Red Dead Redemption

looks like i chose a terrible week to send my xbox off with Red Ring Of Death

UK only. :(

I thought this was coming out tomorrow but its not until 5/18

=(

aw it's only a week off, cant wait. just caught the tv ad again.

Who wants to place money on when the first MAJOR bug hits, a la GTAIV?

don't want to bring a faint air of car boot sale to the thread but this can be had from tesco for £27 w/codes & quidco for uklxors

http://www.gamestracker.com/int/extprice.asp?id=13368465

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Totally buying this. Without question.

really hoping this at least provides me with more than an evenings entertainment, which all my recent purchases lately have failed to do.

ste, apparently this is basically GTA: the western

I'm sure it'll have pigeons or some equivalent for you to find ;)

map.jpg is... intersting!!

how are the edges of the map walled off in game terms, i wonder? unscaleable mountains?

first non-square play area i've seen in a sandbox game

ha! cozen, know me faar too well

without copters and such, this'll be a beast to traverse.

i can't believe i'm actually girly excited about riding horses in a vid game

somehow totally managed to not notice the existence of this game. Looks good.

i bet there's railroad based fast movement

Who wants to place money on when the first MAJOR bug hits

and will the bug be one of the npc's malfunctioning and stalking the player FOREVER through the game?

xp, ah yes forgot about the trains

i bet there's railroad based fast movement

Or by boat. There is a giant river through the middle of the thing.

no swimming in this though, which is a throwback to GTA3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NUjbORZueU

I wonder if they'll do DLC episodes for this too; hope so

gta makers have a knack of creating really great characters as well, this looks like no exception

oh man is that wes studi's voice?!?

The thing about potential bugs and having 500 NPCs with their own personalities/routines reminds me of the Oblivion guys saying they actually had to scale back and limit the AI because of the problems it caused; they had a guy in a village work in a field at certain times of the day but somebody else in the village used his hoe or some shit and he attacked him for stealing it and the village ended up rioting in a way that broke the game

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SbqmniDL190/SPC2LyRHBBI/AAAAAAAABE0/HOlgZDLPHEw/s320/westworld.jpg

http://sharetv.org/images/guide/337843.jpg

ordered from tesco a dilion.

time to go on media blackout
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Eurogamer review up

rave in 2days nyt

my wife preordered this for me for my birthday. don't know how amazon times these things but hopefully I should get it this week.

Despite the temptation to chop and change between horses (different breeds offer different levels of obedience, speed or stamina), there are benefits in sticking to a favourite, as in time you build loyalty which results in stamina bonuses, allowing you to run at full pelt for longer before tiring the horse. As you begin to clock up the miles together across, hill, canyon and stream, you form a bond - and this relationship between protagonist and transport, the kind alluded to in the great Westerns, is undoubtedly one of Red Dead Redemption's greatest successes.

cool!

time to go on media blackout

You've played this, right?

allowing you to run at full pelt

inventing new meanings for "pelt?"

Never mind, I just am not used to seeing it as "rush or hurry."

Should I go to my Gamestop release party for this tonight at 12:01??

only if you go in costume

I'll dress like John Wayne in Liberty Vallance.

http://www.distinctlymontana.com/uploads/Fall_06_Mag/Articles/2%20inspire/dorthy%20johnson/big/recycled_cinema_john_wayne_montana.jpg

How do I shot Liberty Valance?

Via Mitch Krpata, here's a collection of quotes from that NY Times guy:

"In the more than 1,100 articles I have written for this newspaper since 1996, I have never before called anything a tour de force. Yet there is no more succinct and appropriate way to describe Red Dead Redemption."

"Nier does many different things at such a high level of sophistication and accessibility that I cannot think of another single game of recent years that more faithfully represents the sheer intellectual breadth of modern video games."

"I have probably spent 10,000 hours playing various sorts of electronic games. But no single-player experience has made me as genuinely nervous, unsettled, surprised, emotionally riven and altogether involved as Heavy Rain... No other game in recent memory has forced me to reach for a blanket at 11 a.m. because I am literally shivering in nervous tension."

"Even more important to a great game of this sort is that it provide players with a world they actually care about saving (in this case defeating the demon menace by rallying mages, elves, dwarves and men to the cause). That means setting, plot and personalities, and it is in these elements that Dragon Age is perhaps the best electronic game yet made."

"No game this year will be more controversial and more easily misrepresented than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. That is because it revolves around the most provocative, forcefully uncomfortable and emotionally disturbing scene yet built into interactive entertainment."

"Uncharted 2 is perhaps the best-looking game on any system, and no game yet has provided a more genuinely cinematic entertainment experience."

"No game so far this year delivers a deeper, more fully realized aesthetic experience than Brütal Legend."

"By reinterpreting an essential symbol of one generation in the medium and technology of another, The Beatles: Rock Band provides a transformative entertainment experience. In that sense it may be the most important video game yet made."

"Even as I was losing game after game to the likes of the Pirates and the Royals, it was obvious that MLB 10 is perhaps the most finely calibrated, lusciously animated, fanatically detailed team sports game yet made."

"Lara Croft should go run and hide in a closet because Bayonetta, the character, is both more alluring and more powerful than any female game lead I can recall. Likewise, Bayonetta, the game, is more alluring and more powerful than any big-budget game to come out of Japan in recent years."

"Batman: Arkham Asylum may not provide the definitive superhero experience, but it is the finest, most intelligent comic-book game yet and one of the best video games of the year."

"Fight Night Round 4 is, for now, the greatest of all time. There has never been a more visceral, precise and natural electronic simulation of hand-to-hand combat."

"Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is one of the most subversive, provocative video games of recent years. It may also be one of the most important, not because of its content but because of how it is delivered."

"As an essential, visceral science-fiction combat fantasy, Killzone 2 is one of the most enjoyable console shooters yet."

lolololol

hes a good dude. just a little enthusiastic

you probably have to be hyperbolic to get video games covered in the NYT, I'm guessing. If you can't justify it as "the best ever" or "important" in some way, they're not going to cover it.

sounds oscar worthy

mighty traversy

that horse things sounds interesting, i hope there's more cool stuff like that involved.

I like Scheisel's enthusiasm; I get more annoyed with his need to make bizarre analogies with major news events to games.

I wonder how they recorded the sounds for this. You need to get the rifle, shotgun, and pistol sounds just right for proper western fun.

i dont trust this shit