Red Dead Redemption

had a bug yesterday: playing poker in armadillo, the other players turned all blocky and pixely for a few rounds. their hands looked like digitized lobster claws. eventually they changed back.

lobster claw > full house iirc

yeah that's a hell of a tell

haha

http://kotaku.com/5542271/red-dead-redemptions-truly-truly-dastardly-achievement

(spoilers sorta)

i was going to do just that very thing the other day, but then my horse got killed by a cougar.

I tried a version of that where I hogtied a guy hunting deer and poured some bait on his head. The animals didn't eat him :(

ppk

had a bug yesterday: playing poker in armadillo, the other players turned all blocky and pixely for a few rounds. their hands looked like digitized robster craws. eventually they changed back.
--congratulations (n/a)

what the fuck are robster craws

how do i dig for treasure?

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, May 26, 2010 4:39 AM (11 hours ago)

when you get to the right spot you'll get a prompt ("investigate?" maybe). if you haven't gotten that, you aren't in the right spot yet.

lol at "ppk"

thanks iphone

ah, there's the issue. I thought I needed to buy a shovel or something.

My main issue with this game is: riding along minding my own business, "help save my baby" from the side of the road, i pull off my horse and before I know what's up someone is shooting at me, I return fire, kill some old lady and now the game is shaking its head at me with a what were you thinking attitude. then, cougar attack.

Not even sure if that's an issue, but it's constant. Just finished my first few lines of plot and a few missions (american appetites just got stupid by the end); on my way to figure out how to do the trojan horse thing.

I just met my first cougar :O

The meeting did not go well

dudes you gotta go into dead eye on the tougher animals

dead eye doesn't help when they drag you down from behind and then you dont get a chance to get up

Im at the hunting mission where I need to kill two cougars with my bare hands and I cant seem to find any who want to kill me =\

my insatiable desire to lasso peeps and drag them down the railroad tracks at high horse speed is making me question my moral underpinnings.

it's ok so long as they're not black

hmm how much of this is bullshit i wonder

From: proletariat | Posted: 5/22/2010 3:00:00 AM |
shots that always end in a one shot draw are;
gun
head
heart(slightly higher than the middle, always on the upper right of their chest (so your left)
hat(sometimes)
ear
genitals
gun hand elbow

two shot showstoppers:
hat than gun
hat than hat again
both knees
both hands above the wrist line

I hate to ruin anyones suprise, but you can make em "dance boy"

empty a clip of perfect reticules round their feet they will freak out and drop their gun

crazy how no matter how many times i get caught cheating at poker, people are still willing to play against me after the duel.

did i somehow miss how to cheat at poker?

gotta dress nice

ohhhhhh interesting

i have never not gotten caught when i cheat at poker

so i stopped playing poker.

Should be on this from about 8/9pm GMT/BST if anyone wants to posse up (am on 360). Gamertag Jimdoo if you don't already have me.

yeah cheating at poker for me is a surefire way to lose 50 bucks no matter what. The one time I was successful at it I managed to sneak a 7 of clubs into my hand. Good job.

how is the multiplayer anyhow? ive still not renewed my live gold, and i think i should for this and gta4

It has a few cool aspects but ultimately people who play GTA deathmatch are the lowest scum in the multiplayer universe.

can't even imagine. GTA is terrible as a pure shooter, who could even enjoy that

So the horse you get at the end of Bonnie's quest chain, is that a "fast" horse or a normal horse? (Should I be looking for an upgrade?)

Not to toot my own horn, but that mix I made is awesome to play with this game.

I was wondering the same thing, Mordy. Reeeeally wish there was a way to look up information for your horse.

lol. the movies shown at the movie house in Armadillo are hilarious

i wonder how true they are to the era

the one about the snake oil salesmean is really funny, not seen the others.

People in the Wild West were really mediocre poker players.

That guy who wanted the flowers for his wife is weird as hell.

went back to the boar spot today and was attacked by ten or eleven of them. really weird. then two cougars immediately ran up to help me get the next hunting level.

They probably smelled the boar blood.

Ended up doing about 5 hours of free roam with 3 friends last night and it was AMAZING. It's true that public games are full of nobbers, but co-opping on gang hideouts with a party is so much fun.

I'm now hugely looking forward to this - http://www.joystiq.com/2010/05/05/red-dead-redemption-getting-free-co-op-dlc-this-june/

Yeah, splitting up and ambushing gang guys in hideouts with a few random other players can be pretty cinematic. I need to keep doing it because every time I play multiplayer I get slaughtered by guys who've leveled up enough to start with good guns.

In multiplayer, you can get auto-targeting on NPCs but not other players, right? I've read people complaining about how pointless auto-target is in MP but whenever I've had to try and defend myself from knobs in free roam I've had to try and manually aim the cursor at them.

Dunno, played a few shootouts and I'm pretty sure auto-targeting stayed on all the time. Didn't try any public free roam though, so maybe that's different?

That's the thing, I definitely feel like I'm getting auto-shot but when I try to return fire it's just trying to line a cursor up with a guy who's running round in circles with the left trigger held down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD2ywdtvK-8

really wish you could drop weapons.

Why?

you end up carrying a lot of crap that you don't shoot anymore

it's not like there's encumbrance tho...

Ok for the first time on xbox maybe ever, all the dudes in my multiplayer session were not assholes!

So the early levels must be easy to ramp up huh? 30 minutes to level 7.