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ManaByte said:
I'll advance them a bit more. I've been scouring the landscape for wanted posters, doing law missions, gold, etc. Every once in a while I move through the "plot".
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I'll advance them a bit more. I've been scouring the landscape for wanted posters, doing law missions, gold, etc. Every once in a while I move through the "plot".
Yeah, I should've phrased it differently. Everyone doesn't necessarily need many bullets to die as there's the always rewarding head shots, but you can unload multiple bullets into enemies without them dropping. Wait until you progress a little further, there are people you can shoot in the body 15 times without them going down. Bosses, probably 30 times. I guess it's the game's way to stress the importance of head shots, but I still find that a bit cheesy.
I'm enjoying the game more than I did yesterday after simply forgetting about trying to wring any life out of the basically non-existent "sandbox/GTA-style" of gameplay and just sticking to the missions. The missions are a lot of fun. The story and voice acting are pretty good as well. I'm about 45% complete, but I don't know if that counts just missions or counts all the side quests, too. Unfortunately, it's quite easy on the standard difficulty level.
And ManaByte, what version do you have? Whether or not they recorded the sounds of real guns, on the Xbox version they come across like cap guns. Faint little pops. Guns should be freakin' loud.
I'm enjoying the game more than I did yesterday after simply forgetting about trying to wring any life out of the basically non-existent "sandbox/GTA-style" of gameplay and just sticking to the missions. The missions are a lot of fun. The story and voice acting are pretty good as well. I'm about 45% complete, but I don't know if that counts just missions or counts all the side quests, too. Unfortunately, it's quite easy on the standard difficulty level.
And ManaByte, what version do you have? Whether or not they recorded the sounds of real guns, on the Xbox version they come across like cap guns. Faint little pops. Guns should be freakin' loud.
Fusebox said:40% through on Xbox and loving it - more atmosphere than most games I've played in ages.
As for the bow thing, Ive got it but cant find the gray wolf...
So I killed 2 dozen or so brown ones in retaliation.
Are you actually supposed to look for a "grey" wolf??? Dang it. I thought they were all grey. Right after I talk to the hunter guy a whole bunch of wolves appear just a gallop away from him. I'll have to find this other wolf then.
He does say that it's near his village. But I haven't seen an Indian village yet.
Truelize said:
He says it stalks whiteman towns.. :lol
And its 98% of the time near
Dodge, if you're riding in from Empire on the railroad tracks
Spooking it (anything except crouch-walking) makes it run away at superwolf speeds. :lol
More similar hunting missions follow.
On other notes, I'm almost finished with the game, I'm at the
frustrating kill-the-tin-can-man ending fight. Why?!? :lol
Late Stage Marxist
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I'm on my 2nd playthrough on the X360 version. I think this is one of my favourite new franchises this gen. It may be a 'short' game, but it's highly addictive and a joy to play from start to finish. I almost don't want Neversoft to ever continue the series with a sequel, because the game is so spot on compared to other western games. They completely nailed the atmosphere, combat, horseback riding and arbitrary scalping of the wild west.
Speaking of which, what was the general consensus on Red Dead Revolver? As good as GUN? More linear?
Speaking of which, what was the general consensus on Red Dead Revolver? As good as GUN? More linear?
I 100% Finished this last week. Awesome game. But admittedly I realized that I was playing the last mission about half through said mission and was pretty sad.
I really really loved this game but there is no much room for improvement and expansion.
One thing that really would have helped the game was if the side missions tied into the story better. I enjoyed them but found that they felt tacked on. I spent a lot of time running back and forth through the game world trying to finish some of them after I had finished the story missions. I really couldn't figure out any reason why the game didn't force you to do the side missions as part of the story. I would have rather the game had been a bit longer and developed through the story more than just sent me running around with no connection to the gameworld.
And. Once you get the strongest rifle you can take legs and arms off. Best game feature ever!!
I really really loved this game but there is no much room for improvement and expansion.
One thing that really would have helped the game was if the side missions tied into the story better. I enjoyed them but found that they felt tacked on. I spent a lot of time running back and forth through the game world trying to finish some of them after I had finished the story missions. I really couldn't figure out any reason why the game didn't force you to do the side missions as part of the story. I would have rather the game had been a bit longer and developed through the story more than just sent me running around with no connection to the gameworld.
And. Once you get the strongest rifle you can take legs and arms off. Best game feature ever!!
