and they were never going to let him go. Dutch mentions they're just gonna find another monster and so they did with John. Thankfully the past catching up applies to even Edgar Ross, who is gunned downed by Jack in one of the most anticlimactic places and circumstances, yet makes for one of the most satisfying and impactful moments in gaming for me.

@bruhdon4748

Жыл бұрын

And ultimately Jack becomes like everyone else in the gang, the whole game and even the prequels show Jack is intelligent, articulate & destined for much more & ends up becoming an outlaw murderer like his father, ultimately nobody finds redemption and it’s such a tragic but amazing story

I’m surprised he didn’t mention the newspaper you can buy in blackwater while playing as Jack. It contain a few articles about some of the main characters in the game, Seth, Bonnie, etc. it wasn’t much, but it gave a little information on such characters after John’s death.

@maxnurmax4550

Жыл бұрын

Never forget this cynic article about the beginning of WWI

@TheLordofMetroids

Жыл бұрын

​@@maxnurmax4550WW I, not II. The epilogue of RDR1 takes place in 1914, the same year WW I starts.

@Kazasia-_-

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLordofMetroidsHe said world war 1

@TheLordofMetroids

Жыл бұрын

@@Kazasia-_- oh my goodness, your right. Man I swear that said 2. I apologize

@animuslite8809

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheLordofMetroidsyou have to atone for your mistake, make right with your god

After playing rdr2, rdr horses are jarringly fast 🤣

@Soozito

3 ай бұрын

And every time I play rdr2 I’m like damn I wish they sprinting like rdr, also the feature in rdr where if you call your horse while running your horse catches up to you during your sprint for you to hop on

@gh05tnoh24

3 ай бұрын

The only ones that feel like RDR1 were the Arabians.

@PresWorldWid

8 күн бұрын

I know this is a year old thread but im replaying RDR and yeah these horses fucking zoom lol

John walked out those barn doors fully knowing he was gonna die. He just knew that even if he got away, so what? He'd still be wanted, they'd just come for him again and again and again, and next time it might be Jack that gets shot. He knowingly sacrificed his life for the sake of his family. The whole theme of the game is basically that you can't run from your past, just like Bill, Javier and Dutch all couldn't, and the more he tried the more they'd take from him. I think that's sort of the point, there isn't really such a thing as Redemption. No matter how much good John did for the Government they still saw him as just an outlaw, nothing more, not worth the respect to uphold their end of the deal. It's a beautiful scene.

@bigball6392

10 ай бұрын

John tried to avoid responsibility for his past crimes, payed the price, learned the lesson, and finally made responsible decision to save his family (the very same family he ran from at first), thus redeeming himself in his own eyes.

@marcelladonyi2409

9 ай бұрын

Good points, but allow me to retort by mentioning... tAhItI

@deschloro

8 ай бұрын

And in the end, Edgar Ross had to face up to his past too.

@yourmother9747

5 ай бұрын

I actually think the point is that there is only redemption for the soul, not the man

@JayL03940

2 ай бұрын

Karma for Mexico

Definitely do the undead nightmare DLC. It is such a fascinating twist on the established game. And it allows you to play on the overworld that's John again. And not as obnoxious goddamn son.

@Jebbreh

Жыл бұрын

I couldn't. 😓I got the invisible head glitch. So I couldn't kill any zombies. Lol. It was just me running around trying to find ways to get ahead in the game.

@Psycheitout

Жыл бұрын

@@Jebbreh So your saying you couldn't get aHEAD?

@garymcjerry

Жыл бұрын

@@Psycheitoutyeah dudes maidenless, can’t get head.

@kakyointhemilfhunter4273

Жыл бұрын

I never got the problem with Jack tbh. Hes alright to me

@swahini

Жыл бұрын

RDR2 needs an undead nightmare DLC so bad

These are the only videos that go straight to the front of the queue, the GOAT for re-experiencing great games

To me, the best reason to play this game is for the atmosphere. It's just so absorbing and perfectly captures that Old West vibe. It's stuck with me ever since I first played it.

