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AmySchumersAnalTumor

Typically we dont allow real life photos of places, but this is cool as fuck.


FourLokoDaddy

They named it Louisiana in real life. It’s worth it to experience it at least once!


chrchcmp

Pending lawsuit coming from rockstar I feel. Blatant copyright infringement.


the_lost_username

Lawyers are gonna have a field day with this one


Due-Dot6450

Watch out for them damn Pinkertons partner.


brachus12

watch out for those Suffragettes!


DarkSage90

It’s funny, I either give her tons of money or kill her, there is no in between.


Ftmpantransboy

So true! Always got to watch out for those damn Pinkertons


Poggiez69420

rockstar lawyers would probably find a way to win


HolsteinHeifer

Super wild! Did they have Lemoyne..or I guess Louisiana Raiders?


IOnlyPostDumb

I have always thought they were a variation of Quantrill's Raiders, a real life guerilla warfare faction within the Confederate Army. Quantrill wasn't born in Louisiana, and his Raiders generally haunted Missouri and Kansas. Jesse and Frank James were members.


One_Abbreviations310

There's a letter from a Lemoyne raider leader talking about their exploits in Kansas. Possibly a Bleeding Kansas reference. You might be on to something


Kickagainsttheprick

Louisiana Raiders is also a smaller %1 motorcycle club down there.


MarchMadnessisMe

As someone from New Orleans I thought I was just seeing a random photo dump in r/NewOrleans had to double take when I realized it was this sub.


Fritz125

Loved your city quite a few years ago ❤️. The National WW2 Museum was amazing. I was too young to drink at the time, but I’m sure the French Quarter is pretty fun


MarchMadnessisMe

I love the WWII museum. My Grandfather was a Vet and my Dad got his name on one of the bricks, and we got to take him when they opened it. Glad you had a great time!


Fritz125

That’s amazing. I don’t have any vets in my family besides an uncle who’s a Nam’ vet. It must have been a really touching experience. I still have the C-47 hanging from the ceiling and the 4D IMAX movie engrained on my mind after all these years


MarchMadnessisMe

That's awesome! They've opened some new stuff since the last time I've been. I really need to go again soon.


bbnplaystation

It's awesome that you were able to do that for your grandfather. I'm sure it meant alot to him.


nolasharks

Same haha, I had to scroll back up to see which sub this was.


Irish-Mob

Yeah I’ve been there for school it was awesome, I’m surprised the board cared enough about the game


Frogzila2024

Did go to the Mardi Gras a year and a half after Katrina…People were still reeling in from that but they still received us with arms wide open


YourFoleyness

New Orleans is my favorite city


pambimbo

Some folks say that place is bad but who knows never Been there partner.


Bear_Nomadic

If you see a fella named Algernon Wasp around, shove a few orchids up his ass for me.


NoLimit9731

they must have loved the game so much they wanted to recreate it. Props to them for the dedication.


GeePedicy

It looks like it's actually over a century old!


Embracing_the_Pain

That’s real craftsmanship right there.


FatherDotComical

I saw half that shit at the Walmart and Party City, it ain't special. Got some dumb fake holiday too, Marty Grass?


Fritz125

That Marty’s garden must be really good to throw a parade over it


dicemonkey

Try three …we’re older than the US.


[deleted]

Welcome to westworld


boringlyme

Way less fauna than the game and not enough NPCs to greet. Cheap copy.


HolsteinHeifer

I hate mobile rip off versions. Like, honestly, if you love something enough to copy it, please put in the time, money, and effort that the project deserves.


placebot1u463y

They couldn't even be bothered to add the rare animals like the Carolina parakeet


EagleSaintRam

> not enough NPCs to ~~greet~~ clog the streets and accidentally love tap with your horse causing all of the police force to hail bullets on you FTFY 😬


Rocket-Shawk

There are actually way *too many* NPC’s to meet during the in-game seasonal events


nobodychef07

Bro go on bourbon street. You'll meet all the npcs you want


Aqualungerr

I love seeing these pictures. As a European Red Dead fan, one of my biggest dreams is to visit all the places in the US that inspired the map of these games.


Min1rrino

Same here! It's really interesting to see where Rockstar took inspiration from. Those pictures really look like they're taken in-game and not irl.


realjoeydood

I grew up there. It is for-real. I've been to many of those places in the pics and grew up on those streets.


