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[CozMick]

can anyone tell me if these can be done?

hijack a train. kill innocent bystanders.. then blow it up? can i blow up a train track bridge and have to have the train derail?

can i lasso a dude and put him on the rail tracks to watch him get squashed over by a train? :lol

can i hang someone from a tree? and if so, shoot the rope before he dies?

This is RDR, not Back to the Future Part 3 :lol

 

[notjackbauer]

Hey Magnus, what level targeting did you choose? Y'know, easy = lockon, normal = snap-to, hard = free. I'm kinda torn, how does it feel?

 

[Robot 492]

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[macfoshizzle]

so no one knows actually how big the map is?

i was listening to the kotaku potcast with the devs and they mentioned to cover from one end of the map to the other, it would roughly take 15 - 20 minutes. that's pretty damn big!

 

[ZeroEchoOne]

can anyone tell me if these can be done?

hijack a train. kill innocent bystanders.. then blow it up? can i blow up a train track bridge and have to have the train derail?

can i lasso a dude and put him on the rail tracks to watch him get squashed over by a train? :lol

can i hang someone from a tree? and if so, shoot the rope before he dies?

you sir need help :lol

Spoiler

nah, j/k

 

[sneakypete]

That's a picture of Mo Van Barr, a member of the Walton Gang (picture here). But there's no reason to believe that the hat isn't included... it's not much of an outfit without it!

Perhaps, I was just pointing out the fact that this is not a picture of Marston in the outfit, only the leader of the gang. It's not 100% certain that this is the outfit PS3 owners get.

 

[Dynamic3]

PS3 users: terrible framerate, slow loading times, horrible controls (R2/L2)... let's cancel our preorders!!!!

XBOX users: *giggles*

PS3 users: omg we get an exclusive TOP HAT!!!!! *preorders again*

XBOX users: WUT?! we want that hat too!! *rages*

Does Troll Village get a different newspaper than GAF because I have yet to hear anything about a terrible framerate and slow loading times. In fact, I've heard the only loading times at all (aside from starting the game) are when you quick travel.

 

[ACESandEIGHTS]

Horseshoes is insanely boring and a screwup to control. Poker is poker. I like being able to look around the table at the other players and the faces they try and pull off. :lol

Poker is poker. And how. I missed having stuff like this in my open worlders/RPGs. From San Andreas having your choice of casino games to GTA IV having what could best be described as The World's Most Awful Game of Bowling -- it was a letdown. Having solid mini-games and gambling back is awesome.

Horseshoes being boring = :lol. I guess that's kinda like real life. If you don't have lots of drinks on hand, horseshoes is bound to be lame.

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Spoiler

I hear the Midwest release of RDR is going to have Cornhole.

 

[sneakypete]

so no one knows actually how big the map is?

i was listening to the kotaku potcast with the devs and they mentioned to cover from one end of the map to the other, it would roughly take 15 - 20 minutes. that's pretty damn big!

Dan Houser said it was roughly 2x the size of San Andreas. And 15-20 minutes will be huge. I caught a couple of minutes of one of the Jtv streams yesterday and the slow ass beginner horse you get at the start of the game was hauling ass.

 

[Gravijah]

Poker is poker. And how. I missed having stuff like this in my open worlders/RPGs. From San Andreas having your choice of casino games to GTA IV having what could best be described as The World's Most Awful Game of Bowling -- it was a letdown. Having solid mini-games and gambling back is awesome.

Horseshoes being boring = :lol. I guess that's kinda like real life. If you don't have lots of drinks on hand, horseshoes is bound to be lame.

*

Spoiler

I hear the Midwest release of RDR is going to have Cornhole.

Anytime I lose at any game in RDR, I'm going to shoot whoever the fuck beat me. And if I come in last, everyone is dying.

 

[ACESandEIGHTS]

You have the game?

You son of a bitch.

Well, this goes without saying. But once the jealousy subsides, it's fairly interesting to get some firsthand amateur reviews.

 

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

Having solid mini-games and gambling back is awesome.

