The Real-Life Towns Behind Red Dead Redemption II

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  @DetChesmond · 2 years ago · pinned

  I&apos;ve been saying since the original game that someone on the development team had to be inspired by my area (grew up one town over from Pittsburg, right on the edge of the Black Diamond Mines.) My house was a 5 minute walk from the historic Williamson Ranch, once owned by Bill Williamson, and a few streets down is the old run-down barn that remains of McFarlane Ranch. One of the main roads through town is Balfour, and I shit you not I went to high school with a kid named Ciaran Duffy (different spelling, but pronounced the same<br>) The shoutout to Pittspurg in this video just makes it weirder

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  @aidenguzman3510 · 2 years ago

  This 10 minute video about a fictionalized United States is more informative than my hour long US history class

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  @ibabcock89 · 2 years ago

  Fun fact: Originally in RDR2&apos;s development, Saint Denis was originally supposed to be named New Bordeaux. If that sounds familiar, that&apos;s became that was the name of Mafia 3&apos;s fictionalized version of New Orleans. So when Mafia 3 developers, Studio 13, contacted Rockstar to inform them that the name New Bordeaux was already taken, Rockstar agreed to change it to Saint Denis.

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  @comradejet9373 · 2 years ago

  That&apos;s it, reinstalling RDR2 to just walk around for another 20 hours. Thank you.

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  @hillbillyb4u · 11 months ago

  My daughter played RDR2 before I did. We went on a road trip down the Missouri River and she asked to stop by Blackwater. &nbsp;She was thrilled to see the similarities. &nbsp;Now that I’ve played the game I see what she meant.

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  @cadence4527 · 2 years ago

  This is what I love about RDR2. There are so many historical references to both period history as well as more recent events that many can often fly over a person’s head and go completely unnoticed. History nerds can go absolutely crazy with this game, nerding out at the smallest of references. Some in-game mysteries can be solved by simply looking at real life history.

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  @PlushyDom2004 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Fun fact: if you dig deep into the games cut content. It reveals that Valentine is built over a Native American reservation. The story goes that settlers wiped out the whole population of it and took the land over. In game some residents in the town and even Karen and Mary Beth discuss at camp that people keep seeing signs of the ghosts of the native Americans that once’s lived there. Deep in the games code there’s a painting of what the reservation looked like before it was taken over. It was going to be in the train station but it was scrapped. I highly recommend Fizhy’s video about the whole thing

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  @voldlifilm · 2 years ago

  I think Red Dead 2 is a perfect example of justifying a small open world by making it extremely detailed and deep. On the scale of states, towns and cities in real life the game map is ridiculously tiny, but in terms of being a playspace full of content and things to explore it works perfectly.

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  @matthalpin1981 · 2 years ago

  One year I took the family on a road trip through Colorado and we visited Old Bent&apos;s Fort. I was stunned at how it looked EXACTLY like Fort Mercer from the original Red Dead Redemption. My kids were amazed at how I could guess what was waiting in each room of the fort before we even entered those rooms.

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  @filmsbyhen · 2 years ago

  Like for a part 2 covering Rhodes, Tumbleweed, Armadillo, Butcher Creek, colter, and Lagras!

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  @Angel-Otk · 2 years ago

  Let’s all move to Strawberry and act like cowboys 🤠

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  @danielsatter1805 · 2 years ago

  Saint Denis blew me away when I first arrived. I&apos;ve always had romanticized New Orleans from that time period due to films like Interview with the Vampire and when I first arrived in Saint Denis in game it was night time. It was so unlike any other place in the game and was one of the moments where I fell in love with the game some more.

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