@anz2441

Жыл бұрын

I agree, especially with Mexico in play. More old west than rdr2 Imo. Sound track in rdr1 was better too, more spaghetti western and I loved it.

@julianorozaa

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, which is the feeling I missed when playing Red Dead 2.

@EduardoSalamanca1960

11 ай бұрын

It’s funny how even though it takes place in the 1910s when the Wild West era was over, it still feels more western than it’s prequel set in the 1890s. Rdr2 just looks too green and civilized in most areas to have an authentic Wild West vibe.

@alext399

10 ай бұрын

@@EduardoSalamanca1960RDR2 makes you feel like you’re in the 1800’s, RDR1 makes you feel like you’re in a western

@Speer788

10 ай бұрын

Indeed, I couldn't have explained it better. Story and atmosphere-wise, RDR1 is the best but the RDR2 mechanics make the game so much more enjoyable and oh boy was the hunting fun and crafting your clothing!@@alext399

There's actually a good easter egg planted into Jack's story through the newspaper that you can buy and read as him. You find out that Landon Ricketts ends up dying in his sleep and that Irish ends up dying in a Theives' Landing outhouse to an accidental discharge of a gun. Really puts a bow on a couple of the side characters that John came across and really wipes the slate of the open world clean for Jack once and for all.

The “eh, I don’t care much about these guys” is exactly how John feels, everyone he meets, helps or kills in this game is just a means to an end, I think they did a great job of making an indifferent hero

@AssClapCowboy

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the critiques here feel so arbitrary like he just wanted this to be a different game than it was trying to be…

@robertwye9463

Жыл бұрын

John is a very grey protagonist and that's his whole point, he was a Violent Outlaw in his past and it still shows in spades like when he kills the Villagers in Chuparosa and helps burn the rebel town yet he also does so many good acts, John has an equal capacity for good and evil and its up to you in the end to decide if John got his redemption.

@undertakernumberone1

Жыл бұрын

@@robertwye9463 i mean, the "villagers" in Chuparosa were bandits trying to rob him.

@TheDanteEX

Жыл бұрын

@@undertakernumberone1 I think the only innocent people you're encouraged to kill in the story missions are the miners when stealing the gatling gun. They definitely have a right to defend their property and John shoots 'em dead.

@robertwye9463

Жыл бұрын

@@undertakernumberone1 He still killed the last one despite the last one standing down.

The ending, or rather, the true "ending" gameplay sequence and subsequent credits scene, have been burned into my mind ever since. It's one of my top gaming experiences within the span of 30 years.

1:15:56 You do head about the Marshall, Seth, and Irish if you read the newspaper. I always liked how the writers subtly wrapped up their stories without being in your face.

One thing that I always appreciated is that everything in this game is very intentional. Even if it doesn’t work or it falls flat, it is exactly how they wanted it to be. I fell like so many games try to be everything at once instead of picking something and sticking to it. I think it wasn’t an oversight that we don’t see many characters carry over from act to act, I think they wanted to convey the feeling that those people DID just walk into the sunset and were never heard from again. Because most people could really do that in the old west. But our protagonist could not. No matter how hard he tried. In fact, it felt almost like a foreshadowing of his downfall. All these people he interacted with could have the one thing he never could: a fading out of memory.

With how fast and rapid technology and video games change and evolve, there aren't many that you can pick up after 5,10 years, and jump straight back in without an issue. Sure RDR looks its age, but its one of the few that you can just pick up and completely enjoy so many years later Truly love the red dead games and forever hopeful to see 1 get a remake

@TheKeyser94

Жыл бұрын

I would prefer more a remaster, so I not need to install 150G in my PC from a 100G game. And that what weight RDR2.

@Spike2276

Жыл бұрын

RDR 1 is a masterpiece, but a big part of why it feels easy to pick back up is because Rockstar has never really evolved it's gameplay past GTA 4 (god i hate A spamming to sprint...)

@TheKeyser94

Жыл бұрын

@@Spike2276 In my opinion, GTA 4 has the best story of all the GTA games, and the driving really not bother me to much, I played other games that put more weight in the cars and make the driving less cartoonish, if you make your cars drive into a cloud, when you would take a turn it seems that always take to far, and take the fun part of using your car as a weapon and using other cars to stop your momentum when you are taking turns.

