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Your mom has a huge posse.
I'm probably down for that.
What? A Red Dead posse or my mom's posse?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pineapple
Can't have one without the other.
I too would like to get in on this Hot Posse Action! We can be a Insane Cowboy Posse....
Kill yourself.
:lol:
So I picked this up yesterday, and am enjoying it quite a lot, but there is something that bothers me about it. For its touting of having an honor system and all, it isn't very rewarding or fun to be a no good son-of-a-bitch. Even if you ride around shooting Johnny Law and dragging women folk over to train tracks to watchthem meet their end, your negative honor is pretty much erased by the default do-gooder missions. I want to hold up a goddamn train or rob a bank or something, but none of that seems to be an option really, it's all kind of designed around being a boot-lickin' good guy.
The story is about Marston being a good guy, so you can't really be bad.
Then what's the goddamn point of having an honor system?
I mean, it's fine, I just was expecting a bit more of a Fallout sort of thing where you could shape the game based on what you want to do. I guess I didn't do enough reading before I bought it, but I just assumed I could choose between running with the marshall or running with a local gang. I guess that would just make the game too awesome.
This game is too long. I just finished New Austin, and I kind of wish it was the end of the game. It's the same shit over and over and without the driving, which is the best part of GTA. I haven't even put Mario in my Wii yet, and it's already pretty much assured of GotM thanks to Alan Wake, Death Smiles II, and this all being disappointing in one area or another.
BTW, if you are playing as a "good guy" and want to be a sonofabitch, you can put on the bandana and your honor levels won't increase or decrease while you murder innocents
Now that's a ProTip.
:lol: That's awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
You're right. The game just doesn't fit the bill for a badass in the west. I chose to be a good guy but It doesn't balance out and reward bad actions. Also th multiplayer modes better get better. I want to be able to rob a bank, carriage, or train with my posse (or defend it).Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
Multo can be completely awesome just dicking around though. Got a 5k plus wanted level for 10 minutes.
I will be remarkably disappointed if I don't eventually get to rob both a train and a bank. I hopped on a train to kill the conductor, kind of hoping something would happen. But it just slid to a stop and I didn't get anything.
Being bad is a downright grind, actually. You have to just murder everyone you see to make up for all of the mandatory positive honor you get by defeating missions.
I am kind of disappointed.
Just put on the bandana before you do mandatory missions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
And walk in the back of a bank :) There's cool shit there I didn't know existed.
and now I knoooooooooooooooow, the only compass that I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed
Sleep well John. :cry:
I was tempted to pick this up last week but the dude at the counter raved about how it was "GTA with horses" and that was a big fucking turn-off. Was he just some brain-dead douche equating two games from the same dev as playing the same, or is Red Dead only "GTA with horses?"
Uhhmmm... no it's not GTA with horses. But there is GTA DNA in here. The shooting is much different, and the way you traverse is different. The mission set-up (going to a guy on the map for different events) is very much in the game. As is the way you set up waypoints on the map. To me, though, the battle system and all of the RDR-focused stuff they've added in makes a world of different between this and GTA IV. There are core gameplay changes that make sweeping differences.
Drewbacca is right on the money. It has some similar features but it feels like a very different game. I must say that I think being a fan of westerns really helps with the atmosphere and drawing you into its world. I've said it before, I don't really care for the GTA games and I'm really loving this.
I played it for a few hours the other day.
Felt like GTA with horses to me.
I don't know why I let myself be conned by the hype every time a new rockstar game comes out.
I will add the caveat that I've never put more than a few hours into any GTA, and the last one I played was Vice City. So maybe there is a difference in feel if you played both series extensively. But from my limited time, they both were boring and didn't control as well as they should.
Gun was more fun.
This is absolutely Grand Theft Horsey. They've just brought the Dead Eye gunplay into it, and make you ride a horse everywhere.
Oh and there is wildlife everywhere. And most of it will kill you.
This game is about a hundred million times better than GTAIV for the better controls and combat alone. I couldn't play more than 8 or so hours of GTAIV when the bigger gunfights would get me killed thanks to retarded controls more than anything else.
I eradicated this game, working on 100% as we speak. It makes a difference.
I just finished a poker table in one hand.
Everyone goes all in off the draw, i say "eh why not, I'll just reload before it saves when I lose" with a 5 of clubs and 7 of spades.
Two fives on the flop. The three other guys had pocket Aces, Kings and Queens. That shit HAD to be programmed to happen or something.
