Red Dead Redemption

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.

i can't believe how padded almost every AAA game is.

^this. You get people complaining that single player campaigns are "only ten hours long". For me that usually means about 25 hours* which usually means about six weeks.

* combination of not being very good & compulsively opening every crate, searching every corpse, or in this game's case even picking every fucking flower.

Crate Opening Corpse Looting Flower Picking Simulator 2016?

I manage to parent and still play games, just means I need to stay up later and sleep less. But yeah I'm also really bad at letting go of the COLLECT EVERYTHING urge and just doing the main missions.

Crate Opening Corpse Looting Flower Picking Simulator 2016?

this I will find the time to play

These days, even when I do have time to play, I'm paralysed by the choice of all the games i've bought over the years and don't actually get to playing anything. Saying that i'm the same with music these days. Oh for simpler times etc...

just wait a few years, then you can play video games with your kids, it is the best

She picked up the disk of LOTR this morning, which has been hanging around the xbox for months (fancied playing it but started it and was just like ugh this is going to take forever), and wanted to play it. But she thought it played on the record player and was so disappointed when she found it it didn't the moment was over.

looool. media confusion is the marker of the mid 2010s.

(Not LOTR btw, KOTR)

Done lots of playing video games with my kids but they've pretty much outgrown it now - or at least outgrown wanting to play games with Dad. i'm just waiting for a grandkid that wants to play fifa now.

how old are yours?

17, 15, 13. We do still have the odd game of worms, and board games also seem to be making a comeback - we sat up late last night playing Scrabble. But i think the days of long daft Wii sessions are gone for a while.

yeah mine are a couple years younger than yours.

god i hope i can get marin to play worms with me when she's old enough. that is probably my favourite video game ever.

I need to finish this game. It's been years, but I remember getting to Mexico, doing a few missions, then kind of getting bored with it, never to return. The world was amazing, just felt really repetitive after a while - a feeling I get with almost every AAA game.

As I get older and older, I become less and less patient with game bloat, all the pointless go-fetch side-quests that are prevalent in most games. Just like Slam Dunk, I'm also missing the grind gene. I don't think I'd ever get into games like The Division or Destiny.

I need to finish this game. It's been years, but I remember getting to Mexico, doing a few missions, then kind of getting bored with it, never to return. The world was amazing, just felt really repetitive after a while - a feeling I get with almost every AAA game.

Same. Stopped I'm the exact same place, even

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like Snoball I have no excuse for not playing games, other than Minecraft lately.

Ending of RDR was good, worth playing to.

The zombie dlc was worthwhile too, I still haven't completed the story for that part though.

"Karl Malone
Posted: March 20, 2016 at 9:22:39 PM
I need to finish this game. It's been years, but I remember getting to Mexico, doing a few missions, then kind of getting bored with it, never to return. The world was amazing, just felt really repetitive after a while - a feeling I get with almost every AAA game.

Same. Stopped I'm the exact same place, even"

And the same here. I see a pattern maybe.

Mexico was the best part, the missions get much more violent, the plot takes on colonialism, the music and scenery is gorgeous. I'd have been happy to stay there, but the third part puts you back in the usa, in the rockies & great plains, less interesting although the hunting is more fun (in particular bears which hilariously seem to come from nowhere).

i think i just couldn't bear another 40 hours of gameplay to reach the end, no matter how good it was. AAA games are too long, otm

"games abandoned 20-30 hours in" is my top genre tbh

I don't have any money anymore so I'm playing through the games I bought when I did, playing them into the ground for 100% completion, like when I was a kid and would only get one game every six months or so. at this rate I'll be through that stack of games in 100 years or so.

I spend more time/glean more pleasure from watching YouTubes of mouthy idiots playing ridiculous GTA online races than gaming myself, but I am now itching to fire up RDR again.

I loaned RDR to my brother last week and this thread revival makes me want it back.

(I'm currently trudging through Sniper Elite III for no reason other than having got this far I need to see it out, only another 3000 close-up slo-mo x-ray head-shots to go!)

Playing a lot more shorter games in the last several weeks after enjoying stuff like Californium and Firewatch, and those and watching the GB playthru of Life is Strange has really elevated narrative-heavy games. Xcom 2 has stretched out for quite a bit at only an hour or two a night.

Still need to finish RDR. Have less than 10% less to go. Will finish it, someday. Curious if they'll integrate the more cinematic musical sequences into the next one.

What would they do for the next one? They were already starting off pretty late for a Wild West adventure. Will the cowboys start running liquor for the mob?

As someone who likes dicking around in GTA games but has never finished a single one of them because he finds like at least half of the missions controller-crushingly frustrating, how does RDR compare?

i think the duels will not go well for you, and they're required iirc

once you figure out the trick to duels you can win every one v easily

one weird duel trick you won't believe

I liked RDR a lot more than GTA, partially because it was a lot easier.

Lot of steady aiming goes a long way.

It's not too twitchy, you have this slow motion aiming mechanism that rules.

I can't get into GTAs because I don't care about the settings and because I don't like the sexism. But I never tried 5. Guessing it's not good for a game with my 13 year old son

Maybe, if you go into a solo online session and just deathmatch each other. Otherwise, yeah, best to abstain (although, judging from the online player base, many other parents of 13-year-olds disagree with my assessment).

xp. feel like 5 is the most sexist yet!