Horseshoes being boring = :lol. I guess that's kinda like real life. If you don't have lots of drinks on hand, horseshoes is bound to be lame.

Is it possible to play these games online with others?


Has any of the developers said why the focus is on American westerns (which don't get me wrong is a cool ass thing) and not Spaghetti Westerns too?

I hope they include a mission based or named after Stagecoach.

Speaking of awesome western film news:

Red Dead on the 18th!

STAGECOACH on Blu-ray the 25th from Criterion!
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/3055/stagecoach.html

 

[Sickboy007]

so it's literally money hats! :lol

 

[RavenFox]

A top hat automatically makes you better than everyone without one. Your aim is better, your poker is better, your luck with the females is better, your horse riding is better, your stealing is better, even your piss is better. Now if they included a monocle as well? Oh lordy, it would be too much awesome for one person to sport.

:lol

 

[ACESandEIGHTS]

Dan Houser said it was roughly 2x the size of San Andreas. And 15-20 minutes will be huge. I caught a couple of minutes of one of the Jtv streams yesterday and the slow ass beginner horse you get at the start of the game was hauling ass.

This reminds me of when Jim Rossignol from Rock, Paper, Shotgun took several hours to drive around the world in FUEL giving his impressions of each region.

SOMEONE MUST DO THIS IN RDR.

 

[Goldrusher]

What's the XMB to in-game load time ?

Midnight Club LA was one of the fastest loading games I have ever played.
Almost as fast as inFamous.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

What's the XMB to in-game load time ?

Midnight Club LA was one of the fastest loading games I have ever played.
Almost as fast as inFamous.

The inFamous initial load is pretty insane. I have NO IDEA how they managed to pull that off in an open world game.

 

[ACESandEIGHTS]

I have never been this jazzed about a game. This is silly. Seriously.

WHY TUESDAY??!?! Wouldn't a Friday release compete directly with the movies?!?!?! :lol

 

[soldat7]

Question for those that have the game: Does RDR have the same profuse cussing as found in GTAIV? I found the language to be a bit over the top in GTAIV, personally.

 

[Gravijah]

Is it possible to play these games online with others?


Has any of the developers said why the focus is on American westerns (which don't get me wrong is a cool ass thing) and not Spaghetti Westerns too?

I hope they include a mission based or named after Stagecoach.

Speaking of awesome western film news:

Red Dead on the 18th!

STAGECOACH on Blu-ray the 25th from Criterion!
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/3055/stagecoach.html

Could you give me the rundown on the difference between Spaghetti Westerns and American Westerns? I'd rather hear it from someone than reading 50 articles on Wikipedia. :lol

 

[ACESandEIGHTS]

Question for those that have the game: Does RDR have the same profuse cussing as found in GTAIV? I found the language to be a bit over the top in GTAIV, personally.

Word. For real. Even I don't swear that much. And I'm a sailor.

 

[Tonza]

I started watching Deadwood for the first time in anticipation for this.

I never really liked westerns but Deadwood is pretty awesome and makes me want to play the game more and more. (have it preordered already)

 

[sneakypete]

Just a heads up here, if you have the AMC channel, Pale Rider is on right now.

And Unforgiven comes on tonight at 8pm EST! Awesome western if you've never seen it, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman join up with a nearly blind gunslinger to kill a couple of men who cut up a whore's face for some whores' ransom money. Gene Hackman is the sheriff.

What more could you want from a western, amirite?

 

[Magnus]

Question for those that have the game: Does RDR have the same profuse cussing as found in GTAIV? I found the language to be a bit over the top in GTAIV, personally.

No, I just heard 'shit' for the first time about 2 hours in and it wasn't even in a cutscene.

Doing a herding mission out on the open plains with a beautiful, dark thunderstorm raging overhead was pretty awesome.

 

[sneakypete]

Question for those that have the game: Does RDR have the same profuse cussing as found in GTAIV? I found the language to be a bit over the top in GTAIV, personally.

