Exploring Red Dead Redemption 2's Cut Content

Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the most detailed deep open World Games I've ever played this game has it all a deep meaningful narrative with UPS downs and detours all masterfully placed in a smooth experience that provides plenty of room for taking off and exploring the game thrives in environmental storytelling and attention to detail that being said no matter how huge the game is no matter how good it is there are always cuts this is also the case for Red Dead Redemption 2. this game has tons of cut content and thanks to the PC version giving people a means to explore and find unused assets scripts and the like in the game files we now know what a lot of that is in today's video we're going to look at some of this cut content not to lament over what might have been but because it's interesting to acknowledge the ideas that haven't come to fruition in a game that did incredibly in delivering its intended experience anyway with that in mind I'll provide some criteria so it's not a slog of a video though I'm sure it will have its moments as everything does I've decided to stick with what's known for definite I'll give a little wiggle room for speculating cuts and directions if it's piggybacking off of something that was definitely cut removed or scrapped that we know about and if I'm inferring something I'll mention that that's what I'm doing to avoid confusion in case I'm wrong I find videos mentioning Reddit posts claiming something was cut with zero backup for that just encourage people to feel sad and Bash developers because an uncorroborated Reddit post gave them unrealistic retroactive expectations I guess it's weird especially when the game is a standard Setter in modern AAA gaming but that's just my opinion on the matter above all else it's to avoid convolution I also don't want to go into every detail or some of it may just be a simple relocation without context or a naming without context to me that's not really cut content that's just altered content but if there's context I'll be sure to give it some attention as that gives us an insight into the development of this game big or small anyway waffle over please enjoy as we explore Red Dead Redemption 2's cut content cue the pretentious intro [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign come on the sponsor of today's video kindly requests that you think you are browsing the web right now it's great isn't it so much information communication and entertainment at your disposal but is your connection safe that's why today's video is sponsored by surf shark Internet Security is a must of Modern Life browsing the web you may not realize how exposed you are and just how much of your data is harvested without your knowledge surfshark is a VPN service that prevents websites from tracking your information pushing targeted ads and keeps you safe and anonymous online with the simple press of a button browsing can be a measurably safer surfshark can also be utilized to bypass 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cacti its own Flora besides a unique biome and geography that matches Red Dead redemption's Mexico region and part of El Presidio built in the game it is possible this was just a backdrop so it could just be constructed for the view you get from the other side of the river but there's simply too much evidence here for me to not speculate that once upon a time Mexico was conceptualized as an explorable region data mining the unpatched PS4 version of the game revealed low resolution textures models of settlements and even text files that would relate to Mexico in the game files and a theme for the region using older ambient tracks from Red Dead Redemption can rarely be heard in Red Dead Redemption 2 and will play if you manage to glitch your way into Mexico the island of Guama was initially named Guama and was first intended to be Revisited if the player so wished in the epilogue at the very least using mods reveals Guama to be much larger than the playable area taking your time in Guama during the story is discouraged however it appears as if Guama itself went through many cycles in its development to get right the game files revealed a larger map of Guama suggesting it was once intended to be a fully explorable region with more than just the passing curiosity here and there to keep it interesting it's also entirely possible the Guama chapter was meant to be longer as the rest of the narrative is fairly slow paced and then chapter 5 is blitzed through fairly quickly by comparison this isn't to its detriment unlike the other chapters it removes you from the open world which can be restrictive if such a displacement lasts too long but it does appear as if the plan was for Guama to be its own open world space rather than the most linear segment of the game outside of part one of the epilogue anyhow so let me know would you have preferred to see a longer Guama chapter in which there was more to explore seondu or do you think it functioned better in the linear segment we received it appears as if purchasable safe houses were initially meant to be in the game there are unused Interiors in Strawberry roads in annasburg labeled as player housing in the game files Arthur Morgan was initially intended to be able to visit Blackwater and new Austin as suggested by unique Journal drawings and entries when investigating these inaccessible regions Curiosities by in the game there are also unused versions of cutscenes featuring Arthur that are only accessible to Jon due to the narrative hinge on their accessibility besides this there are audio files implying Arthur could fast travel to Tumbleweed armadillo McFarland's Ranch and Blackwater as well as unused dialogue that suggests Arthur could have encounters with tumbleweeds Sheriff Freeman and blackwater's police chief Dunbar it's Arthur Morgan shoot to kill Arthur Morgan forget about bringing him in suit welcome to Tumbleweed Mr Morgan you might be a killer Mr Morgan but we can kill two Arthur Morgan himself back in Blackwater and on the end of my gun didn't think we'd see you back here Arthur Morgan that right there is Arthur Morgan get him so once upon a time the plan was for Arthur Morgan to be able to explore these regions which would have meant an entirely different take