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Video games...what ya playing? And what are you looking forward to? (4 Viewers)

TLEF316 said:
to be fair, we thought the same thing about GTA 4. That multi player turned out to be a bust.
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I'm definitely interested in RDR, but the lead-up to this game is literally exactly like the lead-up to GTA4. The reviews are spectacular and the multiplayer sounds awesome in theory, but then I think back to how bad the multiplayer in GTA4 sucked and how you basically kept doing the same 3-4 missions over and over again. I want to wait a few weeks to see what kind of reception it gets from users before I run out and buy this based on pre-release reviews.
 
IvanKaramazov said:
TLEF316 said:
to be fair, we thought the same thing about GTA 4. That multi player turned out to be a bust.
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I'm definitely interested in RDR, but the lead-up to this game is literally exactly like the lead-up to GTA4. The reviews are spectacular and the multiplayer sounds awesome in theory, but then I think back to how bad the multiplayer in GTA4 sucked and how you basically kept doing the same 3-4 missions over and over again. I want to wait a few weeks to see what kind of reception it gets from users before I run out and buy this based on pre-release reviews.
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GTA4 may not have been as good a game as the previous versions but IMO it was still a pretty damn good game. And I played it for 40 hours. I cant wait for RDR
 
Yeah I didn't mean to make it sound like GTA4 just totally sucked. The single player was pretty good. But you have to admit, it really was repetitive, and some of the missions were basically broken by the lack of in-mission checkpointing. For every epic mission like Three Leaf Clover, there were about a dozen missions of drive somewhere - get into a chase - kill some guy - lose 3 stars. It wasnt' a bad game at all, but it's nowhere near the best game of this generation, which is what Metacritic would have you believe.

If RDR was exactly like GTA4 only with horses, I would still probably pick it up sometime when I had a few weeks to kill. I just want to wait and see if people who play it consider it a must-own title after they've done most of the campaign.

 
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Steve Tasker said:
shadyridr said:
Ill be buying RDR on Wed. Doubt Ill get much into the multiplayer.
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Same here, should be getting it tomorrow.Maybe I'll give it a shot here and there, but I don't see it pulling me away from the other multiplayer games I've been playing.
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Grabbing it tomorrow, as well. I've read a bit about the "Free Roam" multiplayer mode, and I think that it sounds like a blast. Finally, my own posse!
 
I just noticed that if you pre-order Red Dead Redemption through Amazon.com, Best Buy or Gamestop that each of those have different perks for ordering through them.

Gamestop gives you an outfit to speed up your dead eye targeting.

One of the others gives you the golden gun kit to help your fame rise faster. The other one gives you the War Horse--best horse in the game.

Of course, I just returned from pre-ordering mine at Gamestop before I found this out.

 
going to pick up RDR sometime this week.

just picked up Lost Planet 2 today - have the first game but haven't played it in a while. I downloaded the demo for LP2 and liked it, then I heard that Marcus and Dom from Gears of Wear are unlockable characters and I had to get it. :gearhead:

 
Cecil Lammey said:
going to pick up RDR sometime this week.just picked up Lost Planet 2 today - have the first game but haven't played it in a while. I downloaded the demo for LP2 and liked it, then I heard that Marcus and Dom from Gears of Wear are unlockable characters and I had to get it. :gearhead:
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I'm getting Lost Planet 2 in a few days. Co-op is the main drawn for me, not really interested in the multiplayer. I have Gears and BC2 for that, which I suspect you have similar thoughts about the game. There's also other Easter eggs if you have saved data from other Capcom games like Resident Evil 5.
 
Cecil Lammey said:
going to pick up RDR sometime this week.just picked up Lost Planet 2 today - have the first game but haven't played it in a while. I downloaded the demo for LP2 and liked it, then I heard that Marcus and Dom from Gears of Wear are unlockable characters and I had to get it. :gearhead:
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Cecil I take it your on XBOX? If anyone is on PS3 and wants to get into a posse send me a friend request:Gamertag : HuberJA
 
Just opened RDR from Best Buy, it came with a good sized map/poster and a code for the dlc war horse and dlc co-op mission pack that comes out in a month or so.

 
madshot31 said:
Lol, Red Dead Redemption and Alan Wake just killed goozex.
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I was tired and didn't even bother, guess I didn't miss much. I have such little time and so much backlog right now, not too concerned. It'll be cheap sooner or later.
 
