A passionate Red Dead Redemption 2 player recently shared a map that they designed to assist them to complete the game completely on Reddit. It’s no secret that as technology advances, game worlds have grown in size. Worlds will likely get much bigger with the next generation of consoles, which will have solid-state drives that allow them to load vast environments in a short amount of time. Finding every secret and hidden collectible in an open-world game can become a nightmare for the completionist gamer if the game does not provide appropriate tools for the endeavor.
On the flip side, these larger surroundings have resulted in a slew of other developments in gaming throughout the years, particularly in terms of maps. Areas of the map will shift from red to blue in the Resident Evil remakes, for example, to indicate that everything has been collected in that area. Items that are discovered but not picked up will appear on the map in games like Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, which uses a Metroidvania-style map, so players don’t have to recall where they were. In games where the controller vibrates if the player is approaching a hidden collectible, rumbling controllers have also been employed to enhance completionists’ journeys.
Red Dead Redemption 2 More Custom Maps
SlowHandDono proudly displays what looks to be a handcrafted map of the game’s full overworld in a Reddit post. The poster notably points out that the map contains the locations of legendary animals, dinosaur bones, rock sculptures, and dream catchers in the comments. While some of these objects’ locations can be learned using in-game maps and tools, it is unquestionably easier to have all of the objects’ locations in one spot from the start so that the player can bring Arthur Morgan to them as quickly as possible.
Players can also utilize various web tools to figure out where these objects are located. The Red Dead Redemption 2 Interactive Map is a single webpage that features all of the game’s points of interest, including bounty posters, item requests, robbery missions, and riches. While this is obviously beneficial, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a game that places a strong emphasis on immersion. It was not commonplace for gamers to share images of themselves playing the game while wearing cowboy boots and a fedora when it initially came out. It doesn’t get much better than wandering the game’s rendition of the Wild West with a tangible map in hand for dedicated Red Dead fans.
It’s impossible to predict how much larger video game overworlds will become in the future. Maps in games like Grand Theft Auto V, The Witcher 3, and Far Cry 5 can span thousands of kilometers in real life and take hours to travel. New and imaginative approaches are constantly being invented to make the process of obtaining the coveted 100 percent a little more doable for games like Horizon Zero Dawn and, presumably, its sequel that prefers to sprinkle hidden goodies around their areas. Slowhand Domino’s piece, on the other hand, is a pleasant reminder that doing things the old-fashioned way will always have a certain allure.