From the ESRB ratings page on RDR, warning a few spoilers: link

Language such as "f**k," "c*nt," and 'sh*t" can be heard in the dialogue.

I haven't played the game, but you can certainly expect some cursing. It's R* dude.

 

[Gravijah]

From the ESRB ratings page on RDR, warning a few spoilers: link



I haven't played the game, but you can certainly expect some cursing. It's R* dude.

I like how fuck is so offensive that they have to * two of the letters instead of only one for cunt and shit.

 

[DietRob]

No, I just heard 'shit' for the first time about 2 hours in and it wasn't even in a cutscene.

Good to hear I'm a grown man but I felt embarrassed of my hobby in front of my wife while playing GTA.. Such a juvenile level of unnecessary cursing in that.

 

[ACESandEIGHTS]

Could you give me the rundown on the difference between Spaghetti Westerns and American Westerns? I'd rather hear it from someone than reading 50 articles on Wikipedia. :lol

Totally Off Topic but OK:

Spaghetti Westerns: Tend to be filmed in Italy (and let's face it, Spain), brought to great prominence by Sergio Leone. Are kinda stylized and violent, and modern. I'd say they have more in common with New Wave than American Westerns. Gritty, unshaven, sweaty, often funny, very memorable. Signature sound. Ennio Morricone is a freaking genius.

American Westerns, at least prior to say Pale Rider/Tombstone/Unforgiven-onward, tend to be clean-shaven, square-jawed man in white vs. man in black. Though John Ford kinda set the bar with his filming in Monument Valley. American Westerns definitely inspired the look of Spaghetti Westerns.

 

[Truespeed]

Could you give me the rundown on the difference between Spaghetti Westerns and American Westerns? I'd rather hear it from someone than reading 50 articles on Wikipedia. :lol

Not sure if you're serious Aren't spaghetti westerns just low budget westerns filmed in Italy?

 

[TxdoHawk]

So, has it been confirmed if you can customize character clothing in multiplayer? I saw specific characters you could unlock, I hope we get a little more customization than that. I demand awesome(ly inappropriate) hats!

 

[soldat7]

Good to hear I'm a grown man but I felt embarrassed of my hobby in front of my wife while playing GTA.. Such a juvenile level of unnecessary cursing in that.

This is my main concern. I don't want to always be wearing the headphones. :lol

 

[Magnus]

Definitely some pop up issues and (sorry for the crude description, not sure of the terminology) uh, pop up lighting. That is, as you get closer to things, the game will suddenly calculate the lighting for those objects, like whether they're in the shade, or whether they should be casting a shadow. Happens more often when charging madly across the wilderness from town to town.

Really quite a gorgeous game though.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Doing a herding mission out on the open plains with a beautiful, dark thunderstorm raging overhead was pretty awesome.

pics or it didnt happen. :lol

 

[Gravijah]

Totally Off Topic but OK:

Spaghetti Westerns: Tend to be filmed in Italy (and let's face it, Spain), brought to great prominence by Sergio Leone. Are kinda stylized and violent, and modern. I'd say they have more in common with New Wave than American Westerns. Gritty, unshaven, sweaty, often funny, very memorable. Signature sound. Ennio Morricone is a freaking genius.

American Westerns, at least prior to say Pale Rider/Tombstone/Unforgiven-onward, tend to be clean-shaven, square-jawed man in white vs. man in black. Though John Ford kinda set the bar with his filming in Monument Valley. American Westerns definitely inspired the look of Spaghetti Westerns.

Come on that was totally on topic! I guess I don't understand the person I was quotings issue. It seems like the game is more Spaghetti Western to me?

 

[zero margin]

In spite of the exclusive content I just went and switched all the money over to the 360 version. Just what I'm more used too.

 

[zero margin]

So, has it been confirmed if you can customize character clothing in multiplayer? I saw specific characters you could unlock, I hope we get a little more customization than that. I demand awesome(ly inappropriate) hats!

Pretty sure it's just different skins and also titles.

