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Red Dead Redemption |OT| Whistling Morricone in the desert
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SenorDingDong
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Meus Renaissance said:
That is the difference between Dead Eye levels two and three. You are able to manually select your targets and if you like you can just treat it like Dead Eye level one and fire without the automated targeting.
Noisepurge
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Im not sure if this has been answered but can i swap out the golden guns for regular ones? They are ugly! 
Mr_Guillotine
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In free roam? keep killing boars.NG28 said:
Shotgun Kiss
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UrbanRats said:
Whoever said that was obviously confused, as it's definitely not. I've seen a multiplayer unlock list, and it's not on it, and we're far from the only people complaining about it's omission.
Raide said:I am also thinking about putting someone on the train tracks and adding bait and seeing if I can create a monster roadkill. :lol
I will also have to try dragging someone behind me on a horse covered in bait.
I was herding cattle earlier tonight and there was a train getting robbed by outlaws. The gun scared my cattle off and 8 of them got smashed by the train :lol :lol
Rated-Rsuperstar
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Rainstorms in this game are awesome.
Two more splendid ideas! :lolRaide said:I am also thinking about putting someone on the train tracks and adding bait and seeing if I can create a monster roadkill. :lol
I will also have to try dragging someone behind me on a horse covered in bait.
I lost 6 of mine that way. Cow corpses were flying all over! :lolJambiBum said:
Meus Renaissance
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Noisepurge said:Im not sure if this has been answered but can i swap out the golden guns for regular ones? They are ugly!
Yes. Go to the main menu and select Weapons. Go to your pistol/revolver and move your stick LEFT or RIGHT if you have more than one weapon of the same category.
Mr_Guillotine
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Finally unlocked my Legend of the west outfit, now off to 100%. :lol
Hyphen
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Downhome said:
I'm similar - It's been 21 hours, and I'm at 21%. Like you, I haven't been South of the San Luis River, or North of the MacFarlane's Ranch. The fact that I don't fast travel anywhere is probably a big contributing factor. It's just that I find it so much fun to ride, and take everything all in as the sun sets/rises. Beautiful stuff. And yes, hunting really is a lot of fun.
eXistor
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Well mp is out for me. I can't get my stupid modem/router to set NAT to open. I've turned on UPnP, forwarded the correct ports and everything, but it still says it's set to Strict. I'm pretty sure its my make of modem that's causing it (KPN Experia box, used only in the Netherlands), but it effectively means I can't ever play online. RDR is the first time in about 2 years I even wanted to try online, but alas.
I must say on the whole I am disappointed with the game. There's so much they absolutely nailed and don't get me wrong; ultimately I really like the game, but there's so much more they could have done to make it more memorable. The world and its presentation are second to none, but honestly what is there to do really? There are a fuck-ton of cool locations to find and when you get there there is literally nothing to do. It's just a fantastic looking wrapper. If the game were an rpg, you would get that adventure-itch when you got to a cool new location: what kind of monsters are here and what loot will they drop? Any secret chests to find? Maybe some awesome new equipment. RDR basically offers nothing like that. I know its not an rpg, but I feel like most locations are wasted like this. Sometimes you get to a new town and what can you do? Open a drawer to find $4,- or something, shoot the townspeople with no repurcussion. If you stick to missions the game works its magic, but if you go it alone, I find the game to be really lacking in the fun department. Random encounters are always the same and offer little to no variety. I find myself skipping these, because there is almost no reward and why would I want to do the exact same encounter 20 times? GTAIV gets a lot of shit, (most of it undeserved if you ask me, it's a good-to-great game) but at least you could easily entertain yourself inbetween missions. I'm not gonna be playing poker, play 5-finger filet or any of the bullshit minigames anyway (I did play them, but they all suck).
I hope this game gets expansions like GTAIV where they address these faults, but as it is it's certainly worthwhile, but it's not a complete game imo.
I must say on the whole I am disappointed with the game. There's so much they absolutely nailed and don't get me wrong; ultimately I really like the game, but there's so much more they could have done to make it more memorable. The world and its presentation are second to none, but honestly what is there to do really? There are a fuck-ton of cool locations to find and when you get there there is literally nothing to do. It's just a fantastic looking wrapper. If the game were an rpg, you would get that adventure-itch when you got to a cool new location: what kind of monsters are here and what loot will they drop? Any secret chests to find? Maybe some awesome new equipment. RDR basically offers nothing like that. I know its not an rpg, but I feel like most locations are wasted like this. Sometimes you get to a new town and what can you do? Open a drawer to find $4,- or something, shoot the townspeople with no repurcussion. If you stick to missions the game works its magic, but if you go it alone, I find the game to be really lacking in the fun department. Random encounters are always the same and offer little to no variety. I find myself skipping these, because there is almost no reward and why would I want to do the exact same encounter 20 times? GTAIV gets a lot of shit, (most of it undeserved if you ask me, it's a good-to-great game) but at least you could easily entertain yourself inbetween missions. I'm not gonna be playing poker, play 5-finger filet or any of the bullshit minigames anyway (I did play them, but they all suck).
I hope this game gets expansions like GTAIV where they address these faults, but as it is it's certainly worthwhile, but it's not a complete game imo.
Solid warrior
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I can't believe i wasted my time 'trying' to kill coyotes and bunnies. i fail at aiming.