@ChristmasLore

Жыл бұрын

Witcher 3? I'm totally new to gaming, having played only Hogwarts Legacy (for each house), then discovered Witcher 3... I'm now on my new game + run to get to level 1oo, then I plan to somewhat clean my old pc to play Witcher 2 and maybe even 1, maybe Fable, maybe... don't know... there's so much out there... Thinking about Red Dead Redemption 2 since it came out, for the graphics.. Also, my PS5 bundle came with God of War Ragnarok, so .... I feel like games with a very specific atmosphere/graphics maybe age better than others? Just a hunch really.

@George-um2vc

Жыл бұрын

@@ChristmasLore RDR2 is by far the most competent open world narrative game ever made, if you play it, it may ruin other games as they simply won’t be of the same quality, W3 is fire though, lots of good games, but RDR2 will change your life if you let it take you. RDR1 has mostly age well because of the performance capture of all the scenes and animations etc etc, it feels very life like because of that, the graphics are pretty good for the time too which helps but what makes RDR1 hold up is primarily the performance capture and excellent writing.

RDR was probably one of the last gaming experiences I really got into. I never upgraded past the 360/PS3 gen and eventually my interest in gaming whittled down to watching retrospectives like this one on KZread. Kinda sad really but channels like this one do their job well for where I'm at in life.

@blueberry9319

Жыл бұрын

I get ya, I used to be super social on my console but now I'm more of a single player game type of person or if I play multiplayer I don't bother hooking my headphones in

@That-Will-Do-It

Жыл бұрын

Thats good that these videos do well but if you do ever want to get back into it Id recommend trying an Xbox Series S. Its tiny, light, and $300. You can play all your favorite 360/PS3 gen titles (including RDR1) at a higher resolution and stable frames along with any new ones that caught your eye like maybe RDR2.

@wesss9353

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I feel you, I'm doing co-op games like portal 2

@sergeantbigmac

Жыл бұрын

Im the same way. I was never a huge gamer, but as a millennial I still grew up with LAN parties and did have a sizeable collection and many late nights gaming at the peak of the PS2 and 360 generation. I just dont really know what happened. I am still interested in video games. I like to watch content surrounding them and keep up with the industry. But I havent touched a controller in years. I kept meaning to buy a PS4, then a PS5. It just hasnt happened. I wish I could say life got in the way but I do technically have freetime to play, I just... Dont.

@DarkwareTNP

Жыл бұрын

You should upgrade for RDR2 at the very least...it's as much of a masterpiece tbh

I like how you didn’t sugarcoat moments in the game. If you didn’t like a part of the game or you thought it wasn’t as good as you remember you told us. I really appreciate that.

I love the irony of The Salt Factory being one of the most articulate, even-keeled and chill media review channels out there. Phenomenal as always.

@SoyDrinker

Жыл бұрын

He should change his name to The Fart Factory.

@SuperCasino77

Жыл бұрын

Him and Madseason both nail this niche

@wesss9353

Жыл бұрын

Efap has entered the chat

@insomniagobrrr5542

Жыл бұрын

Hadn't thought about that, but yeah it is

@Masterofchodes

Жыл бұрын

​@@SoyDrinker o-ho got em!! Good one dude!!1!1

I know RDR2 didnt come out like 10+ years ago, but i think a retrospective essay would be phenomenal. I truly hope you do it sometime in the future when you are ready. Plenty of people would love to watch it.

@kieranklein2527

Жыл бұрын

YES PLEASE!

@Spike2276

Жыл бұрын

Tbf i'd watch/listen to Salt talking about almost any game that he likes playing

@WOOOPdoctorFROGhere

Жыл бұрын

the channel "Skill Up" has done an absolutely incredible video on Red Dead 2. I've watched it a dozen times it's that good.

@ryano9520

Жыл бұрын

Ok. It’s a pretty good game with a 20 hour movie force down your throat, the house building quick time events is what put me over the edge and I never touched it again. The core game is actually amazing but the story is weak and the game is made to waste your time as bad as any mobile game I’ve ever played 3/10.

