I got RDR as a gift in 2012 when I was 8 at my dads funeral. A family friend thought the game would cheer me up since I loved westerns. To say the least I got so into RDR I literally know everything…EVERYTHING. I would get bullied at school so much but RDR was my safe place since I also have epilepsy and my seizures were crazy at the time, it was safer for me to sit and play this game than go on a walk outside. This game helped me so much I still go back to play it every month or so :)
People always like to ruin the fun of something we enjoy. But ofc us true rdr fans play no matter what. I bet u half of the bullies who never played rdr now play rdr2 and think of you and say "oh shit...this game....is...amazing..."
Great that you got so much out of it! Though I gotta say, gifting RDR1 to a kid at their dads funeral to help cheer them up... I don't think whoever gave you that copy had played through the game...
So glad you found your happy space in this game loved by many you much like everyone else deserve happiness and I’m glad you found it I wish you much love and happiness in the future my fellow cowpoke 🫡
I was 12 years old when this first came out. I’m 24 now yet I still remember clearly when I played this game for the first time.I have more fond memories with this game than I do with RDR2 tbh
@@ryanroberts714thankfully we don’t need anything fresh. Rdr and rdr 2 are so massive that you couldn’t ever complete or see everything in both. I still see something new every time I play rdr2
Bruh I remember once Christmas I got undead nightmare as it came out. First Christmas in my life where I didn’t leave for any family reunions and just binged that game all day exploring everything.
You unintentionally had me dying when you called him Uncle. That was perfection! This game released right when I graduated university, needless to say I spent the whole summer roaming New Austin before looking for a job
Exactly ! And these two games are two of the greatest of all time i know this saying is overused but i really really really mean it, like up there, like we will NEVER ever EVER experience new games created with so much love and care that could match this level during our lifetimes, RDR2 was probably the very last of its kind. The evolution of our now worldwide economic system ( capitalism ) can’ t allow it anymore, the beauty and cynical comedy is that, in this game and the second one, this is part of one of the most important overarching themes !
love this game, i do hope they remake RDR1 with RDR2's mechanics, mainly the duel wielding, clothing and hair growth i think New Austin/Mexico will always be my favourite map out of the two games, there's something about the classic wild west deserts that beats RDR2's more woodland frontier vibe in New Hanover.
@@tomh779 that'd be sick, it'd give Ubisoft's devs a reason to stop using the AC brand to make demi-god RPGs and actually try something a little different again. they could add the crossbow back into AC1 lol, they dont seem to care about realism anymore
@@thisbubblygoodness7611 Honestly I don't really care about Ubisoft or the drama about RPG stuff. Origins was the last true AC game and it gave me closure.
I disagree, the game holds up well as it is. Considering RDR2 on console is locked to 30fps just like RDR1 is, there's no point compromising the superior ragdolls and combat mechanics in RDR1 for that in RDR2. RDR1 is a different game, that doesn't need hunting mechanics or things like camp upkeep for you to go around hunting or other. RDR1 does great in all the areas that RDR2 had gone wrong. Now if RDR2 was re-designed to lose the nonsensical combat mechanics, e.g the near useless dive (compared to the RDR1 combat roll), straight shooting, no ridiculous reticle sway and exagerrated reticle bloom... then it'll be viable. Basically RDR2 has a lot to change in itself before it should ever be considered to be a port for RDR1. It couldn't even realistically port hardcore mode from RDR1 because RDR2 just doesn't have the means to have that (because RDR2 is a lacklustre 3rd person combat game, and RDR1 is one of the greatest 3rd person shooters of all time alongside Max Payne 3 etc.) It's not even all that outdated. It's very easy to get used to, simpler even than RDR2. Also, RDR1 multiplayer is massively better than RDO.
I love rdr1! I remember when I was younger me and my brother would tell our dad that he looked alot like John... Wich he actually did! He was only missing the scars lol. I still remember looking at the cd disk when I was bored and tought ''Man that is my dad!'' Wich is why I think I love the game so much since I associated John with my dad :D
One of the rare times I welled up at a video game! The story... soundtrack... played it to the point where I burnt the disc out and went into the local Game to get it "cleaned"! Though the multiplayer felt like it had "less" to do, grinding out Tesoro Azul and Pike's Basin to the point where I knew every enemy placement was the usual after school routine... ah, I miss those days!
Oh yes, grinding pikes basin and twin rocks all day! Sometimes fort mercer, just for a clan I hopped to. Lol. How I miss grinding 100 headshots for golden guns.
This may single handedly be the best game rockstar have made, and definitely the best western game. Its a classic no one will forget, and perfectly captures the vibe its meant to have. Every second you play as john marston in red dead redemption, every fight you battle, and every horse you ride, you will feel like an absolute badass.
