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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    *Shudders*

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  • XagarathXagarath Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Just looks like really bad gunplay and cover, GTA4-style

    Turret section

    The horseback combat looks terrible but this isn't really their fault, no one has gotten this right yet

    Mount and Blade disagrees.

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Xagarath wrote: »
    Yeah, apparently you can't skin horses, dogs, or squirrels, though not for lack of trying (the Rockstar rep called Sterling McGarvey of G4 a "terrible person for trying" :D)

    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/red-dead-redemption-hands-on

    Describes skinning horses.
    It's a classic Rockstar moment. The nocturnal calm is shattered by the shrieks of a prostitute bursting out of a saloon as a man chases her down and assaults her in the street. I move swiftly to her aid but, still acquainting myself with the controls, succeed only in kicking her in the face as she writhes helplessly on the ground.

    The man flees back inside as the girl scrambles to her feet and away. I give chase to the attacker, drawing a rifle as he cowers behind the bar blind-firing. A moment later I have him clean in my sights by the open backdoor and unload a round. Which sails past his torso, through the door, over the street and into the stomach of a girl 20 yards away, who drops to her knees with a blood-curdling scream. The same girl I'd been trying to save. There are belly laughs and there are belly laughs.

    This bit got me laughing oh so much. Can't wait for the game to release.

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  • PolloDiabloPolloDiablo Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I actually played San Andreas on the PC, so that section wasn't too bad.

    edit: I mean I thought the game in general was pretty bad, but that section didn't stick out as any worse than the rest.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I actually played San Andreas on the PC, so that section wasn't too bad.

    edit: I mean I thought the game in general was pretty bad, but that section didn't stick out as any worse than the rest.

    For the PC version they made it easier, trust me the ps2 version was rape personified you had a very limited gas supply and the controls were horribad.

    New Trailer looks f'ing awesome, the guns look fun to cap people, and the graphics are looking smooth. I liked how in the advanced dead eye he plotted out 3 shots and the character fanned the revolver and brought them bitches down.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I liked the gunplay in GTA4 alright but this looks like it's cover system is a bit more intelligent

    Also you can slide into cover

    Any game where you can slide into cover gains a point in my book

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    You could slide into cover in GTAIV. Hell, you could combat roll into cover in The Ballad of Gay Tony.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Renzo wrote: »
    You could slide into cover in GTAIV. Hell, you could combat roll into cover in The Ballad of Gay Tony.

    Both of these things are good things

    But I have never really noticed them before

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Olivaw wrote: »
    Renzo wrote: »
    You could slide into cover in GTAIV. Hell, you could combat roll into cover in The Ballad of Gay Tony.

    Both of these things are good things

    But I have never really noticed them before

    Me either, but that was because the cover system/shooting system, in gta 4 was really just rather blah. Which was funny because I recall quite a few reviews talking it up at the time.

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Olivaw wrote: »
    Renzo wrote: »
    You could slide into cover in GTAIV. Hell, you could combat roll into cover in The Ballad of Gay Tony.

    Both of these things are good things

    But I have never really noticed them before

    Yeah, it's odd. The game doesn't really point it out, but all you have to do is press the cover button when you're a few steps out from a cover point, probably when you're running to it.

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  • l337CrappyJackl337CrappyJack Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/red-dead-redemption-hands-on

    Guess what game is now stable enough that journalists can get hands-on time with it?

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  • Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/red-dead-redemption-hands-on

    Guess what game is now stable enough that journalists can get hands-on time with it?

    Guess what link was posted like 2 days ago. :P

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  • l337CrappyJackl337CrappyJack Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/red-dead-redemption-hands-on

    Guess what game is now stable enough that journalists can get hands-on time with it?

    Guess what link was posted like 2 days ago. :P

    I just missed not seeing the thread on the front page. It's an injustice.

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  • CenoCeno pizza time Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/red-dead-redemption-hands-on

    Guess what game is now stable enough that journalists can get hands-on time with it?

