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  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #146521  by bovine
 Wed May 19, 2010 2:14 pm
You dawg, I grabbed RDR and it is pretty fun. I'm trying to burn through Alan Wake so I can focus on RDR specifically.

So there are posses you can form and I have been thinking up posse names (inspired by BF:BC2's gold squad medal for being the best squad) and the two I have come up with are:

Golden Boys (inspired by golden girls)
and
The Golden Gang

any suggestions for good posse names?
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Last edited by bovine on Wed May 19, 2010 6:49 pm, edited 2 times in total.
 #146523  by Mully
 Wed May 19, 2010 2:50 pm
I want RDR so bad.
 #146526  by Lox
 Wed May 19, 2010 3:51 pm
Did you pick it up for PS3 or 360? I'm assuming 360 if you are playing Alan Wake.
 #146527  by Flip
 Wed May 19, 2010 3:56 pm
We Diddle Kiddles.

Kiddles Fiddles and Diddling

Anything that creepy pedophile basically.
 #146539  by bovine
 Thu May 20, 2010 9:32 am
I'm not sure which team was in charge of what, but this game feels a bit like Bully to me. Instead of the main story garnering all the attention and the side stuff being mostly frivolous, RDR has a lot of side stuff that is cool and interesting.

Checking this game out is a good idea.

As extra incentive, you would be able to join my soon-to-be-awesomely named posse.
 #146594  by Tessian
 Sat May 22, 2010 12:22 am
This game is relevant to my interests... I may pick it up next week as I need to get a wireless adapter for my Xbox now anyway.
 #146610  by Tessian
 Sat May 22, 2010 11:31 pm
I take it back... stupid Amazon hiked the price back up before I ordered it :(
 #146613  by bovine
 Sun May 23, 2010 1:22 am
Tessian wrote:I take it back... stupid Amazon hiked the price back up before I ordered it :(
Lame! I'm pretty sure we need to shoot some banditos together.
 #146657  by Shrinweck
 Mon May 24, 2010 9:54 pm
I might end up with this game but with Prince of Persia: TFS last week and Alpha Protocol coming next week it probably won't be happening until the price gets hiked down.
 #146684  by Zeus
 Tue May 25, 2010 9:58 pm
Since no one is actually giving their impressions of the game, let me be the first.

As far as I'm concerned, there's really only one way to describe this game: GTA in the Wild West. Everything from the maps, the movement of the character models, the mission setup, everything screams GTA. Hell, the horseshoe game even feels a bit like the bowling game. And that's a very good thing IMO. I very much enjoyed GTA4 and I think it translates wonderfully to the time period. The storyline scenarios are very similar to GTA as well and are quite well done. And they have the same quality of voice acting as well, which is another way of saying they're quite good. The world is quite robust and you are always running into quickie little "help" missions or ambushes and they even have the nice little touch of people around a campfire at night in the middle of the plains who invite you to sit and chat. A very robust and very fun world to be running around in.

I ended up putting about 8 1/2 hours into the game. Was at just under 30% overall completion and was just about to get to the point you'd expect to after playing the opening (as spoiler-free as I can make it). I did end up doing quite a number of side missions (hence my relatively high completion percentage while never leaving New Austin) and even some of the challenges (was on my 3rd level of Survivalist) along the way. I'd say a 30 or so hour game would get you the vast majority of the way and that's a pretty solid length for a game like this IMO. I mean, you COULD go 60+ hours but that's doing very tiny little thing the game has to offer which to me would be a little much. And that's not including the multiplayer which I just never had a chance to get into.

