Red Dead Redemption

what does moonshine do?

go BOOM?

lol @ doing a couple bonnie missions in a row last night. "oh, what a nice day in ye olde west, hey bonnie...oh, i guess it's dark and stormy now...oh shit, it's nice out again but the barn is on fire!"

i thought me and bonnie had something special going on ;_;

so did she ;_;

I wanted to shoot the revolutionary that you had to rescue for louisa

i wanted to shoot basically everyone you worked for. except maybe for the wild bill character, he could have been a sweet sidekick

yeah i really hated the necrophiliac treasure hunter dude. he seemed like a guy john marston would put out of his misery on principle.

after doing a bunch of missions last night i thought i'd treat myself to a stagecoach back to town. except, i tried to get in on the wrong side, which meant i accidentally coach-jacked the dude. cue mid-speed chase, giving myself up, jail time, etc. there should be an apology button.

I hated the professor guy most of all.

i tried to get in on the wrong side, which meant i accidentally coach-jacked the dude.

haha I have done this soooo many times

it seems like the writers forget what john's motivation is half the time. he has to put up with these useless assholes because they are instrumental to getting the job done and getting your wife back. but half the time your attitude is like, "hey, zany character of the frontier, i will run around w/ u." and it's not really clear why these guys are necessary since you're tromping all over and killing dozens of people a minute anyway.

the stranger missions are worse, they're all like some really sick horribly formed joeks. hey get these flowers for my wife. oh she's dead lol! today's my wedding day - to a guy who died years ago lol! i've gotta get to california - oh i'm dead lol!

btw got my sharpshooter 10 in macfarlane's ranch, picking on poor innocent cowpokes. advantage being that they don't get another gun once you've disarmed them, and it's pretty quiet there so you also don't get half a dozen other guys trying to put lead in you just for drawing your weapon.

it seems like the writers forget what gta iii guy tommy nikojohn's motivation is half the time. he has to put up with these useless assholes because they are instrumental to getting the job done and killing your ex-girlfriend getting all the drugs settling in America getting your wife back. but half the time your attitude is like, "hey, zany character of liberty city vice city liberty city the frontier, i will run around w/ u." and it's not really clear why these guys are necessary since you're tromping all over and killing dozens of people a minute anyway.

uh yeah it's always been a problem

I'm up to 85.1% now after playing for roughly 22 hours. All storyline missions complete, all areas discovered, all treasures found and all gang hideouts cleared. To get my 100% I still need to complete the stangers tasks and collect all the bounties which are straightforward enough but I'm afraid I'll never get 100% because I just can't win any of the minigames for the life of me. I haven't got a clue what's going on with Liar's Dice and Horseshoes seems more luck than anything else. I'll probably spend another week or so trying to get to 100% then knock it on the head.

However I spent an hour last night in multiplayer for the first time, had a great time clearing gang hideouts with some guy who invited me to join his posse. So I think that even if I give up on the singleplayer, there's still plenty of life left in this game with the multiplayer.

Got 100% last night, 38 hours. Horseshoes: aiming with left trigger is u+k. liar's dice: stick to low gambles and let them make the first stupid move. Poker is a bit harder but the NPCs are pretty wimpy so you can generally bully them into folding.

Horseshoes: aiming with left trigger or right trigger, whichever gives you the zoomed in view.

I played this game all the way through and never got the random event where the nun gives you the take-less-damage cross! My brother got it like 2 hours into his game. :(

there's a couple of random events i've only got once, and i've been playing this waaay too much.

there's one where someone comes up to you asking about a stagecoach that's gone missing. pretty sure you have to find it, kill everyone, then drive it back. but i fucked it up and have never seen it again. too much fast traveling probably.

man, i get that one all the time. i'm itching to get another "save my friend from an unjust hanging!" one since i fucked it up twice now.

finally got to mexico btw! it was nighttime though, so riding around with that jose gonzalez song playing wasn't as cinematic as i was hoping for.

finally made it to blackwater and set about KILLING EVERY ANIMAL I SAW

last night i got the achievements for killing all the animals, for killing all the buffalo, and for fistfighting in bars.

Who'd have known that you get a wanted level for killing a mangy dog wandering round the streets? Didn't even stop to skin it :(

u monster

haha! :-)

ran into my first bug last night, i was doing that landon ricketts mission where you are supposed to rescue the girl from the cave. right when the butcher distracts the guards and you're supposed to run in there, my dude starts running into a wall and won't take no for an answer. couldn't shoot, turn around, stop running, anything. i was messing around with the subtitle settings right beforehand, i wonder if that broke the game.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/breaking-a-world-record-for-gaming/?src=sch&pagewanted=all

During the game, the players were allowed to take a 10-minute break every hour for humanitarian purposes — to use the restroom and eat.

LAME

read Poopsocking and call me back when you're ready to step up to the big leagues, kids

lol @ timewasting comment

1. EMR
CA
July 21st, 2010
1:48 pm
What a waste of time. I'd be levelling a Tauren warrior tank on Warcraft with those hours. Probably get it to 80, too.

anyone get the new DLC?

nope, don't know anything about it. late and just got in drunk right now, will check it tomorrow

It's all multiplayer, none of it co-op as far as I can tell.

Eurogamer confirms that.

ehhhh. might get the zombie one.

god i burned out on this game so hard

I managed to get to the end before fatigue set in. It was touch and go though, and I still have outstanding side mission stuff, like treasure hunts and outlaw hideouts, left uncompleted. I can leave it. I wouldn't mind if Rockstar do a supplemental game set in the same world, a la Ballad of Gay Tony, at some point.

unlocked the last area, didn't touch it really after that.

I 100%ed and spent a decent amount of time in multiplayer but yeah ain't touched it for weeks now.

I took a break for a few weeks but now I'm enjoying playing it some more, trying to find all the treasures or just riding around. Anyone want to give me a hint on where to find the treasure where the image on the map is just like a rock that looks like an ice cream cone? I think it's like the fifth or sixth treasure? Don't really want to ride around the entire map looking for that one specific rock and I'm not sure if there's a clue I'm not catching.

an upside down ice-cream cone? think you've just gotta stumble across it, or cheat. i got lucky. it's not too far off the beaten track though.

there is a clue, it tells you the general location on the skills menu (where it tells you how many you've achieved). To be honest I wish they hadn't done that, I didn't mind riding around the whole map searching for these.

The location isn't described on the normal map though, i think you have to buy the extra places from a store. I think so anyway.

it's more or less directly between two towns, if you just ride along the compass point and ignore the road.

and i think i know which one that is and yes i got lucky with it too lol

(xp on a line between, not actually in the middle tho.)

god i burned out on this game so hard

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, August 13, 2010 9:42 AM

I think I came close to burning in the Mexico section. Once I got to Blackwater I gained a second wind, I think. I liked how right towards the end you got a few mundane farm related missions again, herding cattle and such.

had a major blast on this today, still looks glorious.

great little moment. Noticed now that the map is open that there are two trains. At one point the two trains crossover a small area of the same line and I thought cool might see a train crash. but instead the train i was on waited for ages at a junction for the other train to chug through to safety.

The new maps are pretty fun, but my friends and I got killed over and over and over in multiplayer last night. I guess the lure of double XP weekend combined with new maps brought out the heavyweights.