Thanks so much for checking out the video! A slightly shorter episode this time, but full of history nonetheless. What are your thoughts on Guarma? It seems to be the most divisive part of the main storyline, so I'd love to hear your thoughts. Special thanks to my supporters on Patreon who watched this video a couple weeks ago and shared their thoughts! And a friendly reminder that I now (occasionally) stream on Twitch, so feel free to stop by and have a chat about our favourite cowboy game!
While RDR2 is my favorite game of all time, and I love Chapter 5, Guarma is still my least favorite part of the game. This is due solely to the pacing. You are on the island for only a couple small missions, and then that’s it. I would have liked it to last another couple hours.
The beta history for Guarma/Guama is really interesting to look into, seems like it was planned to be a massive island that could be freely traveled to later in the story through steamboat.
Fun fact the gatling gun was created by Richard Jordan gatling in 1861 at first he wanted to be a doctor but he moved on to be an inventor and he wrote that the reason why he invented the gatling was to reduce the size of armies, reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease and to show how futile the war was at the time, its crazy how someone turned from a doctor to an inventor that made one of the most dangerous weapons in u.s history
If I remember right his desire was for the Gatling-gun make war "too costly". While he didn't quite achieve his goal (see world Wars 1-2) humanity did ultimately achieve the "too costly" weapon with the Manhattan project and the future development of nuclear weapons. War between nuclear armed nations is truly too costly when a single bomb can destroy a city.
You're so detailed. Arthur: walks* RealPixels: Walking was invented in the early years of human civilisation as a way of transport. I mean like, every step is so detailed and you cover them. Rockstar is just a detailing god. Your research is amazing too.
Yea I love red dead 2 really disappointing they put all this effort in to just not give a fuck about the online portion really disappointed like it's still not even as good as story lol
This series is really impressive, the amount of detail, lore and cultural connection that you are able to link up is amazing... And time consuming id imagine, i have thoroughly enjoyed the series so far and am excited for the New Austin episode and all the little facts about the true West
Real pixels be like: So you see Kieran in chapter 3 says “Hello” to Arthur. The first known usage of hello dates to 1342, so it’s not unrealistic for him to be saying this.
Arthur: “the-“ Real Pixels: “the first written instance of the word ‘the’ dates back to 1267, with the invention of the English language, so it is not unrealistic for Arthur to know this word’s meaning and be able to use it correctly.”
The fact that Cuba exists in the rdr universe but all these places in the rdr and gta franchises are all tiny islands and small chunks of conected lands makes me think the in the rockstar universe everything is the same but some places in the us are islands that are way smaller than they are irl.
@@santi_super_stunts2573Pangea never existed. Continents don’t float. They’re totally connected to the earth. They don’t move. Tectonic played move, continents don’t.
At this point, I think you could make a documentary on anything and it would be interesting. I’ve been following this series for a couple of months, and this is quality!
The reason they called the maxim gun a ''gatling gun'' is because they were not used to such automatic repeating firearms, most likely, and they probably are much more used to gatling guns and such. I would say thats why thy called it a gatling gun, because they believed it was, but being a bunch of outlaws, they're no military gun professionals.
That might explain why Sadie called it that, but the gold medal objectives listing as a gattling gun after calling it a maxim gun during the mission is clearly a mistake
@@ghostman7817 how does that make any sense? Why would they list the wrong thing intentionally in the achievements? Your argument doesn’t make sense, the achievements aren’t written from the gangs point of view so the fact they might not recognize the gun is irrelevant
@@bobarcher5837 I feel like they called it Gatling gun cuz that’s what Sadie called it. So as the player if you wanted to replay for gold, you clearly know what gun the game is referring to.
@@bobarcher5837 No see, the devs in the game files and realistically know it’s a Maxim Machinegun, but the gang would be using slang under a stressful situation like that. Think of how many people call any kind of handgun a “glock” because glock is synonymous with handgun in certain circles. My buddies who work at a gun store have gotten asked before if they have any “glock shells”
I LOVED. This video man, even tho it was short I think it gave me all the things I need from any other upload. Super fun listening to all the history of these things and how historically accurate red dead redemption 2 seems to be. This is the series I’ve been looking most forward too each month so keep up the amazing work
I’d like to point out that the warship seen in Hell hath no fury seems to be the CSS Virgina with what looks like a turret on the front. This is a very odd design and considering the fates of the CSS Virginia itself, USS Monitor (early civil war era ironclad with the first turret) and the HMS Captain this would be a very poor design that would likely capsize in anything but calm seas. It’s also worth pointing out that the ship would be extremely outdated by 1899 with Pre-Dreadnoughts, Armored Cruisers, and Torpedo boats all being far more modern. Having it be an ironclad was definitely an extremely weird choice by rockstar. I would’ve used an An Armored Cruiser instead
@@RandomRebelSoldier I doubt it. This takes place in 1899 and Cuba didn’t become independent until 1902 and even then it was pretty much just a US Puppet with no need for a navy. Rockstar clearly didn’t put much effort into research naval warfare at the turn of the century as it’s not really important in RDR2 and only the largest of naval history buffs (like me) will look into it at all
these videos just reek of effort, attention and care on your end. they're so well put together and genuinly one of my favorite things on youtube. keep up the good work
I never liked being on Guarma without any chance to come back later. It makes this whole chapter so...meaningless. I mean, yeah, we see a bit more of Dutch getting crazy (or Arthur realizing that he followed a maniac?) but that could also happen on the main map. Your video about it is great btw! 😁
Guarma was needed to show that Dutch's "Tahiti dream" is merely a dream. No places were left untamed, even islands were transformed into sugar plantations and had some sort of prosecution element within them. After that savage disaster, Arthur realizes how delusional Dutch is, how unhinged he is, what his true colours are. But what I can agree with, is that Guarma was lacking content, due to chunks of it being cut during development.