Yeah. I never actually played any GTA through to completion. I thought the stories were a chore, the characters were boring and the gameplay was repetitive and controlled like shit. Maybe I'm swept up in the setting of it all, but I love RDR and the changes they've made. The only thing I wish they added was goals and missions in co-op like Left 4 Dead or something. (one person assaults the train, one team defends, etc.)Quote:
Originally Posted by TrialSword
Agreed that it is GTA IV in WWW clothing. Everything is improved though so that's a good thing.
RDR deserves no pass here, sorry. The controls may be slightly better than GTA's, but RDR's controls are still piss poor. Anytime you have to do a complete U turn just to turn around should tell you something. Also, ever press the jump or evade button? Pretty useless, horribly animated garbage. That said the wild west setting makes up for all the shortcomings for me. My biggest issue is that its just too big of a game. I can see stuff getting boring after awhile - ala Oblivion, which I actually fell asleep playing once.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrialSword
Fucking play LP2 and choke on a VS dick.
Edit: :)
Destro777 isn't very good :)
I agree with Destro, sometimes you get to a wonky situation where you try to turn around but keeps running in circles. It doesn't affect the single player much, but in multi, it is more evident. Well, I am pretty garbage at multi in this game so I want to blame it on something.
Asian playing a western game, problem solved.
Let's form up a murder carriage soon.
I had a lot of fun going into public games, getting a wagon, and just riding the trails shooting every fuck that got in my way.
lol This made me think of the "Chinamen" in Deadwood.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
Swear gin!
Cock suckers
San Fransisco cocksucker
Murder train a'comin!Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
$8000 Bounty / Killing Spree in Mexico. Man this game is good.
Thanks guys, I think you've all hyped up this game enough to send me out to the store and grab a copy for PS3. This game looks intense! It might just curb my appetite until another GTA is released.
24,000,000 pesos sounds more impressive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
I hate Grand Theft Auto. But boy do I love the shit out of this game.
I beat it earlier. 100% completion. 98 hours total.
Also -- hi. :)
My new thing to do is ride along trails until I find somebody else, then I lasso them and yank them right off the horse. Shit is lols for days.
Knife goes in, guts come out. Knife goes in, guts come out...... Take that PETA!
Awww, what'd you eat?
I really wish the hunting/skinning shit wasn't in the game or at least not required for 100%, but I get that it is historically accurate. I also like that the main story line talks about what bullshit hunting for sport is in multiple missions.
They should let you skip the skinning animation. That shit just takes so long and if you are hunting bears, another one would butt rape you. I am glad I am done with the Survivalist/Hunting ranks.
So I'm wandering around the northwest prairie when my awesome gray horse just crumples to the ground. Stamina was full, no animals around. Dead. WTF I LOVED HIM
I tried to rope a new horse and the asshole bucked into a river as I was breaking him in. My only solace was that the horse died as pathetically as I did.
And once I finally managed to rope a new horse, it got mauled by a grizzly that was apparently trained by ninjas.
Not a good night.
Cecilia shot her own horse in the head as she was riding it like two or three times. She was aiming for some bear right in front of her, it was pretty hilarious to see
You have to kill the bear with a knife in one of the hunting ranks. I shotgun all 4 legs before I went toe to toe.
It's always the second bear that gets you.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
I hunted bears for awhile. I'm not at the "knife a bear to death" mission but it's good to know that you can immobilize it if you shoot its paws. I found all the treasures and am almost done all of the missions needed for sharpshooter. Have to disarm 2 people.
Mexico took FOREVER to get out of. Glad I'm in Indian territory now.
That is fantastic.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
I managed to keep the same horse during the entire first part of the game, and then once I was preparing to go to Mexico I was suddenly unable to keep one alive. First I jumped over a rock while treasure hunting and there was a sudden five foot fall on the other side which killed my horse. Shortly after that I whistled for my horse to join me and it appeared on top of the cliff next to me and then jumped to its death, crumpling in front of me. I broke two other horses which were both shot to death by bandits while I was riding them. Next it got jumped by a cougar, the first and only one I've seen so far. Finally I was riding along some train tracks on a bridge and my horse just slid off them onto some rocks far below, killing us both.
I feel as though the game has started to hate me.
One of my horses got bitten by a rattle snake and died. I had gotten off the horse to kill it with my knife (because with a pistol mounted on horseback wasn't sportsmanlike enough for me). They should have made it that whenever you're bitten by a snake you turn in to "drunk" mode.
Actually, you can't immoblize the bear. I shot its legs because I don't want to kill it by accident (and I do think it runs a little slower). You still have to chase it down and knife him. That fucker is fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
Bears turn pretty slow, if you shoot it a couple times and then just run in circles stabbing it, it won't be able to catch up with you.
