What is the penalty for getting arrested?
Last time I played I let myself surrender, spent 15 seconds in jail, and then walked away with seemingly no penalty. What's the point of evading lawmen, then?
― fuck it, we're going to Olive Garden® (Z S), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2IjE77e29wQ/SY8clrBYPLI/AAAAAAAAAeM/BqDQwLrg5XA/s400/Lou_Reed_-_Street_Hassle_front_cove.jpg
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I have this and a PS3. I would be interested in teaming up with ILX people for whatevs but don't really know how to do it.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
my ps3 name is fortune5000
I am hoping to have this + a PS3 tomorrow.
― Beware, I Hongro! (onimo), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I've got this on PS3, name's napawo72.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
You know, way up at the top of the thread I said
That video actually reminds me of fallout 3 in lots of ways.
and that's still true really. I'm getting a similar feeling from it - I want to go back and play more because it's a great game, and at the same time I'm reluctant to go back because as a world it's just so bleak. All those wide stretches of nothingness! And those miserable little shacks that people had to live in, and the bitter nasty people that populate the world, and the ruthlessness of everything. If anything it's worse than Fallout was because this isn't an imagined future, it's a recreated past - people really had to live like this (or sort of like this). It's kind of a downer.
― JimD, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, scrabbling round picking herbs and collecting armadillo meat is only one step up from picking up tin cans and collecting radroach meat.
― JimD, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a recreated past, but it also takes aesthetic license with the brutality and banal evil of the era. I'm sure there was plenty of laughter and happy times back then, you know?
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the point is that YOU are the instrument of terror and degradation. like, if you go to bonnie's ranch at around sundown, you can see people milling around and talking by the fire, even dancing. all you can do is stand there mute or shoot them all DO YOU SEE.
― goole, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I have this on PS3 and would like to ILX posse (haven't had much time to play, as I've been slammed with work - MW2 more often than not gets that frustration out, but I'd love for this to take its place) - screen name - 'mct_rt'
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
if you go to bonnie's ranch at around sundown, you can see people milling around and talking by the fire, even dancing. all you can do is stand there mute or shoot them all DO YOU SEE
yeah i've seen those. i was trying to join them, seeing if it would give me the option to 'sit down' or 'join camp' like it does with the others. i was gutted i couldn't join in teh fun.
― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Not quite sure why every time I enter any saloon, the piano player stops playing and stands on his stool.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
as a world it's just so bleak. All those wide stretches of nothingness!
this evening i have mostly been riding backwards and forwards across the whole map, shooting the odd critter, having a whale of a time.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Wednesday, June 9, 2010 2:17 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
are you talking about red dead redemption or
― goole, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
haha yeah i've encountered a similar saloon thing, not sure if it's always the piano player but most often someone will end up standing on a table
― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i think u lose some of yr stuff if you go to jail?
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Also on PS3, name = nothingelseon. Willing to posse up tho am a bad shot - got wasted again in multiplayer last night, 2 of them vs 1 of me in grab the bag - I need some assistance!
― Bill E, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
bill i send u invite!
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
added a bunch of you as ps3 pals so don't be alarmed, it's just me
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
muuuuuuuderrrrrrrr
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
also, just hooked up an hdmi cable from PS to TV and fucking game changer -- netflix looks GREAT
i'm on PS3 but haven't had any time for this lately - i'm tracerhand though
you can see people milling around and talking by the fire, even dancing. all you can do is stand there mute or shoot them all DO YOU SEE.
yeah, i've run into this feeling a few times. it made me realize how unbelievably crude videogames still are, how limited the actual options for "interactivity" are. that's OK though, crudeness is cool sometimes. something that's surprised me about this is how "videogamey" it is - you spend most of your time doing the same few things - riding, shooting, checking your map. even though the plot is advancing, new areas opening, new cut scenes occur, etc, basically when you sit down with this you know pretty much what you're getting. which i wasn't quite expecting, for some reason.
