New Orleans has always been one of my favorite places to visit, so I’m sure you can imagine how excited I was to see so many familiar places copied over into RDR2’s Saint Denis. From the moment I first rode through those streets as Arthur Morgan, I knew I had to go back to NOLA and place as many of them as I could in real life.
And hey, this is me, so ya know, why not do it in cosplay?
Also me being me – that is, super type A – I did a TON of research prior to going on this trip. Not just a lot of googling and searching through every Red Dead subreddit that I could find; I also talked to people I know who live in (or are frequent visitors to) New Orleans, poured through an old NOLA guidebook that I own, and even went back through photos from my past trips there.
I definitely didn’t get to map every single spot that exists both in game and in real life, but I added the following locations – plus a few other fun photo spots – to a Google Map for sharing purposes.
Starting from the ‘top’ of the French Quarter and working your way down through it, here’s what I found:
– LaLaurie Mansion – Bastille Saloon
– 1041 Royal Street – Doyle’s Tavern
– Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop – Random building
– Jackson Square – Tailor, statue, etc.
– Napoleon House – La Riviere Cafe
– Latrobe’s – Lemoyne National Bank
– New Orleans Police Department – Lemoyne Supreme Court
– Ochsner Urgent Care French Quarter – Barbour & Crosby Real Estate
Next, a few quick stops in the Garden District can be sandwiched between visits to Lee Circle and St Stephen Church.
– Confederate Memorial Hall in Lee Circle – Quincy Harris Memorial Hall
– Seven Sisters – Random homes in game
– Women’s Opera Guild Home – Random home in game
– Morris Israel House – Random home in game
– Commander’s Palace Restaurant – Random building in game (on edge of Saint Denis)
– St. Stephen Church – Larger cathedral in St Denis
Despite spending the better part of a day wandering around New Orleans, we still didn’t even get to make stops at all of the places I marked on my map…but hey, that just means I have an excuse to go back to “Saint Denis” and finish my explorations, right?
I’m still in the process of gathering decent screenshots of the Saint Denis versions of these buildings, as well as marking them on a game map, so stay tuned for part 2 of my Saint Denis/New Orleans comparison!