Bears always run away from me after I shoot them.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
Funny thing - I put this game in yesterday afternoon around 1 PM and kept thinking to myself that I don't get what the big deal is, etc.... Next thing I know it's 8 PM.
I can't really say that it's fantastic or doesn't have flaws - but it did keep me around until the Stanley Cup Finals started.
That always happens to me for the first few days of big open-world game #XYZ - practically the very nature of them begs such an early time commitment. It doesn't say much about the quality of the game from start to finish though. Once the early novelty has worn off, the game needs quality mechanics and mission design to see it through.Quote:
Originally Posted by haohmaru
I was going to try and trick the game by killing it with a throwing knife.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
Did you try that on the Cougar?
No dice. The challenge description explicitly says you have to kill it with your melee knife.
I got attacked by my first bear when I was picking flowers of all things. I thought it was my horse at first, but the walking sounded really heavy. I turn around and this gigantic bear just slaps me down like a red headed step child. I managed to blast it with my shotgun but got jumped from behind by another one.
Lassoing people never gets old. I'm constantly amazed by the animation in this game.
I like shooting oncoming traffic. Shoot the horse in the leg, shoot the rider and see the ragdoll effect.
I like going fast in wagons and then bailing out, especially to start missions.
Nope, just ran in head long like an idiot. I didn't have a throwing knife when I did that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
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Originally Posted by Rumpy
It's true!Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
Anybody else get this crazy glitch where you try to take cover only to be rocketed a hundred feet into the air?
Skydiving is well documented and easily reproduced. Check youtube.
I did that on the ferry boat to mexico, luls ensued.
The thing about rockstar glitches, I'd be mad if they weren't so fucking funny.
I like blowing the shit out of beavers. Heh. That line didn't come out right.
It works on the cougar. Two pistol shots to the legs and, while not immobilized, it slows WAY down. Just chase after it on foot and stick a knife its neck.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
I saw a man on his knees, weeping over the body of who I assume was his slain wife. While on his knees sobbing, he took out a revolver and blew his brains out.
Good game, but the whole Mexico section seemed really slow, and kind of lifeless. Scenery was fantastic though.
You should have justice shot him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prince Planet
Beavers and Cougars. NOW I KNOW WHY THIS GAME RULES.
Agreed. That section was like twice as long as it should have been.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prince Planet
Awesome ending. I was wrong in the GOTM poll. There was a lot of horseshit in this game. Luckily the main game doesn't have too much of it.
Was GOTM for me. But I haven't played much Galaxy 2 yet.
It's better than SMG2. Still my GOTM. Just things like herding, horsebreaking, playing WOW-esque hunt for dumb ass shit in the wilderness suck
The horsebreaking shit is fine IMO. Especially to upgrade your horse initially.
That Bronco achievement is retarded. I looped around the entire US side twice and never run into a Marshall. The trick is to sleep/save and then wake up, they will be waiting for you. Fucking OJ.
Just finished this. Awesome ending but I'm glad I kept a save right before it. I just can't get used to the new voice/model. <3 John Marston <3
WORK YA DAMN NAG
Yeah, Jack sucks so much.
Mexico is so boring. HEY ROCKSTAR, THE WORK FOR ONE GUY, GET BETRAYED, WORK FOR THE OTHER GUY GOT TIRED IN THE FIRST GTA.
Fuck.
How much longer do I have to languish in this bullshit. I did the train robbery and blew up the army convoy.
Maybe like 5 more missions? Not too longQuote:
Originally Posted by Chux
No you're wrong. You have to do work for Rickets, blow up the train with the Colonel or whatever (or De Santos his lacky), then that Mexican broad, then get betrayed, then do work for Reyes AND his bitchy girlfriend. And then you're free to go to the North (which is much better).
Yeah, I did Rickets missions (Liked them alot!) Did the DeSantos missions (meh, telegraphed betrayal), rescued Reyes, stole train, did work with Lucia (blew up convoy).
Can't wait to hang with T.Hawk.
Yeah then you're pretty close to done. Being ambushed by bears alone is a hilarious experience.
Damn bears.
Aeris died.
This Mexico shit is taking forever.
Quite the opposite of the usual effect, no?
Don't I know it. :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
Fuck you. You're wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
Got out of Mexico last night, hooray.
Also lol the "I know you Stranger" is the devil
or GOD
No way.
The devil tempted Mr. Marston with easy prey. Adultery, robbing the nun etc. My Mr. Marston, the nicest gun in the west, did the pious thing.
He says "Damn you" to the guy or something and the guy says something about people always saying that.
Wrong again.
I love the North missions so far. A real charm.
Nobody says God, Damn you. People say God Damn You! Punctuation is key.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
Oh shut the fuck up.