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I am really torn between buying Red Dead Redemption and Just Cause 2. I can't afford both. I love the Just Cause 2 demo on PlayStation. Wish I could try out a Red Dead demo. Any players of both / either want to sway me either way?

 
jdoggydogg said:
I am really torn between buying Red Dead Redemption and Just Cause 2. I can't afford both. I love the Just Cause 2 demo on PlayStation. Wish I could try out a Red Dead demo. Any players of both / either want to sway me either way?
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What was your enjoyment level of GTAIV? Your answer to that question will determine if you should pick up Red Dead first or not. If you enjoyed it even a little then definitely choose Red Dead. If it wasn't your thing then pass. Just Cause 2 was a solid game but that is all based on the freedom of movement and ability to cause endless amounts of chaos. However the story line is quite poor and the voice acting is worse.
 
I'd love to pick up RDR, (I was a big fan of Read Dead Revolver) but I can't justify paying full price for games anymore, so I'll wait on that one till it gets cheaper.

I did just finish Assassin's Creed 2, however, and really, really enjoyed that one.

 
The pre-order for RDR @ amazon was a $20 gift card to amazon, $5 in music DL's and an 'amazon only' add-on' that helps you gain fame faster. I bit...but the damn prime shipping has it getting here the 21st?!? :goodposting:

 
fasteddie_21 said:
The pre-order for RDR @ amazon was a $20 gift card to amazon, $5 in music DL's and an 'amazon only' add-on' that helps you gain fame faster. I bit...but the damn prime shipping has it getting here the 21st?!? :unsure:
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I always just drop the extra $5 for release day delivery. Of course, I don't have prime membership so my situation is a little different, but the standard "free" delivery often results in a 10-14 day delay in getting your stuff, mainly because things don't even ship until almost a week after you place your order.
 
SkyRattlers said:
jdoggydogg said:
I am really torn between buying Red Dead Redemption and Just Cause 2. I can't afford both. I love the Just Cause 2 demo on PlayStation. Wish I could try out a Red Dead demo. Any players of both / either want to sway me either way?
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What was your enjoyment level of GTAIV? Your answer to that question will determine if you should pick up Red Dead first or not. If you enjoyed it even a little then definitely choose Red Dead. If it wasn't your thing then pass. Just Cause 2 was a solid game but that is all based on the freedom of movement and ability to cause endless amounts of chaos. However the story line is quite poor and the voice acting is worse.
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Yeah, the voice acting and story are very weak in Just Cause 2. I agree. The flip side is that you get to blow a lot of cool #### up.I like the GTA series a lot. I'm a fan. I also liked Red Dead Revolver.
 
Just picked up RDR but have the Hawks game in an hour so it's going to have to wait. Anybody do the free roam yet? How is it?

 
Going to get some Starbucks and a double down sandwich, then it's time for some RDR! :nerd: :nerd:

played a little bit earlier today, got the special edition! ;)

 
About 15 people on my friends list playing RDR tonight. I was the only one on the list playing Alan Wake.

 
SlaX said:
About 15 people on my friends list playing RDR tonight. I was the only one on the list playing Alan Wake.
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Walked into Best Buy and they had about 100 copies on display for the non reserved ones. I saw all of 4 Alan Wake copies and I had to search for them. This was was 10 minutes after the store opened. I'm going to get Alan Wake but their sales are going to be smashed by RDR.
 
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madshot31 said:
SlaX said:
About 15 people on my friends list playing RDR tonight. I was the only one on the list playing Alan Wake.
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Walked into Best Buy and they had about 100 copies on display for the non reserved ones. I saw all of 4 Alan Wake copies and I had to search for them. This was was 10 minutes after the store opened. I'm going to get Alan Wake but their sales are going to be smashed by RDR.
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I'm only 2 episodes in Alan Wake right now. The story is very interesting and will probably keep me interested. So far the game-play is "eh" though. I wasn't expecting anything real action-packed or anything. I tend to like exploration in games, and it's got a ton of that.
 
