Red Dead Redemption

http://boards.ign.com/red_dead_redemption/b6186/187697867/p1

** Each NPC follows their own routine and way of a life. For example,
one spend all day working in a blacksmith, then at closing time head
off to the saloon for a couple drinks before going home.
*** NPCs will converse with each other
**** You can converse with NPCs yourself
** NPCs can hold grudges. A man you beat up in the saloon may come back later with a gun.
** NPC houses can be broken into and robbed
*** NPCs store possessions in boxes and trunks in their houses.
** NPC towns can be wiped out and made into ghost towns
*** Ghost towns will revive in 2-3 in-game days
** In the wilderness rarely a minute passes without seeing some indication of an NPC
*** NPCs play an important part of free roaming, through random encounters
**** NPCs can be found doing a large assortment of things, from
ambushes to gunfights to hostage scenarios to simple things like
sitting around a campfire telling stories of Marston's earlier exploits
* Bank Robbing
** Initiated by having a gun drawn in a bank
* Dueling
** Can't duel everybody (like old women), but you can duel other gunslingers

** The World is, in total, roughly twice the size of San Andreas
*** The World is split into three large regions, each larger than GTA IV's Liberty City

maybe i shouldn't get this game, just the thought is overwhelming

** The World is, in total, roughly twice the size of San Andreas
*** The World is split into three large regions, each larger than GTA IV's Liberty City

holy what

this is one game i'm really looking forward to, god i hope it lives up to those vid clips. not really bothered about multi play but if there's an ilg posse i'm in. what should i get it for 360 or ps3?

uh want it now

whoa this is coming out the same day as alan wake. decisions.

More like Alan Wait

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/red-dead-redemption-hands-on_5

UK RRP £55 :/

can't get into that link from work, but is that not the limited edition?

ok yeah, it's £50 for the bogstandard one and £37 on shopto

don't get paying extra money for some stickers and a branded pen special edition

bookmarking that post so i can quote it in 50 years when my limited edition copy is the feature item on an episode of antiques roadshow. in your face mpx4a.

and a 80 year old Fearne Cotton crooning "amaaaazing"?

don't get paying extra money for some stickers and a branded pen special edition
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paging lamp

I'm getting kinda GTAIV pre-hype flashbacks here. I remember reading one article which said hey, in multiplayer, if you like, you and a buddy can just go for a drive and listen to the stereo and have a chat. Somehow that sounded amazing to me, but did I ever do it in game? Well course not, cos it would've felt ridiculous.

"Gentle hunt" is having a similar effect, it just sounds great to me at the moment. But will I ever do it? Hmm.

I thought the same thing, but a ramble around a huge peaceful landscape with discernable goals that impact your MP profile is different than driving around the same streets you're already sick of from the campaign, doing nothing

I am pretty sure I will be a lone wolf in the multiplayer lobby, not a roam-in-packs guy.

you and a buddy can just go for a drive and listen to the stereo and have a chat

you can't do this in gta4 iirc. the stereo part that is.

this looks to be a more zen like experience, to truly roam at last

This looks so rad! haha my little brother is going to hate me for dominating the 360.

"We have just over 500 characters who all have names, family members and jobs," said Josh Bass, head of art."You can see a man at 7 a.m. in a Mexican market manning the chicken stand and at 6 p.m. he'll go over to the local pub."

"The morally ambiguous cowboy is the perfect protagonist for the style of game we make," observed Houser. "Sometimes you can be the hero, sometimes you can be the bad guy, and sometimes while you're deciding what to do, a bear comes out of nowhere and eats someone."

- LA times write-up

New trailer that goes over the competitive multiplayer player modes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jj0E1l3rjw

400 free M$ pts for downloading a trailer? wut?
http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/RDRgiveaway/default.htm

looks like i chose a terrible week to send my xbox off with Red Ring Of Death

UK only. :(

I thought this was coming out tomorrow but its not until 5/18

=(

aw it's only a week off, cant wait. just caught the tv ad again.

Who wants to place money on when the first MAJOR bug hits, a la GTAIV?

don't want to bring a faint air of car boot sale to the thread but this can be had from tesco for £27 w/codes & quidco for uklxors

http://www.gamestracker.com/int/extprice.asp?id=13368465

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1068/mapig.jpg

Totally buying this. Without question.

really hoping this at least provides me with more than an evenings entertainment, which all my recent purchases lately have failed to do.

ste, apparently this is basically GTA: the western

I'm sure it'll have pigeons or some equivalent for you to find ;)

map.jpg is... intersting!!

how are the edges of the map walled off in game terms, i wonder? unscaleable mountains?

first non-square play area i've seen in a sandbox game

ha! cozen, know me faar too well

without copters and such, this'll be a beast to traverse.

i can't believe i'm actually girly excited about riding horses in a vid game

somehow totally managed to not notice the existence of this game. Looks good.

i bet there's railroad based fast movement

Who wants to place money on when the first MAJOR bug hits

and will the bug be one of the npc's malfunctioning and stalking the player FOREVER through the game?

xp, ah yes forgot about the trains

i bet there's railroad based fast movement

Or by boat. There is a giant river through the middle of the thing.

no swimming in this though, which is a throwback to GTA3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NUjbORZueU

I wonder if they'll do DLC episodes for this too; hope so

gta makers have a knack of creating really great characters as well, this looks like no exception

oh man is that wes studi's voice?!?

The thing about potential bugs and having 500 NPCs with their own personalities/routines reminds me of the Oblivion guys saying they actually had to scale back and limit the AI because of the problems it caused; they had a guy in a village work in a field at certain times of the day but somebody else in the village used his hoe or some shit and he attacked him for stealing it and the village ended up rioting in a way that broke the game

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SbqmniDL190/SPC2LyRHBBI/AAAAAAAABE0/HOlgZDLPHEw/s320/westworld.jpg

http://sharetv.org/images/guide/337843.jpg

ordered from tesco a dilion.

time to go on media blackout
http://i44.tinypic.com/14e9iko.jpg

Eurogamer review up