GhostofAnakin

I'm the worst "daughter" ever. I'm supposed to be tracking down my mom in AC: Odyssey, but I get distracted like a kitten with a ball of string whenever I see a "?" or a "!" on a map and end up clearing entire zones before realizing I was supposed to travel somewhere else to find dear old mom.

It just felt anti-climactic because I didn't know he was a cultist and it didn't indicate he was. It was just another ho-hum bounty target until literally the second I killed him and the message about the cultist being defeated popped up.

That was rather weird in AC: Odyssey. I came across a cultist, who also happened to be the nation's leader, and who also happened to be the "bounty of the day". Weirdly, when Icarus flew over him, it didn't register him as a cultist, just the nation leader and bounty I was looking for. But when I killed him, it revealed him as a cultist.

I'm scared to explore all the regions that haven't had "main story quest" missions on them yet in fear that I stumble across something I shouldn't see until a specific point in the story. There's a lot of regions I'd like to go to now because Cultists are hanging out there.

Hunting down and finding clues about the cult is fun stuff. Although it's kind of weird that some of the low level cult members are located the other side of the map where the main story isn't even close to reaching yet.

I like wandering around doing all the side stuff in AC: O, but the problem is new stuff pops up every day, so I can never "finish" the side stuff for a section and then move on to the main story. I mean, obviously a fun problem to have. But as someone who likes to see the map "clear" before moving on, it's testing me.

So I was curious to see how AC would handle the "romance" option. Kassandra does a quest for an old lady and the two of them .... disappear into a house, people chat outside while the day shifts to night, then Kassandra returns. Rather underwhelming. Not that I think it should be a gratuitous scene, or even have romances at all, for that matter. But if you're going to include them, why something so ... mundane?

Without spoilers, does Kassandra and the dude (forget his name) have the exact same story/missions, or is it a completely different story (or rather, a different take on the same events)?

That was a pretty long "intro" chapter for AC Odyssey.

There's a walk toggle button with keyboard and mouse (CTRL I think). What platform are you on? I'm playing on Ps4 and my character changes from walk to run depending on how I play with my stick (per usual in a game). Same with the horse in the game. PS4. And Kassandra basically runs whenever I push the control stick in any direction.

Moved on to AC Odyssey. Minor note early on: why does my character run all the time? Is there something in the options menu that allows you to toggle it to walk unless a certain button is pressed?

If you mean New Austin, it's mostly for online mode. Though, to be honest, even there it's rather empty as of now. Tumbleweed and Armadillo, mainly. Two towns that seem to have zero to do with the main game, yet they're there on the map despite not playing a role.

I don't know if it was intentional, but there are so many regions in RDR2 that don't seem to have any actual (game) purpose. Finished the main story and epilogue and so I went traveling and found a couple of towns way down south. But other than a bounty poster, there's nothing to actually do there. DLC?

Finished the epilogue chapters of RDR2. Once again, the final fight was very disappointing. I just wanted to shoot the idiot, but nope, had to go through a scripted dialogue just so Dutch could make an appearance. All in all, a lot of things to like about RDR2, but there were also a handful of things that were really annoying with how they did things.

Taking some time off to do some fishing in Red Dead Redemption 2. No matter what lure I use, the legendary fish never seem to bite. It's always just one of the regular fish I'm hauling in. Also, I found that the "extra" tasks are way too tedious in this game compared to most games that make you scour the landscape for things. The dinosaur bones, the dreamcatchers, etc. are impossible to find unless you use an online guide.

I'm struggling to maintain the motivation to finish the RDR2 epilogue.

There's realism and then there's tedium. I'm not sure I really needed some of these "story missions" in RDR2 where I'm fixing fences, milking cows, or wrangling a bull.

Not a fan of the ending of RDR2 (the main story part, anyway). Zero player agency. Oh look, no matter what you do you lose the fight. And the fighting mechanics suck in the first place, so I spent a few minutes fumbling around with button mashing that resulted in the same ending anyway. There's a lot I enjoyed about RDR2, but there's a lot (especially the scripted stuff that was forced on you) that I disliked.

Sadie Adler would make a better gang leader than Dutch.

I'm convinced Dutch Van Der Linde is the dumbest, most gullible gang leader ever. I'm also convinced his entire gang has the intelligence of a rock. I mean, from a game play perspective I'm enjoying RDR2. But from a story/intellectual perspective, I'm getting super annoyed with how ridiculously dumb the characters are EVERY SINGLE MISSION. "No, no. This time this will work. I don't think he's setting us up EVEN THOUGH IT'S OBVIOUS HE IS. I think this time it will work EVEN THOUGH THE LAST DOZEN TIMES IT DIDN'T."

Oh look at that. Another main mission in Red Dead Redemption 2 where it ends with me having to have a shootout with the entire security force, this time on a boat. Didn't see that one coming.

RDR2 crime design sucks. This latest one, I got jumped by three people but apparently committed a crime because I was able to beat them in a fight. Not guns, not knife. But fists. Then, to make matters worse, two lawmen saw me and suddenly EVERY COP IN THE CITY KNOWS WHERE I AM. What is this, do they have the surveillance abilities of a police force in 2019? And I couldn't get away from them because literally anywhere I ran new cops showed up. And it was over a friggin fist fight!

It just makes the Van der Linde gang look like the most incompetent gang ever. They're like a gang from a comedy movie, where they keep coming up with these big plans that result in everything going wrong every single time. I think what bugs me is that it's the obvious stuff that goes wrong. You, as a player, can predict exactly what will go wrong as soon as you start the mission. Better design could have masked this by making the plans make sense, but then something unpredictable happens to cause it to go astray. But pretty much every single time I ended up in a gun fight with the local law, I could see it coming the very single I started.

Yet another mission in RDR2 where I basically have the entire city against me and have to run away because of a huge bounty. 1-It's getting kind of old that pretty much every "main mission" forces me to do something that brings the entire law down on me. 2-It's too easy to just pay off the bounties and no one cares.

How/where do I access my sidequests/tasks? I still have no clue how to find all the various tasks I've been given that don't have an icon currently on the map.