Red Dead Redemption

Z S, I finished that "make a profit in blackjack" thing by winning a $2 bet and quitting, and you can just quit over and over again until your cheap bet pays off without any negative effect.

I don't mind the cut scenes at all, but what appeals to me with this game, and these kind of games, is the story aspect. I'm not just waiting for the next bit where I have to shoot some guys again.

I've only played Horseshoes so far. First time for a $1 bet and I beat the guy quite easily, so I raised it to a $10 bet on the second game and he thrashed me. Like, no contest.

Is Tumbleweed actually haunted? I've wandered around there at the dead of night, and it's pretty spooky, especially the house on the hill - wind howling, owls hooting, eerie music - but I haven't seen anything.

Still can't find the buried treasure, and I've been all over that damned hill up past Hanging Rock.

yeah, the treasure is frustrating. I may have to youtube those.

I just played free roam for like four hours with a bunch of guys that didn't kill everyone for no reason

By the end I was just driving around in stagecoaches holding lit dynamite and crashing into people

the 3rd treasure map, with just a picture of the house is pretty ??? is that tumbleweed?

the first arm-wrestling match I had pop up was ended by a rattlesnake before I could join.

forks - you were far away from the main scrum. i kept getting killed and i think you left before i could find you. i am 'tehdead' btw.

HA i'm on the sixth treasure map, it's been my favourite part. it reminds me of the stealing cars for steve mission in gta4, where all you were given was a photo of a car in a 'location' unknown.

i am rubbish at all those poker, dice etc games.

i am now in mexico and it looks rather fab.

i saw a hanging woman in tumbleweed, and when i went back she wasn't there. dunno if it was meant to be a ghost or what. also for a derelict place, it had a few too many lights on. again, not sure if that was a ghostly thing or a coding error. pretty spooky tho, but a lot of the places in this game are at night anyway

i think you can buy back issues of newspapers, i came across somewhere that was offering that to me somewhere. (might have misread tho)

i really love the plants and trees in this game, so so real the way they've been arranged. Sometimes i wish that i could just grab a dirt bike tho and vroom around.

Can def buy back issues. Try the train station in Armadillo.

and just another critism, the main missions are a bit too easy. i can't recall many missions that i've had to try twice.

*spoiler warning*
even on that last first half mission, after the machine gun part, finishing off the guys in the fort. i went to press the cover button but accidentally jumped right into the thick of dozens of bad guys and still somehow managed to survive.

maybe i'm just a wicked gunslinger.

SPOILER

Only mission I've had any trouble with so far is when you assault that house to rescue the hostages inside. I never died, but I kept having trouble killing the guy holding a gun to the hostage's head before he could pull the trigger. Took me 2 or 3 times to get it.

additional spoiler to mordy above

i remember that one i think. and i i blazed in without any care for the hostages lol, i even shot the girl in the last room and she survived. unless you're talking about another hostage mission later on.

AGAIN spoiler

fucking love that mission on the raft, and the music when mexico opens. haha wow.

I'm glad it's a bit easier than previous GTAs; I've never finished a GTA because I've been bogged down by the difficulty. I def think there's a strong possibility I'll finish RDR

Yeah, same here

I was thinking that I've never failed on a mission, but it's just that restarting is so painless you don't really notice when you've failed a mission. Dead Eye is a bit of a win button, though. Also not sure I'll ever have the co-ordination to shoot people in expert mode.

I've just done the save Bonnie from being hanged mission and, duels aside, it was the first and only time I've used Dead Eye at all. I just never remember I have it, or I just haven't needed it 'till now. Your gun locks onto people (+ animals) easy enough anyway, even at full pace on horseback, I don't see there's much need of it. Yet anyway.

no i agree, the instant lock on is good enough most of the time. times that i use it are for v.long range shots that seem to hit more with the dead eye method, and also for cougar attacks.

oh and of course when shooting stuff that it won't lock onto, like hanging ropes

I find the instant lock isn't really good enough when you need to take out a huge group of people before being killed, or trying to hit really small game (like armadillos) as they run away.

