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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Iain on April 09, 2010, 06:22:05 AM
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Various (http://www.youtube.com/user/RockstarGames#p/u/2/okt98KhYK7Q) trailers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYaC2cDxor8)
Yeah, I pre-ordered it. I think that makes me a geek or something. Looks pretty impressive.
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Good music.
They said stagecoach travel was faster than horseback. Ain't that back'ards?
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So, it's like World of Warcraft with cowboys... :laugh:
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Good music.
They said stagecoach travel was faster than horseback. Ain't that back'ards?
Horses were ridden with an eye to keeping the one you had under you for the duration of the journey, if not for the lifetime of the rider or horse (whichever came first).
Stagecoaches were driven in stages - pretetermined distances usually based on how far you could run a team at pretty much top speed until they were close to worn out. Horses were then changed at the stage station, where the used-up ones were rested for several days to weeks, awaiting the stagecoach's return trip.
A day's trip on horseback was between 30 & 50 miles, depending on terrain. A stagecoach teravelled between 60 and 100 miles per day, albeit in 15-20 mile spurts.
So yes, stagecoach travel was faster.
stay safe.
skidmark
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What he said.
WOW. The Multiplayer looks hot. I'm thinking this'll be a game to try for sure.
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Good music.
They said stagecoach travel was faster than horseback. Ain't that back'ards?
Imagine the stagecoach will be like a taxi in GTA, you hop on board and there is no journey time. Like in GTA you can get there yourself, it just takes longer but with a chance of running into something interesting.
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dang it, right after i blackballed sony, maybe they'll fix the linux support quickly enough. =|
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Whereas WoW has no interest for me whatsoever...well this has guns, and stuff. That makes it ok to get addicted, right?
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Whereas WoW has no interest for me whatsoever...well this has guns, and stuff. That makes it ok to get addicted, right?
Definitely. You can play this one dressed as Clint, and that makes it cool.
The conventions will be full of cool Clint and John alikes. That'll be so cool. I'll be there. Being cool, smoking a fake cheroot.
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I had no idea the stages in stagecoach routes were so short. That must have been in insanely expensive way to travel.
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A day's trip on horseback was between 30 & 50 miles, depending on terrain. A stagecoach teravelled between 60 and 100 miles per day, albeit in 15-20 mile spurts.
Well, not to mention the wear and tear on the rider's behind ;)
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Some reviews are out. I know the game review industry is regarded as highly suspect by many, they are glowing though.
In the more than 1,100 articles I have written for this newspaper since 1996, I have never before called anything a tour de force. Yet there is no more succinct and appropriate way to describe Red Dead Redemption. Rockstar rides again.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/arts/television/17dead.html?pagewanted=all
Launch is tomorrow for you guys, Friday for me.
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Various (http://www.youtube.com/user/RockstarGames#p/u/2/okt98KhYK7Q) trailers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYaC2cDxor8)
Yeah, I pre-ordered it. I think that makes me a geek or something. Looks pretty impressive.
I guess I'm a geek too.
Grand Theft Stagecoach? =D Right on.
The guns look like they are modeled rather accurately (for a game). The full-auto broomhandle Mauser is a little hokey, though. Looking forward to the LeMat. Hope they did that one well.
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Want. Don't have time to give a hoot, though. I'll pick it up after the move, which will put all the hard core geeks 2 weeks ahead of me, which means I'll get killed frequently online :laugh:
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Damn. I was really trying hard not to buy a PS3. :mad:
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Copy arrived today.
Played for a couple of hours. It is GTA Wild West really, but that setting removes some of the annoying innovations from GTA IV, like the mobile phone.
The Dead Eye feature works nicely, at this point it just slows things down allowing you to plant a round right between the eyes. Later on it allows you to paint multiple shots, which are then delivered in rapid succession.
Scenery is amazing frankly, I found myself stopping to watch a sunset. Characters look better, and the quirks of the graphics suit this setting much better than they do Liberty City.
Despite the apparent hilarity of being bad, it's actually a pain. Being hunted down sucks, and I felt like a right idiot for killing a marshall, and it was an accident. Lassoing people is fun though. Occasionally you'll meet a marshall who has lost two prisoners, you get the option to kill them or take them alive. Don't bother with lassoing them, if you do and take them back to the marshall he just executes them anyway. Otherwise, bounty hunting is much more rewarding if you keep the bounty alive.
Hunting is quite good fun, make heavy use of the Dead Eye feature and you can bag a few deer at a time. Cougars are quite hard, and talking of killing by accident, when being attacked by a cougar I accidentally shot my horse in the back of the head. Going to need something pretty powerful to hunt the bears later on.
