I hated the story and the characters, but I love the setting so I had fun just hunting and watching sunsets.
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Nerdkiller
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Demons? Are you sure you're referring to Gears and not Doom?Introduced my niece to Gears of WarShe's already slaying demons
Professor Beef
Banned
John Marston is one of my favorite protags of that gen
RobotNinjaHornets
Banned
Ok bad's an overstatement, irritating is probably better
Like it was continually "I'll help you but do this thing for me first" *does thing* "Ok now do this other thing" ad fucking nauseum, with just incredibly dull characters. Like I'm pretty indifferent to stories in games generally, but don't make it so actively annoying that I just want to kill all the characters
And it's weird, because I really like GTA and Once Upon A Time In The West is one of my favourite films. It just felt kind of like a bad imitation of both to me
Like it was continually "I'll help you but do this thing for me first" *does thing* "Ok now do this other thing" ad fucking nauseum, with just incredibly dull characters. Like I'm pretty indifferent to stories in games generally, but don't make it so actively annoying that I just want to kill all the characters
And it's weird, because I really like GTA and Once Upon A Time In The West is one of my favourite films. It just felt kind of like a bad imitation of both to me
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I'd smooch a cactus for Bully 2.
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
Western is a boring ass setting set in a boring ass region during a boring ass time period of a specific country ¯_(ツ
#AmericanHistorySucks
Uh...I don't think a German should really start talking about other countries histories...
trab pu kcip
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I dont wanna go to work tomorrow :< my boss was kinda mad at me last time
RDR is honestly the only open world game I've liked. I think it was the combination of the atmosphere and an alright lead.
Because you thuglifed and left the door open?
Josh with a J
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I was weirdly sucker punched last night. Well that's not weird but it's weird that they decided to hit the side of my very hard head lol
RobotNinjaHornets
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Eveywhere has a shit history
America literally started with genocide
We have the fucking Empire which I fucking hate and should be taught about much fucking better than it is
trab pu kcip
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no that somehow never got mentioned. but apparently I was too slow on stuff when she wasn't there and also some of the things I did mysteriously disappeared and it of course looked like I didn't do them and just dicked around. I srsly dont know if I somehow made a mistake or the software had problems but I never do anything else than work when I'm there (and check GAF maybe once or twice). with the shitty pcs I constantly have to switch between (I don't have a fixed seat) I lose so much time on program errors and other shit x_x
No the region is gorgeous and Red Dead Redemption has more variation than I expected (desert, swamp, and mountain). The time period is white washed a lot and the focus on particular actors (white Americans) is over done in film, but there's a lot going on in the history because of all the different people involved: Native Americans, Mexicans, Chinese immigrants, black Americans and white Americans. And then add to that the introduction of new technologies. I can't see how that's boring.Western is a boring ass setting set in a boring ass region during a boring ass time period of a specific country ¯_(ツ
#AmericanHistorySucks
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
Finders Keepers, bruh
RobotNinjaHornets
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It had already been found
Professor Beef
Banned
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
Survival of the Fittest.
RobotNinjaHornets
Banned
I mean
It was us originally anyway
What I'm saying is we're fucking huge colonial cunts who probably should've all been killed years ago
...are you trying to make me invoke Godwin's Law?
Nomadic Sparks
Banned
Still laughing about vagina slaves
Fall Into The GAF
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Technically, it wasn't developed by Rockstar and you're right, it's pretty weak for an open world game.
Nomadic Sparks
Banned
That sucks
WhereAreMahDragonz
Banned
So had coffee with that girl today
She's awesome. Total nerd, wicked smart, and cute. Seems very down to earth.
She's a bears fan which is kind of gross but whatever
She's awesome. Total nerd, wicked smart, and cute. Seems very down to earth.
She's a bears fan which is kind of gross but whatever
Nomadic Sparks
Banned
Jay Cutler ayyy lmao
Nomadic Sparks
Banned
ayyy lmao yassss
Nerdkiller
Membeur
She's not for you then.
Nomadic Sparks
Banned
Tom Brady is basically the god emperor of all Massachusetts and all parts beyond there
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I loved Red Dead Redemption for what it did well; portray a convincing interactive Western landscape with appropriate game systems. Being a fan of Westerns, and their general underrepresentation in the medium, probably went a long way towards me enjoying it as much as I did. I also felt that, much like Bully, it accentuated Rockstar's ludicrously huge production values and attention to detail, particularly in presentation. The Witcher 3 drew parallels in core immersion; slowly trotting your horse through detailed landscapes as a storm rolls over the horizon. RDR was filled with these moments.
But I also felt it had pacing issues, like almost every Rockstar game, wherein the middle stretch drags the narrative down to meandering, time filling junk. Rockstar's penchant for darker characters worked better here that it does in some of their other work. But I also think RDR is a prime case for ludonarrative dissonance that I'm not a fan of in a lot of Rockstar games. I know it's such a fucking crazy hard thing to balance in an open world sandbox that's also trying to push strong characters and a heavy narrative, but I found something inherently offputting about being able to play as basically a psychopath in your own times that's completely ignored once you start triggering cutscenes.
Still, I'm done for more Westerns.
But I also felt it had pacing issues, like almost every Rockstar game, wherein the middle stretch drags the narrative down to meandering, time filling junk. Rockstar's penchant for darker characters worked better here that it does in some of their other work. But I also think RDR is a prime case for ludonarrative dissonance that I'm not a fan of in a lot of Rockstar games. I know it's such a fucking crazy hard thing to balance in an open world sandbox that's also trying to push strong characters and a heavy narrative, but I found something inherently offputting about being able to play as basically a psychopath in your own times that's completely ignored once you start triggering cutscenes.
Still, I'm done for more Westerns.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I dislike all Rockstar games that I have played outside of the PS2 GTA trilogy.
Never played a Red Dead game, though.
Never played a Red Dead game, though.
Yeah, I think it's generally agreed that the Mexico segment is pretty weak. I remember starting to lose interest in the game midway through until it picked up after that.
Used a apple cider vinegar rinse on my hair today and, surprisingly, it seems to have been beneficial to my scalp!
Usually I don't go in for the "home remedy" crap but my scalp had been dry and flaky for months
So anyway, how's things?
I actually didn't enjoy Red Dead Redemption, it was the first open world game that I played where I felt cheated after 20 or so hours. The world was just completely uninteresting.
Usually I don't go in for the "home remedy" crap but my scalp had been dry and flaky for months
So anyway, how's things?
I actually didn't enjoy Red Dead Redemption, it was the first open world game that I played where I felt cheated after 20 or so hours. The world was just completely uninteresting.
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Transhuman
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You seemed so well rested until the end here.
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Transhuman
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I hear photobucket is good.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
i must have remade my resume 15 times now
coping mechanism in full effect
coping mechanism in full effect
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Transhuman
Unconfirmed Member
What is a resume?
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Why are people on the internet so often so argumentative about the most trivial things
It is what happens when you unpause Netflix
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Transhuman
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The timing for that full moon the other night couldn't have been better.
I'm nervous about this professor. He said he'd cut us some slack on the first assignment but apparently the way in which the hard copy is printed counts for 50pts of the assignment. I don't really see handing in a programming assignment and then getting docked 50pts because it's in portrait instead of landscape as fair, but alright.
I'm nervous about this professor. He said he'd cut us some slack on the first assignment but apparently the way in which the hard copy is printed counts for 50pts of the assignment. I don't really see handing in a programming assignment and then getting docked 50pts because it's in portrait instead of landscape as fair, but alright.
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