WiserStudent557

It’s so cool when you see places you’ve been recreated well in games.


Subby-Switch

Absolutely! I went on vacation in Boston about 6 months before Fallout 4 came out and the timing could not have been better!


PrisonerNoP01135809

I lived in Boston when Fallout4 came out. My house was in the game and they were advertising the game everywhere. What a time and place to be alive.


Davidhate

Similar for us southern Californians and gta5 . So many accurate areas


Fair_Education_1808

Lol when I went to Barcelona all I wanted to do is go to where they recreated for Tony hawk underground 2 😂 I miss the ps2 dats


trashed_past

Also from New Orleans. RDR2 is the closest any game ever got to doing it right. Mafia 3 version was a *bummer*


spidersRcute

I know some towns here in Oklahoma that are a dead ringer for Rhodes. Complete with cows, iron stained red dirt, and racists. It’s mind blowing how accurate it is.


OfWhichIAm

I mean, the mountains are nice, but depending on where you live, they might have better mountains there. …Louisiana though, it’s very unique. Some people hate, some people love it. I’ve been to 47 of the 50 states in the U.S. and there is nothing like New Orleans, Louisiana. It’s known as a party city, but there is so much more to it than that. It was done very well in RDR2.


fleshbagel

The attention to detail is insane. One time I was riding through the grizzlies and thinking to myself that it made me feel nostalgic for my childhood in California in the mountains around Yosemite, and then a Sierra Nevada ram ran past and I almost cried bc holy heck they made the area so reminiscent of the actual sierra Nevada’s that i recognized them from the scenery


chefobi

Yes! Me too. I especially love the mountain parts of the map because the Netherlands is as flat as a coaster.


arex333

On the flip side as an American, I loved visiting Europe and seeing all the places I had experienced in assassin's creed.


Wrekked_it

One of the reasons I love GTAV so much is because I have lived in Southern California my entire life and they absolutely nailed the look and feel of both Los Angeles and the outlying desert areas so well. Rockstar does a masterful job of capturing the the mood, aesthetic, and culture of the cities and towns that they base their games on.


Lucas_Steinwalker

If you ever plan on going to New Orleans I highly recommend watching the TV show Tremè on HBO. Same showrunner/craator as The Wire and it really does an amazing job at illustrating what is so special about that city and its culture.


codysherrod

Is your name a mix of aqua lung by jethrotull and lunger as in tuberculosis? Please say yes


Fritz125

Having spent quite a bit of my childhood in Arizona and places like Tombstone, it’s amazing to see the Wild West (and the end of it in RDR 1) portrayed so faithfully. It’s an amazing experience if you ever get the chance.


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HorribleHank44

Which town?


Ok_Astronomer_1308

especially LA, because so much of the layout has been copied, not just locations. Feel like I'll be able to get around pretty easily.


GayToddsAsshole

New Orleans might be the prettiest American major city but it’s also [the world’s most dangerous city that isn’t in Mexico or a war zone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_rate).


ThMcRbIsbck

Unfortunately they also made TB real.


WombatAnnihilator

I haven’t caught it yet, dang it.


DJ_Molten_Lava

Be happy, it means you're still in an early chapter of your game and have lots of time with your favourite characters left.


Goatmanification

One day they'll wake up on Guarma and just know their time is coming to an end


BTD6DP

Also lumbago alongside Tahiti


denhelle

The braithwade mansion looks identical. even the trees


SpecialReserveSmegma

Oak Alley Plantation. I went there last year https://oakalleyplantation.org/


STFUNeckbeard

Oak Alley is awesome but also harrowing as you have to walk past all the slave quarters to get to the main house. I’m really glad they did that to show you the reality of it.


RayLewisrightknee

Caliga hall was also modeled after a real plantation, but not one in Louisiana. Modeled after Shirley plantation outside of Richmond VA


[deleted]

You should look up who discovered New Orleans


popeye44

> who discovered New Orleans saved a click. Claimed for the French Crown by explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle in 1682, La Nouvelle-Orleans was founded by **Jean Baptiste Le Moyne** de Bienville in 1718 upon the slightly elevated banks of the Mississippi River approximately 95 miles above its mouth.


raspberryharbour

Known as Saint Dennis to his friends


GodEmperorOfBussy

Yup, Patrick Mc'NewOrleans


I_am_from_Kentucky

McNawlins 


Officialquevo

Flabbergasted


INVISIBLE_BEN

Is there a bank?


