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Entertainment & Artistry => Gaming => Topic started by: Govtcheez on May 05, 2010, 06:35:32 PM
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It's essentially GTA in the wild (wicky wild) wild west. I preordered today from Gamestop. Anyone else keeping up on this?
Here's a quick handson: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/apr/30/games-gameculture
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I saw a couple trailers for this the other day. it does look pretty interesting.
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I traded in NHL 10 and CoD:MW2 and preordered this for $6 yesterday :)
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you jerks gonna be in my posse?
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I would but I don't have the cash or time to invest in a new game. :(
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I would but I don't have the cash or time to invest in a new game. :(
Get used to that..... daddy.
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I would but I don't have the cash or time to invest in a new game. :(
I'm gonna name the first guy I hogtie and leave on the railroad tracks after you
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I just got the Dollars trilogy and Hang Em High at Target for $20 :)
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http://kotaku.com/5537430/
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All right, that convinced me, I'm getting this on release day. But I'm going to be very disappointed if I have to spend half the game taking my whiney friend bowling.
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You know you could turn your phone on silent and not do that, right?
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Oh, I know :) That game in general left a bad taste in my mouth for a lot of random reasons, but I like the idea of open sandlot games so I'm excited about this one.
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I liked GTA a lot more than basically anyone I know. I will not have its good name sullied!
Sandbox games do rule, though. It took me a couple years to beat Morrowind because I just wandered around exploring things.
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http://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadredemption/videos/4681#/video:4681
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http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/109/1090145p1.html
Reviews are starting to come out
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I would but I don't have the cash or time to invest in a new game. :(
Get used to that..... daddy.
:lol:
this game looks awsome
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Woot, just found out that this game just got shipped to me from GameFly! I almost never get anything from the top of my queue especially any new releases. Saves me money because I would have totally gone out and bought it.
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Game owns but I'm afraid I've overhyped myself for it, though.
Still pretty awesome to lasso someone and drag them through town or cheat at poker and kill suckas in a duel or even just ride around picking flowers and hunting deer
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The kids in the clan said that the controls for the horse are wonky. True?
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It's a horse, not a car with legs. Once you realize that it's a piece of cake.
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I will mention that to them. :thumbsup:
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Played it for an hour last night, really enjoying it so far. Riding a horse is a little hard to get used to but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it.
This isn't a complaint, I'm just a little surprised, I expected to start the game as some kind of bad ass who you have the option of playing nice. Instead he's been Mr "Yes Ma'am" gentleman and I actually felt bad when I robbed the local jailhouse safe.
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Yeah, the thread on SA has a lot of people complaining (not that you were) that the "story Marston" and the "sandbox Marston" aren't really the same guy. I think it's kind of refreshing to not play a psychopath like you usually do in these games. I always feel kind of bad just killing people for no reason, and Marston being a semi-likable guy makes me avoid it even more.
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Completely agree, I kind of like it.
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I just got into Mexico. The song that plays when you roll in there is awesome, and it finished just as I reached a perfect spot to camp.
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Only had time to play a couple missions the last few days, but something is starting to bug me a little... I know the game is a sandbox and you can do just about anything you want, but is there any freedom in how you complete the mission objectives?
GTA always had missions that played out like movies, where if you didn't follow what the director intended for you to do at all times you failed, they even went to the extreme to make certain people bullet proof even when the mission was to kill the person, until you got past a series of scripted pitfalls like ambulances cutting you off in a car chase. Are the later missions in Red Dead Redemption like that? That would bum me out.
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Most missions are accomplished in a pretty clear way, so maybe it is like you said it was for GTA, but I haven't noticed it, really.
The only thing I've noticed like that is that if you're in a duel for a story mission, you have to kill the other guy; you can't just disarm him
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Missions being straightforward isn't that big of a deal, although it would be nice to once in a while be told what you need to do and its up to you to find out how you want to solve it.
What bugs me though which I see a lot in GTA is the missions throw curveballs at you similar to how a movie builds tension. Its nearly impossible to beat a mission the first time through, you have to play it once or multiple times to find out where all of the gotchas are, then replay to avoid the gotchas. What they call DIAS style play, or DO IT AGAIN STUPID style.
For example, you have to catch someone in a car chase, at a set time say 2 minutes in an ambulance flies across the screen cutting you off for no reason and allowing the car to escape. So you have to play the whole mission again, this time anticipating the ambulance even though there isn't any reason for your character to do so. Or the example above where your prey is indestructable because killing him too soon would mean you miss out on some long orchestrated chase scene the director had envisioned for you.
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Must say I'm having more fun just wandering the desert at sunset than in all of the God of Wars, Bioshocks and Modern Warfares combined. This open sandbox style and western setting are a perfect match.
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Just ran into one of your situations last night - a story mission where you wander into a cemetery and there's a guy there that you duel after a cutscene. He killed me in the duel the first time, so I decided to see if I could just pop him to start and be done with it. As soon as I drew my gun, it failed the mission :(
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Must be doing something wrong but I'm having a hard time using the lasso. I can hit someone just fine, but they usually break free quickly, I've tried holding to the fire button and the aim button but neither seems to keep them in the lasso consistently.
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Keep LT down and make sure you're still moving towards them, and Marston will keep reeling it in. It's kind of hard to describe, but it's easy once you get it.
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That must be it, I usually lasso something while doing a drive by, so by the time I hit I'm usually moving away a little bit instead of getting closer. Need to practice tonight.
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Hahaha, I just saved a guy being chased by wolves, and as he is thanking me, he gets run over by a stagecoach and killed
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Woot, finally won a game of horseshoes. I'm loving liar's dice, poker is ok, only played blackjack once but I'm not sure what the ultimate goal was since I was given chips. I quit while I was even but I don't think I was given any money back.
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The only goal in blackjack is to walk away with more chips than you started
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thanks for doing our bidding john, you can go home now
*20 minute cattle drive*
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He does have a point...
(http://gucomics.com/comics/2010/gu_20100608.jpg)
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Half the missions (especially for the government) were set up as
"Do this"
"NO!"
"We'll kill your wife and son"
"wait, really?"
"Yeah and then you'll go to jail"
"OK"
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Been to busy to play this much lately, still enjoying it though. My only issue so far is how easy the combat has been. Marston's aim is so deadly that I can kill dozens of bad guys from a mile away just by clicking the snap-to aiming button. Does it get any harder?
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Turn off the auto aim and it's a lot better
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Ooh, didn't think of that, I'll give it a try.
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Half the missions (especially for the government) were set up as
"Do this"
"NO!"
"We'll kill your wife and son"
"wait, really?"
"Yeah and then you'll go to jail"
"OK"
Please tell me there is a mission to bust them out of the jail and then slaughter the ones threatening them :D
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Not sure, I think there sort of is but I don't know
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Just finished the game, the ending owns
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sorry it didn't come out for your baby console
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you should get the zombie expansion
I wasn't going to because it sounded dumb but I broke down and did it last night. Dumb RDR is still RDR