Yes absolutely Guarma needed to be longer, originally it had at least 3 more missions. They also cut out a cave you were supposed to do a mission in and another small area on the island. And Arthur was gonna fight sharks when he jumped into the ocean.
WOOOOO. My favourite Red Dead series is back. I was looking forward to this chapter since it is so different to the others in the game. I was curious as to how you’d tackle it and what sources you’d use, as always you knocked it out of the park
Just know your hard work and research is not lost on some of us connoisseurs of history! The insanely minuscule facts and details you uncover and tie into the game and lore is nothing short of astounding! I think you very kindly, sir!! Part of me wishes you had some other games you felt this level of passion for! Would highly enjoy your work on a myriad of topics/games!!!
It's my least favorite chapter because it's SO linear. You're just locked into a set path of missions with very few options to do what you want. The open-world feel of the game in other chapters is by far my favorite aspect of it. But in Guarma you're just stuck following a specific path that seems to take forever to get through, and nothing really gets accomplished anyway as far as the gang/story/Arthur is concerned.
apart from the one scene in the cave, the whole chapter is completely unnecessary from a narrative perspective. Still at least it can teach us about America's relationship with Cuba.
@@fecesmuncher2448 To be fair, though, what he wanted was an "untouched" tropical paradise from civilization. Cuba's one of those tropical paradises that fell to civilization heavily. That's why Tahiti is the best option for the gang.
@@papajohn5279 True but a lot of tropical islands were usually owned by other countries and turned into plantation islands, but yeah he could’ve been talking about an untouched tropical paradise.
After your done covering all the chapters, I hope you do a video covering all the side missions and probably random events in the game, my favorite has to be the legendary gunslingers side mission.
So glad to see you're still carrying the series on, I really hope you do it through to the epilogue and maybe even some online stuff.. Videos are so interesting and informative so thank you.
What's interesting about the iron clad, is that iron clads of that design were well out of date, and an Era of pre-dreadnoughts andight cruisers such as USS Albany were considered modern standard in 1899. But these old iron clads were still puttering around as those that weren't scrapped by this point had been sold off to South America and were in service up to world War 1. And copies were produced after the war that were a little different. This specific ship has the superstructure of the CSS Virginia, but on its bow, it has a primitive turret like the USS Monitor, likely a compromise design, taking the structure strength but taking the flexibility of the turret structure.
This ironclad especially is out of date. Also looking at the fates of both the CSS Virginia and USS Monitor this ship certainly wouldn’t be a very stable one and would likely capsize and sink in anything but calm seas.
Well it was sent from Cuba. And I imagine the Cuban military was underfunded compared to the U.S. and other colonial states. But I'm also surprised that Bill is shooken by an ironclad, out of date no less. Maybe he hasn't seen much naval combat and stayed fighting natives.
This series is really cool after you review the main missions do you think you could review stranger missions or random events? I think that would be amazingly awesome.
We're approaching the end of the game and so the end of this series, i'm already a little sad to think about it. Such good videos ! Such an amazing chanel !
I comment this everytime but I’ve just gotta say that the research and work that goes into these videos are heavily appreciated and commendable. whenever you upload it’s the highlight of my day
The maxim gun and Gatlin gun are both in the game they might of decided after the dialogue and missions obj setup that it was too slow for that mission And as for Sadie staying it's almost fitting I mean why would a mountainous ranch wife know what a maxim gun is but Gatlin guns were at least I'm assuming older and more common in media
RDR2 is great, imagine a GTA set in a a big map, you got all established city like San Fierro, Los Santos, Liberty City, Vice City, and state of North Yankton then you also have the 5 states: New Austin, West Elizabeth, New Hanover, Ambarino, Lemoyne. All we need now is the southeast region, the Appalachians, the great lakes region, the Rockies, and Pacific north!
