Rewrite this but it's about GTA 5.

"Because I'm feeling pedantic today: A list of RDR2's historical inaccuracies
Lore
Half-serious. Mostly for fun. Feel free to add more

Characters

It's been noted by another user that some of the characters wear clothing that is... odd for the 1890s. Refer to the 1899 photo series for references as to what people actually wore back then. As the famous photo of the Wild Bunch shows, outlaws in this era wore suits and bowler hats as often as they did chaps and Stetsons.

Another image of 1890s Old West clothing. [WARNING: Graphic Image]

Arthur Morgan's default hat is made out of leather at a time when almost all men's hats were made out of felt.

Characters from RDR1 and 2 both suffer from what I call "Deadwood Syndrome" i.e. people from the Old West using modern slang and curse words instead of Victorian terms such as "gall-durned," "scallawag," and "carpet-bagger."

In the first RDR2 gameplay trailer, Arthur is seen drinking with one of the black cowboys in the gang, seeing as this is 1899, three years after Plessey v. Ferguson (which happened in New Orleans irl), this might've drawn some foul looks back then. Particularly in the more "civilized" cities.

Weapons

By 1899, most towns in the West had VERY strict regulations against open-carrying firearms. The "real" Dutch's Gang would've had to turn in all of their weapons and ammunition to a sheriff before entering any major town.

The Civil War-era rifles seen in various images (the Henry, the Spencer, etc.) would've been quite antiquated by 1899 and would've largely been replaced by newer, more powerful Winchester, Marlin, and Savage models.

Black powder weapons in both RDR1 and RDR2 don't produce nearly the amount of smoke that they should. Here is a proper example.

In the first gameplay trailer, Arthur is seen shooting a Browning Auto-5, a weapon that wasn't produced until 1902.

In a screenshot, Sadie Adler is seen with a Mannlicher-Carcano M91/38 rifle, which wasn't produced until 1938.

In the first gameplay trailer, a man is seen shooting the Maxim 1895. Which existed at the time but was not used by the US Army. They used the Colt Browning M1895 until they adopted the Vickers gun in 1904.

In this image, you see a gang member firing a Danish Krag-Jorgensen M1889, rather than the more correct US Krag-Jorgensen M1896 that was seen in RDR1

World

I haven't been able to confirm if its in the game yet, but every road, city street, train track, and major trail should be lined with telegraph and telephone poles.

It has been mentioned that Arthur can buy and smoke cigarettes to increase Dead Eye. While packs and cartons of cigarettes were available in the 1890s, they were not considered fashionable and most cowboys preferred to smoke hand-rolls.

Speaking of smoke, most saloons and theaters should be absolutely clouded in tobacco smoke. This is something most historical games get "wrong."

Speaking of saloons, I better see me some spitoons in the game.

Virtually every ranch and homestead should be surrounded by barbed wire. The open range era was long over by 1899.

Many of the animals you can hunt in the game (buffalo, eagles, wolves) numbered in the dozens in 1899. In fact, it was in this era that hunting them first became illegal.

Arthur is seen playing Texas Hold'Em poker in the second gameplay trailer, a game that wasn't popular until at least the 1930s. Stud Poker (either four or five card stud) was the card game of the Old West saloons."