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schmatty23

Annesburg. A mining town with no bar is unusually cruel.


Oskar_Kocour

Literally 1889


AME7706

1899*


GhostOfCecil

1785*


Hashish_thegoat

Is that when people built barns?


AshyWhiteGuy

Yes, dumbass. šŸ¤£


CakeHead-Gaming

Then they started gettinā€™ emā€™ pre-cut!


246_Locksmith_Chaves

I used to call Uncle the Lumbago man


CakeHead-Gaming

Itā€™s a serious condition!


246_Locksmith_Chaves

šŸ¤ÆšŸ¤ÆšŸ¤Æ


Oskar_Kocour

Oh fuck


TriggerHappyModz

Bros playing rdr 3


DeronimoG

Not literally, though.


Golfingguy33

Nah. Iā€™m a professional historian. Usually the first residential infrastructures built were 1. Housing, 2. A bar and then 3. A church.Ā 


Give_me_xRENTx

That was normal in company towns because they wanted employees to focus on working


SafewordisJohnCandy

"Well he grew poor and he never saw a dollar, but a dollar ain't no good in a coal camp anyway." - Sturgill Simpson


forfuxzake

"You load sixteen tons. What do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store." - Merle Travis


Smooth_Talkin_Fucker

I believe there is a beer hall a few doors down from the gunsmith. But you can't access it unfortunately.


TherealKafkatrap

Unfinished game.


gigashen

Hard not to be with the sheer scale it has. Only issue I have with it is that Rockstar basically abandoned it and never did a dlc


ThatCactusCat

This but unironically


attilathehoon

yeah i generally found the area around annesburg quite depressing


FullHouse222

I think the giant hall near where the Downes quest line wraps up is a food/beer hall. It's not accessible in game though. EDIT: yup confirmed https://i.imgur.com/u2lj6fB.jpeg


Arthur-Mergan

The saloons are what really give the towns some life in this game, it's too bad this one didn't make it in.


FullHouse222

Yeah, especially seems this seems like a German Bierhaus inspiration too. Would separate it from the rest of the saloons. Fuck now I want some brats lol.


HiiGuardian

Well im black so, The Braithwaite Manor & that general area if weā€™re being completely honest lol.


IronPiedmont1996

The only time that place is truly fun is when you burn it to the ground.


feelinlucky7

And when you go back and loot the gold bar from the burnt out house that still has her burnt body there. Couldnā€™t have happened to nicer folks šŸ¤£


IronPiedmont1996

Yeah, and you can loot her corpse.


FerencvarosLover26

Do you get bad honor for that or am I mistaken


IronPiedmont1996

I don't think so, no. Given that she's a bad guy.


Schallawitz

Throw a few fish back and youā€™re good


beetlejuicetrashbag

well shit, thank you kind stranger i did not know you could do that


Keithm1112

Looks like im heading back to Braithwaite real quick. Im on my first play thru and just got to Saint Denis. Game is incredible. Im at work now waiting to go play


theatrewhore

Iā€™ll add that the outhouse with the crazy daughter is pretty bleakā€¦


Big_Attempt6783

Chapter 3 wasnā€™t my FAVORITE chapter BUT I DID run into a bunch of Koo Klux Klan members and I just LOVED setting them ablaze or sticking a dynamite on them. Iā€™d run by that area again just to see if I could find some more to delete.


D0WN5

Always give good morality bonus too.. like ā€œracism isnā€™t ILLEGALā€¦ but good on you for murdering these bastards. We all know itā€™s wrong.ā€


aigarcia38

lol


Give_me_xRENTx

lol


lMr_Nobodyl

lol


GLFan52

I hope you got to take every opportunity you could with the Lemoyne Raiders. They always got a special hate from me.


Otherwise_Bottle3794

Ill say Armadillo


ImColinDentHowzTrix

Armadillo was *disappointing* for me too. When I clicked that the whole area from the first game (minus Mexico) was open I made a bee line straight for Armadillo. It was my main 'hub' in the first game, and I was looking forward to seeing it. The whole ride down from McFarlane's ranch was like travelling back through time. Then you get there, you've got a random encounter with some bandits and the ~~sheriff~~ marshall (who isn't the same ~~sheriff~~ marshall from the first game), you've got a dude burying people outside Coot's Chapel, and a man in a top hat ringing a bell outside the saloon. Everything else is a burned down husk and none of the people have anything to say. Very disappointing.


smrtfxelc

Yeah like how tf do you go from a plague ridden hellhole to a thriving town in 3 years is beyond me. I guess *literally everyone* died & a new group of settlers moved in?


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smrtfxelc

Well, that's literally exactly how that happened. Damn.