@Bentrap15

Жыл бұрын

​@@ryano9520ok bud. 🙃

Short answer: yes Long Answer: its a fucking masterpiece

Honestly when this game came out it was the most epic game out there, so ahead of it time... I think we all remember the shoot out at the end and our main character dying, then we play as his kid. That was such a shock to me at the end but they made it work.. Brilliant!

rdr3 taking place in the 20's with a broken jack marston returning from ww1 has a lot of potential for the kind of writing rockstar seems to do really well. I could imagine the opening cutscene of a lively dock filled with soldiers being welcomed home put in stark contrast to a grey sad post war industrialized city.

@SlackJawJack

Жыл бұрын

Plot twist: Jack is Cole's father... don't think that'd work, but could be fun.

@BlueBirdsProductions

Жыл бұрын

wouldn't even be a western game at that point, it would be a mafia game

@PlaidSuitPinstripeWorld

Жыл бұрын

@@BlueBirdsProductions I've never really considered RDR1&2 as full westerns tbh. The era is already long dead in RDR1 and RDR2 is only a few years behind and isn't even physically set in the west for most of its run time. I feel like they're more "post" westerns or something like that, and I think the series ending in the late 1910s early 1920s could be fitting if handled correctly.

@mullaoslo

Жыл бұрын

Though I woudnt hate concluding jacks story I feel 1920s is too late for the rdr series.. Even though the west is basicly dead in the first game it's such a big part of the rdr identity.. I'd rather Rockstar pull the trigger on the shared universe they have been teasing for 15 years anyways and just have jack get his own game series set in 1920s outside rdr.. I feel the natural rdr3 would be playing as dutch or hosea I'm their younger days picking up John and Arthur

@MrGochira

Жыл бұрын

@@BlueBirdsProductions that clash of old world bandits and mafia would be awesome

Always a good day when salt uploads

@EliteValor1003

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@player2kus

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree

@gryph3911

Жыл бұрын

It really is.

@gavunjohnson522

Жыл бұрын

So weird because I literally just started another playthrough of red dead 1.

@smokeythatdude

Жыл бұрын

The best of days

Not really a justification for their on-screen absence, I know, but an interesting bit on the various side characters who just kinda disappear is that you can read about what happened to them after the last time John sees them in the in-game newspapers, kind of ironic given that John can't read. Seth went back to grave robbing and actually managed to hit it big, Irish accidently killed himself in an outhouse, and the best one, Landon, died peacefully in his sleep during the time skip of John to Jack. Plenty of others too, these are just the ones I remember off the top of my head.

@gabrieleamore5527

Жыл бұрын

John actually can read, you can see it several times in 2, Dutch thought that to him and to arthur too

@lawfulstupid643

Жыл бұрын

@@gabrieleamore5527 Oh right, it's Abigail who can't read. Think I got it mixed up from that scene where Jack is helping her learn. Or am I just making things up? I dunno, been far too long since my last playthrough.

@linashell2696

Жыл бұрын

@@gabrieleamore5527 i think my fave detail in rdr2 is that John's diary has lines he made to keep his writing straight. arthur doesn't have to do that tho. i always thought that was a cute detail for john lol.

@gabrieleamore5527

Жыл бұрын

@@linashell2696 never thought about that, you're RIGHT. Also, very evident, they're drawing are different. John is more a goofy type of person, and that is portraied in every aspect

@dakotajohnson5009

Жыл бұрын

@@linashell2696 Also how Arthur's drawings were nice and well made, while John's were very crude and it's obvious he's doing to try to emulate Arthur

Red Dead Rehabilitation. Jack goes to therapy.

@RealityBoat

7 ай бұрын

lmao

This game has aged great, replayed it a few months ago and I think it’s better than 2 in a lot of ways, definitely a much more focused story. John Marston also is just one of the best protagonists of all time imo.

@tydendurler9574

Жыл бұрын

RDR2 is the WAYYYY better GAME. As a realistic cowboy-simulator of course, which isn't everyones thing. People like you seem to just wanna watch and be entertained instead of actually, intrinsically play an immersive videogame.