These videos continue to be awesome! I have on question. When you finished this series, could you combine all of these videos into one massive one so that someone could binge the entire series or just listen to it?
A suggestion. After you get done with the epilogue, you could do a general video. Minor details and easter eggs and glance at them through the historical microscope? Thank you for the great content.
Super informative and interesting video, I love this series. I was just watching the Cuba Libre Story on Netflix and Robert Redford's The West on History and Rockstar really knocked it out of the pack with the accuracy of all the details
missed opportunity to talk about the ship they travel on which is wreck, so far the closed match to the ship was in 1898 where a cargo steam loaded from Pennsylvania loaded with coal (not necessarily Pennsylvanian coal foundered in a storm in the Caribbean but i cannot remember the name.
Another terrific video that deepens and increases the joy of Red Dead Redemption 2! Love the details, the narration, the pleasant voice, all of it. Looking forward to the next one, as always.
I still find it sad that Guarma had so much cut from it, stranger missions, a far larger explorable area, a pirate treasure hunt for god's sake. Guarma is a perfect example of wasted potential on rockstar's part, they still made it beautiful and majestic as anything else in RDR2, but it's still very unfortunate that so much of Guarma had to be scrapped.
beautiful videos man rdr2 easily my favorite game of all time. was just going through my 4th full play through when i hit chapter one video and been watching as i go through the game. been amazing keep it up.
God I love these videos, interested to see if you'll do the epilogue chapters too, would love to see it! Thank's for making these vids, they really make my favourite game of all time even better
I have this game for 2 years, and i never saw the shrunken head in Lakay That's what happens if you don't investigate all the places and do the story missions instead so you'll miss small details like this heh 😅
I have visited Buxton, IA. The foundations of the bank and train station are still there but little else. You can see where the railroad came through and there is a good sized clearing. It is on private property so you need permission to visit. In the countryside near the town there are still many houses that were moved from the town and made into farmhouses that still stand today. There is a very well done 2 part documentary here on youtube about the history of the town if anyone is interested.
I'm pretty late, but thank you for pointing out Buxton, Iowa. I live about 24 miles north as my hometown of Pella is close. Not just Buxton, but towns in the general area of Marion County close to Lake Red Rock were at one point coal mining towns. Hell, there were towns that were in the general area below the dam before the dam was even built. Unfortunately, with the dam being built, the towns below it would be gone. I suspect those towns housed coal miners as well, as being their own townships would support my theory.
There was a grainary explosion in my home town when I was a kid. All the dust from moving the corn through the elevator caught a spark and it blew like gunpowder.
Man, Before finding out about your channel, I played the story like once, and did not want to replay it, then I came across your videos. IM ON MY 7TH RUN😍
The interesting thing about Annesburg is its closeness of the coal mine to the Lannahechee River, the reliance on the railroad, and the steep terrain in the surrounding area, including the mine location. There's actually an area of West Virginia that fits the bill quite nicely. Starting at Marmet (just east of Charleston) and running east along the banks of the Kanawha River are a few different coal mines that line the hillside above the river. A good modern day pick would be the coal mine located across the river from Montgomery, where coal is actively loaded onto train cars and coal barges. However, turn the clock back 120 years, and anyone of these towns could have had similar structures built on the rail yards. All these town share a few similarities with Annesburg: -A large coal mine that is the sole source of jobs in the town -Situated on river that gives navigational access to the mouth of a river near St. Denis/New Orleans -Steep mountainous terrain on the shores of the river -Access to a major railroad that made coal a major part of their freight traffic (IRL: the former C&O, now CSX) That's just my experience from actually living in the area for a couple of years.
Great video but you should have mentioned that the Spanish army featured in this part of the game is there as a part of their action in the third Cuban war that ended one year before the game starts, in fact the uniforms that the guards use are exactly the same as the Spanish army used to wear during this time period. Other mentions to the Cuban war has been mentioned in chapter 3 and 4 since American government took part in a publicity campaign against Spain at that time and it shows in the game. Another deetail that leads to the Guarma situation appears when talking to Mario Dragic since it’s mentioned the sinking of the Spanish ships in the battle of Cabite 1889.
Just a slight addition: 9:25 There are two more parts of the United States that use the term commonwealth. These are the "Commonwealth of Puerto Rico" and the "Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands". In addition, before becoming independent in 1946, the "Commonwealth of the Philippines" was part of the United States. Aside from that, just a wonderful piece of research and historical insight you've brought us with this latest video. I hope you also make "Real History" videos of other Rockstar games, like GTA: LCS and VCS and the Max Payne trilogy or even Bully. I would love to see what you'd come up with for a deep dive of those games. Keep it up!
