Red Dead Redemption

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

it looks pretty

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)...

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

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

frustrating minigames: the game

now i remember that i never got more than like 12 hours into a rockstar game, fuuuuuuuuuuuck this

just after finally figuring out the hellish lasso minigame i have to do more herding on my horse that sucks

rockstar i just want to play your games without breaking my controller in half yk

how to herd
1. find a mass of cattle and go to the opposite side of where you're trying to push them
2. try to push them the right way
3. behold as a small rock splits the herd and sends them both the wrong way
4. get the herd back together and try again
5. behold as the camera does the wrong thing and then your horse does the wrong thing because none of this works smoothly
6. where is the entire herd

how to lasso
1. finally get the fucking lasso around the fucking horse
2. google why the horse keeps immediately breaking away because the tutorial doesn't tell you that you need to hold the button
3. finally get the fucking lasso around the fucking horse
4. dismount your horse
5. mount your horse again because it was within 100 miles of the horse you were actually trying to mount
6. where is the horse

how to play horseshoes
1. bet 1 dollar and continually lose the easiest challenges because you just want that fucking outfit

get gud, pardner

the dialogue in this game sounds like it was written by a child doing a book report on the time period

99.9% video games