Opus Angelorum
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I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but how does the weapon system work? Is it just a case of having enough money, or are some of them only available at certain points in the game?
PoweredBySoy
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Lotan said:
You're still on the honeymoon. It'll pass.
Opus Angelorum
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Lotan said:
Thanks.
Just another, how much ammunition is available? Do you have to stock up before leaving, or is it readily available from downed enemies?
Patrick Bateman
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Some of you guys and your spoilers are annoying. At least write a hint of far you are in the game or else the spoiler doesn't make sense.
Meus Renaissance
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:lol Mexican
Al-Pacino, he looks and speaks just like him. "You looking at me?"
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Meus Renaissance said::lol MexicanAl-Pacino, he looks and speaks just like him. "You looking at me?"
The expression of the guy on the right :lol
eXistor
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While I was typing my little post up there, I had my game paused at exactly this moment! I was chuckling to myself about both Al Pacino and the doofus on the right.chandoog said:
Sometimes you just take the spoils but the carcass remains untouched visually, just one of the many little bugs in the game.Dabanton said:
Shotgun Kiss
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Where do you find more treasure maps? I'm a little into Mexico at the moment, and I've only come across the very first one you get near the start of the game.
Did you seriously just say that there's not much to do? :lol Did you try doing the challenges? Going for medals in the missions? Bounty hunting? Doing all the objectives for getting the different outfits? Playing Poker/Liars Dice (which are good enough to be XBLA games if only they were online)?
This game is overflowing with stuff to do, and the only way I can see somebody getting bored quickly is if all they do is fall into the trap of just running around and shooting things at random, which I noticed was the case in GTA4.
eXistor said:
Did you seriously just say that there's not much to do? :lol Did you try doing the challenges? Going for medals in the missions? Bounty hunting? Doing all the objectives for getting the different outfits? Playing Poker/Liars Dice (which are good enough to be XBLA games if only they were online)?
This game is overflowing with stuff to do, and the only way I can see somebody getting bored quickly is if all they do is fall into the trap of just running around and shooting things at random, which I noticed was the case in GTA4.
This game reminds me more of Assassin's Creed 2 than GTA, probably the mix of horses, looting bodies, and the unique setting/atmosphere (for a videogame, anyway).
And voice actor for the main character is fucking excellent. I mean, some of the best voice acting I've ever heard. Some of the other acting (I'm looking at you, rancher chick that saves your life at the beginning) is downright embarrassing next to him.
And voice actor for the main character is fucking excellent. I mean, some of the best voice acting I've ever heard. Some of the other acting (I'm looking at you, rancher chick that saves your life at the beginning) is downright embarrassing next to him.
PoweredBySoy
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Ben2749 said:
If they actually want that to be fun, they need to fix the god damn spawning bandits on their turbo-charged horses.
eXistor
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Let me restate that: There's not much interesting stuff to do. I've already said that I hated the minigames (I admit that Liars Dice is pretty cool), so those are off. The challeges are pretty good, if a bit too much of an exercise in repetition. Bounty hunting is lame as hell. It's the same damn thing over and over again, I've never had any variation in those. Just go to the last known location shoot the badguys, lasso the bounty and ride back to town. That's it. Going for medals in missions? That just means doing them over and over until you get gold. Again, an exercise in repetition.Ben2749 said:
Shotgun Kiss
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PoweredBySoy said:
Just shoot them off. That's kind of the point; to make things interesting.
Patrick Bateman
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I rode through the desert yesterday when a woman in a neglige next to a covered wagon cried for help. I came nearer and suddenly 3 thugs came out of said wagon and tried to rob me. I quickly shot them, went to the woman, when she said "Please don't kill me, I'll change my life. Here, take this. It's all I have", gave me 200$ and ran away. :lol
PoweredBySoy
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Ben2749 said:
lol, well sure. But then I just feel like they're just catering to the ADD crowd that thinks "me must shoot things!". Not to mention it's frustrating having the game completely diminish the idea of having one of the fastest horses in the game when a bunch of bandits rubberband up to you doing mach 3.
I feel like Rockstar tried so hard to create this authentic wild west atmosphere, but then their fat fingers got in the way in regard to the gameplay. Some of it at least.
Meus Renaissance
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I'm going for the Buckin' Awesome achievement where you break three different types of breeds. However even though I can see in my stats how many horses in general I've broken, I'm not sure which breed they were specifically. Is there anywhere in the Stats menu where it would show this?
zero margin
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+Aliken+ said:
Playing with a bunch of friends>>>playing MP without friends. That might seem obvious but it's really the case in this. I get a lot of errors switching game types, going from gang match back to free roam sometimes never leaves the load screen forcing to back out of the game altogether. No one really seems to want to play any modes except free roam in my experience (10 hours played time in MP) so if you have friends and like free roam, a lot, you will like this.
Opus Angelorum
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PoweredBySoy said:
To make it more authentic, it would surely mean there would be even less to do?
Shotgun Kiss
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PoweredBySoy said:
Did you consider the possibility that it's simply "not to your tastes", instead of throwing insinuations of poor game design around? Because I'm sure the countless people lavishing praise upon the game, including all the people here that have contributed to 228-page long topic you're posting in right now, would all take issue with that.