Red Dead Redemption

muuuuuuuderrrrrrrr

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.

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

I'm on PS3, username: badgerlore

even grinding on this is great! 'cept I'm pretty shit at Blackjack

I'm rg!n35, only with the ! facing the other way

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..."

http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/

braid at 1, fuck offfff

haha radiohead still stuck at bonnies ranch U SUCK AT LYFE AND GAMES GAYDIOHEAD PWNED

Whatever happened to Bonnie? I thought we had something there.

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.

sorry to hear about the bathroom in your lap

Seanbaby writes something: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-ways-red-dead-redemption-hates-women/

ew :/

is this guy known in writing about video games? if so, what a sorry fucking state that industry must be in.

I think there are better video game writers like the people who participate in the video game end-of-year things at Slate

I think there are better video game writers like the people who participate in the video game end-of-year things at Slate

And also the people who comment on youtube videos.

dear god that article is str8 "just got a gig doing reviews for the campus weekly and im only a first year!"

what has become of cracked.com!!

oh hah is that actually a spinoff of cracked magazine

jimmy I mean MLB.tv thru the PS3 - it looks phenomenal

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?

I haven't had that problem!

I'm not an MLB.tv subscriber :C

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

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.

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.

(In this case "bad guy" equals good guy)

Jim, you should switch off casual targeting. I only noticed recently that I had mine on normal, tried switching it down to casual and it kind of breaks the game, it makes everything way too easy.

Went a bit nuts and slaughtered everyone at the McFarlane ranch last night. Now getting regularly chased by a big posse, which is fun but might get annoying pretty quickly.

so the default targeting is the one that makes the game too easy? that's a bit daft.

i am firmly in the "this is a great game but somehow kinda boring" camp

really not found this boring even tho riding a horse is less crazy fun than driving a car and the landscape is less varied than gta. i just think there's more going on gameplay-wise than gta, the missions are more varied and the stranger missions seem less incidental. although most of them end up pretty o_O - people convinced their dead partners are alive, people dying in the desert, people in love with animals...

but also it's just cool chilling out and riding around in the wild west!

i am firmly in the "this is a great game but somehow kinda boring" camp

― Roberto Spiralli

despite being english iirc this guy is great and correct 99% of the time.

otm

I just beat this and I have to say it took some interesting turns at the end... HOWEVER i did hit the boredom threshold and raced past the "at home with the Marstons" and "REVENGE" segments.
Great game, it just doesn't hold up after like thirty hours or so.

but hey, that's like two bucks an hour for great entertainment; gold star from me and probably my fave game of the year thus far.

Argh, I must be cursed when it comes to honor! Another "rescue my wagon!" mission, and this time as I'm driving the wagon back to its owner, he is killed by wolves, and I'm docked 50 honor points because he died. wtf.

was on normal targeting. Game was far too easy. Switched to expert, now it's fairly difficult at times and you have to actually use the bullet-time. Maybe this will make things interesting.

opened up the fourth area now.

CANNONS!

Dangit, I need to get my priorities in order and get back into this. Several days ago I finally stopped goofing around and went on the long raft ride into Mexico, and somehow ended up dying. And then went to bed and had a busy week at work, and haven't played it since.

I recommend that if you get bored, try playing the game without the map. I played without it for awhile last night and it felt much more immersive to me. I tracked some guys down by following the river up to their location. Whenever I stopped to kill a bear or etc. I really had to stop and get my bearings.

Killed my horse last night when it got caught in the crossfire when I was bounty hunting. Was genuinely sad. Also had epic winning poker session then realised I was on my brother-in-laws save game. D'oh!

I would be sadder about ma hoss dying if I couldn't whistle another one up almost immediately. makes horse buying and horse breaking kinda pointless. also kinda lol at how i can hitch him to a post, get a stagecoach all the way across the map, then whistle for him and he's just round the corner.

Having a new horse available at the call of a whistle is unrealistic, but I'd take that over having to run on foot until I found a new horse (in the case of my horse dying out in the boonies) or having to wait 8 minutes while the horse ran across the map (in the case of long distance stagecoach travel)

Or you could reload the last save which is what I was doing until I didn't bother once and decided to buy a horse and it turned out one horse deed meant unlimited horses

Yeah true, tho I didn't know I could just whistle up another hoss! I shot one of the varmints chasing me for killing his boss, lassoed his mount & hightailed it outta there, so no drama. Good times...