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I don't think I've ever been this let down by a game's ending before. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if the writing not been so clunky and the game didn't crash three times on the same part of the final mission. For every thing this game did right there's at least one thing done wrong or just broken. Dammit.
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May 30, 2010 22:10
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ShowTime posted:Just watch Deadwood seasons 1-3. That's about the length of 20 westerns and is better. After reading up on it I think I just might, thanks for the suggestion.
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May 30, 2010 22:11
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Yodzilla posted:I don't think I've ever been this let down by a game's ending before. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if the writing not been so clunky and the game didn't crash three times on the same part of the final mission. For their first shot at the big time Rockstar Purps did all right, I'm amazed it came out as good as it is myself. I can't wait for their next game, if it's another western or not I'm not really concerned.
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May 30, 2010 22:13
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Samurai Sanders posted:No no, I'd prefer that they just PICKED A LANGUAGE. I think it depends on the language - my family mixes english and spanish all the time. Back to the game: is there a way to get the trains to come to the station, or buy a ticket? I need to do the "shoot birds from a moving train" thing, but I don't really want to chase the drat thing around the countryside until it stops unless I have no choice.
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May 30, 2010 22:13
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Spite posted:I think it depends on the language - my family mixes english and spanish all the time. Can just wait till it stops at a station. And they really aren't that fast, and if you get next to a moving one it gives you a prompt to jump on.
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May 30, 2010 22:14
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Spite posted:I think it depends on the language - my family mixes english and spanish all the time. You can jump onto the train at anytime. You just have to ride on your horse up to the second or third car.
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May 30, 2010 22:14
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Laughing Man posted:For their first shot at the big time Rockstar Purps did all right, I'm amazed it came out as good as it is myself. I can't wait for their next game, if it's another western or not I'm not really concerned. It wasn't bad to be sure but I think one of my biggest problems was with the writing. For some reason Rockstar decided that if something was worth saying once it was worth saying five loving times, usually on some long unskippable horse ride. Every character had exactly one thing to say but at least three missions of boring dialog to hammer the point home over and over and over again.
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May 30, 2010 22:18
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On top of that, I can't seem to do gang matches at all anymore, it just sends me back to free roam every time telling me that I am having connection issues.
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May 30, 2010 22:18
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ShowTime posted:Just watch Deadwood seasons 1-3. That's about the length of 20 westerns and is better. I never watched Deadwood, despite it being mentioned so often if the talk comes to great TV series (I love The Sopranos, The Wire, etc.) I started watching yesterday and I'm already 10 episodes in. I really had to pry myself away from it. Highly recommendable so far. GhostDog fucked around with this message at 22:22 on May 30, 2010 |
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May 30, 2010 22:20
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Yodzilla posted:It wasn't bad to be sure but I think one of my biggest problems was with the writing. For some reason Rockstar decided that if something was worth saying once it was worth saying five loving times, usually on some long unskippable horse ride. Every character had exactly one thing to say but at least three missions of boring dialog to hammer the point home over and over and over again. Yeap, pretty much a lot of filler missions that made it more obvious than the usual filler missions between exposition that GTA4 did. Like every mission up to Fort Mercer is, ok lets get ready, no wait you need something? Ok but this is the last time. Ok you ready? No? Well ok, but next time I'll kill you partner. Then same thing in Mexico, really I just wanted to shoot both of those assholes because I knew right away those jack asses had no intention of helping me but incidentally. Blackwater was better, but mostly because they didn't stretch it out.
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May 30, 2010 22:23
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Yeah, that "drive to somewhere while talking as part of a mission" shtick is one of the few GTA-isms that I don't like that is left in this game. If only they had ditched that, this game would be pretty much everything I liked about GTA but none of what I didn't like.
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May 30, 2010 22:25
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GhostDog posted:I never watched Deadwood, despite it being mentioned so often if the talk comes to great TV series (I love The Sopranos, The Wire, etc.) I started watching yesterday and I'm already 10 episodes in. I really had to pry myself away from it. Highly recommendable so far. One of the best things about Deadwood and what I think is a testament to how good the entire Deadwood staff is, from the actors to the writers, is that the show doesn't suffer from the "x season is better then x" syndrome that other shows suffer from. Every season is as good as the next. So even if you are only on episode 10, it gets better (or more accurately, it stays good).
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May 30, 2010 22:26
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Finally down to one last multiplayer achievement, getting to level 50. Man that is going to be a loving grind  It probably wouldn't be so bad if the challenge rewards were actually scaled in proportion to the level exp requirements. Rank 3 challenges are only dropping about 250XP in some cases. How they honestly expect to people to level up to 50 five times or so, even with a stream of DLC is beyond me, especially as a lot of parts of it seem like no-one actually playtested the damned thing.