Those types of castle can be found throughout the Caribbean. In Puerto Rico we have 3. Castillo San Felipe del Morro, Castillo San Cristobal, and Palacio de Santa Catalina (later renamed to La Fortaleza)
an interesting note about Sadie. She semi recently (like a few months ago in game time) went from a rancher to an outlaw. So her mixing up the terms machine gun and gatling gun isnt that hard to believe as being just a mistake on her part calling one fast firing weapon another.
@12:00 ah, no wonder that area felt so familiar. Not enough parasitic insects and wild weather changes though. (It was below -16 degrees one week ago, below freezing yesterday, 60 today, and is supposed to be 75 tomorrow, with a chance of snow possible next week.)
I think the simpler and most likely explanation for Sadie referring to the Maxim as a Gatling Gun is that a Gatling Gun was originally going to be used in the scene, but was replaced with the Maxim for whatever reason after dialogue was recorded. Black Belle does the same thing in her stranger mission when the bounty hunters bring a wagon armed with one to the fight.
@7:00 the ironclad ship is an issue, in that by 1899 it would have been horribly outdated. Especially of that design, which is based on a coastal/river ironclad. Most navy's,including the US Navy would have been 20 years into the pre-dreadnought era of ships, which wold have looked a lot more like a WW1 era battleship. Also by this point, as Secretary of the Navy, Teddy Roosevelt had already started the reforms to the Navy that got rid of all the older ships to focus on modernization. But seeing as how he apparently wasn't involved with taking San Juan Hill, and that battle happened on a different island than in reality, it's probably safe to say RDR2 exists in an alternate world.
Another great video in this series. I'm real interested to see the historical connections to Van Horn. Like, did a handful of towns back during that time just not have sheriffs?
Thanks so much for checking out the video! A slightly shorter episode this time, but full of history nonetheless. What are your thoughts on Guarma? It seems to be the most divisive part of the main storyline, so I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Special thanks to my supporters on Patreon who watched this video a couple weeks ago and shared their thoughts! And a friendly reminder that I now (occasionally) stream on Twitch, so feel free to stop by and have a chat about our favourite cowboy game!
No no no thank you sir 🙏 😊
I think Guarma/Cuba parts of the game are really fascinating place so I loved this video! Good job man, it was a great history lesson lol
While RDR2 is my favorite game of all time, and I love Chapter 5, Guarma is still my least favorite part of the game. This is due solely to the pacing. You are on the island for only a couple small missions, and then that’s it. I would have liked it to last another couple hours.
The beta history for Guarma/Guama is really interesting to look into, seems like it was planned to be a massive island that could be freely traveled to later in the story through steamboat.
Bravo. A perfect example of willful learning and inquiry.
Fun fact the gatling gun was created by Richard Jordan gatling in 1861 at first he wanted to be a doctor but he moved on to be an inventor and he wrote that the reason why he invented the gatling was to reduce the size of armies, reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease and to show how futile the war was at the time, its crazy how someone turned from a doctor to an inventor that made one of the most dangerous weapons in u.s history
I'm sure he also lived like a king after the Military bought such a weapon.
If I remember right his desire was for the Gatling-gun make war "too costly". While he didn't quite achieve his goal (see world Wars 1-2) humanity did ultimately achieve the "too costly" weapon with the Manhattan project and the future development of nuclear weapons. War between nuclear armed nations is truly too costly when a single bomb can destroy a city.
@@pvtmeives I know but I'm talking about the civil war
@@pvtmeives that sounds like some bs he came up with to not seem like a hypocrite tbh
@@Milty2001 obviously you're talking about the civil war, but his invention had much more implications outside that
You're so detailed.
Arthur: walks*
RealPixels: Walking was invented in the early years of human civilisation as a way of transport.
I mean like, every step is so detailed and you cover them. Rockstar is just a detailing god. Your research is amazing too.
no he told you about it the other guy
Did you know that running was invented by a man who tried to walk twice as fast
@@zh2266 wow.
Yet we still cant close coats
Ambulation, ahem.*
I really love these red dead redemption story deep dives. The amount of effort Rockstar put into this game is just amazing!
And the effort Real Pixels puts into these videos
is this comment copy pasted?
More effort than they put into gta nowadays
@@AnthonyOrSmth Online its vice versa, GTA gets all the updates
Yea I love red dead 2 really disappointing they put all this effort in to just not give a fuck about the online portion really disappointed like it's still not even as good as story lol
This series is really impressive, the amount of detail, lore and cultural connection that you are able to link up is amazing... And time consuming id imagine, i have thoroughly enjoyed the series so far and am excited for the New Austin episode and all the little facts about the true West
Yeah I really thought these types of videos were too time consuming to be viable. So glad realpixels is doing this work.
Real pixels be like:
So you see Kieran in chapter 3 says “Hello” to Arthur. The first known usage of hello dates to 1342, so it’s not unrealistic for him to be saying this.