@@Yesmanpersondude the second game had a even better story, even better graphics and world, even better acting and arguably, even a better protagonist.
@@jhtoxic7870 graphics? yes but everything else you are trying to say is jsut stupid lol nah the protagonist sucked i barely cared about him at all and the world is the exact same but slightly less realistic ironically and the story? dont make me laugh we all knew it was micah because rockstar cant think of an actually good plottwist lol
@@Yesmanpersondude dude you’re more crazy than Dutch if you actually believe all that bull crap. Literally everybody knows red dead redemption two is a freaking masterpiece.
I played the shit out of this game when it was released. The graphics, music, gameplay, story, characters... everything was amazing. I had recently finished my time in the service, so I was collecting unemployment and had all the free time in the world. I played for hours and hours every day for a good month. Wild to think that was 12 years ago already. I replayed it on my One X a few years ago. Couldn't believe how good it looked 10 years later. Everything held up. Such a classic. Easily in my top 5 games of all time.
Never had the first one but my older brother’s friend did, and boy, was I hooked. Never got to play it much but it led me to get RD2 which was quite possibly the best video game purchase I’ve ever made
One thing I love about RDR2 is the fame-system. Because it provides the ingame-world with some vividness: John Marston was a famous gunslinger in the RDR canon and was probably revered (not to mention the big flush of Dime novels in that era that gloryfied about every murderer of that time). So in conclusion, the fame-system makes the ingame-world feel so much more alive, because it suggests the feeling, that the people have noticed that John arrived, that he is a known quantity and theres much talk behind his back about him. I can only imagine someone sitting in a bar telling his buddy something he heard about John in town everytime I see that you gained fame-points.
I remember begging my mom to get this for me when i was 9 years old. She finally got it for me and i remember loading it up for the first time and just being in awe of how cool it was. A game will never feel as good. Plus the undead nightmare, it truly was my start to gaming
Man, playing this in my first apartment after work everyday night, grinding to unlock the outfits and the hunting challenges, there literally had been nothing close to like it at that point. As much as I'm disgruntled with how RS handled RDR2s end game, they'll always have a place in my heart for this game in particular.
Wow this is nostalgic. There's 2 things you can do with this to help your immersion a little you can disable golden guns in the settings I think under gameplay & the 2nd is if you hit B without a weapon out or not too close to NPCs you can greet them although there's no negative option for taunting unfortunately
Just played the whole thing in Xenia and man OH MAN, it is probably one of the best things i've played in many many years, it is not what i expected but it is surely something awesome
08:02 hahaha I still remember that I died like 2-3 times here while replaying on my Ps3 and was pretty frustrated about it. I guess I was not the only one
The funny thing about this game is it's the only game in over 37 years of gaming that made me full on cry,my mom even laughed at me about it but I really related and cared for John like I knew him personally,tough to watch him try to become a better man only for the world not allow him too .
I'll always love this game, it's so fantastic, RDR2 is one of the best games ever but the atmosphere in this game is unmatched, feels so much like a classic spaghetti Western and the music is top notch.
@@reservoirfrogs2177 Riding through Tall Trees in 1 used to fill me with legit fear because the ambient music, 2 never gave that feeling even with the Skinners roaming around
This game was my childhood too. I would watch my dad play on his playstation 3 and I remember him saying you can watch as long you don't repeat anything at school. Since I never did this game became my childhood. 🤩👍
My sister used to play it on my ps3 and i played gta 4 and sa when i was 5 so i didnt need to have permission, but that didnt last because my mum took them all from me anyway 😂
This game was a HUGE part of my childhood as I live in Texas, EVERYONE was talking about the game at school and trying to find the "Loch Ness Monster".. ahhhh good times😔
I was 14 y/o when this dropped now I’m 25 an I spent some TIME on this game. The story and multiplayer was so great I can’t remember a happier gaming time
Is it just me, or does the music in the first game sounds more heroic than the music in the second game. Like something you'd see on an old western movie.
I generally much prefer RDR1 over RDR2, but that's mainly due to the atmosphere. It feels more like the spaghetti westerns from 60/70s. Everything is just dirty, filthy, rundown and hot. Basically my ideal wild west fantasy. You're hering cattle, visiting small towns in the middle of nowhere, killing bandits and riding your horse across the desert. I simply love this game.
The moment when you're in Mexico, riding on your horse and " Far Away" plays. Change my mind, but that was one of the greatest Moments in Video game history.
Gun will forever stay in my #1 spot man hands down. And, if you’ve also played Darkwatch then you’d know that those two games are legendary and amazing on their own, no other games even come close to being anywhere near as fun as those two amazing games. If only they would remaster Gun AND Darkwatch man 😔
I gotta respect your opinion...but goddam its hard to accept it. Cant look at Gun and say its a better game than RDR. About Darwatch...dont have a clue what game that is.
