Red Dead Redemption

i have fewer qualms about shooting crims. and i've yet to put it to the test but hopefully the manual dead-eye should help avoid these 'shoot the hostage' tragedies.

rabbits are plentiful but hard to shoot.

One more ILX roll call of who has this + a PS3?

What is the penalty for getting arrested?

Last time I played I let myself surrender, spent 15 seconds in jail, and then walked away with seemingly no penalty. What's the point of evading lawmen, then?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2IjE77e29wQ/SY8clrBYPLI/AAAAAAAAAeM/BqDQwLrg5XA/s400/Lou_Reed_-_Street_Hassle_front_cove.jpg

I have this and a PS3. I would be interested in teaming up with ILX people for whatevs but don't really know how to do it.

my ps3 name is fortune5000

I am hoping to have this + a PS3 tomorrow.

I've got this on PS3, name's napawo72.

You know, way up at the top of the thread I said

That video actually reminds me of fallout 3 in lots of ways.

and that's still true really. I'm getting a similar feeling from it - I want to go back and play more because it's a great game, and at the same time I'm reluctant to go back because as a world it's just so bleak. All those wide stretches of nothingness! And those miserable little shacks that people had to live in, and the bitter nasty people that populate the world, and the ruthlessness of everything. If anything it's worse than Fallout was because this isn't an imagined future, it's a recreated past - people really had to live like this (or sort of like this). It's kind of a downer.

I mean, scrabbling round picking herbs and collecting armadillo meat is only one step up from picking up tin cans and collecting radroach meat.

It's a recreated past, but it also takes aesthetic license with the brutality and banal evil of the era. I'm sure there was plenty of laughter and happy times back then, you know?

i think the point is that YOU are the instrument of terror and degradation. like, if you go to bonnie's ranch at around sundown, you can see people milling around and talking by the fire, even dancing. all you can do is stand there mute or shoot them all DO YOU SEE.

I have this on PS3 and would like to ILX posse (haven't had much time to play, as I've been slammed with work - MW2 more often than not gets that frustration out, but I'd love for this to take its place) - screen name - 'mct_rt'

if you go to bonnie's ranch at around sundown, you can see people milling around and talking by the fire, even dancing. all you can do is stand there mute or shoot them all DO YOU SEE

yeah i've seen those. i was trying to join them, seeing if it would give me the option to 'sit down' or 'join camp' like it does with the others. i was gutted i couldn't join in teh fun.

Not quite sure why every time I enter any saloon, the piano player stops playing and stands on his stool.

as a world it's just so bleak. All those wide stretches of nothingness!

this evening i have mostly been riding backwards and forwards across the whole map, shooting the odd critter, having a whale of a time.

Not quite sure why every time I enter any saloon, the piano player stops playing and stands on his stool.

― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Wednesday, June 9, 2010 2:17 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

are you talking about red dead redemption or

haha yeah i've encountered a similar saloon thing, not sure if it's always the piano player but most often someone will end up standing on a table

i think u lose some of yr stuff if you go to jail?

Also on PS3, name = nothingelseon. Willing to posse up tho am a bad shot - got wasted again in multiplayer last night, 2 of them vs 1 of me in grab the bag - I need some assistance!

bill i send u invite!

added a bunch of you as ps3 pals so don't be alarmed, it's just me

muuuuuuuderrrrrrrr

also, just hooked up an hdmi cable from PS to TV and fucking game changer -- netflix looks GREAT

i'm on PS3 but haven't had any time for this lately - i'm tracerhand though

you can see people milling around and talking by the fire, even dancing. all you can do is stand there mute or shoot them all DO YOU SEE.

yeah, i've run into this feeling a few times. it made me realize how unbelievably crude videogames still are, how limited the actual options for "interactivity" are. that's OK though, crudeness is cool sometimes. something that's surprised me about this is how "videogamey" it is - you spend most of your time doing the same few things - riding, shooting, checking your map. even though the plot is advancing, new areas opening, new cut scenes occur, etc, basically when you sit down with this you know pretty much what you're getting. which i wasn't quite expecting, for some reason.

jimmy have you tried MLB yet? it is the fucking business.

I kinda want to but the last time I had lol MLB Teh SHO I lost 1/3 of my life

I'm on PS3, username: badgerlore

even grinding on this is great! 'cept I'm pretty shit at Blackjack

I'm rg!n35, only with the ! facing the other way

smh @ the times reviewer guy coyly suggesting that the graverobber character is named after him. It's not like the character has anything directly to do with cultural criticism in any way or Seth was an uncommon name in the old west. It's like roger ebert saying "I suppose it is nothing more than coincidence that the troubled, fun-loving hero of the film is named 'Roger' Rabbit..."

http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/

braid at 1, fuck offfff

haha radiohead still stuck at bonnies ranch U SUCK AT LYFE AND GAMES GAYDIOHEAD PWNED

Whatever happened to Bonnie? I thought we had something there.

yeah she very suddenly dropped off the story didn't she.

going to be tricky to get any playtime on this over the next few weeks with the WC now in our laps. so i'll probly return to it in july forgetting how to do just about everything.

sorry to hear about the bathroom in your lap

Seanbaby writes something: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-ways-red-dead-redemption-hates-women/

ew :/

is this guy known in writing about video games? if so, what a sorry fucking state that industry must be in.

I think there are better video game writers like the people who participate in the video game end-of-year things at Slate

I think there are better video game writers like the people who participate in the video game end-of-year things at Slate

And also the people who comment on youtube videos.

dear god that article is str8 "just got a gig doing reviews for the campus weekly and im only a first year!"

what has become of cracked.com!!

oh hah is that actually a spinoff of cracked magazine

jimmy I mean MLB.tv thru the PS3 - it looks phenomenal

I'm totally not trying to be the guy that hates on a good thing, but isn't anybody else experiencing/getting frustrated by bugs and/or inconsistencies in the honor system?

A guy pulls me off my horse and steals it, I whistle and my horse throws him off, and then (while he is still represented by a red circle, mind you), I shoot him, and receive -50 honor! It's not okay to shoot horse thieves?

A guy is like "dude stole my wagon!" so I shoot the thief off of the wagon, no problem. But when I climb into the wagon to return it to its owner, just like in every other "dude stole my wagon" encounter ever, I receive -50 honor! So sometimes you need to return the wagon, and other times you're a thief if you try?

I haven't had that problem!

I'm not an MLB.tv subscriber :C

I haven't had any problems with the honour system when killing thieves. No chance to get back on this til Saturday but looking forward to posse-up with some of y'all hopefully