on the narrative no doubt as a smaller point the heartland since grass was originally meant to be yellow not green moving on the Gray's family home calendar Hall was intended to have an accessible interior however in the end it didn't whilst for the most part I'm not mentioning locations renaming as it's not cut content per se suddenly was initially meant to be called new Bordeaux due to another Take 2 title Mafia 3 naming its City new Bordeaux the city got renamed to sand duni in Red Dead Redemption 2. there was meant to be a location called zovitz claim this location is known due to cave painting designs in the game files referencing this spot the names of other cut locations include Tallulah Jetty cryed slaughterhouse iron cloud and kahuta in the in-game Blackwater Ledger number 74 a Tallulah Jetty gang is mentioned likely in reference to this cut location like how Tallulah Jetty was cut from the game the article documents how the gang was killed after years of evading capture moving on the unhorn Trading Post Lighthouse was meant to have a rope bridge for Access but this was removed however it can still be spawned with mods and the loading screen also depicts the bridge being present in the epilogue the Barnet beaches hope has an under construction model in the game files that is never seen in the game suggesting that maybe more content was intended to be placed in the story here to allow for this to be visible but was later cut in Strawberry mayor Nicholas Timmins has an interesting bit of backstory in which NPCs and a letter found on him suggest he's got something to hide most interestingly his home has an unused inaccessible interior that could suggest there was once more to this particular story furthermore strawberry is also full of these unused inaccessible Interiors which would certainly suggest there were plans to make this place a little bit more fleshed out than it was foreign moving on to our segment about animals slash creatures there is a cut stranger Mission revolving around a river monster an audio in the game files this appears to have been intended to be a reference to the Loch Ness monster upon killing this river monster it was said to drop crustacean meat here are the audio files for this river monster thank you oh my God [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] come on no doubt this would have been a terrifying encounter and I can't even argue that it would have been far-fetched considering there is a literal vampire in the game as you can imagine this one captured people's imaginations a fair bit and this is certainly among some of the strangest content that's been cut from this game on the topic of monsters of the water you can find sharks in this game however they do not appear in the compendium at all and of course you need to head to the out of bounds areas of Guama where you may find two different types of sharks you can spot tiger sharks and hammerhead sharks and there's even a green turtle not included in the game's compendium code exists in the game files detailing a random event in which the player is attacked by a shark but this was cut the sharks you can find in the game are completely docile and won't react to the player considering how far out of your way you have to go to find any of them while it's not technically cut content I suppose you could argue that it was never intended to be seen Bobcats were also meant to be present in the game however they were removed All That Remains is a compendium icon in the game files there is also an unused model for the legendary channel catfish the game was also going to feature mule deer but they were removed there is also an unused liver chestnut variant of the Hungarian half bread with high stats compared to other horses in the game leading many to believe that this was meant to be Arthur's old horse bodacia as he calls it who supposedly died before the beginning of the game it's also believed that at some point a camel was meant to appear in game during the stranger Mission he's British of course in which you meet a nice man named Margaret also files for Jaguars exist in the game files though they will later be utilized for the legendary awakta Panther in the naturalist update for Red Dead online foreign [Music] subject of characters there is an unused file for a gray family member named Adam gray who probably would have slotted into the gray Braithwaite Family Feud in chapter 3. there's another unused character in the game files named Featherstone Chambers Dutch Vander Linde would use this Alias during the mission the Gilded cage other unused characters include Dale Maroney Nile Whelan Archibald Jameson who gets mentioned as the owner of the Jameson Mining Company in game there's a cut Bounty Target named doc wormwood a character named Mr Patterson if you use mods to spawn Mr Patterson you can loot him and find a mysterious note that reads as follows dear Governor thank you for your letter it is with great regret that I send you my letter of resignation from my position as Indian agent on the Wapiti reservation although I took this position with a fair amount of optimism but alas I was unable to solve the problems faced by the residents of the reservation I think I even made their situation work Us by my inept actions the supplies I asked for never reached us and this has undermined the confidence of the Indians Hector's fellow's wife also has an unused ped model there is another unused character named Dr Higgins who is said to be from a cut stranger Mission set on Guama as we know there was a time in development where Guama was intended to be more than it was during the stranger Mission the noblest of men and a woman there was meant to be a segment about legendary Gunslinger Frank heck his ped model exists in the game files but went unused however he does have a cool cigarette card when visiting Van Horn Trading Post outside the saloon you may find a missing person's poster detailing the 15th anniversary of The Disappearance of Princess Isabel katharina zinsmeister of Luxembourg the only evidence of her existence aside from this poster in the game is a toy box found in Van Horn's General Store slash fence in the game files there is an unused adult ped model for the missing princess which does suggest there was a time in which this was full on side content and not just