When I was younger I would just free roam as Jack Marston on my dad’s 100% completed save game with my friend. We took turns playing, and we probably played it for at least a hundred hours in total just free roaming
I remember getting this game for Christmas 2010. I played alittle bit of undead nightmare before the main game. Even back then this game just had the feeling, an aurora if you will of current nostalgia at the time even though it just came out. From its art style, to the soundtrack to everything. There was literally nothing like this game. I still can still get to 100% completion because I know it like the back of my hand. And while rdr2 is also a masterpiece I prefer the feeling this game had. Probably the best Christmas present I’ve ever received.
@@jayveeeee I was 11 and got heavily involved into the RDR community. Knowing how to be a griefer to an honest competitive shooter. It was fun, knowing how to take people out of the map, run around a private server with zombies. Fun times.
I also love this Game so much. In Fact, I prefer This over RDR2 just because of the whole Atmosphere, that always feels so soothing & cozy to me. It's definately Nostalgia, that makes me feel this Way tho. BUT: Is that actually so bad? I think, it says a lot about this Game, if we still can appreciate the Things, it got for us to offer. 😌
I sure remember getting my hands on this immediately after release as a 15 year old. Man, I spent months on this game! Took me forever to play the sequel until I left the service so I've had lots of fun with that too!
Honestly, early game RD1 is one of the highlights of my gaming experiences. Perhaps something to do with my age back then or what was going on in the real world around me but this game was a godsend. You said it - "homely". There was just something about the ranch and Bonnie McFarlane etc that captivated me. I loved it to pieces.
I played rdr1 first and glad it was by that order just becauese of the way the story goes. John talks so much about the gang and Dutch that he makes us know them without us laying eyes on them,its great and then seeing them for the first time,is excellent. Especially Dutch,that first impression is just saved in my head forever...roasting John,Abigail while robbing a bank...
I played this game once, and it wasn’t even the full game. I played for maybe 1 hours, but it was fun just riding around. Now I’m playing rdr2 and I always remember cow catching from my first time
bought this game a vew years ago because i lost it. dont have undead nightmare anymore but played that quite a bit more back in the day. it was so good man.
I’m taking a guess that with the first game, because Arthur didn’t exist, Johns lore was that he was in Arthur’s position, like the second In command, even if we wasn’t actually
i played this game a lot on my older brothers xbox when i was like 8 ngl , and i didnt understand the story too much, i just loved horses and playing as a "cowboy" lmfao but now both rdr games are my favorite games, and not just cause of the nostalgia. they're so good.
I haven't finished the vid yet but you can turn off the golden guns in the pause menu in either the cheats or settings tabs. Also if you want for the immersion, just tap B to greet or respond to npcs.
i was an adult when this came out...but only played it when it came out on the switch recently.....finished it yesterday sitting on the toilet and it was glorious
And for RDR2, I dream of an alt universe where the gang does manage to escape to Tahiti. The story could be more light-hearted similar to Citadel dlc in Mass Effect 3, and Micah gets forgotten about and left behind in Strawberry.
My most dear RDR2 memory is playing multiplayer with my mates when we were like 12, running home from school so we could skype and play together on our PS3's, gamble, do missions etc. One time we rode the horse carriage in the dark and it was dark, so I said hol up and held up the dynamite who let out a light. 5 seconds lighter it was a huge explosion and we all died after doing the tedious mission of getting the horse carriage. Appearently the fuse goes down just by holding the dynamite in your hand, amazing detail. Loved this game to death, the DLC was phenomenal too.
man i remember my cousin left me alone to go somewhere on his ps3 with undead nightmare and i played for 15 hours straight and didn’t move from black water. just repetitively killed zombies for 15 hours straight. crazy stuff
cant lie, this was ALWAYS one of my favorite games, i played it so much more than i shouldve on the ps3, and undead nightmare was amazing to, granted no real story there, i played it into the dirt to.
Great video! Red Dead Redemption literally saved my life. It's a pretty dark & deep story better not said in YT comments but yeah RDR saved my life. If this game didn't hook me in and give me a reason to feel happy again doing something other than what I was doing I 100% would not be here today. There is, of course, way more to the story but I just love seeing videos like this because it reminds me of that time & why RDR continues to be my favorite game of all time not only because it is an amazing video game but also for this.
ya they remastered it for one X just before RDR2 was out.. promotional act . looks and plays well now only 30 fps though on series x they should have uncapped the frame rate
I've never been one to achievement hunt, but I do remember two distinct achievements that I earned from this game that made me so proud to get. Not because of the actions taken to get them but that I did them without any knowledge of the achievements existing in the first place. The first was hunting all of the buffalo to extinction and the second was being dastardly and placing a tied up woman on train tracks and watching a train run her over. Again it wasn't the actions taken that made me proud but that I had the idea to play out western tropes for the fun of it and got a little reward for doing so that is the level of awesome this game brought.