Hello supposedly dates back to 1827, so though the time frame is slightly tighter, Arthur would likely know of it
Arthur: “the-“
Real Pixels: “the first written instance of the word ‘the’ dates back to 1267, with the invention of the English language, so it is not unrealistic for Arthur to know this word’s meaning and be able to use it correctly.”
Yayyyyyyy!!!!! I absolutely adore these videos they're the most informative and relaxing red dead videos on TH-cam
The fact that Cuba exists in the rdr universe but all these places in the rdr and gta franchises are all tiny islands and small chunks of conected lands makes me think the in the rockstar universe everything is the same but some places in the us are islands that are way smaller than they are irl.
The gta map is only 12km long its like 6k wide
The opposite of Pangea
@@santi_super_stunts2573Pangea never existed. Continents don’t float. They’re totally connected to the earth. They don’t move. Tectonic played move, continents don’t.
At this point, I think you could make a documentary on anything and it would be interesting. I’ve been following this series for a couple of months, and this is quality!
The reason they called the maxim gun a ''gatling gun'' is because they were not used to such automatic repeating firearms, most likely, and they probably are much more used to gatling guns and such. I would say thats why thy called it a gatling gun, because they believed it was, but being a bunch of outlaws, they're no military gun professionals.
That might explain why Sadie called it that, but the gold medal objectives listing as a gattling gun after calling it a maxim gun during the mission is clearly a mistake
@@bobarcher5837 Naw.. the game devs definitely knew it was a maxim... They just put gatling gun, it's not a mistake, it's intentional.
@@ghostman7817 how does that make any sense? Why would they list the wrong thing intentionally in the achievements? Your argument doesn’t make sense, the achievements aren’t written from the gangs point of view so the fact they might not recognize the gun is irrelevant
@@bobarcher5837 I feel like they called it Gatling gun cuz that’s what Sadie called it. So as the player if you wanted to replay for gold, you clearly know what gun the game is referring to.
@@bobarcher5837 No see, the devs in the game files and realistically know it’s a Maxim Machinegun, but the gang would be using slang under a stressful situation like that. Think of how many people call any kind of handgun a “glock” because glock is synonymous with handgun in certain circles. My buddies who work at a gun store have gotten asked before if they have any “glock shells”
Your videos are better than most documentaries on television. Great video as always!
Thanks so much! Glad to see that you’re still killing it, keep it up!
@@RealPixels Thanks, you too buddy! :)
Arthur: *breathes*
Real Pixels: now, breathing was invented in...
I LOVED. This video man, even tho it was short I think it gave me all the things I need from any other upload. Super fun listening to all the history of these things and how historically accurate red dead redemption 2 seems to be. This is the series I’ve been looking most forward too each month so keep up the amazing work
I’d like to point out that the warship seen in Hell hath no fury seems to be the CSS Virgina with what looks like a turret on the front. This is a very odd design and considering the fates of the CSS Virginia itself, USS Monitor (early civil war era ironclad with the first turret) and the HMS Captain this would be a very poor design that would likely capsize in anything but calm seas. It’s also worth pointing out that the ship would be extremely outdated by 1899 with Pre-Dreadnoughts, Armored Cruisers, and Torpedo boats all being far more modern. Having it be an ironclad was definitely an extremely weird choice by rockstar. I would’ve used an An Armored Cruiser instead
Remember, the ingame ship belongs to the Cuban Navy, it's possible they simply weren't as modernized as the US Navy at the moment.
@@RandomRebelSoldier I doubt it. This takes place in 1899 and Cuba didn’t become independent until 1902 and even then it was pretty much just a US Puppet with no need for a navy. Rockstar clearly didn’t put much effort into research naval warfare at the turn of the century as it’s not really important in RDR2 and only the largest of naval history buffs (like me) will look into it at all
@@tyger5645 Then I guess it was just easier for them to model a blocky ironclad than a full on detailed battleship.
these videos just reek of effort, attention and care on your end. they're so well put together and genuinly one of my favorite things on youtube. keep up the good work
"Time for sleep"
This video releases
"I don't need sleep I need rdr2 content"
Fun Fact: the Actual Pinkertons tried to sue Rockstar for their portrayal in the game.
Sounds like being offended is a major trend today
I never liked being on Guarma without any chance to come back later. It makes this whole chapter so...meaningless. I mean, yeah, we see a bit more of Dutch getting crazy (or Arthur realizing that he followed a maniac?) but that could also happen on the main map.
Your video about it is great btw! 😁
Guarma was needed to show that Dutch's "Tahiti dream" is merely a dream. No places were left untamed, even islands were transformed into sugar plantations and had some sort of prosecution element within them. After that savage disaster, Arthur realizes how delusional Dutch is, how unhinged he is, what his true colours are.
