 Red Dead Online launched a week ago today and they're still, they're still one really big problem with Red Dead, with Red, with Red, with Red, with Red, with Red, with Red, Open your eyes. I said open your damn eyes you lazy son of a gun. Arthur? Yeah it's me. Aren't you supposed to be talking about Red Dead Online? Whatever that is. Oh I'm kinda sick right now Arthur. I've been coughing my lungs up. Oh yeah. I can't imagine what that's like. It's probably tuberculosis. Okay it's not tuberculosis. You might be dying Fetik. Better make that Red Dead Online video while you still can. Okay. You think he's gonna kill it Arthur? Honestly John, he might even be lazier than you are. I'm not lazy. I have a family Arthur. What you have is excuses John. You know what? I'm glad you're sick. Both of you. Hey hey hey hey. Okay alright. I'll do the freaking video. Just leave me alone. I insist. He insists. No I didn't mean, okay. This one's for you Arthur. As I'm sure a lot of you already know if you watch my video on the game, Red Dead Redemption is my personal game of the year. I just absolutely adore the game. And without going back into it because I've already made that video, the world building and how much fun you can have just exploring the land of Red Dead Redemption. And that is why I was so looking forward to Red Dead Online. The idea of jumping into the world of Red Dead Redemption with my friends had me on the edge of my seat. I was counting down the days. I even bought the ultimate edition of the game just so I could dive into the online beta a few days earlier than anyone else. And I know, I know it's a beta. We're not all the way there yet. There are still so many things to come. But at the same time, there's so many things Rockstar stripped out of the main game for online and I just don't see a reason for it. Before we talk about all the things that are missing in the online, let's talk about what it actually does have. And bear in mind, while I am disappointed with the current state of Red Dead Online, I'm not that mad about it. I mean, it's a free add-on. I didn't have to pay anything extra on top of getting the game. I've already got my $60 out of Red Dead Redemption, but at the same time there are things that just make no sense to me. One thing that Rockstar boasted about the online was that it was going to have its own story and yeah, does kind of. It's a very basic story and it only lasts a couple hours. And once you're done with the story, that's when you realize there's really nothing left to do. There is one really big highlight to this story though, and if you don't like spoilers, skip ahead about 30 seconds. In the last act, you dress up as Ned Kelly. They don't say the words Ned Kelly, but they put you in this big armored suit and they refer to it being an Australian suit. And for those that don't know who Ned Kelly is, I'm pretty sure he's really the only cool outlaw that we ever had in Australia. And you get to dress up as him. It was just a really cool moment for me and my friend playing, because we're both Australian. The story missions are okay. It was varied as the single-player missions. They're very shoo-dee-shoo-dee bang-bang. But all in all, the online story, it was enjoyable for what it was. Then you finish the online story and what you're left with is a bunch of strangers throughout the world that you can go and talk to and every single one of them will just give you a fetch quest. The most common two you'll get all the time is a mail bag that you have to write around within a time limit and drop off mail to people. Honestly, this one is the most boring of all of these, because you do it on your own, whether you're in a posse or not. The only saving grace here is that it's hilarious watching your character try and throw the mail into the box. I must have done this at least 30 times now and I've never seen him actually make the shot once. And then the other fetch quests have you doing things like taking wagons from A to B. It's all very mundane. The only highlight is that other players can try and interrupt and sabotage what you're doing, and if they succeed, then they get their rewards and you don't. But that, for whatever reason, never seems to actually happen. The only time you'll be harassed on these missions is by the NPC characters the game throws at you. No one else really seems to care, and I think that's because the reward is so low. Even you yourself successfully completing these missions, you get barely anything for it. A dollar and 50 cents if you're lucky. It can buy you a can of beans. And these things can take up to 15 minutes sometimes, writing something from point A to point B, and you only get enough to heal your stamina one time in a fight? And that does go into the whole issue of the economy in this game. It's completely trash. The mail missions give you like 44 cents when you drop something off and you're telling me that a gun costs hundreds of dollars? How much mail do I have to deliver? What a chore. This has given me flashbacks to Universal Studios on GameCube where I have to walk around picking up trash, completing a chore before I can actually play anything fun. And honestly, that is pretty much everything in the world of Red Dead Online, and that's very underwhelming. I've already explained everything you can do in the free roam. There's no minigames. This is what I was getting to. This is what I was missing. Why is there no poker? Why is there no blackjack? There's no five finger filet. No dominoes. Where is everything? I truly don't understand, and it might just be me, but this is the most fun I would have in the game, sitting down with my friends or even random people that blow through town and challenging them to a few rounds of poker and trying to take a few dollars from them. Especially when everything costs so much in the game and you earn so little by doing missions, can you imagine even taking two dollars from someone in a hand of poker? That's a good day's work right there. That is a huge part of the game that's missing for me. This is what I wanted, weeks leading up to the online beta, every time I talked about the online with my friends, I was saying I can't wait to play poker with you guys. I can't wait to just live in this world with you, and you just can't. I wanted to go on road trips with my friends all the way from Tumbleweed up into the mountain, stopping in little shanty towns on the way where we could buy a hot meal at the saloon and then take a bath. But again, things like that are just left out. The menu is sat right there on the bar and you can't order anything, why? It's a little feature that made the single player so enjoyable and you've just stripped it out of the online for seemingly no reason. It takes away all of that world building. It takes away all the little niceties