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Ainsley McTree posted:I once accidentally kicked a cougar while trying to knife it for my hunter challenge. It was oddly satisfying even though it was most definitely not what I meant to do. Good for you. I only wish the game would play "Hey cat... gently caress YOU." when you kick a cougar. quote:In other news, a "Bonnie McFarlane" popped up as a suggested friend on facebook. A real person, no less. That can't be coincidence, but I don't know how facebook knew. There's a fairly popular stand up comic with that name. I assumed it was a reference.
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May 28, 2010 22:17
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Racing Tip: Tapping the sprint 3-4 times before holding for a short length of time works infinitely better than mashing sprint until empty then holding until stamina refills. Sounds so simple, but it took me a while to get the hang of it.
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May 28, 2010 22:18
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Zero Karizma posted:
It might be her, actually. The reason facebook suggested her is because of a mutual facebook friend who is also a fairly well-connected stand up comic. Mystery solved!
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May 28, 2010 22:21
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You know, I like Rockstar games, and have played nearly all of them. I find them fun, but was never compelled to play them through to the end. Until now.
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May 28, 2010 22:23
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I've gotten in quite a few fistfights, and I've never seen the prompt to hit the triangle button. Where does it appear on the screen? What do I need to do to make it appear? Does anyone else get annoyed that you can't pause when the game is auto-saving? When I take a wanted poster, I usually want to plot a course to my target. It's a little frustrating that I need to wait for my PS3 to finish before I can open my map.
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Digital Scumbag posted:You know, I like Rockstar games, and have played nearly all of them. I find them fun, but was never compelled to play them through to the end. I always play them through to the end, but this is the only one that I feel compelled to 100%. I nearly did it too, until I got bored and started a new game and accidentally saved over my save file. Now I have to do it all over again but interestingly, I'm still having fun. Some of these hunting challenges can bite me though. Stabbing cougars and looking for skunks wasn't even fun the first time. I'm also not looking forward to clearing the poker table in Blackwater again. The first time was basically luck. Lord_Pigeonbane posted:
Maybe it's worse on the PS3, but it literally takes less than 2 seconds on the 360, I didn't find it to be a very big deal.
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Ok so how do I start this strange man quest? I hadn't even heard of it until the past couple pages of this thread. I've completed the main story but I have a save from when I was in Blackwater as well if that's needed.
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May 28, 2010 22:29
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der juicen posted:Sorry, everyone hates you here too. Go take some Super Awesome Bong Rips and play with pubbies. Creature let's play. Send me an xbox invite when you do this.
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So how do you do the treasure hunting thing? I got a map, and I'm pretty sure I found the spot, but nothing happens. I don't have a shovel or anything. I checked the shops in Armadillo and couldn't seem to find anything.
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May 28, 2010 22:33
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mangler103 posted:So how do you do the treasure hunting thing? I got a map, and I'm pretty sure I found the spot, but nothing happens. I don't have a shovel or anything. I checked the shops in Armadillo and couldn't seem to find anything. You don't need a shovel or anything. You just need to look at the map and figure out where it is.
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mangler103 posted:So how do you do the treasure hunting thing? I got a map, and I'm pretty sure I found the spot, but nothing happens. I don't have a shovel or anything. I checked the shops in Armadillo and couldn't seem to find anything. See this is a fair question about the treasure hunting. They could be more clear on the whole "you don't need a shovel" thing. For the first one, look around back, it's a little trickier than you think. Treasures are not buried, but hidden in a small pile of white stones.
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Sco Dylan posted:You morons are the reason most games hold everybody's hand like we're all tards. Yes this is me, you found me out. I make games hold everybody's hand.
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Irn--Bru posted:Ok so how do I start this strange man quest? I hadn't even heard of it until the past couple pages of this thread. I've completed the main story but I have a save from when I was in Blackwater as well if that's needed.
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May 28, 2010 22:41
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Timeless Appeal posted:You do need to reload since you can't do the mission after completing the story. Go to New Austin, he's in Hennigan's Stead. After you do the first mission, he'll show up on the map. cheers
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May 28, 2010 22:41
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Treasures are just buried under an obvious pile of rocks. Lets get that out of the way for the first one. Once you know that, the puzzle solving aspect for the following maps is awesome. I loved the vagueness of it. It's a loving TREASURE HUNT! Of course you should have to work for it.
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May 28, 2010 22:42
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Laughing Man posted:STRANGE MAN SSPOILERS, THE POST I'M QUOTING HAS END GAME SPOILERS "God drat you" is not saying "drat God," it's demanding that God drat someone into hell, how can you interpret it as damning God?
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May 28, 2010 22:42
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So I was dicking around in Multiplayer with my Bull mount and I was in this big gun fight at Armadillo, got off my mount to go Buffalo Rifle some dude and another guy got the drop on me and was about to hollow my head out with a rifle when my Bull came out of nowhere to run that dude over. This loving game!
