Played through the storyline for a third time.

This time, grinded my way to 100% completion, all challenges, as well as all offline achievements.

Visiting all graves wasn't bad, but had to cheat to find them all. Getting 100% study/skin animals is an achievement I'd rather not endure again, and it was a slog to voluntarily get mauled by a grizzly bear 18 times.

But fuck the hunting requests and squirrel statue achievement. And fuck Algernon Wasp and his sissy orchids and plumes.

Thankfully, Rockstar updated the game so that replaying missions for gold medals is much more fair. Previously, it would nerf your horse and deadeye, making mission objectives nearly impossible. Now, it credits you with your current horse and earned core levels.
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Congrats on the 100%.

Did you go to Arthur's grave as John after hitting 100% completion?
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Once I hit 100%, a cutscene automatically played where John visits Arthur's grave.
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Cool. I saw a vid with that and it wasn't clear if it was a cut scene or an event that has to be triggered by visiting the grave.

Again congrats, trying to 100% it myself but have been on an RDR2 hiatus for a bit. Might just have to get back in the saddle...so to speak.
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Welp. Guess i can quit now. :-)
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The Epilogue in this game is a slog. After being a powerful gunslinger, doing chores on the farm as John is so boring. Plus I have so many other fun games to play.
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Yeah, the epilogue was the weakest part of the game

It was pretty special if you played the original RDR though.
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I salute anyone who's 100% this one. I'm typically the type to finish the main storyline then never touch a game again. I finished the main storyline and the epilogue and have since probably put in 10 more hours in the game. I love it and it's a rare breed, but I wouldn't even try to 100% based on the challenges alone. Collecting all of the herbs and stupid shit like that really pisses me off.

This game is definitely worth it to continue to play for all of the scripted content you can find. Like, I had completely finished the main storyline and epilogue before I ever encountered those creepy ass zombie people in the Lemoyne swamps.
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And that's not even a hard challenge if you do it while you're playing the game. The challenges are meant to be completed as side quests to the main story. Trying to railroad the challenges after the main game sounds awful.
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Most of them do require you to do a hell of a lot of going out of the way, though.

Like, I remember one was having to tomahawk three birds of prey lol I ended up getting that one by remembering specific spawn locations for eagles and hawks so I could sneak up on them while they were perched. Another shitty one was having to craft and use 5 special miracle tonics. You need three different herbs to craft it and you can only carry enough of each to make one at a time. Of course, they’re all found in completely different locations so you kinda have to start that one early or make it a point to go hunting for these specific herbs.
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I 100% every game I play. I'm kind of picky about what games I play. :-)
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It's a real shame Rockstar has gone so far downhill. I'd love new content for Red Dead 2. A new Undead Nightmare would be great. I was hoping for them to add Nuevo Paraiso to the map in a story DLC. But that would take effort and why do that when you can just get billions from the morons buying Shark Cards and gold bars for the shitty online game. And they're making GTA 5 for PS5....a game that came out on PS3. How about make something new ya lazy pricks.
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This is a good video about the "death" of Rockstar or at least the old / original Rockstar.


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FYI it's the publisher Take Two that prevents Rockstar from expanding the single player. Shark Cards are easier to sell than DLC.
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