Red Dead: Redemption a.k.a. How The West Was Fun

[tgr]

I tried expert first, then normal. Then I realized how horrible I am with console style shooters, and the setting now resides on casual.

I couldn't get anywhere without going for casual, and even then I wished it had a way of snapping between targets like I think mass effect had (not sure which game had it, don't really care). This game is seriously going to be much easier when it's out on the PC.

In the mean time, I'm loving the way I can go out into the wilderness and just shoot everyone in the face/back.

(PS: expect some nutcase "mother" to have a fit over how this is a "murder simulation" and "it must be banned". Calling it now.

[Azazel]

Wife and I played MP for a couple of hours today, and posse'd up with Lorekeep for awhile as well. Sizing up whether it's worth keeping the second copy pretty much just for the MP aspect, since she's unlikely to play through a non-co-op campaign on her own (and if she did, there's no reason she couldn't play through the one copy anyway).

MP was fun, but I'm not really seeing it as worthwhile for a full-price keeper at this stage. I'll probably take it back within the week for a refund and re-pick-up the second copy later on, when it's half price or less. Disappointed that they didn't do the full campaign as a co-op option as Saints Row 2 did. I mean, I knew that going in, but it's still a shame. It'd be brilliant if it let you have the SP campaign as a 2p co-op one, and also had the existing MP on top of that, but it's not to be.

I'll check out the SP later.

[NiX]

They're releasing MP co-op in a bit, though they haven't given a date.

[rattran]

The poker game is pissing me off, sure me and the other guy both had pairs of kings, why did he win even when I had an ace kicker? Fuckers.

That and my awesome ability to accidentally run down quest givers on my horsie are the only things really annoying me about the game. Apart from brown people in brown clothes on a brown background doing brown things don't stand out well. All they need is a brown sky, and it'd be complete

[Fabricated]

Picked it up.

Okay, riding and shooting at the same time is nearly impossible without the Deadeye on PS3. I have to somehow hold X and move the right analog at the same time to aim if I want to maintain speed.

[Rasix]

Picked it up.

Okay, riding and shooting at the same time is nearly impossible without the Deadeye on PS3. I have to somehow hold X and move the right analog at the same time to aim if I want to maintain speed.

Are you on normal targeting?  I find with riding and shooting I have to do the "L2 (facing an enemy) auto-aim, R2 shot -> repeat" method of combat.  It's just to hard to aim. 

[Azazel]

They're releasing MP co-op in a bit, though they haven't given a date.

Yeah, saw that last night later on. 6 Missions, free DLC. Hmm...

[Xanthippe]

I tried expert first, then normal. Then I realized how horrible I am with console style shooters, and the setting now resides on casual.

I was on normal but switched to casual.  Is there a downside to casual?  I like it.

edit:  Oh and some fuckers shot my horse and killed it.  I got a nice appaloosa at the ranch that seems as nice as my old palomino, and it already seemed to have the loyalty down. 

So, catching and taming a wild horse.  I did the Bonnie quest, but haven't had luck doing it outside of that.  Anyone else able to?

Still haven't tried multiplayer.  I'm a dunce at these games and it takes me 4x as long to learn how to do anything.  Should I even try multiplayer?

[MisterNoisy]

So, catching and taming a wild horse.  I did the Bonnie quest, but haven't had luck doing it outside of that.  Anyone else able to?

I've done it a few times, and now I'm looking around for the American Standardbred for the achievement.  It's a pain in the ass, but doable.  I think it'd be a lot easier if the camera didn't jerk around all the time and clip into the terrain while you're breaking the horse.

EDIT:

As for tips, get close to/pace the horse you want to break, then lasso it from close range.  After you lasso it, dismount while still holding the L-trigger and run (tap X) up to the horse.  Mount up and once the breaking minigame starts, ignore the camera movement - just watch Marston's position relative to the horse's back and move the stick to keep him sitting as close to bolt-upright as possible.  If you get bucked, wail away on the Y button to remount the horse - unless you roll down a hill or get tossed far away you can usually remount the target horse immediately.

[Fabricated]

The generic warhorse DLC I got for free is pretty nice but I wonder if it's considered an exploit to intentionally get it killed over and over again and skin it each time for money since I can just use my deed and get it right back.

[Rasix]

Helps to know you can Dead Eye with the lasso too.  I've had to get a number of new horses due to issues such as cougars and my horse deciding a lake was a valid pathing choice to my location.  Like most GTAish games, water is death.

[Xanthippe]

Ahh, dismount and run to horse.  Those are crucial.  Thanks.

I wish I could tell what sort of horse it is when I lasso it.

Does anyone know what makes a horse "yours" as in "comes when you whistle"?

[Pennilenko]

Ahh, dismount and run to horse.  Those are crucial.  Thanks.

I wish I could tell what sort of horse it is when I lasso it.

Does anyone know what makes a horse "yours" as in "comes when you whistle"?

You have to lash it to a hitching post at least once after you break it.

[tgr]

I'm having a problem with the whole dead-eye thing. I apparently didn't quite catch what I should be doing, so I'm losing most of the duels. I'm great.

[tgr]

...And I just got horse-robbed ...  by a prostitute. They sure are feisty in here.

[rattran]

I got horse-jacked by a prostitute, and just let her ride off while I picked some flowers, it gave me +50 honor. Whistling the horse/shooting/lassoing her doesn't seem to net you anything but $4 from her corpse, or a nice Snidely Whiplash moment. Having a line of people on the tracks did not leave a train covered in blood spatter.

