Red Dead Redemption

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (2305 of them)

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

Karl Malone, Monday, 21 March 2016 02:22 (eight years ago) link

in

Karl Malone, Monday, 21 March 2016 02:22 (eight years ago) link

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.

Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link

"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.

Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link

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).

droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link

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

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link

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.

droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link

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.

someone who just gets annoyed at bad tweets (stevie), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link

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!)

onimo, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link

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.

Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 05:46 (eight years ago) link

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?

pplains, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link

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 Can Say I Know We're Risin' Underneath The Blazin' Sky (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link

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

goole, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 15:13 (eight years ago) link

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

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 15:39 (eight years ago) link

one weird duel trick you won't believe

Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 15:47 (eight years ago) link

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

Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link

Lot of steady aiming goes a long way.

pplains, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link

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

droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 19:22 (eight years ago) link

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).

I Can Say I Know We're Risin' Underneath The Blazin' Sky (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link

xp. feel like 5 is the most sexist yet!

trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 19:27 (eight years ago) link

I wish they'd make another Bully

droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link

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

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link

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

so otm

tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link

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

Mordy, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link

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.

Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, 24 March 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link

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.

Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, 24 March 2016 00:17 (eight years ago) link

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.

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 24 March 2016 01:06 (eight years ago) link

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.

someone who just gets annoyed at bad tweets (stevie), Thursday, 24 March 2016 08:15 (eight years ago) link

The NPCs in GTA Online are occasionally pretty sketchy.

I Can Say I Know We're Risin' Underneath The Blazin' Sky (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 March 2016 12:31 (eight years ago) link

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.

Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Thursday, 24 March 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link

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.

Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 24 March 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link

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

Mordy, Thursday, 24 March 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link

So stop playing and watch the end on YouTube.

Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 24 March 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link

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

Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 March 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link

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.

Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 March 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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.

pplains, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link

five months pass...

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

doo-doo diplomacy (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 16 October 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link

Wonder if PC version will exist this time

"Stop researching my life" (Ste), Monday, 17 October 2016 13:10 (eight years ago) link

brand new online multiplayer experience.

groan

"Stop researching my life" (Ste), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link

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

pplains, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 20:08 (eight years ago) link

Ready to dupe some palominos though.

pplains, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 20:09 (eight years ago) link

Westworld tie in

calstars, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link

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

(rocketcat) πŸš€πŸ± πŸ‘‘πŸŸ (kingfish), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link

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

i still haven't finished RDR

Robby Mook (stevie), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 10:52 (eight years ago) link

it looks pretty

"Stop researching my life" (Ste), Thursday, 20 October 2016 19:05 (eight years ago) link

They referenced a LOT of classic western moments in RDR but I can't remember a Magnificent 7 reference (I played it a long time ago)...

AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 21 October 2016 09:02 (eight years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/GWLsJJo.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Rq7Qkb1.jpg

pplains, Saturday, 22 October 2016 00:49 (eight years ago) link


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.