You tend to need it on the Free Roam gang hideouts, because you're outnumbered by a bunch of pissed off guys who are much better at hitting you in the head than the single player grunts.

and peoples hats

the problem i have with people's hats is that it tends to paint the guy's face before i can move it to the hat. i can't wait for it to shift to manual paint, cause i've killed so many people while just trying to shoot their hats off.

i can't wait for it to shift to manual paint

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i've yet to come across a sniper rifle, which i'm gagging for too.

I think in Mexico, the auto aim starts to slacken a tetch.
I would also kill a man for a snipe rifle.

slight spoiler

i killed the water diviner, because when i finished the mission (and he complained that i'd gotten blood on the deed) he was using binoculars. so i thought that if i killed him i'd get the binocs. it didn't happen but at least i got the deed back, not sure i can use it for anything tho.

I too have not noticed the fame or honour meter popping up anymore either.

lol. I was doing a live bounty and the goons chasing me killed him while I was transporting him. Epic save-your-friend failz.

And there are three dead-eye stages. The first is you hit dead-eye and then you can target while the game has slowed down. The second stage you just roll the cursor over targets and it paints on little target things. Then you hit trigger and you can shoot like 6 people at once. The third stage (which I'm not at yet), you actually hit a button to paint on targets, it doesn't auto-paint. So you have a lot more control over your targets.

lolxp

ah i wondered why the painting only appeared halfway through my game. thanks, that explains it. yeah that last stage sounds crucially useful.

has anyone done many of those close up kills? they are fucking brutal graphically, oh man.

is there any snow in this game? i thought i saw some on the trailer, but i can't find anywhere on the map

So is there an achievement for buying every rentable house? Cause I've got the money for it, but I can't really see any use for having a house/apartment in every town.

Btw: I have high hopes for Fallout New Vegas, but this is (so far at least) my favorite game of the year by far, and maybe my second favorite game of the contemporary era (this gen consoles) after Fallout 3.

the mexican map looks gorgeous, there's some amazing towns - it all reminds me of being on holidays.

haha i'm helping some dude to build a plane. Loved the cut scene dialogue "..I'll get you that stuff for yer, because I just HAVE to see you jump off that cliff"

i played this today sat real close to the screen in my beanbag, to admire the beautiful graphics. just love riding along in the storms.

is there any snow in this game? i thought i saw some on the trailer, but i can't find anywhere on the map

there is some to the northwest of where the boars are, north of the macfarlane ranch, but there is nothing of note in the area

just some snow

the third unlocked territory after mexico has mountains and snow.

Ugh. Had three boar tusks for the challenge (and a bunch of other animals, like half an hour of hunting + skinning) and a cougar came out of nowhere, hit me, I rolled down a hill and couldn't stand up to deadeye before he finished the job. Meh!

cougars are totally the blue shells of this game

rrr it's telling me i've only been to 44/45 new austin areas, but they're all showing on the map.

the game must get confused between locations you've been to and those you've unlocked with maps -- just bought a map for an area i'd been and it gave me the unlock.

Ah, so wearing the bandana stops any fame and honour amendments. shit a brick i've been playing most of the game with mine on!

my horse just collapsed under me, i have no idea why.

and i now have my third level of dead eye

my horse just collapsed under me, i have no idea why.

rattlesnakes!

Ah, so wearing the bandana stops any fame and honour amendments

ohhhhh

i actually quite dig the cougar thing, it's pretty hairy just getting off your horse in the arse end of nowhere having to keep your wits about you.

gives the game an edge

riding your horse over tiled floors makes a sweet clip clop sound

oh man, has anyone else seen some of the graffiti? there are phrases written on walls here and there -- apparently those are the cheats

i played with forks. he shot me in head. o:(

http://www.c95.com/files/u20/how_rude.jpg

hahahahah, it was totally an accident!
We were storming the fort and when we won, you fired in the air and I tried to do the same! And then I domed you.