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...full auto C/96. So this is set in the early 1930s? That's when the Mauser c/96 model 712 was designed. ;)
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...full auto C/96. So this is set in the early 1930s? That's when the Mauser c/96 model 712 was designed. ;)
I'm sure there are any number of gun related idiocies. Even I noted that the Winchester repeater was significantly more powerful and had better range than the standard repeater, despite the fact that they share the same ammunition.
It's set in the early 20th century.
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I saw a youtube clip where you can get an achievement for tying up a nun and leaving her on the railroad tracks to get run over.
If that's not versimillitude I don't know what is. ;)
Someday I'll get a console.
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I'd happily give a few historical inconsistancies a pass if it makes the game more fun. I may have to check this out!
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It's set in the early 20th century.
After WWI, before WWII, or early as in pre-1911?
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I believe the game is supposed to take place in 1911.
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How would those of you that have it rate the single player. I really don't get into multi-player games at all. The only exception to that being Rainbow Six. I don't like to buy games before playing them anymore after I pre-ordered Halo 2, waited in line for midnight, and had the whole campaign beat before sunrise. Only after I wasted the $60 did I find out they basically designed the game to be mostly for multi-player and tacked the -10 hour campaign on afterwords. So yeah, I'd like to hear how the single-player only is before I spend any money on this.
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GTA IV was a single player game with multiplayer tacked on. This one, well they seem to have put more effort into the multiplayer, not that I've tried it yet. There's at least 20 hours of single player game play I think, and that would mean ignoring the bounty hunting, hunting, horse-breaking, gambling etc side games.
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No PC version eh? Maybe one will come out eventually...
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ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I can't wait!
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At 20 hours for the campaign, I'll prolly just rent it i a few weeks. No sense in spending 60 bucks on something that will take less than a week to beat.
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If you're prepared to rent it for a few weeks that would probably give you enough time to experience a lot of it. Playing it straight through would cause you to miss out ont a fair bit. I spent about two hours last night hunting foxes, wolves and deer to raise a bit of cash. It was fun too, especially the look on my brother's girlfriends face during the skinning animation.
Speaking trying to behave though, I may have shot a shopkeeper for some remarks he made. I also accidentally shot a guy I was rescuing from wolves. It's not easy being good.
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Welll done, IMO. I found myself pausing to watch the sun set over a far mesa several times as well.
-Cougars - been bushwhacked by a few. Quite startling to hear that distinctive growl as one leaps on your back. The rattlers are the same way.
I haven't done much of the main quest. Hunting and bounties are taking up my time.
It took me quite awhile to get familiar with Dead Eye. A necessary skill, though for when you are facing 3-4 well-armed bad guys.
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Where are you finding cougars? I've seen two so far. Finding foxes is a pain too, very valuable hide. Bloody coyotes everywhere mind.
The presently restricted area past Thieves Landing looks productive - bison, beaver, mountain goats, bears and pigs.
Second stage Dead Eye I found pretty difficult to get used to by the way, preferred the first stage.
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The cougars seem to be in the area around Ft. Mercer. Both times I was doing random encounters and they just came out of nowhere. As in "GROWL. Oh crap I'm on the groun..." DEAD. :facepalm:
Haven't seen a fox yet.
So far I have seen/hunted:
Armadillos
Rabbits
Deer
Coyotes
Racoons
Rattlesnakes
Skunks
Wolves
Wild horses (can't seem to find a way to sell live ones, though)
Vultures
Hawks
Owls
1 Bobcat over bait
Is there any schedule for the train? I need to do a challenge involving the train and can never seem to catch up to it.
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You guys suck.
I have to take my son out to get shoes after school (going through about his 10th pair this year it seems), and I'm tempted to look around for the game....
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You guys suck.
I have to take my son out to get shoes after school (going through about his 10th pair this year it seems), and I'm tempted to look around for the game....
If you plan on getting anything done in the next couple of weeks, don't get it. :O
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The cougars seem to be in the area around Ft. Mercer.
Is there any schedule for the train? I need to do a challenge involving the train and can never seem to catch up to it.
Gotcha, just to the west of Plainview. took me a few minutes there to figure out which was the cougar icon, and which the bobcat on the printed map.
No idea about the train, you must be ahead of me in the game. Trying really hard to get other stuff done, esp as I have a 6am start with work tomorrow.
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This being a Rockstar game, I wonder if there are codes to get modern weapons just for fun.