@stevengull6703

Жыл бұрын

​@Tyden Durler I've never understood the "immersion" argument for games. I get that people want to feel like they're in the world but when all is said and done it's still just a video game. I've never been immersed in a video game to the degree that others seem to get and I've been playing games of all kinds for 22 years now. If immersion is the best thing a game has to offer then its not a good game.

@tydendurler9574

Жыл бұрын

@@stevengull6703 Immersion is King. Like you say, you don't understand.

@JimDarkmagicThe4th

Жыл бұрын

A game cant just have immersion imo. You have to have so many qualities to achieve it, probably already a good game by that point

@stevengull6703

Жыл бұрын

@@tydendurler9574 good gameplay is king and good story writing is queen. Graphics are the prince and dialog is the princess. Immersion is the court jester there to lighten the place up and mildly entertain you.

I don't usually find RockStar games have very funny jokes in them but John Marston has got some good lines, and we he tells the professor he's gonna give him and and follows with "I'm just kidding." It genuinely tickles me for some reason

@yourehereforthatarentyou

Жыл бұрын

i think it stands out bc it’s basically the only time in the entire game that john makes a legitimate joke. like yeah he makes plenty of dry, sarcastic remarks towards the characters he sees as acting foolish or hypocritically (nigel west dickens, irish, & reyes mostly), and while those *are* funny in their own right, pulling the professor’s leg just to mess with him a little is the only time he does something so lighthearted & playful

@Denzel2001

Жыл бұрын

That one made me chuckle too

the "no western games" hit me hard. when I was young I saw tons of westerns with my dad. playing games like that would be soo cool. we really enjoyed playing the online part of red dead 2 together. shame how rockstar abandoned that too.

@hiddensquid5711

Жыл бұрын

Red dead revolver. Gun. Just a couple.

@icantdoabackflip4029

8 ай бұрын

Outlaws.

The sky in rdr is even more beautiful than in rdr2. Look at that, it's impressive, it looks like real clouds passing in front of a real sun, I wonder how they done that 😮

While I don't really have much to say as the video was pretty good, the point that John's history with the other gang members isn't explored always felt very intentional to me. The specific reason as to why that decision was made one can only speculate, I do however quickly want to say that I didn't believe it was done in service of a prequel/second game. (Quick little addition) John's past in RDR1 sort of to an extent is treated a bit like the whole Blackwater situation in the second game, this is more of a casual observation, but it felt worthy of mention.

@seanlaffey3633

9 ай бұрын

It was either made with a prequel in mind or to keep the mystery of the past a little vague. In a way, it really works with the theme of the dying old west.

That little Godspeed sample you threw in for the cougar was fucking incredible

@47ejecting2

Жыл бұрын

Is that monologue becoming a meme now? My wife and friends always quote it like it is: "I open my wallet, and it's full of blood."

I'm just saying man you are great for binge-watching especially when I'm working having your voice in the background is just soothing

I love these videos cause I can squash a nostalgic desire to replay a game like this in like 1:22:29 instead of the approximately 20-30 hours it would take me to play through it.

You should definitely cover undead nightmare, expansions like that are rare nowadays.

yes please do Undead Nightmare. It completes Redemption in a way. Like it shows that this world can and these characters can fit into other genres, instead of a typical Western game. and plus cowboys vs zombies, what's not to love!

23:14 that's a reference I did not expect to pop up haha. I loved your enthusiasm when referencing the school survival guide, great show.

I used to be obsessed with playing red dead redemption online. So fun with a bunch of friends. I remember us boxing bears in the bear claw lake or whatever in the tall trees area. Online competitive was also amazing, one of the few games I've ever been godlike at in multiplayer.

I remember playing Red Dead Redemption and putting on the 'bandana' almost at the beginning of the game. After finishing the game, I realized that I still had the 'bandana' on. I guess I went with the 3rd option for a playthrough: Zorro

Yes. Yes we definitely want Red Dead Undead Nightmare.

Landon Ricketts was reported dead by the time we start playing as Jack

can confirm as a texan, that this is what we do every day.