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
jimmy have you tried MLB yet? it is the fucking business.
I kinda want to but the last time I had lol MLB Teh SHO I lost 1/3 of my life
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 10 June 2010 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm on PS3, username: badgerlore
― badg, Thursday, 10 June 2010 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
even grinding on this is great! 'cept I'm pretty shit at Blackjack
― Bill E, Thursday, 10 June 2010 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm rg!n35, only with the ! facing the other way
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 10 June 2010 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link
smh @ the times reviewer guy coyly suggesting that the graverobber character is named after him. It's not like the character has anything directly to do with cultural criticism in any way or Seth was an uncommon name in the old west. It's like roger ebert saying "I suppose it is nothing more than coincidence that the troubled, fun-loving hero of the film is named 'Roger' Rabbit..."
― antexit, Thursday, 10 June 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 10 June 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
braid at 1, fuck offfff
― goole, Thursday, 10 June 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
haha radiohead still stuck at bonnies ranch U SUCK AT LYFE AND GAMES GAYDIOHEAD PWNED
― apparently not the band, but the lifestyle (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 June 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Whatever happened to Bonnie? I thought we had something there.
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 10 June 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah she very suddenly dropped off the story didn't she.
going to be tricky to get any playtime on this over the next few weeks with the WC now in our laps. so i'll probly return to it in july forgetting how to do just about everything.
― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Thursday, 10 June 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry to hear about the bathroom in your lap
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 10 June 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Seanbaby writes something: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-ways-red-dead-redemption-hates-women/
― Don Homer (kingfish), Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
ew :/
― Mordy, Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
is this guy known in writing about video games? if so, what a sorry fucking state that industry must be in.
― Lil' Lj & The World (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I think there are better video game writers like the people who participate in the video game end-of-year things at Slate
― Mordy, Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
And also the people who comment on youtube videos.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
dear god that article is str8 "just got a gig doing reviews for the campus weekly and im only a first year!"
― apparently not the band, but the lifestyle (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 June 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
what has become of cracked.com!!
― goole, Thursday, 10 June 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
oh hah is that actually a spinoff of cracked magazine
― apparently not the band, but the lifestyle (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 June 2010 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
jimmy I mean MLB.tv thru the PS3 - it looks phenomenal
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 June 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm totally not trying to be the guy that hates on a good thing, but isn't anybody else experiencing/getting frustrated by bugs and/or inconsistencies in the honor system?
A guy pulls me off my horse and steals it, I whistle and my horse throws him off, and then (while he is still represented by a red circle, mind you), I shoot him, and receive -50 honor! It's not okay to shoot horse thieves?
A guy is like "dude stole my wagon!" so I shoot the thief off of the wagon, no problem. But when I climb into the wagon to return it to its owner, just like in every other "dude stole my wagon" encounter ever, I receive -50 honor! So sometimes you need to return the wagon, and other times you're a thief if you try?
― Dan I., Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't had that problem!
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not an MLB.tv subscriber :C
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 10 June 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't had any problems with the honour system when killing thieves. No chance to get back on this til Saturday but looking forward to posse-up with some of y'all hopefully
― Bill E, Friday, 11 June 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
started to get bored with this. The novelty, nice graphics, good soundtrack etc. fooled me for a while, but i'm starting to feel a bit disillusioned with it. The combat in GTA was never the best part, the auto-aim, move your cursor up slightly to get a headshot, shoot, repeat action gets old pretty quickly.
― Lil' Lj & The World (jim in glasgow), Friday, 11 June 2010 09:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I tried shooting the Mexican Army dudes instead of the rebels but the rebels didn't back me up! Anybody know if that works if you play as a bad guy? Kind of hate that I have to go along with these assholes.. I thought that the decision to be a bad guy or not might make a difference in how some of these plot points played out.
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Friday, 11 June 2010 10:11 (thirteen years ago) link