Red Dead Redemption

yeah, one's a direct capture the other's a cellcam pic off an SD tv

of the nds version

at dusk

you can't ride the horse on 360? shit

yeah, no triangle button i guess.

unfortunate I guess but there's got to be some trade-off for those extra pixels

One of those pictures is in diffuse cloudy light, and the other is in direct starlight.

one of those horses has built up "relationship points" with the user, the other hasn't

one of those horses has denied your friend request, the other hasnt

uhhh what is a horse all i see is a transport

all i see is a relationship

PS3 shot was snapped from the back of a passing horse

I wish I were playing this right now. They claimed they shipped out my Xbox on Monday, but UPS hasn't shown any pick-up activity yet (only billing information received). Maybe I'll luck out and get it by the weekend.

vote forks compiles and uploads a custom soundtrack for this

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PC5BNPDVL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5116M6KSQGL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Only if soundtrack is as well curated as that Fallout 3 soundtrack someone (forks? someone) made here a bit ago.

http://dkpresents.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/alturkkaan_ennio_morricone_-_the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_-_expanded1.jpg

Forks made it. It had some real nice tracks on it.

trying to exert impulse control on this one but man i am having a hard time doing so, esp since i feel like price drops on this are going to be like a million years from now, judging by the effusive praise its getting.

thought it might come in the mail today, it didn't. makes me feel like when I was 11 and lived overseas and ordered this:

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/atari-st-games/18-1.jpg

and it took like 6 months for me to get it. or maybe it just felt like 6 months.

memories lasted a lifetime tho

Does PS3 version support custom soundtracks? If not maybe that will be my decider

it does yup

i am so inordinately excited about this that i will do something drastic if i'm disappointed by it: i.e. bitch on this thread.

this game is sitting right in front of me but there is no xbox to play it on b/c of bloody rrod. next time my 360 gets rrod, putting it out of warranty, i'm just getting a ps3. fuck this shit.

you could always pretend that you are playing meta-game Read Redemption of Death

you could get all your xbox games together and pretend they are action figures

this is dope imho but my one moan so far is that the game does a pretty good job of drawing me into the setting and the characters, and then someone wants me to race horses or do a timed challenge shooting birds, and suddenly i can see straight thru the old west lacquer to GTA underneath and it spoils the wahmbience. i kinda wish they had played it straighter.

I would think random dudes challenging you on rep to impromptu shooting or riding contests was probably more common in the old west than it was in 2004 new york city or whatever

Since I couldn't play this, I watched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance instead. So good.

For those who've actually played this, how's the sound design?

okay, I'm gonna get this on 360
and i'm gonna make y'all a custom country soundtrack now too.

this is rad. sound design is really good as far as i can tell. i just experienced my first rainstorm and the wind, rain, and thunder rolling through the hills was spot on. guns sound like the should. not too light, not too meaty. they've got a little echo to them that sounds (i imagine) realistic. horses look beautiful and sound like horses. horse footsteps on wooden floors are good and heavy sounding. nice touch. i was expecting a straight morricone pastiche of a soundtrack but it's a little more varied and subtle for the most part.

it's the same basic gameplay as any of the GTA games, but it still manages to feel significantly different tbh. thus far.

Since I couldn't play this, I watched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance instead. So good.

― Mordy, Wednesday, May 19, 2010 8:08 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

maybe i'll do that tonight...

Okay gents, here's a first volume of a red dead country mix. It's all over the place recording wise but there's a clear throughline for intention I think.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KJCRC4BQ

Here's the tracks in no particular order; I'd recommend shuffle here.

Buck Owens - I Got A Tiger By the Tail(1965)
Cherryholmes - Black and White (2007)
Cherryholmes - Don't Believe (2008)
Anonymous Young Girls - Hopali (1930's?)
The Carter Family - See That My Grave Is Kept Green (1933)
Cinderella G Stump - Temptation (1947)
The Carter Family - Keep On the Firing Line (1941)
Chet Atkins - Tennessee Stud (?)
Bill Monroe and Doc Watson - Chicken Reel (1963)
Alex Hood's Railroad Boys - L and N Rag (?)
Alfred G Karnes - I Am Bound for the Promised Land (?)
Alfred G Karnes - We Shall All Be Reunited (?)
Basil May - The Lady of Carlisle (?)
The Carver Boys - Sisco Harmonica Blues (?)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Lulu Wall (1939)
Buell Kazee - A Short Life of Trouble (1939)
Charlie Bowman and His Brothers - Moonshiner and His Money (1929)
Blue Highway - Where Did the Morning Go? (2007)
Charlie Poole and The North Carolina Ramblers - If the River Was Whiskey (?)
Cal Stewart - Monkey on a String (?)
Ben Curry - I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop (?)
Ben Curry - It's A Fight Like That (?)
Daddy Stovepipe and Mississippi Sarah - The Spasm (?)
Bill Carlisle - Feet Don't Fail Me (?)
Asher Sizemore and Little Jimmie - Little Jimmie's Goodbye to Jimmie Rodgers (?)

Impressions (and in-game usage stories) very much welcome.

Btw, sorta off-topic, but if any of you are interested in Westerns, and particular The Searchers and The Man Who Shot..., Robert Pippin had a piece in Critical Inquiry recently called "What is a Western? Politics and Self-Knowledge in John Ford's The Searchers" that is really amazing and an incredible read. I've got a copy if anyone wants (get in touch and I'll send it along). It's about how these films mythologize the civilizing of America by demonstrating how society is formed on top of violent encounters, and how that violence is never fully sublimated. Tho I haven't gotten to RDR yet, it's clearly a trope that's embraced by the game -- a man who has formed a family but is called forth by his violent history.

He's got this coming out this week: http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Westerns-American-Myth-Importance/dp/0300145772

Kinda serendipitous to have RDR + this book in the same month, at least for me.

Whoops, forgot to eat dinner tonight!

It is seriously thrilling to start a deathmatch with a big standoff.

http://files.erichscholz.com/uploaded_images/Great_silence-732437.jpg

It seems that renowned early dispatchers shopto.net are basically the only games retailer in the UK that didn't send this out early.

hands up if you want to join

posse, money, weed & beer

I played this drunk last night and my horse got killed by some rampaging animal. So I got upset and starting killing anyone I came across to get their horse. I guess your not allowed to murder fools for their horses when you think its convenient. I guess youre supposed to find a riderless horse out there..?

It seems that renowned early dispatchers shopto.net are basically the only games retailer in the UK that didn't send this out early.

tesco sent mine out today and say it will take 3-5 days so not so early over here :(

will probably not get mine until monday either :( x1000000

yeah got email from amazon today, dispatched, arrive Saturday. but i put my works address on the order. DOH.

will look forward to monday anyway

was kind of considering going out to buy this today, but looks like it'll be tomorrow.

was pissed ranting about this to non-game playing friend in pub tonight, i don't think he was quite on my level of excitement.