I was only 6 months old when this game came out, but after seeing some of the videos about it, and playing and 100 percenting rdr2, I really want to get an xbox just to play this and some other titles.
I was only a Year old child, when this game came out And now that' I'm getting a Xbox i can' play it i just discovered, that red dead 1 has multiplayer. They really need to make a remaster for pc and PS4 and Xbox and Nintendo but that' would be probably not happen because Nintendo is more child friendly.
You are.....13....jeez... I was 8 years old when this game released I also completed red dead redemption and red dead redemption 2 100% And red dead revolver as well on max difficulty
take a shot of whiskey every time Bonnie McFarland and John Marston call each other mister and miss 🥴
No. I like being alive thank you very much. 😂😂
Speedrun alcohol poisoning
@@IIPrimalBirdII fair enough
@@fightforlight7078 going for a world record
Def should play undead nightmare. The mode is amazing!
I got RDR as a gift in 2012 when I was 8 at my dads funeral. A family friend thought the game would cheer me up since I loved westerns. To say the least I got so into RDR I literally know everything…EVERYTHING.
I would get bullied at school so much but RDR was my safe place since I also have epilepsy and my seizures were crazy at the time, it was safer for me to sit and play this game than go on a walk outside.
This game helped me so much I still go back to play it every month or so :)
Stories like this is why I love art so much. It can change lives
Much love to you brother. I wish you the best in this life
People always like to ruin the fun of something we enjoy. But ofc us true rdr fans play no matter what. I bet u half of the bullies who never played rdr now play rdr2 and think of you and say "oh shit...this game....is...amazing..."
Great that you got so much out of it!
Though I gotta say, gifting RDR1 to a kid at their dads funeral to help cheer them up... I don't think whoever gave you that copy had played through the game...
So glad you found your happy space in this game loved by many you much like everyone else deserve happiness and I’m glad you found it I wish you much love and happiness in the future my fellow cowpoke 🫡
Everytime I think about this game I get the extreme urge to replay it
everytime I think about it I start to tear up 💀
I've played the game legit 8 times only because I remembered it
It’s gonna be hard to replay it for me because everything before Mexico besides fort Mercer raid was boring, but everything after that was peak
@@radhawkman2249 yeah most of the new Austin missions were boring
I was 12 years old when this first came out. I’m 24 now yet I still remember clearly when I played this game for the first time.I have more fond memories with this game than I do with RDR2 tbh
Exactly. Red Dead is pretty much unmatched in it’s genre.
Listening to “far away” while riding into Mexico is one of the best memories I’ve ever had while gaming
Saaaame. John Marston is my guy and as much as I love RDR2, the first game will ALWAYS hold a special place for me.
@@ryanroberts714thankfully we don’t need anything fresh. Rdr and rdr 2 are so massive that you couldn’t ever complete or see everything in both. I still see something new every time I play rdr2
Bruh I remember once Christmas I got undead nightmare as it came out. First Christmas in my life where I didn’t leave for any family reunions and just binged that game all day exploring everything.
This is a great video, god the nostalgia is unfathomable. This game was groundbreaking back in the day. What a bloody game
:) glad you enjoyed!
The writing in this game really is amazing. Every character is endearing in some way.
Rockstar games always have good writing
This is the type of game that I won't mind playing again and again. It had such an impact on me. This game is pure ART
John can't stop getting shot in the hip and having his whole outlook on life change with the wind.
lol just be glade he didn't get shot in the knee.
You unintentionally had me dying when you called him Uncle. That was perfection! This game released right when I graduated university, needless to say I spent the whole summer roaming New Austin before looking for a job
4:45
"tHIs is a fine weapon"
One of the worst guns in the game
This and New Vegas came out the same year and start out practically the same way. Sunny Smiles is mechanically the same character as Bonnie.
Exactly ! And these two games are two of the greatest of all time i know this saying is overused but i really really really mean it, like up there, like we will NEVER ever EVER experience new games created with so much love and care that could match this level during our lifetimes, RDR2 was probably the very last of its kind. The evolution of our now worldwide economic system ( capitalism ) can’ t allow it anymore, the beauty and cynical comedy is that, in this game and the second one, this is part of one of the most important overarching themes !
love this game, i do hope they remake RDR1 with RDR2's mechanics, mainly the duel wielding, clothing and hair growth
i think New Austin/Mexico will always be my favourite map out of the two games, there's something about the classic wild west deserts that beats RDR2's more woodland frontier vibe in New Hanover.
Would literally be the dream of all dreams for me, right alongside AC1 getting the same treatment.