    Guess what link was posted like 2 days ago. :P

    I just missed not seeing the thread on the front page. It's an injustice.

    Yeah, I know how you feel. Not because of the thread itself, but rather this fuckawesome game that a lot of people seem to be overlooking.

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Hopefully more people will notice it closer to launch.

    And we shall all scoff at them for ignoring it for so long.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I really doubt that will happen

    Even if it does turn out amazing, there's not really a huge audience for Westerns anymore, it seems

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  • XagarathXagarath Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Shame really.
    The first Rockstar open world type game that isn't painfully contemporary, and it seems set to be overlooked.

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I would have thought that, controversy aside, the Rockstar name would have pulled more people in.

    Still, I'm not seeing a lot of advertising for it, including at work.

    Like, GTA IV advertising was crazy (granted it is GTA), and bugger all for RDR.

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  • Giga GopherGiga Gopher Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I really enjoyed the gun play in GTAIV (Once I had turned the auto-aim off, that is). Euphoria made the shooting feel really satisfying.

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  • MerceMerce Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    New video of some sort today. Also, details on the Limited Edition are out. What are they? Fucked if I remember, and fucked if I'm going to do any sort of work for you. Google it.

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  • l337CrappyJackl337CrappyJack Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Video's only new to Xbox Live, it's been out on the website for a couple days. Details on the limited edition seem to be that it comes with a fuckton of additional content, like new horses, weapons, and minigames. So that's probably not true right off the bat. You don't announce a special edition after you've started taking preorders on the regular game. Also the release date's four days after the release of the regular edition.

    So somebody's just trying to get a rise out of the internet.

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  • claypoolfanclaypoolfan Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I think we're still too far away from launch to start saying that they're not putting any advertising at all into this game...

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  • DeepthroatDeepthroat Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    It's Grand Theft Auto meets the Wild West. ...with mountain lions. Fucking epic.

    I've hyped this game up so much myself that I really think this could be one of my favorite games I've played. I've been looking forward to this since they announced it 3 years ago.

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  • DaemonionDaemonion Mountain Man USARegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I need this game. Reminds me of my Winchester 1894.

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  • l337CrappyJackl337CrappyJack Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    New screenshots showing off hot lasso action on the game's site. Also a short trailer showing off the preorder outfits, if you're absolutely frothing at the mouth for any snippets of game footage.

    So now I'm frothing at the mouth with hatred at Gamestop for continuing to pull this preorder bullshit. But hey, you can see Marston using his lasso to tame a horse, so...tradeoff.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I also don't care for this preorder madness, but I put some boosted trade in value towards my copy of the game. I guess whatever happens I should be getting a code.

    I just know they'll charge for the other two or something.

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  • l337CrappyJackl337CrappyJack Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I'm fine with giving people a bonus for pre-ordering. I get that. That's fine. It's just the whole "if you don't preorder you have no way of getting a certain piece of ingame content EVER". I'd be cool if it were something like these were all outfits you could unlock normally, like you unlock the fur trader one for hunting one of every animal or something, and by preordering you just get one at the beginning of the game so you can reap the benefits earlier. But to say that unless I buy a game from a certain retailer, I'm locked out from certain content? Just rubs me the wrong way.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Well we don't know how those costumes might be unlocked, but yeah, this Gamestop preorder shit is getting annoying. I just got an email telling me to preorder BC2 because there's going to be another 30 day lock out for a MP mode.

    Sometimes, a game even has 4 different preorder bonuses available at 4 different stores. How do they expect people to get all of them?

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  • l337CrappyJackl337CrappyJack Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    http://kotaku.com/5468401/red-dead-new-york-city

    I suppose when you put up a giant billboard advertising your game in NYC, it's a pretty safe bet you're planning on sticking to your release date of April 27th. I think we can start getting excited again.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    So according to Joystiq, Rockstar is doing that pre-order bullshit where every retailer gets a different item for bonus. And this is game changing shit here, like a special "War Horse" that is the best in the game. I hope we can realistically earn these things in game. It'd be like if FF7 had a Black Chocobo preorder bonus. I also don't want to have to buy all this stuff afterwards.

