Gadgetory

Red Dead Redemption too is finally here and it is amazing making a very strong argument for Game of the Year 2018 and as it usually happens when we get really excited about a game we decided to make a little something special special Xbox special setup and some might say we might have gone a little overboard first let's take a look at the Xbox one X we've designed for this release so we wanted to do another special division design and we had a couple ideas going in I mean with something like Red Dead a really honestly simpler option would have been just making a red X box which maybe some just little graphics or anything but we've done colorful X boxes in the past we want do something a little more different special this time so one for a wood panel and look really focusing on the idea of a western-themed X Box now if you've watched me unbox special editions system of the past you know I have kind of a main rhetoric I have when it comes to things I like in special edition systems I don't like having the title of the game on the thing I usually don't like having any words unless it's something very thematic and you should want something that's relatively midlist I want there to be some kind of main symbol or logo that references the system so that people who are fans of the game that we're referencing are going to get it but it's not necessarily this thing it's just like shoved down your throat so we decided this design of a burned in cowboy riding a horse to be honest this is not actually a graphic taken from any kind of official Red Dead to heart but I think it fits in perfectly I mean if you've seen any of the promote for they always have loved having those silhouettes of riders on the horizon and I think this fits that perfectly now as for how we actually made this Xbox it's really simple we found this company called toast and they make skin designs for game systems phones all kinds of different stuff but their main focus is that the skins to use are made out of actual real wood and they'll even handle things like burning symbols onto them for you just submit whatever image you want burned in and they will do it and handle it for this setup we want with using an xbox one X instead of using a regular 1s or any PlayStation system because as far as pure performance goes red dead ready to do does currently run the best on the 1x the SOL runs fine if you're playing on Playstation like that but if you want the absolute best looking experience possible the 1x is the way to go as for the set up behind me now clearly this is not any kind of practical gaming setup we're not putting a TV or an Xbox on this right here but we just want to make a set that would give some ideas for cool stuff you could do for a western-themed set up and really set the mood for Red Dead Redemption 2 so the main wall behind me all this wood is here that's just lumber we picked up from Lowe's you can also go to Home Depot or something like that and then all the little different western knickknacks we have we just went to our local craft stores a couple of them and you ever want to find cool weirdly specific stuff to do for a gaming setup craft store is the place to go because we've done a Zelda set up but we've done a pirate set up for Co thieves and now a Western set up all from crap stores because it's stuff that for our weirdly specific circumstance it works out really well but most the time why would you ever need to buy something like this as for the rest of what's going on around here we of course have both Xbox MIDI controllers set up the black and white design so I would just came out and then a poster of a Red Dead Redemption 2 that I'm sure is making its rounds at a lot of Everett stores we actually picked it up at our local comic book shop now well I think we made a really cool setup here the main point of this though once again is to just celebrate what an awesome game Red Dead 2 is I've been spending a lot of time with it and I've been loving every moment of it I've been playing on a 4k Samsung TV right here which gives us a really good balance of getting all the best visual effects you want while still maintaining a low input lag so gameplay isn't affected and I've actually also been using the campaign app they released on phones which has been really handy because it kind of cuts down my time having to enter menus and stuff because it allows you just to view the map like you'd see right here you can also enter things like the manual of your journal it just takes a lot of time out of sifting through menus so you can focus on just the raw gameplay and that's where the game itself I mean it's just been a fantastic experience I mean there's a whole lot of stuff I could rant about this is not a review video though but I think the main thing I really want to get across to anyone that hasn't played it yet is that this is a game that is not afraid to take its time and focus on small moments and it does it in such a good way there are so many games that are focused on really fast-paced instant gratification you know fast traveling everywhere getting stuff back-to-back just done this is a game that's really cool it just letting you take your time going from place to place experiencing it adding all kinds of little fiddly bits like needing to eat food or rest which is done at a good enough pace where it's never annoying but it still comes up enough that you really do need to think about it and it's just it handles of bounds of all these things so well like I said earlier I think this is a strong contender for the game of the year 2018 and the only reason I'm not saying that perfect yet is because I haven't beaten the game yet and I don't want to make a claim like that until I've really given it its proper full playthrough but honestly if it maintains the rate it's going at right now it's pretty likely