Red Dead Redemption

I'd hit ○ on the controller and my character would point and mutter something mean in Spanish. That was kinda fun to do, standing around the chickens.

Oh that's the button you use. I could never find which one fired off the character-specific sound file.

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Hopefully, RDR2 will be a completely separate story from the first one, possibly set earlier in the true Wild West days with Native Americans etc.

We thought the cities in Red Dead Redemption, and Blackwater in particular, were a little disappointing. Beyond the cinema screens, brothels and stores, there wasn’t much to entertain, forcing you to spend the majority of your time in the desert on horseback.

And GTAV only gives you cinema screens, clothing stores, haircuts and mod shops, forcing you to spend the majority of your time in the streets driving a car. At least in RDR, you could play poker.

(Not complaining about GTAV, not complaining about spending my time in the desert on horseback.)

Through the most part of Red Dead Redemption you are building up an image of Blackwater as a bustling city that claims to be on the fringe of modernisation, but in reality hardly lived up to our expectations.

Kinda thought this reveal was the point. You hear so much about Blackwater during the game and then you get there and it's ... Springfield USA. Just like it would've been 100 years ago.

Personally I hope it's set in the 20th century. One thng the first game did so well was explore the tension between decentralized, autonomous regional political entities and the looming urban, technologized, bureaucratized, federalist America of the 20th century..

People shouldn't give Blackwater a hard time. It had suburbs!

fields of salmon, it's been a long time!

you should check out this guy's thread on photos he's taken of blue screens. You'd love it.

What?

had you confused with someone else.

My godson still loves this, just animal spotting.

Lately he's realised he can lure the bull out of the enclosure and so now he's obsessed with trying to lure the bull all the way up to the bear country to get them to fight.

I once got a bear to follow me all the way to Blackwater. I wanted to see it rampage through the streets, but just as I reached the outskirts of the town a posse on horseback came along and shot the beast.

^civilization

I'd want any sequel to let you trap & eat what you kill, not just skin it and sell both for bucks. Wilderness crafting allowing you to make functional healing items or weapons from your hunting/gathering goes a big way in establishing an immersive landscape.

And just spitballing here, but more stuff set in the snow, since it'd be interesting to see them bring in more of the Jeremiah Johnson vibe they hinted at last time.

one day i'll finish playing this. i don't think i ever did much further beyond that first ranch.

I stopped midway thru Blackwater, after the Yalie gets scared off and heads back east, as I know what's coming.

The endgame is worth it. Keep going.

So I thought I was on the final mission, upon ending it seems there is more. Now I'm doing some chores around the cabin with the wife and kid.

oh shit, spoiler above maybe

finally played through this. pretty good, had a lot of the same problems that i had with gta 5, like rockstar's thing of having you drive somewhere far away just so you can listen to the shitty boring dialogue about the same stock robert mckee dramatic conflict that they're really proud of themselves for writing. also you just do the same 3 things (ride, hide, shoot) over and over again. and it was weird that there's basically no reason to get money at all-you get a 3-star horse really early in the game, the campsites make buying property unnecessary, you always find better guns in story missions..

but what a great ending! and it was easy in a fun way like bully, which is still my favorite rockstar game.

I was just thinking the other day, after not having touched this game in a long time, that I should get around to finishing it.

great ending. If it's not spoiled you should go play it bc probably if and when they announce a sequel the news will be spoily. it's not just a plot thing btw

This game does have a great ending. In fact, MILD SPOILERS:

if memory serves, I actually thought the game was over and stopped playing, and it wasn't until I read stuff online that I realized that I had to go back and find the actual "ending"...

There definitely is an end-scene which makes you feel like, "well, i guess i solved the game now? what?"

like if Star Wars had ended with Han and Chewie shaking hands with everyone at the assembly, waving goodbye to Luke and Princess Leia, going out to where the Falcoln was parked, going through each item on the checklist, Han asking Chewie if it looks like they've got enough fuel to get to the next galaxy, Chewie going out and around to the keel to see about this signal light that keeps flashing on and off and WHAT THE HELL IS THIS, WHEN DOES THIS MOVIE END.

going through what I can only suspect is the ending part, yes wtf seems to go on forever ?!

if the credits didn't roll then you didn't finish yet.