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Hmmm, is it only after the first mission in blackwater that the strange man will appear? I've loaded my blackwater save but I think it was after doing a couple of missions. The current stranger mission still showing up for me is the part of lights, camera, action where i need to go play liars dice. Do I need to complete that quest first maybe?
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May 28, 2010 22:48
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Irn--Bru posted:Hmmm, is it only after the first mission in blackwater that the strange man will appear? I've loaded my blackwater save but I think it was after doing a couple of missions. The current stranger mission still showing up for me is the part of lights, camera, action where i need to go play liars dice. Do I need to complete that quest first maybe? The strange man should first appear early in the game, while you're still in New Austin.
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Ainsley McTree posted:The strange man should first appear early in the game, while you're still in New Austin. Hmm i didnt pay much attention to the stranger missions back then as I was flying through the story. I did do a couple but none for him. Hope he still appears, I don't fancy starting a new game as I still have quite a lot of other poo poo to do as well in this one.
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May 28, 2010 22:52
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Honestly, it's probably better to just save him for a replay. He really isn't as awesome if you just do all his missions in one swipe.
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KingShiro posted:Ugh Sharpshooter Rank 10 is gonna be horrible. I thought this was going to be a lot more difficult than it was. I tried a bunch of Deadeye poo poo with the Evans and it just wouldn't work for me, so I tried the suggestion in the OP sorta. Go to one of the gang hideouts, I liked Fort Mercer the best because it gives you the most cover and for the most part lets you access just one enemy at a time if you stay on the roof. Take the Carabano sniper rifle or whatever the one is called with the 5 round mag, you'll probably need one Deadeye refill, and just aim for their guns (not their hands, the actual guns). Using Deadeye refills your ammo without counting as a reload and if you need to walk someplace to find another enemy, just quickly go in and out of Deadeye to reload the weapon so it doesn't do it automatically. poptart_fairy posted:Asked this in the other thread, but lost track of it when this one appeared. I saw your question in the other thread and had been wondering the same thing, I don't think anyone even answered it. No, it's not worth it. The story seems to be the same no matter which way you do it (I haven't tested this out though) and the only real difference is with honor all the way down you make less money and everything is a lot more expensive.
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Ainsley McTree posted:Some of these hunting challenges can bite me though. Stabbing cougars and looking for skunks wasn't even fun the first time. I'm also not looking forward to clearing the poker table in Blackwater again. The first time was basically luck. Yeah, I don't even know how to play any sort of card game and I just hit buttons randomly and left the table when I had more chips than I started out with. I sincerely doubt that will ever work again.
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So, here are my final thoughts on the game: This is my favorite video game of the year. This is my favorite video game ever. I wouldn't say it's the best video game, or even the best Rockstar game. All that will do is create a high standard that others will pick apart leading to it being labeled us over-hyped. What I will say that I truly connected with Marston and got goosebumps during the final battle. I had fun the entire time. It's one of the few games that only rarely felt like a grind to 100%, but was always thrilling when you finally beat the grind (Beating everyone at poker in Blackwater, disarming however many men, stabbing two cougars to death). The characters were well painted, there were none I disliked besides the ones I was meant to. I felt a bit disconnected from the Mexico chapter, but still felt sad during the last mission. The main story arc was a thrill and the West Elizabeth chapter with Dutch's return was awesome. The themes felt well stated while not being overly hammered into the audience. What Rockstar North truly needs to look towards is how this game weaves the missions so well into the story. There is always either a goal or motivation that goes along with a mission. GTAIV's missions often had Niko helping people he openly hates for no good reason. The Dickens and Mexico missions teeter on that, but they always come with a clear goal that gives it a logic and keeps the player interested because you know you're working towards something. It's funny how this game unintentionally became the best hunting simulator ever created and that just ties into how much life is in the missions. I've played this game for thirty hours and just witnessed a new random encounter for the first time and I'm aware of at least a couple of others that I've never witnessed. The bounties, poker, blackjack, liar's dice, nightwatches, they never stop being fun for me. I've gone whole in-game weeks without ever touching the story missions because of how fun it all is. The truth is that something like poker is such a simple game mechanic, but it adds so much life. The game does have its problems. It's glitchy as gently caress. A lot of the missions could have been much more epic in the number of threats and obstacles. I wouldn't have minded a few more unenterable buildings to pad out some of the towns, especially Blackwater. Still, loving love this game.
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FOR ALL YOU RETARDED TREASURE HUNTERS: (add this to the OP?)
If you still can't figure out the treasure hunting after all of that, sorry, you're just an idiot. I can't think of any way to spell it out clearer.
