Red Dead Redemption

it's kinda sweet that of all the game studios rock star got so caught up in the storytelling / character realization aspects of gaming and completely neglected the ludic elements

Well, aim for cinematic and you end up with a game better to watch than to play.

Saw the first hour last night and it was like watching a cliched, extremely slow moving western movie with android actors. Snow looked pretty though

i'm sure it's a lot more fun once it opens up a bit. that first area is pretty much the tutorial

yeah the main criticism i keep hearing for this is that its extremely slow even compared to tolerably slow paced games like witcher 3 and the like, also that it doesn't explain its systems well

sounds pretty realistic.

Just saw the Daniel Lanois did some of the music on this! That's cool.

Just bought one fine stud fellas

I keep losing my hat

I’m doing everything to avoid killing people, and because of that i get killed often

sounds pretty realistic

I enjoy this game

is it fun?

It's more pleasurable than fun if that makes sense

how's the redemption

I haven't gotten to the redemption yet, but the poker is incredible

i don’t know how to play poker and i do not care to learn

will that be a problem y/n

Poker was one of my favourite bits about the first RDR

It's optional, and you can set it to autoplay hands if you do choose to play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qCMgRHogqk

so so far my guy has a scar on his chin and has been burnt, beat up and blown to pieces

my horse has fallen down and hit large stones, ran into trees and has gotten burned

apparently if you shoot like a shopkeeper on the leg he gets a wooden leg

this thing is crazy detailed

Dominos takes too long and the person who goes first seems to win 90% of the time.

xxposts

yeah, the poker games were the secret winner of the 1st one.
at some point I was only playing poker.
And as I wrote upthread, I think, I'm suprised they didn't include an option to cheat/throw the table away and take out your gun !

when i played the first red dead i got really into the poker to the extent that that was all that i did. then i stopped playing the game altogether.

had the same experience with triple triad in final fantasy 8

card collecting in ff8 was the best thing about the game

i saw someone describe this game as an open-world game if open-world games had taken the Far Cry 2 path instead of the AssCreed path and that rang true for me. it reminds me of Far Cry 2 in terms of its immersive-ness and often languid pace. there's a lot to love about it but it's not a very gamey game if that makes sense.

it's very character driven and there's room for them to develop into other types of people

i was doing a lot of heists and at one point i talked to tilly and it got somewhat philosophical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=affiR_Vdu7A

Invisible fire that kills horses

Awesome
That’s some gta 5 level NPC stupidity there
Oh wait

Very tempted to buy this... how close is it really to the original in terms of gameplay (as noted above, RDR1 and I did not get on)?

What the hell is going on in that horrific clip!?

some impressive stoicism for sure

They shoot horses, don’t they?

thomas i haven't played the original rdr in many years but from my memory it's similar but not a carbon copy

Went on a virtual date last night jfc

them o'driscoll boys can git, tbqh

my download finally finished at 9pm last night, and I managed to make it to chapter II before heading to bed. seems like i'm past the tutorial area now, so i'm pretty pumped to explore and rename my horse.

What will you name its nuts?

Privately, I will name them.

The rest of the horse shall be named bird dog

What will you name its nuts?

for a moment i wanted to seriously start a thread about names for horses

i'm on chapter 5 i believe -- 6 in total and 2 epilogues

about 50% done

there are some really cool plot twists

My horses are Nagging Doubt and Pony Up.

Gary (after my cat), Reggie, and Felix so far

black stallion
iron cock
caesar

black stallion
iron cock (after my cat)
caesar

nice

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/nov/07/red-dead-redemption-2-game-criticised-over-killing-of-suffragette

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the barf core is rapidly depleting

So i got tuberculosis

how’s that going?