 

[levious]

American Westerns, at least prior to say Pale Rider/Tombstone/Unforgiven-onward, tend to be clean-shaven, square-jawed man in white vs. man in black. Though John Ford kinda set the bar with his filming in Monument Valley. American Westerns definitely inspired the look of Spaghetti Westerns.

High Plains Drifter is a good example of a gritty earlier american western

 

[Magnus]

Some of these pre-mission cutscenes are way too long and self-indulgent. I'm talking like, 5 fucking minutes a piece of yokels chatting it up.

 

[CaseyTappy]

I want the huge Sombrero so I go for the 360 version !

 

[ACESandEIGHTS]

Come on that was totally on topic! I guess I don't understand the person I was quotings issue. It seems like the game is more Spaghetti Western to me?

OK, I see you working there. Yeah, if you're going to classify this game, you could say it combines elements of spaghetti westerns, Sam Peckinpah, Young Guns, Unforgiven, Tombstone etc. Basically everything modern in Westerns.

I think. Of course I haven't played even a second of it.

 

[Camper182]

man oh man oh man im so worried for the ps3 version because of that gamespy shit..... pffff if there is no proper voice chat = no point playing free roam with friends.

 

[FrankT]

Definitely some pop up issues and (sorry for the crude description, not sure of the terminology) uh, pop up lighting. That is, as you get closer to things, the game will suddenly calculate the lighting for those objects, like whether they're in the shade, or whether they should be casting a shadow. Happens more often when charging madly across the wilderness from town to town.

Really quite a gorgeous game though.

Any more shots maybe one straight on.

Some of these pre-mission cutscenes are way too long and self-indulgent. I'm talking like, 5 fucking minutes a piece of yokels chatting it up.

Boo on that.

 

[Gravijah]

OK, I see you working there. Yeah, if you're going to classify this game, you could say it combines elements of spaghetti westerns, Sam Peckinpah, Young Guns, Unforgiven, Tombstone etc. Basically everything modern in Westerns.

I think. Of course I haven't played even a second of it.

I was just mostly curious. I'm not much of a movie buff ( I barely watch any movies ) so I don't really know much about Western movies. I just love the wild west, though.

 

[sneakypete]

Some of these pre-mission cutscenes are way too long and self-indulgent. I'm talking like, 5 fucking minutes a piece of yokels chatting it up.

I don't mean to offend, you're certainly entitled to your own opinion, but that's sort of how westerns are. Lots of slow pacing and dialog. But then again you've already said you aren't a fan of westerns, so it makes sense. As a fan of westerns this sounds awesome to me.

Can you comment on the facial animations/VA during the cut scenes?

The cut scene between John and the Marshall(in the sheriff's office/jail) that was shown on GTTV was amazing, just wondering if they're all up to par.

 

[Pimpbaa]

Good to hear I'm a grown man but I felt embarrassed of my hobby in front of my wife while playing GTA.. Such a juvenile level of unnecessary cursing in that.

Grown men usually are not so insecure.

 

[zero margin]

Read somewhere (yeah I know, I know) that the hideout exclusive for the PS3 is just another place you can clear out, another mission basically not a safe house or anything like that.

 

[Gorechylde]

Some of these pre-mission cutscenes are way too long and self-indulgent. I'm talking like, 5 fucking minutes a piece of yokels chatting it up.

Have all of them been like this or just a few? How many missions would you say you've done so far? I don't mind alot of talking as long as it's pertinent to the job at hand.

 

[Gravijah]

Grown men usually are not so insecure.

In what universe are grown men not insecure? :lol

 

[Pistolero]

A hat for an exclusive element? Really? REALLY?
Huh...I must be one odd fellow because I've never paid attention to the protagonists outfits. I'm generally too busy, you know, playing.

 

[TxdoHawk]

Pretty sure it's just different skins and also titles.

That's a shame if true. Clothing customization in a game like this could be really awesome, and offer plenty of unlock fodder for a 50-level system.

GTA4 was pretty disappointing in this regard as well...I wonder if R* can't offer large amounts of character customization in multiplayer due to memory limits, or something like that.