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Ok, in the area south of Benedict Point and west of Plainview there is the highest possible population density of cougars and wolves. Just killed about 15 of each without moving more than about 100yds in any direction.
Waste of time though, as I was about to leave when a cougar jumped me from behind and deaded me.
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I opened up Mexico and stopped working on story lines.
Have you run across any treasure maps? I found one and I know I'm in the right vicinity I just can't locate the exact spot.
Sounds like you ran into cougar country... /grin/.
BTW, the in-game newspaper says 1911, for folks wondering.
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No PC version eh? Maybe one will come out eventually...
Hopefully.
I've been playing Killing Floor a lot lately on PC. It's good fun. $13 on Steam.
Another PC game I've been playing is a mod for BF2 called Project Reality.
Had some amazing experiences with it so far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zQv_ebkCX0
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Classic GTA-type moment
Oh there's the train icon. I bet if I ride out to meet it I will have plenty of time to fulfill a certain challenge. So I start riding towards the icon. Up a long, slowly inclining bridge over a huge drywash in the middle of a thunderstorm. (This isn't scripted, by the way.)
I get about halfway across and...what's that? A black plume of smoke headed around...a bend...this way.
Uh-oh. Yep, it's the train. I'm 40 feet or so off the ground on a narrow train trestle with the train coming.
Now I know how Wile E. Coyote must have felt at times...
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I succumbed! Finding that the cougars are more active at night....just got dead after killing one and got attacked by another.
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Finding that the cougars are more active at night....
I'll take your word for it :laugh:
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Animals seem to follow real-world wake/sleep cycles. Nocturnal animals...are. Coyotes come out in relative droves at night. Deer too. Skunks. All of those are more difficult to find during the day.
Diurnal (is that the term?) animals are more plentiful during the day.
This game was researched well. The more I dig in, the more I am impressed.
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"Cougars more active at night"
Ahaha, hem,hem.
I'm too old for any of that. Wait...
/grin/
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Hell, I'm too fat and old to attract those kind of cougars.....
As for the game,
got a few hours of gameplay in last night. Its a hoot. Killed a hooker, that cost me $40 and a chunk of fame. Rescued a dude being attacked by coyotes.
Broke up a fistfight by shooting one of the people. Still got my reward for protecting the town =D
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Horse "deeds"
OK, that's pretty cool. If you buy a horse deed from a merchant, the deed itself moves into your kit, and the type of horse listed on the deed appears. You may have to whistle for him to appear (push the d-pad straight down). You can also whistle for them if they have just wandered off. Anyway, if your horse ever gets killed, just click on the deed and a new one appears close by. Doing a mission that requires you to get on another horse? Get on the other horse, then whistle. "Your" horse will follow you.
I got the "Kentucky Saddler" deed. Right fast horse.
Finally found my first treasure. That's all I'll say about that, other than the treasure maps are rather cryptic.
"got a few hours of gameplay in last night. Its a hoot. Killed a hooker, that cost me $40 and a chunk of fame. Rescued a dude being attacked by coyotes.
Broke up a fistfight by shooting one of the people. Still got my reward for protecting the town" =D
=D
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Funny thing about the hooker was that she wandered off from the saloon at Armadillo. Best I could tell, we were well out of sight of anyone.
Hunting over bait is awesome :)
Also, I'm glad that there isn't that much swearing in the game. Can't even play BF Bad Company 2 with the kids awake because of the language. At least with red dead I can run them out of the room.
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Funny thing about the hooker was that she wandered off from the saloon at Armadillo. Best I could tell, we were well out of sight of anyone.
Hunting over bait is awesome :)
Also, I'm glad that there isn't that much swearing in the game. Can't even play BF Bad Company 2 with the kids awake because of the language. At least with red dead I can run them out of the room.
Got my first boar and first fox last night, in the boar icon area north of McFarlane's Ranch. Does bait attract non-predators? Can't determine.
Some of the language in the cut scenes can be rather salty, just so you know.
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Also, I'm glad that there isn't that much swearing in the game. Can't even play BF Bad Company 2 with the kids awake because of the language. At least with red dead I can run them out of the room.
JamisJockey, come on over (http://www.head-fi.org/). oh and, sorry about your wallet. :angel:
but really, headphones work well, if your tv doesn't have a headphone plug. it's pretty much buy a stereo or receiver. an old shelf unit with an aux input will work if your tv has rca audio outs. that way you can watch your movies or games when you get the chance without waking the whole house.(if you get the closed headphones, open are almost as loud as speakers) oh and if you need more than one set going at a time, there are ways to do that to (http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/Behringer-AMP800-MiniAMP-4Channel-Stereo-Headphone-Amplifier?sku=182040).