@Brandon-ew9vz

Ай бұрын

And touch men

@Himfrofjwytqf

Ай бұрын

@@Brandon-ew9vz you touch men

I replayed this about 3 weeks ago Damn near shed a tear in the very first mission Cried like a baby later

@jackw3250

Жыл бұрын

Nice pfp

@carlcoldinglaursen8178

Жыл бұрын

@anarchyburger2655 Just seeing John like that after playing the second one. "No more Dutch, and no more you!"

Love that you're tackling this one!!! One of my all-time favorite channels covering one of my all-time favorite games!!!

I still feel so sad about the feeling you have after finishing rdr1, it just stops, and youre still so curious about jack, but all you can find in the open world is emptyness. This feelling is so distinct and touchable yet so impossible to discribe. It really captures the losing of john, and how its just over now cause hes dead.

I have binge watched a lot of your videos recently. Around the time of Diablo 4 season 1 start. Man, thank you, thank you so much. You have kept me awake while playing and I just wanted to say thanks! You do a great job and I cannot wait to see more.

32:33 made me churtle up some. Great video, love the in depth analysis of these games

I played rdr last year (after rdr2) The only complaints I ever had were the mechanics. The story of the redemption games are the most memorable parts about them

@jonbourgoin182

Жыл бұрын

And then you had to take a poo and grabbed the wrong book

@willroth7521

Жыл бұрын

@@jonbourgoin182 lmao

@Pedro_Le_Chef

Жыл бұрын

Some mechanics are rough though it's still miles better than Rdr2 in the gameplay aspect

@Braint-lr6uf

Жыл бұрын

​@@Pedro_Le_ChefRed Dead Redemption 2 is almost the exact same gameplay wise, how Rdr1 is better?

@Pedro_Le_Chef

Жыл бұрын

@@Braint-lr6uf RDR1 has better aiming controls and a better health system.

Would love to hear your thoughts on the "I Know You" quest line.

Always get excited for a new video. Great stuff brother

The best part of rdr2 is when Ross says "Enjoy your fishing, kid." To child Jack when you know Jack kills Ross much later in life while Ross is fishing lol

As I understood the ending, John definitely knows, that he won't be able to win this shootout. But he also understands, that this sacrificing himself is the only chance he has, to keep his family save. And then Jack throws it all away, because he goes for the revenge and kills an old man anyhow. RDR 3 should definitely be about Jack being hunted for that stupid decision and things unrevealing from there.

@stone-vq7vo

Жыл бұрын

I agree… I think it’s the same in the shootout in the beginning of the game when he gets shot by bill and that he resigned himself to death because of how bad his odds were at actually accomplishing his task.

@undertakernumberone1

Жыл бұрын

"Jack throws it all away! RDR 3 shoudl show him being hunted down!" God bloody damn it, NO! 1) RDR 3, for me, should NOT take place post RDR1. I want a Red Dead taking place between 1865 and 1885. During a bit more of a "good days of hte West" instead of "Fall of hte West"... 2) Jack being hunted? Why? Edgar Ross died in Mexico. And, depending on the situation, his corpse might even have fallen into the river... A Mexico that still is anything but safe. Three people saw him. Three people who might not even properly recall him. As far as anyone is concerned, Ross might've been killed by a bunch of bandits and the you lad got kidnapped and killed by the same group! This is in 1914. Not 2014. There aren't phones and cameras and the internet everywhere...

@PassivesAbseits

Жыл бұрын

@@undertakernumberone1 Let's be honest: Jack is not really subtle about it. He asks Rosses wife and his former co worker about his whereabouts. Afterwards, he doesn't return home from his fishing trip. Not hard to connect the dots. His wife just goes to their son, who in this scenario is in a quite powerful position within the Pinkertons or in politics. Just due to a little nepotism, after Ross took down the greatest gang of the West. And it doesn't really matter, if it really gets proven, that Jack killed Ross, unless someone in a powerful position believes this to be the case.

You have no idea how much your videos mean to me, what they are and have gotten/ getting me through

@rep1600

Жыл бұрын

I hope things get better for you. Whenever you're feeling like you're the only person on the planet, know that you are heard and things will get better.

