Ulukai on 29/5/2010 at 14:18
My copy finally arrived, and it is aces.
It's got great atmosphere, one of the best I've ever experienced from a 360 game. Lost myself playing poker in a storm until 4 in the morning; lightning comes through the window, thunder rolls around outside, my opponents sit gruffly chatting around the table and casually tossing chips into play. It's all so beautifully animated and detailed I can't help not love it.
Unfortunately, I've spent way too much time losing my hard-earned Greenbacks this way. My character is damn near stone broke.
Horseshoes I can take or leave, screw fiver fingers though.
The soundtrack is evocative of every Western I've ever seen - The only downside is I keep expecting it to break into the (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hYV-JSjpyU) theme from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. But it never does.
Scots Taffer on 29/5/2010 at 14:25
I'm lining up GTA4 and Mirror's Edge for trade-in after hearing more about this over the past week. It'll be my first PS3 game since Arkham Asylum! Excited!
I doubt I'll get lost in playing videogame poker til 4am though, too busy doing that at real casinos already. :D
Ulukai on 29/5/2010 at 14:30
Sorry, I should clarify: my character in-game was playing until 4 in the morning; I went to bed just after midnight. I'm getting old :cool:
I've kept hold of my GTA 4 as I still haven't tried The Ballad of Gay Tony, and I hear it's better than the original story. Still all GTA'd out at the moment tho'
henke on 29/5/2010 at 22:45
Started playing this today, about 3 hours into it now. I've gotten a horse and rode around on it alot. Enough so that I've managed to increase it's stamina-stats. Unfortunately now my horse seems to think that we're BFF's and it thinks we should do everything together. Including sneaking up on bandit camps. I'll ride near to a bandit camp, get of my horse, crouch, and start to make my way stealthily closer to their perimeter, feeling like a total ninjabadass. Then my horse runs up next to me, huffing and puffing and making noise. I've tried pushing it away but it only runs off a short distance before coming back like "HAY GUY WAIT UP! IM A NINJA HORSE"
no ur not
What do I doooooo? How do I tell my horsey I need some me-time? :(
T-Smith on 29/5/2010 at 23:24
Quote Posted by henke
What do I doooooo? How do I tell my horsey I need some me-time? :(
Shoot it in the face. I'm not even joking.
Also, stealth doesn't really work too well in this game.
gunsmoke on 30/5/2010 at 04:03
henke, that was the lol-est post in weeks.:thumb:
henke on 30/5/2010 at 06:46
Quote Posted by T-Smith
Shoot it in the face. I'm not even joking.
You horrible man.
Quote Posted by T-Smith
Also, stealth doesn't really work too well in this game.
Oh I'm aware of that. I'm also aware that the bandit AI doesn't get alerted by my horse running around but I like to
pretend godammit! And currently my horse is breaking my immersion more than the enemy AI does.
Mr.Duck on 30/5/2010 at 07:00
Finished it.
Loved it.
Can't wait to do a replay, but this time doing sidequests and more free roaming.
Also, about the ending: saddest Rockstar ending I recall....Marston's worm food, a few years later, so is Abigail, although Jack growing up a bit into mean-looking cowboy as a way to continue the free roaming at game's end was cool. Dang...missed my opportunity to kill both agents in the end....bleh.
Fun times :)
T-Smith on 30/5/2010 at 07:42
Quote Posted by henke
You horrible man.
Hey, the horse had it coming.
Seriously though, I had the same problem one time. Before I knew you couldn't sneak, I was trying to come up behind some bandits. Then I noticed my horse had been following me. Before I could do anything about it though, I was attacked by a couple cougars.
Actually, most of my time in the first area of the game can really be summed up as such -
* Run mission
* Get attacked by cougars
* Pick flowers
* Get attacked by cougars
* Hunt some animals
* Get attacked by cougars
* Catch a bounty
* Get attacked by cougars
* Get attacked by cougars
* Get attacked by even more cougars
* 12th horse killed by cougars, fuck this shit.
* Play poker in the saloon... while being attacked by cougars.
Actually that last one sounds pretty good.
Scots Taffer on 30/5/2010 at 08:22
I stopped by the store for this today, not trading in as it wasn't economical, but they had no copies in yet. :(