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Well I rented it last night but didn't get a chance to play since I had Army crap all day. Jus started playing about 15 minutes ago. I'm goin after McFarland ;)
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Got my first boar and first fox last night, in the boar icon area north of McFarlane's Ranch. Does bait attract non-predators? Can't determine.
Some of the language in the cut scenes can be rather salty, just so you know.
Yeah I've killed a deer or two over bait. Still hoping to get a damn cougar. Figured out how to stalk wolves, you have to plink them from a distance or they kill you.
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Cougar- where Iain said. Ft. Mercer, Rio Bravo, Plainview area.
I'm up there right now searching for specific plants and can't walk 20 feet without a cougar attack.
Dusk/Night is the best time to encounter them. Have a full load of medicine before going after cougar... you'll need it.
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Full load of medicine and full load of horse pills and try and stay on the horse. Take Dead Eye refillers as well, because killing animals doesn't refill it. Trot through on your horse and wait for the cougar growl, think the horses tend to notify you of nearby dangers too. Buy an improved campsite and use it to save and get home quickly. Really annoying collecting a grands worth of animal bits and then getting mauled.
There's an area just north west of the ranch. by the railroad tracks, that seems interesting hunting wise. Marked as boar on the map, but every time I go there I get a lot of something. Hawks everywhere at one point, decent money in hawk feathers. There was that time though when the twentieth wolf was one wolf too many.
You guys been in multiplayer yet? Was in there last night, there were two other people in free roam. Hunted one of them down and killed him twice and he left. An APS posse of three might be fun some time.
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Keep your back to a rock outcropping...that way the cougar can only approach from one direction. They are so insanely fast in-game.
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Yeah finding cougars isn't hard. Surviving them, not so much.... :laugh:
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If you do the first mission with the snake oil salesman you get upgraded Dead Eye. That allows you to paint several shots and then fire them in quick succession. Yet to meet a cougar that can survive 6 to the forehead.
When they are running the drop dead and tumble at speed that the cougar does after said 6 to the forehead is impressively realistic-y.
A trip into free roam and up to Tall Trees is in order later. Want to meet a bear. It'll probably go over all Timothy Treadwell, but it'll be fun.
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I think I'm going to need to figure out how the dead eye dealie works. Sadly, I'll be packing up the Xbox today for the move.
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Sounds like fun. No console . . . hope they port it to PC sometime soon.
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Sounds like fun. No console . . . hope they port it to PC sometime soon.
I should look to see if the first two games are on PC...
Usually if a game is on Xbox it'll eventually make it to PC. One of the reasons a friend of mine only has a PS3 and refuses to get an Xbox.
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Sounds like fun. No console . . . hope they port it to PC sometime soon.
Yep, I find myself hating my Xbox360 though my little brother (the only reason I have one) loves it. Any game I buy for me will be on the PC.
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Spent a bit of time on the multiplayer this evening. Free roam is a fair bit of fun with a posse, I joined up with a couple of teenagers who squabbled like an old couple. Quick way to level up too. Take on Mercer's Fort a half dozen times and you'll no longer be riding a mule.
The death match is fun too, not a quick way to level up.
My PSN name is adonai_bezek if anyone wants to add me for RDR fun.
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Damn moving truck broke down on its way here and we had to push the move back a day. Took the TV and Xbox back out of the boxes :laugh:
Played till 0100 last night. Figured out dead eye and used it to kill about 7 of those stupid cougars. I still can't figure out why if you start shooting at one cougar, more start showing up. Something in the software encourages it to produce more animals of the same kind in the area...pretty much I go up hill from the ranch and there is a knob at the intersection of the tracks. Stand on the knob and its a free for all. Built up a war chest of over a grand so far. Plan on saving some more jack and then upgrading the horse, etc.
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Yep was about to talk about that area between there and the railroad bridge across to Tall Trees by the waterfall.
Spent about half an hour there earlier and killed over 30 wolves. Seen a pack with over 10 animals. Took out 7 with one Dead Eye.
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Yeah now that I've got animal killing down its not too hard. :cool:
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Lately I've just been playing the in-game poker. Texas Hold 'Em is such a great game to begin with but in this one you can play a tiny little challenge and deal yourself an extra card off the bottom of the deck. Makes the game even more interesting...
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You may have already figured this out, but if you ride your horse over the body of a killed animal and skin it while your horse is standing on top, the game will skip over the skinning animation and just give you the animal parts. Makes hunting a little quicker.
