But I'm Really Glad It's Over (Day 3599 - 10/2/19)

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Stephen is pulling the blinds up, so that the cats don't destroy them when they do their daily routine of looking out the window. He then talks about how he can't believe he slept all the way until morning and woke up at his usual wake-up time at 8 AM. It surprised him since he slept so much yesterday after he started feeling sick. He also mentions how he woke up at midnight yesterday to have dinner, and both of them went to bed at 1 AM. Stephen is not sure why he slept so much since he's been getting about 8 hours of sleep every day. But, he's glad that his sleep schedule is on track now since he woke up at 8 AM. He mentions that Mallory is still asleep since she stayed up in order to have dinner with Stephen when he woke up.

Stephen is having some toast and coffee to start of his day. He says that he was supposed to finish Red Dead Redemption 2 yesterday, but he didn't. It feels strange to him that he's finally finished with the game after all these months. Stephen says that he spent a sizable amount of time on this game. It's not quite the same level of time he spent on games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim or Fallout 4, but it was still 113 episodes long. Stephen says this game probably had more off-screen time than even Skyrim did. He says that a lot of off-screen time was just him riding the horse to the next destination. Stephen explains that there is a fast-travel system in the game, but it's not to the extent of Skyrim's fast-travel system. In Red Dead Redemption 2, you can only fast-travel in one direction, so you can't fast-travel back to the location you just came from. You also have to travel to certain points in order for the game to let you go back to that location. Stephen also says that fast-travelling costs money, but for most of the game you're too poor to be able to afford to do that. Therefore, the only options to travel to different destinations is horse or no horse.

Stephen says that he's not going to gush about it too much since he did that recently in another vlog. Today is more about being done with the game. Stephen says that he loved this game and it's probably in his top 5 games. But, he's really glad it's over. It's not that he doesn't like the game, it's just that he's been playing this game for a long time. Most people who got the game probably finished the game within 2 weeks, but he spent 10 months playing it. He talked about extended project time in a recent vlog and he says that Red Dead Redemption 2 was what he was referencing. In the future, he plans to figure out a better way to do this sort of project since nothing would've changed if it played the game faster. Stephen says that playing the game faster wouldn't have changed how he experienced the game.

The final episode of Red Dead Redemption 2 is basically a bonus episode. Stephen explains that it was basically a compilation of little Easter eggs in the game that people wanted to see. He mentions that he did the same thing with Skyrim. Stephen didn't think that it would take so many hours to get all the footage for the bonus episode though. It's late at night and Stephen had just sent the episode off to Dan to edit. He told Dan that the bonus episode could be released at anytime, so he didn't need to work on it right this instant. But, Dan insisted that he would work on it. Stephen will see Dan tomorrow for Lunch Bunch since they started doing Lunch Bunch on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays. So, Stephen will get the edited video tomorrow and release it.

Stephen tells the viewers that the game is good and recommends everyone to try playing it. He says that you don't need to play Red Dead Redemption first in order to play the second game since the second game is the prequel. In the future, Stephen is going to move the Xbox One downstairs so that Mal can experience the game. Mal has been wanting to play Red Dead Redemption 2 ever since Stephen got it. But, Stephen needed the equipment upstairs in order to record episodes.

Stephen goes downstairs in order to feed the cats. Sagan and Kepler start to meow for food while Mal and Stephen meow along with them. Stephen says that it couldn't get everything done today because getting footage for the bonus episode took longer than he thought it would. On the bright side, Stephen says that he is glad that he at least woke up at his usual wake-up time today.