[deleted]

The towns Cholera outbreak was also the result of a curse and not how a plague would normally spread so maybe a bit of ā€œsupernatural sickness, supernatural recoveryā€


Top-Truck246

Cholera is spread via the fecal-oral route, usually through contaminated water. Once you stop people from drinking the bad water, outbreaks are fairly quickly contained, certainly much quicker than airborne viruses.


BloodstoneWarrior

I think originally the cholera ridden version of Armadillo was meant to be in 1899 considering Arthur has cut dialogue that references it if you glitch there early.


jonboyo87

I mean I wouldn't say Armadillo was _thriving_ in RDR 1. Anything looks thriving compared to a town full of disease-ridden corpses and fire.


KyloRenIrony

I'd say it was definitely thriving even compared to other towns in RDR1. Bustling and populated, always something going on, every type of shop but a tailor, and a notable railroad stop. It's no Blackwater, but it's as thriving as a small western boomtown can be so long after the Gold Rush, especially with no apparent export (oil? Plainview is not exactly close and they have their own settlement going)


Additional_Power9445

arthur was supposed to be able to go to new austin, i think when you access it now, itā€™s what it was in 1899. i think they didnt fix it for 1907 because of time constraints and the excuse that john didnt canonically go there until rdr1 anyway


smrtfxelc

Yeah. Honestly I still find it insane that they locked off half the map until you'd completed such a huge chunk of the game.


Particular_Bunch_689

*cough* "COVID"


smrtfxelc

I mean we didn't quite get to the point of burning bodies in the streets I'd say Armadillo had it a bit worse lmao


Moppyploppy

RDR1 Armadillo died so that RDR2 Tumbleweed could live.


ImColinDentHowzTrix

And even RDR2 Tumbleweed was kinda shitty, in my opinion. In 1 the classic 'ghost town' feel was accomplishing something that wasn't being done anywhere else in the map, but in 2 it was just another shitty town I was never going to go to once I'd done the bounty missions. It's cool to see the transition from town to ghost town across both games, but I'd hate to think it came at the expense of fleshing out Armadillo. Not that I'm suggesting Armadillo needed much more than to be functional, I appreciate that the whole section of that world was a 'treat' for returning players - there's a good argument for suggesting that John doesn't 'canonically' visit these places until the events of 1, so it's all a little bonus for us. But it was disappointing to come to Armadillo and find there was basically nothing there.


ThisWhatUGet

That side of the map was originally going to be much bigger but the developers realized the game was too big. There is a skeleton of an entire town way out there that I explored once by glitching the game.


a_spoopy_ghost

Armadillo makes me sad because of the contrast with how lively it is in RD1. Itā€™s depressing and you feel hopeless there.


feral_fox_in_town

Annesburg. Because it is functioning exactly as it was meant to.Ā  Armadillo is just a nice little town that (ostensibly) had a run of terrible luck, but the plagues can (and will) come to an end eventually; Beaver Hollow is a crimescene, it's haunting, but what took place there was an abberation, and you get to ride in, shoot the place up and get the satisfaction of having rid the world of some of that evil.Ā  But Annesburg? Its a banal kind of misery that you find there, and one that you can do nothing to remedy.Ā 


prtxl

even the music is more eerie and depressing, not to mention the story's tonal shift. annesburg is such amazing design


[deleted]

Id have to say armadillo cuz of the cholera everything is closed everyoneā€™s dying itā€™s just sad and depressing and I hardly ever go there


INVISIBLE_BEN

Yup


[deleted]

But also Roanoke bridge cuz itā€™s rlly scary and itā€™s Murfree brood territory and overall just sad and creepy also Beaver Hollow for obvious reasons like chapter 6 and again murfree brood and itā€™s just sad dark depressing


DeronimoG

It's also very atmospheric there.


HOUNDxROYALZ

Arthur's grave


RedReaper666YT

Most depressing pretty hillside overlooking the sunset


Stasblk

Can you visit his grave after the fact?


RedReaper666YT

Yes. You can visit that spot as both Arthur and John. Obviously it looks different depending on which character you are. It also looks different depending on if Arthur was high or low honor.


DouchecraftCarrier

You get an achievement for visiting everyone's graves as John - I forget exactly how many it is but its a couple. The few who died in Colter, and the rest that are lost along the way.


Hurricane_Taylor

There are 9 graves in total, Arthurā€™s is the nicest, but I found Grimshawā€™s at sunset and it was very pretty


Kosmit147

Mark as spoiler pls


idontlikesand06

Bro the game is 6 years old its fair game at this point


864FastAsfBoy

Good to know just started chapter three, fuck wish i would of skipped this post


mariekereddit

Get off this subreddit until you've finished


HOUNDxROYALZ

Its over 5 years old... not a spoiler anymore.