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A note for hunters - bison do not respawn apparently. I killed all but one Cody-style on my first visit to the Plains and now he just wanders around on his own.
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should have left a heifer. :angel:
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Have y'all run into the "Just one more box of dynamite" random encounter?
Lol.
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Since you've probably heard the dialogue by now...
Irish: "God made whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world".
and
John: "How are you feelin', Irish?"
Irish:" Oh, I'm between fair and middlin', Johnny-boy."
John: " You're going to feel between dead and dyin' if you cross me again"
/grin/
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Irish: "God made whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world".
From the movie Crossfire Trail.
Probably predates the movie, but it's the first I'd heard it.
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Played from 2300-0230 last night :)
Need to kill 3 more wolves with a knife. Where can I hunt wolves where there probably won't be cougars? I was slashing and stabbing and had a pile of dead wolves and here comes a *expletive deleted*ing cougar while my health was depleted by fighting wolves.
Got my lasso. Yeah fun, you get to hogtie people. Been trying to hogtie a deer but that hasn't been successful :laugh:
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Played from 2300-0230 last night :)
Need to kill 3 more wolves with a knife. Where can I hunt wolves where there probably won't be cougars? I was slashing and stabbing and had a pile of dead wolves and here comes a *expletive deleted* cougar while my health was depleted by fighting wolves.
Got my lasso. Yeah fun, you get to hogtie people. Been trying to hogtie a deer but that hasn't been successful :laugh:
You can go deer surfing, just lasso one and jump off your horse.
For wolves, not always guaranteed but the area to the north of the ranch, heading across to the railway crossing into Tall Trees, is usually fairly productive and tends to be light on the cougars.
Finished the game, played a bit of multiplayer which is fun in Free Roam posse mode, but I suck at fighting other human players.
Made over $2000 on one hunting spree largely within the confines of my own land (in the last unlocked area for those who haven't got that far) Wolf after wolf after wolf.
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Been playing mutli player. Just totally pwn3d a 5 member posse in Armadillo for half an hour. They were so pissed that they accused me of cheating and kicked me ;/ Nevermind that before they showed up, I was getting my rump kicked by some guy at about a 4 to 1 ratio. And, while I was killing them, he killed me half a dozen times probably still.
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Finished the single player Jamis?
Looks like Assassin's Creed Brotherhood will be the next purchase. Multiplayer sneak hack and slash.
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Haven't yet. Might finish the multiplayer out over the next weekend, wife's going to be gone for 5 days.
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It's probably the best single player I've played other than COD4 and Assassin's Creed 2, and is only the second of the Rockstar games I've bothered to finish.
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I meant to say I might finish out the singleplayer this weekend. :facepalm:
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ok I'll put my .02cents in.
I snagged a copy with our gamefly account. I'll certainly be buying it when I can spare $50
I just finished the game last night after playing a few hours nearly everyday for the past couple weeks.
Definitely the best rockstar game ever made. The story kept you interested and all the side games and challenges will keep the replay value alive. I found myself fixated on the challenges after I completed Mexico. So before I played out the Blackwater stories I completed the hunting, survival and all the sharpshooter sans the final one.
I am still unable to get the 6 enemy disarms without reloading or changing firearms.
I love taking out bears in tall trees with the Carcano Rifle
I did sort of cheat and use this video to help with the treasure hunting for all of them following the 3rd. http://www.ign.com/videos/2010/05/26/red-dead-redemption-x360-red-dead-redemption-hidden-treasure-locations?objectid=14320288 (http://www.ign.com/videos/2010/05/26/red-dead-redemption-x360-red-dead-redemption-hidden-treasure-locations?objectid=14320288)
Oh and a tip in case anyone didn't know but if you stop your horse directly over the carcass of a kill, dismount and skin you can skip over the gutting scene. You can make cash quick with bears and buffalo using that method.
Also I found the campsite in your kit to be VITAL to playing the game without being put off by all the horseback riding. You can travel to anywhere via a campsite as well as save anywhere.
Is anyone still playing? If so I would enjoy meeting up for some coop play in mutliplayer
PS3 user here gamertag: InfidelSerf
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if you watch amazon's goldbox and video game deal of the day, you can usually get PS3 and XBOX games for 15-30 bucks. ;) and this week there doing there BF thing. :laugh:
just don't do like me, and see a game you want coming up. then have to go do something you know is going to put you in a whole new level of pain. then get home to order it and not notice the box is green when you have the white box system. :facepalm: man i can be dumb sometimes. =|