The thing with evil playthroughs is that you only do them your second time around to make sure you won’t miss any of the cool stuff people give you when you do a good playthrough. So unless you’ve played Red Dead Redemption 2 twice – I sure haven’t – you probably haven’t witnessed the power of a fully operational evil Arthur.
Alex, I’ll take “Games That You Generally Won’t Find Mentioned In a Red Dead Redemption Thread” for $500.
-Tom
You don’t get more evil than playing the dude in Doki Doki. Just saying. ;) I’m so going to play super evil Arthur this time. I just need to wait for my new computer parts this weekend.
Just Monika, @Octavious230. Just Monika.
-Tom
Ha ha! You guys played … uh, something? I don’t know what it is, but you guys played it!
Kolbex
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lol I still have to go through more of it tonight. What a weird game. And then this weekend Evil Arthur. I’m going to be a Sith Lord by the end of all of this.
I always struggle to maintain the evil character in games that give you that freedom. I start out with all the worst intentions, but the relentless darkness breaks me down after a while and I revert to goody little two shoes
Murph
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I just…don’t enjoy being a dick, even in a game, lol.
Jazar
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I have no qualms playing the bad guy in games but this one has very little incentive to doing so and frankly hard to maintain. Just not worth it at all from what I remember.
JeffL
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Yeah, I was just wondering what it was like. I started a second play through (for reasons) and had intended to try being Bad Arthur but it just seems to go against the overall narrative of the game, which is a man who has done a lot of bad in his life trying to be a better person, in a Film Noir type of approach.
Murph
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Yeah this is fair. I can totally get on board with “chaotic good” or even “chaotic neutral,” and I could probably get on board with a more evil type if the game set it up and gave me a reason. But with Arthur, I don’t get just walking around and being a jerk to people in your camp for no reason…Aside from maybe Micah. I think there’s plenty of motivation to be a jerk to him.
Definitely feel like playing him as the man struggling with his conscience but trying to be good is a much more natural way to go.
My memory of Arthur’s journey was that it was painfully devoid of choices. Things might have turned out differently if he’d listened to me. But no.
robc04
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After bailing in Chapter 4 when I had this on the PS4, I decided to try again on PC. I’m still early on - near the end of chapter 2 I think. It looks great. Probably the only question is if I can have enough patience for how long it takes to travel places. Luckily at least some of those times has a conversation to listen to.
To get a perfect skin, do I only need to find an animal in perfect condition and get a one shot kill with the preferred weapon mentioned in the encyclopedia entry?
I believe that’s correct. The quality of the animal is the upper limit on the quality of pelt it will provide.
-Tom
JeffL
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Yep. It also helps to get the trinket from a fence that allows you to get better skins; it gives you a little room for error.
robc04
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I didn’t know that was a thing. I’ll have to keep my eye out for a fence.
I figured I would do the challenge to get the 3 perfect rabbit pelts. There are always tons of rabbits I say…until you actually want to hunt them.
JeffL
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A lot of the perfect skins are pretty easy to get, e.g. deer. Some are a real PIA, like snakes. For those, I walked around some swamps and used a small game arrow (IIRC.) Once you spook them, they are challenging to track back down.
I gave up on RDR2 about a year ago, because my ancient hardware just couldn’t handle it. But my new PC arrived yesterday (almost three weeks ahead of schedule!), and I’ve had it downloading games all day. If I can find my microphone, I’ll probably show up in camp soon.
robc04
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Is there any way I’m supposed to ‘intuit’ where to find an animal, like a badger in the game? One of the satchels requires a pelt. I haven’t seen a badger so it isn’t in my compendium.
No345
However, through exploration, you’ll eventually draw little pictures all over the map of where you can find various flora and fauna. So the less-than-helpful answer is that by the time you’re trying to craft a specific satchel that requires a specific pelt, you should probably have a sense of where to find those animals. If you don’t, either play the game more or resign yourself to Googling it.
That said, badgers are pretty common in the kinds of places you’d expect to find badgers. I’m guessing the forests of New Hanover and maybe Tall Trees have plentiful badger herds.
-Tom
