Red Dead Redemption 2 Characters Will Provide Directions if You Disable Your Mini Map

Mini map will be getting turned off and hopefully mission markers too, never been a fan of the sat nav aspects of open world games

Sorry I was late for that high noon duel at dead man's tree, I had my mini map off.

This reminds me of L.A Noire. There, when you were driving to a destination, you could ask your partner for directions, as there wasn't a GPS available.

If this is done well I'll play through at least the first 20 hours without the map. Making my own way or getting lost and stumbling upon something else might end up being half the fun.

Nice implementation. I would try it off, then use my tablet with a map on it lol.

Depends On how it works.

It works Well in AC oddessey because you still get hints On the screen. If that won't be the case with this game then i'm using the minimap.

i Also hope that rockstar won't make the claim that playing without the hud is "how the game is meant to be played" because that just sounds snobbish. (Ac oddessey)

am i the only one that doesn't mind having a hud On the screen?

Too much hand-holding these days in games. I hope R* have an option that removes all waypoints, etc, so I can just explore and discover on my own. In a world of wild west its the only way to play IMO.

That's cool, I usually use minimap but it's a nice addition for 2nd playthrough.

I dislike the term handholding.

People use that term way to much.

what's next? Complaining that you can see the ammo you have On the screen is Also handholding?

options are always good,but they should never force you to play a certain way. Be it with "help" or without.

Cool idea that can work if properly implemented! I will try it for sure...
Also I prefer the AC way of just putting a marker on screen instead of following a mini map

Minimap on for me. Sounds interesting, but cant imagine it adding much to the gameplay aside from hours of looking for the next objective. As Rockstar games are always chock full of things to do anyway, I would love to finish it sometime.

Great. I was already planning to not display the minimap. Never liked it. I guess the full map is available on one click anyway.
Game sounds so immersive and cinematic. You can sit on any chair and stuff. It's on another level of immersion.

@Shellcore
Why looking for hours? Full map is available isn't it? I just felt a minimap unnecessary and distracting.

@jdv95
I agree. R are showing how it's done and give so many options to gamers. Other dev need take note.

I'm too antisocial to ask npc for direction

Really looking forward to this game been playing rockstar games since the beginning! Though not a fan of state of emergency lol
But immersive is goooood

My backlog is too madsive to buy RDR2 day 1. Heck, I still need to beat Spider-Man. Horizon is still unopened. But damn, this game sounds and looks amazing. I must resist.

This is a great trend a lot of AAA games seem to follow. Back in Battlefield 4 and Witcher 3 you would spend most of the time staring at the minimap or hud in general. In BF5 they tried to do away with this and Odyssey and RDR now as well. Good news for me

Be nice to still have a compass...unless we can check a tree to see what side moss is growing on to figure it out what direction to go.

@JJ2 I guess my feeling is that if a map is necessary it may as well be readily available as a mini map. The only downside being it being visible on the HUD all the time. For me, however, it beats having to access a potential main map via a menu. Each to their own, but I should be an all or nothing in my opinion. I would take the nothing, but can see the atmospheric benefits of the all. A middle ground seems to have the worst of both elements.

Can't help but feel the success of a certain Zelda game is behind lot of these minimising hud choices. Provided they reward exploration and make things visually interesting, this can only be good. Rockstar in particular can be bad for having you stare at a minimap rather than the world. One of my fave missions in gta v involved chasing down a crashing plane on a bike that meant you were looking at screen for where to go, not the mini map!!

I'm tempted to switch it off, but if the main map takes more than 1 second to load up (what is it with slow loading maps in games these days??!) then i dunno. I only have a couple of hours a day with the game, I don't want to spend half of that time riding south when I should be heading north. If people want "immersion" (IMO, meh, it's a game, I'm never THAT immersed) then I hope we have to pull out a compass or check the position of the sun.

It all depends how it's implemented I guess. By the sounds of it, R* have thought hard about it. I guess I'll start with it switched off and see how it goes.

I like the full immersion concept, disable minimap and try not to get lost following character's directions

@LaNooch1978 agreed

@ellsworth004 Lol..how about the direction the sun sets in the sky, or locating the North Star at nightime.. now you're talking immersion.