Just finished Red Dead Redemption 1 and Undead Nightmare on PC using the Xenia emulator
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/2310989
It’s a great game and I’m so glad I finally got to play it.
I’m running a RTX 2070 Super and a Ryzen 5 3600 with 32 gigs of RAM. Using Xenia-Canary I could run the game at 1080p with decent framerate, but that caused some really unpleasant brightness issues at night, so I stuck with 720p and honestly stopped noticing the low resolution after a while. The game ran at a stable 60 all the way to the end and I encountered absolutely no issues besides some flickering shadows once or twice.
If you have a decent gaming PC and have never played the original RDR I strongly recommend you try this. It can be a bit of a faff to find what emulator settings work for you, but once you get it working properly, it’s an absolute blast. RDR still holds up really well in my opinion.
I wonder if emulating the Switch version makes it more accesible to most players.
I hear it's better graphically. I'm considering trying it out, despite having played it on my Xbox 360 just a couple years ago, just to see how it is.
I'm not going to pay for the Switch version though, because I think Rockstar is being really scummy with this rollout (charging full release price for a simple port 10+ years after release, and no PC port, improvements, etc). So I guess I'll go sail the seven seas to give it a try so I can decide if it's worth recommending to friends.
I loved RDR2 and have been meaning to check out the first one. Is the open world / do whatever the hell you want gameplay there in the first one?
Yep, the open world is all there. If you’ve done the post game in RDR 2 where you get the new areas to explore (Blackwater and everything west of it), that’s all from RDR 1. The first game also includes Mexico which is only accesible in RDR2 with glitches or mods