Not liking RDR after about an hour of Sinlge Player and a 1/2 hour of online play. The online play seems like an afterthought.

 
RDR is exceeding most of my expectations so far. The voice acting and graphics make for a very immersive experience. You really do feel like you're in the wild west.

I'm not crazy about the engine that Rockstar uses, but it has made some small improvements over GTAIV.

My friend and I had some trouble getting into a private free roam game. Whenever he invited me using the XBox menu we either were ending up in different maps or else we were invisible to each other. But I finally invited him using the in game setup and we were finally able to play. It was pretty fun attacking bandit camps or pulling up the list of challenges and working on those. At one point we found a stagecoach and were riding through the country side to complete that challenge and we saw some deer run across our path. Knowing that killing them was also one of the challenges we needed to complete, both of us bailed off the stagecoach without letting it stop, rolled to our feet and came up shooting.

At this point I'm simply hoping that there is enough variety in the missions so that they don't get boring the way GTAIV did.

 
If you did not like the open play feel of the GTA games you will not like RDR. This is much more open and a lot less linear with advancing missions. Took me at least 2-3 hours to finally get into it. I'm about 4 hours in now and I feel like I've barely scratched the surface. The beginning is very slow, lots of talking through encounters and a big set of "training" missions teaching you how to do different things in the game (capturing horses and bareback riding is a fun little mini-game.)

They've really upped the randomness of encounters that you can either participate in or ride right by instead of straight forward missions. So far I can remember the following random encounters: some people sitting around a campfire telling stories, a guy sitting around a campfire with a kidnapped woman who I saved, a burned out wagon and two escaped convicts I had to chase down, multiple instances of people being attacked by coyotes, a guy who asked me for a ride back to town who knocked me off my horse and stole it :confused: , some bandits around a campfire that shot me to pieces, a guy shooting birds that bet me to out shoot him. And there are tons of others, you'll just be riding around and you'll hear someone shout at you or bullets will start whizing by.

The game is VERY pretty. Big open country, huge sky, lots of little details like broken down wagons, burned out shells of houses, bushes, trees, etc. I think it's basically the same engine as GTA IV, but there is much less to render in terms of buildings and cars and streets around you like in a big city it lets them focus more on fine details in the open country. The soundtrack is great, very spaghetti western.

My only complaints so far is that it took me a long time to get the handle of riding a horse (ran my horse off a cliff by accident more than once) and the many intro missions before you could actually start having fun. I'm also having trouble with switching weapons on the fly. I accidently shot a guy in the back when I meant to pull out my lasso and capture him.

Bought Alan Wake also, may not try it out for a few days though.

 
Just played the first few levels of Lost Planet 2. Save your time and money, I'm glad I got it through goozex. I'm a huge fan of co-op games and this has 4 player co-op. The problem is it felt lifeless and had no personality. It was just walk a little, kill, walk really slow to the next spot, kill some more. You would think that capcom would learn from there mistakes and fix the major flaws of the first game when building the second. Basically they made it prettier and added needless tedious parts. The controls are still the clunky and awkward pos of the first one. They have eight different button configs, but they only rotate small things that don't matter and don't focus on changing the actual control schemes. Story is ho-hum, but who expects much from that in this game. The music is great when it plays, but the game is silent for the majority of the time and when it does blast the tunes. It overdoes it and makes it so you can't hear any friends, sound effects, or dialog. Big disappointment. Some people may consider the going from point A to point B killing stuff similar to say Borderlands. But Borderlands had the fun IT factor and character interaction, this has the Snooze factor.

 
Did anyone else pick up UFC 2010? I've got it in my hot little hands but I won't have time to play til this weekend.

 
I like it too, however EA really screwed the pooch on this one. They are now charging to use online service. If you wish to go online you have to enter a code on the back of the manual. If you buy a used copy, expect to shell out another $10 just to play it online. Not to mention the fact that the THQ servers were down so you couldn't play it online anyways. I don't think I'll ever buy another EA game again.

 
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