Red Dead Redemption

Btw, I've posted my tag on the Xbox tag thread, but if anyone wants to add me, I'm 'Shinefield'

So I've got a ton of flowers, mostly from doing the challenges. Besides the bouquet stranger quest, is there any reason to keep them, or should I sell it all off? (Also re: pelts + meat and stuff. I had read that some people can turn that stuff into cool items, but I haven't run into any of that yet. Maybe it'll be on DLC?)

and yeah i've seen the suicide couple before!!

I just met another couple, in Mexico. This time though the woman drank from a bottle then just collapsed dead beside her partner.

It's not just the Mexicans who get a raw deal character wise, what about Irish??! Ah beggorah, dat's got ta be de wurst example of an over da top Oirish brouge oi've 'eard in a lung toime. And, oh look, he's a snivelling little coward.

Fun though.

ok i give in, loading this up now

Can we make a time tonight? 9:00pm EST? I'll turn it on and see who's down.

I'll be on at 9ish. Just invite me!

;_; fu xbox ppl

where my PS3 thugs at?

― drop it like it's hot, Elena (HI DERE)

Hi dere! I'm xboxless too.

Haven't picked up RDR yet though. :(

Yeah I'm PS3, or will be when I can find a shop with it in stock.

Ugh, hunting for skunks/raccoons other small things maybe me feel car sick.

won't be on at 9 tonight, ah

what, you can't stay up until 2AM to play videogames?

i might be on later, if yall still on. might be bit drunk tho

just played for an hour or so, and didn't accomplish anything other than finding out that the north east part of the map is completely inaccessible right now and that the mexican border river NEEDS MORE FECKING BRIDGES!

The whole map is open in Multiplayer Free Roam.

yeah i was wondering, i played free roam for about 2 minutes and i was in some town with proper roads. is that in the north east bit too?

The Sam Elliott dude you meet when you first get to Mexico has a total Japanese deep-mystery vibe goin on. "I'm the last of my kind..." "So what are you waiting around here for?" "I don't know..."

Totally. And Kevin Spacey to play the 'I Know You' strange man guy in the movie adap.

My PS3 copy has finally shipped, hopefully it arrives today just in time for the long weekend. Am nothingelseon on PSN - will join posse once I figure out how to play!

i'm fabfunk on ps3 - still in tutorial mode tho so might need a bit of time before bringing the multiplayer ruckus

Goddamnit how come I can't do Five Finger Fillet correctly. :(

Been trying to put 3 hogtied prisoners into a human centipede formation. Not easy!

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/red-dead-co-op-dlc-dated

June 22, can't wait.

I have the 16ppl posse achievement; beware tho iirc the achievement is for being the posse leader in a 16ppl posse so if you do manage to get into one the leader has to leave and rejoin to make someone else the leader so they get the achievement, and then rinse repeat until everyone has it

very fiddly

i am interested in any posse action. xbawx gt: Snarly Yow.

did you guys know you can start a bar brawl? :D

should be an "achievement" for that

There's one but you have to start one in every bar in the game.

seriously??

i think this focus on "achievements" runs counter to marston's character. for instance i don't do any of the bounty hunts. what the fuck do i care? i'm basically a criminal myself. i just want to find william williamson.

Yeah, I guess it's kind of the nature of the beast with these games and their need for a compelling-ish narrative and also loads of freedom; cf Niko Bellic being all melancholy and disgusted at the world he's got dragged into but then being all "STAY DOWN OR I FUCKING KILL YOU" if you absent-mindedly punch some skinny jeans girl on a mobile phone in the street

By the way I'm pretty sure I shot Sam Elliot at close range in my last mission with him. He went "What the hell??"

Has anyone shot their buddies/guides in the game, i.e. Bonnie? I would imagine the game somehow prevents you from doing this since the story wouldn't work anymore.

I mean, if you actually killed them.

I shot the shit out of the guy who accused me of cheating at poker, by the way. It was kind of understandable - on the very first hand I drew a backdoor straight and won more than 1000 chips!

i was wondering about bar fights, had a feeling they'd be included. can you swing off the light fittings? i think i half heartedly tried jumping onto one at some point, just hit it and fell off i think.

came home a bit tipsy last night and played this as a huge murderous maniac, was fun. didn't save it.

good chance i'll be on this tonight

*eek, in light of recent events perhaps slightly tasteless. apologies if anyone offended!

I just bought this. Thinking of leaving work early.

There's an achievement for that too.

okay
"My Sisters Keeper"

urghhhh

holy shit -- so uh, most graphic sex scene in a game ever?

Watched some of the gameplay vid on YT last night. I really need to play this.

lol mordy

somebody gets some hot coffee, just not you

dabbled in multiplayer some more tonight, pretty good. the whole 'are idiots going to be shooting me' seems to fit in the RDR wild west world more than most other games.

That;s an interesting thought; mixing up the idjits of the modern world with the idjits of the American West, who somehow found themselves with a firearm and decided to strike it out, like in an ill-fated Johnny Cash song.

kinda not reading this thread because i'm lame and want to finish the story without spoilers but just wanna say this game is a lot of fun

I got the girl onto the boat with my sisters keeper with no problem; what exactly happened to you guys?

I was doing a big mission and my 360 crashed and I was like ARRRGH

Trying not to read much of this thread but I can tell yall that it took me an unreasonably long time to kill two cougars with a knife... even when I knew to shoot them first

on my sisters keeper i kept taking the wrong turns, or driving the horses into obstacles. did it on about fifth try

crashed last night on the throwing knives bit. a bit peed off because the horse ride there was fucking sooo long.

Not enjoying the Mexico part of the storyline quite as much as the US. I think it's the characters, they're not quite as interesting, the Sam Elliot guy notwithstanding. And the English character was another way OTT, clichéd, unsubtle, unfunny caricature. One too many. Perhaps he, Oirish and that Welshman we saw briefly can have a scene all being unbearable together?

I didn't find My Sister's Keeper too difficult either, once I decided not bothering engaging with my pursuers and too just concentrate on the road.

One thing I like about Mexico: Bobcats!

yeah i think my problem was trying to kill the soldiers, which was in fact completely unneccessary it turns out.

watching Last of the Dogmen on five, which isn't great but it's full of horses, tall trees, and dusty lands. must. resist. turning. xbox. on..

I actually need to get out of sterotype mexico now as it's starting to irk and make me less interested in the game.