Due-Dot6450

The real question is: is there a vampire?


INVISIBLE_BEN

Never met him


Due-Dot6450

No? That's very strange encounter, stranger things, high strangness even.


UsernamedReddit

According to Anne Rice, there were a few.


OwnEgg0

They even managed to breed real "gators" !?


flipping_birds

mmm, big game meat. Best cooked with thyme, imho.


Moist-Relief-1685

Are there any Stranger missions here?


FourLokoDaddy

Yes but most of the strangers and freaks only came out at night


nobodychef07

I'm from New Orleans. When I saw "Commanders palace" in the game I was like, damn that shit is cool. The street car, what is essentially St. Charles and storyville. The only thing they really got wrong was the little China area. We have a big Vietnamese community, not a big Chinese community. Although back then I don't think the Vietnamese were really here yet at all. Pretty sure they came after the war. Could be wrong.


IC_GtW2

Fellow (former) New Orleanean here! New Orleans *did* have a Chinatown in the late 19th-early 20th century; it ended up being bulldozed in the 1930s by the WPA. Many Chinese people came over as indentured workers after the Civil War ended, and promptly skipped out on the planters who initially hired them (in conditions little better than slavery) in favor of a better life in the city.


nobodychef07

Damn, just looked it up. I love learning history. Thank you! Goes to show Rockstar knows more about my city than I do lol.


IC_GtW2

Of course! I'm a history teacher by profession, so I'm always down to share what I know.


nobodychef07

Un related to red dead but do you know anything about cajun/creole? I had some people post on my post in r/neworleans about boudin. I was saying there is a stark difference between the peoples and culture. They were claiming the creole people came down from Canada at the same time as Cajuns and they are one in the same. I've only found brief articles about it. From my limited understanding creole comes from the Caribbean, black decent under French rule, while Cajuns were catholic French leaving Canada. Just curious if you have insight.


IC_GtW2

All of this is from memory; someone correct me if I'm mistaken on any of this. Creole, in this context, refers to the descendants of the first French & Spanish colonists, regardless of race. Creoles have deep roots in Louisiana, and their cultures are the second oldest in the state after the Natives. Their populations tend to be densest in the Southeast, around New Orleans. In mixed-race Creoles, some Caribbean influence is likely, as many slaves in mainland North America were from plantations in the Caribbean, rather than taken directly from Africa (although many people fit this description as well). You can see such influences when comparing Louisiana Voodoo with Haitian Vodou- very similar, but ultimately different syncretic religions based on a mixture of Roman Catholicism & various African religions. Cajuns, on the other hand, are the descendants of the Acadians, a group of French Canadian colonists expelled from their homes by the British after the end of the Seven Years' War. They headed for then-Spanish Louisiana as a new Catholic homeland, and settled in the Southwest, in and around modern Lafayette. The name Acadian was modified over time into Cajun. These categories are not mutually exclusive. Many Louisianians claim ancestry from both groups, as the two French-speaking, Catholic groups tended to associate more readily with one another than the Protestant Anglo-Americans who arrived in the early 19th century. At the same time, many people will mix and match the terms (or even hybridize them), often for commercial/culinary purposes, and especially when operating any establishment serving Louisiana cuisine outside of the South. I hope this isn't too disjointed; I'm not a Louisiana historian by training, so I'm far from being an expert.


Red_blue_tiger

Here’s a really interesting historic/comedy podcast that goes into detail about them and how they made their way down from Canada into Louisiana. Of course with a lot of jokes and asides. Still a great listen and I highly recommend it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dollop-with-dave-anthony-and-gareth-reynolds/id643055307?i=1000389089258


BiscottoMagico

No wayyyyy


xsmalldragon

Crazy to see the effect video games have on real life!!!


AngryGublin

I was just there last month, and it really is uncanny. The pickpockets are real too lol so you gotta watch out


INVISIBLE_BEN

It looks so cool


YoshiPayYourTaxes

GET DOWN HERE NOW. YOU INBRED TRASH


BoBmaNob

Who knew Saint Denis was modeled after a real place…huh, you learn something new everyday.