that made Red Dead Redemption what it was and what are you left with? Guns. That's it, shooting people. You can't seem to go two steps in this game especially in a town without getting your head blown off. And it's really not fun and you can't blame anyone. You can't be like, well it's a bunch of 13-year-olds that all they want to do is shoot people. No, it's even me sometimes. I get so bored, there's nothing left to do but pick on people. The entire game just becomes shoo-dee-shoo-dee bang-bang. When you meet a player, he shoots you because there's nothing else he can do. And you guys know this because I talked about it in my Red Dead video. One of my favorite things to do in the game is just go fishing. I love fishing in video games. Fortunately, you can do this in Red Dead Online, but for some reason you had to buy the fishing rod level 13. Fishing essentially has become the only mini-game in the game you can actually do with your friends and they lock it behind level 13. It took my friend and I over 10 hours of playing the online to hit level 13 so we could buy this frigging fishing rod. And having finished the story mode after two hours, what that led to was us doing these really boring fetch quests again and again and again and then doing the online matchmaking. And the online matchmaking is something you can queue up in and then you can go through the series of game types and shoot people. That's all it is. It's shooting game after shooting game and you get experience and money that way. Once we'd finally grinded our way to that fishing rod rode out to a lake and started fishing we caught a few fish and we were just so burnt out on the game at that point. Just the fight, the struggle to get to the fishing rods. And we only fished for about 10 minutes and we didn't play again for a few days. We were just so burnt out on it. We could only catch up to medium fish. This video could all be about the fishing honestly. You could only catch medium fish because the other types of baits and lures were locked behind insane levels like level 30. I can't even imagine how long it would take me to get to level 30. So I guess what I'm saying is unless you really like fishing in Red Dead Redemption there's not much to do in the free roam world once you finish the main story. However, something really cool about the online is that it just works. From the very first day I played I entered a server with a ton of players and I just existed in that world. In all of my hours I think I've only been kicked from a server one time. So as far as a beta test goes I would say that side of it's been very successful. The only issue I've come across is very regularly I'll find that everyone in my server just disappears. It's really weird even if I'm playing with friends in my posse we'll all stay in the same map but it's like everyone else just went away. And the game doesn't try to add anyone back in ever if you want to find players you have to leave and find another server. You can continue completing whatever missions you're doing or hunting or actually just have some peace and quiet for a while if you want. However, an argument can be made just like with any of these games. Sea of Thieves, Fallout 70 That game, you name it, any of these online games is an argument that can be made for you can have fun with your friends in whatever online experience you want. So if there ever was an argument to be made that there is a ton of fun to be had in Red Dead Online let me make that argument myself. Here you go I'm trying to throw you off get down get down they're gonna come back down oh cool oh oh oh oh oh oh oh man oh you got me oh the still frame of my death is so good oh noise you made when you fell give it here the way it went around your body was so good do what you want with me but leave the turkey is this your turkey is this what you wanted yeah that's it I want you to watch this you sit right there say goodbye to your beloved turkey as it gets washed out to sea go get your turkey boy go get your turkey boy it's not too late me all the turkey me all the turkey turkey wait wait wait go get your turkey it's still there I can see it getting away it's okay I can pick it up you've proved yourself a man you've initiated yourself into my posse that was the test oh no oh oh yeah you think you're a real man you think you've got what it takes to come against me oh oh oh dangling dangling oh oh oh you were once my friend I've been hunting you for days skyeyes we end this here we end this now you took my turkey me me and the meadow I am it now on the count of three I'm gonna watch you bleed to death boy oh oh no oh it's still going oh boy boy go get your turkey in hell hey don't you be stealing that guy's horse that one was perfect that one was perfect oh oh look what you got me around the neck you're just beating it that guy stopped to watch you beat up a dead fish that's makes no sense why did he stop to watch you your next buddy whoa where did he go rockstar I know you don't owe us anything you don't owe me anything you already gave me a game that was well worth the price I paid and I already adore it so much that I kinda wish it got game of the year still happy for god of war though trust me but please please give me mini games in red dead online it's all I want give me my poker, give me my gamble and give me all of that give me the world that is red dead redemption because you haven't yet so I'm really hoping that the reason these things aren't in it is because it's beta but that doesn't make sense to me like this should be the things that you're testing because these are the things people want at least I want to believe it's the things people want I'm sure that not everyone just wants to go around killing people for hours on end but I'm just one man with one man's opinion what do you guys think let me know in those comments down below so some of you might be wondering how I had that little conversation between Arthur John and I at the start of this video well those voices were actually provided by Sounds Like Pizza on YouTube he is extremely talented at voice impressions and if you liked my little segment of playing red dead redemption with my friend just wait until you watch Sounds Like Pizza play the game with his Arthur impression it's freaking hilarious did you just wave at me I'm about to shoot you in the face and you waving at me so thank you to my fellow Aussie Sounds Like Pizza for helping me with this video make sure to go check them out if you like this video or you learnt a little something make sure you have a lip all over that subscribe button click on tap on this video right here because I'd really appreciate it as you can see I have new shirts as well as a ugly Christmas sweater which you can now buy links down below it looks really cool and I really have to see a doctor