Red Dead Redemption

rave in 2days nyt

my wife preordered this for me for my birthday. don't know how amazon times these things but hopefully I should get it this week.

Despite the temptation to chop and change between horses (different breeds offer different levels of obedience, speed or stamina), there are benefits in sticking to a favourite, as in time you build loyalty which results in stamina bonuses, allowing you to run at full pelt for longer before tiring the horse. As you begin to clock up the miles together across, hill, canyon and stream, you form a bond - and this relationship between protagonist and transport, the kind alluded to in the great Westerns, is undoubtedly one of Red Dead Redemption's greatest successes.

cool!

time to go on media blackout

You've played this, right?

allowing you to run at full pelt

inventing new meanings for "pelt?"

Never mind, I just am not used to seeing it as "rush or hurry."

Should I go to my Gamestop release party for this tonight at 12:01??

only if you go in costume

I'll dress like John Wayne in Liberty Vallance.

http://www.distinctlymontana.com/uploads/Fall_06_Mag/Articles/2%20inspire/dorthy%20johnson/big/recycled_cinema_john_wayne_montana.jpg

How do I shot Liberty Valance?

Via Mitch Krpata, here's a collection of quotes from that NY Times guy:

"In the more than 1,100 articles I have written for this newspaper since 1996, I have never before called anything a tour de force. Yet there is no more succinct and appropriate way to describe Red Dead Redemption."

"Nier does many different things at such a high level of sophistication and accessibility that I cannot think of another single game of recent years that more faithfully represents the sheer intellectual breadth of modern video games."

"I have probably spent 10,000 hours playing various sorts of electronic games. But no single-player experience has made me as genuinely nervous, unsettled, surprised, emotionally riven and altogether involved as Heavy Rain... No other game in recent memory has forced me to reach for a blanket at 11 a.m. because I am literally shivering in nervous tension."

"Even more important to a great game of this sort is that it provide players with a world they actually care about saving (in this case defeating the demon menace by rallying mages, elves, dwarves and men to the cause). That means setting, plot and personalities, and it is in these elements that Dragon Age is perhaps the best electronic game yet made."

"No game this year will be more controversial and more easily misrepresented than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. That is because it revolves around the most provocative, forcefully uncomfortable and emotionally disturbing scene yet built into interactive entertainment."

"Uncharted 2 is perhaps the best-looking game on any system, and no game yet has provided a more genuinely cinematic entertainment experience."

"No game so far this year delivers a deeper, more fully realized aesthetic experience than Brütal Legend."

"By reinterpreting an essential symbol of one generation in the medium and technology of another, The Beatles: Rock Band provides a transformative entertainment experience. In that sense it may be the most important video game yet made."

"Even as I was losing game after game to the likes of the Pirates and the Royals, it was obvious that MLB 10 is perhaps the most finely calibrated, lusciously animated, fanatically detailed team sports game yet made."

"Lara Croft should go run and hide in a closet because Bayonetta, the character, is both more alluring and more powerful than any female game lead I can recall. Likewise, Bayonetta, the game, is more alluring and more powerful than any big-budget game to come out of Japan in recent years."

"Batman: Arkham Asylum may not provide the definitive superhero experience, but it is the finest, most intelligent comic-book game yet and one of the best video games of the year."

"Fight Night Round 4 is, for now, the greatest of all time. There has never been a more visceral, precise and natural electronic simulation of hand-to-hand combat."

"Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is one of the most subversive, provocative video games of recent years. It may also be one of the most important, not because of its content but because of how it is delivered."

"As an essential, visceral science-fiction combat fantasy, Killzone 2 is one of the most enjoyable console shooters yet."

lolololol

hes a good dude. just a little enthusiastic

you probably have to be hyperbolic to get video games covered in the NYT, I'm guessing. If you can't justify it as "the best ever" or "important" in some way, they're not going to cover it.

sounds oscar worthy

mighty traversy

that horse things sounds interesting, i hope there's more cool stuff like that involved.

I like Scheisel's enthusiasm; I get more annoyed with his need to make bizarre analogies with major news events to games.

I wonder how they recorded the sounds for this. You need to get the rifle, shotgun, and pistol sounds just right for proper western fun.

i dont trust this shit

Despite the temptation to chop and change between horses (different breeds offer different levels of obedience, speed or stamina), there are benefits in sticking to a favourite, as in time you build loyalty which results in stamina bonuses, allowing you to run at full pelt for longer before tiring the horse. As you begin to clock up the miles together across, hill, canyon and stream, you form a bond - and this relationship between protagonist and transport, the kind alluded to in the great Westerns, is undoubtedly one of Red Dead Redemption's greatest successes.

cool!

― taylory dayne (goole), Monday, May 17, 2010 11:29 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this is so the kind of thing that makes u say cool when u read it in a review but then either has no bearing on the game or is just kind of annoying (like the "hanging out with pals" part of GTA4)

although i've been waiting for a game to really realize the relationship between protagonist and transport, that has been alluded to in so many great westerns

video game writing is a disgrace imo

hs classmate is engaged to one of the writers /suzy

As you begin to clock up the hours hanging out together in building, street, or park, you form a bond - and this relationship between protagonist and pals, the kind alluded to in the great crime dramas, is undoubtedly one of GTA's greatest successes.

future GTA installments need cadres of guys on the corner practicing their doo-wop harmonies

yeah, this sounds enough like GTA 4, which I didn't like very much, that I'm gonna pass on it until, maybe, it hits the cheap bins.

jesus those quotes.

skipping this for tow truck simulator

sort of annoyed i bought it off tesco since i could actually be playing it now if i just went to Game while i was taking a donner up Sauchiehall St. earlier. I mean i saved a tenner or whatever, but so fuck? :/

i don't understand the question.

xp at least you won't get chilli sauce all over the controller.

xp. rhetorical. replace "fuck" with "what" to get the meaning.

"a donner", and i have no idea how you spell it, is a scottishism for "a walk".

although i've been waiting for a game to really realize the relationship between protagonist and transport, that has been alluded to in so many great westerns

waiting ever since u forgot about shadow of the colossus

You guys are crazy. Just got my copy. Minute UPS delivers my repaired 360, I'm booting this baby up.

So are people breaking street date on this or something? It's not due until Friday, right?

It's out today.

No I mean for Britishers.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_8?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=red+dead+redemption&x=0&y=0&sprefix=red+dead

(just went here to double check dates, but what's this about native resolutions? Planned to play it on 360 anyway but still)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dead_Redemption

ah i thought it was out here today. My bad.

damn those murkins.

PS3 version looks like a dog
http://sunset-riders.smartcode.com/images/sshots/sunset_riders_15368.png

spoiler alert would be nice next time, pal

I got a deck of cards with my purchase. At least I can play something RDR related until my 360 comes back!

http://home.comcast.net/%7Echeetah24/wabbit.jpg

man the reviews are so positive on this...

it's really fun, so far. lots of hunting and fighting off gangs.

only complaint is the bounty system. seems like it will take the fun out of being a villain, but i have yet to fully test it.

Rented the game this morning and I just played it for four or five hours straight. The game is fantastic and fun etc but I don't think I can afford to give this game the thirty or forty hours it deserves and for that I feel old and ashamed. :-(

i thought jim was taking a kebab for a stroll. and i live in glasgow.

they showed a trailer for this during 3.10 TO YUMA on C5 on sunday

Pissed this ain't out for PC for probably another year. How's the sound?

I was off on the first mission and afterwards some dude comes upon me getting attacked by a pack of wild dogs. I shot him to death on accident.