Summary
A gamer online has noticed an extremely cool detail inRed Dead Redemption 2relating to the game’s hats. Thehats inRed Dead Redemption 2are extremely importantand act as a way to really give the game a Western feeling, and Rockstar does a great job at ensuring they’re crucial to certain parts of the game’s narrative, too.
The details in Rockstar’s Western masterpiece are a huge part of why gamers still playRed Dead Redemption 2over five years after its initial release. Some of the details are so absurdly niche that they sometimes border on excessive, but it all works to create the illusion of a living, breathing, Wild West. Some of these details exist to bring more realism to the game, while one player noticed atragic story detail inRed Dead Redemption 2after seven playthroughs. It seems as though there’s no end to the level of detail that can be found in the game, with more being found all of the time.
The small detail about hats inRed Dead Redemption 2was pointed out by Redditor HotJelly7848, via a cutscene where Mary Linton asks Arthur for help with rescuing her brother, Jamie. If Arthur wears a hat before entering the cutscene, the game will account for that, and he will remove it before knocking on the door. If he has lost his hat before the cutscene, he won’t have it at all. It also changes at the very end of the cutscene, too. If he has the hat, he’ll put it back on as he prepares to leave, whereas he’ll just walk away if he doesn’t. In the context of the scene, it doesn’t actually matter all that much, but it’s impressive to see Rockstar representing player choice all the same.
Other players in the thread pointed out that even this video doesn’t fully cover every hat possibility in this particular cutscene. According to one user, if a player hasbad honor inRed Dead Redemption 2, Arthur will keep his hat on throughout the cutscene, never removing it out of respect for the two ladies. It’s a subtle way for Rockstar to display Arthur’s more brutish tendencies in a low-honor run, without completely changing the way he acts throughout the scene. It’s details like this that really makesRed Dead Redemption 2special.
Even though players are still finding new details aboutRed Dead Redemption 2, that hasn’t stopped plenty of speculation about what a sequel could entail. Just a few months back, aleaker claimedRed Dead Redemption 3is in development, and withGrand Theft Auto 6seemingly just around the corner, it would make sense that Rockstar would begin planning the next installment of its Western series. Nothing is confirmed right now, but it’s exciting to think thatRed Dead Redemption 3might not be as far away as it seems.
Red Dead Redemption 2
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America, 1899. The end of the wild west era has begun as lawmen hunt down the last remaining outlaw gangs. Those who will not surrender or succumb are killed. After a robbery goes badly wrong in the western town of Blackwater, Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang are forced to flee. With federal agents and the best bounty hunters in the nation massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal and fight their way across the rugged heartland of America in order to survive. As deepening internal divisions threaten to tear the gang apart, Arthur must make a choice between his own ideals and loyalty to the gang who raised him. From the creators of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2 is an epic tale of life in America at the dawn of the modern age.