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I was flipping through the Holiday 2005 issue of OXM when I came to the Gun review and...9.5? I guess they really loved it.
this game has so much potential to spawn a truly awesome series of decent western games, but falls a bit short of the mark. The BIGGEST letdown is the stutter that happens ALL THE TIME. There are also strange graphical anomalies sometimes.*
This game has an awesome foundation to build from (mostly based on GTA games really) but it is lacking heaps of polish. In fact it almost seems like it has none. I'm a little disappointed by the game overall, but I'm just so happy to get a western game that is pushing the genre in the right direction.
I'd also like to see a more complete world. More towns and more details. More to do in the towns. More interesting "overworld". Maybe incorporate some sort of "surviving in the wilderness" gameplay. A weather system and more involved day and night system. Also have a horse that you actually own, kinda like Epona in Zelda. Some sort of train heist mission where you ride beside the train on your horse (perhaps "on rails") as you shoot people from the train and finally board etc. Refine the controls a bit too. I could go on and on... there's just so much I'd like to see in a sequel. It's just a shame to see a game come so far, yet still fall so far of the mark... even though I realise there are time and money contraints put on the developer, and they can't just keep adding things and making it perfect to their heart's content.
Gun 2 please! And this time some polish!
*i'm playing the PC version. the stutter seems to occur when things need to load. in my opinion there's no excuse for that after playing a huge streaming world like World of Warcraft.
This game has an awesome foundation to build from (mostly based on GTA games really) but it is lacking heaps of polish. In fact it almost seems like it has none. I'm a little disappointed by the game overall, but I'm just so happy to get a western game that is pushing the genre in the right direction.
I'd also like to see a more complete world. More towns and more details. More to do in the towns. More interesting "overworld". Maybe incorporate some sort of "surviving in the wilderness" gameplay. A weather system and more involved day and night system. Also have a horse that you actually own, kinda like Epona in Zelda. Some sort of train heist mission where you ride beside the train on your horse (perhaps "on rails") as you shoot people from the train and finally board etc. Refine the controls a bit too. I could go on and on... there's just so much I'd like to see in a sequel. It's just a shame to see a game come so far, yet still fall so far of the mark... even though I realise there are time and money contraints put on the developer, and they can't just keep adding things and making it perfect to their heart's content.
Gun 2 please! And this time some polish!
*i'm playing the PC version. the stutter seems to occur when things need to load. in my opinion there's no excuse for that after playing a huge streaming world like World of Warcraft.
the fact that each time you start a side quest it kinda wipes the slate clean and "resets the world" didn't help with that. And yeah, it would've being nice if some of them tied in with the main story (ie. The Red Hand Gang perhaps?)Truelize said:
I just got stuck for the first time in this game on the Hollister battle, he just kept wtfpwning me so I took off on a bunch of side missions and upgraded my gear and my stats, and now I cant find where I'm meant to go to get back into that mission, even with the minimap! Fear my lame Gun skillz. 
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/Gun love thread..
Love GuNN thread/
Paul Stanley got married yesterday! Anyone care? No? Didnt think so. Aging rockers are funny.
Love GuNN thread/
Paul Stanley got married yesterday! Anyone care? No? Didnt think so. Aging rockers are funny.
I picked this up at Blockbuster tonight for under $40/used, and I'm already planning on putting it up on eBay pretty soon. To sum up how I feel about this game, I'll use the same wording that I used for a lot of other forms of entertainment:
While it is a solid game, it's just so horribly and painfully average, that I just can't fully get into it.
I don't know if that makes much sense to you guys, but that's the best way to put what I feel. I enjoy it for what it is, but there isn't anything about it at all that jumps out at me. Every aspect seems to just be very average, that's all.
This one is a rental, and nothing more. I'm just glad that it's such a recent game that I'll end up playing it for free when all is said and done. Heck, I might even make a few bucks on it since on eBay they seem to be going for more than I paid for it.
I know it sounds elitist, but with so many really good, fantastic games out there, I find it hard now to even play a simply average game. It sounds bad, I know, but I can't help that.
While it is a solid game, it's just so horribly and painfully average, that I just can't fully get into it.
I don't know if that makes much sense to you guys, but that's the best way to put what I feel. I enjoy it for what it is, but there isn't anything about it at all that jumps out at me. Every aspect seems to just be very average, that's all.
This one is a rental, and nothing more. I'm just glad that it's such a recent game that I'll end up playing it for free when all is said and done. Heck, I might even make a few bucks on it since on eBay they seem to be going for more than I paid for it.
I know it sounds elitist, but with so many really good, fantastic games out there, I find it hard now to even play a simply average game. It sounds bad, I know, but I can't help that.