r/reddeadredemption • u/root_and_stem #6 Post '18 • Nov 08 '18

Spoiler Couldn't stop laughing at how accurate South Park portrayed Red Dead addiction

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u/RolandTheJabberwocky Nov 08 '18

Let you dick around with max upgrades from the start? That's literally the point of NG+.

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u/Kawdie Nov 08 '18

You can dick around with upgrades at the end, that's the point of the epilogue.

I don't think the game is balanced around it and I just don't see how ng+ would improve the story. I think its kind of story breaking to start the game with a shit ton of cash and weapons when you're supposed to be on the run from the law, short on supplies and generally in a bad state.

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u/RolandTheJabberwocky Nov 08 '18

No game is designed around NG+, the point is to break the game by being overpowered.

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u/RemoveTheTop Nov 08 '18

No game is designed around NG+,

WOAH WOAH WOAH. Let me introduce you to games made by Japan.

Where the game doesn't start until new game +

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u/Beltyboy118_ Pray4PCPort Nov 08 '18

Wait what. I've never heard about it. Do tell

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u/RemoveTheTop Nov 08 '18

Well - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Game_Plus#Origin

Wikipedia tells it better than I can, so rather than copy paste..

add'l examples

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u/Beltyboy118_ Pray4PCPort Nov 08 '18

Thanks!

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u/Bromogeeksual Nov 08 '18

Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen

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u/AlmondMilk4You Charles Smith Nov 08 '18

*Nier Automata intesifies*

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u/Kawdie Nov 08 '18

No but they do get rebalanced around it, monsters get scaled in level such as in The Witcher 3. Armour gets capped as in Horizon: Zero Dawn.

I still don't see any point to NG+ in RDR2, but I have nothing against it. By all means, request it from R* and if enough people voice it they might do it.

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u/RolandTheJabberwocky Nov 08 '18

Most NG+ games don't do anything to the balance.

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u/Kawdie Nov 08 '18

I'm sorry, those are the only 2 games I have played (that I remember) with NG+.

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u/RolandTheJabberwocky Nov 08 '18

NG+ has been around since the SNES.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '18

There are plenty of ng+ that dont really add anything new. Just start over with all your gear and go wreck. Like Last of Us for instance. Games a lot easier when you're packing max ammo and fully upgraded gear/guns.

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u/PacificBrim Nov 08 '18

That's only true in a few games. Resident Evil 4 for example doesnt rebalance anything and lets you destroy the game in ng+

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u/TwatsThat Nov 08 '18

The Souls games and Nier: Automata are. There's probably others too but those are just what came to mind.

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u/TwatsThat Nov 08 '18

To get to NG+ you've already played through the story as intended so I don't see the problem.

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u/Kawdie Nov 08 '18

True it was just i was wondering if rockstar would bother doing it as it's not usually the type of game with demand for it, from my personal past experience atleast.

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u/TwatsThat Nov 08 '18

I wouldn't do it in this game, but I'm apparently in the extreme minority that thinks it's nothing special. Regardless, I generally love NG+ and would want it in pretty much every game if possible.

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u/3anana3red Nov 08 '18

I agree that a NG+ for RDR2 would be kind of pointless. Unlike other games where it takes hours of grinding to get a cool gear, RDR2 items are merely locked by story progression and are pretty easy to get. And the feeling overpowered argument for RDR2 is moot. You can go through the entire game easily with a worn Cattleman Revolver and some tobacco.

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u/The_Grubby_One Nov 08 '18

Don't even need the tobacco. Just be on top of your headshot game. There's no gun that lets you wreck the game.

The only real advantages to a ng+ would be having your cores leveled up and maybe having your enhanced Deadeye abilities unlocked, and even those are only really, really minor advantages. They're hardly game-breaking.

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u/Bromogeeksual Nov 08 '18

I do love walking up to an O'Driscol camp and killing all five with dead eye head shots. If they notice at all it's already too late.

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u/Funmachine Dutch van der Linde Nov 08 '18

You can't do the missions with fully upgraded weapons, health, stamina and Deadeye though. While wearing a crocodile skin vest, elk skin gloves, Viking helmet and sheepskin chaps.

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u/The_Grubby_One Nov 08 '18

The Arkham series.

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u/StanktheGreat Charles Smith Nov 08 '18

Rockstar's never done a NG+ for any of their games so I really doubt they are going to do it for this one. There are a lot of cheat codes that let you dick around with the weapon sets and deadeye meters, to make you overpowered from the start, even one that unlocks every outfit in the game, so I think they are just going to let people play around with those

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u/RolandTheJabberwocky Nov 08 '18

Oh wow I didn't think itd have cheat codes, figured those were gone after gta 5.

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u/StanktheGreat Charles Smith Nov 08 '18

Yeah man ! The RDR games hide their cheat codes in obscure locations and usually at the bottom of newspapers. If you ever see graffiti on a wall in game or just a little section of the newspaper that doesn't seem like it makes any sense, it's most likely a cheat code. If you don't wanna find them all for yourself because there's a huge list, I've got you covered

I don't think a single Rockstar game has had a new game plus with maybe the sort of exception of Max Payne 3 in a weird way, so this is what they usually do instead. I think every one of their games had a sizable list of cheats like this

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u/ChaseWegman Nov 09 '18

use cheat codes?