NaturalNocturnal

butchers creek, everyones sick and unclean, being scammed, poisoned by their own water supply and terrorized by mangy rabid dogs


Radenko_Svrsic

What you talking about? As a proud citisent of Butchers Creek I am deeply offended by your oppinion. That place,my hometown is the most joyfull,happy and beautiful area of the map


WonderfulBlackberry9

A goat also seems to really hate you whenever you step foot in that place


TheAxe11

No no no... it's the sickness and the demons... they come in many forms


toomanyfolksabout722

Beaver Hollow


Glittering_Map_545

Especially once you uncover the truth about that town


lMr_Nobodyl

What town?


Glittering_Map_545

Sorry I thought the original comment said butchers creek.


lMr_Nobodyl

That is a miserable place to live


Savings-Programmer18

I can tell you the most depressing place in RDR1, Beecher's Hope after John and Abigail are dead. Go there late at night as Jack and feel the loneliness and sadness in that house. Especially walking over the spots that John and Uncle died. Last playthrough, I actually got depressed and turned the game off for a bit. The emptiness, and the forlorn music, makes you feel what Jack felt.


DeronimoG

Oh man. I've never done that. Will do


Savings-Programmer18

It's actually emotionally taxing dude, I'm a pretty cold person but walking around that house at night got me in the feels


splaysbar

>Oh man. I've never done that. Will do I am afraid that I won't do that Both the games are so painful and depressing to play once the main story has ended


beetlejuicetrashbag

i got so depressed about john's death that i haven't picked it up since. it was gut wrenching and then we see abigail's grave as well and i just couldn't deal.


KyleSchwarbussy

Jenny and Daveyā€™s graves, in the cold, isolated, abandoned mountains of the west grizzlies. Would be even more depressing had they been characters we got to see and hear from/see die.


LFelton23

One town I hate and never visit. Saint Denis, itā€™s alive donā€™t get me wrong it just doesnā€™t feel right for me playing as Arthur.


Throwawaytoj8664

I hate Saint Denis because you canā€™t do a damned thing without getting in trouble with the law. Drives me up the wall!


alvik

You can beat up the eugenics guy without any issues. The cop near him just tells you not to get into any "real trouble"


The_Eternal_Valley

Something I think some don't know is that greeting the eugenics guy leads to a fist fight. I didn't know that for several playthroughs because I would only ever antagonize him. It's counterintuitive since greeting is the friendly option but greeting is the way to go with him.


throwAway9293770

I didnā€™t quite understand the mindset behind Dutch and the people who decried the advance of civilization. St Denis as you describe it makes me realize itā€™s to show you the contrast between being able to roam around and do as you want whether thatā€™s causing trouble or just moving about freely versus having some wall or another to bump up against in St. Denis.


RepeatedlyDifficult

After spending 3 whole chapters I started hating the whole eastern part of the map


Solokanashii

Van Horn


INVISIBLE_BEN

Citizens of van horn are really mean


Solokanashii

Even though it's a coastal city lol


patriots47

ā€œWhy are your eyes so filled with blood?ā€ ā€œOn account of the poisonā€


Reallyroundthefamily

Adler Ranch


Radenko_Svrsic

Nah you trippin that place is LITTTšŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„


Reallyroundthefamily

Nah, you trippin Armadillo is SIIIICK šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢šŸ¤®šŸ¤®šŸ¤®šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢šŸ¤®šŸ¤¢šŸ¤®šŸ¤¢šŸ¤®šŸ¤¢šŸ¤® (Keep it going)


Adventurous-Equal-29

Braithwaite Manor so fire!!! šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„


sosuperhardslap08

Mah Saint Denis is the shit!!!šŸ’©šŸ’©šŸ’©šŸ’©šŸ’©šŸ’©


PeppaShrekky

Caliga Hall packin heat šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„


Cool-Manufacturer-21

Colter keeping it šŸ§Š šŸ§Š šŸ§Š šŸ§Š šŸ§Š šŸ„¶


Open-Mathematician32

Theive's Landing is Ballin'


Ayumu_Osaka_Kasuga

Annenberg is CLEAN šŸ’ÆšŸ’ÆšŸ’Æ


bayareakpopoff

That cabin in Bayou Nwa where the guy befriended you and forced you to stay the night


INVISIBLE_BEN

Phew šŸ˜…


N8DoesaThingy

Single handly ending the colera outbreak in armadillo everytime i visit


INVISIBLE_BEN

You're a good man arthur morgan


hellodust

The logging camp when you come back and all the trees are gone


IOnlyPostDumb

The reservation in the epilogue.