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Does anyone have pictures or videos of the Legendary Mounts and Characters? I've seen Legend 1 and he's some sorta John Wayne cowboy but I'm curious as to what "Super Donkey" and friends look like.
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May 28, 2010 23:31
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Any PS3 players want to play send me an invite PSN: spidoman
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Finally I have some days off, anyone looking to play some MP over the next 2 days add GT: Slayer15977 just let me knwo your a goon
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Emron posted:"God drat you" is not saying "drat God," it's demanding that God drat someone into hell, how can you interpret it as damning God? God, drat you! Timeless Appeal posted:So, here are my final thoughts on the game: This is my favorite video game of the year. This is my favorite video game ever. This one has it's share of bugs but the core gameplay works far better than any of the GTA games before it. The storyline gets a bit poor in areas and is never something new but it's different enough from the standard gaming cliches to make it enjoyable. doctor 7 fucked around with this message at 23:38 on May 28, 2010 |
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Slayer1597 posted:I agree I spent at least a few hours trying to find the first treasure that you get a map for and well, nothing I apparently am a retard and there are no rocks set in a "square-ish formation" It's a tree with a noose on it by rocks and it looks just like Hanging Rocks. My God are you stupid. Spamtron, sellouts & der juicen, nice to see the NHL crew playing this now. Flute and I have been raising hell in MP. Slayer, just leave. Even people who haven't played hockey with you don't like you. Just  and save you and us all the hassle of dealing with your "epic bong rips." If you play RDR as well as you play NHL, no one will want you around. Just kill yourself. TIA
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sellouts posted:Creature let's play. Send me an xbox invite when you do this. ^ this. also, let's put our differences aside and love each other over some horses, creature. honestly though, i'm pretty surprised slayer is posting here, there're no sais or marijuana plants or anything canadian in this game. 
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doctor 7 posted:Add in a comma: You should give Bully a shot if you really enjoyed RDR. It was sort of the first game they did that tried to create a world that was honestly a part of what you were doing instead of just some really hollow enviornment.
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I think the reason I stuck through this one was that the game had mission checkpoints. In GTA, if you failed, you had to repeat a good 5-7 minutes of gametime for no good reason.
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YOURFRIEND posted:Yeah, I don't even know how to play any sort of card game and I just hit buttons randomly and left the table when I had more chips than I started out with. I sincerely doubt that will ever work again. I actually do know how to play poker (I even attempted to play limit hold 'em online as a second source of income until I hit a very bad beat and decided to quit), I just found that trying to beat everyone at the table was frustrating and very luck-based, even if you are cheating. It just takes a while and isn't particularly fun, I just like to sit down and play a few hands in this game and then leave.
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Bradf0rd posted:It's a tree with a noose on it by rocks and it looks just like Hanging Rocks. My God are you stupid. What he means is that the last picture that shows the actual location looks like four, rather small and freestanding rocks, maybe man-height. And the map as a whole makes it look like these four rocks are some unspecified distance away from the rather large Hanging Rock. I had the same problem, and even after finding it I still think the last picture is not a good indication of the location at all.
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GhostDog posted:What he means is that the last picture that shows the actual location looks like four, rather small and freestanding rocks, maybe man-height. And the map as a whole makes it look like these four rocks are some unspecified distance away from the rather large Hanging Rock. I had the same problem, and even after finding it I still think the last picture is not a good indication of the location at all. I agree with every word of that. It also doesn't help that this is the very first treasure map you have to work with. In the subsequent maps, it's very clear that the IIs and IIIs and IVs are pictures of the same landmark either zoomed in or from an alternate angle, but with the Hanging Rock map, it really does look like a view of the landscape overall, it's not clear what the map is actually showing you. I don't think it's fair to say that someone is a moron for having a hard time figuring it out
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The random encounter generator seems to be spitting out pretty dodgy results at times. I remember ruining into a lone cougar around Fort Mercer, but just a few seconds after I killed and skinned it, another one respawned just a few meters away, and I killed and skinned that one too and got the same result. I ran out of medicine after the process had repeated itself about 8 times, and then I saw yet another one and decided it was time to get the hell out of there.
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I have to say that the Read Dead wiki linked in the OP is a loving life-saver. I was going absolutely mad trying to find myself some boars to kill in the New Austin map. When I first played the game I was killed by them (in the most hilarious rag-doll manner) and never saw them since. The wiki tells you the exactly location and time when they come out.
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Jimbot posted:I have to say that the Read Dead wiki linked in the OP is a loving life-saver. I was going absolutely mad trying to find myself some boars to kill in the New Austin map. When I first played the game I was killed by them (in the most hilarious rag-doll manner) and never saw them since. The wiki tells you the exactly location and time when they come out. Oh wow, I never noticed the animal location part on that wiki. I also did not know that you could block cougar attacks if you have a melee weapon equipped. Thanks, wiki!
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