@@tomh779 you have great taste my friend
@@tomh779 that'd be sick, it'd give Ubisoft's devs a reason to stop using the AC brand to make demi-god RPGs and actually try something a little different again.
they could add the crossbow back into AC1 lol, they dont seem to care about realism anymore
@@thisbubblygoodness7611 Honestly I don't really care about Ubisoft or the drama about RPG stuff.
Origins was the last true AC game and it gave me closure.
I disagree, the game holds up well as it is. Considering RDR2 on console is locked to 30fps just like RDR1 is, there's no point compromising the superior ragdolls and combat mechanics in RDR1 for that in RDR2. RDR1 is a different game, that doesn't need hunting mechanics or things like camp upkeep for you to go around hunting or other. RDR1 does great in all the areas that RDR2 had gone wrong.
Now if RDR2 was re-designed to lose the nonsensical combat mechanics, e.g the near useless dive (compared to the RDR1 combat roll), straight shooting, no ridiculous reticle sway and exagerrated reticle bloom... then it'll be viable.
Basically RDR2 has a lot to change in itself before it should ever be considered to be a port for RDR1. It couldn't even realistically port hardcore mode from RDR1 because RDR2 just doesn't have the means to have that (because RDR2 is a lacklustre 3rd person combat game, and RDR1 is one of the greatest 3rd person shooters of all time alongside Max Payne 3 etc.)
It's not even all that outdated. It's very easy to get used to, simpler even than RDR2. Also, RDR1 multiplayer is massively better than RDO.
I still replay this game to this day. Every couple years at least since release. Never gets old.
I love rdr1! I remember when I was younger me and my brother would tell our dad that he looked alot like John... Wich he actually did! He was only missing the scars lol. I still remember looking at the cd disk when I was bored and tought ''Man that is my dad!'' Wich is why I think I love the game so much since I associated John with my dad :D
Damn, your dad looks badass af then !
How'd did you feel when you reached the end of the game amd John has a very bad day
@@joshuabrien2970 Well... I felt kind of sad in a weird way, I remember I still thinking about it days efter I finished the game lol
so did you think of jack as yourself when you got revenge
One of the rare times I welled up at a video game! The story... soundtrack... played it to the point where I burnt the disc out and went into the local Game to get it "cleaned"! Though the multiplayer felt like it had "less" to do, grinding out Tesoro Azul and Pike's Basin to the point where I knew every enemy placement was the usual after school routine... ah, I miss those days!
Oh yes, grinding pikes basin and twin rocks all day! Sometimes fort mercer, just for a clan I hopped to. Lol. How I miss grinding 100 headshots for golden guns.
This may single handedly be the best game rockstar have made, and definitely the best western game. Its a classic no one will forget, and perfectly captures the vibe its meant to have. Every second you play as john marston in red dead redemption, every fight you battle, and every horse you ride, you will feel like an absolute badass.
Well, actually, it’s the second best because it was surpassed by it’s successor, Red Dead Redemption two
@@jhtoxic7870 nah
@@Yesmanpersondude the second game had a even better story, even better graphics and world, even better acting and arguably, even a better protagonist.
@@jhtoxic7870 graphics? yes
but everything else you are trying to say is jsut stupid lol nah the protagonist sucked i barely cared about him at all and the world is the exact same but slightly less realistic ironically
and the story? dont make me laugh we all knew it was micah because rockstar cant think of an actually good plottwist lol
@@Yesmanpersondude dude you’re more crazy than Dutch if you actually believe all that bull crap. Literally everybody knows red dead redemption two is a freaking masterpiece.
I played the shit out of this game when it was released. The graphics, music, gameplay, story, characters... everything was amazing. I had recently finished my time in the service, so I was collecting unemployment and had all the free time in the world. I played for hours and hours every day for a good month. Wild to think that was 12 years ago already.
I replayed it on my One X a few years ago. Couldn't believe how good it looked 10 years later. Everything held up. Such a classic. Easily in my top 5 games of all time.
The thing that kind of messed with me considering gold weapons is that even if you have it off, any new weapon will automatically have the gold skin.
8:01 that glitch almost always gets me 😂. Also you can turn off golden guns in the settings
Never had the first one but my older brother’s friend did, and boy, was I hooked. Never got to play it much but it led me to get RD2 which was quite possibly the best video game purchase I’ve ever made
Red Dead Redemption was and still is my number 1 game. The game was perfect for me.
Same man. One of the best of the best.
One thing I love about RDR2 is the fame-system. Because it provides the ingame-world with some vividness: John Marston was a famous gunslinger in the RDR canon and was probably revered (not to mention the big flush of Dime novels in that era that gloryfied about every murderer of that time). So in conclusion, the fame-system makes the ingame-world feel so much more alive, because it suggests the feeling, that the people have noticed that John arrived, that he is a known quantity and theres much talk behind his back about him. I can only imagine someone sitting in a bar telling his buddy something he heard about John in town everytime I see that you gained fame-points.
