LabouredSubterfuge
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Sn4ke_911 said:
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Red Dead Redemption screens (the Good), R* Spouse (the Bad), & cover art (the UGLY)
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ACESandEIGHTS
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That was a very interesting anecdote, for sure. In fact, reminds me of the sort of intermeshing layers of like Oblivion. I fully expect this to be about as immersive as that game.sw33tclyde said:
But speaking of Aus folk, does it seem like Rockstar reeled in the fun a little bit when they added more realism?
Take a stroll with me here: GTA IV's Liberty City was huge and very awesome and immersive. Big and real as it was, it left me pining for the towns, highways, wilderness, airports, travel etc. of GTA San Andreas. How cool was it that you could get in an airplane and fly yourself to anywhere in the game, including Las Venturas, which I believe was only reachable by air?
Now, I realize the range is gonna be big, and it spans parts of a fictitious Mexico and fictitious territorial US. Yaknow what would be just badass beyond words? Catching a slow steamer to Australia, or South America, maybe pull off some Butch Cassidy bank robbery action or some Quigley Down Under range riding.
Just a thought.
I don't think my hype level could be any higher for this game - which is surprising since it wasn't even on my radar a couple of months ago. I cancelled my Amazon preorder because I cant trust UPS (or whoever) to deliver the game by the weekend. I will walk into Walmart or Bestbuy to make sure I have it day one.
Am I right in assuming these new previews are all 360 versions? The ones I have read seem to be. Rockstar needs to show the PS3 version to the press before release or I might get cold feet and buy the 360 version instead.
Am I right in assuming these new previews are all 360 versions? The ones I have read seem to be. Rockstar needs to show the PS3 version to the press before release or I might get cold feet and buy the 360 version instead.
scamartilhon
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sw33tclyde said:
What!?! R*, I love you!
This is game is shaping up to be the best thing since sliced bread. Can't wait!
Slaylock
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WalMart is now giving a $20 gift card with the purchase of either the PS3 or 360 version of Red Dead Redemption: http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_constraint=0&ic=48_0&search_query=red+dead+redemption&Find.x=0&Find.y=0&Find=Find
Hopefully Amazon will match, as they generally do.
Hopefully Amazon will match, as they generally do.
Patrick Bateman
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This is gonna be SOOO AWESOME!!!
LabouredSubterfuge
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nskinnear said:
Whoa, nice.
Katana_Strikes
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I just thought, can you ride a horse along side a train and jump off the horse onto the moving train?
Also can you do different positions on the horse?
Also can you do different positions on the horse?
Patrick Bateman
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Katana_Strikes said:
WTF? You are worse than that guy having a kid with his grandmother.
Katana_Strikes
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Patrick Bateman said:
I mean like stand up on it and what not lol
Katana_Strikes
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Oh gosh, that sounds a lot ruder than what I meant it to.:lol
LabouredSubterfuge
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newsguy said:
:lol :lol :lol
Goldrusher
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Katana_Strikes said:
Death Dealer
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So when do the reviews start coming out ?
I'm buying this day one, but I'm looking forward to hearing more hands on impressions.
I'm buying this day one, but I'm looking forward to hearing more hands on impressions.
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
sw33tclyde said:
FUCK
rohlfinator
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If Amazon matches it, would that retroactively apply to older preorders? I just preordered yesterday...Slaylock said:
rohlfinator said:If Amazon matches it, would that retroactively apply to older preorders? I just preordered yesterday...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=468502#guarantee
speculawyer
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nskinnear said:
Oh yeah . . . the train fight. One of my favorites. Like in Indiana Jones 3 and Uncharted 2.
sw33tclyde said:
Ehm, the spoilered part sounded awesome to me, but then I read somewhere else that this is not something that happens once, but it happens in a few more side missions. And that's a bad sign, if you ask me. I'm getting this GTAIV feeling all over again. You hear awesome things before the game comes out, and then when you play the game they give those awesome things so much to you, that it becomes boring and unoriginal. Please prove me wrong R*, I want to buy this game so badly!!!!!!!!
sneakypete
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Tr4nce said:
Read the preview at the bottom of my post, they shed a little light on the side missions.
Part 2
There are a handful of paragraphs just like this one that I could quote, so go check out that preview. Here's the link to P1 and P2:
Part 1
Part 2
Edit: :lol I couldn't leave this one out
Edit 2: Someone wrote up some cliffnotes on the IGN forums, so I'll shamelessly steal them and post it here:
(Not sure why this is in spoiler tags... It's not story related, and it was shown in a trailer...)
You know, the
was in the second Life in the West trailer... Was I the only one who noticed that?
You know, the
rope shooting thing
http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq5/thephurl/hunged.png
Jamesearlcash
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Chowfahn said:
I'd link the pic and spoiler your text....
sneakypete
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Wow good eye, I missed that!
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Goldrusher
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I guess that settles it.
Water doesn't insta-kill you, but you can't swim either.
Water doesn't insta-kill you, but you can't swim either.
sneakypete
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Sweet I was right! Bonus xp for using Hardcore/Veteran aiming = win also
Gorechylde
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sw33tclyde said:
When describing the Dead Eye system in part 2 he states that R3 activates it. Was this guy playing the PS3 version? If so, that's great news as he said it ran very well.
sneakypete
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Gorechylde said:
I think he means R3 as in the right thumbstick button(i.e. click the stick), with the trigger and bumper being R1 and R2.
He was definitely playing on 360:
From the comments section of part 1: said:
Gorechylde
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sw33tclyde said:
Ah, gotta love comments. I hope they show SOMETHING of the PS3 version before launch...