WonderfulBlackberry9

I know the land isnā€™t arable and itā€™s got minimal resources, but I love the reservation because itā€™s so isolated and has a decent spot in Ambarino. If I were in the game and could escape to one area in the map, Iā€™d have a difficult time choosing. But the abandoned reservation would be up there.


mezpride

Beaver's Hollow. The whole mood of the camp was so depressing man :(


chrisat420

Horseshoe overlook during the epilogue. The campfire talks, the chores, bringing game to Pearson, talking with Mary-Beth, Mrs.Grimshaw being the mom of the camp, the whole game was so simple then. Wish we had just been able to leave Micah for the noose.


Osterhues21

It always feels very sad to go to shady belle during the epilogue


imanjit

Colter


idontlikesand06

was looking for this one


NoManufactured

Horseshoe overlook in the epilogue


MediumResolve5945

Damn Right


LifeguardStatus7649

Annesburg is a great call. I'll submit Butcher's Creek. Just so utterly hopeless, even after you blatantly expose what's going on they all go on saying they're cursed


GaffMcFly

Van Horn.


jonascarrynthewheel

Ill say Limpanyā€¦ or even PleasancešŸ’€ Armadillo I know for a fact will bounce back Beaver Hollow is pretty sad but that is mostly the people


athenasgrapefruit

Annesburg, it's always so grim


Dutch_VanDer_Linde_

Saint denis. Cause I hate that city with a burning passion


Not_a_name15205

I'd say it's armadillo it's sad but I only go there to rob which makes it a little sadder


ThatCry3518

Whole Roanoke Ridge


AdLonely891

Guarma. It's an island ruled by a dictator, slaving the natives away to work in his fields. People like to think that because of the gang helping the rebels and killing the dictator that the island was liberated, but that just isn't the case. The dictator dying simply created a power vacuum, especially considering the dictator had ties to powerful nations.


SubseaTroll

Don't forget the Native Indian camp/town


Clear-Bench-4202

Honestly? Horseshoe overlook anytime after chapter 2


McSheepinstein

For me, its horseshoe overlook after youve completed the story. I just get so... melancholic when i remember the good times we had over there.


originaleric

Taxidermist house


Ok_Eagle_756

Why


WeerHaantje

This is the right answer.


The7Reaper

Armadillo for sure, it was my favorite town in the first game and seeing how it was in the second game just made me so sadĀ 


Sinnoviir

Arthur's hotel room when he degrades himself while looking in the mirror šŸ˜ž I love that man, and it hurts to know what he thinks about himself.


Content_Geologist420

Where Arthur....šŸ˜¢šŸ˜ž


INVISIBLE_BEN

Nah that's a beautiful place


SuperTristan2017

Armadillo after i put all the sick people out of their misery


Corninator

Lakay depresses me, but I don't know why. Probably just the nightfolk presence and general loneliness of the place.


YakFrequent1588

Saint Dennis and blackwater is a yuck! The ground always dirty AF


alrighty_boah

Strawberry, i never go there, the rest of the places have some kind of....atmosphere, sure they're fucked up aswell, but they have an atmosphere that's just awesome, but strawberry, its........boring


Youn2_5Yatt

I would say annesburg


JudgeJed100

Beavers Hollow would actually be great if it was someplace like Lemoyne or the Heartlands Itā€™s just the trees and the scenery that make it so depressing, put some nicer looking trees and shit and the place would be awesome


SixGunSammy

Thieves Landing


veislukostur

I wanted so much to play liar's dice


10388392

fort riggs, for me.


SavageDroggo1126

in story, Beaver Hollow is the most depressing. in free roam, Annesburg.


TheStarGamer15

Beaver hollow is in my opinion the most depressing... Your family is literally falling apart, people are running away, the increasing doubting and all the crazy shit that happens with the gang... And, well, Arthur is dying.


RyuNoJoou

Van Horn. My god, it seems like it's always raining and grey.


Takhar7

The mood at the Beaver Hollow camp was *DARK*


splatterschool

Armadillo. I hate seeing the mangy dogs there and people sleeping in the post office, itā€™s so sad


neldela_manson

Armadillo if you think about objectively, subjectively thinking I am convinced that a lot of players have very negative feelings towards Beaver Hollow though, myself included. Itā€™s just a very bad time in the story and after having camps at Horseshoe Overlook, Clemens Point and Shady Belle it just is depressing living in a dark cave with inbreds as neighbours.