Red dead 1 was my teenhood. I was 15 when it came out in 2010. One of my favorite games of all time.
I remember begging my mom to get this for me when i was 9 years old. She finally got it for me and i remember loading it up for the first time and just being in awe of how cool it was. A game will never feel as good. Plus the undead nightmare, it truly was my start to gaming
Damm everyone has kids was ricther then me
I’d love to see you keep playing this! Mexico is a heck of a time
The thing that impressed me most, was when you only got part of your legs in the water/wet, only that part would also get wet.
Man, playing this in my first apartment after work everyday night, grinding to unlock the outfits and the hunting challenges, there literally had been nothing close to like it at that point. As much as I'm disgruntled with how RS handled RDR2s end game, they'll always have a place in my heart for this game in particular.
Wow this is nostalgic. There's 2 things you can do with this to help your immersion a little you can disable golden guns in the settings I think under gameplay & the 2nd is if you hit B without a weapon out or not too close to NPCs you can greet them although there's no negative option for taunting unfortunately
There is a taunting option, you just need to be low honor.
When you're in low honor, greetings will be replaced with roasts.
Just played the whole thing in Xenia and man OH MAN, it is probably one of the best things i've played in many many years, it is not what i expected but it is surely something awesome
08:02 hahaha I still remember that I died like 2-3 times here while replaying on my Ps3 and was pretty frustrated about it. I guess I was not the only one
yeah it happened to me as well
The funny thing about this game is it's the only game in over 37 years of gaming that made me full on cry,my mom even laughed at me about it but I really related and cared for John like I knew him personally,tough to watch him try to become a better man only for the world not allow him too .
I'll always love this game, it's so fantastic, RDR2 is one of the best games ever but the atmosphere in this game is unmatched, feels so much like a classic spaghetti Western and the music is top notch.
Everything felt so mysterious. Soundtrack was so memorable too.
@@reservoirfrogs2177 Riding through Tall Trees in 1 used to fill me with legit fear because the ambient music, 2 never gave that feeling even with the Skinners roaming around
My favorite game ever!!! The nostalgia of the music and atmosphere!
nobody notices when john gets shot, when he goes down, he lands on the ground the same exact way the enemies died from headshots in red dead revolver
This game was my childhood too. I would watch my dad play on his playstation 3 and I remember him saying you can watch as long you don't repeat anything at school. Since I never did this game became my childhood. 🤩👍
My sister used to play it on my ps3 and i played gta 4 and sa when i was 5 so i didnt need to have permission, but that didnt last because my mum took them all from me anyway 😂
Red dead should be applauded for having the map be basically 90% empty landscapes and still being absolutely captivating
The music!! That is enough to give me nostalgia
This game was a HUGE part of my childhood as I live in Texas, EVERYONE was talking about the game at school and trying to find the "Loch Ness Monster".. ahhhh good times😔
John and jack are so cool
After playing Rdr2 all the encounters with former gang members hit different. Like we know them as people now not only enemies...
I love that you let the cutscenes play and kept quiet during them. That’s how special this game is. It leaves you in awe
Just starting playing Red Dead again, as I finished replaying Red Dead 2 for the 800th time, I’m amazed at how well it holds up 13 years later!
I was 14 y/o when this dropped now I’m 25 an I spent some TIME on this game. The story and multiplayer was so great I can’t remember a happier gaming time
This game is a bit more fun because honor doesn’t impact the story. And has the gta 4 engine.
Barely does anything
This also has a fame system which does more than the honour
@@kawaiiqueee RDR1 fame>>>>>>RDR2 honor>>>>>>RDR1 honor
Is it just me, or does the music in the first game sounds more heroic than the music in the second game. Like something you'd see on an old western movie.
I generally much prefer RDR1 over RDR2, but that's mainly due to the atmosphere. It feels more like the spaghetti westerns from 60/70s. Everything is just dirty, filthy, rundown and hot. Basically my ideal wild west fantasy. You're hering cattle, visiting small towns in the middle of nowhere, killing bandits and riding your horse across the desert. I simply love this game.
The moment when you're in Mexico, riding on your horse and " Far Away" plays.
Change my mind, but that was one of the greatest Moments in Video game history.
Gun will forever stay in my #1 spot man hands down. And, if you’ve also played Darkwatch then you’d know that those two games are legendary and amazing on their own, no other games even come close to being anywhere near as fun as those two amazing games. If only they would remaster Gun AND Darkwatch man 😔
darkwatch was the SHIT. definitely doing a video on that
I gotta respect your opinion...but goddam its hard to accept it.