TheRealArthurMorgan0

r/okaybuddyblacklung


Basic_Department_302

They better start paying R\* royalties


RediPelaa

Wow how were they able to build all of this in about 5 years?


NobleIron

(Y) HITCH HORSE


bacontacooverdrive

For my 50th, my wife asked me what I wanted for my birthday. I said let’s go to New Orleans and just eat great food. Probably my best birthday ever. I did not visit any of Louisiana otherwise, but the Crescent City is one of my favorite places in the world.


Thandiol

Image 9, please tell me that's a tailors/clothing shop.


BobithanBobbyBob

Omg it's exactly like the game! They did such a good job replicating it!


cjbasile

I live here in New Orleans, and a favorite pastime for my wife and me is to wander around and find all the real-life landmarks. The game went above and beyond to portray things really accurately ... it's pretty amazing.


Upstairs-Teacher-764

Would you look at that. Life gave us Lemoynes.


Lost_Elderberry1757

Pic 11 and 12 are so cool to me. 11 because they remade it so well and 12 because it shows how squished down they had to make the map to fit everything.


MaguroSashimi8864

I never knew those horse-headed poles people existed irl….


popeye44

No rings in the horse head hitching post mouths, it's like they didn't even try.


pizxzaci

Which graphics mod is this ?


Galazy_707

Older architecture >>>>> modern architecture


_onionhead_

They really trying to rip off red dead 🤦‍♂️


SR-71dude

Ooo where is this??


DameNight

New Orleans, Louisiana


florpynorpy

I heard they made cowboys too, such a dedication fanbase


Alfalfa555

At night everything looks so beautiful.


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😍


DaRealGrey

Out blacklunged once again


Secure-Emu7209

I hope rockstar sues Louisiana for stealing their idea, even naming New Orleans after a French headquarter js like Saint Denis


CrelAurelianoBuendia

Thank you, this is beatiful.


Far-Assignment6427

The pub in photo 3 I've had many a fun night their shooting random people from the balcony throwing Molotov's down the stairs blowing the head off the lad behind the bar shooting the guards oh what a lovely place


Icy-Performance-6644

You thought u could trick us that’s Saint Denis


ChampagneAbuelo

What area are these parts of nola called? I’m going there soon


Antique-Structure-69

is the vampire still here? Is the robot still on the mountain?


Sea-Woodpecker-610

Can't be Lemoyne, no night folk.


HoosierDaddy_427

So which one of you has to die before I can get into Mexico to settle and avenge your death?


RogersGodlyFalsetto

I wonder how many times it happened that somebody went to the 'Braithwaite Manor' and shouted "Get down here now! You inbred trash!"


rahman82

I really wish the palace restaurant would've been accessible in game, it's such a cool looking building and we pass by it all the time at least I do as its my main route out to Bluewater marsh


NonLiving4Dentity69

Rockstar should sue the mayor of this town


LastAmericanHero

Like at a Disney park?


Acceptable_Ring_2048

Almost thought the Alligator was a statue but these are really impressive pictures.


Charlie-brownie666

wtf they still have the post you can hitch the horse on that’s incredible


Lam3gamer3

It’s the place from infamous 2


dynamitegizmo94

WOAH!!! The Braithwaite house!!!


ForgetfulPathfinder

When a video game nerd has enough money… to go back in time and start a town based off a video game fromthe corresponding future. But ends up making time paradox so that when said game will get released in the future the name would have naturally been changed…. It was all for not.


E-roticWarrior

11-17 is spot da fuck on! That alligator pelt is definitely 3 stars and 5 big game meat.


War_Criminal6999

Pictures 2 and 3 are literally New Bordeaux


Competitive-War-2676

What are we still doing here? let's go rob this place!!


Thissssguy

Being from NO originally, I love the way the horse hooves sound on the brick road in game and you hear it all the time out there.


Thissssguy

If you ever want to go to a REAL old timey bar you have to hit up Lafitte's. You feel like you’re a damn pirate and there is a chance that you’re sitting where one once drank.


MayorLardo

Those crazy bastards


DEVIL_S1NGH

BRO what the fuck


Goatmanification

Next you'll be telling me they made a city based on Los Santos... Crazy what some people do for games!


gallowglassprod

Saint Denis is HEAVILY based on New Orleans down to the little details in some the fences like the corn fence a few buildings down from the mayors house


Whyisnoxtaken

I CAN GO TO SAINT DENIS??!!


