Red Dead Redemption

it seems very deliberately designed to be... not fun? thx rockstar, hate to enjoy my time playing video games

i found the original boring after a while and never completed, though it looked gorgeous etc. what I've read about this makes it sound like more boring (and more gorgeous)

i get ppl not liking this, but i'm finding the deliberately slow pace enjoyable

My game has been extremely buggy so far, sometimes in a mission-breaking way. I think I'm going to wait for Online to dig back into it.

Yeah it’s not for everyone

I'm mostly enjoying it. I'm old and in no hurry.

My latest favourite bug is that my spare horse appeared out of nowhere halfway through a mission and now won't stop following me.

He used to be my main horse. I think he's jealous and lonely :(

i've met lots of people who became unhealthily emotionally attached to their horse

i'm enjoying myself too, although i do worry about what a psychopath coldblooded killer i turn into when i play these games. i was riding my new horse (who i was already unhealthily emotionally attached to) when suddenly i was ambushed by those fucking O'Driscolls. i was attempting to flee and accidentally made my jump leap off of a bridge running over train tracks, horrifically killing the horse in the process. i went on a rampage revenge, and when it was over and i had looted the bodies, i methodically started stacking them on the train tracks, thinking that it would be satisfying to wait until a train came along and see what it would do to the bodies. as i carefully positioned the third body so that it's neck was right on the track, a stagecoach came along and witnessed it. i tried to murder them, too, but they ended up reporting it. only a $15 bounty for all that! and i never did get to see what the train would do (i'll try again soon, and be more careful this time)

er, weird typos in there but you get the drift.

I’ve been playing this like a saint. All that WANTED n BOUNTY stuff seems like a real pain in the ass. Feeling the urge to get gnarly though.

Will also join the choir and say the music in this is really impressive. Way smarter and more interesting than it needs to be.

i'm only in the middle of chapter 3 still and the take from story missions alone has made bounties basically a non-issue, so if that's trouble for you just keep playing. i did love the parts in chapter 2 where i was basically skint and had to rob coaches out of desperation, but it's nice to not worry about it as well.

the music is amazing, both the ambient music and the campfire singalongs!

not a big deal, but i can't play five finger fillet because the button commands are too small for me to see. i have a flat screen display that seemed enormous to me when i first got it (maybe 30" wide, 35" diagonal), but apparently it is too small for modern day games. same with dominoes - the pieces are too small, even when i go into the special view that's supposed to allow you to take a look at the pieces.

missing out on hot domino action, no fair

Ah, I guess this doesn’t apply to you if you can’t even see the commands, but it seems the way to ace those five finger fillet games (if it wasn’t obvious) is to get the pattern down and then turn off the sound and don’t look at the screen when you’re doing it. The sound and visuals totally throw you off.

i think i just need to stand up a few inches away from the screen

i'm enjoying myself too, although i do worry about what a psychopath coldblooded killer i turn into when i play these games

lol, I think I need to just save this and fuck things up a bit.

This is the first time I’ve played dominoes since I was a kid and it seems deadly boring. Poker is fun, but the ai feels way simplistic. Maybe gets more sophisticated later?

Looking forward to blackjack, haven’t encountered it yet.

Haven't been feeling this as much starting about halfway into Chapter 4 (starting 6 now), it's gotten less open world and more linear and some of the missions are like really easy COD shooter missions on rails.

first thing i did when i had the chance was hogtie an innocent passerby and chuck them in a river to drown

my wife, sitting on the couch beside me, looked up from her phone and was like ‘wtf is wrong with you’

eheh, reminds me when I went all Westworld in the first one : there's a brothel at some point and after shooting the bad guys I hogtied all the prostitutes, put them in a single room then shot them all in the head. Then I tried to shoot everybody in the village but they kept respawning and nothing special happened like a huge police intervention or something...
being a psychopath is no fun.

Their game mechanic is interesting - aside from honor system, there's just very little reward in being a dick. Stealing stagecoaches and horses require long rides for low rewards, robbing campers nets you a couple of dollars. You have the freedom to be a psychopath but it's even less fun than doing it in GTA.

Revising my earlier statement, turns out Chapter 6 is fantastic. This is the first video game that's actually kind of moving for me.

Yeah, it's clearly more annoying than fun to do things against the law. Although it's quite easy to escape the police (at least in RDR1).