Just finished, yes interesting ending which everyone should complete if you can.

Not going to 100% this unfortunately as I can't be arsed with Liars Dice, Poker, or Horseshoe games.

One of my favorite "internet comments" was from a RDR where a guy was having problems getting the armwrestling win from one of the more obscure areas on the map. "Whenever I go there, the dude I'm supposed to armwrestle isn't there!" to which someone replied, "You can't expect someone to be ready to armwrestle 24 hours a day."

rumors are that the sequel is coming out in 2017

my man jerry down at the tavern received word, and also it's trending on facebook

guilty secret: never finished it. got 90% of the way through and a friend came over and accidentally overwrote my save and i couldn't do it all over again

i know the ending is supposed to be amazeballs tho

i wouldn't go that far but it does put a nice bow on things

i wonder if theres anyone playing online anymore

I think the servers are still up.

I still haven't played this at all. I still have such a huge backlog of amazing (or so I hear) PS3 games.

I've been playing this with my son, about 90% into the story now, and the father and son stuff has been really touching. I don't want it to end.

Man I wonder what the online is like these days-- even when it was popular, it was like a Beckett play. You and your mule wandering in the existential wilderness. Upon the horizon appears SOUPMAN420, who shoots you.

I wonder if they'll have an open-world online for the sequel along the lines of GTAO. "Included in the Home on the Range update: west-facing farmhouse with coal furnace, including barn with FOUR stalls!"

Everyone just plays "Barn Loft Rumble" over and over again.

oh man soupman420 got you too? fuck that guy.

man i don't even remember this game having an online aspect. i don't think i ever engaged in it.

I never played the online, I don't for GTA games either. Dunno why, I generally play the hell out of the online and sometimes forego single-player modes entirely.

I didn't finish this game. Got bored not long after getting to Mexico. I think it was because it was too easy as I had that auto-lock-on-aim thing, which was the default, going the whole game but when I changed it to manual aim I was too far along in the game and everything became too difficult for me (no learning curve).

Mind you this game was beautiful, the sky as the sun set as you galloped along on your horsey, ooft.

I haven't finished this. I don't know how deep in I am. I loved the mission where you had to save people from the burning barn, and the one where you had to get flowers for the dude's dead wife. I wasn't good at the shooting. Or the horse-riding, tbh. I like the vibe though, maybe I could just ride around it for a bit?

I need to start a thread about how parenthood kills gaming instinct stone dead. The only thing I have gotten gripped by of late is this weird obscure 360 game about being a stuntman. Everything else just seems like too vast an investment of time and energy.

Dude, you gotta make time for your video games! Those kids ain't going anywhere for another 18 years.

it is so fucking hard to make time for video games once there's two kids. I have been playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater on the N64 lately because it's the only thing I can jump into, have fun at, and bail without consequence at a moment's notice on.

i have no kids, just a wife and a cat, and i play next to no video games now due to time constraints :/

it is so fucking hard to make time for video games once there's two kids.

Man, you just gotta get your priorities in order, that's all.

xp no kids, no partner, no pets (ain't got no cig-ar-ettes), and I can maybe get in an hour a week of farting about in Minecraft in while listening to a career related podcast (which I tell myself isn't a waste of time as I'm still doing productive at the same time as playing Minecraft).

Still doing productive things, I mean.
Meanwhile, time spent on ILX I count as proof-reading practice...

Once you jettison everything that might signify you have a life, you're golden.

video games are just too long in general. i just don't have the grind gene. when i go to my saved game and it says 12% completed my heart sinks. i'm still a console generation behind though so i only feel like i need to get my 12 dollars' worth and not my 60 dollars' worth. i have this newfound need to finish almost every game i start now and i can't believe how padded almost every AAA game is.