And the only downside I can find to casual aiming is accidentally targeting the nearest person and causing a mission fail. [edit] Even auto-targeting with the lasso causes 'threat' and failure, which kinda sucks in the horse-breaking stuff.

And the blackjack games is as broken as poker. 5 7s in one hand of blackjack? I should be able to shoot the dealer for that.

[MuffinMan]

My favorite moment so far is having a shopkeeper run up to me in town that his store had been robbed and to stop the thief. Rode over to the shop, shot the running burglar in the back. I picked up the $50 that he stole and it said return it to the shopkeeper. Roommate says "Damn that's a lot of money". I say hell yea it is and I rode off into the sunset with it. -50 honor.

Also, had a random stranger tied up on the tracks for the train. My horse was on the other side of the track so right before the train came I whistled at him to see if I he would cross the tracks. He walked onto the tracks to come to me and it smoked both of them.

[Musashi]

5 7s in one hand of blackjack? I should be able to shoot the dealer for that.

Maybe they use two decks?

[Sheepherder]

Casinos commonly use several decks to avoid card counting and having to reshuffle.

[LK]

Multiplayer Free Roam challenges can be stupid grinds. Hey! Fall to your death 25 times to complete a challenge! Ok do it 50 more times! Now 100!

The worst is the public enemy one, which requires you to get a bounty on yourself of $1000. Ok, do it once! Alright, do it 10 times! Ok, now do it *fifty*.

Hey! Ride shotgun on a stagecoach that is never immediately available for 2 miles! ... Oh that's how it starts. I don't think anyone is gonna haul my ass around for as much as they want people to.

[Xanthippe]

I am trying multiplayer.  I'm xanthipppe (PS3).  Yay for girl characters!  I have no idea what I'm doing.  Is there a way to find people you know?

Edited:  In case upper or lower case matters.

I put out friend requests to Phire and rasixf13.  I don't know NiX's codename.  Anyone else on PS3 who wants to posse up?

[Musashi]

This game made me watch Deadwood over again.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Cocksucker.

[Xanthippe]

Cocksucker.

Yep, it's in there.

I saw a guy running his horse on the road, suddenly stop, dismount, run to a rock, and take a leak.

This game cracks me up.

Where are the critters in multiplayer?

[NiX]

Where are the critters in multiplayer?

From what I can tell they changed the way animals populate the world when in MP. You have to reside in an area for a little bit before they come out.

Yeah, saw that last night later on. 6 Missions, free DLC. Hmm...

Also has a date now, mid June. Also, 2 more DLC packs will be announced soon, though what they contain hasn't been given out.

[Azazel]

Multiplayer Free Roam challenges can be stupid grinds. Hey! Fall to your death 25 times to complete a challenge! Ok do it 50 more times! Now 100!

The worst is the public enemy one, which requires you to get a bounty on yourself of $1000. Ok, do it once! Alright, do it 10 times! Ok, now do it *fifty*.

I noticed that. I guess that's the "multiplayer content that will have players enjoying themselves for months" or whatever verbage exactly that MP promo video talked about.

 

[Xanthippe]

The generic warhorse DLC I got for free is pretty nice but I wonder if it's considered an exploit to intentionally get it killed over and over again and skin it each time for money since I can just use my deed and get it right back.

I don't think there's any skinning in multiplayer.  Exploiting in singleplayer - who cares? 

[Sky]

Can I play a black sheriff?

[Surlyboi]

My character is black.

He also punched a bear in the face.

[NiX]

Finished the game. I think I'm at about ~90% done. I have 4 outfits to unlock and 1 stranger quest to finish.

[Xanthippe]

Finished the game. I think I'm at about ~90% done. I have 4 outfits to unlock and 1 stranger quest to finish.

There are also Social Club things to do. 

Did you also do the challenges?  I think you get stuff, although what kind of stuff, I don't know, for doing them.  Like abilities and so on.

Let's multiplay!

[CmdrSlack]

You bastards.

I just got FF13 from Gamefly and am going to likely send it right back in the hopes of getting this.

I will then keep the game and pay slightly less than I would new. It's either that or trade in the PS2 and its games for cash towards this and hopefully something else.

[Bunk]

Played this multiplayer last night with 7 other guys from work. Yea, if you are going to play multiplayer, log in to a free roam on your own at least long enough to upgrade beyond the mule...

Was quite fun though, the eight of us ran around doing various hideouts as many of us needed to level up. Meanwhile, people were randomly dropping in on the server and would occasionally try to gank us. We found that was actually much funner than playing on a private server and only dealing with the AI.

There is a certain glee in watching a random ganker ride up around the bend in pursuit of someone, to realize that a posse of eight of us are lined up across the trail with rifles out, like a firing squad.

[NiX]

There are also Social Club things to do. 

Did you also do the challenges?  I think you get stuff, although what kind of stuff, I don't know, for doing them.  Like abilities and so on.

Let's multiplay!

Social club tasks don't apply to the SP completion %. They actually have a "checklist" on the website, though it's mostly borked, either due to load or just not working. It says I haven't found MacFarlane's Ranch...

[01101010]

Picked this up last week and finally got 2 hours to sit down with it. Other than the little tutorial pop-ups being entirely too short and the game just sorta throwing you into stuff (horse riding in particular...lets race even though you have no clue how to even ride yet), this game is incredible. I think I will point to this game as an example of how to provide a player with immersion.

Been a long time since I was so engrossed in a game as to lose 2 hours of my day.