@assordante2205

Жыл бұрын

You're doing good. One day at a time. Make sure to take small moments to reward yourself for reaching goals or just getting through a long day. Take the rest that you need and actively think about what relaxation is to you and actually do it.

@assordante2205

Жыл бұрын

You're doing good. One day at a time. Make sure to take small moments to reward yourself for reaching goals or just getting through a long day. Take the rest that you need and actively think about what relaxation is to you and actually do it.

Love love LOVE your uploads! Thank you very much

This is so well done. I hope you make a "Was Red Dead Redemption 2 as good as I remember?" Amazing work man.

Was just watching salt factory videos hoping for a new one. Love the videos, they keep me in the flow state really well while I work.

I legit just said "I haven't seen a new salt factory in a while"

I think John left the barn because he knew he was a dead man. They would never stop chasing. So he decided to go out fighting

I like how most of the comments are either pointing out inaccuracies within this video or asking him to do rdr undead nightmare

I recall from someone else’s review, that the reason for there being no new western games after RD1 is because it was so good that they knew it would be immediately compared to it and that it was impossible to compete with to the point the only one who could make another western frontier game was rockstar themselves

@channel45853

Жыл бұрын

that didn't stop people from throwing their hat into the open world crime game spill after Rockstar revoltionized it

@thatoneguy8146

Жыл бұрын

@@channel45853 open world isn’t a genre and also wasn’t Skyrim the main starting point for all games having open world.

@smokagaming

Жыл бұрын

@@thatoneguy8146... your trolling right? gta 3?

@thatoneguy8146

Жыл бұрын

@@smokagaming gta 3 what??? Mate if it wasn’t Skyrim it was GTA 5

@jameskazd9951

Жыл бұрын

@@thatoneguy8146 .. how long do you think open world games have been popular?

I really like the "post-era" setting Red Dead goes for, all the glories and myths of the past are gone and the future isn't looking pretty for whoever is in between.

You know the first time i saw Dutch i thought he didn't have a shirt

New salt video! Lets gooo! Been rewatching all of yours and been playing through the witcher 3 in preparation of your video which im sure is in the schedule :p

I've never been more excited for a video, hope he does ole Black lungs journey also

Haven't watched yet, but yes. It is as good as you remember. Whether you agree or not.

@tydendurler9574

Жыл бұрын

Correct. I remember a 8/10 playable movie vividly.

I'm so happy you included the Irish whiskey line. I died the first time I saw that

I've always felt that the ranch stuff is genius. It shows the player what a cowboy actually did and establishes that while John CAN be a cowboy, hes not one. John's a gunslinger. He's Clint Eastwood, not John Wayne.

Sorry, I almost never comment on videos, but I actually love the work you do. Thank you, for putting so much into it.

I absolutely love your videos man. Keep em coming! 😁

it's been a long time since I've physically gasped at the sight of a thumbnail in my feed. Today is one of those days. Extremely excited to give this a watch and hear what you have to say about my ALL TIME favorite game

Loved the Godspeed You! Black Emperor reference when you got jumped by that courier. "The Dead Kitty Blues."

was literally thinking today, wow salt is due a great new video. i was not disappointed

I think you are putting the script on a pedestal. You are correct in your analysis and criticism, but the world and immersion were the two things that made me love RDR1. That game was beautiful and breathtaking. I put in 30 hours enjoying the world after I "beat the game" and I didn't even know John died before my friend told me those ranching quests lead somewhere. The script in addition to that put it head-and-shoulders above any other RPG that was available. I always like your videos, so thanks for diving deep again!

I actually literally finished replaying this out of nostalgia the day you uploaded this.

Haven't even watched it but yes this game is just as good as I remember. It was the first game I ever 100% that wasn't some 20$ game. The Undead Nightmare DLC ranks as one of the best ive ever played up there with Shivering Isles from Oblivion, and Blood & Wine from Witcher 3.

