MrZombieChicken said:Despite the massive backlog, I am tempted to finally pick up Red Dead 2. Ultimate edition worth it or just useless crap? For $5 I'll probably pick it up anyway.
Story: It is 100% useless extras although you get an extra mission to rob a bank. But you'll get to rob banks anyway and you will get a lot of money by just playing the game. Everything is dirt cheap in story mode and you get no help for the rarest achievements where it would actually matter. To put it in perspective: You get to rob a bank very early in game, right after the first two intro chapters. That will get you $2000. The best gun in the game costs $135. Ammo and healing is essentially free by looting enemies and killing animals randomly. When you complete the game you'll get $40.000. If you use guides you can get a serious amount of money (few hundred dollars) in certain missions right away. Just a note: while you can replay missions any time, the game only counts your first playthrough "legit". I mean when you first play a mission you get to keep everything. But when you replay it then nothing carries over from it except a better rank.
Online: Online was made to sell micro transactions so anything you get must worth a lot, right? Not really. The only bonus that might have a considerable positive effect on your gameplay is the XP boost until rank 25 and even that is debatable. You see in RDR2 Online the main concern is not XP but $ and gold. Everything is inflated to ridiculous levels in online to annoy you enough to buy something for real money. Missions pay you a few bucks and you have to collect gold in 0.01 amounts. Until the end of last year there was a trick to get essentially infinite money in online by using a COLLECTOR MAP that told you where are the most valuable treasure on the map every day. You will find it in Google. Since then Rockstar realized too many people skip their scummy practices this way and ruined the payouts a lot, but it is probably still the best way to get ahead. As for XP, doing bounty missions with friends was the best way to get it. All these missions/roles require 25 gold bars to start it so you either get it by doing daily busywork or there is a "cheap" real money 25 gold bars bundle in the shop. I would argue that buying that instead of the ultimate edition gets you more benefit than anything the UE can offer. Because if you don't play a role then all the other "missions" building up to it just waste your time with their next to nothing payouts. As for the horse you get, there was a very cheap (free?) horse when I played the game with almost the best stats available for everyone.