a little Easter egg in passing there is also an unused model for an acrobat that likely would have featured in the theater shows in Santa Nee there is another unused character named Sheriff Owens Van Horn was originally intended to have its own Sheriff however in the final game this small town hasn't got one and instead will take the law into its own hands if you act up and it will kick off you can also find an unused ped model for Seth Breyers in the game files showing him as a younger man for those who don't know Seth Breyers is the necrophile from Red Dead Redemption this was possibly made for cut red dead on wine content the Oh Brother stranger Mission appears to have an unused female character either as a substitute for the character that is used or as another woman that would have played a role in this absurd stranger Mission Molly O'Shea was originally going to be buried in an unmarked grave after her death in the main story this was cut and instead it appears her body was disposed of completely this grave was intended to be found near Beaver Hollow the chapter 6 camp and can still be spawned thanks to mobs the locations of deer Cottage and Reed Cottage were intended to be owned by two brothers who were engaged in a feud of some description they have ped models and unique animations in the game files and read that online character Josie Dawson will still mention them there is also a model for a cut Neanderthal in the game seemingly a caveman from a Time long ago may be intended to have been found dead frozen in ice somewhere YouTuber Pariah 87 claims this to be the case in a video posted on the 10th of March 2020. this is likely related to a cut journal entry not dissimilarly to finding whale bones or the body of a Jesuit missionary or the Frozen settler except for some reason this particular detail was removed from the final game originally the vandalin gang included a a character named Eliza who was cut from the game audio files hint at mentions of a woman named Eliza being a part of the gang however this was cut Arthur's deceased son's deceased mother would later be referred to as Eliza so I suppose there's a variation of plot there where Eliza was cut that could possibly suggest Eliza would function as another romantic interest for Arthur besides Mary Linton danhauser would confirm at one point Arthur Morgan had two love interests so maybe Eliza was the second one here are Eliza's audio files Elijah go away what you doing out here gotta get yourself killed what concern is it of yours oh they're easier ways well if it isn't John Marston do I know you Eliza cheer up Eliza you're like a cloud on a sunny day every time I see you you look at me like I'm the Devil Himself also according to Roger Clark the actor for Arthur Morgan in a 2019 Red Dead Redemption 2 cast panel Arthur's son Isaac was initially meant to die at the beginning of the game in which Isaac would have been a newborn that froze to death on the mountain so instead of going for an incredibly Bleak introduction it appears the writing team opted to go for an optional dialogue option in a more peaceful setting instead and it worked more as a revelation for the character rather than just rehashing what happened at the beginning of the game which I think works I believe Eliza is mentioned as Isaac's mother in a nod to Eliza's character being cut as well [Music] moving on to cut items and collectibles there was a cut collectible piece of an animal skin painting that depicted a massacre of Native Americans by the hands of settlers believed to be connected to the curse of Valentine that many residents May mention this suggests a time where there were several of these animal skin painting fragments that would tie into some form of story revolving around Valentine and its history there were meant to be more trinkets in the game but some were cut before the release that being said some cut trinkets still spawn the bullhorn trinket for example can be located in a chest inside the sheriff's office in Blackwater the squirrel tooth trinket can be acquired at the road's fence along with the frog legs trinket the turtle shell trinket which was then released when the game's PC version launched in late 2019. it seems the meteorite Collectibles of which two of the three can be found in game could be used to make an asteroid chunk shrink it this was cut in the game but can be accessed via use of a trainer mod [Music] before we wrap up we're going to check out the little straggly bits that don't fit into any category or there aren't enough of them to make their own category now there are many unused image files in the game files however one pops out above all and that's one with Arthur Morgan and Bill Williamson seemingly in their grammar attire rowing a boat down a stream in the company of a woman the woman appears to Bear resemblance to Arthur's romantic interest Mary Linton however many players theorize that this is the cut character Eliza moving on According to some text in the game files Red Dead Redemption 2's loading screens were initially meant to display tips those such tips no longer appear and nor need they is literally one of the easiest games going and I'm sure there is plenty more out there but these were the bits that I could find and confirm and you know infer things from if I had to and I think for today that brings us to the end of this video if you would like to see a part two let me know down in the comments I'm sure there's plenty that I've missed list feel free to let me know if there is something that I have missed because there's always more and trying to Encompass everything into one video was just never going to work special thanks to Surf shark for sponsoring this video be sure to follow the link in the description and enter the promo code fishy for 83 off and three extra months free if you so wish to do so beyond that thank you all for watching I hope you enjoyed be sure to go ahead leave a like subscribe share the Channel with your friends and all that wonderful stuff that would be super fantastic and with any luck I'll be seeing you all very soon with another video at some point but until next time please take care and goodbye foreign [Music]

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Length: 22min 40sec (1360 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 20 2022