I rode past a man who died right in front of me and fell off his horse. No music, no cut scene, no interaction, just a random NPC natural causes death. I was wondering if the game would have killed him if I wasn't there to observe it.

He had 48 cents.

ahah, classy to take his money !

I rode past a man who died right in front of me and fell off his horse. No music, no cut scene, no interaction, just a random NPC natural causes death. I was wondering if the game would have killed him if I wasn't there to observe it.

He had 48 cents.

i keep thinking horse skeletons are dinosaur bones and standing in front of them waiting for a prompt.

finding all the dreamcatchers/bones/cards seems near-impossible!

It's one thing to find them, another thing to successfully pick them up as the camera glides past and highlights a pack of cigarettes you don't have capacity to carry

i found a couple cigarette cards

haven't even started looking for dino bones

I saw the same NPC falling off the horse and dying thing last night. I also looted him, but not before carrying him off into the woods so I could do it in hiding like a total weirdo.

He was carrying a dollar and change.

Ahah this game makes people do weird stuff : lots to work on for an analyst !

yeah i realized very quickly robbing people yields very little positive results

even some heists aren't worth it, but you kinda have to do some of them

same with killing random people, it all just lowers your honor rate, which is why i started aiming for a high honor rate

Don't you get wedding rings and such fairly frequently?

yeah, i've tried selling some and so far they've been valued at around $10

psst - when robbing people, the real money is in the saddlebags!! you can find gold nuggets and good tonics whereas usually they have less than $2 on them.

unfortunately, this usually means you have to kill them and their horse.

dangit! i even remember coming across that tip somewhere a week or so ago, and i completely forgot.

on the other hand, in the tradition of fallout 4 i am roleplaying as the dumbest guy in the west

When I'm feeling murdery I wander around trying to find one of the enemy gangs, feel shorted so far because I only got to slaughter two Klan rallies. (Yo, Rockstar, I'd pay for DLC that lets me just roam the west hunting Pinkertons.)

that’s what Online is going to be i think

Or some variation thereof

i would pay for DLC that adds equippable bifocals that enable me to see the dominos clearly

unfortunately, this usually means you have to kill them and their horse.

Again the game favours slow play here. You can soothe and pat and brush and feed the "orphaned" horses and they'll love you and then you raid the saddlebags - or you can fire straight in and risk being kicked to death.

is there any way to get rid of a bounty other than paying it off? when i first encountered a bounty in the game, i could have sworn that it said something about the bounty simply going away, if you waited long enough (though maybe i was mixing this up with just being WANTED). but i must have been especially evil during the first mission in Strawberry, because i have a $250 bounty there that hasn't gone away in weeks of game-time.

Once you're wanted paying it off is the only way. I think the bounty stays even if you die.

The guy who did the GI review never paid any of his bounties for the whole game. Thought that was a fun role-playing idea.

two things I look forward to when something gets popular: the porn parody and

https://i.imgur.com/UHC5AdW.jpg

Does anyone else have a laggy map screen? Maybe it's just on the standard ps4, but pretty annoying.

Had my young godson around today so the only thing I could show him was hunting animals. Spent a lot of time shotgunning fish.

I am pretty impressed by the amount of animals they've put in this one.

Finished chapter 6 last, not feeling compelled to do an hour of farmhand work in the epilogue right now.

last night

Even though this game embodies a lot of what I dislike about modern AAA games (story driven, hand-holdy, easy) I’m finding myself really digging it.

The detail, polish, and atmosphere put it on another level. Just an amazing world to sink into and experience. And I know the slower, deliberate pace is a dealbreaker for a lot of ppl, but I think that’s actually really neat and refreshing tbh.

Yeah I’m playing god of war now and not really feeling it

I know it’s a totally different type of game and I’m only a few hours into gow but still

Bought mortall kombat xl for $9 too

Ha, I have not played the new GoW, but the “weary bearded tough man teaches his son the ways of this harsh world” angle they’ve pushed to the forefront is v. much an example of that AAA ~story driven experience~ I do not want.

What games do you like

The Dark Souls series basically rejuvenated my interest a couple years back when I thought I was done with games. Also love the 2016 DOOM.

Dig those for a multitude of reasons, but common thread seems to be that they’re ruthlessly precise gameplay driven experiences that deliver the same adrenaline shots I had playing games as a kid. The ~cinematic~ experience in big budget games is mostly deadly dull to me. Red Dead is a rare exception because it’s just so exceptionally lavish and smarter than most of the other ones.