@Spike2276

Жыл бұрын

Opinions are subjective, but your's is objectively correct on every count sir

I get excited for the salt uploads on games I have never heard of, much less played. I am ecstatic to watch a full length video on a game that meant so much to me as a kid. My dad rented RDR from a redbox probably about 2013-2014, and he loved it so much that he let 13 year old me play it, and I loved it so much, I spent my my birthday money to have him buy it for me. I have played through this game close to 10 times, which made RDR2 even sweeter when that came out.

as jack in 1914 you can read in a newspaper that landon ricketts passed away in his sleep

I'd like the undead zombie extension presentation and brief coverage, but not to an extent you develop usual videos. I like how long and thorough your content is, thanks for that :) !

23:00 or so: technical limitations aside, imagine how much cooler it would have been if dude started shooting the Gatling gun *through the cart* without opening it first. Walls just _really actually don't_ stop bullets.

@sven_bender

Жыл бұрын

You think lumber grows on trees or something?

@yourehereforthatarentyou

Жыл бұрын

@@sven_bender this guy, am i right

Please cover Undead Nightmare in a separate video. It's a completely different experience, but one definitely worth talking about.

Im so glad i played rhe first game as much as i did. I cant even counr how many times ive beaten it but it to be well over 30 times at this point. I know every little smart ass remark john makes, i know evwry memorable quote and i remember every detail of back story exposition john and the other characters give and this is awesome because Red dead 2 is jam packed with references to these quotes. Even the smallest details in dialogue in rhe first game often gets referenced in the rhe second and i was able to notice and pick up on each and every one and i feel so lucky for that. A good example is when john confronts javier he says "its me or You, the way i see it, it might as well be you" this is a call back to what dutch says in RDR2 after killing brante. He says "it was us or him, the way i see it, it might as well be him". The fact that rhey thought to do call backs to such insignificant details such as that is just insane.

To say that you don't find out what happens to any of the characters from the first two acts shows that you didn't read the newspapers.

Glad you're not doing undead nightmare in this vid, because that 100% deserves its own video that I'd love for you to do 😁

Please follow this video up with the undead nightmare spin off. Would love your take on that as I am currently playing through it.

Superfluous! Gosh man, you always fail to disappoint! Thank you once again!

Great video as always!!

Mad respect for the Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide reference. Real shit

I’d love to see the undead nightmare covered please do it

Seth in Undead Nightmare is amazing

Oh yes please I love when you do DLCs of games that you've also reviewed

I want you to watch you to cover every single game in existence so yes, please do undead nightmare

Fuck yeah, best notification ever. New video from Salty

I believe John’s ending is supposed to be a sacrifice. This is not a stand in which he believes he’ll make it out. He knows if he lives or runs with Jack and Abigail, the government men will just keep coming after him and his family will still be in danger. So, he takes it as a chance to let Abigail and Jack put some distance between them and goes out in a blaze of glory. It’s what makes both John and Arthur’s deaths so tragic. Because all of it, their redemption, giving up their lives so Jack could have a better life than they did -a ‘normal’ life, it all was for naught, Jack is doomed to the same fate in the circle of violence and goes after Ross. “Vengeance is a fool’s game.” On a completely different note, the fact that Nigel West Dickens and Mr. Sweeney were played by the same actor blew my mind.

Someone referencing Ned's Declassified School Survival guide in this day and age? Impressive. You have good taste

I'm looking forward to this review! RDR 1 & 2 are some of my favorite games. I can already feel the segment when he dogs on the movement xD

Zombie DLC please

Notice how Edgar Ross had a black hat all game long except for the ending when Jack confronts him. It makes it clear that Jack has become an outlaw and a villain himself something that John would not have wanted for his son. It is a tragic ending that does not need a sequel.

Ngl I’ve already watched the whole video 3 times, salt releasing a new video means that I watch it once, sleep to it the rest of the time.

I was and still am mostly a PC gamer, but i can remember that i always wanted a console back in the days only for Red Dead Redemption. Well i finally got one from a friend of mine and the first thing i did was buying RDR. It was definitely worth the wait and i still consider it to be one of the best games ever made. Even better than RDR2 in my opinion. It is really sad tho, that Rockstar hasn't yet released a PC port for RDR.