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Thig game looks great. I wasn't paying too much attention since Red Dead Revolver was pretty "meh". After watching some videos and reading up on it, I pre-ordered it when I picked up ME2.

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  • JJJJ DailyStormer Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    That gunplay trailer was slick as fuck. It wasn't like a typical videogame trailer at all.

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  • l337CrappyJackl337CrappyJack Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    So according to Joystiq, Rockstar is doing that pre-order bullshit where every retailer gets a different item for bonus. And this is game changing shit here, like a special "War Horse" that is the best in the game. I hope we can realistically earn these things in game. It'd be like if FF7 had a Black Chocobo preorder bonus. I also don't want to have to buy all this stuff afterwards.

    Take back that thing I just said about being excited. God, I hate this shit. The only preorder bonus stuff I've been okay with was Mass Effect 2, and that was only because there was a period of a couple hours where all the preorder stuff was accidentally made available to everyone on XBL.

    EDIT: http://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadredemption/preorder

    Uuuuuuuuuugh.

    At least they're all kinda stupid, I suppose. The horse would be nice, but golden guns? Really? I used to trust you, Amazon. You used to be cool.

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  • Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    So according to Joystiq, Rockstar is doing that pre-order bullshit where every retailer gets a different item for bonus. And this is game changing shit here, like a special "War Horse" that is the best in the game. I hope we can realistically earn these things in game. It'd be like if FF7 had a Black Chocobo preorder bonus. I also don't want to have to buy all this stuff afterwards.

    Take back that thing I just said about being excited. God, I hate this shit. The only preorder bonus stuff I've been okay with was Mass Effect 2, and that was only because there was a period of a couple hours where all the preorder stuff was accidentally made available to everyone on XBL.

    EDIT: http://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadredemption/preorder

    Uuuuuuuuuugh.

    Yeah, this will be a definite rental.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Can I pull out the "fucking greedy" moneyhat thing yet?

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    The preorders bonuses are all pretty weak. A costume, some slightly better guns, and a slightly better horse. Woop-de-doo.

    I'll buy the game anyway as long as it's not a disaster.

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Do what I do when there's stupid DLC like this, buy the vanilla version. That's what I did with Mass Effect 2.

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  • l337CrappyJackl337CrappyJack Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Preorder stuff like this just makes me actively not want to preorder the game. Most likely I'll be doing the Gamefly Shuffle, where you delete everything off your queue except the one new game you want, then select Keep It when they ship it to you and save about $15.

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  • l337CrappyJackl337CrappyJack Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/reddeadredemption/news.html?sid=6249985&mode=previews

    On the bright side, new interview with one of the technical leads on the game. The three different territories interest me, as does the fact that they mention mexican standoffs. They talk about how they're basically not just trying to make A western game, but THE western game, one that encompasses basically all of the mythos of the Wild West at once. T

    he costume nerd in me appreciates the fact that they've made it so what you're wearing will affect how people react to you. Walk into town in a bandit outfit and people will freak out. Come in dressed as a dapper gentleman and they'll be much more relaxed around you.

    As for the honor and fame systems, it's pretty cool stuff; if you're a paragon of goodness, you might get discounts in shops, for example. But if you're a well-known sonovabitch, people might turn a blind eye to your crimes for fear of retribution. So you could potentially walk into a bar, shoot a man in cold blood, and no one will do anything about it since you're such a scary bastard.

    And finally, apparently they tweaked the Euphoria animations to be less "enemies collapse in a heap when you shoot them", and more "enemies die in glorious Hollywood stuntman fashion, flipping over railings and spinning around as they fall."

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  • l337CrappyJackl337CrappyJack Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-the-red-dead/61799

    NEW TRAILER, BITCHES!

    EDIT: I know they said they're keeping the music composer a secret, but this confirms my very firm suspicion that it's the guy who did the Bully soundtrack. The bass in the "My Name is John Marston" trailer clued me in, but his use of chimes in this one seals it.

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