Red Dead Redemption

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

?

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.

it was fun playing! I just wish we could've communicated.

Mexico is amazing

i was just about ready to launch my assault and unlock mexico but my horse died right before the big race - the one i'd spent hours getting to know! so fuck - i spent a good while looking for the kentucky saddler but never found him so finally i just went on an all-night hunting binge, levelling up enough to buy the kentucky saddler outright

something happened while out hunting that sums up this game, and all its nonsensical, fabulous breathlessness

1 - trying to kill a coyote i somehow ended up aiming straight down into my horse and pulled the trigger (!)
2 - my horse was still alive but my honor dropped and suddenly lawmen were on my tail
3 - trying to outrun them, i heard the sound of a train and realized one was headed past right in front of me
4 - i managed to race the train and dart just in front of it, cutting off the lawmen and saving my sorry ass!

total movie moment

cool. could you not have just jumped onto the train, giving the lawmen the bird whilst you steam off into the distance?

The first mission you do for the establishment side in Mexico has similar potential for cinematic train chaos. Had a guy and his horse get ground up by one last night, which I thought didn't happen.

After having to kill so many people to get to Mexico I tried to make my first act there shooting some coyotes that were trying to eat a guy, but I popped him by mistake. Then some bystanders opened fire on me from behind and I had to deadeye them to not die, then went on a chain of trying to silence 2-3 other witnesses because I thought the Mexican police might be a bit heavy. Then in the course of fleeing I saw a random event I hadn't seen before with three Mexican army guys about to execute a crying peasant guy in a quite sinister looking way, but when I shot them I got in trouble. Try to do a good deed: end up a serial killer.

AN' THAT'S LEYF.

If you pull level with a train you can press X to jump onto it, yeah.

The other day I was watching these two guys cross the rails when I heard the train come in the distance. I paused to look for a bit as one of the two guys rode onto the track and then waited. The train came. The man was crushed. I lol'd.

As for snow, you can find it in the north of Hannigan's Stead, as far up as you can go, by the mountain. I was up there hunting boar, it's quite cool, you can see your footprints in the snow. The view across the valley is amazing. I was looking out and a fierce breeze blew through the trees. I thought, a storm is rolling in. And one did. So epic.

srsly want to play this

Some people invited me to be in a posse

I went to the hideout they were working on and helped them

Then one of them shot me and they rode off

I chased them down and shot all four of them in about ten seconds

Then they voted to kick me

I am determined to stay at 0 honor, no matter how many nuns (-100) it takes. are there any children anywhere?

xp yeah that is about the standard multiplayer exp afaik

democrazy!

xp

the joke was on them, because I needed to go bed

100%

u crazy

u R crazy, dang

I haven't even unlocked Mexico yet because I keep wandering off to the fields to sit around on my horse and do nothing much

You are gonna love wandering around in Mexico, it's gorgeous.

argh so wanna go home and kick it with this game - had it for two weeks and I think I'm still in tutorial mode...

So it took me two times at the horse race to realize that I actually need to KEEP HITTING X in order to make my horse go super fast!

The entire game I've just been holding X once I get up to "top" speed. GUHHHHH. It was a piece of cake after that - I even fell off my horse once and still won easily.

Pretty turned off by the leering Mexican accents - hopefully this will be balanced out soon.

One thing about Mexico - five minutes after crossing the border I got stopped by a bunch of Federales who had their guns pointed at me! Fuck, I killed em all, what did they expect? Now I've got a bounty on my head although no one seems to give a shit. Guess I should pay it off, or use that pardon I've still got. I don't even know if they have a telegraph office in Perdido, though. (I too am doing the good guy thing..)

nice work, goole, 100%? is there any equivalent of GTA's pigeons in this?

As goole mentioned above, it is sort of creepy how American Indians have just been totally erased from this version of the Wild West.. I know it's 1911 and all but.. I guess I should just let it go. Ugh.

I am gonna do the proto-airplane mission if it KILLS ME. I remember hearing the girl talking on the train at the very beginning of the game about "flying machines" or whatever, remembered that the game takes place in 1911 and was like I AM DOING THAT.