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May 30, 2010 22:28
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It isn't that bad on the PS3 version where we get a hideout that can be completed in 2 and a half minutes worth 1500-3000 XP per completion, it took me maybe 2 days of playing to hit Level 50 by myself. I'd actually go Legend if going Legendary actually had some real reward outside of "Hey, a new character no one will ever notice/New title no one will ever look at/a mount you'll get in like another 5 days time that people will kill you to steal" Seriously, gently caress, that's the first reaction people have to Bonzo the Bull: kill you to steal it.
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May 30, 2010 22:31
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Kin posted:Finally down to one last multiplayer achievement, getting to level 50. Man that is going to be a loving grind Best way to get EXP is just to grind Gang Hideouts or be really really good at PvP I've seen at least 4 people with Zebra Donkeys already too. Policenaut posted:I'd actually go Legend if going Legendary actually had some real reward outside of "Hey, a new character no one will ever notice/New title no one will ever look at/a mount you'll get in like another 5 days time that people will kill you to steal" Seriously, gently caress, that's the first reaction people have to Bonzo the Bull: kill you to steal it. Yeah I was trying to get to 50 to get the bull but then I killed a guy and took his and realized it wasn't really very good at all so now I don't care
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May 30, 2010 22:32
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Samurai Sanders posted:No no, I'd prefer that they just PICKED A LANGUAGE. The whole point of it all was that Marston can't speak Spanish. They were speaking English because they WERE speaking English to him. The Spanish had no translating subtitles because Marston doesn't understand Spanish, so it's all just Spic gibberish to him. Also you clearly haven't spent a lot of time with Mexicans in the US, because even up here in NYC, they regularly will throw in Spanish insults or terms while speaking English. It's no different than when shithead American tourists throw in random English words while trying to BS their way through the native language when they go to Europe, which also happens regularly. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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May 30, 2010 22:33
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Policenaut posted:I'd actually go Legend if going Legendary actually had some real reward outside of "Hey, a new character no one will ever notice/New title no one will ever look at/a mount you'll get in like another 5 days time that people will kill you to steal" Seriously, gently caress, that's the first reaction people have to Bonzo the Bull: kill you to steal it. Holy poo poo is the annoying truth. I stopped using the bull because as soon as I whipped it out I would get shot in the face so someone could steal it. And MP isn't like SP where you can just whistle and the mount will buck the thief off. Instead it just summons you a new one.
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May 30, 2010 22:34
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So I had this really weird bug today in multiplayer. My Turkmen horse was killed by some griefers and a few minutes later after surviving the fuckers, behold, my War Horse appears from nowhere. And it wasn't just a skin bug, it had the goody stats it has in SP. People with higher level mounts had trouble keeping up with me. This lasted the whole session, but i couldn't reproduce it again later.
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May 30, 2010 22:40
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For the disarming 6 guys challenge, I used a different method - equip the Evans Repeater, go to the gang hideout with the mine (Gaptooth Breach I think?), run directly past the guys outside the mine, then when you get inside use deadeye on the first 2 guys to hopefully disarm them. Once you've done this, proceed slowly through the mine, manually aiming at their guns; because you can't really get surrounded, you have time to line up shots pretty well, and with the Evans you have quite a bit of leeway for missed shots. Hope this helps someone!
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May 30, 2010 22:47
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Fuzz posted:The whole point of it all was that Marston can't speak Spanish. They were speaking English because they WERE speaking English to him. The Spanish had no translating subtitles because Marston doesn't understand Spanish, so it's all just Spic gibberish to him. There is one scene where Reyes is riling up the revolutionaries after that mission where they save John in Chupa Rosa...in English. It only happened a few times but there were a few moments like that.
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May 30, 2010 22:48
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I am having quite a hard time getting the Bollard Twin bounty alive. The bounty was finally put up after a few hours of no bounties showing up at all. The dude runs off and as I'm about to lasso him he falls off a cliff into the river and dies. I needed him alive Now to wait another few hours for a bollard twin bounty to show up again. Also my horse died randomly while I was riding it. No gunshots, no animals. It just flipped over and died.
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May 30, 2010 22:59
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Well, finally got the Legend of the West outfit... honestly, it's pretty poo poo. The Duster is actually way cooler. Legend doesn't have spurs, and the sewed up rips and tears in the Duster just make it look more badass. Kind of a letdown after all that.
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Overbite posted:I am having quite a hard time getting the Bollard Twin bounty alive. The bounty was finally put up after a few hours of no bounties showing up at all. The dude runs off and as I'm about to lasso him he falls off a cliff into the river and dies. I needed him alive Snake?