But what I can agree with, is that Guarma was lacking content, due to chunks of it being cut during development.
Originally during the epilogue, you could travel to Guarma via a boat in Blackwater but it was one of the many things that got cut
@@porkchopproductions0314 there was also a treasure hunt too.
Yes absolutely Guarma needed to be longer, originally it had at least 3 more missions. They also cut out a cave you were supposed to do a mission in and another small area on the island. And Arthur was gonna fight sharks when he jumped into the ocean.
@@porkchopproductions0314 I know. And knowing about such a missed opportunity is so goddamn sad.
WOOOOO. My favourite Red Dead series is back. I was looking forward to this chapter since it is so different to the others in the game. I was curious as to how you’d tackle it and what sources you’d use, as always you knocked it out of the park
Just know your hard work and research is not lost on some of us connoisseurs of history! The insanely minuscule facts and details you uncover and tie into the game and lore is nothing short of astounding! I think you very kindly, sir!! Part of me wishes you had some other games you felt this level of passion for! Would highly enjoy your work on a myriad of topics/games!!!
Real Pixels: *makes a fantastic informative video*
Me: This is completely unsurprising
I absolutely love this series man. Brilliant work, effort, and research
I can’t believe this masterpiece of an series is an year old also your video are beyond amazing!
it'll be a sad day when this playlist comes to an end
Man I really enjoyed these. Keep it up Sir.
Dudes gonna qualify for a PhD in American history when this is done
I hated guarma but i think that it could’ve been much better if they didn’t cut most of the content and added new one.
It's my least favorite chapter because it's SO linear. You're just locked into a set path of missions with very few options to do what you want.
The open-world feel of the game in other chapters is by far my favorite aspect of it. But in Guarma you're just stuck following a specific path that seems to take forever to get through, and nothing really gets accomplished anyway as far as the gang/story/Arthur is concerned.
apart from the one scene in the cave, the whole chapter is completely unnecessary from a narrative perspective. Still at least it can teach us about America's relationship with Cuba.
@@renaigh imo it makes sense, it shows Dutch what a “tropical paradise” is like
@@fecesmuncher2448 To be fair, though, what he wanted was an "untouched" tropical paradise from civilization. Cuba's one of those tropical paradises that fell to civilization heavily. That's why Tahiti is the best option for the gang.
@@papajohn5279 True but a lot of tropical islands were usually owned by other countries and turned into plantation islands, but yeah he could’ve been talking about an untouched tropical paradise.
Absolutely epic choice of credits music. In addition to another fantastic, fascinating video.
After your done covering all the chapters, I hope you do a video covering all the side missions and probably random events in the game, my favorite has to be the legendary gunslingers side mission.
So glad to see you're still carrying the series on, I really hope you do it through to the epilogue and maybe even some online stuff.. Videos are so interesting and informative so thank you.
Absolutely brilliant work, friend. Some of the best content I’ve ever seen on this platform!
Friggin YES!!! I was so excited for the next part of this! Also, it’s slightly depressing that it’s almost over. Amazing work!
What's interesting about the iron clad, is that iron clads of that design were well out of date, and an Era of pre-dreadnoughts andight cruisers such as USS Albany were considered modern standard in 1899. But these old iron clads were still puttering around as those that weren't scrapped by this point had been sold off to South America and were in service up to world War 1. And copies were produced after the war that were a little different. This specific ship has the superstructure of the CSS Virginia, but on its bow, it has a primitive turret like the USS Monitor, likely a compromise design, taking the structure strength but taking the flexibility of the turret structure.
This ironclad especially is out of date. Also looking at the fates of both the CSS Virginia and USS Monitor this ship certainly wouldn’t be a very stable one and would likely capsize and sink in anything but calm seas.
Well it was sent from Cuba. And I imagine the Cuban military was underfunded compared to the U.S. and other colonial states. But I'm also surprised that Bill is shooken by an ironclad, out of date no less. Maybe he hasn't seen much naval combat and stayed fighting natives.
I literally can't get enough of this! Amazing work with these videos, really!
Love that content. So much work you putting in there!
The legend has returned! I was just rewatching some of your older rdr2 videos.
This series is really cool after you review the main missions do you think you could review stranger missions or random events? I think that would be amazingly awesome.
We're approaching the end of the game and so the end of this series, i'm already a little sad to think about it.
Such good videos ! Such an amazing chanel !
I comment this everytime but I’ve just gotta say that the research and work that goes into these videos are heavily appreciated and commendable. whenever you upload it’s the highlight of my day
The maxim gun and Gatlin gun are both in the game they might of decided after the dialogue and missions obj setup that it was too slow for that mission
And as for Sadie staying it's almost fitting I mean why would a mountainous ranch wife know what a maxim gun is but Gatlin guns were at least I'm assuming older and more common in media
This whole series has been absolute GOLD thank you for putting so much effort and research inti making these videos!