Cant look at Gun and say its a better game than RDR.
About Darwatch...dont have a clue what game that is.
When I was younger I would just free roam as Jack Marston on my dad’s 100% completed save game with my friend. We took turns playing, and we probably played it for at least a hundred hours in total just free roaming
The more i see this Masterpiece the more i hate rockstar for not releasing it on PC. Finger crossing for a remaster and good PC port.
That's possible seeing the heart bleeding nostalgia.
"There's one more for the voltures". LOL
Love the writing. This is really fun to watch.
Vultures
The animations are amazing in this game, wish a port for PC.
I wonder how come it didn't come to the PC version?
Search "Red Dead Redemption 1 on PC using Xenia and keyboard+mouse"
@@RRai2000 this game's engine is being held together with duct tape
@@thebadwolf3088 just change it with flex tape :v
@@thatkerimguy lmao
I remember getting this game for Christmas 2010. I played alittle bit of undead nightmare before the main game. Even back then this game just had the feeling, an aurora if you will of current nostalgia at the time even though it just came out. From its art style, to the soundtrack to everything. There was literally nothing like this game. I still can still get to 100% completion because I know it like the back of my hand. And while rdr2 is also a masterpiece I prefer the feeling this game had. Probably the best Christmas present I’ve ever received.
How many childhoods has this man had again?
Many of them seem to have happened when he was in his teens and his twenties, too (going by the age of some of the games) 😛
five. exactly five childhoods
@@jp9707 yeah i've used the childhood term loosely BUT this came out when I was 16. now that I'm 27 I was definitely still a kid at 16 lol 🤠
@@jayveeeee I'd say that's still your childhood then. I was 13 when this game came out and BEGGED my parents to let me get it.
@@jayveeeee I was 11 and got heavily involved into the RDR community. Knowing how to be a griefer to an honest competitive shooter. It was fun, knowing how to take people out of the map, run around a private server with zombies. Fun times.
I can still replay this game so many years after. I have lost count on how many.
I also love this Game so much. In Fact, I prefer This over RDR2 just because of the whole Atmosphere, that always feels so soothing & cozy to me. It's definately Nostalgia, that makes me feel this Way tho. BUT: Is that actually so bad? I think, it says a lot about this Game, if we still can appreciate the Things, it got for us to offer. 😌
This is by far the best RDR game and the most fun RDR game
I sure remember getting my hands on this immediately after release as a 15 year old. Man, I spent months on this game! Took me forever to play the sequel until I left the service so I've had lots of fun with that too!
as someone who has only recently played rdr1 I can confirm the game just feels incredibly cozy... especially at night in the desert riding your horse
Honestly, early game RD1 is one of the highlights of my gaming experiences. Perhaps something to do with my age back then or what was going on in the real world around me but this game was a godsend. You said it - "homely". There was just something about the ranch and Bonnie McFarlane etc that captivated me. I loved it to pieces.
This game was definitely ahead of its time I remember playing it on my ps3 back in 2010 the graphics and gameplay were legit amazing
this game is a classic in my book
We need a remake or remaster for this game.
A remake would be pristine
8:00 I remember always flying off that cliff too. Like it took me 10 tries just to cross that bridge cause I would always get pulled to the left
Makes me want to play it too, finished RDR2's epilogue a few weeks ago so it would make for a perfect follow up
I played rdr1 first and glad it was by that order just becauese of the way the story goes.
John talks so much about the gang and Dutch that he makes us know them without us laying eyes on them,its great and then seeing them for the first time,is excellent.
Especially Dutch,that first impression is just saved in my head forever...roasting John,Abigail while robbing a bank...
I played this game once, and it wasn’t even the full game. I played for maybe 1 hours, but it was fun just riding around. Now I’m playing rdr2 and I always remember cow catching from my first time
I love this game, makes me want to go back and play it again
I know that feeling. Saw someone recently playing Bad Company for the first time. So I replayed Bad Company 1&2. Love it. Best squad ever.
Everytime I've played through this I've gone off the side exactly you did in the race against Bonnie. I'm convinced it's written in the game
bought this game a vew years ago because i lost it. dont have undead nightmare anymore but played that quite a bit more back in the day. it was so good man.
The clicks the menu makes is so nice idk how to explain it
This was the first game i ever played. And for a long time until the 2nd one came out it was my favorite game of all time.
I’m taking a guess that with the first game, because Arthur didn’t exist, Johns lore was that he was in Arthur’s position, like the second In command, even if we wasn’t actually
i played this game a lot on my older brothers xbox when i was like 8 ngl , and i didnt understand the story too much, i just loved horses and playing as a "cowboy" lmfao but now both rdr games are my favorite games, and not just cause of the nostalgia. they're so good.