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May 30, 2010 23:08
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Laughing Man posted:Snake? Snake? SNAAAAAAAAAKE! Sorry, the Metal Gear nerd in me couldn't resist.
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HampHamp posted:For the disarming 6 guys challenge, I used a different method - equip the Evans Repeater, go to the gang hideout with the mine (Gaptooth Breach I think?), run directly past the guys outside the mine, then when you get inside use deadeye on the first 2 guys to hopefully disarm them. Once you've done this, proceed slowly through the mine, manually aiming at their guns; because you can't really get surrounded, you have time to line up shots pretty well, and with the Evans you have quite a bit of leeway for missed shots.
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transient posted:As far as racing, I did it with whatever lovely horse I was given at MacFarlane ranch Bro, that's one of the three best horses in the game.
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May 30, 2010 23:36
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I didn't see anyone comment on this, so when my Honor dropped to the lowest from the highest, my Obscuridad del Santo Andres disappeared from my inventory. Hopefully I can get it back again.
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Fuzz posted:Well, finally got the Legend of the West outfit... honestly, it's pretty poo poo. The Duster is actually way cooler. Legend doesn't have spurs, and the sewed up rips and tears in the Duster just make it look more badass. Kind of a letdown after all that. You get double dead eye regardless of whether you're wearing it or not right?
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Doc Cylon posted:You get double dead eye regardless of whether you're wearing it or not right? Seems like it, yeah. So how many Stranger missions are there? I just finished 15 and got the trophy, but I can't find anymore.
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May 30, 2010 23:55
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There's 19 altogether. I love how strong the Buffalo Rifle is. I was minding my business trying to track down some annoying skunks for master hunter. Found one finally and apparently I gibbed it with the Buffalo Rifle, since it left behind no corpse. At 96%. Just gotta wait for those drat wanted posters to get put up. Edit: and sharpshooter challenge. What's the best way to disarm people? Shoot the weapon instead of the hand? Lord of Laughton fucked around with this message at 00:02 on May 31, 2010 |
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May 30, 2010 23:59
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Lord of Laughton posted:There's 19 altogether. 19?! Well poo poo, there's 4 I'm missing and I can't find them on the map anywhere... now I'm tempted to go riding through every friggin town looking, but half of them are out in bumfuck nowhere so that wouldn't help.
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questions about the checklist at [ http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/games/rdr/checklist.html ]. It shows my horseshoe and blackjack games, but won't show my liar's dice or poker and I've got a positive amount of winnings in both. Anyone else have this issue, or is it the page not syncing correctly maybe? Some of the outfits and stranger missions say they're having issues syncing, so maybe they're broken too? I'm not sure also, having a posse boss actually booting asshats, and calling out orders and keeping everyone together is a nice change of pace. 
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May 31, 2010 00:04
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Could someone tell me the location of the You Know Me stranger mission, or whatever it is that doesn't count towards 100%? The weird one with the devil as the quest-giver.
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May 31, 2010 00:16
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Picked up the game yesterday and just got to Mexico. The dialouge is insufferable, and so far too many of the stranger stories have been little 'gently caress you's to the players (haha you collected flowers for a guy's wife?? Guess what, she's dead! Isn't that hilarious). Welp.
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May 31, 2010 00:19
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Just watched A Fistful of Dollars last night, and I assume there's a poncho you can get for John once you get to Mexico, right? 
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May 31, 2010 00:22
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RedneckwithGuns posted:Just watched A Fistful of Dollars last night, and I assume there's a poncho you can get for John once you get to Mexico, right? Yeah, there is one hidden in Mexico somewhere. Pretty awesome one at that.
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May 31, 2010 00:24
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Now that I think about it, it would've been the ultimate reference to the classic Yojimbo/Fistful of Dollars type of story to have a section where you play two rival gangs off each other. Unless there is one and I just haven't gotten to it yet.
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May 31, 2010 00:27
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The last survivalist challenge is going to be really loving irritating.
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DeclaredYuppie posted:Picked up the game yesterday and just got to Mexico. The dialouge is insufferable, and so far too many of the stranger stories have been little 'gently caress you's to the players (haha you collected flowers for a guy's wife?? Guess what, she's dead! Isn't that hilarious). Would be nice of you to spoiler the end of that stranger mission. My bigger nitpick is what you would have preferred to be the conclusion to that story. Are you saying that collecting the flowers and giving them to a live guys wife, which is terribly kosher and boring, would have been more enjoyable then the guy giving them to a dead body that he lives with and still considers to be "alive", so much so that he believes she still makes him dinner and goes for evening walks with him?
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