Red Dead Redemption

this thread inspired me to watch the wild bunch tonight

is red dead redemption as good as the wild bunch?

if you tame a wild horse it constantly wanders off

that was like some dr phil relationship talk right there

I got off my horse once and turn around and suddenly it's perched high up on a boulder lol

got it. an hour later i'm still in tutorial.

The horse will come running to you if you whistle.

meant to spend a couple of hours on this last night, looked at watch and it was past one, not good when you;re supposed to be on early child-wrangling duties. Mostly single player with a wee bit of free roam - am loving the hunting, have managed to get up a few levels - the potential to while away a tranquil hour just wandering, taking in the views and shooting boar and deer - lovely.

Acting is pretty cool, good dialogue so far, especially liked the sherriff in armadillo - only thing am not loving so far is the cover mechanic - seems really clunky and unresponsive - minor gripe tho.

Watched "High Plains Drifter" tonight for the first time ever. Jesus Christ.

jesus, the sky in this game

srsly

the nighttime atmospherics is what gets me, especially when you go for a wander and all of a sudden there's a wild boar charging you

Is there a free-look button? I feel like I want to zoom in on scenery a lot of the time but I just end up accidentally getting a gun out.

The first time I died and woke up at the savepoint I was at 20 minutes ago was a sobering shift from GTA mechanics.

right stick is look around, but there's no zoom, I see in the stats that there's one for binocular use tho, so later in the game we may well get some.

I wish you could drop off hogtied criminals somewhere for honour/fame/cash

(non-bounty criminals that is, like the random hustlers you encounter while riding around)

hands up if you want to join

the shartshooters

*hands up*

yes plz

i'm in. been running around all morning shooting crows and deer and coyotes. VARMINTS

My horse got attacked by wolves and in the confusion I shot my horse in the neck. Woops.

i want to buy this and i don't even have a current gen system

― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Friday, May 21, 2010 10:56 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

like pretty bad

stayed up way too late last night playing texas hold 'em and forgetting to go shoot shit and ride horses.

xxxpost yeah i tried to help out a lady getting harassed by a drunk and ended up shooting both of them D:

the first thunderstorm you see while riding is whoa

So my 360 finally arrived in Secaucus NJ, a 23 minute drive from my apartment. I hope it comes in tonight, otherwise I won't get to play this till Monday!

It's happened to me twice that I've seen a guy standing on his own in the middle of the wilderness, waving his hands and looking scared, and then I've got off my horse to talk to him, he's immediately tried to ride off on it, and I've shot him and then lost 50 honour as a result.

I too have accidentally shot my horse in the neck, minutes after maxing out its loyalty. I did not skin it. Do you know why? It was out of respect.

anyone found a treasure map? what the hell are those about

you can use them to find treasure

*slaps forehead*

okay a mate said he was riding in this game and saw some bloke get off a horse and take a piss. anyone?

that there seems to be a regular occurrence in these parts.

if someone steals your horse whistle for it and it'll throw him off

I saw a guy pissing in the outhouse outside the bar in Armadillo, complete with animated jet of piss. I bumped into him and he fell over.

His cock wasn't out when he got up though.

goddam this game

I was wondering for a while how to capture outlaws alive until I figured it out by doing Bonnie missions. I don't think I understand how to use cover yet or make the relationship with my horse go up. It's also hard to tell which horses are what kind but I'm loving the game for the atmosphere and stuff... hopefully it won't get old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q7v4F8r9Og

lol sandbox games always have the best bugs.

the perfect woman amirite

Good lord I love this game. Riding around at dawn, hunting some deer, yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw

I can confirm that Marston CANNOT swim. I found a cool looking waterfall and thought I'd take a dip, but the instant his head went underwater he died.

Ugh, that sucks.

sucks for HIM!!!

"I never learnt to swim!"
"LOL the fall fact that this is a common problem in just about every video game ever (except Ecco the Dolphin) will kill us"

Tho I guess it's somewhat genre-appropriate (thinking of Butch Cassidy freaking out about leaping off the cliff because he can't swim)

Of course, I WOULD blow all my money on an expensive horse just a few minutes before obtaining the free mission completion horse.

to be fair, that was a common hazard in the old west

I want to kill everyvody I play horseshoes with

played blackjack for an hour and a half last night and lost about $10 :/

I fuckin hate horseshoes
i had no idea i wanted to play texas hold em so much.

liar's dice is fun

glad they corrected my main issue w/GTAIV: the mini games and peripheral activities (hunting, random prairie encounters) are mostly actually fun this time out