RDR2 is really a super game! The level of detail is stunning. I often just walked/rode around and just looked at things. The actual game play I don't find that amazing, its pretty much the usual shoot them up stuff. And sometimes outright weird. Like, that people rob and kill someone and nothing happens - but if you shoot the robber, it takes 10 seconds and a whole bunch of guys want to shoot you for being a murderer.
A bit strange also, that the roads are somewhat crowded, basically you meet someone every few hundred metres. Not exactly how I pictured the old West... :)
And the cigarette cards used to be a big thing here, too. Even up into the 50s you would find them everywhere. Not just in cigarette packs, but in all sorts of stuff, like chocolate, biscuits, instant soup and god knows what else. Its a pretty clever way of marketing. The firms sold albums to collect the cards in very cheap, and so people ordered them and then tried to complete the collection, having to buy more and more of the product. And some card were very rare, so it wasn't too easy to get the complete set. I remember that we used to swap them in school, and some were around by the dozen, while others barely ever appeared.
Today its not so common anymore, but sometimes you still can find new ones, like the national team of the football world cup. But I guess the internet has spoiled that somewhat. To get pictures is so easy now, that it seems silly to collect paper cards.
RE: Cartophilist - Collector of Cigarette Cards