What a great timing, I just finished Guarma again one hour again. Keep up your nice work!
RDR2 is great, imagine a GTA set in a a big map, you got all established city like San Fierro, Los Santos, Liberty City, Vice City, and state of North Yankton then you also have the 5 states: New Austin, West Elizabeth, New Hanover, Ambarino, Lemoyne. All we need now is the southeast region, the Appalachians, the great lakes region, the Rockies, and Pacific north!
These videos continue to be awesome! I have on question. When you finished this series, could you combine all of these videos into one massive one so that someone could binge the entire series or just listen to it?
A suggestion. After you get done with the epilogue, you could do a general video. Minor details and easter eggs and glance at them through the historical microscope? Thank you for the great content.
Always happy to see this series get a new video! Keep up the good work
Super informative and interesting video, I love this series.
I was just watching the Cuba Libre Story on Netflix and Robert Redford's The West on History and Rockstar really knocked it out of the pack with the accuracy of all the details
missed opportunity to talk about the ship they travel on which is wreck, so far the closed match to the ship was in 1898 where a cargo steam loaded from Pennsylvania loaded with coal (not necessarily Pennsylvanian coal foundered in a storm in the Caribbean but i cannot remember the name.
This game will continue to amaze us for ages to come
Another terrific video that deepens and increases the joy of Red Dead Redemption 2! Love the details, the narration, the pleasant voice, all of it. Looking forward to the next one, as always.
I still find it sad that Guarma had so much cut from it, stranger missions, a far larger explorable area, a pirate treasure hunt for god's sake. Guarma is a perfect example of wasted potential on rockstar's part, they still made it beautiful and majestic as anything else in RDR2, but it's still very unfortunate that so much of Guarma had to be scrapped.
beautiful videos man rdr2 easily my favorite game of all time. was just going through my 4th full play through when i hit chapter one video and been watching as i go through the game. been amazing keep it up.
Easily some of the best gaming/history content on TH-cam
Even the fugging dialogue has detail man
yeaaa i love this series. seriously one of my favorites to watch on youtube right now
i absolutely love when your videos show up in my recommended
God I love these videos, interested to see if you'll do the epilogue chapters too, would love to see it! Thank's for making these vids, they really make my favourite game of all time even better
you completely jumped over the artillery gun that arthur used to destroy the warship!
I have this game for 2 years, and i never saw the shrunken head in Lakay
That's what happens if you don't investigate all the places and do the story missions instead so you'll miss small details like this heh 😅
Been waiting for this. Love this content man some of the best out there
The amount of research used to make this video must be incredible
I have visited Buxton, IA. The foundations of the bank and train station are still there but little else. You can see where the railroad came through and there is a good sized clearing. It is on private property so you need permission to visit. In the countryside near the town there are still many houses that were moved from the town and made into farmhouses that still stand today. There is a very well done 2 part documentary here on youtube about the history of the town if anyone is interested.
Such an amazing video again man. You do a great job with each and every one of these ❤️
I'm pretty late, but thank you for pointing out Buxton, Iowa. I live about 24 miles north as my hometown of Pella is close. Not just Buxton, but towns in the general area of Marion County close to Lake Red Rock were at one point coal mining towns. Hell, there were towns that were in the general area below the dam before the dam was even built. Unfortunately, with the dam being built, the towns below it would be gone. I suspect those towns housed coal miners as well, as being their own townships would support my theory.
Joaquin Phoenix looks just like Pinkerton
I legit just remembered this series yesterday and was like I wonder when well see chapter 5
There was a grainary explosion in my home town when I was a kid. All the dust from moving the corn through the elevator caught a spark and it blew like gunpowder.
When this series eventually ends you should merge all the videos together to make one long video I think it would be cool
Man, Before finding out about your channel, I played the story like once, and did not want to replay it, then I came across your videos.
IM ON MY 7TH RUN😍
The interesting thing about Annesburg is its closeness of the coal mine to the Lannahechee River, the reliance on the railroad, and the steep terrain in the surrounding area, including the mine location. There's actually an area of West Virginia that fits the bill quite nicely. Starting at Marmet (just east of Charleston) and running east along the banks of the Kanawha River are a few different coal mines that line the hillside above the river. A good modern day pick would be the coal mine located across the river from Montgomery, where coal is actively loaded onto train cars and coal barges. However, turn the clock back 120 years, and anyone of these towns could have had similar structures built on the rail yards. All these town share a few similarities with Annesburg:
-A large coal mine that is the sole source of jobs in the town
-Situated on river that gives navigational access to the mouth of a river near St. Denis/New Orleans
-Steep mountainous terrain on the shores of the river
-Access to a major railroad that made coal a major part of their freight traffic (IRL: the former C&O, now CSX)
That's just my experience from actually living in the area for a couple of years.