Nice, free aim matches
- Only a few seconds of load time to start the game (so no picture slideshow like GTA)
- No noticeable hitches in framerate in seven hours of play time
- Only real loading comes from fast travel
- Very little pop-in despite the draw distance
- Very detailed texturing with smooth load-ins
- No two areas of the map are alike. Everything is unique.
- The game is generous with mid-mission checkpoints and if you fail you can restart from the last checkpoint
- Dying warps you to your nearest owned or rented property, and there is ample property to buy
- In your safehouse you can restock on ammo, sleep (which saves and fast forwards the game clock by six hours) and change clothes
- Robust clothing options, though nothing super specific like mixing and matching
- Can visit general stores, gun shops, clinics, the tailor and more.
- Can buy chewing tobacco, apples (to feed your horse), medicine (to heal yourself) and bandannas (to disguise yourself)
- Money is harder to come by than in GTA but its more useful
- Can sell items you find, along with animal skins
- Loads of sidequests to be discovered by simply exploring and living in the world with less repitition and more depth than you'd think
- The difficulty system is based on how much computer assistance you get in the aiming. The easiest difficulty is full lock on, the hardest is full free aim
- "This isn't just "GTA in the West", it's a genre-defining experience that utterly raises the bar for all open-world games to follow."
Wow.
- Only a few seconds of load time to start the game (so no picture slideshow like GTA)
- No noticeable hitches in framerate in seven hours of play time
- Only real loading comes from fast travel
- Very little pop-in despite the draw distance
- Very detailed texturing with smooth load-ins
- No two areas of the map are alike. Everything is unique.
- The game is generous with mid-mission checkpoints and if you fail you can restart from the last checkpoint
- Dying warps you to your nearest owned or rented property, and there is ample property to buy
- In your safehouse you can restock on ammo, sleep (which saves and fast forwards the game clock by six hours) and change clothes
- Robust clothing options, though nothing super specific like mixing and matching
- Can visit general stores, gun shops, clinics, the tailor and more.
- Can buy chewing tobacco, apples (to feed your horse), medicine (to heal yourself) and bandannas (to disguise yourself)
- Money is harder to come by than in GTA but its more useful
- Can sell items you find, along with animal skins
- Loads of sidequests to be discovered by simply exploring and living in the world with less repitition and more depth than you'd think
- The difficulty system is based on how much computer assistance you get in the aiming. The easiest difficulty is full lock on, the hardest is full free aim
- "This isn't just "GTA in the West", it's a genre-defining experience that utterly raises the bar for all open-world games to follow."
Wow.
LemonGremlin
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If you can buy medicine, I guess there's no health regeneration? I guess it's for combat use only?
Gorechylde
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LemonGremlin said:
I think they've stated that it regens up to a certain point. Like 1/4 health and then you have to sleep or take medicine to get to full.
sneakypete
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LemonGremlin said:
I'm unsure as well, they've stated health regen is in though. Could be like the poster above stated and only to a certain point.
One preview I read said that in the beginning of the game
you are injured and saved by bonnie. Bonnie has you work on her ranch to repay the $15 she spent on the medicine to heal you. Also they stated money is very hard to come by, and that after serveral missions they only had $40. They said it was a hard decision between ammo(don't remember the price of sorry, I'd go back and check but I'm about to leave to go hiking) and a $25 bottle of medicine.
Also the previews talking about a working economy in game blow my mind. I hope that this means you can wait on trading paths and hijack carriages. After a couple of intercepted, go to town and sell all of the much needed medicine for inflated prices. (***Note this is speculation on my part)
Goldrusher
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There are checkpoints.RSTEIN said:
But why did the lack of them ruin GTAIV for you ? The majority of the missions are fairly short and relatively easy. Especially if you keep an eye on your ammo and armor. Only a dozen or so were long, in multiple locations. Also, missions with a long drive beforehand did have checkpoints. And all of them had a restart option skipping the travel to the mission starting point and the intro cut scene.
San Andreas and Vice City didn't have them either. You couldn't even swim in Vice City. Rarely did people complain about that so vocally as with GTAIV. Not to mention both had a lot of chase missions, another thing popular to hate. Even San Andrea's finale was a chase mission.
I'm much more annoyed by the lack of auto-save in the GTA-games. Not once did I felt annoyed having to restart a failed missions from scratch. But many, many times I felt annoyed having to get to a save house to save, instead of being able to instantly quit the game.
Goldrusher said:
Well, first my 360 was on the fritz (surprise) so I could only get ~20 mins of playtime in between disc read errors. So if I didn't get to a checkpoint within that time I would have to start every mission from scratch.
But really the game became too frustrating for me during this one side mission. I can't remember the exact details but I had to basically go across the city (to the middle island) and raid a drug house or something. The cops show up after killing everyone inside. I mean full SWAT, everything. Very difficult. It was a lot of fun, but I died like 3 times. Plus, as mentioned, my 360 would freeze. So every time I died/360 restarted, I would have to drive all the way across the bridge, find the building, get out of the car, and make my way through all the punks occupying the building, escape the police, etc. All without a checkpoint!
With my deaths and a couple of disc read errors, I tried about 5 times and got to a point where it wasn't worth my time anymore. I have limited game play time available as is, so having to start the 360 and spend 10 minutes to just get to the damn objective really became intolerable for me.
I loved the game, definitely the best GTA ever made. Still haven't finished, probably never will.
Net_Wrecker
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Teknoman said:
Ohhhhh man. Something to actually DO with our money.
And RENTED PROPERTY FTMFW!