Red Dead Redemption

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.

I will miss my stupid mule not at all, btw.

lol @ that video

Okay, the postie has just delivered this game to me finally. I'm going in.

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

Never had a free roam that wasn't at least 1/3 asshole, but had a good one last night where a bunch of guys took over the Mexican fort with the wall mounted cannons, and just holed up there for about an hour destroying everything that came near it.

Capture the bag is quite funny, with the narrator's constant "You've got the bag! You dropped the bag. You have control of the bag! You dropped the bag." Don't play these sort of games much in MP usually so not sure if hiding behind a rock near the enemy drop off point and shooting guys in the head when they get within six feet of it makes me an asshole or not.

EEK

i bought a PS3

and i have logged approx 5,000,000,000,000 hours with this game

has anybody tried to get drunk yet? i was going to do that last night but i got involved in some shit

oh shi-! nice

did you pick anything else up?

i downloaded Flower - amazing!!

and Wipeout HD is sitting there like an unopened Christmas present.

i'll most likely pick up Heavy Rain.

after which i may actually very well sell it back to the shop. my interest in games is very narrow and i'm not really aware of others that i'm interested in.

i'm surprised by how stiff and weird "realistic" videogame human beings still are in 2010. i think i'd prefer all games to just abandon any pretense at photorealism and stick with cartoony versions for now. i mean if even Pixar insists on cartoony humans i'm not sure how the PS3 is supposed to able to do any better in realtime..

but back to Red Dead..

I think RDR and Uncharted 2 both had decently realistic humans but the eyes always look wrong, way too shiny and bright like they have lightbulbs inside their skulls

Have to drag myself away from this game for a bit. Spent most of the first couple of hours on the game huntin & shootin, which I guess is the norm. Surprised when a boar charged my horse! Bagged three of those, and four cougars. There're a lot of cougars out there. They're not that difficult to kill, but they always get my horse.
Do I just sell all my meat/hides etc, or will I actually need any of it?

Just arrived in Armadillo...

I sold all my meat and hides but have superstitiously held on to my herbs. Mmm herbs.

has anyone completed the flowers for my lady side-quest?

yup :D

did you bump her?

no!

a minutes googling reveals it would have been funny :(

spoilers

her head falls off o_O

I didn't even know you could walk around in there! I thought it was a cut scene.

Is everyone you meet in the game crazy?

i did the mission w/ the dead fiancee/crazy lady combo. I can't lasso people tho. It's hard.

Protip: You can deadeye with the lasso

no so pro :P

lol +t

does the honor meter shut off at some point? i killed many innocents last night including a blackjack dealer who had 21 3 outta 4 hands but i never saw the honor meter pop up.

just read one of the newspapers, has anyone seen anything 'spooky' at Tumbleweed? i did.

I am officially a knight of the west and have maxed out my honor bar. Heading back to deal with Irish as that's the last of my outstanding letters on the map. High points lately: dealing with the horse fucker, cleaning out all the gang hideouts, having a man steal my horse/whistling for horse/dude getting bucked off/me roping and hogtieing him and leaving him in the road

Have you done any Irish missions before?

Yep; just finished the snake oil salesman and the grave robber and I think I just have to do two with Irish and I'll be ready for an assault on the mission.

Just played four hours of multiplayer with some pals. I need to sleep.

spending waaaaaay too much time on this generally wandering and hunting rather than doing owt - played 3 or 4 hours last night - did 3 missions.

Don't think I've hit 20 hours so quickly on a game for ages.

hunting does have the oregon trail appeal, dunnit.

I know I can deadeye w/ the lasso but how do I hogtie. I think my timing is screwy. I am also trying to do it from horseback;

1) lasso a person

2) Hold L2; press triangle?

do I automatically dismount from horse if trying to lasso from horse?

no. You can lasso from horse or on foot. You have to run up and touch the lasso'd person while they're still on the ground and hit the hogtie button (Y on xbox, not sure on PS3)
I just went south of the border and the amazing and very clearly directorially planned moment with the jose gonzalez music was awesome. Then i got eaten by wolves.
this is a lot less like GTA and a lot more like fallout 3 i do believe.

so you throw lasso, hold the button you throw with, then direct the horse/walk to the person and "tap" triangle or "press n hold" triangle?

L2 is the button you don't want to let go of, not the throw button (R2).

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

xbox vs ps3 confusion for me

left trigger vs. right trigger.

okay i'm back on Xbox gold, so had a very quick look at free roam in multiplay tonight.

is the ilx posse up and running?

Dunno, I'm MichaelAnnoyman if you want to add me

cozen seems to be playing last decade's popular "Bayonetta", the square

anyone on PS3 want to commit muuuuuuurrrrdddeeeeerrrrr