Red Dead Redemption

god i hope i can get marin to play worms with me when she's old enough. that is probably my favourite video game ever.

I need to finish this game. It's been years, but I remember getting to Mexico, doing a few missions, then kind of getting bored with it, never to return. The world was amazing, just felt really repetitive after a while - a feeling I get with almost every AAA game.

As I get older and older, I become less and less patient with game bloat, all the pointless go-fetch side-quests that are prevalent in most games. Just like Slam Dunk, I'm also missing the grind gene. I don't think I'd ever get into games like The Division or Destiny.

I need to finish this game. It's been years, but I remember getting to Mexico, doing a few missions, then kind of getting bored with it, never to return. The world was amazing, just felt really repetitive after a while - a feeling I get with almost every AAA game.

Same. Stopped I'm the exact same place, even

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like Snoball I have no excuse for not playing games, other than Minecraft lately.

Ending of RDR was good, worth playing to.

The zombie dlc was worthwhile too, I still haven't completed the story for that part though.

"Karl Malone
Posted: March 20, 2016 at 9:22:39 PM
I need to finish this game. It's been years, but I remember getting to Mexico, doing a few missions, then kind of getting bored with it, never to return. The world was amazing, just felt really repetitive after a while - a feeling I get with almost every AAA game.

Same. Stopped I'm the exact same place, even"

And the same here. I see a pattern maybe.

Mexico was the best part, the missions get much more violent, the plot takes on colonialism, the music and scenery is gorgeous. I'd have been happy to stay there, but the third part puts you back in the usa, in the rockies & great plains, less interesting although the hunting is more fun (in particular bears which hilariously seem to come from nowhere).

i think i just couldn't bear another 40 hours of gameplay to reach the end, no matter how good it was. AAA games are too long, otm

"games abandoned 20-30 hours in" is my top genre tbh

I don't have any money anymore so I'm playing through the games I bought when I did, playing them into the ground for 100% completion, like when I was a kid and would only get one game every six months or so. at this rate I'll be through that stack of games in 100 years or so.

I spend more time/glean more pleasure from watching YouTubes of mouthy idiots playing ridiculous GTA online races than gaming myself, but I am now itching to fire up RDR again.

I loaned RDR to my brother last week and this thread revival makes me want it back.

(I'm currently trudging through Sniper Elite III for no reason other than having got this far I need to see it out, only another 3000 close-up slo-mo x-ray head-shots to go!)

Playing a lot more shorter games in the last several weeks after enjoying stuff like Californium and Firewatch, and those and watching the GB playthru of Life is Strange has really elevated narrative-heavy games. Xcom 2 has stretched out for quite a bit at only an hour or two a night.

Still need to finish RDR. Have less than 10% less to go. Will finish it, someday. Curious if they'll integrate the more cinematic musical sequences into the next one.

What would they do for the next one? They were already starting off pretty late for a Wild West adventure. Will the cowboys start running liquor for the mob?

As someone who likes dicking around in GTA games but has never finished a single one of them because he finds like at least half of the missions controller-crushingly frustrating, how does RDR compare?

i think the duels will not go well for you, and they're required iirc

once you figure out the trick to duels you can win every one v easily

one weird duel trick you won't believe

I liked RDR a lot more than GTA, partially because it was a lot easier.

Lot of steady aiming goes a long way.

It's not too twitchy, you have this slow motion aiming mechanism that rules.

I can't get into GTAs because I don't care about the settings and because I don't like the sexism. But I never tried 5. Guessing it's not good for a game with my 13 year old son

Maybe, if you go into a solo online session and just deathmatch each other. Otherwise, yeah, best to abstain (although, judging from the online player base, many other parents of 13-year-olds disagree with my assessment).

xp. feel like 5 is the most sexist yet!

I wish they'd make another Bully

i have a high tolerance for terrible videogame writing and i wanted GTA5 to STFU constantly. it's like a walking Microsoft GDC afterparty

"games abandoned 20-30 hours in" is my top genre tbh

so otm

a lot of games are like movies - just way too long for the material

It's embarrassing how many games I abandon at the ~20 hour mark. I don't think I even made it that far in GTA V. After experiencing a massive letdown playing the first heist mission I lost all interest finishing it. I had this allusion that the heist missions would be more open-ended (like a Hitman mission). Maybe it gets that way further in the game, I don't know.

And I could not get into the online portion of GTA V at all. Granted it was broken when I tried, but the times I got in everyone was so spread out on the massive map that it took like 5 real minutes to meet up with someone, only to get killed in about ten seconds; rinse and repeat.

That's not really how it works. You use your phone (or the menu) to start an online mode (heist, mission, race, etc.). The free roam is mostly just a place to fuck around, although there's plenty of stuff to do in it if you want to.

xp. feel like 5 is the most sexist yet!

― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, March 23, 2016 7:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this. every single word in it seemed to be written by a dude who just got dumped by his first girlfriend and had a lot of ugly *feelings* to work out. the online was great, though.

The NPCs in GTA Online are occasionally pretty sketchy.

RDR had to have writing that wasn't scrambling to pose as 21st-C satire, so it as if they had to force themselves into the constraints of coming up with dialogue & plot for the first time since Bully. Which is a shame, because once in a while, something worthwhile shines thru in their writing even on GTA stuff like the character relations in Gay Tony or even moments in GTA5.

But everything else is operating under some editorial or creative imperative to have nothing but the most horrible, cardboard people presented with the most freshman-year cynicism. All of the parodic or satirical shit even in 5 felt like nothing had advanced from 2001.

Started playing RDR again this morning thanks to this thread.

As long as you aren't a completist, there's no such thing as a game being too long. You just play until you're satisfied and then stop, and the game is the perfect length.

feel like i generally agree w/ that but w/ a game that gets raves based on its ending it's kinda a shame to miss it bc you weren't willing to slog thru 20 more hours of gameplay

So stop playing and watch the end on YouTube.

As long as you aren't a completist, there's no such thing as a game being too long. You just play until you're satisfied and then stop, and the game is the perfect length.

eh, don't know about that. you could apply the same reasoning to almost anything that's too long

some things really are too long. there are ways to adapt, and no one's forcing anyone to complete anything, but that doesn't mean that some games (and other media) don't go on for too long, pointlessly and repetitively.

What would they do for the next one? They were already starting off pretty late for a Wild West adventure. Will the cowboys start running liquor for the mob?

Or maybe, it will be a prequel.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cu5AbBHW8AAKgUx.jpg:large

https://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/787639249864630273

psyched for the announcement of an xbone remake of both red dead games!

Wonder if PC version will exist this time

Trailer on Thursday (10/20)

Fall 2017

Developed by the creators of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2 is an epic tale of life in America’s unforgiving heartland. The game's vast and atmospheric world will also provide the foundation for a brand new online multiplayer experience.

http://i.imgur.com/7hmvqrr.jpg

brand new online multiplayer experience.

groan

I know right? Just going to be a bunch of assholes towing around 14" siege mortar carriages, blowing people off the map.

Ready to dupe some palominos though.

Westworld tie in

PC version coming 6 months later, right? That's fine with me

just gonna say that's a magnificent seven cowboys in the above image

i still haven't finished RDR