Falling off the cliff during the race is exactly what happened to me when I played this last week
I haven't finished the vid yet but you can turn off the golden guns in the pause menu in either the cheats or settings tabs.
Also if you want for the immersion, just tap B to greet or respond to npcs.
i was an adult when this came out...but only played it when it came out on the switch recently.....finished it yesterday sitting on the toilet and it was glorious
this game is 12 years old and it aged like fine wine
it looks better than some games today
I still want a alt universe where John and Bonnie end up together and grow old 😂
And for RDR2, I dream of an alt universe where the gang does manage to escape to Tahiti. The story could be more light-hearted similar to Citadel dlc in Mass Effect 3, and Micah gets forgotten about and left behind in Strawberry.
Also have them kick out Leo Strauss
My most dear RDR2 memory is playing multiplayer with my mates when we were like 12, running home from school so we could skype and play together on our PS3's, gamble, do missions etc. One time we rode the horse carriage in the dark and it was dark, so I said hol up and held up the dynamite who let out a light. 5 seconds lighter it was a huge explosion and we all died after doing the tedious mission of getting the horse carriage. Appearently the fuse goes down just by holding the dynamite in your hand, amazing detail. Loved this game to death, the DLC was phenomenal too.
i did every single thing in this game except win five finger filet, i could never get the hang of it in rdr1 it was so hard
Had the complete opposite experience lol, it's how I got most of my cash in RDR.
man i remember my cousin left me alone to go somewhere on his ps3 with undead nightmare and i played for 15 hours straight and didn’t move from black water. just repetitively killed zombies for 15 hours straight. crazy stuff
The first game I ever played. Has a special place in my heart
The unlockable outfits was one of the best things, with the fine suit outfit you could cheat at poker
cant lie, this was ALWAYS one of my favorite games, i played it so much more than i shouldve on the ps3, and undead nightmare was amazing to, granted no real story there, i played it into the dirt to.
Damn. I feel this but I was also in my 20s when the game came out
I loved red dead redemption and the 2nd one THEY ARE BOTH SO GOOD!
This game is a masterpiece. Rockstar always make top notch storytelling for there games. Especially with the RDR games.
Bro you should definitely play walkthroughs, I'd love to watch you play
Great video! Red Dead Redemption literally saved my life. It's a pretty dark & deep story better not said in YT comments but yeah RDR saved my life. If this game didn't hook me in and give me a reason to feel happy again doing something other than what I was doing I 100% would not be here today. There is, of course, way more to the story but I just love seeing videos like this because it reminds me of that time & why RDR continues to be my favorite game of all time not only because it is an amazing video game but also for this.
8:35 : One of the greatest dramatic head turn in gaming
If I could erase my mind of one game, to re-experience it once more….it’d be red dead BY A LONG MILE
yes red dead redemption was my childhood too i also played undead nightmare as a kid it scared the piss out of me :D
This game was ahead of its time.
In 4K it still looks better than some recent games. True masterpiece.
ya they remastered it for one X just before RDR2 was out.. promotional act . looks and plays well now only 30 fps though on series x they should have uncapped the frame rate
@@PapaTanduo it's not even a remaster, just the original game at 4K. It has aged like fine wine considering that.
I've never been one to achievement hunt, but I do remember two distinct achievements that I earned from this game that made me so proud to get. Not because of the actions taken to get them but that I did them without any knowledge of the achievements existing in the first place. The first was hunting all of the buffalo to extinction and the second was being dastardly and placing a tied up woman on train tracks and watching a train run her over. Again it wasn't the actions taken that made me proud but that I had the idea to play out western tropes for the fun of it and got a little reward for doing so that is the level of awesome this game brought.
I remember in the beginning before you meet jake there's a guy in a black top hat and red bandana who you can kill with no mission fail
Gotta stay on trail to get the horse's speed boost. Love that.
Edit: best music in a video game ever. Change my mind.
I was only 6 months old when this game came out, but after seeing some of the videos about it, and playing and 100 percenting rdr2, I really want to get an xbox just to play this and some other titles.
I was only a Year old child, when this game came out
And now that' I'm getting a Xbox i can' play it i just discovered, that red dead 1 has multiplayer. They really need to make a remaster for pc and PS4 and Xbox and Nintendo but that' would be probably not happen because Nintendo is more child friendly.
You are.....13....jeez...
I was 8 years old when this game released
I also completed red dead redemption and red dead redemption 2 100%
And red dead revolver as well on max difficulty
I spent more time on this game than any other, even got max rank online too, legendary
WHAT? You never played Undead Nightmare (too scared maybe)? That was so cool, such a shame they did nothing with it in RDR2 or GTA.
Man Rockstar Games are true gems I am playing bully right now and after that I plan to start L.A. Noire🙂🙂🙂