Mr.Duck on 20/9/2010 at 02:53
I have it for the 360. I'm currently dedicating myself to finish Halo: Reach in Legendary, but before that I was slowly trying to do everything in RDR (already finished the game, so I can take my time now :)). So, I'd like to see some cowpokes come on forward for shooting some cow rustlers and such :D
w00t!!
Ulukai on 28/10/2010 at 20:04
Zombies? Seriously? Noooooooo
At least it's not aliens. Sigh.
Thirith on 29/10/2010 at 06:49
Why not? After all, it was done pretty specifically as a Halloween special, I can't remember any other (at least any good) open-world zombie games, and from everything I've heard and read Rockstar have pulled off something pretty cool and unique. It very much sounds as if you just latched on to the zombie thing and ignored all the weird and cool features this expansion has: mythological creatures (e.g. sasquatches!), zombie fauna, the four horses of the Apocalypse, a full new storyline etc.
Ulukai on 29/10/2010 at 16:48
Don't get me wrong, I think it looks great fun. But it's like, wtf are zombies doing in it?
Is there Fallout DLC with Gandalf in it? No, because that's retarded.
I don't want zombies in my Red Dead Redemption any more than I want Jar-Jar Binks in it. It's a beautifully crafted game set in a fictional Wild West. Zombies have no place here. The fact that it's such a unique game in the first place meant I was looking forwards to more great story-based DLC with a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western rather than Tim Burton feel.
"Zombie plague ravages the once bountiful frontier". How original.
And of course, the fact that (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11647319) £3.7bn is spent by Americanists on Halloween has nothing to do with it.
Well, let us know how you get on with it, especially if Helena Bonham Carter pops out of a cactus.
henke on 29/10/2010 at 17:30
Quote Posted by Ulukai
Is there Fallout DLC with Gandalf in it? No, because that's retarded.
What is that comparison supposed to prove? But for what it's worth: there were talking trees in FO3! Just like in LOTR! Uh... does that validate the existance of zombies in a RDR DLC!?
Anyway, I think this is much better idea for a DLC than just "more of the same". It takes the setting, characters, and other core elements of the game and uses it for something completely different. Ok, that's not necessarily a good thing. Not if the developers don't manage to pull it off. With Op: Anchorage, for instance, Bethesda tried to do a standard actionpacked FPS, and it didn't work out so good. But with Undead Nightmare it really seems like R* has taken on a new genre they're not familiar with before and done a quite good job at it.
Thirith on 29/10/2010 at 17:31
@Ulukai: Helena Bonham Carter? Tim Burton? You read "zombies" and seem to jump to all sorts of conclusions. Did you dismiss
Let the Right One In outright because of "OMG vampires,
Twilight bullshit!"?
Personally, after the great job that Rockstar did with the
GTA IV DLC and with
Red Dead Redemption, I'm more than willing to give them more credit than that. Especially with reviews saying things such as:
"Mostly, however, Red Dead Redemption's elegiac tone knits incredibly well with the arch Gothic horror. This was always an apocalyptic game in many ways, concerned with the metaphorical end of the world for grizzled old gunslingers like Marston as gentrification crept into the west. Flipping that scenario upside down in favour of the literal end of civilisation proves a surprisingly satisfying continuation of the original game's melancholy themes." ((
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-10-28-red-dead-redemption-undead-nightmare-pack-review?page=2) Eurogamer)
It may still prove to be an uninspired cash-in, but I haven't heard anything to that extent from people who actually, y'know, played it.
Ulukai on 29/10/2010 at 17:43
Quote Posted by henke
What is that comparison supposed to prove?
It proves nothing, but delightfully illustrates the jarring juxtaposition I see beween John Marston and his Zombie Adventure.
Thirith, what conclusions? My point is that I don't want zombies in my RDR. Period.
Mr.Duck on 29/10/2010 at 18:56
Quite easy to solve, Ulu. Don't buy the expansion. Period.
:)
See how I solved your problem in one easy step? :D
Unless you continue to want to rant about the fact that such an expansion exists....then you're just being masochist and I can't help you with that, save to give you a whip and leather boots ;)
I for one say: VIVA LA ZOMBIES! :D
june gloom on 29/10/2010 at 19:05
Conversely from Ulukai, I might actually have a reason to get this game now.