This is such a great series. Love all the time and effort. Can’t wait for the next episode.
Great video but you should have mentioned that the Spanish army featured in this part of the game is there as a part of their action in the third Cuban war that ended one year before the game starts, in fact the uniforms that the guards use are exactly the same as the Spanish army used to wear during this time period.
Other mentions to the Cuban war has been mentioned in chapter 3 and 4 since American government took part in a publicity campaign against Spain at that time and it shows in the game. Another deetail that leads to the Guarma situation appears when talking to Mario Dragic since it’s mentioned the sinking of the Spanish ships in the battle of Cabite 1889.
Just a slight addition:
9:25 There are two more parts of the United States that use the term commonwealth. These are the "Commonwealth of Puerto Rico" and the "Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands". In addition, before becoming independent in 1946, the "Commonwealth of the Philippines" was part of the United States.
Aside from that, just a wonderful piece of research and historical insight you've brought us with this latest video. I hope you also make "Real History" videos of other Rockstar games, like GTA: LCS and VCS and the Max Payne trilogy or even Bully. I would love to see what you'd come up with for a deep dive of those games. Keep it up!
Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_(U.S._insular_area)
Gattling vs maxim is almost understandable because today we still call recordings "tape" so calling the maxim a gattling might be natural.......
It's always a pleasant surprise when these videos show up in my feed.
Do you think Rockstar named their version of Theodore Roosevelt, Thaddeus “Waxman” because of his wax figure character from Night at the Museum 🤷🏾♂️
Hmmmm ur probably right
I love theese videos you put so much work in to them I can tell keep it up man
Ill never hear the term "lolly-gagging" the same way again.
Those types of castle can be found throughout the Caribbean. In Puerto Rico we have 3. Castillo San Felipe del Morro, Castillo San Cristobal, and Palacio de Santa Catalina (later renamed to La Fortaleza)
This is one of my favorite channels keep grinding
Ah, finally. I've been patiently waiting for this. Tysm!
I love these videos. I'm a huge history nerd and watching these videos is so interesting. Keep it up I need themmmmmm!!!!!
i get so excited whenever one of these videos comes out, keep up the good work
an interesting note about Sadie. She semi recently (like a few months ago in game time) went from a rancher to an outlaw. So her mixing up the terms machine gun and gatling gun isnt that hard to believe as being just a mistake on her part calling one fast firing weapon another.
I just love your vids they are always high quality you can see the effort put into making it thanks
Absolutely love this series, brilliant work
I love these videos so much. Keep doing a great job!
I think the castle is also based off of el morro in puerto rico especially with the design of the the lookouts
@12:00 ah, no wonder that area felt so familiar.
Not enough parasitic insects and wild weather changes though.
(It was below -16 degrees one week ago, below freezing yesterday, 60 today, and is supposed to be 75 tomorrow, with a chance of snow possible next week.)
Hey my friend, you are an amazing content creator. Another quality video like always, thank you for your hard work
Absolute banger, keep up the amazing research!!
such amazing research, you made me realize how deep this recreation of the U.S. is, what a great job rockstar did
Excellent video, you can sense the effort put into it
I think the simpler and most likely explanation for Sadie referring to the Maxim as a Gatling Gun is that a Gatling Gun was originally going to be used in the scene, but was replaced with the Maxim for whatever reason after dialogue was recorded. Black Belle does the same thing in her stranger mission when the bounty hunters bring a wagon armed with one to the fight.
The guarma soundtrack is some of the best music I've ever heard in a video game
I can't wait for the next episode to be an hour long deep dive into the history of Disease and Medicare in the United States.
My perfect friday night
@7:00 the ironclad ship is an issue, in that by 1899 it would have been horribly outdated.
Especially of that design, which is based on a coastal/river ironclad.
Most navy's,including the US Navy would have been 20 years into the pre-dreadnought era of ships, which wold have looked a lot more like a WW1 era battleship.
Also by this point, as Secretary of the Navy, Teddy Roosevelt had already started the reforms to the Navy that got rid of all the older ships to focus on modernization.
But seeing as how he apparently wasn't involved with taking San Juan Hill, and that battle happened on a different island than in reality, it's probably safe to say RDR2 exists in an alternate world.
That fort is literally Fortín San Juan de la Cruz in Puerto Rico
Hey, real pixels i'm a new sub and I love this series. I wanted to know what text did you use for lakay section in the video?
Hey, thanks for the support and kind words! Are you referring to the screenshot at 8:19?
@@RealPixels yes i am refering to that screenshot.
Another great video in this series.
I'm real interested to see the historical connections to Van Horn. Like, did a handful of towns back during that time just not have sheriffs?