Overall, I'd very much recommend the title. Is it a 95%+? Well, not really, but it sure is a solid 90% and one of the best sandbox games I've played, right up there with GTA4. Just too bad it came out when it did, with Alan Wake and Mario Galaxy 2 the same week. Maybe in the lull in the summertime I'll pick it back up (I bought it and traded it in under the EB Gameplay Guarantee, like FF13, so I only had it for a week). But if you're on the fence on this one, rest assured, it's a very well done, extremely polished titles. Still has the weaknesses of GTA (the "driving" feels a little stiff, character models could be a bit more detailed, sometimes it's easy to screw up without knowing it, the combat still feels like it could be better) but those are relatively minor complaints in a relatively excellent package.
 #146750  by Blotus
 Fri May 28, 2010 2:36 pm
Sorry I left abruptly last night guys. It was fun! Horses sure hate throwing knives.
 #146751  by Flip
 Fri May 28, 2010 2:57 pm
For the record, i hate the term sandbox style game. Is that what open non-linear games are called nowadays? Every coworker i talk to who has read one review is always like, 'its the best sandbox game ive played.' and i want to punch them in the gullet.
 #146753  by Lox
 Fri May 28, 2010 3:50 pm
Flip wrote:For the record, i hate the term sandbox style game. Is that what open non-linear games are called nowadays? Every coworker i talk to who has read one review is always like, 'its the best sandbox game ive played.' and i want to punch them in the gullet.
Yes. I don't know who first coined the term, but it's been around for a while. I use the term because I don't want to constantly call it an "open world non-linear game". It's simpler. :)
 #146754  by Anarky
 Fri May 28, 2010 4:58 pm
Simply put, will I enjoy this game more then GTA4? I had fun with GTA4, but found myself bored because it had played the hell out of the others, and didn't get that far into the game in the end.
 #146755  by Zeus
 Fri May 28, 2010 6:11 pm
Anarky wrote:Simply put, will I enjoy this game more then GTA4? I had fun with GTA4, but found myself bored because it had played the hell out of the others, and didn't get that far into the game in the end.
Do you want to play in the Wild West more than in modern day New York? Your answer to that will be directly correlated to the answer for your question
 #146757  by bovine
 Fri May 28, 2010 7:31 pm
I just beat it today and am looking forward to jumping back in to finish up the challenges. I enjoyed this game's main story experience much more than I did with any GTA game.
 #146758  by Zeus
 Fri May 28, 2010 7:37 pm
bovine wrote:I just beat it today and am looking forward to jumping back in to finish up the challenges. I enjoyed this game's main story experience much more than I did with any GTA game.
yeah, it actually had me hooked more than the GTA games did for the time I played it. I always really enjoyed the GTA games but they never quite grabbed me like this one.

How long did it take you? What % did you get?
 #146759  by Anarky
 Fri May 28, 2010 11:25 pm
Tessian wrote:I'm a weak consumer whore... I'll have it Wednesday.
I too am a consumer whore. I got it for 360 my tag is taber64
 #146767  by Zeus
 Sat May 29, 2010 9:50 am
bovine wrote:88.2%, 26 hours
yeah, that sounds about right, I was at about that same pace. I ended up with 29.5% or so in 8 1/2 hours. I like the fact it's not an insanely long game, 30 hours and doing almost everything is a good length. And even though it's a sandbox game, it never feels like it's too wide-open where you have these huge stretches between anything meaningful to do. It's almost like a streamlined GTA as well.
 #146769  by Tessian
 Sat May 29, 2010 11:01 am
I just love the fact that traveling anywhere is easier... not only thanks to campsites but because riding around in the wild west isn't like the fucking gridlock of driving around a metropolis. No street lights to hit, no magically invulnerable trees, just cacti, rocks, and some people.
 #146780  by Zeus
 Sat May 29, 2010 2:44 pm
Tessian wrote:I just love the fact that traveling anywhere is easier... not only thanks to campsites but because riding around in the wild west isn't like the fucking gridlock of driving around a metropolis. No street lights to hit, no magically invulnerable trees, just cacti, rocks, and some people.
Yeah, that is a huge difference. And finding the wild flowers or killing animals along the way to complete some challenges or the strangers inviting you to sit at the campfire at night with them is a wonderful addition.
 #146787  by bovine
 Sat May 29, 2010 2:58 pm
I agree that travelling in the game is much more pleasant. Whether it be because of the ambient challenges or people asking for help, trying to ambush you, etc. It made the whole thing a lot more interesting.
 #146791  by Lox
 Sat May 29, 2010 4:00 pm
I love killing birds as I travel.