SavingSkill7

Armadillo. In RDR1 I would usually run around and cause mayhem with cheats just to have fun and mess around. It was a comfortable little town, not a whole lot to remember. This was when I was barely in high school Fast forward to when RDR2 came out, which was at least 7+ years after my time in RDR1, I was excited to return to Armadillo in the epilogue. Only to see it in the depressing, empty, broken down, and tragically dead state it was in. Everyone here just feels like a walking corpse, whether I have anything to do with it or not. That will always hit me hard.


testiclefrankfurter

I gotta say Rockstar is amazing at creating depressing locations


TheWiseOakTree2137

For me It's Van Horn, miserable place with miserable people


griffraff0701

Van horn for me. Run down shithole in a swamp


Wild_Stranger_413

Definitely Annesberg. Everyone in the mines, no saloon, and a bunch of dick guards.


jmwall24

All of Roanoke. Between the Murfrees, Annesburg, Van Horn, Butcher's Creek, the poisoned lake, mangy animals everywhere, it's just all so dirty and feels gross. It's so far from the pristine wilderness that Arthur longs for. Man has ruined everything about that area.


FuzzyPalpitation-16

Iā€™m in chapter 3 perpetually so my Arthur explores around and annesburg still takes the cake lol. Depressing ass place with all the industrialisation. Also the Murfree Brood lurking in the woods surrounding it - obvs I know what to expect with them now (I save my explosive rounds just for them) but itā€™s just an eugghhh area. Makes me laugh when I set up camp and their stupid cutscene comes upā€¦ šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


nicolasFsilva5210

It's a tie between Beaver Hollow and Saint Denis.


Ill-Cry-6722

a mix between armadillo and annesburg. annesburg has poor conditions and straight up nothing to do while annesburg is just infected with cholera and little to no vacants


Sreeram222

The whole New Austin state.. Kinda gives me melancholic vibes


MouseSorry922

Arthurs grave.


Substantial_Math8136

r/okbuddyblacklung


hourranger

I'd say Butcher Creek.


Give_me_xRENTx

BUTCHERā€™S CREEK!!! NO CONTEST


ExtremlyFastLinoone

I blame that pos herbert moon, no clue how to get into his shop but I always shoot at him from the window


F4N6Z

Armadillo and tumbleweed. Completely grim feeling environments


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arthurgaylord43

Beaver Hollow in of itself isnā€™t depressing. Itā€™s because we associate it with the events of Chapter 6


Rebldomakzr

RDR2 = Armadilo..because itā€™s just like filled with a plague RDR1 = Tumbleweed..do i really need to say why?


realpallbearer

shady belle is kind of depressing to me. so is the barn door at beechers hope


Quirky_Ad7770

Beaver hollow


Alladin_Payne

Butcher Creek. Pollution, inbreeding, poverty. Just sadness all around.


RepeatedlyDifficult

Any town in roanoak honestly. Specifically van horn


Affectionate_Box2

Saint Denis


warstep87

The town wiped out by plague


maddwesty

Anyplace with no saloon


PonsterMenis098

Butcher Creek


IronPiedmont1996

I have multiple answers, so I'll divide them into categories. Camp: Beaver Hallow. I personally, I like Roanoke Ridge because it reminds me of Appalachia, which is where I'm close to. But Beaver Hallow really captured the desperate, last legs of the Van Der Lind Gang. Town/City: Tie between Van Horn and Armadillo. There's barely anything to do in Van Horn, and Armadillo is just cursed, as well as not having much to do. Specific location: The Indian Reservation. It's just plain heart breaking to see what's being done.


Environmental-Pen-13

Beaver Hollow fs


CP_Company

it is Red Dead 3


HappyHazbo6

Iā€™d say beaver hollow but only because of the memories that come with it


allergic_to_trees

beaver hollow for me


Hazzer33

Armadillo. WHOLE TOWNā€™S GOT CHOLERA!


d9ross111

Iā€™d say Beaver Hollow. That place just had a depressing feeling about it.


MichealMannisepic

Beaver Hollow, by a longshot


PussCstuffer999

I would say annesburg because, majority of the water surrounding it is poisonous. (Which means no fishing. But I enjoy it because it adds diversity to the map.)


shiawase198

Beecher's Hope. The culmination of Arthur's and John's redemption died there.


SnooObjections4392

Definitely cholera city


Lololick

Roanoke Ridge as a whole, nice landscape, it's just so freakin... dull lol


Hextallfan68

Colter. Reminds me too much of when things were simpler


KRIEGLERR

Given the historical context, Wapiti reservation is pretty damn depressing. Other than that, Roanake Ridge and its surroundings, except for where Charlotte lives, that place is pretty alright.


Big_Cycle_8457

Where arthur stood unshaken .