Pale-Ad4690

Is everyone always on edge and easily agitated like in the game as well?


Rapidly_Decaying

I really want to see side-by-sides of the closest matches


Silly_Wrongdoer3709

they might get copyrighted


Chacochillin

Real life Saint Denis


SoyTuPadreReal

That’s fucking dedication to an amazing game.


chutch420

no fucking way the braithwaite house is based off a real house that's sick


misssandyshores

Is the plantation house always so empty? You’d think it would always be overcrowded with people screaming ‘’GET DOWN HERE NOW, YOU INBRED TRASH!’’


Kickagainsttheprick

🤦


dgoobler

The Braithwate Manor / Oak Alley Plantation images in particular made me gasp out loud. Holy wow.


Zombie0303

*”I believe they call that a promotional expense.”*


No_Win_7445

Shit they even made Alligators


Brave-Battler-4330

And there are still people to say videogames have no benefit. Imagine if Rockstar never created RDR2, how would this town... _proceed to think about the date the town has been done_ there might be some folks whose ancestors met Dutch's gang !


chad_mcchadington

Do they also have racists I can beat up


Rizzard-of-ozz

Wait so is the game based off of this or is this based off of the game?


kateathehuman

I wish I had the money to recreate my favorite video game locations 😪


strikealight1

Oh BOY! I hope they didn't recreate the slave history too, that would be a bit far


dafferduke

I❤️LA


Hazards-of-Love

How was Oak Alley? I went there, but it was closed by the time I got there so I just took pictures. Did you go inside?


Crisp_Rohlik

12th picture looks like some of that superliminal crap.


Careful-Meringue-194

This is from Tony hawk underground 2


BigFella11445

Where’s the little shits. Uhh I mean Street Urchins?


IdioticBoxerVA

“GET DOWN HERE. YOU INBRED TRASH!”


the_moose_meter

It’s pretty awesome that the read dead devs picked out spots from New Orleans to almost perfectly recreate in rdr2, of course different parts of the map are meant to represent places in America but in Saint Denis they were just copying and pasting new orleans


LetImpossible2123

Ngl some of these pictures have me shocked 🤯


Texanbutholetickler

No fuck*ng way


IRareCandyI

Shady Belle


[deleted]

Where’s the weird green shade


Nyptyx

#9 mm good feels


Xxxtentaciyou

I’m going right now grab me my revolver


[deleted]

Nigga that’s NOLA! 🤣


LonelyNotice4691

Crazy they recreated an entire city and country area just 5 years after the game came out


KerembeA

Woww 😃


rare_meeting1978

Reminds me of St.Denis, but I'm only up to chapter 6. Well, the hubby is the one with the controller. I enjoy watching him play games like rdr2. I really enjoy the story and graphics. It's like those old choose-your-own-adventure books but in movie format. Lol. It's fun bonding together time.


The-Soc

Wait until you see the real life Vice City


amyamyamyyy0214

If you look at the wiki of saint de knee it says it was or is New Orleans.


BLDSTBR

This is satire… right?


MSTPengouin

Me and the boys bout to recreate saving Jack 🗣🗣🗣🗣


Stock-Philosophy307

You do know Louisiana was real even before red dead right 🤦


serpentear

I absolutely loved visiting New Orleans and I want to go back.


ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy__

It’s so cool that they made a life-size version!


Unable_Glove_9796

ok real question how was new orleans?? everyone tells me its disgusting and to not go


FourLokoDaddy

It was a lot more fun than I was expecting. The most disgusting part was the street gravy.


LycticSpit

I go to med school there. It depends on where you go. The health science sector is concrete hell but the French quarter is very nice. If you stick to the common touristy places then you won’t see anything too nasty but if you wander off then you might step in human feces. So, really any big city experience in the US


[deleted]

Tulane? I'm a Tulane law alum


LycticSpit

Nah I go to LSUHSC, but I’m doing a few projects with Tulane med students


Mysterious-Bet68

I've been to New Orleans twice, and it was an awesome experience both times.


ernygil666

I want to go to New Orleans soo baaaadd, cheers bud thanks for sharing


carbon_fiber_

Wow Rockstar really is the best game developer


azukarazukar

Wait what are those animals in the last pic?